94 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



ExiH'i'inu'iit Station, Kaleigli, Avas leceivcd a portion of the Henry 

 County meteorite. 



From tlie Eantlolpli-Macon College, through Mr. Richard Irby, sec- 

 retary and treasurer, was received a medal commemorating the incor- 

 poration ol'tlie college, February o, 1S3(). 



Mr. Henry Hemphill, of San Diego, Cal., ])resented tertiaiy fossils 

 from Lake Whatcom. 



Wisconshi. — From l>r. W. J. Hoffman, of the Bureau of Ethnology, 

 were received a model of Menomonee medicine-man's grave with sym- 

 bols; crayon sketch of the grave of Oshkosh, and of the great lodges 

 of the Menomonee tril)e, where funeral services are held over me<licine- 

 meu on the anniversary of their d<'ath. 



Wyoviinf/. — From the D<'paitmcnt of Agriculture, tlirough Dr. C. 

 Hart Merriani, were received specimens of Ibssil turtles and mammals 

 from Fort Bridger. 



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

 rector, were received 17 specimens of chalcedony, collected at Fossil 

 Point by Prof. Lester F. Ward. 



Misccllaneons. — From the American Historical Society Avere received, 

 through Mr. A. Howard Clark, assistant vsecretary of the society, man- 

 uscripts, draAvings, letters, etc., comin-ising the " Vail i)apers " relative 

 to the invention and early application of the telegraph. 



Dr. John Bartlett, of Chicago, 111., transmitted a model <»f a Burmese 

 canoe. 



Mr. William J. Boyd, of Brooklyn, N. Y., presented a model of the 

 vessel Half Moon. 



Miss Mary Henry, of Washington, D. C, deposited the electro mag- 

 netic engine for i)roducing reciprocating motion by magnetic attraction 

 and repulsion, invented and constructed by Prof Josejih Henry in 

 1851. 



The gem collection of the late Dr. Joseph Leidy, containing 400 cut 

 stones, was obtained by purchase from the heirs of Dr. Leidy's estate. 



From Mr. Frederick S. Perkins, of Madison, Wis., by special appro- 

 priation of Congress, was purchased his large collection of ])rehistoric 

 copper an<l galena objects, obtained princii»ally from Wisconsin and 

 Ohio. 



From Mr. Frederick W. Porter, of Chicago, 111., was received a col- 

 lection of old State-bank notes from 1817 to 1800. 



Prof C. V. Riley, of the Department of Agriculture, transmitted a 

 series of 400 species of coleoptera and 130 species of hemiptera, collected 

 in the United States by Prof. L. Bruner, of Lincoln, Nebr. 



The Hinds Ketcham Comi)auy, of Brooklyn, ISI. Y., transmitted a 

 collection of incandescent lamps, switches, and other apparatus used 

 in 1S81 in connection with one of the earliest electric-light plants in 

 America. 



