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Nevada. — Mr. L. L. Frost, of Susan ville. presented a flint i)ertorator 

 from Smoke Creek. 



Xeic 'Jersey. — From Mr. Theo. M. Ely, general superintendent of the 

 Motive Power, Pennsylvania Railroad, Altoona, Pa., was received a 

 oar-wheel of the same class of wheels in use under the tirst locomotive 

 and cars run on the Xew Jersey Railroad, and similar to those used 

 under the cars Avhen they were drawn hy horses prior to the use of 

 locomotives. 



X< »• Mexico. — From Capt. John G.Bourke, I^. S. Army, were received 

 ethnological objects and stone implements. 



From the Department of Agriculture, through Dr. 0. Hart Merriara, 

 were received the jaw and radius of a bear from a cave in Grant County. 



]3r. W. ]\[atthews, F. S. Ari)iy, Fort Wingate, sent a pair of wooden 

 tongs used by the Navajo women for picking cactus fruit. 



From Mr. M. Metcalfe, of Silver City, was received a fork-tailed 

 lizard {C)ie)nidophonis fjtilaris). 



From the U. S. Geological Survey, through Major J. W. Powell, direc- 

 tor, was received a specimen of smoky quartz, collected by Mr. F. H. 

 Knowlton in Santa Fe. 



A large series of ores and economi(; minerals were collected and pre- 

 sented by Mr. F. W. Crosby, of Washington, D. C. 



Xeic York. — From Mr. Moses Fames, of Watertown, through Mr. X. 

 F. Blount, of Washington, D. C, was deposited an old plow, which was 

 awarded a premium by the Jefferson County Fair in 1820 for the best 

 plow manufactui-ed. The plow was numufactured by Col. William 

 Lord in 1820. 



Hon. Roswell P. Flower, M. C, presented an ancient iron ax, an 

 English penny of date 1734, brass button, brass arrow-points, and 

 stone tabl(^t found near the ruins of Fort George. 



From Mrs. F. M. Hartwell, of Washington, D. C, was received a 

 foot-stove belonging to David Randall and used in the "Old Red 

 Meeting Hcmse" in Dutchess County in 1788. 



Mr. J. Scott Hartley, of New York City, presented life-size busts of 

 Judge Noah Davis, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, and John Gilbert. 



^Irs. Nellie Long Maynard, through Mr. George W. Maynard, of 

 New York City, presented breech-loading guns, guns fitted with the 

 Maynard system of priming — inventions of Dr. George Maynard — parts 

 of Maynard ritle, wooden models of parts of guns, chargers, breech- 

 block, hammer, and i)riming case, loading device, ]uiined cartridges, 

 cartridges, and priming strips (tapes). 



From the New York Central and Undstni River Pailntad Company, 

 through Mr. William Buchanan, suijerintendent, was received one of 

 the wheels of the locomoti\e " De Witt Clinton.'" 



A specimen of Orthoceras from the Upper Di^'onian ibiniatioii of 

 New York was received from ^fr. Oscar Pottei', of Scott, N. Y. 



Dr. William L. Ral]>h,of Ctica, pres(^nte<l a lu'st and 3eggs >>\' Sporo- 



