LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE MUSEUM IN 1885. 21? 



Indian Pipe. Two fiai,aueiit8 of Avorked brown yiiudtjlouo, formiug an iucoiupleto 

 pipe Avitli a, bear'a bead ; fouud near New Lexingtou. 

 Dr. H. D. Moore, New Lexington, Somerset County, Pa. IGIOU. '35. (Ill) 



Crania and BOjTes of Homo sajnens. 



Louis II. Ayme, Oaxaca, Mexico. 16107. '85. (IV) 



Pottery, from Mexico. 



Louis H. Ayme, Oaxaca, Mexico. 16107. '85. (II, B) 



Archaeological Objects, from Oaxaca. Obsidian flakes and cores ; a hammer-stone ; 

 polished celts, one 11 inches in length; polishing-stones; water-worn pebbles; 

 stones with grooves resembling Polynesian bark-beaters, but used in Mexico as 

 chili-crushers; small stone pendants; a stone slab with notches on one edge; frag- 

 ment of a pestle; two large stone carvings representing human figures; part of a 

 stone carving in the shape of a human head with widely-opened mouth; tiger's 

 head of stone (part of a figure); small squatting figures (human), pierced for sus- 

 pension ; a well-polished disk of jadeite (pendant); fragments of worked alabaster; 

 apiece of stucco; beads made of entire shells, either pierced with a hole or trun- 

 cated at the apex ; a large pierced shell (Siromlus); a shell bead ; a shell disk with 

 central hole; fragments of shells, and a large number of calcareous pebbles — 212 

 specimens. 

 Louis H. Ayme, Oaxaca, Mexico. 16107. '85. (Ill) 



Sea-Urchins and Corals, Metalia jjectoraUs (2), and several young specimens of the 

 Fan Coral, Gorgonia jlabellmn. 



B. H. Van Vleck, Boston, Mass. 16108. '65. (XI) 



Living Turtles, Pseudemys rugosa (3), P. troosii, P. moMUenns (2), from Mobile Bay. 

 G. KOHN, New Orleans, La. 16109. '85. (VI) 



Bird Skins. Seventy-five specimens (22 sjiecies), containing series of Pariis septentri- 

 onalis, Leucosticte tephrocoiis (11), OiocoHs arenicola (6), Colaptes mexicanus, Scops 

 aa'io vmxioellicB (3), BuJjo virginianus subarciicus (5), Centrocercus urophasianus 

 (12), Pediocwtea pliasianellus campestris (8). Of these the Scops, Buho, and Centro- 

 cercus are particularly interesting and valuable. 



Capt. Charles Bendire, U. S. A., Fort Custer, Mont. 16110. '85. (V, A) 

 Carbonate of Copper, an eruj)tive rock (trap ?) and white crystals (barite). 

 Charles J. Perkins, Daggett, Cal. 16111. '85. (XIV) 



Scalps of Vulpes fulvus, from Illinois. 



J. P. Leach, Kushville, 111. 16112. '85. (IV) 



Qu.\RTZiTE Rock, white mineral, chrome iron ore, and impure black mineral. 

 Mrs. E. W. P. GuYE, Seattle, Wash. 16113. '85. (XIV) 



Fishes. Lepomis megalotis, Achirus hroivnii. Head of Alutera scliocpffi (alcoliolic). 

 T. S. DORON, Montgomery, Ala. 16114. '85. (VII) 



Reptile. SpUoies. 



T. S. DoRON, Montgomery, Ala. 16114. '85. (VI) 



Copper Spear-head, with broad straight base ; found in the drift of the valley of 

 the Norwalk River. This specimen is of great interest, showing not only the 

 lamination produced by heating a piece of native copper, but also, on one side, 

 the ridges and other projections which have wrongly been considered as resulting 

 from the process of smelting. Property of Fred. Botts, Norwalk, Conn. Depos- 

 ited. 

 D. N. Ct)UCH, Norwalk, Conn. 1611.5. '85. (Ill) 



Cuttle-fish, Ociopus sp. (alcoholic). Two specimens. 



C. C. Nutting, Carlinville, Hi. 16116. '85. (IX) 



