98 RErORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



Tliiseltoii Dyei', director, wa.s received in exchange, a collection of Indian 

 fabrics. 



From the Wesleyan Univer.sity, Middletown, Conn., through Prof. 

 William North Kice, was received a group of Indian idols. 



From Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, IT. S., Navy, was received a tire bowl. 



W. Eagle Clarke, esq., of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, 

 Ediuburgh, Scotland, sent in exchange a collection of birds' skins. 



From ]\Ir. Harry V. Henson, of Yokohama, were obtained by juirchase 

 380 birds' skins from the island of Yezo. 



Mr. Komyn Hitchcock presented Japanese alphabetical ] (laying 

 cards. 



Mr. P. L. Jouy presented 2 shampooer's whistles and li clam-darts, 

 and deposited a Japanese sword. 



From Mr. II. Loomis, of Yokohama, were received cocoons of the ich- 

 neumon fly [A^xmfela.s sp.), and 2 specimens of the work of the insect. 



Mr. F. T. Redwood, of Baltimore, Md., sent, in exchange, a i)air of 

 Jajtanese swords and a hari-kiri dirk. 



Ml'. W. W. Kockhill, of Washington, I). C, presented Japanese 

 swords, daggers, belt knives, and chopsticks. 



From Mr. T. Tokuno, chief of the Insetsu Kioku, Tokyo, were received 

 sheets of color-prints from paintings by Japanese artists, and 5 illus- 

 trated Jai)anese books, consisting of nineteen volumes. 



From Hon. S. H. Boyd, United States Consul general, Bangkok, were 

 received gambling cards and a set of dice. 



Rev. H. S. Gorman, England, presented 30 specimens, representing 

 10 species of named coleoptera. 



From the Royal Museum of Natural History, Berlin, Cermany, was 

 received a collection of echinodernis. 



ASIATIC HCSSIA. 



Jyaf/(l<((i.—Fiom Rev. John P. Peters, of Philadelphia, Pa., were re- 

 cieved a kufa, plow, yoke, spade, two guns, handle of pestle, and 2 

 ])addles for kufa, collected by Dr. Peters for the National Museum. 



Jii'irnt. — From Mr. Stewart Culin, of Philadelphia, Pa., were received 

 2 packs of playing cards. 



Mesopotamia. — Rev. John P. Peters, of Philadelphia, collected for the 

 National ^Museum a number of ethnological objects illustrating the life 

 of the Arabs of Mesopotamia. 



ASIA MINOI!. 



From Col. S. K. Tappan, Washington, I). C, was received a shirt 

 made of chain armor, captured by Hon. H. M. Stanley IVom brigands. 



