THE MUSEUM. 
RECENT SALES. 
The Balmanno collection of coins and 
medals, catalogued by Mr. Lyman H. Low, 
was sold by Messrs. Bangs & Co., in New 
York, on June ioth and nth, 1885. We make 
the following quotations: A Massachusetts 
Pine Tree shilling (1652), with 14 branches, 
$3.75; another, with n branches, $3.50; a 
U. S. Eagle cent (1856) nickel, proof, $3.10 ; a 
proof set of 1857, from one cent to one dollar, 
$20.00; many proof and uncirculated silver 
halves, some of early dates, brought only face 
value. A British War medal of Battle of 
Germantown (1777), copper, brought $18.25; 
a provisional dollar of Mexico (1811), $18.25; 
a Cork shilling (1647), octagonal, $20.50; Isle 
of Man half-penny (1733), pattern in silver, 
$3.60; a gold hall Unicorn of James III (i486), 
$9; a gold Lion of Mary (1553), $11; Anglo- 
Saxon penny, Burgred (852—’74), $11.25; an¬ 
other of Cnut “The Little” (883—900), $11.70; 
one of Alfred “The Great” (872—901), $9.25; 
a penny of Ethelstan (925—’41), $13.10; a 
Pound Piece (1642) of Charles I, $46; Blon- 
deau’s pattern half-crown, Commonwealth 
(1648—’6o), $70.50; Portcullis crown of Eliza¬ 
beth, $146.25'; the highest price, $205, was 
paid for a Pound Piece (1644) of Charles I. 
The Athole collection, also catalogued by 
Mr. Low, was sold at the same rooms on June 
18th, 1885. A Roman Imperial gold Trajan 
brought $10.60; a half-crown of Cromwell 
(1656), $8.25, and a pattern silver farthing of 
Anne (1713), $13*25* 
We have received the catalogue of a collec¬ 
tion of coins, stamps, autographs, etc., to be 
sold by auction at the rooms of Geo. A. Lea¬ 
vitt & Co., New York, on July 24th, 1885. 
Catalogued by Ed. Frossard. 
EXCHANGES AND REVIEWS. 
The Thirteenth Annual Report of the 
Zoological Society of Philadelphia has ap¬ 
peared. During the past year 455 additions 
have been made to the collection of animals, 
of which 154 were mammals, 213 were birds, 
67 
and 88 were reptiles and batrachians. The 
most noteworthy of these were a pair of 
Moor Macaque monkeys from Borneo ; a pair 
of Anubis baboons from West Africa; a 
young hippopotamus from the Upper Nile, in 
Egypt; a viscacha, a burrowing rodent from 
the plains of Buenos Ayres, with the habit of 
collecting about the mouth of its burrow all 
articles it may find, especially those of a 
glittering appearance; a brush-tailed porcu¬ 
pine from West Africa; a hairy armadillo 
from South America, and a female jaguar 
from the Upper Amazon. The most interest¬ 
ing specimen of all, however, is the brush- 
turkey from New South Wales, which, at the 
season of incubation, sometimes builds a 
mound of earth and rubbish reaching a 
diameter of twenty-five feet and a height of 
five, in the centre of which a large pit is 
formed for the eggs, which are left to be 
hatched by the heat of the decomposing vege¬ 
table matter. 
Catalogue of Musci and Hepaticce of North 
America, north of Mexico, arranged by Miss 
Clara E. Cummings, of Wellesley College, 
Wellesley, Mass., May, 1885. A pamphlet con¬ 
taining the names of 888 species of mosses 
and 231 liverworts, etc. It is designed as a 
check and exchange list, being based upon 
the “ Manual of Mosses of North America,” 
by Lesquereux and James, and the “Descrip¬ 
tive Catalog of the N. A. Hepaticae, North of 
Mexico,” by L. M. Underwood. It includes 
the names of a number of new species, and 
will prove a great help to bryologists in the 
arrangement of herbaria. Price 35 cents. 
Geographical Names of Mexico, Alpha¬ 
betical Catalogue of Places in the Nahuatl 
Language. Hieroglyphic Shidies of the Trib¬ 
ute Roll of the Codex Mendocino, by Dr. Anto¬ 
nio Penafiel, in charge of the general direction 
of statistics of the Mexican Republic. This 
is a large quarto volume of 260 pages, con¬ 
taining several hundred cuts of hieroglyphs 
or symbols for the names of places, with 
descriptive text. It will prove of inestimable 
value to philologists and students of ancient 
Mexico. 
