778 EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Shutt, Geokge W. (U. S. Geological Siirvej^), presented four specimens of the Banded 

 Eattlesuake, Crotalua horridus (19490), and a living specimen of Eagle, from 

 Virginia (19816). 



Sickles, F. E. (Kansas City, Missouri), presented the first steam steering-engine 



practically applied to a vessel. 20574. 

 SlEBERT, S. R. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented daguerreotype plates, 



buff stick, bromine box, daguerreotype sensitizing box, etc, 20769. 

 SlEMASCHK, J. VON (St. Petersburg, Russia), sent in exchange two fragments of 



meteoric stone from Russia. 19988. 



Simmons, George C. (New York City), presented a Flying-squirrel, Sciurojyterua vo- 



liiceila albino. 19509. 

 Simpson, Charles T. (Ogallala, Nebraska), presented land and fresh-water shells 



from Indian Territory (20722); also lent a specimen of Natica fordiana Simps., from 



Saratoga Bay, Florida, for comparison and study, at the request of the Curator 



ofMollusks (20073). 



SiNGLEY, J. A. (Giddings, Lee County, Texas), presented six species of fresh-water 

 shells (19694) ; also lent laud and fresh-water shells from the vicinity of Austin, 

 Texas, for comparison and study, at the request of the Curator of Mollusks 

 (19790). 



SiSK, Dr. C. T. (Shady Grove, Jefferson County, Tennessee), presented stone relics — 

 arrowheads, spear-heads, celts, grooved axes, pierced tablets, stone tube, and 

 stone pipe ; also fragments of pottery, and bones of mau and of animals ; miner- 

 als, rocks, and ores — red hematite, limonite, quartz crystals, decomposed gneiss, 

 schist, hornblende rock, impure jasper, white mica with feldspar, shale, quartzite, 

 and earthy matter with iron oxide; aud shells, recent species of Tennessee 

 Melaniidce. 19387. 



Skidmore, p. H. (Washington, District of Columbia), through L. M. Turner pre- 

 sented a dried human hand used as a fetich. 19493. 



Skinner & Sons (Baltimore, Maryland), through U. S. Fish Commission presented 

 seven builder's models of ships built at Baltimore since 1846. 20547. 



Skinner, B. D. (Greenport, New York), presented a collection of one hundred aud 

 twenty-nine prehistoric stone implements, twenty of them being paleolithic. 

 20<;3S. 



Skinner, T. E. (U. S. National Museum), presented a specimen of bird, Acciinter 

 cooperi. 19472. 



Smillie, George H. (New York City), presented two pencil drawings by the donor 

 (20296), and a proof (preparatory etching) of "The Rocky Mountains" by James 

 Smillie, after A. Bierstadt. 20355. 



Saiillie, James D. (New York City), presented sketches and studies (20292) aud five 

 progressives of an etching, the work of the donor (20305). 



Smillie, L. E. (Washington, District of Columbia), sent a photographic leus (Har- 

 rison "C. C") used by M. B. Brady in making war views, etc. 20716. 



Smith, C. K. (Klamath Agency, Oregon), presented a prehistoi'ic collection from a 

 mound on the Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon — four obsidian knives, per- 

 forator, two scrapers, one muller, two pestles, one grooved net sinker, three ar- 

 row-shaft straighteners, a fragment of stone implement with narrow groove at 

 one end, a brass disk, a brass ornament, three Chinese coins, fragments of melted 

 glass beads, an iron tomahawk, obsidian spear-head, and eight arrowheads ; 

 also a mortar aud Wo-kus grinder used at the present time by the Klamath and 

 Modoc Indians of Oregon (20434) ; Chinese coins and a brass or copper disk taken 

 from a small cremation mound on the shores of Klamath Lake, Oregon (20454); 

 a prehistoric collection of implements, ornaments, etc., from a mound on the 

 Klamath Indian Reservation, Oregon ; six Chinese coins, two brass buttons, one 



