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BENJAMIN, Mrs. Carolyn Gilbert. 

 (See under Colonial Dames of 

 America, National Society of.) 



BENJAMIN, Dr. Marcus. (See un- 

 der Miss Josephine B. Hall.) 



BEQUAERT, Dr. Joseph, Boston, 

 Mass. : 16 insects, including 2 named 

 wasps and 1 paratype of a beetle 

 (71394). 



BERGH, Mrs. Oskar W m Brooklyn, 

 N. Y. : 3 tapestries : " Pond Lilies," 

 " Southward," and " King Sigurd's 

 Entrance into the Holy Port," 

 woven by Madam Frida Hansen, 

 Christiana, Norway (71506, loan). 



BERLINER, Emile, Washington, D. 

 C. : Berliner helicopter developed 

 in the course of a number of years 

 of experimentation and successfully 

 flown under complete control, both 

 vertically and laterally, at College 

 Park, Md., in 1923 (71540) ; gramo- 

 phone record of rubber, made in 

 May, 1898 (71816). 



BERNER, Glenn, Jamestown, N. 

 Dak. : 4 specimens of cacti from 

 North Dakota (71612, exchange). 



BERRY SCHOOLS, THE, Mount 

 Berry, Ga. (through Mrs. Laura 

 M. Allen, Rochester, N. Y.) : Table 

 mat, hearth broom, and an owl 

 feather fan, made by the pupils of 

 the Berry Schools, Mount Berry, Ga. 

 (71527). 



BESSEY, R. F. (See under Navy De- 

 partment, Bureau of Yards and 

 Docks.) 



BILLINGTON, C, Detroit, Mich.: 23 

 plants from Florida (71434). 



BIRD, J. L. C, Washington, D. C. : 

 6 stone implements from Marion. 

 McDowell County, N. C. (71130). 



BISSELL, Lin B., Yakima, Wash.: 

 Copper bowl found embedded in the 

 root of a tree near Yakima, Wash. 

 (70835). 



BLACKLOCK, Prof. B. (See under 

 Liverpool School of Tropical Medi- 

 cine. ) 



BLAKE, Dr. S. F., Washington, D. C. : 

 3 plants from Maryland and Vir- 

 ginia (70816) ; a young turtle from 

 Stoughton, Mass., collected by H. 

 W. Blake (71669) ; young turtle and 

 2 vials containing mites from 

 Massachusetts ( 71869 ) . 



(See also under New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden. ) 



BLOEDORN, Dr. Walter A., U. S. 

 Navy, New York City (through Dr. 

 C. S. Butler) : 60 specimens, 10 

 species, of marine shells from the 

 west shore of Culebra Island, Porto 

 Rico (71377). 



BLUTHGEN, P., Naumburg, Ger- 

 many: 14 identified palearctic bees 

 (71780, exchange). 



BODEKER, Fr., Cologne, Germany: 

 17 plants (70331, 71836). Exchange. 



BONNE, C, Soestdyk, Holland: 11 

 snakes and an eel with some of its 

 eggs (70399). 



BOOTH, Franklin, New York City: 

 Pen and ink drawing by the donor 

 (71812). 



BOTANIC GARDENS, Georgetown, 

 British Guiana (through R. Ward) : 

 13 plants from British Guiana 

 (71613, exchange). 



BOTANIC GARDENS, Sydney, New 

 South Wales, Australia: 100 plants 

 (71450, exchange). 



BOTANISCHER GARTEN UND MU- 

 SEUM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany : 

 Fragments from type specimen of a 

 fern from Haiti (71352) ; 3 frag- 

 mentary specimens of ferns (71454) ; 

 (through Dr. I. Urban) fragment 

 of type specimen of a fern, and 10 

 fragmentary specimens of ferns 

 from Hispaniola (71671, 71916). 

 Exchange. 



BOTTIMER, L. J., Washingten, D. C. : 

 40 plants (71842). 



BOVELL, John R, Bridgetown, Bar- 

 bados, West Indies (through Au- 

 gust Busck, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C.) : 

 Skin of a gray kingbill from Bar- 

 bados (70797). 



