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Feather Flowers. Twelve cards of llowers made out of feathers. Handwork. 

 Mrs. A. J. Rugg, Leominster, Mass. 16128, '85. (I) 



Tobacco, from Mel wood plantation, Upper Marlborough, Md. 

 P. 11. TOWNE, Washington. 16129. '85. (I) 



PnosniATic Formation, taken from the paunch of a door. 



Thomas M. Butler, Davis P. 0.,La. 16130. '85. (IV) 



Slate. Two specimens from Connecticut (dressed). 



A. E. Verrill, New Haven, Conn. 16131. '85. (XV) 



Nest and Eggs (4) of Yellow-throat Geothlypis trichas, from Ilchester, Md. 

 Dr. L. Stejneger, U.S. National Museum. 16132. '85. (V,B) 



Fishes. Three alcoholic specimens of "Shiners," a small-scaled group, belonging 

 to the genus Notropis. 

 T. Berwick Legare, Camden, S. C. 16133. '85. (VII) 



Nest and Eggs (4) of Summer Red-bird, Piranga cestiva, from Ilchester, Md. 

 C. W. Beckham, U. S. National Museum. 16134. '85. (V,A) 



Fossil Fish, from Wyoming. 



Fred. C. Green, Milwaukee, Wis. 16135. '85. (VII) 



Ferns, Neuropteris. Three specimens from Grundy County, Illinois. 

 Fred. C. Green, Milwaukee, Wis. 16135. '85. (XII, B) 



Arrow-heads (6), celt and grooved axe from Wayne County, North Carolina, and 

 arrow-head from Ontonagon County, Michigan. 

 Fred. C. Green, Milwaukee, Wis. 16135. '85. (Ill) 



Fossils. 



niagara group. 



Orthoceras annul at urn (?), Sowerby (1); Illcenus insignis, Hall (4) ; Sphwrexoohus Iiom- 

 inger, Hall (1) ; Calymene JViagrensis (from Ohio?), (1). 



DEVONIAN GROUP. 



Sponge? (1); Orthis impressa, Hall (5); Atrypa reticularis, Linnams (6); Choncies 

 deflecta (?), Hall (1); Spirifera mesostrialis, Hall (15); Orthoceras sp. ? (1); Gom- 

 pkoceras breviposticum, Whitfield (1); Gomplioceras fusiforme, Whitfield (2); Gom- 

 phoceras sp. ? (1) ; Cytoceras, sp. ? (2) ; Fish plate (1). 



Fred. C. Green, Milwaukee, Wis. 16135. '85. (XII, A) 



Minerals. Millerite, with calcite (2), from cement quarry. Marcasite, calcite 

 crystals, and massive quartz, showing two cleavage planes, from Buncombe 

 County, North Carolina. Garnet crystals (partly altered), from Pigeon River 

 Valley, North Carolina. Chlorite and quartz, from Ontonagon County, Michi- 

 gan. 

 Fred. C. Green, Milwaukee, Wis. 16136. '85. (XIV) 



TnE "Ayrshire Life-Car." With this were also received a copper man-of-war 

 (model), dies upon which the life-car model was made, and diploma from the In- 

 ternational Shipwreck Society of France. (For descriptive note of inventions of 

 Joseph Francis see Part I, pp. 39, 40.) 

 Joseph Francis, New York. 16136. '85. (I) 



Spear- head from Logan County; celts (2) from Do Witt County; and a grooved 

 axe from Macon County. 

 Bert Stewart, Decatur, 111. 16137. '85. (Ill) 



Flint Flakes (3), arrow and spear heads (9), a discoidal stone, and wnter-worn 

 pebbles, (3) from Barber County, and a pestle from Blount County. 

 Frank Burns, Blountsville, Blount County, Ala. 16138. '85. (Ill) 



