98 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 



The Hon. John W. Noble, Secretary, has deposited in the Museum a 

 collection of ethnological specimens, collected among the Indians of 

 the Tulalip Reservation, Washington, by Mr. E. C. Chirouse, agent in 

 charge of the reservation. 



Indian Office. — From General T. J. Morgan, Commissioner of Indian 

 Affairs, was received a wooden hoe, used by the Indians of the Chip- 

 pewa Reserve, Wisconsin. 



U. S. Geological Survey. — The following statement will show the ex- 

 tent of the contributions received from the Survey during the year : 



The U. S. Geological Survey presented a type specimen of Conocoryphe reticulata 

 Walcott, from the Lower Cambrian of Salem, Washington County, New York ; mis- 

 cellaneous collection of geological material from Madison County, Montana; 30 speci- 

 mens of minerals; 21 transparencies for windows in the exhibition hall of the De- 

 partment of Lithology ; sandstone with mud and ripple-marks from Grand Canon 

 group, 7,000 feet below the base of Cambrian, Grand Canon of Colorado, Arizona; 

 fossils from the Lorraine formation of the Ordovician from several localities in New 

 York, and 36 specimens, comprising 11 genera and 18 species of Lower Cambrian fos- 

 sils from several localities; specimens of fresh- water Gasteropoda from the Bonne- 

 ville and Lahoutau beds, Utah, and fossils from Nevada; 38 objects, offerings from 

 shrines in New Mexico; specimens of kyanite and anthophyllite from Virginia; 

 and a specimen of iridescent limouite from Cuba, collected by Mr. W. J. McGee; 

 two specimens of urao and one of potassium platinic chloride, prepared by Dr. 

 T. M. Chatard ; a specimen of selenite from Fort Washington, Maryland, col- 

 lected by Mr. George W. Cook; specimens of thinolite from Lake Lahontan, and of 

 wulfenite and cerussite from the Richmond mine, Eureka District, Nevada, collected 

 by C. D. Walcott ; specimen of wulfenite from Eureka, Nevada ; 287 specimens, re- 

 presenting 24 genera and 32 species of fossils from the Lower Cambrian, Ordovician, 

 and Silurian; 9 specimens of Lingulepis morsensis, and 2 specimens of Planolites sp., 

 from the Trenton group, Fountain, Minnesota ; one specimen of Receptaculites oweni 

 from the Trenton group, Ripou, Wisconsin, collected by Mr. C. D. Walcott; living 

 serpents collected by Col. George W. Shutt; 22 photographs of scenery of the Great 

 Dismal Swamp, collected by Mr. I. C. Russell; collections showing the results of tbe 

 quicksilver investigations of the Pacific Slope, made under the authority of Mr. G. F. 

 Becker; 41 specimens, representing 11 species of Devonian Brachiopoda, from Inde- 

 pendence, Iowa ; 7 specimens of graphite and specimens of pyrite crystals, calcite and 

 magnetite, from Port Henry, Minnesota, collected by Prof. F. W. Clarke; casts of 

 supposed human foot-prints discovered in the limestone formation near Forest 

 City, South Dakota, sent by Mr. J. C. Collister; specimens of native gold asso- 

 ciated with calcite from a mine on Digger Creek, near Minersville, Trinity County, 

 California, sent by Mrs. J. H. Tourtelette, through Mr. J. S. Diller ; 13 specimens of 

 minerals, collected by Mr. W. P. Jenney, from Southwest Missouri and neighboring 

 localities, and 3 specimens of marbles from Sugar Orchard Creek, Boone County, 

 Arkansas; a specimen of alunite from Brooklyn Tunnel, Red Mountain District, San 

 Juan, Colorado, collected by Prof. S. F.Emmons; 105 specimens of vanadinite and 

 1 specimen of wulfenite, from the old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Arizona, collected by 

 Dr. W. F. Hillebrand ; a specimen of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Yuma 

 County ; 70 specimens of vanadinite from Aqua Fria mine, Yavapai County ; a speci- 

 men of iodorite from the Old Man mine, near Silver City, New Mexico ; 260 speci- 

 mens of minerals from the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona; 64 specimens of 

 vanadinite from the Hamburg mine, Silver District, Arizona, and from the Clara 

 mine, in same locality, and 26 specimens, representing seven genera and 8 species of 

 Cambrian and Ordovician fossils, collected by Mr. C. D. Walcott. 



