742 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



J^osTON SociiCTV OK Natuual lIisTORY 0)1 several occabious lent bird skins for com- 

 parison and stndy at the request of the Curator of Birds. (19361, 194.51, 19584, 

 19599, 19662.) 



BoswELL, E. H. (Washiugtou, District of Columbia), presented a living specimen of 

 Red-tailed Hawk, Bnteo iorealis. 20127. 



BoswORTH, G. L. (Ilolyoke, Massachusetts), presented a photograph of fossil foot- 

 prints. .19842. 



BOULDIXG, Georgk (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a living Raccoon. 

 20212. 



BouRKE, Capt. Joiix G., U. S. Army. (See under U. S. Military Academy, 19665.) 



BOWEN, Amasa (keeper of life-saving station, Atlantic City, New .Jersey), presented 

 a Pygmy Whale, Kogia breviceps, male, in the flesh. 20473. 



Bowers, T. B. (Wiufield, Tuscarawas County, Ohio), presented a flint knife with 

 handle, wrought of one piece. 19631. 



Boyle, C. B. (TJ. S. Geological Survey), presented agate from the vicinity of Laredo, 

 Texas. 20138. 



Brenninger, G. F. (Fort Collins, Colorado), sent bird skins for examination and 

 report. 19447. 



Brewster, Miss (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a Gray Parrot, in 

 the flesh. 20334. 



Brewster, William (Cambridge, Massachusetts), presented bird skins from northern 

 Mexico (19944) and ninety-four specimens, including twenty-three .species, from 

 Lower California (20039), and kindly lent specimens for comparison and study at 

 the request of the Curator of Birds (19417, 19909, 20788). 



Brickell, Miss A. A. (Miami, Dade County, Florida), sent a radiate, Astroplnjion 

 costosnm Seba, for examination and report. 20374. 



Bridgman, A., jr. (Keokuk, Iowa), presented skin of a swan from Lime Lake, Adams 

 County, Illinois. (Through M. Meigs.) 20663. 



Brill, J. G., & Co. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), presented photographs of interior 

 and exterior of a tram-way sleeping-car built for the "Tramway Rural," Buenos 

 Ayres. 20472. 



Bristol, W. H. (See under Stevens Institute of Technology, 20797.) 



British Museum (Loudon, England), sent meteoric iron in exchange. 19915. 



Brooks Locomotive Works (Dunkirk, N. Y.), through M. L. Hinman, vice presi- 

 dent and treasurer, presented photographs and cyanotypes of locomotive with 

 "Coventry" boiler. 20508. 



Brooks, P. H. (Montevideo, Uruguay), presented photographs of seal rookery, Falk- 

 land Island; also photographs of Sea-gulls and Peuguins. 19547. 



Brown, AevTHUR E. (See under Zoological Society of Philadelphia.) 



Broavn, C. G. (Stockton, Utah), sent ore for examination and report. 19939. 



Brown, George E. (Alexandria, Virginia), presented a living specimen of Gray Fox, 

 Uroci/on virginianus virginiaiius. 20060. 



Brown, ITerbert (Tucson, Arizona), ijresented nests of CampyJorliyncluis hrun- 

 iietcapiUus, HarporhtjnGhns hendirei, H. pcdmerl, and AmpMspiza hilineata (20541, 

 20683); eggs of PlpUofuscus mesoleucns, Pyranf/a rtihra cooperi, Lanias ludoviciaiius 

 excuMtorldes, Empidonax pusUlus, PolioptUa plnnibea. and Bendroica (esiira (20478), 

 and a specimen of Variegated Gecko, Coleohyx variegatus (20478); also sent birds' 

 eggs for examiuation (20685, 20708). 



Brown, John E. (U. S. Fish Commission), presented a penny of Jamaica, 1880 

 (19654), and a living specimen of Screech Owl (19875). 



Brown, J. T. (Gravella, Alabama), sent insect for name. 19520. 



Brown, J. W. (Confluence, Pennsylvania), presented skull of a cow. 20714. 



Brown, Mrs. M. E. (New York City), sent in exchange Arabian lute, Egyptian ond, 

 New Guinea drum, Cuban rattle, African cymbals, Indian head drum, Turkish 

 bag-pipe, Syrian flute, Turkish drum, and an Apache flute made by an Indian 

 boy at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. (19847, 20030, 20239.) 



