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Soma Rail, Porzana Carolina (skin). 



Feed. J. Hase, San Diego, Cal. 15775. '85. (V, A) 



Clay Pipe. 



T. H. Wise, Wheaton, 111. Returned. 15776. '85. (II, A) 



Shells, Spirula Peronii Lam. 



Henry Hemphill, Key West, Fla. 15777. '85. (IX) 



Pressed Plants. 



Donor unknown. 15778. '85. (XIII, A) 



Silk Dressing-Gown, supposed to have belonged to the wardrobe of Louis XIV. 

 Mrs. Martha Munson, Baraboo, Wis. 15779. '85. (I) Returned. 



'• Crab's Eyes " or u Gastroliths," taken from the stomach of a crawfish. 

 Tom Moore, Livingston, Tex. 15780. '85. (XI) 



Composite Plants, Aplopappus Fremontii. For report. 



A. R. Fellows, South Pueblo, Colo. 15781. '85. (I) 



Magnetic Iron Ore. Iron pyrites, highly bituminous coal, tremolito, andactinolite 

 or epidote, probably the latter. 

 Mrs. E. W. P. Guye, Seattle, Wash. 15782. >85. (XIV) 



Marble. 



Mrs. E. W. P. Guye, Seattle, Wash. 15782. (XIV) 



Minerals. 



Christian Nelson, Virginia City, Mont. 15783. '85. (XIV) 



Hokseshoes. Samples. 



Rhode Island Horseshoe Company, Providence, R. I. 15784. '85. (XVI) 



Eruptive Rocks. Twenty-five specimens. In exchange. 

 C. H. Hitchcock, Hanover, N. H. 15785. '85. (XV) 



Echinoderms, Corals, Millepores, and Mollusca. Dried and alcoholic. 

 Henry Hemphill, Key West, Fla. 15786. '85. (XI) 



Cast of Stone Pipe of banded slate, in the form of a grotesque human face. Original 

 was found in Jefferson County. Returned. 



B. F. Harrison, Shepherdstown, Jefferson County, W. Va. 15787. '85. (Ill) 



Right Whale, Balcena cisarctica (skull.) 



Nelson Burnett, Southampton, N. Y. 15788. >85. (IV) 



Egg of Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus. Laid in a menagerie. 



W. A. Conklin, superintendent Central Park Menagerie, New York City, N. Y. 

 15789. '85. (V,A.) 



Cupreine Sulphate. 



Thomas Christy, London, England. 15790. '85. (I) 



Plants, from Alaska. 



Dr. T. H. Bean, U. S. National Museum. 15791. '85. (XIII, B) 



Monite, Apatite with Eozoon structure, Tremolite, Fowlerite ("Keatingine")* Pyro- 

 lusite, Massive Apatite, Apatite crystals, Pelhamine with Phsestite, Mesolite, 

 Anorthite (Indianite), Enstatite, Corundophilite, etc. The single thin section 

 examined shows it to be composed almost entirely of a light greenish monoclinic 

 mineral — perhaps Sahlite — and Apatite. Three hundred and seventy-five speci- 

 mens. For exchange. 



C. W. Shepard, New Haven, Conn. 15792. '85. (XIV) 

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