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Antiquities. A skull «an<l bones from an Indian grave, and a clay pipe, one-half of a 

 small clay vessel, aud 5 copper beads, from a mound near Warner's Landing, 

 Veruon County, Wisconsin. Also a leaf-shaped implement, with a handle at- 

 tached. 

 Dr. J. L. De Witt, Newton, Vernon County, Wisconsin. 1G974. '85. (in) 



Cone-in-CONE, a peculiar concretionary form. 



Dr. J. L. De Witt, Newton, Vernon County, Wisconsin. 16974. '35. (xvn) 

 Invertebrate Fossil, Ostrea congesta. 



Dr. J. L. De Witt, Newton, Vernon County, Wisconsin. 16974. '85. (xm, b) 

 Fossil Siiklls, specimens of Choneies and Producus, with sections of cricoid steins. 



M. J. Becker, Fort Scott, Kansas. 16975. '85 (ix) 

 Monkey, Cerccebus sp. (?), specimen in the flesh. 



II. B. Everett, Dime Museum, city. 16976. '85. (iv) 

 Earth, for examination. 



John Brooks, Hedrick, Rush County, New York. 16977. 8'5. (?) 



Tapa Cloth, Samoan Islands, 1869. 



Lieut. Commmander Charles V. Gridley, U. S. Navy ; U. S. steamer "Kear- 

 sage." 16978. '85. (n, a) 

 Rocks. A collection of over 100 specimens, including diorites, diabases, gabbros, sye- 

 nite, granite, gneiss, mica-schist, quartz, quartz-porphyry, slate; also a vertical 

 column showing relative ago and comparative thickness of the Areha-an, Cam- 

 brian, and Silurian formations of this slate, etc., from New Hampshire. 



C. II. Hitchcock, Hanover, New Hampshire. 16979. '85. (xv) 

 Shellac, crude and commercial, and articles showing its use. 



Thomas Donaldson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 16980. '85. (i) 

 Rkd Granite. 



H. D. Gurney, Saint Paul, Minnesota. 16981. '85. (xvn) 

 Coke. 



H.Simon, 20 Mount street, Manchester, England. 16982. '85. (xvm) 

 Grey Corundum and kyanite, from Georgia. (Exchange.) 



N. P. Pratt, Atlanta, Georgia. 16983. '85. (xvi) 

 Bronze Medal. Annual Assay of the Mint, 1776-1876. 



Wm. J. Green, U. S. National Museum. 16984. '85. (i) 

 Deer, Cervus axis, three days old. 



W. A. Conklin, Central Park Menagerie, New York City. 16985. '85. (iv) 

 Red tailed Buzzard, Buteo borealis, from Fayette County, Kentucky. 



T. H. Morgan, Broadway, Lexington, Kentucky. 16986. '85. (v,a) 



STEAM-TRANsroRTATiON. Drawings, pieces of iron rail, castings, etc. 



Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Camden, New Jersey. (Through J. E. 

 Watkins.) 16987. '85. (i) 

 Coke. 



H. Simon, 20 Mount street, Manchester, England. 16988. '85. (xvm) 



Birds. A collection of 171 specimens, 68 species, mostly from the Old World. Amongst 

 these may be especially mentioned a .good series (22) of Red-polls (Acanthis), A. 

 linaria, from western Siberia and Japan ; A. caberet, from England, and A. exilipes, 

 from western Siberia. The greater part of the collection, however, consists of 

 water birds. 

 Henry Seebohm, London, England. 16989. '85. (v,a) 



* Decorated Ostrich Egg and two feather fans. 16990. '85. (i) 



* Received from New Orleans Exposition through Department of State. 



