70 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Indian Territory. — W. T. Van Doreu sent a head dress, pair of leg- 

 gins, concretion, and a lot of minerals. 

 Charles T. Simpson sent a collection of land and fresh water shells. 

 loica. — Dr. F. H. Steinmeyer sent a collection of stone implements. 



E. Ellsworth Call sent a collection of reptiles and fishes. 



J. F. Kummerfleld sent a collection of stone implements. 



Kansas.— A collection of flint chips and fragments of stone imple- 

 ments was received from Dr. W. S. Newlon, who also sent a collection 

 of stone and shell implements numbering eighty-seven specimens. 



Mr. W. S. Hill sent a very large collection of stone implements. 



Kentuclcy. — The three principal collections received from this State 

 were the following : Birdskins, from C. W. Beckham ;_ shells, Mrs. 

 Sarah C. McCormick: stone implements, fossils, and skull, W. R. 

 Burns. 



Louisiana. — Two small collections of Lepidoptera were received, the 

 one being sent by Rev. T. W. Smith, and the other by W. A. Sandos. 



Maine. — C. M. Sawyer sent a collection of sixteen stone implements ; 

 also polished spear-heads and two quartz scrapers. 



James E. Knowlton sent a collection of seventeen stone implements. 



G. P. Merrill collected a large number of rock specimens. 



Maryland. — Among the objects received from this State was a col- 

 lection of stone implements given by W. H. Abbott ; a collection of 

 birds sent by Henry Marshall; a collection of fossils in eocene marl, 

 received from Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, U. S, Navy ; birds sent by George 

 Marshall ; a collection of rocks from W. H. Hobbs ; and a lot of arrow- 

 heads given by Mary Eliza Jefferson. 



Massaclmsetts. — Great quantities of material are annually received 

 from the U. S. Fish Commission Station at Wood's Holl. During the 

 past year the material received from this source consisted of fishes, 

 birds, marine invertebrates, insects, mollusks, etc. 



Willard JSTye, jr., sent a collection of ten paleolithic implements. 



George P. Merrill collected for the Museum a series of rocks of Mas- 

 sachusetts. 



From the Peabodj^ Academy of Science was received a small collec- 

 tion of paleolithic stone implements. 



Michigan. — William Palmer, of the U. S. National Museum, presented 

 four birds from this State. 



F. E, Wood sent a very valuable collection of plants. 

 Mississippi. — A collection of fossils was received from L. C. Johnson, 



and a collection of ethnological objects from Dr. W. A. Whitten. * 



Missouri. — R. Ellsworth Call sent a very fine crinoid column and a 



collection of worms and crustaceans; a collection of twenty-seven stone 



implements, ten of which were paleolithic, was received from Marion 



Crawford. 



ilfo^tona.— James Forrestell sent a collection of rocks. 



From Dr. A. C. Peale, of the U. S. Geological Survey, were received 



two specimens of wood opal. 



