(’ 95 ) 
Miss Storer, Newport; small Tortoise (in alcohol). 
Messrs. La Farge and Jacob, Newport; a wood duck (mounted) 
shot near Newport. 
Dr. Storer, Newport; fruit of oil-palm from Western Africa. 
Dr. S. W. Francis, Newport; fruit from a Japanese quince 
tree grown in Newport. 
Mr. George II. Norman, Newport; Skull of a black fish. 
Dr. S. W. Francis, Newport; Sword of a sword fish (duplicate). 
Miss H. C. Ellery, Newport; a collection of lithological 
specimens from New Jersey, formed by Professor C. A. Lev- 
eridge of Cranford, Union County, New Jersey, 127 varieties. 
Mr. Amory Austin, Newport; specimens of pyrolusite and 
iron pyrites. 
Captain E. O. Matthews, U. S. Navy, Newport; fruit, etc., of 
the nutmeg tree from Trinidad. 
Colonel John McPherson Creighton, fossil teeth of shark from 
South Carolina. 
Mr. Charles Hunter, Newport; Seagull shot at Easton’s Beach, 
Newport. 
Rev. Father Coyle, Newport; Cormorant (spring plumage) 
shot at Newport (mounted). 
Miss Louisa Cutler Francis, Newport; Carving cut out of 
bamboo root into the shapes of Chinese man and boy. 
Mr. William Peck, Newport; Mistletoe from England. 
Mr. Bancel La Farge, Newport; a collection of Shells, chiefly 
foreign. 
Mr. John M. Swan, Jr., Newport; grey oolitic limestone from 
Bowling Green, Kentucky. 
Serpentine and crystals of iron pyrites ; by Mr. Westcott. 
A Balanus from Yorktown Cliffs; Mr. Michael McCarty. 
Portion of petrified apple tree from the Thomas Lawton farm, 
Coddington Point; Mr. Daniel Austin. 
Fungus from apple tree; Sapling distorted by vine, Berkeley, 
Mass. ; Specimen of Bamboo; Mr. J. M. K. Southwick. 
A twin cream-nut; Mr. Charles Williams. 
Specimen of copper ore; Hon. Wm. Gilpin. 
Stalactite from Matanzas, Cuba ; from Mr. Andrew B. Almon. 
Mahogany voting box ; from Mr. Parmenter. 
