646 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1887. 



Land Shells ; for examination. 



Dr. V. Sterki, New Philadelphia, Ohio. 18468. '86. (ix) 

 Half-penny of George It, Great Britain, 1740. 



William Mero, Alexandria, Virginia. 18469. '86. (i) 

 Coin, silver three-cent piece of 1853, United States. 



Samuel Bond, U. S. National Museum. 18470. '86. (i) 

 Ikon Ore, from Cranberry Lake, New York. 



Hon. John S. Negley, Washington, District of Columbia. 18471. '86. (xvm) 

 Cuban Boa, Epicrates angulifer ; for identification. 



E. P. Alexander, Savannah, Georgia. 18472. '86. (vi) 



Compound Nest of Agelceus phceniceus and Cistothorus palustris, both occupied at the 

 same time. Also double nest of Dendroica cestiva, from Flushing, Long Island. 

 Daniel C. Beard, New York City. 18473. '86. (v,b) 

 Log of the steamship Savannah, the first steam-vessel to cross the Atlantic, Moses 

 Rogers, master. 



Mrs. Sarah A. Ward. (Through Col. F. A. Seely, U. S. Patent Office.) 18474. 

 '86. (ii, a) 

 Rocks, from Missouri. (Exchange.) 



Prof. E. Ha worth, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 18475. '86. (xvn) 

 Calotte, millerite in quartz, micaceous hematite, wolframite (f ), and mica in quartz. 

 Prof. E. Haworth, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 18475. } S6. (xvi) 



January, 1887. 



Harbor Seal, Phoca vitulina, taken at Wood's Holl, Massachusetts. 



U. S. Fish Commission. (Through Vinal N. Edwards.) 18476. '87. (iv) 

 Porpoise, Delphinus delpkis (skull), from Cobb's Island, Virginia. 



George H. Boehmer, Smithsonian Institution. 18477. '87. (xn) 

 Arachnides and myriapods, from the sources of the Usumasinta River, Mexico. 



Richard W. Walker, Guatemala City, Central America. 18478. '87. (x) 

 Polished Crocidolite, in quartz. (Exchange.) 



American Museum of Natural History, New York City. 18479. '87. (xvi) 

 Book: "The elements of the common lawes of England containing some principal 

 rules and maxims of the common lawes of England," by Francis Bacon, 1630. 



George B. Hardy, St. Charles Hotel, District of Columbia. 18480 '87. (i) 

 Quartz Crystal, found at the base of the Sierra Madre, Mexico; for examination. 



A. S. Wertheim, Comfort, Kendall County, Texas. 18481. '87. (xvi) 

 Quartz Crystal, supposed to be diamond. (Returned.) 



S. J. Watts, Corbin, Kentucky. 18482. '87. (xvin) 

 Oil Painting of four horses drawing a wagon, by De Prat^re, of Brussels. (De- 

 posited.) 



Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, 3010 Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri. 18483 '87. 



(II, A) 



Fishes, from Ozark regions in southern Missouri. 



R. Ellsworth Call, Columbia, Missouri. 18484. '87. (vn) 

 Camcarus (five specimens), from Bear Creek, Missouri. 



R. Ellsworth Call, Columbia, Missouri. 18484. '87. (xi) 

 Reptiles, Scehporus undulatus and Tropidonotus sipidon (7 specimens). 



R. Ellsworth Call, Columbia, Missouri. 18484. '87. (xi) 

 Kyak (complete), from Gorthavcn, Greenland. 



Lieut. R. E. Peary, U. S. Navy. 18485. '87. (n, a) 

 Etruscan Pottery, arrow-head, and Indian pipe; for examination. (Pottery and 

 pipe returned.) 



F. T. Bessac, Natchez, Mississippi. 18486. '87. (ii.b) 

 Bird-skin, Accipiler fuscus, juv. 



James E. Benedict, St. Paul, Minnesota. 18487. '87. (v,a) 



