90 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



BELGIUM. 



Spiennes. — Through Mr. Edward Lovett, of Croydon, England, was 

 obtained by purchase a flint implement. 



DENMARK. 



Greenland (belonging to Denmark).— -From the Royal Museum, Stock- 

 holm, Sweden, was received a collection of minerals. 



The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, 

 presented specimens of cryolite from Evigtok, Arksnt -fiord. 



Iceland (belonging to Denmark). — Prom Mr. George H. Boehmer, of 

 the Smithsonian Institution, were received minerals from Iceland, con- 

 sisting of stilbite, heulandite, Iceland spar, mesolite, native sulphur, 

 and chalcedony. A collection of ores, rock, and fossil plants were pre- 

 sented by Mr. Boehmer. 



Island of Falster. — From Mr. John B. Koch, of Bozeman, Montana, 

 were received two flint hatchets. 



Island of Laal and. — Mr. John B. Koch, of Bozeman, Montana, pre- 

 sented a flint hatchet from a dolmen on the island. 



ENGLAND. 



Bedford. — From Mr. Edward Lovett, of Croydon, England, were ob- 

 tained by purchase fragments of Eoman pottery (Samian ware) from 

 Bedfordshire, Dorset, Kent, and Suffolk, iron implements found in 

 making excavations in the city of Loudon, clay pipes, iron knives, keys, 

 a shoe-buckle, of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and a collec- 

 tion of ethnographical and archaeological specimens. 



Cornwall. — Mr. Samuel Lanyon, of Bradford, presented tin ore from 

 the Dolcoath mine. 



Croydon.— Mr. Edward Lovett presented a porter's kuot, carrying- 

 yoke and human harness. These objects were sent in exchange. Mr. 

 Lovett also sent in exchange a collection of ethnological and archaeo- 

 logical specimens, and obsolete specimens illustrating English lightiug 

 and cooking. 



Durham. — Reverend A. M. Norman presented a collection of Crusta- 

 cea and ecninodermata, chiefly Mediterranean. 



London. — The British Museum presented a valuable series of bats 

 from its reserve collection, and sent in exchange three meteoric casts 

 and a specimen of orpiment. 



From the Guildhall Library Committee, through Mr. Charles Welch, 

 librarian, was received an interesting collection of medals, struck by 

 order of the corporation of London. 



Oxford. — From Mr. Henry Balfour was received a model of a Hindoo 

 fire-drill, used to make sacred fire in temples. 



Windsor. — From Prof. P. H. Carpenter, of Eton College, were re- 

 ceived microscopic slides of shells, slides of foraminifera, oue slide of 



