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Bishop, Miss W. E., San Francisco: Mammoth tooth from Marin 

 County, California. Gift. 



Blaisdell, Dr. F. E., 1520 Lake Street, San Francisco: One thousand 

 five hundred and thirty-three specimens of beetles to fill vacancies 

 in Academy's collection ; 284 insects taken at Huntington Lake, 

 California; 56 beetles, mostly from eastern states; and 189 speci- 

 mens of Diptera from southern California. Gift. 



Boardman, Mrs. George C, Jr., and Sanchez, Mrs. R. B., San Fran- 

 cisco: A collection of Indian baskets and curios. Gift. 



Bollo, Mr. Luis Cincinato, Whitehall Building, New York: One book, 

 South America Past and Present by Luis Cincinato Bollo. Gift. 



Borden, Mr. Ralph, Alameda: Four terrapins from Macassar, Celebes 

 Island. Gift. 



Brittain, Mr. W. H., Department of Agriculture, Truro, Nova Scotia: 

 Forty-three specimens of Hemiptera from Nova Scotia. Gift. 



Brown, Mr. A. J., Sulphur City, Arkansas : Two lots of land- and fresh- 

 water moUusks from Arkansas, consisting of about 150 specimens. 

 Exchange. 



Brown, Mr. Edward J., Los Angeles: Twenty lizards from Antelope 

 Valley, Los Angeles County, and 37 lizards and 37 frogs from 

 southern California. Gift. 



Brown, Mr. N. E., Kew Herbarium, England: Echinocactus species, 1 

 photograph, 1 colored plate, and 12 tracings ; mamillaria species, 

 3 tracings; Echinopsis species, 1 tracing; Malacocarpus, 1 colored 

 plate; Epiphyllum, 1 tracing; Opuntia, 1 tracing; Discocactus, 2 

 tracings; Mesembryanthemum, 1 photograph. Gift. 



Budd, Mr. Charles G., San Francisco: One albino robin in the flesh. 

 Gift. 



Burriss, Mr. W. S., San Francisco: One anteater's skin floor rug. 

 Gift. 



Buttle, Mrs. Alvina, San Diego: Eighteen botanical specimens. Gift. 



Byrd, Mrs. Caroline Rixford, Canton, China: Twenty-six herbarium 

 specimens of plants from Canton, China. Gift. 



California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco: Fossil fish imbedded 

 in diatomaceous shale, about 5 miles south of Lompoc, California. 

 Gift. 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Five 

 salamanders from North Carolina, 2 from Kentucky, and 3 from 

 Texas, and 2 snakes from Virginia, and 3 lizards from Florida. 

 Exchange. 



Campbell, Mrs. Marian L., Mill Valley: Three botanical specimens. 

 Gift. 



Canton Christian College, Canton, China: One hundred and ninety- 

 nine specimens of plants from South China. Gift. 



Christoflferson, Mr. A., San Francisco: A piece of one of the branches 

 of a tree of Ceanothus velutinus, from Kitsap County, Washington. 

 Gift. 



Clark, Prof. B. C, Berkeley: Fifty specimens of fossils from Bridge- 

 ville, California. Gift. 



