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A. C. AUSTIN, Kansas City, Kan. 



Transactions. Vol. VII. Kansas Academy of Science. 

 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Washington, D. C. 



Patent Office Reports. 1849, '5°> '5 1 . '5 2 - Agriculture. 



Patent Office Report. 1862. Arts and Manufactures. 



Smithsonian Report. 1854. 



DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 



210 specimens, 107 species, skins, mostly North American. 

 C. B. CORY, Boston, Mass. 



15 specimens, 9 species, skins, of West Indian Birds. 

 A. G. PAINE, Jr., New York City. 



1 mounted Arctic Horned Owl. 



GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Mo. 



36 specimens of Fossils from the Niagara and Chester groups, Coal 

 Measures and the Cretaceous. 



MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, St. Louis, Mo. 

 38 specimens of Linnseite, with Asbolite. 



Dr. A. JULIEN. 



8 specimens of Pyrite with associated minerals from Arizona and Pa. 

 1 specimen of Pyrrhotite. New Jersey. 

 O. A. CRANDALL, Sedalia, Mo. 



19 specimens of Sphalerite, Pyrite, Calamine, from Missouri. 



PURCHASES. 



LIBRARY. 



Report of the Challenger. Vol. XII. Zoology. 

 Vol. XIII. 

 Vol. XIV. 

 Third Appendix. Fifth Edition of Dana's Mineralogy. — Dana. 

 Catalogue of the Asiatic Chiroptera. — Dobson. 

 The Naturalists' Directory, 1886. — Cassino. 

 Trow's New York City Directory. 1886. 

 Metropolitan Directory. 1887. 



Biologia Centrali-Americana. Nos. 11-52. — Godman & Salvin. 

 American Naturalist. 1886. 

 Science. 1886. 

 The Auk. 1886. 

 The Ibis. 1886. 

 The Zoologist, 1886. 



Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 18S6. 

 Nature. 1886. 



Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, Geologie und Palseontologie. 1886. 

 Palaeontological and Geological Library of Prof R. P. Whitfield. 883 

 Volumes, 912 Pamphlets. 



