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EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1918. 



Pioneers of Alaska, Nome, Alaska 

 (through Mr. Charles W. Thornton, 

 grand secretary-treasurer) : 20 spec- 

 imens of plants from Alaska (61671 ) . 



Piper, Prof. C. V., Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. C.) : 7 speci- 

 mens of plants (619S9, 62416). 



Pittier, Prof. H., Bureau of Plant In- 

 dustry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D. G. : 75 speci- 

 mens of ferns from Costa Rica, col- 

 lected by Mr. A. Tonduz (61474). 



Plummer, Mrs. J. H., Philadelphia, 

 Pa. : A set of 32 carved ivory chess- 

 men and a lacquered chessboard from 

 China, lent in memory of John A. 

 Hebrew (61616, loan). 



Poast, Miss Florence M., Bureau of 

 American Ethnology, Washington, 

 D. C. : Porcelain plaque (design two 

 dragons in sanguine) of Chinese im- 

 perial ware, Emperor Kuang Hsu, 

 1875 (61511) ; an East Indian silver 

 coin of the seventeenth century ; and 

 a Turkish bronze coin of the nine- 

 teenth century (61602). 



Pomona College, Claremont, Cal. 

 (through Dr. William A. Hilton) : 8 

 specimens, 7 species, of decapod 

 crustaceans from the vicinity of 

 Laguna Beach, Cal. (62017). 



Porter, Dr. Carlos E., Museo y Laboro- 

 torio de Zoologia Aplicada, Insti- 

 tute Agricola de Chile, Santiago, 

 Chile: 8 specimens, 3 species, of 

 parasitic copepods and 1 leech, all 

 parasitic on fishes from the southern 

 channels of Chile (61636). 



Post Office Department: 9 sets of 

 specimens stamps, etc., in triplicate 

 (1,506 specimens) received from the 

 International Bureau of the Uni- 

 versal Postal Union, Berne, Switzer- 

 land (61366, 61446, 61630, 61734, 

 61844, 62040, 62195, 62496, 62558) ; 

 3 imperforate sheets of 400 United 

 States 2-cent postage stamps printed 

 from plate No. 7942, each sheet con- 

 taining three misprinted 5-cent 

 stamps (62166). 



Powell, Prof. S. L., Salem, Va. : 12 

 specimens of fossil bones from a cave 



Powell, Prof. S. L. — Continued. 



deposit near Cumberland, Md. 

 (61371). 



Powers, Sidney, Troy, N. Y. : 9 recent 

 mollusks and 2 pieces of sedimentary 

 earth with mollusks embedded there- 

 in from the hills and shore on the 

 east side of Lake Izabal, Livingstone, 

 Guatemala (61426) ; (through Dr. 

 T. W. Stanton) a small collection 

 of Tertiary fossils from eastern 

 Guatemala (62140). 



Powers, Weightman & Rosengarten, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. (through The Bar- 

 rett Co., New York City) : Specimen 

 of coal product — sulfur (61698). 



Preble, Miss Susie Z.. Boston, Mass. 

 (through Rear Admiral J. E. Pills- 

 bury, U. S. Navy, retired) : Snuffbox 

 owned by Rear Admiral Charles 

 Stewart, U. S. Navy (1778-1869) 

 (61912). 



Prestage, Arthur. Keansburg, N. J. : 

 Mole cricket, Gryllotalpa Jtexadactyla 

 (61717). 



Price, Leslie, Jamestown, N. Y. : Com- 

 mission of Harvey Price as lieuten- 

 ant of infantry, New York State 

 Militia, dated June 1, 1839, and 

 signed by Gov. William H. Seward 

 and Adjt. Gen. Rufus King (61943). 



Protsman, W. R., Vevay, Switzerland 

 County, Ind. : A magnetizing instru- 

 ment (61723, loan). 



Public Library Museum and Art Gal- 

 lery of Western Australia. (See 

 under Perth, Western Australia.) 



Public School, Lake Bathurst, New 

 South Wales, Australia : 22 speci- 

 mens, including fossils and minerals 

 (62456, exchange). 



Quaker Oats Co., The. Chicago, 111. : 

 Sample of oat flour and 5 samples of 

 oat meal (61869). 



Quinter, G. E., Washington, D. C. : 

 145 specimens of insects from Clarks- 

 ville, Tenn. (62390). 



Quinton, Rev. John W., Harpers 

 Ferry, W. Va. : Printed silk crepe 

 shawl (62273, loan). 



Rafferty, J. P., U. S. N. Training 

 Station, Charleston, S. C. : Moth, 

 Telea polyphemus (62285). 



