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Fishes: Sea-herring, Clupea harengus (larval)?; Rockling, Onos cimbrius ; Stickle- 

 back, Gasterosteus gymnurus ; Hake, Phycis sp. ; and Pollock, Pollachins virens, 

 taken from the mouth of a mackerel ; for examination. 

 Capt. William Heprick, Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine. 18890. '87. 



(VII) 



Copepoda; taken from the throat of a mackerel. 



Capt. William Herrick, Swan's Island, Hancock County, Maine. 18890. 

 '87. (xi) 

 Casts of Bone Implements and Carvings. The originals were found in caves at 

 La Madeleine, Laugerie (Haute et Basse), and Brumiquel. 

 Musee de Saint Germain, Paris, France. 18891. '87. (in) 

 Hematite Iron Ore; for examination. 



I. E. Welch, Alpine, Alabama. 18892. '87. (xviii) 



Fred E. Lines, Albany, Oregon. 18893. '87. (xviii) 

 Weathered Rock. 



Donor not known. 18894. '87. (xvn) 

 Bird Skeleton, Penelope superciliosa. 



Zoological Society of Philadelphia. (Through Arthur E. Brown, Esq.) 

 18895. '87. (xn) 

 Sulphide of Iron ; for examination. 



Hon. H. S. Van Eaton, Washington, District of Columbia. 18896. '87. (xviii) 

 Wrought Iron (5 specimens), containing aluminum ; for examination. 



Capt. A. A. Thomas, Washington, District of Columbia. 18897. '87. (xviii) 

 Ethnological Objects: Shirt of chain mail, pair of gauntlets (plate and chain), pair 

 of elaborately carved pattens, musical instrument with soundiDg-board of gourd, 

 native fiddle and bow, brass drum with drumstick (?) of hide, two whistling ar- 

 rows, stock of cross-bow, pair of elaborately ornamented and inlaid pattens, drum 

 hollowed out of one piece of wood and covered with snake-skin, club and sago- 

 beater of black wood (slightly damaged at the point), two long arrows without 

 notches or feathers, paddle-shaped black-wood club, paddle with short and broad 

 blade, two arrows, two poisoned arrows (human-bone points and hard- wood fore- 

 shafts), two not poisoned, j.ouch of leather (ornamented), pair of leather leggings, 

 tomtom or drum of hammered copper, two assegais (one short for stabbing), two 

 arrows, two iron-pointed arrows and two bone-pointed arrows used by Bushmen, 

 fluted club of ebony, chief's staff, two gourd bowls, two gourd spoons, wooden 

 spoon used by peasants, and a cap of woven grass ; from Persia, India, Japan, 

 New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Africa, Nubia, Rus- 

 sia, Italy, and Central and South America. (Exchange.) 

 Charles Heape, Manchester, England. 18898. '87. (n, a) 

 Bombycid, Attacus cecropia Linn.; for examination. 



John S. Webb, Disputanta, Virginia. 18899. '87. (x) 

 Chinese sun-and-moon Dial. 



Dr. D. Bethune McCartee, Washington, D. C. 18900. '»7. (ii,a) 

 Rocks, from Europe. (Exchanged.) 



B. Sturtz, Bonn, Prussia. 18901. '87. (xvi) 

 Hawk, Accipiter cooperi (2 specimens). 



H. Marshall, Laurel, Maryland. 18902. '87. (v,a) 

 Ribbon Badge of Young Men's Democratic Club of the District of Columbia. 



John H. Doyle, Washington, D. C. (Through P. L. Jouy.) 18903. '87. (i) 

 Impure Hematite, from North Carolina. 



Col. W. A. Nixon, Washington, District of Columbia. 18904. '87. (xviii) 

 Seed of the Blue and Salt Brush. Collected in Australia by H. C. Mais. 



Joseph S. Spinney, New York City. 18905. '87. (xv) 

 Eggs (2) of Syrnium nebulosum alleni, from Lee County, Texas. 



J. Parker Norris, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 18906, '87. (V, B) 



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