DONATIONS TO MUSEUM. 
Sword of sword fish, Nantucket; Osteological specimens ; Back 
of snapping turtle, (Chelydra Serpentina,) (Bailey’s Beach) ; 
Scales of Tarpum, Newport; A Marmoset Monkey, (mounted) 
S. America ; Cypraea, East Indies ; Fungus, Lennoxville, Canada ; 
Shingle from the Sequoia Gigantea, Cal; Mica schist, with net¬ 
work of quartz vein, probably from Newport; Dr. S. W. Francis. 
Fragment of Ammonite, probably from England ; S. Corday 
Francis. 
Excrescence on tree stem, used by Indians as a pestle ; Richard 
J. Arnold, Esq. 
Fossil plant stem from conglomerate boulder, Castle Hill; 
Messrs. Southwick and Dale. 
Fossil plant stem from boulder, bed of Taunton River, near 
North Dighton ; Col. George H. Elliot. 
Squilla, dredged at Providence ; Col. George H. Elliot. 
Coal plants, Wood’s Castle ; Prof. T. N. Dale. 
Mrs. Clara Ives, Newport; a geological specimen from the 
vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts, supposed to present marks of 
igneous action as well as of sedimentary deposit. 
Dr. J. B. Parker, U. S. Navy, Newport; Garnets from Alaska. 
Mr. Henry A. Rice, Boston ; An Amazon Stone and a Cairn¬ 
gorm, also a fossil shell from Colorado. 
Dr. W. C. Rives, Jr., Newport; Argillaceous schist from 
Conanicut Island. 
Captain E. O. Matthews, U. S. Navy, Newport; Pitch from 
Pitch Lake, Trinidad. 
Mr. J. M. K. Southwick, Newport; fish (mounted) from New¬ 
port Harbor. 
Dr. Turner, Newport; a living green Turtle.* 
Dr. A. P. Baker, Newport; a young Alligator.* 
Mr. Almon, Newport; Brain Coral from Nassau, New Provi¬ 
dence. 
*Both now deposited in Central Park Gardens, New York, 
