58 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



Western porcupine, and 23 photographic negatives taken in Alaska 

 and elsewhere. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, XL S. Navy, U. S. S. Mohican, sent 5 bird-skins 

 from the Isthmus of Panama; bird-skins, birds' nests and eggs, archae- 

 ological and ethnological objects, marine shells, fresh-water and laud 

 shells, marine invertebrates, reptiles, etc., from various localities. 



Dr. H. G. Beyer, U. S. Navy,' has continued to act as honorary cura- 

 tor of the section of Materia Medica. Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, Paymaster 

 E. B. Webster, and Dr. F. S. Nash have rendered valuable services in 

 connection with the Department of Ethnology in the Museum. 



POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. 



A collection of United States postage-stamps, newspaper wrappers, 

 stamped envelopes, and newspaper stamps, 170 specimens in all, was 

 received from the Postmaster-General. 



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. 



A collection of minerals from Arkansas and specimens of petrified 

 wood from the Yellowstone National Park w T ere received. From the 

 Office of Indian Affairs was sent a set of bows and arrows. Charles 

 Wllloughby, United States Indian agent at Quinaielt. Washington 

 Territory, sent a collection of ethnological objects. 



U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. 



As in previous years, a large amount of valuable material, including 

 not less than 5,000 specimens, has been received from the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey, transferred by Major J. W. Powell, Director of the 

 Survey. Among the collections received from this source were the 

 following: Clinton fossils, 22 genera, 27 specimens, from Etowah and 

 DeKalb Counties, Alabama ; also, Trenton fossils, 2 species ; Potsdam 

 quartzite, with peculiar markings; Ausable granite, 3 specimens; Ta- 

 conic fossils, 23 genera, 35 species, 1,152 specimens, collected by C. D. 

 Walcott; Pogonip fossils, 31 genera, 68 species, 1,202 specimens, col- 

 lected by Mr. Walcott; Trenton fossils, 19 genera, 26 species, from 

 Nevada; a collection of fossils, rocks, sponges, etc., from Florida; 

 Clinton and Oriskany fossils, 6 species ; fossil bones from Mississippi 

 and fossil wood from California and South Carolina; a mortar from the 

 auriferous gravels at the north side of the American Eiver at Folsom, 

 California ; gold in quartz, from Sky High mine, Plumas County, Cali- 

 fornia; rocks, ores, etc., collected in Texas and Louisiana by L. C. 

 Johnson; two slabs of marble from Loudoun County, Virginia; frag- 

 ments of upper and lower molar teeth of a fossil horse, and fragments 

 of mastodon molars, collection of fossil fishes, mammals, silver, ores, 

 rocks, wood, opal, and minerals, collected in Gallatin County, Montana, 

 by George P. Merrill, while in the field with the Geological Survey; 

 collection of minerals from Arkansas and Yellowstone Park, and fer- 

 ruginous concretions from Maryland. 



