Gifts to the Museum of Natural History. 



May, 1911— May, 1912. 



Department of Geology. 



Walter H. Chapin, M.D. Glacier-marked Chicopee shale from Springfield, and sand- 

 stone with carbonized vegetable matter from Indian Orchard. 

 George M. P. Holt. Coquina from east coast of Florida. 

 William O. Parmenter. Collection of minerals. 



Frank A. Perret for the Springfield Volcanic Research Society. Collection of volcanic 



specimens from Vesuvius and Kilauea in Hawaii. 

 George Dwight Pratt. Cross section of column of Chicopee shale from shaft made for 



plunger of elevator in the tower of Municipal group. Taken December 8,1911, from 



210 feet below Court Square. 

 Waterman S. C. Russell. Collection of volcanic specimens, fossils, and minerals from 



Iceland. 



Department of Zoology. 



Edward Chapin. Snails for the aquarium. 

 David Grimshaw. Barn swallow's nest. 



Mrs. Eleanor Hale, from the James Tyler Ames estate in Chicopee. Whalebone, turtle 



shells, and sea feather. 

 Milan E. Hawkins. Shell of nine-banded armadillo; also starfish and seashells. 

 Mrs. Warren T. Hitchcock. Collection of foreign birds. 

 Robert O. Morris. Human bones, possibly Indian, from Longmeadow. 

 Leslie A. Newell. Hummingbird's nest. 

 William C. Newell. Tortoise shell turtle. 



W. Thornton Parker, M.D. Great horned owl, and prairie dog from New Mexico. 

 Gertrude Robinson. One butterfly. 



Walter H. Wesson. Extensive additions to the Wesson collection of New England 

 fresh-water food and game fishes, including a Chinook salmon from Lake Sunapee, 

 N. H. 



Department of Botany. 



Luman Andrews. Extensive additions to the Luman Andrews herbarium, and card 



catalog of Springfield plants. 

 Mrs. Eleanor Hale, from the James Tyler Ames estate in Chicopee. Brazilian gourd. 

 Kibbe Brothers Company. Cocoanuts of unusual size. 

 Miss Claribel H. Smith. Collection of pressed plants. 

 Peter Smith. Fungus growth. 



Department of History of Mankind. 



Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia. Collection of pottery, jars, ear ornaments, and 



discs made from fragments of pottery, from mounds in Arkansas. 

 John F. O'Connor. Arrow point from Springfield. 



Miscellaneous. 



Mrs. L. A. Atwood. Miniature Italian water buckets. 

 W. E. Dickinson. Picture of General Lafayette's house at Moodna, N. Y. 

 George S. Lewis. Series of pictures of machines used in spinning and weaving. 

 Mrs. William B. Walker. Collection consisting of pictures of early Springfield, colonial 

 relics, coins, seashells, and birds' eggs, also 19 colored plates of birds by Alexander 

 Pope, Jr. 



