LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM IN 1885. " 179 



PnuYNOSOMA. Four specimens from Fort Chimo. 



L. M. TURNEE, U. S. Signal Service. 15576. '85. (VI) 



LiMONiTE and conglomerate limestone, from Virginia. 



Hon. N. GoFF, Jr., United States House of Eepresentatives. 15577. '85. 



(XIV) 



Golden Shiner or Bream, Notemigonus cJirysoleucus. Fresh specimen. 

 F. A. HUTTY, Grand Haven, Mich. 15578. '85. (VII) 



Fossil Gastropod, Pleurotomaria tabulata, Hall; from Eochester Colliery, Du Bois, 

 Bois, Pa. Found in drift about 300 feet under groiyid. 

 C. L. Barrett, Clearfield, Pa. 15579. '85. (XII, A) 



Mineral "Water, from Springfield Farm, Maryland. 



James H. Hallovv^ell (through Hon. L. E. McComas), Hagerstown, Md. 

 15580. '85. (XV) 



Pouched Eat, Geomys fa^a (local name, ''Salamander"). Living specimens. 

 George C. Eixford, Eixford, Fla. 15581. '85. (IV) 



Mosaic Picture. Eoman ? Eeturned. 



John A. Milligan, Portsmouth, Va. 15582. '85. (I) 



Native Silk Cocoons and Eeeled Silk. Showing the cocoons raised in North 

 Carolina and the quality of silk raised therefrom. 

 Virion des Lanriers, New York, N. Y. 15583. '85. (I) 



Birds. About 100 mounted specimens transmitted for determination. Eeturned. 

 American Museum OF Natural History, New York. 15584. '85. (V, A.) 



Fishes, from San Francisco, Cal. ; Key West, Fla. ; Pensacola, Fla. ; and San 

 Cristobal Bay, Lower California ; including Clupea sapidissima (spent 5)2 feet 

 long, San Francisco ; Narcine umirosa (type), Acanthocylium solandri, Anthias vi- 

 vanus (type), Prionotus stearnsi (type), Frionotus ophryas (type), Pomacentrus 

 caudalis, Biqnscartes aUanticus, Labrosomus xanti, GoMesox rhessodon. 

 David S. Jordan, Bloomington, Ind. 15585. '85. (VII) 



Chalcedony on Basalt, from Tunitcha Plateau, Arizona. 



F. S. Dellenbaugh, New York, N. Y. (through Ensign O. G. Dodge, U. S. N.) 

 15586. '85. (XIV) 



Mineraxs. Eighty-one specimens from Virginia and District of Columbia. 

 Ernest Howard, U. S. Geological Survey. 15587. '85. (XIV) 



Golden-crested Kinglet, Begulus satrapa (skin), from Lookout Mountain, Tenn. 

 W. H. Fox, Washington, D. C. 15588. '85. (V, A) 



Portrait of General Jackson. Supposed to have been painted by Earle. Depos- 

 ited. 

 E. E. McKean (care of G. L. McKean, Washington, D. C.). 15589. '85. (I) 



Proustite, argentite, and calcite (crystals) ; also native silver in quartz and calcite 

 rock ; from Batopilas mine, Mexico. Exchanged for a Pueblo pot. 

 Miss Mason; 15590. '85. (XIV) 



Deep-Sea Sounding Apparatus. Thirty-three pieces. 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 15591. '85. (I) 



Metallurgical Charts. (1) Statistical chart of the work accomplished by the 

 Pennsylvania Diamond Drill Company; (2) a chart of coal measures of the Phil- 

 adelphia and Eeading Coal and Iron Company, with section as cut by the Dia- 

 mond drill. 

 Pennsylvania Diamond Drill Company, Pottsville. 15592. '85. (XVI) 



