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BIRDS. 



WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 



140 skins of North American birds, many of them very rare. 



F. O. JOHNSON, Riverside, Cal. 



62 specimens from near Riverside, Cal. 



GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Mr. ETHERIDGE, Queensland, Australia. 



Permo-Carboniferous Fossils from Bowen River Beds, Queens- 

 land, Australia. 

 Mr. ASHMAN, N. Y. 



Specimens of Orthis. Watertown, N. Y. 

 J. WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Through the Wagner Institute a set of Pliocene and Post Pliocene 

 fossils from Florida. 



MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Dr. H. J. JOHNSTON, Lavis. 



A collection of rock and mineral specimens from the eruptive series 

 of Southern Italy. 

 J. WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Specimens of Green Quartz from Delaware Co., Pa. 



CONCHOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Mr. ETHERIDGE, Queensland, Australia. 



A collection of recent shells, including 15 genera and 96 specimens. 



PURCHASES. 



LIBRARY. 



Report of the Challenger. Vol. XX. 18S7. Zoology. 



Vol. XXL 18S7. Zoology. 



Vol. XXII. 1887. Zoology. 



Vols. XXIII-XXVI. 1888. Zoology. 

 Zoological Record. Vol. XXII. 1887. 



Catalogue of the Birds of the British Museum. Vol. XII. iSSS. 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana. Nos. 64-73. 

 Trow's New York City Directory. 1887. 

 Metropolitan Directory, 1889. 

 The International Scientists' Directory. 18S8. 

 Uhler's Check List of the Hemiptera Heteroptera, N. A. 

 Henshaw's List of the Coleoptera of America, North of Mexico. 

 Edwards's Revised Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera, America, North of 



Mexico. 

 Caton's Antelope and Deer of America. Second Edition. 

 Tennent's Natural History of Ceylon. 

 Lament's Yachting in the Arctic Seas. 

 Strickland's Ornithological Synonyms. Vol. 1. Accipitres. 



