18 Senate 



From the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. 

 Skin or Ctnomis ludocrianus, Prairie Dog, New Mexico. 



** SciURUS FOSSOR, Great Ground Squirrel, California. 



" Geomys bursarius, Gopher, Iowa. 



•' Spermophylus 13-striatus, 1^-lined Squirrel, California. 



'• Spermophylus, California Ground Squirrel, California. 



" Hesperomys leucopus, Deer Mouse, Massachusetts. 



•' SoREX dekayi, Dekay's Shrew, New York. 

 Skull op Sorex platyrhincus, Eared Shrew, New York. 



♦' Castor canadensis, Beaver. 



From Miss IIANNAH T. LAWRENCE, Bay Side, Long Island: By Robert 

 TowNSEND, Esq., Albany. 



Seven specimens of GtOLd-bearing Quartz, from the mines of Colonel 

 Fremont, California. 



Unique Fossil, found by J. R. Sims, in Plainfield, Otsego county, 



in 1836. 

 * Meteoric Stone. Bethlehem, Albany county. 



From Prof. C. U. SHEPARD. 

 Meteoric Iron, from South Africa. 



From B. P. JOHNSON, Albany. 

 Native Copper and Silver, from the Cliff mine, Lake Superior. 



From J. P. BARNUM, Locke, N. Y. 

 Crinoid and Fossil Plant, Genesee slate, Moravia. 



From JOHN STANTON GOULD, Esq., Hudson, N. Y. 

 An Indian Pestle, from a gravel pit twenty feet below the surface of 

 the earth. 



Deposited by Dr. F. B. HOUGH, of Albany. 

 CoLPOCERAS viNGATUM, described by Prof. Hall, in Regents' Report 

 for 1850. 



•Found in the town of Bethlehem, seven miles below Albany. The finder was standing'in 

 the door of his house, between seven and eight o'clock in the morning of the 11th of August, 

 1859. Heard an explosion, which was loud, and which brought him to the door. Heard 

 what he thought was a stone thrown against the house ; saw this specimen fall and picked it 

 up. The man is ignorant, but appears honest and truthful. 



