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LIST OP ACCESSIONS 



POOLE, A. J., U. S. National Mu- 

 seum : 2 meadow mice ; 16 reptiles 

 and 42 batrachians, collected near 

 Vineland, N. J. ; skin and skull of a 

 meadow mouse from the District of 

 Columbia (84802, 86462, 87149). 



PORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIA- 

 TION, Washington, D. O. : Framed 

 facsimile of the original patent 

 granted by King George IV of Eng- 

 land, October 21, 1824, to Joseph 

 Aspdin on Portland cement (86970). 



POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT: 15 

 sets of specimen stamps, etc., in 

 triplicate (5491 specimens), re- 

 ceived from the International Bu- 

 reau of the Universal Postal Union, 

 Berne, Switzerland (83354, 83578, 

 84445, 84674, 84910, 85264, 85356, 

 85396, 85872, 86275, 86809, 87199, 

 87320, 87540, 87S59) ; 1 set of post- 

 age due stamps of Chile issued 1924 

 (11 specimens) (84666) ; 3 speci- 

 mens of the 25 centimos postage 

 stamp issued by the Government of 

 Venezuela, 1924, in commemoration 

 of the battle of Ayacucho, 1824 

 (85375) ; United States postage 

 stamps, in triplicate, issued 1925 

 (24 specimens) (87930). 



(See also under Indiana State 

 Museum. ) 



POTTER, H. L., El Paso, Tex.: 11 

 plants (83528, 83598, 87236, 87438). 

 Exchange. 



POTTS, F. A., Fortuna, Porto Rico; 

 Skin of Hudsonian curlew (83950). 



POTTS, Gen. R. D., U. S. Army, Wash- 

 ington, D. C. : Collection of miscel- 

 laneous Philippine and North Amer- 

 ican Indian ethnological specimens 

 (85317). 



POWELL, A. W. B., Auckland, New 

 Zealand : 7 specimens, 3 species, of 

 mollusks from New Zealand, not 

 heretofore represented in the Mu- 

 seum collections (85641). 



POWERS, Mrs. Frances Roomk, 

 Washington, D. C. : Collection of 

 chinaware, lamps, work baskets, 

 and other objects (87695). 



POWERS-WEIGH T M A N-R O S E N- 

 GARTEN CO., Philadelphia, Pa.: 2 

 specimens of arsenicals used in 

 medicine (85311). 



PRESTON, Miss Kate B., Alexandria, 

 Va. : 1,600 insects, chiefly Lepi- 

 doptera (85009). 



PRETORIA, AGRICULTURE DE- 

 PARTMENT OF, Division of Bot- 

 any, Union of South Africa: 100 

 plants from Africa (86630). Ex- 

 change. 



PRO-PHY-LAC-TIC BRUSH CO., 

 Florence, Mass. : 6 tooth brushes 



(85097). 



PROROK, Count Btkon Khun de 



(See under Archaeological Society 



of Washington.) 

 PSOTA, Dr. Feank J., Chicago, 111.: 



24 determined exotic beetles (84039) . 

 PURPUS, Dr. C. A., Huatusco, Vera 



Cruz, Mexico : 6 plants from Vera 



Cruz (85795) ; 2 plants (84672). 



237 specimens of lichens collected 

 " in Mexico by Dr. J. A. Purpus 



(86602). 



PURPUS, Dr. J. A., Darmstadt, Ger- 

 many; 427 plants collected in Mex- 

 ico by the donor (86512, 86602). 



RAIZOSS, Dr. George W., Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. : 1 lot of 12 specimens 

 of arsenical compounds (83984). 



RAND, Col. Irving Wallace, U. S. 

 Army (retired), Portsmouth, N. H. : 

 50 beetles from Bolivia (85796). 



RANDS, R. D. (See under Agricul- 

 ture. Department of, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry.) 



RAYMOND, Dr. Percy E. (See un- 

 der Smithsonian Institution, Na 

 tional Museum, collected by mem 

 bers of the staff.) 



REBER, Mrs. Samuel, New York 

 City: Silver and bronze shield pre- 

 sented to Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. 

 Miles, U. S. Army, by the officers of 

 the Fifth U. S. Infantry (87949). 

 Loan. 



(See also under Maj. Shermaib 

 Miles, U. S. Army.) 



