762 



" Vad.tra," the diamond club; from Japan. 



Dr. D. Betuune McCaktee, Washington, District of Columbia. 17204. '86. 



(II, A) 



Chimney Swifts, Chwtura pelagica (2 specimens). 



U. S. Fish Commission, Wood's IIoll, Massachusetts. 1720. r >. '80. (v, a) 

 Invertebrate Cretaceous Fossils, from Senora ami Pnebla, Mexico. 



Sefior Aguilero, Mexican Geographical Exploring Commission, Mexico. 17200. 

 '80. (xin, B) 

 Materia Medica, and chemical preparations. 



Dr. Tjieo. Schuciiardt, Goerlitz, Germany. 17207. '80. (i) 

 Calotte, and calcite crystals with bituminous coal. 



R. Ellsworth Call, Molme, Illinois. 17208. '96* (xvi) 

 Land and Fresh-water Mollusks, from Manitoba. 



Robert Miller Christy, Chignal, St. James, England. 17200. '80. (ix) 

 TROUT, Salmo irideus (3 specimens). 



Wm. Montgomery, Verona, Missouri (through U. S. Fish Commission). 17210. 

 '80. (vn) 

 Breast-pin, made of banded and moss agate, mounted with blood stones in silver. 

 Messrs. Harris and Schafer, Washington, District of Columbia. 17211. '8G. 

 (xvi) 

 Eggs of Archibuteo ferrugineus, from northern Dakota. 



Capt. 13. F. Goss, Pewaukee, Wisconsin. 17212. '86. (v, b) 

 Larva of grasshopper, Hippiscits discoidcus, or H. phwnicoplerua. 



G. D. Belt, Missoula, Montana. 17213. '80. (x) 

 Mannikin of an Arab; prepared in Paris under tlie supervision of the director of the 

 Trocad6ro Musce. 

 Jules Herert, 9 rue Henri Martin, Paris, France. 17214. '80. (n, a) 

 Opium-smoking Outfit, including pipes and other apparatus used by the Chinese. 

 This outfit has been in use and was confiscated by the police in San Francisco. 

 P. Crowley, Chief of police, San Francisco, California. 17215. '80. (n, A) 

 Picture of a sunset cloud, viewed from Taylor's Hill, Columbia, South Carolina. 



G. T. BERG, Columbia. South Carolina. 17210. '80. (xvn) 

 Shell, Unio nnodonloides. 



Dr. W. S. Newlon, Oswego, Kansas. 17217. '80. (i) 

 Cotton, raised by slave labor on the estate of the late J. Harvey Williamson, in Bo- 

 thesda Township, South Carolina, in 1802. This cotton was packed before iron 

 ties came into use, and when no roping was to be had. Hickory withes were used, 

 and these are still in a state of good preservation. This is i robably the oldest 

 cotton in the world, aud is certainly the only sample extant which was raised in 

 the manner peculiar to the hard times of the late war. 



VV. L. Roddey and Co., Rock Hill, South Carolina. 17218. '80. (i) 

 Meteoric Iron (37 grammes), from Glorieta Mountain, New Mexico. (Exchange.) 



George F. Kunz, New York City. 17219. '80. (xvi) 

 Wall Accretion. . 



Colorado Smelting Company, South Pueblo, Colorado. (Through O. H. 

 Hahn.) 17220. '80. (xvm) 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera, a collection comprising many of the rarer American aud 

 European Coleoptera. 



John B. Smith, U.S. National Museum. 17221. '80. (x) 

 Reptiles from Fort Custer, Montana. 



Capt. Charles E. Bendire. U. S. A., U. S. National Museum. 17222. '80. (vi) 



