ADDITIONS TO THE STATE MUSEUM DURING YEAR 1887. 



I. ZOOLOGICAL. 



By Donation. 



Dr. David Murray: 

 Five specimens glass sponge (Hyalonema mirabile), Yenoshima, Japan. 



W. W. Hill: 

 Two specimens ^^h {Gouseius prosthemius) , Beaver river, N. Y. 



Christian Bassler : 

 One specimen milk snake; one specimen Jfeno&ranc/iMs lateralis, Albany- 

 Water Supply. 



Emmett Brown: 

 One specimen great blue heron, Belfast, N. Y. 



E. Emmons, Jr. : 

 One specimen of Alcyonaria (Horn Coral), West Indies. 



C. E. Beecher: 

 Several thousand specimens of land, fresh water and marine, shells of 

 the United States (duplicates of the collection presented to this 

 Museum by Mr. Beecher in 1886.) 



Series of shells described by the donor in the thirty-sixth annual 

 report, under the title: " Some abnormal and pathologic forms of fresh- 

 water shells from the vicinity of Albany, New York." 



Prof. John C. Smock: 

 One specimen Hip'po'pus. maculatus. 

 One specimen Tridacna squamosa. 

 Two specimens Cardium maculatum. 

 Two specimens Murex regius. 

 Two specimens Murex saxatilis. 

 Two specimens Pterocera lambis. 

 One specimen Valuta (sp. indet). , 

 One specimen Fasciolaria tulipa. 

 One specimen Cassis Madagascariensis. 



