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REPORT OF NATIOKAL MUSEUM, 1912. 



OvERiNGTON, R. Bruce. (See under 

 Mr. Ernest B. Marshall.) 



Paack, Di-. Fr., Cassel, Germany: 

 Specimen of metallic iron out of ba- 

 salt (53440: purchase). 



Palmer, G rover H., Rosslyn, Va. : 

 Specimen of long-eared owl, Asia 

 iDilsonianus, from Rosslyn (53590). 



Palmer, Joseph, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum : Specimen of green heron, Bu- 

 torides virescens, from Arlington, 

 Ya. (54214). 



Palmer, William, U. S. National Mu- 

 seum : Nest and 5 eggs of an oven 

 bird, Seiurus aurocapillus, from 

 Maryland (54225). 



Panama Canal Zone, Biological Sur- 

 vey OF : 



The material collected through the 

 cooperation of the Smithsonian In- 

 stitution, the Department of Agri- 

 culture, the Bureau of Fisheries, 

 and the Field Museum of Natural 

 History is accessioned and referred 

 to in detail under the following 

 headings : 



Agriculture, Department of. Bu- 

 reau of Biological Survey (53040; 

 53932; 54134). 



Agriculture, Department of. Bu- 

 reau of Entomology (53063; 53219; 

 53355; 53702; 53813; 53858; 53954; 

 53962; 54177; 54249). 



Agriculture, Department of, Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry (52974; 

 .53004; 53032; 53055; 53059; 53123; 

 53220; 53330; 53422; 53478; 53599; 

 53632; 53646; '53860; 54145). 



Smithsonian Institution, Biological 

 Survey of the Panama Canal Zone 

 (53090; 53741; 53919). 



Paris, France, Museum d'Histoiee 

 Natueelle: Specimen of isopod, 

 cotype of Munnopsurus arctAcus 

 (§3830). 



Parish, S. B., San Bernardino. Cal. : 

 Specimen of Cheilanthes parishU, 

 from California (53525). 



Parker, Dr. A. C, Altmar, N. T. : 

 Beetle, Desmocerus palUatus (53023). 



Parker, James H., El Paso, Tex. : 3 

 specimens of flake graphite (53795). 



Patience, Alexander, Glasgow, Scot- 

 land : Specimens of young or minute 

 mollusks, representing 115 species, 

 and 12 vials of Foraminifera, Ostra- 

 coda, and worm tubes, from the 

 Firth of Clyde, Scotland (53708) ; 

 7 specimens of Gonodactylus de- 

 ma ni (53908). 



Payn, Elias J., Olympia, "Wash. : A 

 specimen of Prinmoa, also a cross- 

 section of stalk of an Alcyonarian 

 from Alaska, taken at a depth of 

 150 fathoms (53572). 



Peabody Museum of Natural History, 

 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. : 

 About 2,000 specimens of Beekman- 

 town fossils from Fort Hunter, N. Y. 

 (53636). 



Peale, Dr. A. C. U. S. National Mu- 

 seum : A Navaho blanket of old 

 bayetta weaving, collected by Dr. 

 Peale at Piuos Altos, N. Mex., in 

 1872 (53439: purchase). 



Pearse, Dr. A. S., University of the 

 Philippines, Manila, P. I. : 7 speci- 

 mens, representing 4 species, of crabs 

 from the Philippine Islands (53145). 



Peary, Rear Admiral Robert Edwin, 

 U. S. Navy (retired), Washington, 

 D. C. : An illuminated copy on parch- 

 ment of the resolution of Congress 

 thanking Admiral Peary for his 

 arctic explorations and discovery of 

 the North Pole, and bearing the 

 signatures of W^illiam H. Taft and 

 James S. Sherman (53682: loan). 



Peirce, L.. New York City: Slab of 

 sandstone from the Klngwood quar- 

 ries, Kingwood, W. Va. (53841). 



Pennsylvania Marble & Granite Co., 

 West Grove, Pa. : 3 cubes of marble, 

 white, blue clouded, and gray 

 (53706). 



Pepper, C. W., Providence, R. I. : Land 

 shells, representing 5 species, from 

 Mastic Point, Andros Islands, Ba- 

 hamas (53110). 



