14 Annual Report of the Regents 



From the Author. 



James Hall. Palseontology of New York. Yol. II. Descriptive 

 text. Albany, 1852. Pam. 4to. 



From the Smithsonian Institution. 



Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion * * * * for the year 1867. Washington, 1868. 8vo. 



II. BY PURCHASE. 



I. TO THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Tooth of fossil Elephant, found in the gravel, twenty-five feet below 

 the surface of the placer gold mining district of Montana, in 

 Meagher county (formerly Gallatin county), near the head waters 

 of Missouri river, twenty-five miles from Helena city. By A. S. 

 "Wood and John Kiergan, in August, 1867. 



A Collection of one hundred and ninety-six Alcoholic Specimens, 

 exclusive of Insects and Mollusks, as follows : 



Mammals. 



2 Mammals (young). 



3 Vespertilio ? Mississippi river. 



Fishes. 



4 Traohinus vipera. River Mersey, England. 



3 Murcenoides guttata. River Mersey, England. 

 2 Cottus bulbalus. River Mersey, England. 



11 Pimelodus f (with yolk-sac attached). Panama. 



2 Perca Jlumatalis. 



2 Leucisous rutilis. 



12 Gaster osteons occidentalis. 



1 Echeneis remora. ISTew York Harbor. 

 k.Aspidophorus Europans. River Mersey, England. 



1 Hippocampus f Panama. 



24 specimens of several species not determined. 



Reptiles. 



1 Ancistrodon contortrix. 



- 2 Ophidians. Martinique, W. I. 

 17 " Localities not stated. 



3 Coluberidse. Mississippi river. 

 3 " Indiana. 



27 Salamandridse and Scincidae. Localities not stated. 

 12 " New York. 



2 " Japan. 



3 Saurians. Osage river, Missouri. 

 11 Ranidse. Localities not stated. 



2 " England. 



