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Sherman, Charles A. (Wyoming). Blades of stone skin-scrapers. 26618. 



Sherman, John D., Jr. (Xew York City). Coleoptera (exchange) (27000); Xorth 

 American coleoptera (gift) (27027). 



Sherman, Gen. (See under Mrs. M. C. Audenreid.) 



Shotwell, J. R. (Railway, N. J.). Skull of " Obenobbe," a Pottawatamie chief. 

 26593. (Transferred to Army Medical Museum.) 



Shueeldt, Dr. R. W., U. S. A. (Takoma Park, D. C). Reptiles, and 5 specimens of 

 common shiner, or red-fin dace, Xotroj)is meijalops. 25888. (See under W. Wynd- 

 ham.) 



Shigio, HiEROMiCH (New York City). Forty-three pieces of Japanese pottery, 2 

 pieces of Chinese pottery, and 1 piece of Spanish pottery (gift) (25910); 28 

 pieces of Japanese pottery (purchase) (26929) ; 100 specimens of Japanese por- 

 celains and pottery (deposit) (27066). 



SiBASio, Unger (Cape Colony, South Africa). Musical bow. Purchase. 26185. 



Sibley, Mr. (No address given). Shell from the Dry Tortugas. 26023. 



Siemens, William (Berlin, Germany). Facsimile of a letter, dated November 20,. 

 1833, written by Prof. Gauss, in relation to the installation of the first electric 

 telegraph in Gottingen. 26086. 



Sigourney, C. F. (Washington, D. C). Yellow-bellied sapsucker, Sphyropicus 

 varius, in the flesh. 26312. 



SiMONis, M. L'Abbe Paul Mi'ller (Strasburg, (Germany). Photograph represent- 

 ing the festival of Beiram Ali. its practiced by the Persian Mohammedans. 26555. 



Simpson, Charles T. (U. S. National Museum). Six species of Strepomatidoc from dif- 

 ferent parts of the United States (new to the collection). 26099. (See under 

 C. Dwight Marsh and Bryant Walker.) 



Single Y, J. A. (Austin, Tex.). Fresh-water shells (26831): skin of California gull, 

 Lams caJifornicus (26692); birds' skins from Galveston (26697). (See under Geo- 

 logical Survey of Texas. ) 



SiZER, Frank L. (See under Capt. F. P. Spratt.) 



Skinner, A. (Smithsonian Institution). Specimen of a partial Albino bob-white, CoU- 

 nus rh-ginianiif:, from the vicinity of Washington (26416) ; 2 pieces of flint (26165). 



Skinner, O. E. (Claremont, Ya.). Cocoon of cecropia-moth. 2.5903. 



Skow, Lawrence (Omaha, Nebr.). Hybrid tanager {Piranga rubra erythromelas). 

 Exchange. 26677. 



Smith, E. Kirby (Vera Cruz, Mexico), through Capt. C. E. Bendire, U. S. Army. Fos- 

 sil shell, Hippurites calamiiiformis Barcena, from a cave at the headwaters of 

 the Rio Coatzacoalas, Mexico. 26730. 



S.MITH. H. I. (Madisonville and South Lebanon, Ohio, AnnArbor and Saginaw. Mich.). 

 Fossils from the wash on the rock exposures near Madisonville (25939); cedar- 

 root grown around a rock (26035) ; crayfishes (26101) ; crayfish from Little Chain 

 River (26350) ; crayfish from near South Lebanon, and surface crustaceans and 

 othei specimens from Saginaw River and vicinity (26353) ; fresh-water crusta- 

 ceans from First Sister Lake, near Ann Arbor (26551); crayfishes (26570); cray- 

 fishes from Michigan and Ohio (26611). 



Shith, Dr. H. M. (See under Fish Commission, U. S.) 



Smith, H. S. (Saginaw East Side, Mich.). Helgrammites, or larvte of Corydahi» 

 cornutKS. 26223. 



Smith, Prof. John B. (New Brunswick, N. J.). Noctuidaj (chiefly type specimens). 

 25977. 



Smith, R. W. Kirby (Sewanee, Tenn.). Birds' eggs, rex^resenting 5 species, from 

 the vicinity of Jataplan, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 26581. 



Smith, Dr. S. J. (Bangkok, Siam), through General John A. Halderman. Speci- 

 mens of Siamese writing. 26189. 



Smith, William G. (Loveland, Col.). Long-tailed weasel. riiti)riu8 longicauda, and 

 Fremont's squirrel, Scinrus ]iUflso)rn(s Fremont}. Piuchase. 26115. 



