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DONATIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



April 20. Fruits, insects, etc., from St. Thomas Island, by Mr. Samuel 

 Wells, Jr.; two sclerotics of the horse-mackerel, by Dr. B. J. Jeffries; a large 

 collection of reptiles, birds, etc., from the Gaboon River, Bombay and other 

 localities, by Dr. J. H. Otis, U. S. N. ; shells, and tooth of an elephant, by ]^Ir. W. 

 H. Dall. 



Mav 4. Two musical instruments from China, and the skin of a Manis penta- 

 dactyia, by Mrs. James Phillips; a collection of plants, by Mr. L. Babo. 



May 18. Calcite and other minerals, from Martinsburg, N. Y., and from the 

 Trenton Limestone and Lead-bearing rocks of Black River, N. Y., by Dr. C. T. 

 Jackson ; raoimted skin and skull, with a section of a large ash tree, cut by a 

 beaver on the borders of Lake Superior; Semoiilus corporalis Abbot, from Wil- 

 liamstown, Mass., by Mr. F. W. Putnam; Phoca, from Greenland, in exchange; 

 copper ore, from Chili and California, by Dr. B. S. Shaw ; numerous skins of birds, 

 from California and South America, by Prof. W. B. Rogers; a valuable collection 

 of skins and mammals, from Arctic America; Vuljies lagopus ^ ,Fort Anderson, 

 Spermophilus Parryi, Ajiderson River, north of Bear Lake, Erethizon epixanthus 

 $ , Youkon, Arctomys pruinosus, Sciurus hudsoniciis, Deer Creek, Arctic America, 

 Lepus sylvaticiis, Fort Desmoiues, Iowa, L. Toicnsendii, Deer Creek, Nebraska, 

 and some reptiles and insects, fi-om Massachusetts and Georgia, by Dr. H. Biy- 

 ant ; the seed vessel of Trajri bicornis, from Asia, by ]Mr. D. J. BroAvn ; alcoholic 

 specimens of the fruit of Jlyristica moschata, by Mr. G. H. Parker; the great 

 blue heron, Ardea herodias, by Dr. A. Coolidge ; a white bellied mouse, Hesper- 

 omys leucopus, from Mr. Brewer; a microscopic section of the enamel of the 

 mastodon's tooth, from C. Johnston, M. D., of Baltimore; Cycloptervs lumjnis, 

 from Swampscot, Mass., by S. M. Buck; twenty-seven specimens of fishes, from 

 Williamstown, Mass. ; eleven fishes, from Bonne Esperance, Labrador; six fishes, 

 taken off Cape Ray, by the Greenland Expedition, Lyceum of Natural History, 

 Williams College ; seven fishes, from Panama, S. A., by Mr. W. A. Xason. 



June 1. Original cast in sandstone of bones from the ^Mesozoic rocks at Mid- 

 dlebury, Ct., by Prof. W. B. Rogers ; magnetic oxide of iron and emery, found 

 in the veins of the ore, from Cliester, Mass., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. 



June 15. Stones of the scarlet-fiowered peach, from China, by Dr. C. Picker- 

 ing; roots of weeping willow, by Mr. 0. Pickering; Samia Cecropia, frora Milton, 

 by Mr. J. Fairbanks; skuU and bones of Rangifer grcenlandicus, by Mr. W. 

 Beetle; Cyanurus cristatus, young blue jay, by Mr. H. A. Purdie; two bats, 

 eleven specimens of birds, twelve reptiles, a crustacean and one hundred and 

 fourteen mollusca, from the Isle of Pines, W. I. ; two hundred and twenty-five 

 specimens of fossils, from Matanzas, Yumuri, Cuba, thirteen specimens of rocks 

 and fossils, from Calabazar, near Havana, five specimens of rocks and crystals, 

 from Caevas de Belle, near Matanzas ; forty-one specimens of rocks and minerals, 

 and sixteen Fungi, from the Isle of Pines, by Mr. S. H. Scudder; by purchase, 

 thirty-four species, comprising thirty-six specimens of fishes, from Havana, 

 Cuba, detennmed by Prof. Felipe Poey. 



BOOKS RECEIVED DURING THE QUARTER ENDING JUNE 30, 1864. 



Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey for 1861. 

 4to. Washington. From the Superintendent. 



