766 KEPOKT OF NATIONAL MUaEUM, 1888. 



Merrill, George P.— Coutinued. 



Maine, and calcite crystals, cleavage calcite, talc, garnet altering to chlorite, 

 muscovite crystals in albite, and muscovite crystals (19553) ; bowlders of glauco- 

 pliane rock from California, purchased of W. L. Jones, Cloverdale, California 

 (19775); peridotite, altered shale, and serpentine from Deer Isle, Maine (19581); 

 rocks from Dover, Bellinghamj and Needham, Massachusetts Q9592) ; and dia- 

 base and vein formations from Maine (19594). 



Merrill, Dr. J. C, \J. S. Armj, ■pTesente6ihiv(i.8^ eggs : Parus gamheli, Porzanct carolhia, 



Anas cyanoptera, Telmatodi/tes palustris, Gallinago delicta, Otocoris alpestris ?, 



Junco hyemalis orerjonm (and nest), Pi/ranga liidoviciana (and nest), Contopns 

 richardsoni (and nest), and Empidonax ohscurus (and nest) (19384) ; fishes, including 

 Chasmistes, Plwxinus coeruleus, and Ammocoetes tridentatus ; and reptiles, including 

 Anihlystoma macrodactylum, Bafo columhiensis, Eyla reyilla and Bana pretiosa ; land 

 and fresh-water shells ; a miscellaneous lot of insects ; cray-fishes, and mammal 

 skulls and skeletons, from Oregon (19748) ; Douglass Squirrel, Sciurus hudsonius 

 douglassi ; Bushy -tailed Wood-rat, A''eo/oma cinere«; White-footed Mouse, Hespe- 

 romys leucopiis ; Long-tailed Weasel, Putorius longicauda ; Townsend's Spermo- 

 phile, Spermopliilas richardsoni townsendi ; Day's Chipmunk; Tamias lateralis, and 

 Townsend's Chipmunk, Tamias asiaticus townsendii (19752) ; birds' nests and birds* 

 eggs: Stellul a calliope, Empidonax, obsciir us, and Geolhlypis macgilHvrayi (19469). 



Merrill, L. H. (Agricultural Experiment Station, Orono, Maine), sent in exchange 

 samples of soils. 20427. 



Metchke, Otto (Tucson, Arizona), sent a specimen of arseniate of copper for exam- 

 ination and report. 20667. 



Metzel, Kobert F. (Washington, District of Columbia), deposited a German Bible, 

 X^rinted at Germantown in 1776. 20825. 



Meyer, N. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented various campaign medals, 

 also Grant badge (battles of Kichmond, Vicksburgh, and Fort Donelson, 1865). 

 19930. 



Meyers, Peter (Stoutsville, Ohio), sent ore for examination and report. 20578. 



Middleton, J. (Four Mile Run, Virginia), presented a specimen of Black-nosed Dace, 

 PMnichthys sp., from the Potomac Eiver. 19812. 

 (See also under Willie Taylor, 19420.) 



MiHTAKY Academy, United States (West Point, New York), depositod a necklace 

 made from human fingers by the Cheyenne Indians. Collected by Capt. John 

 G. Bourke, U. S. Army. 19685. 



Miller, Alexander McVeigh (Alderson, West Virginia), presented a living Tor- 

 toise, Cisludo Carolina (20613) ; also two living specimens of Striped Ground- 

 squirrel, Tamias striatus (20713). 



Miller, Charles (Grand Rapids, Michigan), sent a specimen of gypsum for exami- 

 nation and report. 19596. 



Miller, Charles H. (New York City), presented drawings, etchings, and sketches 

 by the donor. 20279. 



Miller, Capt. D. A. (Logan, Ohio), presented a badge worn on the occasion of the 

 reunion of the Seventy-fifth Ohio Volunteers upon the battle-field of Gettysburgh, 

 September 14, 1887. 19635. 



Miller, John (through J. S. Diller, U. S. Geological Survey), presented massive 

 pectolite, from near Mount Linn, California. 20366. 



Miller, Stowe & Freeman (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a Lion, 

 Felis leo (19672) ; also a Monkey, Macacus cynomulgus (19683), for skeleton. 



Miller, Thomas C. (Fairmont, West Virginia), presented medals awarded to West 

 Virginia soldiers. 20795. 



Mills, Robert A. (Chuluota, Florida), presented a fine specimen of a beetle, Acan- 

 thocinus nodosus. 19487. 



