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LIST OF ACCESSIONS 



WAR DEPARTMENT— Con. 



Shiloh National Military Park, 

 Pittsburg Landing, Tenn. 

 (through Hon. Dwight P. Davis, 

 Assistant Secretary of War) : 

 Hornet's nest found on the 

 Shiloh battle field near the 

 battle line position of Prentiss's 

 division in the " Hornets' Nest " 

 section (71346). 

 Signal Corps, (meteorological sec- 

 lion) : 43 meteorological instru- 

 ments including instruments for 

 air pressure, wind velocity, rain 

 accumulations, etc. (70852) ; 

 French telephone exchange, one 

 position type, in old French 

 omnibus (71305). 

 WARD, R. (See under Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Georgetown.) 

 WARD, Wilfred B., Richmond, Ind. : 

 3 hand taps and 2 hand dies for 

 cutting threads in wood, used in 

 Philadelphia between 1790 and 1828 

 by Thomas Barnitt, grandfather of 

 the donor (71631). 

 WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE ES- 

 TABLISHMENT, Rochester, N. Y. : 

 25 specimens of Early Silurian fos- 

 sils from Manitoba (70409, ex- 

 change) ; Middle Triassic inverte- 

 brates from Forest Hill, Nev. 

 (71082) ; a nearly complete indi- 

 vidual of the Mejillones, Chile, me- 

 teoric iron, weighing 14,530 grams 

 (71363, exchange) ; specimen of the 

 mineral weinschenkite (71509, ex- 

 change). 

 WARDWELL BRAIDING MACHINE 

 CO., Central Falls, R. I. : A " Ward- 

 wellian " braiding machine with 

 platform and operating motor 

 (70360). 

 WARNER, S. R., Huntsville, Tex.: 



Plant from Texas (70528). 

 WATERSTON, James. (See under 

 British Government, British Mu- 

 seum (Natural History).) 

 WATSON, B. J., Chincoteague, Va. : 



Plant (71161). 

 WATSON, C. O., U. S. National Mu- 

 seum : Skin and skull of a bat from 

 Washington, D. C. (70433). 



WATSON, J. R. (See under Florida, 

 University of.) 



WATSON, Lester, Boston, Mass.: 

 Ribbon of the British Crimean War 

 medal (71043). 



WEATHERBY, C. A., East Hartford, 

 Conn. : 61 plants from Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts (71351). 



WELD, L. H., Washington, D. C. : 

 Collection of adults and galls pro- 

 duced by gallwasps of the family 

 Cynipidae, including 11 paratypes 

 of 5 species, and 4 cotypes of 1 

 species (70650). 



WENDLER, C, Chene Bourg, Switz- 

 erland : A f raginent weighing 197 . 

 grams of the Cabezzo de Mayo 

 meteoric stone (70537, exchange). 



WETMORE, Dr. A., Takoma Park, 

 Md. : 3 birds from the eastern 

 United States (70901) ; skeleton of 

 a bird, Cape May warbler (71770). 



WETMORE, Mrs. Charles, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. : 5 Javanese bamboo 

 musical instruments, and a harp- 

 back piano, maker unknown (71545. 

 71651). 



WETMORE, J. A., Washington, D. C. : 

 Stone pipe of the Atlantic coast 

 type, found in Takoma Park, Md. 

 (71579). 



WHARRAM, S. V., Austinburg, Ohio : 

 4 specimens, 1 species, of fresh- 

 water mollusks from Grand River, 

 Ohio (70615). 



WHEELER, G. G, Syracuse, N. Y. : 

 Type specimen of parasitic Hymen- 

 optera (71880). 



WHERRY, Dr. Edgar T., Washing- 

 ton, D. C. : 3 plants from Maryland 

 (70380, 70655) ; 2 ferns collected in 

 Wisconsin (70637) ; tree frog from 

 New Alexandria, Va. (70657) ; fern 

 from Georgia (71197). 



WHITE CAPS MINING CO., Tono- 

 pah, Nev. (through John J. Kirchen. 

 president and general manager) : 

 Sample of crystallized stibnite from 

 the White Caps Mine, Manhattan, 

 Nev. (71961). 



WHITE, Mrs. John Jay, New York 

 City : Head of an elk mounted, and 

 2 heads of African antelope (71304, 

 deposit). 



