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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Contd. 
serve collection, from the Burgess 
shale of British Columbia (56877) ; 
a cardboard sheet or ‘“ Tableau en 
mémoire du Colonel Laussedat,”’ 
containing illustrations of the the- 
ory of ‘ Metrophotography,” pre- 
sented to the Institution by Mr. 
Emile Wenz, of Reims, France 
(56896) ; “* Good Luck” souvenir re- 
ceived by the Institution from Col. 
John W. Vrooman, Herkimer, N. Y. 
(56908) ; specimen of Peripatus geayi 
collected at La Chorrera, Panama, 
by Mr. A. Buseck (569388) ; personal 
relics of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, in- 
cluding instruments used in his in- 
vestigations, and a damask napkin 
used by Napoleon at breakfast on 
the morning he left the island of 
Elba, received by the Institution as 
a bequest from Miss Lucy Hunter 
Baird (57108). 
Bureau of American Etinology: 8 
fragments of pottery found in an 
excavation at Swaffham, England, 
and presented by Rev. Robert C. 
Nightingale (55785); a small col- 
lection of pottery fragments and 3 
small beads, found in a shell-bank 
near Port Arthur, Tex., and pre- 
sented to the Bureau by Mrs. Bruce 
Reid (55756) ; 150 Cherokee medical 
plants collected by Mr. James 
Mooney in North Carolina (55971) ; 
parts of 5 skeletons, 83 complete 
skulls and fragments of 2 infant 
skulls, from a burial cist in a cave 
about 20 miles south of Grant, N. 
Mex. (56184); 31 ethnological ob- 
jects of the Cherokee and Catawba 
Indians, collected by Mr. James 
Mooney (56312); 6 photographs of 
Aztee antiquities, purchased from 
Mr. W. W. Blake of Mexico City, 
Mexico (56609); an  arrowpoint 
found on the North Fork of the 
Roanoke River, about 38 miles from 
Blacksburg, Va., by Prof. Otto C. 
Burkhart and presented by him to 
the Bureau (56679) ; a stone phallus 
from Mesa Verde, Colo., presented 
to the Bureau by Mr. H. C. Lay, 
Telluride, Colo. (56719). 
REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Contd. 
National Museum, collected by 
members of the staff: Bartsch, Paul: 
A crayfish and salamanders, from 
Virginia (55901); lizard from Gar- 
den Key, Tortugas (55921) ; shrew, 
Sorex personatus ; cotton-tail rabbit, 
Sylvilagus floridanus mallurus; 38 
specimens of white-footed mice, Per- 
omyscus leucopus noveboracensis ; 
and 10 specimens of gray squirrel, 
Sciurus carolinensis carolinensis 
(56401). Bassler, R. S.: About 500 
specimens of invertebrate fossils 
from the Martinsburg shale and as- 
sociated formations of West Virginia 
(56020). Boss, Norman H.: A col- 
lection of fossil cetacean material, 
including a nearly complete porpoise 
skeleton, a skull, several parts of 
skulls and jaws, and vertebre, from 
the Miocene marls near Chesapeake 
Beach, Md. (56886). Crawford, 
J. C.: 169 Hymenoptera from Be- 
thesda, Md. (55912; 55923). Gidley, 
J. W.: Fossil mammals from a cave 
deposit near Cumberland, Md. 
(55774; 57040). UHrdlitka, Ales: 
75 plants from Peru, including sev- 
eral living Cactacene (55666). Mer- 
rill, George P.: Varietal forms of 
peat from bog east of Pushaw Lake, 
Penobscot County, Me. (557386) ; ig- 
neous rocks from Freeport, Me., 
and an unknown mineral from San- 
ford, Me. (55861); specimens of 
Clupea harengus, Scomber scombris, 
and Rhombus triacanthus, from a 
weir at the southern end of the 
Tsland of Springs, Sheepscot Bay, 
Me. (55997); rocks and minerals 
from a quarry west of Belmont 
Park, near Leesburg, Va. (56069). 
Miller, Gerrit S., jr.: A small lot 
of mammals, reptiles and crabs, 
from Alabama and _ Mississippi 
(56550); 4 plants from Mississippi 
(56738). Moore, Riley D.: 240 
skulls and skeletons of the St. Law- 
rence Island Eskimo, collected by 
Dr. Moore under the joint auspices 
of the Panama-California Hxposi- 
tion and the National Museum 
(55869); Eskimo and Aleut skulls 
