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DONATIONS TO THE STATE CABINET DURING 1863. 



From L. C. Clow^ St. Louis, Mo. : 

 One specimen of Silicified wood from the Cascades of the Missouri. 



From George Van Campen, Cattaraugus Co. : 



One specimen of Conglomerate. 



One mass of fossils from ChemuQg Group. 



From JYoah S. Dean, Albany, N. Y. : 



One vertebra of the Phocaena orca (Grampus), obtained at Fire 

 Island, N. Y. 



From C. W. Englehart, Sackett's Harbor, N. Y. : 



Tridaena gigas; one valve, from "the East Indies; weight 1^5 

 pounds. 



From Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, Resident Minister of the United 



States in Japan : 

 Bird, two species, undetermined, from Japan. 

 Keptilia, ophidia, one species, undetermined, from Japan. 

 Lacertae, three species, do do 



Amphibia ranidae, four 



species 



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Fishes, thirteen species, 





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Insects, two species, 





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Crustacea, six species 





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Mollusca, one species 





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From the Smithsonian Institution: 



Mactra (Lyrodesma) Ponderosa-myocene, Fort Washington, Md. 

 Escara digitata, Cretaceous, Backwoodstown, N. J. 

 Spirula rotula, do do do 



Escara digitata, var. do do do 



Escagyra costata, do do do 



