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Specimens of Secotium Wamei Pk., from Aug. F. Foerste, Granville, 

 Ohio. 



Specimens of forty-nine species of fungi, from J. B. Ellis, Newfield, 



N. J. 



Specimens of twenty-seven species of California fungi, from H. W. 



Harkness, M. D., San Francisco, Cal. 



By collection of the Botanist, 192 species of plants, 116 of which are 

 new to the herbarium. These are mostly fungi. 



II. Zoological. 



Large red-headed wood-pecker (female), from Andrew Lackey, Johns- 

 burg, Warren county, N. Y. 



Boa constrictor, thirteen feet in length. By purchase. 



Specimens of Estheria, from Des Moines, Iowa. 



Specimens of Pyrgula Nevadensis, Pyramid Lake, Nevada, from R. 

 Ellsworth Call, David City, Nebraska. 



List of Achatinella presented to the New York State Museum by Dr. 

 W. D. Hartman, February 29, 1884: 



A. adusta, Pf., four specimens. 



A. affinis, Newc, seven specimens. 



A. biplicata, Newc, two specimens. 



A. Dunkeri, Cuming, var. Producta, Rve., five specimens. 



A. elegans, Newc, five specimens. 



A. flavescens, Newc, two specimens. 



A. formosa, Newc, two specimens. 



A. f trig ens, Newc, three specimens. 



A. Master si, Newc, one specimen. 



A. pulcherrima, Newc type, five specimens. 



A. splendida, Newc, two specimens. 



A. striatula, Gould, ten specimens. 



A. textihs, Fer.; ventulus, Rve. & Pf.; microstoma, Gould, six 

 specimens. 



A. turgidula, Pse., two specimens. 



A. variabilis, Newc, six specimens. 



A. viridans, Mighels, non Pf., five specimens. 



III. Geological and Palmontological. 



Part of a mastodon tusk from Rochester, N. Y., found in the excava- 

 tion of the Genesee Valley canal, 1837, from Prof. James Hall. 



Plaster casts of the type specimens of Ecliinocaris socialis, Tropidoca- 

 rts bicannata, T. inter rupta, T. alter nata and Elymocans siliqua, 

 from C. E. Beecher. 



Favosite from Freehold, Greene county ; iron ore from Burden mine, 

 Catskill, and piece of chert resembling a heel-bone, from C. H. Snyder, 

 Freehold, N. Y. 



Iron pyrites and iron ore from W. S. Snyder, Hoosick, N. Y. 



Six specimens of Dictyophyton tuberosum, one specimen of Dicty- 

 ophyton patulum from the Chemung group, Steuben county, N. Y. By 

 purchase from Ward and Howell. 



Plaster casts of Stylonurus excelsior, Catskill group, N. Y. • 



Plaster casts of Gleodictya gloriosa, lower Carboniferous, Indiana. 



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