LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 777 



SesSford, J. S. (U. S. National Museum), presented a fac-simile engraving of the 

 original Declaration of Independence. 20207. 



Sewallen, Joseph. (See under S. J. Nelson, 19442.) 



Sewell, Dr. J. A. (Rockwood, Tennessee), sent a specimen of Horn-snake, Ojyheosau- 

 rus ventralis, for examination and report. 19614. 



Shah of Persia (through Department of State) sent a specimen of native gold- 

 bearing quartz for esaminatiou and report. 20378. 



Sharp, George B. (New York City), presented plates of pure copper, copper alloy, 

 steel, and zinc. 20620. 



Sharpless, a. (West Chester, Pennsylvania), presented prehistoric stone imple- 

 ments, two paleolithic, one leaf-shaped (20158), one leaf-shaped (20429), and 

 twenty-two specimens, ten of them paleolithic (20603). 



Sharpless, S. P. (Boston, Massachusetts), presented an exceedingly valuable collec- 

 tion containiug more than eleven hundred specimens of North American woods, 

 embracing over four hundred species, collected by the agents of the Tenth Census 

 and used by Mr. C. S. Sargent in connection with the preparation of vol. ix of 

 the report of the Tenth Census (20115) ; also howlite from Nova Scotia and mas- 

 sive pyrite from Newfoundland (20137), and photomicrogaphs of all species of 

 North American pines, made by the donor (20149). 



Sheldon, W. H. (Climax, Michigan), sent in exchange a collection of prehistoric 

 stone implements, consisting of three rude arrowheads, one small spear-head, 

 two large spear-heads, one rude wedge-shaped implement, one small implement 

 of banded slate, one large implement of banded slate, and a fragment of a 

 drilled ceremonial object, from Kalamazoo County, Michigan. 20807. 



Shellack, Dr. E. H. (Allen, Kansas), sent an object supposed to be a "fossil egg" 

 for examination and report. 20678. 



Shepard, Charles U. (Charleston, South Carolina), presented books from the 

 library of Charles U. Shepard, Sr., deceased (20020), and deposited framed photo- 

 graphs of meteorites and a framed portrait engraving of the Inte Prof. C. U. 

 Shepard (through Cutler's Art Store, New Haven, Connecticut), (2002G). 



Shepard, James (New Britain, Connecticut), presented a specimen of supposed vol- 

 canic rock from Meriden, Connecticut. 19711. 



Shick, Charles S. (Sea Isle City, New Jersey), sent a nest and four eggs oi Ammodro- 

 mus maritinius for examination and. report. 20755. 



Shields, Charles O. (Grange, Colorado), sent specimens of the Blistering Beetle, 

 Meloe subloBvis, for examination and report. 19444. 



Shirlaw^, Walter (New York City), presented three drawings by the donor. 20287. 



Shoemaker, Ernest (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a collection of 

 prehistoric stone implements, including nine leaf-shaped implements, four notched 

 implements, and twenty-two rude implements of the paleolithic type. 20175. 



Sholl, H. C. (Marble Hill, Massachusetts), through Hon. J. P. Walker, sent a speci. 

 men of limonite for examination and report. 20246. 



Shreiber, W. a. H. (Webster, North Carolina), sent in exchange chromite and other 

 ores. 19455. 



Shriver, Howard (Wytheville, Virginia), presented prehistoric stone implements — 

 four arrowheads. 20182. 



Shufeldt, Dr. E. W., U. S. Army (Fort Wingate, New Mexico), presented mammals : 

 Hesperomys truei, Cricetoppus flavus, and Thomomys talpoides umbrimis (19401^ ; a 

 specimen of dressed buckskin, bone used by the tanner in dressing the skin, and 

 seven photographs showing entire process of tanning by the Navajo Indians 

 (19540) ; dendritic markings from Fort Selden, New Mexico (19615); crania and 

 sternaof birds (see "Proc. U. S. National Museum," vol. x, 1887, p. 376) (19719) ; a 

 specimen oi Ardeavirescens, from Arizona (obtained by Charles Ruby, U. S. Army ) 

 (19776); a specimen of the Skunk, Mephitis mephitica, from Fort Wingate (19802); 

 and a skeleton of the Raven, Corvus cor ax sinuatus (20595). 



