286 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES. 



From the Rev. Irving M. Channon, missionary to and residing at Kusaie, 

 one of the Caroline Islands of the Micronesian Group, an interesting collec- 

 tion bearing upon the life, work, and habits of the inhabitants. The follow- 

 ing is a list : A model of the family canoe, from the Montlock Islands ; a 

 loom, work, and samples of thread from the Kusaie Islands ; three tols or 

 loin cloths woven and from the Kusaie Islands ; a fan, figured and em- 

 broidered, from the Marshall Islands ; two baskets, a mat, and a hat, from 

 the Gilbert Islands ; a belt, three clubs, a cane, two mats of cloth of bark, 

 a set of ear-rings and a cocoanut cup from the Ruk Islands ; sixteen ocean 

 shells, and a girdle used in pregnancy, from the Caioline Islands ; a neck- 

 lace of shells, another of pandanus leaf, from the Gilbert Islands ; seven 

 photographs of buildings, church, and natural scenery. 



From George R. Putnam, a collection from Alaska : lava, augite crystals 

 and sand from St. Paul's Island ; tooth of the walrus, teeth of the sea-lion 

 and fur seals ; the skull of a young seal, and a bag made from the intes- 

 tines of the sea-lion ; fire-making apparatus from the Eskimo settlements 

 of North Alaska ; two remarkably fine sea urchins from the Aleutian 

 Islands; collection of ocean shells from Japadui Bay; basket and tobacco 

 pouch from Otter Island. Mr. Putnam also presented what was thought to 

 be the hardened cartilage that separates the vertabra of the whale. 



From .VI r. Edward K. Putnam, specimens of pottery and a burial urn 

 ornamented and enclosing charred human remains ; one bronze axe, one 

 grooved stone hammer, another pierced for a handle, two large celts, one 

 elongated spear, a shorter form, one three-sided, slightly built and delicate, 

 three curved flint knives, and two small arrow points, mainly from Denmark. 



From Mrs. Putnam, an anemonite from Whitby, England ; specimens of 

 hematite from Lake District, west coast of England ; four large specimens 

 from the Cleatore Ore Mine ; thirty-seven choice specimens including var- 

 ious hematitic forms with crystals of quartz, fluor-spar and associated rock ; 

 a sea urchin from the Isle of Guernsey ; garnets from Norway. 



From Miss L. Dickenson, Sunderland, England, a box of native wood 

 decorated by burnt etching ; a fine model of Nansen's last sled. 



From Clarence B. Moore, for framing, a lithograph of a large cmerary 

 urn showing as contents human bones, the cranium, limbs, and upper ribs, 

 accompanied with large shell beads. 



From Capt. Hall, a large grooved stone axe, an equally large celt, and 

 over seventy flint implements, with grooved axe and flints collected by Sam- 

 uel and Isaac Wainright. 



