762 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Vail, Mrs. Amanda (New Britain,^ Connecticut). Two specimens of wire used in 

 experiment of laying wires in pipes in the ground, and a specimen of wire used 

 in the first practical experiment of telegraph at Speedwell, New Jersey, which 

 afterwards transmitted the message " What hath God wrought." 23286. 



Van Norden, R. T. (San Francisco, California). Photograph of an inscribed stone 

 found at Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. 22629. 



Varley, Thomas (Woodwardville, Maryland). Specimens of arrow-points and 

 fragments of pottery from Anne Arundel County. 22678. 



Vathelet, Rev. A. (Maisieres par Laferte, Haute Morne, France). Eighty-eight 

 specimens, representing 30 species, of shells from Japan, Tonkin, and other locali- 

 ties. 22506. 



Vanderhoef, Lorenzo (District of Columbia). Pierced tablet of striped slate 

 found in Medina County, Ohio. 22732. 



Van Rensselaer, Mrs. J. King (New York City). Pack of Japanese playing cards 

 (23174) ; pack of Italiau playing cards, and a set of Chinese dominoes (23006). 



Vaux, George, Jr. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Specimens of fluorite, orpi- 

 ment, limonite, phenakite, amarantite, malachite, pseudomorph after azurite, 

 spessartite in rhyolite, jarosite, chalcopyrite crystals, siderontrite, polished slab 

 of blue smithsonite, and a pyrite octahedron from various localities. 232.37. 



Vesterlund, Otto (Killarney, Florida). Specimens of dried plants and insects, 

 mostly Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 22304. 



Waddey, B. F., (Alexandria, Virginia). Specimen of Ancistrodon contortrix. 23165. 



Wagner Free Institute of Sciences (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Specimens 

 of selenite from St. Mary's County, Maryland. 23238. 



Walcoit, Charles D. (U. S. Geological Survey). Forty-eight specimens, repre- 

 senting 9 genera and 11 species of Paleozoic fossils as follows: Middle Cambrian: 

 Ptychoparia king, Walcott. Upper Cambrian : Acrothele subsidua White, Agnos- 

 ias interstricius White, Asaphiscus wheeleri Meek. Upper Siluriau : Hal unites cate- 

 nulatus Linn, Liugula sp. ? and one unidentified specimen. Devonian: Stropho- 

 donta calvini Miller, S. canace, H. & W., S. variabilis, Calvin, and PJiyuchonella 

 alta. 22776. (See under Interior Department, U. S. Geological Survey.) 



Walker, Bryant (Detroit, Michigan). Four species and varieties of physas from 

 Michigan. 22247. 



Walker, Commodore J. G. (U. S. Navy). (See under Navy Department.) 



Walker, Lawson, & Forney (Allisonia, Virginia). Specimens of zinc ores from 

 Pulaski County. 23215. 



Walker, Robert. (See under University of Aberdeen). 



Walter, Rev. Father (Washington, District of Columbia). Model of house, speci- 

 men of pottery from Cochite, Santa Domingo, and Santa Clara, birch-bark 

 flower vases, birch-bark boxes, old Spanish cross inlaid with straw, pair of child's 

 moccasins (Pueblos), and beaded stole (2220!)); specimen of hair work made by 

 the Winnebago Indians at the Catholic school (deposit). (22467.) 



War Department, U. S. Two swords presented to the late Gen. James Shields, by 

 the States of South Carolina and Illinois, for gallant services in the Mexican 

 war (deposit). 22876. 



Ward & Howell (Rochester, New York). Three specimens, representing 3 genera 

 and 3 species of Silurian trilobites, Ogygia guettardi Brongniart, Asaphus expansus 

 Dolman, and Ilkenus giganieus Brongniart (exchange) (22740); 2 specimens of 

 meteoric irou, from Puquios, Chile, and Erath County, Texas (23268). 



Ward, Miss Anna L. (Waterbury, Connecticut). Model of seal-skin Igloo of the 

 Eskimo, seal-skin coat, seal-skin tobacco pouch, pair of seal-skin kumings (in- 

 fant's shoes), a bag of feathers from Hopedale, Labrador, and 2 mounted seals. 

 23204. 



Ward, Prof. H. A. (Rochester, New York). Skull of Bornean Crocodile Tomistoma 

 8chlegeli (exchange) (22835); skeletons of Little Penguin (Eudyptilia minor) 

 and Gratsueker (Podargus) ; specimens of Ceratodus and King Penguin (Apteno- 



