LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 



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Agriculture, Department of — Coutd. 

 in Colorado, California, and New 

 Mexico (52378; 52579; 52707); 51 

 ferns collected in Mexico by A. S. 

 Hitchcock, and a living specimen of 

 Opuntia collected in Florida by 

 T. R. Robinson (52433) ; 61 plants of 

 the United States (52458) ; 2 living 

 specimens of Opuntia collected in 

 Porto Rico by J. R. Johnston ; 3 liv- 

 ing specimens of Cereus collected in 

 Florida by T. R. Robinson; 1 speci- 

 men of Garrya from Texas (52613). 

 (See under Mrs. C. W. Howard and 

 John R. Johnston.) 



Agriculture, Department of (St. 

 Clair Experiment Station), Port-of- 

 Spain, Trinidad, British West In- 

 dies: 6 skins of woodpeckers, 

 Centurus terricolor, from Tobago 

 Island (52634). 



Aguilera, Dr. Jose G., Institute Geo- 

 logico de Mexico, Mexico : 8 speci- 

 mens of obsidian (52446). 



Ainslie, C. N., Salt Lake City, Utah : 

 5 living specimens of Cactaceae from 

 Utah (52238). 



Alabama Marble Company, Gantts 

 Quarry, Ala. : 4 slabs of Alabama 

 marble (52717). 



Albany Museum. (See under Gra- 

 hamstown, Cape Colony, South 

 Africa.) 



Albright, W. H., Bellevue, Ohio: A 

 hemipteron representing the species 

 Reduvius personatus (52573) ; speci- 

 men of leaf-hopper, Phlepsius irro- 

 ratus (51760). 



Alfaro, Anastasio, Museo Nacional, 

 San Jose, Costa Rica : 8 specimens 

 of Tertiary fossils from various lo- 

 calities in Costa Rica (52386) ; 5 

 batrachians from Costa Rica, col- 

 lected by C. Picado, among them 

 being the types of Gastrotheca coro- 

 nata and Spelerpes picadoi (52929). 



Althouse, J. E., Prairie Depot, Ohio : 

 Specimen of the common praying 

 mantis, Stagmomantis carolinus 

 (52013). 



Ambrose, J. S., Fellows, Cal. : Speci- 

 men of a fossil shell (52501). 



American Antiquarian Society, Wor- 

 cester, Mass. : Cast of a portal from 

 the ruins at Labna, Yucatan (52410). 



American Entomological Society, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. : 115 specimens of 

 Ichneumonoidea, including para- 

 types of 23 species and homotypes 

 of 16 species (52630: exchange). 



American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York City : Casts of the 

 skull and lower jaw of Campto- 

 saurus nanus, and of the epidermis 

 of Trachodon (51765: exchange) ; 24 

 specimens of vertebrate fossils, in 

 completion of the exchange for the 

 Cope collection from Bridger Basin 

 (52006: exchange); 12 artificially 

 deformed skulls from Bolivia (52267: 

 exchange) ; 3 skins of Trogon ele- 

 gans (52273: loan); 51 skins of 

 clapper rails (52344: loan). 



Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Larz, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. : Mural decoration, 

 " Diana of the Tides," by John 

 Elliott, executed in Rome, Italy, dur- 

 ing the years 1906-8 (51792). 



Anderson, Rev. R. W., Uvalde, Tex. : 

 A moth and a lichen from Texas 

 (51834; 52031). 



Andrews, Dr. E. A., Johns Hopkins 

 University, Baltimore, Md. : 3 speci- 

 mens representing 2 species of crabs 

 from Jamaica (51905) ; crustaceans 

 and alcoholic specimens of tree 

 oyster, Ostrea parasitica , Gm., 

 chiefly from Montego Bay, Jamaica 

 (52113) ; insects, mollusks, crus- 

 taceans, mongooses, bats, snakes, 

 and a turtle from Jamaica (52152; 

 52163: collected for the Museum). 



Anonymous source. New York City: 

 Facsimile of a letter dated January 

 29, 1861, signed by John A. Dix, 

 Secretary of the Treasury (52814). 



Anthony, A. W., Portland, Oreg. : 

 Metacarpal of Teleoceras, an ex- 

 tinct, very short-limbed rhinoceros 

 (52333). 



