206 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888 



March 5, 1888, to Prof. C. H. Hitchcock, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hamp- 

 shire, set miscellaneous American rocks and geological specimens, seventy-four speci- 

 mens. 



March 19, 1888, to Oberlin University, Oberlin, Ohio, set of miscellaneous rocks, 

 minerals, and building stones, one hundred and twenty-five specimens. 



April 18, 1888, to Mr. R. N. Worth, Plymouth, England, set of miscellaneous rocks, 

 twenty-four specimens. 



April 26, 1888, to Mr. Whitman Cross, U. S. Geological Survey (loaned for study), 

 collection of rocks from the Elk Mountains and vicinity, Colorado. 



June 8, 1888, to Mr. J. S. Diller, U. S. Geological Survey (loaned to complete series 

 of American rocks designed for exhibition at Cincinnati), twelve specimens. 



June 18, 1888,to Mr. W. H. Hobbs, Worcester, Massachusetts, set of miscellaneous 

 American rocks, twenty-two specimens. 



Special reports on material received for examination and report from 

 parties as a rule not in any way connected with the Mnseum have been 

 prepared, as follows : 



(1) On accession 19'.}26, received from Mr. R. W. Page, Salem, Roanoke County, 



Virginia. 



(2) On accession 19387, received from Dr. C. F. Lick, Shady Grove, Tennessee. 



(3) On accession 19434, received from Dr. J. W. Folson, At )ka, Indian Territory. 



(4) On accession 19483, received from C. Werdermann, Calera, Alabama. 



(5) On accession 19500, received from F. M. Mercia, Garrett, Indiana. 



(6) On accession 19544, received from Mr. Harry L. DeZeng, Geneva, New York. 



(7) On accession 19564, received from Mr. I. S. Jeffers, Huffman, Indiana. 



(8) On accession 19603, received from Hon. C. N. Richards, U. S. Senate. 



(9) On accession 19705, a so-called " mad-stone," received from Mr. Donald McRae, 



Wilmington, North Carolina. The stone was merely an indurated clay, and 

 owed its adhesive and consequent imaginary curative property to its power 

 of absorbing moisture with great rapidity. 



(10) On accession 19760, received from W. F. Cooper, Bristol, Tennessee. 



(11) On accession 19677, received from C. D. Hay, Hot Springs, Arkansas. This 



w^as a ferruginous sandstone, the natural weathering of which had given rise 

 to peculiar markings on its surface, and which were supposed to be of human 

 origin. 



(12) On accession 19788, received from R. H. Howell, Nashville, Tennessee. 



(13) On accession 19829, received from J. E. Baker, Stoutsville, Ohio. 



(14) On accession 19975, received from E. H. Spooner, Virginia City, Nevada. 



(15) On accession 19990, six samples of building stone, received from G. H. Rags- 



dale, St. Jo, Montague County, Texas. 



(16) On accession 20024, a polishing powder, received from W. J. Barnes, Oshkosh, 



Wisconsin. 



(17) On accession 20124, received from J. H. Wilson, Gillenwater, Tennessee. 



(18) On samples of limestone received from A. H. Stine, Leavenworth, Indiana 



(19) On volcanic lapilli submitted by Mr. Thomas Wilson, of the National Museum. 



(20) On accession 20023, fossil foot-prints in Triassic sandstone, received from Mr. 



A. Wanner, York, Pennsylvania. 



(21) On accession 20346, received from C. B. Richardson, Chester, Virginia. 



(22) On accession 20380, received from A. J. Wilcox, city. 



(23) On accession 20392, supposed fossil, referred to palaeontologist. 



(24) On accession 20394, received from W. H. Jack, Natchitoches, Louisiana. 



(25) On accession 20406, received from F. G. King, Clifton Springs, New York. 



(26) On accession 20424, siliceous concretion, received from Lieutenant Blow, Fort 



Randall, Dakota. 



(27) On accession 19328, received from J. P. Snyder, Murphy, California. 



