802 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1891. 



RocKiriLL, W, W. (Washington, D. ('.). Tair of Coiran chilclreus' shoes, and Co- 

 rcHu quiver with arrows (gift) (233r)!t) ; rollection of Chinese cloisonces, enamels, 

 lacquers, and Ijronzes, C!hinese and , Japanese swords and daggers, belt-knives 

 with chopstieks, Moorish daggers and short swoids, Catalonian knife, Coreau 

 Ijelt-knife and baton (deposit) (23372), Cbinese Buddhist book, Thibetan yos- 

 pels (gift) (2.349S); ])air of Algerian spurs, and Chinese tobaeco-poueh (gift) 

 (23592); map of I'ekin illustrating popular Chinese cartography (24520). 



ROKBLING, Col. W. A. (Trenton, N. .J.)- Willemite from Franklin, N. J. 24437. 



RoESSLEi!, A. E. (Laredo, Tex.). Two sjieeimens of selcnite from the Rio Grande 

 Valley (23391); hematite axe and arrow-point found while digging an artesian 

 well near Laredo, Tex. (23414). 



KoGAN, .Jamks W. (Amis, Tenn.). Piece of reddish brown hematite plowed up in a 

 field, probably an Indian paint-stone; as(][uarc block oi ScoUth us or annelid bor- 

 ings, from near Jiradshaw's Sjirings, Clinch Mountain, and 3 si^ecimens of sili- 

 ceous sandstone colored by iron oxide. 23696. 



EoGKUS, Col. (tKokgk T. (Lynnhaven, Va.). Military coat of a colonel in the Vir- 

 ginia Infantry, (Jonfederate States Army. 23650. 



RoGEHs, Thomas (Manchester, England). .Specimens of Planorbis dilatits from a 

 canal atlNIanehester. 24019. 



RuMEYN, Capt. Henry, 1^ S. Army, (Fort Ringgold. Tex.). Five fossil oysters 

 and a iiiece of petrified wood fouiul in the bed of the Rio Dolores. 25110. (See 

 under Lieut. W. W. Wotherspoon. ) 



Ropes, J. (Ishpeming, Mich.), through S. S. Ropes. Gold and silver ores from Mar- 

 quette County, Mich. 24521. 



Ropes, S. S. (See under J. Ropes.) 



ROTiiEUMEL, Dr. A. W. S. (Ida Grove, Iowa). Iron ore (limonite) from near Mazarn, 

 Ark. 24011. 



ROWE, E. S. (Washington, D. C). Strawberry Finch {Sporaghithns anutiidava). 

 24153. 



Royal Botanic Garden ((Jalcutta, India), through Dr. G. King, superintendent. 

 Collection of dried plants from India. 23S57. Gift. 



Royal Botanical Gakpens (Kew, England). Textile fabrics and other articles, 

 13 miscellaneous drugs, and a mat from New Guinea (23358) ; through Dr. W. T. 

 Thiselton-Dyer, director, collection of Indian fabrics (23807) ; seeds, transferred 

 to United States Botanic Garden. 24435. Exchange. 



Royal Geoghaphical Society (London, England), through Mr. H. W. Bates, 

 Assistant Secretary. Bronze medal commemorating Stanley's exi)editiou for the 

 relief of Emin Pasha. 24065. 



Royal McsEUM of Natural History (Berlin, (iermany). Collection of echiuo- 

 derms from Europe, South America, Asia, and East Indies. 24474. Exchange. 



Royal Saxon Mining Academy (Frieberg, Saxony). Fifty-five specimens of bar- 

 ite, pyrite, calcitc, dolomite, native silver, chalcopyrite, galena, bornite, argent- 

 ite, fiuorite, niareasite, siderite, uraninite, tennantite, sphalerite, native arsenic, 

 parargyrite, xanthoconite, annabergite, proustite, and berthierite. 23830. Ex- 

 change. 



Royal Swedish Academy of Science (Stockholm, Sweden), through Prof. A. G. 

 Nathorst. Collection of Arctic mosses. 23720. Exchange. 



Royal Zo«)LOGiCAL Museum (Copenhagen, Denmark), through Prof. Dr. Chr. Liitken, 

 president. Twenty -seven spe(!imens representing 11 species of marine shells, 4 

 species of fishes consisting of Lipnris fahricii, Lycodex liitkeiii, Icelns hamatHS, 

 ,isi)id<tj)horoid('n olrikii, ccdlection of crustaceans numbering 85 specimens, in- 

 cluding echinoderms, bryozoans, hydroids, worms, sponges, anthozoa, and ascid- 

 ians collected by the steamer Ihjmphna during an exploring expedition in 1882-'83, 

 in the Arctic regions, Kara Sea, and on the southern coast of Nova Zembla. 24114. 



