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Johnson, John Dalancl, presented coins, cloth from fibres of 

 Sago palm, sandals, implements of industry, &c., from savage 

 tribes — feather wrought hammock, of great elegance, and 

 Indian dresses of feathers, from the Amazon, Chinese imple- 

 ments, domestic articles of furniture, &c., from Somauli Coast, 

 East Africa, &c. &c. Contributions from Charles Linnaeus 

 Allen and William H. Chase, of Union Springs, N. Y., of 

 Indian relics ; a Peruvian idol from an Indian burying ground 

 near Santanan, Peru ; also, arrow heads from Miss Eliza Ann 

 Symonds ; arrow heads from Milburn Lake Co., Illinois, by 

 B. F. Stedman ; birch basket highly ornamented and made by 

 Tuscorara Indians, from T. Downing ; a pair of saddle bags, 

 used in transporting the mail about a century ago in Essex 

 County, from Charles Ewer, of Portsmouth, N. H.; and from 

 W. P. Endicott, several Indian Gouges, found in the soil near 

 Bridge street, Salem ; cannon balls, from Fort St. George, 

 Me., by C. E. Abbot of Marblehead ; two old fire buckets, in 

 excellent preservation, owned formerly Dr. E. A. Holyoke, and 

 bearing the date of 1744, from E. A. Holyoke, the grandson. 

 To the Natural History Department. In Comparative 

 Anatomy, a skull of a Chimpanzee, (young) from West Africa, 

 by Capt. Luscomb, donor ; skull of a porcupine, from Zanzibar, 

 of a Mungos, from Zanzibar, of a musk deer, from Java, 

 by H. F. Shepard, Geo. Bertram and Henry L. Lambert, 

 donors ; several species of turtles of the Mississippi River, by 



B. L. C. Wailes ; two Indian skulls, from vicinity of Cayuga, by 



C. L. Allen, of Union Springs, N. Y. ; and a fine skull of a 

 Walrus^ from the Northern Pacific, brought into Salem from 

 the Sandwich Islands, where it was obtained from a whaler, by 

 Nelson D. Prime. In Zoology, a skin of a flying squirrel, 

 from Cape Good Hope, by Justin Rideout — that of a tapir, from 

 Cayenne, by Charles Haddock, Beverly, — that of sl leopard, 

 from Eastern Africa, by W, G. Webb. Several specimens of 

 birds have been received from Messrs. Joshua Cleaves, E. F. 

 Miller, B. S. Grover, H. K. Oliver, jr. The collection of 

 Birds has been lately rearranged and a catalogue of species and 



