LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 769 



Nye, WiLLAED, Jr. (New Bedford, Massachusetts), presented two ducks from Wood's 

 HoU, Massachusetts (19989); prehistoric stone implements and pottery— four 

 scrapers, eight arrowheads, thirteen fragments of pottery— from the north bank 

 of the Patuxent River, opposite Benedict, Maryland ; also fragment of pierced 

 tablet and twenty-five fragments of pottery, from Currituck Sound, North Caro- 

 lina (20480); and ten specimens of prehistoric stone implements, paleolithic, 

 from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (20579). 



Ober, Andrew K. (Beverly, Massachusetts), sent for examination and report arrow- 

 heads from Nova Scotia and from Nevada. 19968. 



O'CoNNELL, E. DoROGHTERY (Washington, District of Columbia), sent decomposed 

 mica for examination and report. 19459. 



Oerlein, R. (New Orleans, Louisiana), presented a specimen of the raanilla plant 

 and sample of manilla hemp, from Honduras, Central America. 19835. 



Ohm, Fred C. (Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, District of Columbia), presented 

 a living specimen of Gray Squirrel, Sciurus caroliniensis caroliniensis. 13874. 



Olds, Frederick A. (Raleigh, North Carolina), presented a collection of NorthCaro- 

 lina State currency issued during the war of 1861-'65. 20025. 



Olmstead, E. S. (Stepney Depot, Connecticut), presented topaz, tourmaline, scapo- 

 lite, epidolite, native bismuth, fluorite, muscovite, and wolframite. 20014. 



O'Malley, Mr. (through U. S. Fish Commission), sent a larva of one of the Sialkljs 

 for examination and report. 20601. 



O'Neill, John A. (See under Treasury Department, Bureau of Engraving and 

 Printing, 20325.) 



Orcutt, C. R. (San Diego, California), sent shells, one hundred specimens of Helix 

 Icems, in exchange. 20721. 



Ostrander, T. L. (Wells, New York), presented three living specimens of the Wood- 

 chuck. 20718. 



O'TooLE, George P., H. P. Soule, and L. B. Washington (Washington, District of 

 Columbia) presented a Hungarian fund certificate, dated New York, February 

 2, 1852, signed by L. Kossuth. 19929. 



Owen, W. O., Jr. (Plattsburgh Barracks, New York), presented a specimen of Hell- 

 bender, Menopoma allegheniense. 19357. 



OWLSLEY, Dr. W, T. (Glasgow, Kentucky), presented a living specimen of Opossum 

 (20466) ; and sent living specimens of the Gray Fox (20648, 20740) and a living 

 Tortoise, Cistudo Carolina (20649). 



Paez, Don Ramon (New York City), through E. G. Blackford presented a military 

 cap and sword of the late General Jos^ Antonio Paez. 20388. 



Page, Nelson C. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a fossil Crocodile, 

 Crocodilus sp. 20154. 



Page, R. W. (Salem, Virginia), sent a specimen of rock; also cast of foot-print in 

 limestone, for examination and report. 19536. 



Page, W. L. (Lynchburgh, Virginia), presented a natural formation slightly worked. 



19402. 

 Palmer, Dr. Edward (Washington, District of Columbia), deposited specimens of 

 currency: Silver two-real, Spanish Mexican, 1820; copper clacka, Mexican ; and 

 pasteboard money, value 12^ cents, southern California (20170). Also sent a 

 valuable collection of Mexican plants, comprising seven hundred and sixty- 

 eight specimens. (This collection has been worked up by Dr. Sereno Watson, 

 of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the results published in "The Proceedings 

 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences," vol. xxiv, 1889, pp. 36-87.) 

 Forty-eight specimens of materia medica, from California ; a collection of one 

 hundred and forty-seven articles, funeral equipments, from a burial cave near 

 Los Angeles Bay, 200 miles northwest from Guaymas, Lower California ; ethno- 

 logical objects : drum, rattles, fruit pickers, digging-sticks, water-jar, coloring 

 materials, and other objects, from the Yaqui Indians, Sonora, Mexico; twenty- 

 H. Mis, 142, pt, 2^-^4.9 



