54 REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 



Aplocerus montanus, from Washington Territory; box of birds from 

 California ; skins of mammals, birds ; fishes, shells, minerals, and 

 Indian relics, from Washington Territory ; box with skins of mam- 

 mals and birds ; plants, &c, from Steilacoom ; box of birds, shells, 

 &c, Port Townsend. 



A. S. Taylor. — Jar of vertebrates and crabs from California ; Cali- 

 fornia minerals. 



Mr. Tufts. — Living actinia and other marine animals for aquarium. 



Colonel A. Vaughan. — Skins of Vespertilio noctivagans and novebo- 

 racensis from Yellowstone river. 



J. X. de Vesey and Dr. W. A. Hammond, U. S. A. — Skins of birds 

 and mammals from Kansas. 



Dr. D. 8. Wall, U. S. A.~~ Skull of Indian and. fragments of pot- 

 tery from a mound near Fort Capron, Florida ; skins of birds ; skin 

 of manatee, or sea-cow, and of Lynx ; also two birds from Florida. 



William D. Wallach. — Copper ores and native copper from Bay- 

 field, Wisconsin. 



Robert B. Waller. — Bottle of Cyprinodonts from Alabama. 



Lieutenant G. K. Warren. — Two boxes fossils from Blackbird Hill, 

 collected by Dr. F. V. Hayden ; collections made by Dr. F. V. Hay- 

 den during the exploration of the Black hills in 1857, consisting of 5 

 boxes zoological specimens ; 21 boxes fossils and plants, &c. 



C. W. Welch. — Troupial (Icterus vulgaris) from Laguayra. 



D. Welch. — Menobranchus maculatus from Lake Champlain. 

 Samuel Wheat. — Living black snake (Scotophis allegheniensis) from 



Ohio. 



Mr. Wheeler. — Storeria dekayi from Washington. 



Thomas Whelpley — Fossils from Michigan. 



Dr. D. D. Whiiehurst. — Box of specimens and cask of fishes, &c, 

 in alcohol, from Gulf of Mexico ; specimens of fishes (crustacea) from 

 Tortugas. 



Dr. S. W. Wilson. — Four living alligators from Georgia ; skeleton 

 and skins of otter and deer ; skins of Lepus palustris ; 24 small mam- 

 mals, in alcohol, from Georgia. 



Dr. G. F. Winslow. — Box of lavas from Sandwich Islands ; fossil 

 bones from California. (Deposited.) 



W. S. Wood. — Bald eagle, Haliaetus leucocephalus, mounted ; mam- 

 mals, in alcohol, from Philadelphia. 



G. Wright. — Jar mammals and reptiles from Connecticut ; fishes 

 from Cuba, said to be viviparous ; jars of reptiles, fishes, and inver- 

 tebrates from Cuba. 



G. Wurdemann. — Box of invertebrates and skins of birds from In- 

 dian Key, Florida ; box of bird skins from south Florida ; box of 

 birds, crustacea, corals, &c, from Key Biscayne, Florida. 



J. E. Younglove. — Bottle of blind fish, (Amblyopsis,) taken in a well 

 in Bowling Green, Kentucky. 



Unknown. — Box iron ores, St. Louis, Missouri. 

 Hesperomys cognatus, in alcohol. 

 Hammerhead shark from Norfolk. 

 Living raccoon and great horned owl. 



