LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 783 



Thorpe, Captain (schoouer Annie Wesley, Gloucester, Massacliueetts), presented a 

 skin of the Leather-back Turtle. 19655. 



Thorpe, Dr. H. H. (Liberty Hill, Texas), presented a piece of dentigerous bone. 

 19507. 



Thorpe, Eussel (Laramie County, Wyoming), through J. A. George, Washington, 

 District of Columbia, presented marble from Wyoming. 20082. 



Tiffany & Co. (New York City) sent cut stones : Labradorite medallion, fruit tablet 

 ' of rock crystal, carnelian, rhodonite and serpentine, and sections of agatized 

 wood, and of malachite and azurite. 20816. 



Todd, E. E. (U. S. National Museum), presented a copper coin, one-half cent, 1828 

 (19726), a miscellaneous lot of alcoholic insects from Texas (20028), and a Eed- 

 breasted Grossbeak, Zamelodia ludoviciana (20575). 



ToKio, Department of Education (Tokio, Japan), presented lacquer work from 

 Japan, 19789. 



ToKio, Educational Museum (Tokio, Japan), presented a saddle from Loochoo, In- 

 dia (19478); and sent in exchange bird skins from Japan (19478), and meteoric 

 stones containing iron; anorthite crystals from a lava stream during the erup- 

 tion of 1874; and sapphire crystals from tin washings (19914). 



Toner, Dr. J. M. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a navel orange with, 

 smaller one completely inclosed within it. 20695. 



TooKER, William Wallace (Sag Harbor, New York), presented sixteen paleolithic 

 prehistoric stone implements from the vicinity of Sag Harbor, New York. 20418. 



ToPPAN, G. (Salem, Massachusetts), presented a specimen of petroleum ointment, a 

 reputed antidote for rattlesnake bite. 20676. 



ToppAN, George L. (Chicago, Illinois), sent bird skins from Texas and California for 



examination and report. 20348. 

 Towers, H. C. (See under Col. W. H. Havners, 19579.) 



To WNSEND, Charles H. (Fish Commission), United States, presented mammals: Dasy- 

 procta punctata, Didelphys cinereo, D. qiiica, Nasua narica, Tatusia novemcinctus, 

 Sciurus hypopyrrhus, and two bats; also bird skins from Honduras (19715) ; silver 

 coins of Guatemala, 2 reals, 1873, 25 cents, 1881; Honduras, 25 cents, 1885; and 

 Nicaragua, 20 cents, 1887 (19757) ; fishes from Honduras and the Caribbean Sea; 

 ethnological objects, a small but valuable collection of plants, one hundred and 

 eighteen skeletons of birds, three hundred and twenty-five bird skins,* reptiles, 

 birds' nests (including nest of Ostinops montesumo}, a polished celt, squirrels 

 (SciiwHs hypopyrrlius and S. tephrog aster), from Honduras, and a collection of 

 insects containing a considerable number of bright and attractive specimens, 

 representing some of the more common species of that locality (19811). 

 Trask, Eev. H. K. (Bridestowu, New Jersey), sent a Chinese zither or cremona, in 



exchange. 20758. 

 Treasury Department: 



Bureau of Engraving and Printing presented proofs of paper money and bonds of 



the United States (19556), and a specimen of bank-note engraving by S. A. 



Schoff (through John A. O'Neill, superintendent of the engraving division) 



(20235). 



U. S. Life-Saving Service. (See under Capt. Herbert M. Knowles, 19633; also 



under Amasa Bowen, 20473). 

 U. S. Eevenne Marine (through courtesy of Hon. Peter Bonnett, Chief of U. S. 

 Revenue Marine ; and Capt. M. A. Healy, U. S. Eevenue Marine steamer Bear) 

 presented six bidarkas, from Alaska. 19774. 

 U. S. Light-House Board. (See under W. N. Quinn, 21002.) 



* See Proo. TT. S. National Musetim, vol. x, 1887, p. 572. 



