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War Department — Continued. 



(53843: deposit); a Colt military 

 automatic pistol and a Savage mili- 

 tary automatic pistol, each of .45 

 caliber (53893: deposit) ; a Colt au- 

 tomatic pistol, caliber .45, adopted 

 March 9, 1911. for use in the U. S. 

 Army (54114: deposit) ; 45 military 

 rifles, muskets, and carbines, from 

 the Rock Island Arsenal (54205). 



Office of Chief Signal Officer: The 

 Wright aeroplane purchased by the 

 War Department in 1909 and used 

 by the United States ^Army in 1909- 

 10, being the first aeroplane put in 

 practical service by any government 

 (53205). 



Offlce of Quartermaster General: 

 A set of campaign medals, bars, and 

 ribbons, representing those issued by 

 the War Department (5.3876). 



Ward, Rowland, Ltd., London, Eng- 

 land : Skin and skull of Rupicapra 

 pyrenaica, collected near the Spanish 

 border of the Pyrenees ( 53467 : pur- 

 chased from the Harrison Fund). 



Ward, V. C. (through Mr. Alfred Fors- 

 man. Green River, Utah) : 2 speci- 

 mens of uranium-vanadium ore, from 

 the San Rafael Reef, Emery County, 

 Utah (53441). 



Warner, S. P., American consul, Ba- 

 hia, Brazil : Butterflies and moths 

 from Bahia (53666) ; a coot, Fulica 

 americana, and a merganser, Mergus 

 americanus ( 53767 ) . 



Washington, Charles S., U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum : Terrapin from Ber- 

 wyn, Md. (53093) ; a tapeworm 

 (53357). 



Watkins, J. H., Washington, D. C. 

 (through Mr. W. T. Schaller) : Type 

 specimen of turquois (53062). 



Watson, John. Cambridge, England : 

 20 specimens of building ctones 

 from Palestine (53443: exchange). 



Wayne, Arthur T., Mount Pleasant. 

 S. C. : Egg of oyster-catcher, Hmna- 

 topus palliatus, from South Carolina, 

 received through Dr. E, A. Mearns 

 (52952) ; 14 bird skins from South 

 Carolina (53418; 54178: exchange). 



Webb, Capt. John S., Disputanta, Va. : 

 Skin and skull of a ferret. Mustela, 

 from Prince George County, Va. 

 (53257). 



Weber, C. M., Bureau of Science. 

 Manila, P. I. : 295 plants from the 

 Philippine Islands (.54129: pur- 

 chase). 



Weber. Prof. Max. Eerbeek, Holland 

 (through ISIons. C. Vaney, Univer- 

 sity of Lyon. Lyon. France) : 3 boxes 

 of East Indian crinolds (52982: 

 loan). 



Webster, E. B., Port Angeles, Wash, 

 (through Mr. C. V. Piper) : 60 plants 

 from Washington (53725; 54001). 



Weddell, Alexander W., American 

 consul, Zanzibar, Zanzibar : 10 bats 

 from Zanzibar Island, secured 

 through the courtesy of Dr. W. M. 

 Aders, of the Zanzibar Government 

 (53515: collected for the Museum). 



Weed. A. C, U. S. National Museum : 

 About 25 lampyrid larvae, a few 

 dipterous larvfe, and a specimen of 

 Gordius (53167). (See under Mr. 

 P. R. Myers.) 



Weed, A. C, and W. L. McAtee : Fishes 

 from C. & O. Canal and Rock Run 

 at Seven Locks. Md.. and 2 crayfishes 

 from Rock Run (53801; 53853); 4 

 crayfishes and a leech from Rock 

 Run ; and fishes from Rock Run and 

 Turkey Run. Va. (53903) ; fishes 

 from various localities about Wash- 

 ington, and an Amphipod from 

 Riverdale, Md. (54010). 



Weeks, Miss Fannie A. (through her 

 executrices. Miss Katie R. Bent, Miss 

 Elizabeth Hartman. and Miss Mary 

 E. Hussey, Washington, D. C.) : 

 Collection of 45 Indian relics (53792: 

 bequest). 



Weiss, Maximilian, El Dorado Can- 

 yon. Nev. : Specimen of " civet-cat," 

 Bassariscus sp. (53697). 



Werth, Mrs. Mary Matjry. (See 

 under Commander Matthew Fon- 

 taine Maury, Descendants of.) 



