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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 

 DEPARTMENT OP STATE. 



The Government of Switzerland has presented, through Maj. Karl 

 Kloss, charge d'affaires for Switzerland, a collection of 89 alcoholic 

 specimens, including 45 species, of fishes from Switzerland. * 



The Hon. John T. Swift, United States consul at Tokio, Japan, trans- 

 mitted a section of rope made of human hair, which had been used as 

 an ordinary cable in lifting building-material in the construction of a 

 Buddhist temple at Kyoto, Japan ; a photograph of the entire rolls of 

 cables, similarly constructed, still remaining at the new Buddhist tem- 

 ple at Kyoto. A list of the names of the provinces of the donors, show- 

 ing the size and length of each of the ropes used in the construction of 

 the eastern Hon-gwan-ji temple at Kyoto, and a lithograph of the 

 famous Buddhist temple, were also received. These objects were pre- 

 sented by Hiramatz Eei, chief Buddhist priest of Japan. 



Through Hon. Thomas J. McLaiu, United States consul at Nassau, 

 West Indies, were received specimens of sisal. 



'List of species. 



Species. 



From— 



Species. 



From— 







Telestes AgassiziiHeckel. 

 Telestes Savignyi Bonap. - 

 Proxinus laevus L 





Do 







Acerina cernua L 



Rhine (Basel). 



Aar. 



G-asterosteus gynmurus 



Do. 



Cbondrostoma nasus L . . . 



Do. 



Cuv. 





Cbondrostoma soetta Bo- 



Ponte Tresa. 







nap. 

 Coregonus Wartmanni, 

 acutirostris Tatio. 





Do 



Lake of Thoune. 

 Lake of Morat. 





Lota vulgaris Cuv 





Tinea vulgaris Cuv 



Aar. 



Coregonus crassirostris 



Lake of Thoune. 



Barbus fluviatilis Ag 



Do. 



nobilis Haak. 







Por.te Tresa. 



Coregonus restrictus, Bon- 



Lake of Neuchatel. 



Barbus cannius Val 



Do. 



della Tatio. 









Coregonus Schnizii alpi- 

 nus Tatio. 





Rhodeus amarus L 



Basel. 









Tbymallus vulgaris Nilss . 

 Salmo salvelinus L 





Blicca bjoerkna L 



Lake of Morat. 



Lake of Zusr. 



Spirlinus bipunctatus Bl . . 



Aar. 





Lake of Thoune. 





Lake of Tboune. 

 Ponte Tresa. 

 Do. 











Do. 



Scardiuius erythropkthal- 

 oiua L. 



Do 







Alosa vulgaris Cuv 



Rhine. 



Scardinius erytkrophthal- 

 mus L. 













Basel. 





Do. 



Cobitis barbatula L 



Berne. 





Lake of Bienne. 

 Ponte Tiesa. 







Leuciscus pigus de Fil 



Anguilla vulgaris PI . 



Berne. 



Leuciscus aula Bonap 



Do. 



Petromyzon Planeri Fl. 



Aar. 



Squalius cepbalus L 



Aar. 



lavo. 







Do. 



Petromyzon Planeri ad... 



Do. 



Squalius cavedanus Bonap 



Ponto Tresa. 



Petromyzon fluviatilis L.. 



Rhine (Basel).' 



