^0 ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS. 



Bendire, Gapt. Chas., United States Cavalry. — One box of birds' nests 



and eggs, from Arizona. 

 Bessels, Dr. Until. — (See under Washington, Navy Department, Polaris 



expedition.) 

 Bissell, Geo. B. — Specimen of hair-worm {Gordius, sp.) from Irondale, 



Mo. 

 Blaine, John IE. — One box of minerals from Montana. 

 Blossom, J. B. — One box of salmon from Bathurst, N. S. 

 Blunt, Gapt. A. P., Quartermaster'' s Department, United States Army.— 



Head and horns of mountain sheep, {Ovis montnna.) 

 Boardman, Geo. A. — Oue box of salmon from Calais, Me. ; one bird- 

 skin. 

 Boisnuier, Edward. — One box of white-fish from Sandwich,- Ont. 

 Bonsall, J. Vincent. — One box of minerals from Eising Sun, Md. 

 Booth, H. — Shells from the west coast of North America. 

 Boyd, S. S. — Specimens of crude salt from Lincoln, Nebr. 

 Bradley, Prof. F. H. — (See under Washington, Interior Department, 



United States Geological Survey.) 

 Breed, E. E. — Eggs of duck-hawk [Falco anatmi>i) from Embarrass, 



Wis. 

 Brendel, E. — A collection of plants from Peoria, 111. 

 Benner, Franklin. — Skins of laughing gull (Larus atricilla) and Tern 



{Sterna hairdii, n. s.) from Portland, Me. 

 Brool's, T. B. — One box of minerals from Marquette, Mich. 

 Bryan, 0. N. — Human bones from mounds in Iowa ; stone implements 



froin Maryhxnd. 

 Cambridge, Mass., Museum of Comparative Zoology, (Prof. Louis Agas- 



siz.) A series of casts of the crania of Mastodon giganteus from the 



Wyman series. 

 Campbell, Archibald. — (See Washington, nortliern boundary survey.) 

 Carpenter, Capt. W. L., United States Infantry. — (See under Washington, 



Interior Department, United States Geological Survey.) 

 Case, J. — Quartz arrow-heads from Troy, Pa. 

 Case, E. A. — Oue box of birds' eggs from North Law^rence, Kans. 

 Casey, T. L.,jr. — Collections of shells irom Florida and Cuba. 

 Calon, Hon. J. D. — Skins of mule-deer, {Cervus macrotis ;) black-tail 



deer, {Cervus Columbianus ;) and hybrid deer, from his park in Ottawa, 



111. ; specimens of petrified wood from California. 

 Cheney, Simeon F. — Skeleton of sea-seal [Erignathus barbatus) from Grand 



Man an, N. B. 

 Chicago, Academy of Sciences, Dr. J. W. Velie. — Twelve eggs of "man- 

 of-war bird,'' {Tachypetes aquila.) 

 Christ Church, Neio Zealand, Canterbury Museum, Dr. Julius Haast. — A 



collection of bird-skins ; a collection of stone implements of the Moa 



hunters; a collection of Dinornis bones from Kjoeklcen-moeddings; 

 complete skeletons of Dinornis giganteus and Paiapteryx elephantopus. 



