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DEPARTMENT OF BIRDS. 



BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, R. I. 



38 skins of South American Birds. 

 F. O. JOHNSON, Riverside, Cal. 



158 skins of California Birds. 



MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY, Cambridge Mass. 



22 skins of South American Birds. 

 U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 



24 skins of mostly rare North American Birds. 



GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



Dr. A. S. TIFFANY, Davenport, Iowa, 



Sixty specimens of fossils, comprising Brachoipods, Lamellibranchs, 

 Gasteropods, Corals and Bryozans, from the Devonion and Lower 

 Carboniferous Rocks of Iowa and Illinois. 



MINERALOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 



J. BJENIGARD, New York City. 



Six specimens of White Pyroxene (Malacolite) from New York Island. 

 J. COHN, New York City. 



Group and single crytals of Zircon from El Paso Co. , Colorado. 



H. G. HANKS, (for Bulletins.) 



Many handsome specimens of Borax, Hanksite, Glauberite, Living- 

 stonite and Ulexite from California, Nevada and Mexico. 



E. CLEVELAND, San Diego, Cal. 



Four pieces of Beryllonite from Stoneham, Maine. 



F. JONES, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



One block of curved Mica (Muscovite) from Branchville, Conn. 

 Crystals and specimens of Willemite (Troostite and Canary Yellow 



variety) from Franklin, N. J. 

 Specimen of Pyroxene (Jeffersonite) and specimen of Franklinite, 



Franklin, N. J. 

 Two small cylinders of Russian Malachite. 

 JOSEPH WILCOX, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Thirty fine specimens of thirteen species, including Apatite, Brucite, 



Corundum, Galenite, Orthoclase, Phlogopite, Pyroxene, Prophyl- 



lite, Quartz, Rutile, Staurolite, Wernerite, and Zircon. 



MARINE INVERTEBRATES. 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 

 2 specimens of Psendemys troosti. 



PURCHASES. 



LIBRARY. 



Report of the Challenger. Vols. XXVII-XXIX. 1S88. Zoology. 

 Vols. XXX-XXXII. 1889. Zoology. 

 Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. Vol. XIII. 

 Biologia Centrali-Americana. Nos. 74-79. 



