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Hoschisli pipes from Tunis, and a Moorish lamp from the northern part 

 of Africa. 



Judge Jacob J. I^oah, of Washington, D. C, transmitted two phites, 

 one made of porcehxin and brought from Tunis in 1818. 



SOUTH AFRIOA. 



Cajx' Toini. — Mr. J. H. Brady, Education Bureau, Tape Town, .sent 

 a colU'ction of insects. 



JMr. W. ¥j. Frye, of Cape Town, transmitted a series of antek)pe 

 liorns. 



(jri'jualund. — Mr. Seal, of (Ja])e Town, through the courtesy of I'rof 

 Cleveland Abbe, of Washington, D. C, sent a beautiful specimen of 

 crocidolite. 



KdJirhiniJ. — From the British Museum, London, England (through 

 the agency of Mr. Charles H. Read), were obtained, in exchange, twenty- 

 three etlmological objects. 



Through Prof. E. J. Loomis, ot the United States Eclipse Expedition, 

 were received specimens of rocks from the Kimberley diamond mines. 



WEST AFRICA. 



Angola. — Mr. lleli Chatelain, of Vineland, I^. J., has enriched the 

 Museum collections by several contributions, and other objects of inter- 

 est have been obtained from him by ])urchase. Among the specimens 

 received are a collection of rocks, shells, fossil plants, mannnals, rep- 

 tiles, insects, crabs, starfishes, birds' nests, plants, ethnological objects 

 of all kinds, and a collection of Portuguese-African coins. 



Ivcv. William P. Dodson, in charge of the Bishop Taylor Mission, 

 Loanda, transmitted (through Prof Cleveland Abbe) a Kimbuuda 

 hatchet, called ^'Dikellemba," made by a native smith of the Lunda 

 country, and a basket called " Kinda," made by a native wonmn of 

 Angola. 



Mr. Walter Hough, of the U. S. National Museum, presented a speci- 

 men of Bostrych us eornntufi, representing the imago, larva, and specimen 

 of work. 



AFRICA (MISCKLLANEOUS). 



Mr. neH Chatelain, of \Mueland, N. J., presented hair from the head 

 of a McBamba negro, and a Sechuana bible (Pentateuch) used by Dr. 

 David Livingstone on his journey from Cape of Good Hope to Loanda 

 in 1852, containing the autograph of Dr. Livingstone. Mr. Chatelain 

 also transmitted the skin of a crocodile, obtained from him by purchase. 



]Mr. W. E. Frye, of Cape Town, sent a si)ecimen of asbestus frcmi the 

 Orange River, Mount Hopetown ; a specimen of Iceland spar from Van- 



