1368.] 65 [Museum additions. 



St. Stephen, N. B., by Miss Lydia B. Felt. A collection of six hundred and fifty 

 fishes from various small streams in central Iowa, forty-four reptiles, forty-three 

 Insects, twenty-nine Crustacea, one hundred and eighty-two Mollusca and thirty 

 wor.ns from Iowa, by purchase. Woody bodies from bark of while \ ine in 

 Temp'c';on, Mass., by Mr- Lucas Baker. Skin of bald eagle, from vicinity of 

 Boston, by Mr. James Ritchie. Land shells from Kalilenberg, near Vienna and 

 silt fi'om mines near Hallstadt,byDr. F. H. Brown. A wasp's nest from Wilton 

 N. II., by Mr. E. N. Abbot. 



February 5. Fragment of oak enclosing stone, Sutton, Mass., l)y Mr. II. P. 

 Liarnes. A flying fish from near Bermudas, blind fish and crav/^ fish from Mam- 

 moth Cave, Ky., by Mr. N. H. Bishop. A collection of seventy-five nests, 

 one hundred and seventy eggs, forty-four skins and foi^r heads of North Anieri- 

 ca!i Birds and skin of Lepus campestris from Fort Anderson, by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. An owl from Westboro', Mass., by Mr. Frank Perrin. 



A collection of about one hundi'ed thousand insects in alcohol, six thousand 

 butterflies, two thousand three hundred birds, three hundred mollusca, seventy- 

 five reptiles, seventy-five fish and five mammals from Guatemala, by purchase. 



February 19. A mouse, twenty-three lizards, six fishes, one hundred larvas 

 and pupae of insects, one hundred other insects of various orders, besides one 

 hundred and fifty spiders and myriapods, thirty crastacea, and fifty mollusca 

 from Punahou, Hawaiian Islands; Orthoptera from Hong Kong and fourteen in- 

 sects from Calcuttn, by Mr. W. T. Brigham; one hundred Odonata from Ply- 

 mouth, N. H., Waterbury, Vt., Quincy and Cambridge, Mass. ; Orthoptera from 

 Mass. and N. H., by Mr. J. C. MerriU, Jr. Cocoon of Samia Cecropia from Bos- 

 ton, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. Gills of sword-fish from the Atlantic, by Mr. Edwin 

 Bicknell. An ant's nest found in an herbarium, and other insects from South 

 Maiden, Mass., by Rev. I. F. Holton. Flying fish with barnacles attached, 

 taken in latitude 27°, longitude 26° 20', by Capt. N. E. Atwood. Fossil or sub- 

 marine guano from near Charleston, S. C, by Dr. C. T. Jackson. Cones of 

 Pinus strobi from peat bogs in Framingham, Mass., by Dr. E. Lewis Sturtevant; 

 a mouse with diseased head from Boston, by Mr. J. L. Little, Jr. 



March 4. A collection of over seven hundi-ed humming birds and seventy- 

 five nests of humming birds, and a large collection of West Indian Mollusca, by 

 Mrs. Dr. Heniy Bryant. A bat, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks and 

 ecliinoderms from Saba, Netherland West Indies, and of reptiles, fishes and 

 mollusks from the Island of Testegus, by Dr. G. H. Brown. 



March 18. Fungi and specimens of woo3 from North Wrentham, Mass., by 

 Mr. Luther Hills. Red Squirrel with a white tail from Hardwick, Mass., by 

 Mr. S. J. Mixter. Skin and bones of a cai'ibou from Mocsehead Lake, Me. 

 by Messrs C. D. and J. H. Presho. Two living specimens of BdosUnna from 

 Milton, Mass., by Mr. J. W. Brooks. Cocoon of Samia cecropia from Boston, 

 by Mr. A. A. Kingman. Wood of a tree showing the annual growth and cocoon 

 of the bee moth, by Dr. C. E. Ware. Fossil shells from the middle of the boun- 

 dary line between Illinois and Indiana, by Mr. E. C. Stone. Cicada from 

 Bridgewater, Mass., by Mr. D. M. King. Epeira, by Mr. R. C. Greenleaf. 

 Fossils from Sumner Co., Tenn., shells from Natchez Bluff", Miss., and concre- 

 tions from Tennessee, by Mr. J. H. Huntington. 



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