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U. S. Chief Signal Officer, ...... 6 1 



U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, . . ' . v . 1 9 



U. S. Commissioner of Pensions, ...... 1 



U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, . . * . 1 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, ... . . 1 



U. S. Department of the Interior, . . . . .103 2 



U. S. Department of State, . . . . . \ 3 13 



U. S. Fish Commission, . . . . . , . .. 2 



U. S. Geological Survey, . 2 6 



U. S. Life Saving Station, . , . . ; . ' 1 



U. S. National Museum, 2 10 



U. S. Naval Observatory, ...... 1 



U. S. Patent Office, 2 55 



U. S. Quartermaster General, 1 



U. S. Surgeon General's Office, ' --; . . . . 1 



U. S. Treasury Department, 1 



U. S. War Department, 10 



Veazey, W. G., Washington, D. C., .... 1 



Voorhees, Rev. L. B., 28 



Walker, Benjamin, Lowell, ...... 1 



Walker, Joseph B., Concord, N. H., . . .' . 1 



Washington, D. C., Anthropological Society, . . 5 



Washington, D. C., Legacion de la Republica de Costa 



Rica, . . / . . . . . . 4 



Waters, David P., 52 498 



Waters, H. F., . - . : * . . ... . . 1 27 



Waters, J. Linton, ........ 1 



Waterville, Me., Colby University, ..... 8 



Watson, Miss C. A., North Andover, .... 5 



Watson, S. M., Portland, Me., ...... 2 



Welch, W. L., . . .. . , . Newspapers, 35 30 



Welsh, Charles H., . . . . - . . . : . 1 



West Newbury Natural History Club, .... 26 



Wheatland, Miss Elizabeth, . . . 7 



Wheildon, William W., Concord, .* . 2 



Whipple, George M., . . . Newspapers, 20 33 



Whipple, Prescott, . . . . . Newspapers, 91 



White, A. P., ... ..... 2 



Whitehouse, Cope, New York, N. Y., . . . . 1 



Whitmore, William H., Boston, . t . . . '. 1 



Whitney, Mrs. Henry M., North Audover, Newspapers, 3 



Wien, K. K. Zoologisch-Botanische Gesellschaft, . . ,4 



Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Verein fur Naturkunde, . . 1 



