I 63 [Museum adilitions. 



ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM 



DUEING THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 30, 1868. 



May 15, 1867. Marl from the West Jersey Company's pits, Glassboro, N. J. 

 by Mr. C. K. Landis. Section from the charter oak of Hartford, Ct., by Mr. S. 

 H. Scudder. Nuts from China, by Dr. S. Green. Two specimens of oxide of 

 manganese by Hon. Albert Fearing. Specimens of ochre and the rock in which 

 it occurs from Lexington, Mass., by Dr. S. Kneeland. 



June 5. A bird from Wellfleet, Mass., by Mr. C. Cowing. A golden-crowned 

 thrush from Brookhne, Mass., by Mr. J. E. Cabot. Skin of common sheep; seeds 

 and seed-vessels of mahogany, etc.; stalk of sugar cane and asphaltum from 

 Barbadoes; Vellela and crustaceans from the N. Atlantic, by Dr. J. B. S. Jack.* 

 son. A pair of elk horns, fossil wood and pebbles fi-om Columbia River, 

 Oregon; bark and foliage of WdUngtonia yigantea from. Colmesos Grove, Cal.; 

 cinnabar from New Almaden mines, Cal. ; black oxide of manganese from San 

 Francisco Bay, Cal.; soap plant and Indian implement from California; silver 

 ore from Virginia City and Egon Canon, Nevada; copper ore from Colorado 

 River, Arizona; siempre viva and shells from Acapulco, Mex. ; and Indian im- 

 plements from Maine, by Mr. C. A. Stearns. Ore from the Checver ore bed, 

 Port Henry, N. Y., by Mr. 0. S. Presbrey. 



Juno 19. Auriferous and ai'gentiferous galena and quartz, black blende, 

 automatite, auriferous copper pyrites, gold quartz and talco-micaceous slate, 

 from Bridgewater, Vt., by Dr. C. T. Jackson. 



July 3. A collection of Japanese Lepidoptera and a specimen of Satumia 

 ceanothl Behr and its cocoon from San Francisco, Cal., by Mr. Samuel Hub- 

 bard. Horned toad, reptiles and insects preserved in alcohol, by Mr. A. Rey- 

 nolds. Tree frog from Hempstead, Long Island, by Mr. F. G. Sanborn. 



September 18. Dench-ites and egg of cow bunting from Dorchester, Mass., by 

 Mr. D. F. Carlton. A flying fish from the South Pacific, by Dr. J. Homans. 

 Amianthus from Brookline, Mass., by Miss Blaikie. Philampe'us satdlitia from 

 Beverly, Mass., by Mr. T. Lpnan. An hemipterous insect fi-om Boston, by Dr. 

 Talbot. Luminous larvae of Coleoptera from Brookline, by Mr. E. C. Cabot. 

 Tenthredo from Boston, by Mr. L. Wetherell. A mounted loon, by Mr. S. H. 

 Sylvester. Post pliocene fossils from the mouth of the Kennebec River, by Mr. 

 A. A. Kingman. Model of the "Old Man of the Mountains," Franconia Notch, 

 N. H., by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. A white mouse from Framingham, Mass., by 

 Mr. James W. Clark. Florida gallinule, from Easton's Pond, Newport, R. I., 

 by Mr. .lohn Ennis. 



October 2. Iron ore from Franklin Fall, Franklin Co., N. Y., by Mr. Gordon 



