Purchases — Vertebrate Paleontology. 103 



Through Museum Expeditions. 

 219 specimens, mostly from Mexico and California. 



BIRDS. 

 289 specimens, from the State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Through Museum Expeditions. 

 15 specimens, mostly from New York State. 



DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



Transformations of African Termite or White Ant ( Termes bellicosus). 



Transformation of Large Yellow Hornet ( Vespa crabro). 



75 North American Butterflies. 



30 specimens of insects from Brazil. 



Large Ant Hill, from New Jersey. 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY, Etc. 



MINERALOGY. 



A doubly terminated crystal of Quartz showing several bubbles, from Mazela, 

 Guerrero, Mexico. 



A quantity of cave specimens, including one large group of peculiar 

 Calcites and several capped groups, from pools in the Copper 

 Queen Consolidated Mines at Bisbee, Arizona. 

 1 specimen of Vanadinite, from Hillsboro, New Mexico. 

 1 " " Pollucite, from near Paris, Maine. 

 1 " " Hamlinite, " " " " 

 1 " " Montmorillonite, from near Paris, Maine. 

 1 " " Tridymite, v from San Pietra, Italy. 



CONCHOLOGY. 



1 specimen of Pleurotomaria Beyrichi, from Japan. 



DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY. 



Series of twenty-three casts of brains of modern Mammals, from Ward's 



Nat. Sci. Establishment. 

 Complete skeleton of a large Swimming Lizard {Liodon), twenty-eight feet 



long, from the Cretaceous Beds of Western Kansas. 

 FROM FIELD EXPEDITIONS INTO 



(1) JURASSIC BEDS OF WYOMING. 



A large part of the skeletons of two gigantic Dinosaurs, estimated at 

 50-60 feet in length, and fifteen boxes of rock containing small 

 mammal jaws and bones. 



