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RICHARDSON, ESTATE OP WIL- 

 LIAM D. (through the Virginia 

 Trust Co., executor, Richmond, Va.) : 

 A small collection of beetles, about 

 1,000 specimens, mostly of the fam- 

 ily Parnidae (71233, deposit). 



RICHMOND, Dr. C. W. (See under 

 Mearns, Estate of Col. Edgar A.) 



RICHMOND, UNIVERSITY OF, De- 

 partment of Biology, Richmond, Va. 

 (through Prof. P., R. Merriam) : 

 125 plants (70669). 



RICKER, M., Donna, Tex.: 10 speci- 

 mens, 1 species, of land shells from 

 Texas (71235). 



RILEY, J. H., U. S. National Museum : 

 Bat from Falls Church, Va. (70437). 



RITTER, Mrs. Gertrude D., Wash- 

 ington, D. C. : Collection of objects 

 representing the interior furnish- 

 ings of an American colonial room, 

 including wall panels, fireplace, 

 tables, corner cupboard, chairs, 

 chinaware, glassware, pewter, and 

 miscellaneous household material of 

 the eighteenth century (50 speci- 

 mens) (71679). 



ROBINSON, John, Bridgetown, Bar- 

 bados : 4 photographs of plants from 

 Barbados (71668). 



ROBINSON, Kael Spiess, La Jolla, 

 Calif. : A small collection of inverte- 

 brate fossils from the Carbonifer- 

 ous of Texas (71645). 



ROBINSON SILK CO., New York 

 City: 4 specimens of silk dress 

 fabrics and 3 specimens of crepe 

 silk dress fabrics (70955, 71036). 



ROBINSON, Col. Wirt, U. S. Army, 

 West Point, N. Y. : 2 pigeons from 

 tropical America (70459). 



ROCHESTER PARK DEPART- 

 MENT, Rochester, N. Y. (through 

 W. L. G. Edson) : 3 plants (71825, 

 71858). Exchange. 



ROE, Charles O. (through Mrs. 

 Charles O. Roe, Summerland, Calif., 

 and Dr. J. P. Harrington) : Por- 

 tion of a skull of an extinct whale 

 (71359). 



ROEBLING, Col. W. A., Trenton, 

 N. J. : Specimen of the mineral 

 carminspath (70313) ; a large mass 

 of calamine crystals from Sterling 

 Hill, N. J. (70733) ; 4 mineral speci- 

 mens (71016) ; a group of selenite 

 crystals from Saxony, a crystal of 

 struverite from Madagascar, and a 

 polished jadeite from Burma 

 (71025) ; a group of zincite crystals 

 and a specimen of axinite from 

 Franklin Furnace, N. J. (71028, 

 71462) ; 2 crystals of kunzite 

 (71181) ; 8 specimens of minerals 

 from Langban, Sweden (71214) ; 6 

 specimens of epidote collected in 

 Alaska by C. B. Ferguson (71344). 



ROE WADE, K, New York City: 

 Postage stamp of Iceland, 20 aur, 

 blue error, issued 1902-1904 (70297). 



ROGERS, Miss Jessie B., Springfield, 

 Mo. : An old brass mortar and 

 pestle (70447). 



ROIG, Dr. Mario Sanchez, Habana, 

 Cuba: 2 fossil crab hands and 9 

 specimens of Tertiary echinoids 

 from Cuba (71470, 71625). 



ROJAS, Prof. Ruben Torres, Car- 

 tago, Costa Rica : 180 specimens of 

 ferns, 7 plants, and 2 salamanders, 

 all from Costa Rica (70954, 71626, 

 71742, 71754). 



ROOS, Dr. A. T., Keystone, S. Dak. 

 (through Frank L. Hess) : Speci- 

 men of columbite from' the Etta 

 Mine, near Keystone (71722). 



ROOSEVELT, Hon. Theodore. (See 

 under Navy Department.) 



ROOT, Dr. F. M., Baltimore, Md. : 8 

 flies (71519). 



ROOT, Lloyd L, San Francisco, 

 Calif. : 2 samples' of native arsenic 

 from the Alcalde Gold Mine, Grass 

 Valley, Calif. (71488). 



ROSE, Dr. J. N., U. S. National Mu- 

 seum : 3 specimens of seaweeds 

 from Atlantic City, N. J. (70923). 



ROSENBERG, E., Copenhagen, Den- 

 mark (through Dr. A. G. Boving) : 

 Larvae and pupae of 9 species of 

 beetles (71686). 



