788 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1888. 



Wilson, Thomas (U. S. National Museum), presented ethnological objects : Japanese 

 mirror, Roman bronze lauip, wooden sabots, two cuneiform contract tablets from 

 Babylon, Roman glass seal, fine comb, and a Munich calendar (19851) ; an image 

 used in phallic worship, from Italy (19920) ; prehistoric stone implements of the 

 Tertiary geologic period, three specimens from Thenezay, France (20019) ; a col- 

 lection of three hundred and eighty-three prehistoric stone implements, from the 

 District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey (20034) ; and deposited a 

 mediaeval missal, engrossed and illuminated on parchment and bound in boards 

 (19530) ; coins and medals belonging to the late Dr. Ran (deposited by the admin- 

 istrator of his estate) (20061); twenty-three drawings by artists of the seventeenth 

 century, and three miniatures in ivory by unknown artists (20393) ; Venetian 

 glass bottle of the sixteenth century (20539) ; one chromolith by Keilerhoven, 

 after Filippiuo Lippi, and seven drawings by unknown artists (20626) ; and two 

 knives from Norway (or Sweden) (20699). 



Wilson, Hon. W. L. (House of Representatives), sent limestone with crystals of 

 pyrite and chalcopyrite, for examination and report. 20016. 

 i^See also under C. S. White, 19938.) 



WiLTHEiss, C. T. (Piqua, Ohio), presented prehistoric stone implements, fifty-seven 

 specimens, from the Miami River. 20311. 



Winchester Repeating Arms Company (New Haven, Connecticut) deposited a 

 single-shot rifle. 20805. 



Windsor, D. A. (Washington, District of Columbia), sent a chert nodule from lime- 

 stone formation, for examination and report. 19460. 



Winston, Isaac (U. S. Geological Survey), presented photographs of relief maps of 

 Great Bajsin and Pacific coast region, and of San Diego B:iy. 20410. 



Wise, F. A. (Washington, District of Columbia), presented ore from Loudoun County, 

 Virginia. 19414. 



Withers, E. F. (Eddyville, Kentucky), presented a Spanish coin, silver one-real 

 pieces of Charles IV. (20044); and sent a coin dated 1190, for examintion and re- 

 port (20163). 



WOLTZ, G. W. (U. S. National Museum), presented a card of St. Patrick's Society of 

 St. Joseph, Missouri (19578), and war relics consisting of engraved portraits of 

 i enerals, and military envelopes and songs issued during the war of lc;61-'65 

 (19815). 



WoLTZ, William (Washington, District of Columbia), presented an Edison incan- 

 descent lamp, 16-candle power (damaged). 20397. 



Wood, F. E. (Phcenix, Michigan), presented a valuable collection of plants. 19886. 



Wood, Joseph (Red Bank, New Jersey), presented a model of a railroad frog pat- 

 ented by Joseph Wood in 1861. 20428. 



Wood, Nelson R. (U. S. National Museum), deposited a pair of Virginia Quails, a 

 pair of Homing Pigeons, with record and pedigree, a pair of Ring Doves, and a 

 pair of Australian Grass Parrakeets, living specimens. 20399, 20455. 



WOOLBRIDGE, J. (Milan, Missouri), presented a photograph of head of a stone idol. 

 19436. 



Wooster, A. F. (Norfolk, Connecticut), presented a pupa of Philampelus achemon. 

 19492. 



Worth, R. N. (curator of Plymonth Museum, Plymouth, England), pi-esented ten 

 samples of English marble (20383), and sent rocks from England in exchange- 

 (19385). 



Worth, S. G. (Franklin, Virginia), presented specimens of canned sturgeon, caviar, 

 roe in brine, German salt, and salted and dried sturgeon ; also negatives illustrat- 

 ing the sturgeon industry at Delaware City (19390) ; fishes, Roccus I'meatus, with 

 parasites from gills of same, and Cliipca mediocris (19692) aud cypress wood used 

 in the manufacture of paper, also paper made from same (19780). 



Worth, S. J. (Stockton, Virginia), sent ores for examination and report. 197.37, 



