LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 681 



Archaeological Objects — Conti nued. 



No. 9. Stone slab slightly larger and heavier than Nos. 4 or 5, with diagonal 

 and horizontal lines of reddish-brown and white color traced upon it. Two 

 black circular spots are painted on the horizontal lines. 



No. 10. Small, irregularly shaped porous stone, with an indistinct hieroglyphic 

 cut into it. Weight, about 25 pounds. 



No. 11. Stone about three times as large as No. 10, having numerous hiero- 

 glyphics cut into it. Weight, about 60 pounds. 



No. 12. Small stone of about the same size and weight as No. 10, on which is a 

 rude carving representing a human head and features. 



Nos. 13, 14, 15, and 16. Small slabs, seemingly of iron ore, very brittle. No 

 tracings, carvings, or hieroglyphics anywhere visible. Small pieces of Nos. 15 

 and 16 have been broken off, the fragmeut3 being placed upon the slabs from 

 which they were detached. 



Commander Benjamin F. Day, U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Mohican. 

 19025. '87. (II, a) 

 Bird-skins. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican, 19026. '87. (v, a) 

 Birds' Eggs (14 species, 38 specimens, and 1 nest), from Montevideo, Uruguay, the 

 Falkland Islands, Easter Island, and the Straits of Magellan. 

 Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (v, b) 

 Archaeological Objects : 8 flint arrow-heads, grooved-stone sinker, ladle, small 

 box, copper knife with wooden handle, 4 copper fish-hooks, bone fish with stone 

 sinker attached, 3 cactus spines, spindle with whorl and cord attached, 2 combs, 

 2 miniature mattrasses made of splints, Pan pipe of small reeds, fragments of pot- 

 tery, etc.; from graves on the beach at Arica, Peru. 

 Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (in) 

 Ethnological Objects, from graves at Arica, Peru. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (n, a) 

 Water Pebble and fulgurite, from South America. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (xvn) 

 Marine Shells, from Magellan Straits, and Pteropods, fresh-water and land shells, 

 from Montevideo, Argentine Confederation, South America. 

 Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (ix) 

 Tarantuloid Spider, from Montevideo. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (x) 

 Mammals, from South America. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (iv) 

 Marine Invertebrates: Miscellaneous collection, consisting mainly of surface tow- 

 ings, from off the Rio de la Plata, the South Pacific Ocean, west const of South 

 America, and of North America as far north as San Francisco, California. 

 Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (xi) 

 Reptiles : Bufo, Hyla, Gerrhonotus, Cnemidophorus (6 specimens) ; from Montevideo. 



Ensign W. E. Safford, U. S. S. Mohican. 19026. '87. (vi) 

 CopperPlate. (Deposited.) 



M. F. Force, Cincinnati, Ohio. 19027. '87. (in) 

 Meteoric Iron (3 specimens) and meteoric stone (2), from various localities. (Ex- 

 change.) 

 Dr. E. S. Dana, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. 19028. '87. (xvi) 

 Bird-skins (3), from Demerara. (Exchange.) 



C. J. Maynard & Co., Boston, Massachusetts. 19029. '87. (v, a) 

 Bird- skins (seven fragments), from Colorado. 



Col. James Stevenson, Washington, District of Columbia. 19030. '87. (v, a) 

 Bird's Nest used by an American White-footed Mouse as a sleeping apartment and 

 store-house. 



D. C. Beard, New York City. 19031. '87. (iv) 



