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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Numerous accessions to this department were made during the 

 year through the activity of A. G. Richmond and Mrs Harriet M. 

 Converse. Among the most important may be enumerated the 

 following: 1 flute, 1 rattle, 1 scalp knife, 1 feather flag, 1 wam- 

 pum, 1 burden strap, Five Fires wampum belt, Red Jacket wain 

 pum belt (fragment), Mary Jamison wampum belt, Cornplanter 

 wampum belt and treaty, Algonquin wampum string, 1 turtle 

 rattle, 1 bone pipe, 1 stone pipe, 1 corn pounder, 2 wooden spoons, 

 1 wood handle bowl, 1 bread bowl, 1 knife gouge for makiug 

 masks, 1 gambling bowl, 1 old drum, 1 medicine gourd, 1 old clay 

 pot. 



Zoology 



MAMMALIA 



Donations 



M. S. Farr : Skin and skull of armadillo Dasypus minutus 

 Desm., Rio Chico, Patagonia; Baleen plate from whalebone whale 

 B a 1 a e n o p t e r a sp., coast of Patagonia. 



S. H. Oliver, Glenfield, Lewis co. N. Y.: Opossum D i d e 1 p h i s 

 virginiana Kerr., Greig, Lewis co. N. Y. 



Joseph Morje : Brown bat Vesper tilio fuscus (Beau- 

 vois), Albany N. Y. 



Collections 



Dr Tarleton H. Bean: 2 specimens shrew, A. P. Latto donor, 

 Southampton N. Y. 



M. S. Farr: 2 specimens brown bat Vespertilio fuBooi 

 (Beauvois); 2 specimens red bat Lasiurua borealin 

 (Muller), Kenwood, Albany N. Y. 



Purchases 



P. E. Hering: 1 specimen South American opossum, Aspinwall, 



U. S. of Colombia; 1 specimen brown bat V e s p e r t i 1 i o 

 fuscufl (Beauvois), Albany N. Y. 



