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from the ruins of lumses j'oriiicily occupied by {\\r Rec Indians; dint 

 scrapers found on tlie giouud of the agency, a iiiut scraper from near 

 Fort Benuett, and a portion of a gun found by an Indian on the Custer 

 battle-fiehl. 



From Ml". Frank D. Lewis, special agent, Indian Department, througli 

 Mr. T. J. Heiberger, of Washington, D. C, were received li ghost shirts 

 from the hite ''Wounded Knee" Indian fight. 



Pdtent Ojprc. — From Vol. .1. W. Ba))Sou was received a patent granted 

 to John W. Bronaugh and Jesse Talbot for a refrigerator, March, 1813, 

 signed by James Madison, President, and James Monroe, Secretary of 

 State. 



From Ool. F. A. Seely were obtained by luirchase 27 photographs of 

 ethnological objects from Spain. 



r. *S'. Geological ^unieij. — The following- statement will show the ex- 

 tent of the accessions from the survey dnring- the yeai': 



Through Major J. W. Powell, director, were received 111 photographs 

 illustrating typical exposures of strata, contacts, folds, joints, etc. ; 17 

 specimens of cretaceous fossils from Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, and 

 Colorado; 1 specimens of minerals from Colorado and Arkansas, con- 

 sisting of foliated kaolin, molybdenite, scheelite, and cuprodescloizite ; a 

 crystal from Miueo, Catania, Sicily ; 2 geologic models, one labeled '' Geo- 

 logische Karte des Sentis, aufgenammen von Arnold Escher von der 

 Linth," with sections set up according to the method proposed by Mr. 

 Albert Heim, of Zurich, and tlie other representing one of a series pre- 

 l)ared in wax and plaster by Mr. Willis in superintending the experi- 

 ments upon the rei^roduction of geological structures by horizontal 

 pressure; 1 specimens of ajjopliyllite and ai specimen of analcite from 

 New Almaden, Cal. ; si)ecimen of cinnabar in barite frojn Almaden, 

 Spain, crystallized cinnabar from the Reddington Mine, Knoxville 

 district, Califinnia, and a collection of (piu'ksilv*^' (these collections 

 were all made by Dr. G, V. Becker); 10 specimens of cerussite from 

 Polonia Mine, Eosita, Colo., collected by Mr. Whitman Cross; silici- 

 fied wood; 12 specimens of agatized wood, garnet pebbles, and smoky 

 quartz, collected by Mr. O. G. Dodge, U. S. Navy; 2 specimens of 

 gadolinite from Devils Head Mountain, Colorado, one specimen being 

 the original material used by Mr. L. G. Eakins in identifying and 

 describing the mineral from this locality (deposit); 3 specimens of 

 minerals from Glastonlniry, Conn., and 13 specimens from various 

 localities in Colorado, most of it being the original material upon which 

 Dr. Hillebrand, by whom the s])ecimens were collected, has done scien- 

 tific work; Dr. Hillebrand also collected 45 specimens of brochantite 

 and malachite from the United \^erde Mine, Jerome, Ariz.; 40 speci- 

 mens of kyanite in quartz, 80 si)ecimens of dumortierite in quartz, and 

 74 specimens of dumortierite in quartz from Clip, Ariz.; 3 si)ecimensof 

 Avhite pulverulent sulphide of zinc from Galena, Kans., and 3 speci- 

 mens of barite pseudomorph after crinoid stems and shells from Seda- 



