LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 787 



Whitmore, George C. (Nephi, Utah), sent mineral was, for examination and re- 

 port. 19470. 



Whitney, E. J. (Brooklyn, New York), presented wood-cut proofs by E. D. Hayes, 

 Alexander Anderson, J. H. E. Whitney, A. Whitney, E. J. Whitney, and other 

 American engravers ; also process drawings by the don or, and impressions from 

 process blocks from drawin gs by the donor. 20800. 



Written, W. A. (MoUna, Mississippi), sent ethnological objects dug from the ground 

 at Molino; namely, horse- bits, cups and saucers, an old copper kettle, beads, old 

 silver ornaments, etc. (Purchased.) 20377. 



WiDDOWSON, J. W. (London, England), presented stone sleeper block and plate over 

 which Trevithick's locomotive ran between Penydarren Works, Methyr, and the 

 Glamorgan Canal, at Abedare Junction, in 1808; also spike by which the plate 

 was held to the block. 20745. 



WiER, J. D. (Pontotoc, Texas), sent micaceous hematite in siliceous material for 

 examination and report. 19992. 



Wilcox, A. C. (Washington, District of Columbia), sent Watertown quartzite 

 pebbles for examination and report. 20280. 



Wilcox, Dr. T. E., U. S. Army (Port Niobrara, Nebraska), sent a specimen of the 

 Short-eared Owl, Asio accipitrinus, for examination and report. 20101. 



Wilcox, W. A. (Gloucester, Massachusetts), presented two specimens of Squilla 

 enipusa from Providence, Ehode Island (19807), and a fine specimen of coral Para- 

 gorgia arborea, from off Banquereau (2012.3). 



(See also under Capt. Thomas Thompson, 19784.) 



Wilkinson, Ensign Ernest, U. S. Navy, presented syenite, nummulite, and mortar 

 from Pyramid of Cheops, Egypt. 19991. 



WiLLARD, Eev. George L. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented an object 

 found on the prairie in Indian Territory, supposed to be a " fossil sponge." 20309. 



WiLLCOx, Joseph (Media, Pennsylvania), lent shells, for comparison and study, at the 

 request of the Curator of Mollusks — Melongena corona Gm., to show varieties ; also 

 invertebrate fossils from Florida. 20710. 



Williams, Prof, H. C. (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York), sent fossil wood from 

 the Devonian formation of New York, for examination and report. 20340. 



Williams, H. F. (Fairbank, Arizona), presented a fragment of a shell ornament made 

 from the shell of Fecttinculus (Axincea) intermidius Brod, found about eight feet 

 below the surface at Fairbank, Arizona. 20354. 



V/iLLis, Merritt (West Farms, New York), presented three prehistoric stone imple- 

 ments, paleolithic, from Trenton, New Jersey, and West Chester, Pennsylvania. 

 20331. 



Williston, Dr. S. W. (New Haven, Connecticut), presented a collection of Diptera, 

 two hundred and sixty-three species, seven hundred and twenty-nine specimens 

 of the family Syrphidse. This collection is almost complete and is the best extant 

 of the family. (See "Bulletin U. S. National Museum," No. 31.) 19702. 



WiLLOUGHBY, CHARLES (U. S. Indian agent, Quinaelt Agency, Washington), pre- 

 sented a specimen of a new genus, new species of fish, Acrotus tvillouyhbyi. (See 

 "Proc. U. S. National Museum," vol. x, 1887, p. 631.) 19957. 



Wilson, Mrs. F. B. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented a Double Yellow- 

 head Parrot, Amazona oratrix. 20569. 



Wilson, James H. (Gillen water, Tennessee), sent a mixture of quartz granules and 

 iron oxides for examination and report. 20124. 



Wilson, John, & Son (Cambridge, Massachusetts) presented specimens to illustrate 

 the art of wood-cut printing. 205159. 



Wilson, Col. John M., U. S. Army (Washington, District of Columbia), presented 

 the original life-size plaster model of the statue of George Washington, erected 

 at Washington's headquarters at Newburgh. 19947. 

 Wilson, Dr. L. D. (Wheeling, West Virginia), presented a cup-stoue. 19741. 



