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Roberts, H. (Tryonville. Pa.). Foa^iil hones of Elephas Colombi. 26271. 



Roberts, W. F. ( Wasliingtou, D. C. ). Snakes. 25940. 



RoBiNsox, Amos G. (Fort Mitchell, Ala.). Suake. 26068. 



ROBINSOX, H. A. (Kingston, N. Mex.). .Tnnipcr wood carved by termites. 26854. 



RoBixsox, T. B. (Des Moines, Iowa). Badge of G. A. R. 26249. 



RoBixsox, Lieut. Wirt, U. S. Army (Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga.). Humming-birds 

 from Bogota, South America, (26592); 127 specimens of birds' skins from Colom- 

 bia and the Island of Cura(,'ao ,'26700) ; land-shells from tlie Island of Cura(^ao, 

 West Indies (26986). 



RoCKHiLL, W. W. (Berkeley Springs, W. Va.). Photo-negatives (deposit) (26505); 

 collection of ethnological objects from China and Thibet (purchase) (26511) ; small 

 box from Lanchou Fu, capitol of Kansu, nsed by opium smokers to hold the 

 pills which are taken after smoking (gift) (26571); Colt's revolver and holder 

 (deposit) (returned) (26625); books andspecimensrelating to Thibetan subjects, 

 Thibetan spear (purchase) (26712); collection of about 300 Mongolian and 

 Thibetan ethnological objects, with classitied and detailed descriptions (pur- 

 chase) (27007). 



ROMEYX, Capt. Henry, U. S. A. (Mount Vernon, Ala.). Lubber-grasshopper, 

 Dictjjophorus micropterus Serv. 26064. 



KOMMEL, F. A. (Baltimore, Md.). White Russian, or Bokhara, trumpeter fowl. 

 26243. 



Root, Mrs. E. C. (See under Wallace and Earl Root). 



Root, Wallace and Earl (Streetsboro, Ohio), through Mrs. E. C. Root. Devonian 

 fossils. 25965. 



RosEBROOK, Joseph W. (Toledo, Oi-eg.). Bird's nest and eggs; 3 species of 

 lepidoptera. 25979. 



Rosenthal, Albert (Philadelphia, Pa.). Collection of etched and lithograph 

 portraits of members of the Federal Convention of 1787, the Congress of 1787, 

 the Congress of 1789, and of other prominent Americans (26800); etched and 

 lithograph portraits of members of the Continental Congress (26801). Deposited 

 for the World's Columbian Exposition. 



Rothrock, D. M. (Wyandotte, lud.). Stalactites from Wyandotte Cave. Pur- 

 chased for World's Columbian Exposition. 26172. 



RowLAXDS, Walter (Allstou, Mass.). Collograpli "'Charles I demanding the five 

 impeached members", from the painting by Copley. 26272. 



Royal Museum (Berlin, Germany). Collection of casts of Assyro-Babylonian and 

 Greek religions objects. Purchased for World's Columbian Exposition. 26943. 



Royal Museum (Florence, Italy), through Prof. Heurj' H. Giglioli, director. Two 

 musical instruments, 100 archaeological objects, consisting of fragments of 

 pottery, shells, fragments of bone, piece of quartz from a kitchen midden near 

 Port Blair, Soutli Andaman Islands; ramus of lower jaw, teeth, and bones of 

 n-8».s spela'tis. from a cave nenr Breonis (Verona)*; collection of ethnological 

 objects from the Andaman Islands, and additional objects from different jiarts 

 of the world. Exchange. 25949. 



Rumple, .7. W. (Grottoes, Va.). Section of stalactite. Purchased for World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition. 26787. (See under The Grottoes Company.) 



RUPPERT, Allex. (See nnder S. N. Rhoades. ) 



Russell, Prof. I. C. (See under Interior Department. U. S. Geological Survey.) 



Ryus, Floyd E. (Childress, Tex.) Specimens of Choeracampa tersa and Arciia urge. 

 26111. 



Safford, Prof. J. M. (Vanderbilt University, Xashville, Tenn.). Two fragments of 

 the Satford meteorite from Tennessee. 26056. 



Safford, W. E. (ensign, U. S. N.). Collection of Indian portraits and costumes 

 (purchased for World's Columbian Exposition) (25958), ethnological objects from 

 the Indians of Peru (deposit) (26315). 



Sage, John H. (Portland, Conn.). Nest and eggs of golden-winged warbler. 26755. 



