754 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Raymond, Dr. R. W. (New York). Hammer, partially altered to limonite, found in 

 a mine in Honduras, which bad not been worked for 200 years. 23041. 



Raymond, W. J. (Oakland, California). Ten species of laud and fresh-water shells 

 (22745) ; 8 specimens, representing 2 species of marine shells from San Frau- 

 cisco Bay. 23252. 



Reames, T. G. (Jacksonville, Oregon). Twenty-dollar gold piece of the United 

 States, dated 1858, or 1866, and a Knights Templar badge. 22457. 



Redwood, F. F. (Baltimore, Maryland). Specimen of Dyak Sumpitau or blow-gun, 

 from North Borneo (exchange). 22973. 



Rei, Hiramatz (Tokio, Japan), (through Hon. John F. Swift, United States minis- 

 ter). Section of rope made of human hair, used as an ordinary cable in lifting 

 building-material in the construction of a Buddhist temple at Kyoto; photo- 

 graph of the entire rolls of cables still remaining at the new Buddhist temple 

 at Kyoto; table of the names of the provinces of the donors, showing the size 

 and length of each of the ropes used in the construction of the Eastern Hon- 

 gwau-ji Temple at Kyoto, and a lithograph of the famous Buddhist edifice. 23113, 



Reid, H. (Hoadley, Virginia). Five living specimens of Lepus sylvaticus, for a group 

 (purchase). 22233. 



Rey, Dr. E. (Leipzig, Germany). Collection of birds' skins from Asia and Siberia, 

 all but two new to the collection (22380) ; collection of birds' skins from Syr- 

 Darya and Canary Islauds (purchase). 22397. 



Reynolds, Dr. F. S. (Juneau, Alaska), (through Mr. I. C. Russell, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey). Specimen of silver ore from the " Silver Queen" mine. 

 22590. 



Rhees, William J. (Smithsonian Institution). Specimens of Equus caballus and Bos 

 taurus in the flesh from the District of Columbia. 22249. 



Rice, Willard (Cienega, Arizona). Two specimens of minerals from near Salt 

 Mountain, Verde Valley. 22735. 



Richards, J. T. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Brick from the foundation of old 

 Fort Da Quesne, Pittsburg, built prior to the Revolutionary War. 23054. 



Richmond, C. W. (U. S. Geological Survey). Eggs of Mocking-bird (Mimns poly- 

 fjlottos). 22256. 



Riddell, John (Bay Center, Washington). Internal cast in lime of a small nautilus 

 Aluria Ziczac Sowerby, a tertiary fossil common to Europe and America, found 

 near Bay Center. 22927. 



Ridgway, A. W. (Laurel, Maryland), Specimen of Snowbird (Junco liyemalis) 

 killed by telegraph wires. 22671, 



Rigdway, Robert (U. S. National Museum). Seventy-one specimens, representing 

 56 species of birds' skins, from Laurel, Maryland (22241, 22736); specimens of 

 Greater Snow Goose (Chen hyperborea nivalis), and a Wild Turkey, both in flesh, 

 from the Washington market (purchase), (22737, 22746) ; Wild Turkey (Meleagris, 

 gallopavo) from the Washington market (purchase) (22846) ; 2 photographs of ob- 

 jects in the national museum of Costa Rica (deposit) (22303). 



Riley, Prof. C. V. (Entomologist, Department of Agriculture), Collection of 4,664 

 mounted insects, American and Australian, representing about 830 species of all 

 orders, from Mr. A. Koebele, Los Angeles, California. 23340. (See under Der 

 partment of Agriculture.) 



Rivers, J. J. (Berkeley, California). Two specimens of Succinea chrysis West from 

 Sitka, Alaska. 23191. 



Rives, Dr. William C. (Newport, Rhode Island). Two specimens of the Mountain 

 Virco ( Fireo solitarins), from White Top Mt., Virginia, new to the collection, 

 23103. 



Robixetth, Frank (District of Columbia). Living specimen of American Osprey 

 (Pandion haliaelus carolinensis) from Milford, Delaware. 23107. 



Robinson, N. T. N. (See under Col. G. E. Dennis.) 



