58 REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



Mineralogical material came from Prof. George J. Cook, of New Bruns- 

 wick, from the Rloomingdale Graphite Company, and from George P. 

 Merrill, of the National Museum. 



Ten argillitc implements, found by Dr. C. C. Abbott in a gravel bed 

 at Trenton, were presented by Dr. Charles Rau, curator of archaeology 

 in the National Museum. 



New Mexico. — Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, U. S. Army, stationed at Fort 

 Wingate, has made very extensive gifts to the departments of mam- 

 mals, birds, and reptiles. 



Mr. J. B. Bowman, of Aleman, has sent numerous birds. 



The geological departments in the Museum have been enriched with 

 one hundred and eight specimens of turquois from the U. S. Geolog- 

 ical Survey ; silver and iron ores from Professor Spatcier, of Las Cruces ; 

 obsidian from the commissioner of New Mexico at the New Orleans Ex- 

 position, and meteoric iron from Albuquerque, sent by L. G. Eakins, of 

 Denver, Colo. Fred W. Taylor, of Lake Valley, sent pressed sulphide 

 of silver, in the form in which silver is recovered from the leeching 

 solution. 



New York.— Zoological contributions were made by Dr. C. S. Mc- 

 Knight, of Saranac Lake ; Dwight 1). Stone, of New York ; S. E. Meek, 

 of Cayuga; James T. Walker, of Palmyra; A. G. Cheney, of Glens 

 Falls ; F. C. Jessup, keeper of Petunk Life-Saving Station ; and Mrs, 

 F. L. Lee, of Westport. 



Ores and minerals were received from Charles Miller, of Sanborn, who 

 also sent fossil shells; L. W. Ledyard, Cazenovia; and George W. 

 Watkins. Miss Mary E. Mann sent samples of deposit from Geyser 

 Springs, Saratoga. 



Fossil plants from Allegany County were received from William H. 

 Dall. R. E. C. Stearns also sent fossils. 



A necklace of wampum beads, representing the work of the Mohawk 

 Indians, was presented by Prof. OtisT. Mason. 



A remarkable stone carving, representing a human head, was given 

 by the Natural Science Association of Staten Island. 



North Carolina. — Zoological specimens were sent by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, 

 U. S. Army, honorary curator of the department of reptiles; William 

 Brewster, of Cambridge, Mass., and Mrs. H. K. Morrison, of Morgan - 

 town. The Wilmington Oil and Leather Company presented skulls of 

 a porpoise, Tursiops tursio. 



Ores of various kinds were received from C. H. Waring, of Knoxville, 

 Terin. ; Col. P. M. Wilson, of Raleigh ; S. M. Dagger, of Banner's Elk, 

 and Robert Clay well, of Morgan town. 



Indian implements were contributed by Dr. J. M. Spainhour, of 

 Lenoir; J. C. Russell, of Richmond, Va., presented a "puller," an im- 

 implementused (in North Carolina) for chopping pine trees. 



Ohio. — William Kayser, of Wapakoneta, sent some phyllopod crus- 

 taceans. John S. Pollock, of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a 



