772 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Pkice, T. S. (Marysville, California), presented a specimen of the wood of Califorma 

 manzanita. 19446. 



Pkice, W. W. (Riverside, California), presented a specimen of the Rusty Song Spar- 

 row, Melospiza fasciata guttata (20306), also sent birds' skins for examination 

 and report (19840, 20306, 20743). 



Pringle, C. G. (Charlotte, Vermont), presented a collection of Mexican plants, in- 

 cluding many species new to science, which have been named by Watson, Vasey, 

 Britton, and others. 20430. 



Proudfit, S. V. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented prehistoric stone im- 

 plements : Chips, flakes, paleolithic implements, scrapers, notched implements, 

 rude axes, a grooved axe, one hundred and thirty arrowheads, and one unstemmed 

 spear-head, from the District of Columbia. 20003, 203.58. 



PuRNELL, J. H. (Opelika, Alabama), presented Lepidoptera, and cases of Bag- 

 worm, Thyvidopteryx ephemerwphormis. 20457. 



QUACKENBOS, Dr. John D. (Columbia College, New York City), presented a new 

 species of Trout, Salvelimis aureolus, three specimens, from Sunapee Lake, New 

 Hampshire. (Described in " Proceedings of ihe U. S. National Museum," vol. X, 

 1887, page 628.) 19853. 



Queen of Hawaii, presented through the Department of State a canoe similar to 

 those in use by the natives of Hawaii. 20085. 



Quicksilver Mining Company (San Francisco, California) presented a glass model 

 representing the New Almaden mine and its underground workings ; also photo- 

 graphs of its machinery, etc. 20762. 



QuiNN, W. M. (keeper, Cape San Bias light station, Apalachicola, Florida), pre- 

 sented twelve specimens of the young of the Atlantic Hawk's-bill Turtle, 

 Eretmochelys imbricata, in the flesh. 21002. 



QuiNTiN, Andrew (Trenton, New Jersey), presented a lithograph of the iron steam- 

 boat B. S. Stockton. 20313. 



Raby, St. George R. (Mouut Pleasant, District of Columbia), presented a one-cent 

 piece United States, 1793; a twenty-reis, Brazil, 1869; and a ten-cent piece, 

 Hayti, 1846 ; also three sutler's checks, U. S. Army (19972) ; a copper twenty-five- 

 cent piece, a brass fifty-cent piece, and sutler's checks (20194). 



Raby, St. George R., Jr. (Mount Pleasant, District of Columbia), presented Con- 

 federate States paper currency : One dollar, 1862 ; five dollars, 1863 ; and one 

 hundred dollars, 1863, Louisiana. 19973. 



Ragsdale, G. H. (Gainesville, Texas), sent feathers of a duck (20539), cretaceous 

 fossils, fine siliceous sandstone, calcareous sandstone, impure limestone, and 

 argillaceous limestone (19990), for examination and report. 



Railway Gazette (New York City) sent forty numbers of the "Railway Gazette," 

 containing plates. 20495. 



Randall, A. Frank (Los Angeles, California), presented unmounted photographs of 

 Apache Indians. 20263. 



Ransom, William (Fairfield, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England), presented archje- 

 ological objects: Eight specimens of paleolithic implements found about thirteen 

 feet below the surface in yellow clay near Hitchin, Hertfordshire; eight speci- 

 mens of neolithic implements, from the chalk-downs on the south coast of 

 England ; one neolith from Norway ; two flakes from France ; seven pieces of 

 Samian ware dug from the earth about twelve feet below the surface in the city 

 of London, Roman deposit ; three Roman styles, exhumed in London from a 

 depth of two feet. 20668. 



Rathbun, Richard. (See under Fish Commission, United States, 20000.) 



Rau, Dr. Charles (Smithsonian Institution), bequeathed a collection of prehistoric 

 implements, utensils, and ornaments: Four hundred and seventy-four European 

 specimens, thirteen hundred and sixty-seven American specimens, and five hun- 

 dred and eigbty-sevna ludian speciinc.is; also coins in silver and copper, ancient 

 and modern, Euiopeau and American. 19931. 



