LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 743 



Brown, S. G. (Smitlisoniau Institution), presented reptile eggs. 20731. 



Brown, W. Q. (tbrougb. U. S. Geological Survey), presented olivine rock, and min- 

 erals, mostly genthite. 20303. 



Bryant, Walter E. (San Francisco, California,) lent bird skins for comparison and 

 study, at the request of the Curator of Birds. 19927. 



BUMPUS, L. I, (Auburn, Maine), sent minerals in exchange. 19463. 



Bunting, W. S. (Jacksonville, Florida), presented a Striped Mullet, Mugil albula, of 

 , peculiar coloration. 19661. 



Burchart, S., &. Co. (Batesville, Mississipi)i), sent infusorial earth for examination 

 and report. 19385. 



Bureau of Ethnology, Maj. J. W. Powell, director, transmitted archajological 

 specimens collected during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1887 (20249); photo- 

 graph of Weh-wah the Zuni priestess setting up "prayer plumes" (19373) ; and 

 arrowheads and shell beads from California (19465). 



Burger, Peter (U. S. National Museum), presented an antiqiie caster with cruets. 

 20727. 



Burnet, William (Cincinnati, Ohio), deposited a pair of silver-mounted flint-lock 

 pistols, once the property of Lafayette. (Keturued.) 19642. 



Burns, Frank (U. S. Geological Survey), presented, window-glass sand from Marl- 

 borough, New Jersey (19832); twenty-eight specimens of chalcedony, from near 

 Tampa, Florida (20631); Post-Pliocene sandstone and silicified Miocene coral, 

 from near Tampa Bay, Florida (20651) ; and a crab, Lihi)ua dubia, caught in Tampa 

 Bay by James Newman (20690). 



(See also under United States Geological Survey 19554, 19555, 19849.) 



Burns, W. C. (Austin, Texas), presented a living specimen of Collared Lizard, Cro- 

 taphytus collaris. 20780. 



Burns, W.R. (Concord, Lewis County, Kentucky), i^resented prehistoric stone im- 

 plements (19627, 19834, 20027), and casts ol: fossils, Conocardimn and Bellerophon 

 MicUisonia (19627) ; also sent skull of a horse fur examination and report ( 19627). 



Bush, Mrs. A. E. (San Jose, California), presented a specimen of liquorice root. 

 (Through A. A. Crozier, Department of Agriculture.) 1936.*^. 



Butler, Amos W. (Brookville, Indiana), presented bird skins, Ammodramus sand- 

 tvuiJiiensis hritnnesceiis Butler (new subspecies) and Elainea fallax, new to the 

 collection (20618) ; also sent bird skins for examination (20151, 20438). 



Butler, E. J. (Eureka, Nevada), sent rock for examination and report. 20012. 



Butler, F. H. (London, England), sent minerals. (19885, 20817.) 



Butler, Hon. R. R. (House of Representatives), sent ore for examination and report. 

 20390. 



Byington, a. H. (See under George F. Daniels, 20546.) 



Byrne, Dr., U. S. Army (through U. S. Geological Survey), presented five specimens 

 of alunogen from Utah. 20069. 



Caldwell, Henry (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a model of an 

 ancient Chinese temple. 19754. 



California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, California) lent twenty-four 

 photographs of Easter Island. 19531. 



California State Mining Bureau (San Francisco, California) presented five speci- 

 mens of colemauite (L9497), and sent cast of an iron meteorite from Alaska in 

 exchange (20321). 



California State Mining School (San Francisco, Cali(ornia) presented three speci- 

 mens of linarite from Cerro Gordo, California. 20203. 



Call, R. Ellsworth (Des Moiues, Iowa), presented a shell, Suceiiiea ohUqita Say, 

 with parasite attached (19351) ; a collection of fishes and reptiles from the vicinity 

 of Des Moines (19517) ; fresh-water shells, a fine specimen of crinoid column, from 

 the Carboniferous deposits ot Boone County, Missouri, and crustaceans and worms 

 from Missouri (19710). 



