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Maj. JOSEPH DELAFIELD and GEORGE N. LAWRENCE, New 

 York City. 

 40 skins from Japan. 



THOMAS T. ECKERT, Vice-President and General Manager Western Union 

 Telegraph Co. 

 Section of a telegraph pole, from near Phoenix, Oregon, illustrating 

 the storage of acorns by the California Woodpecker. 

 Rev. T. W. GULICH, Kyoto, Japan (through George N. Lawrence, Esq.). 

 Small collection of skins from the Caroline Islands. 



A. H. HELME, Miller's Place, Long Island, N. Y. 



1 Gull. 



D. WILLIS JAMES, CHARLES S. SMITH, and CORNELIUS VAN- 



DERBILT, New York City. 

 174 skins, and a small collection of nests and eggs, from South Africa, 

 collected by Dr. B. N. Bridgman. 



CLARENCE KING, Esq., New York City. 



The Snowden Howland Collection of North American Birds' eggs, 

 numbering about 3000 specimens. 



E. G. LEWIS, New York City. 



1 Manakin, 1 albino Song Sparrow. 

 LEVERETT M. LOOMIS, Chester, S. C. 

 1 Leconte's Sparrow. 



Dr. EDGAR A. MEARNS, U. S. A., Fort Snelling, Minn. 



400 skins of European birds, 800 skins of North American birds, and 

 100 nests and about 1000 eggs. 



E. E. OLCOTT, New York City. 



1 Toucan. 



Rev. R. B. POST, Orange, N. J. 



2 Gulls, 2 Loon's eggs. 



JENNESS RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 

 2 mounted birds, and 8 skins. 



W. B. RICHARDSON, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



1 Indigo Bird. 

 R. H. ROBERTSON, New York City. 



1 mounted European Widgeon, from Currituck Sound, N. C. 

 J. ROWLEY, Jr., Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 



1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Warbler, 1 Woodpecker. 



CLARENCE A. SMITH, New York City. 



2 Bobwhites. 



W. B. SHERRY, Stoney Brook, N. Y. 

 1 skin of Brown Pelican. 



Miss ELIZABETH TAYLOR, New York City. 



3 Snow Buntings, in the flesh. 



GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



RAPHAEL BENJAMIN, New York City. 



Two lots of fossils from the Cincinnati Group. The fossils repre- 

 sented were Bryozoans and Brachiopods from Price Hill and Bold 

 Face Creek, Ohio. 



