REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 103 



Objects of interest have been received from various parts of Europe, 

 tlie exact locabtics from which some of them were obtained not being 

 stated. Amon,i; them are tlie f()llowin«;: 



Specimens of rocks sent in exchange by Prof. William R. Hobbs, of 

 Madison, Wis. 



From Mr. .T. I*. Iddings, of the V. S. (leological Survey, was received 

 a volcanic bomb from the Island of Lipari, Mediteri-anean Sea. 



Fourteen species of European <Jarihi(l(c, received in excliange from 

 Mr. Paul Noel, of Eouen, France. 



Sixty-two species of lei)i(h)i)tera, received from the l>ei)artment of 

 Agriculture tlirougii Prof. (J. V. Kiley. 



A collection of echinoderms, received in exchange from the lloyal 

 Museum of Xatural History, Berlin, Germany. 



Specimens of rocks, received in exchange from Mr. B. Sturtz, of 

 Bonn, Prussia. 



Alcoholic specimens of deep-sea fishes and the skin of a shark, 

 transndtted by the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, through 

 Mv. Leon Vaillant, collected in the Atlantic Ocean and the ^rediterran- 

 ean Sea by the TravaiUeiir and Taiisiiian expeditions and by the ('om- 

 mission to Cape Horn. 



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AUSTRALASIA. 



ACSTKAI.IA. 



Nov Sovth WaJeii. — From Mr. Walter Koehler, of Broken Hill, was 

 received a very line collection of minerals and rocks from the Broken 

 Hill Mines. 



From Mr. Titus TTlke, of Washington, 1). ('., was received a s]»ecimen 

 of phosgenite from Broken Hill. 



Baron Ferd von Miieller, of the Royal Botaiucal (lardens, Australia, 

 presented fossil plants. 



XKW OALKOONIA. 



Mr. ^y. Vj. Traill, of Fort St. James, Stuart's Lake, British Colundiia, 

 presented ahioholic specimens of salm»»n. 



XKW (illXKA. 



From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. (through (leu. dharles 

 G. Loring, director), was received a spear. 



From the Royal Botanical Crardens of Kew, England, was r«M'eived in 

 exchange a collection of textile fabrics, specimens of materia medica, 

 a mat, and other objects. 



