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North, Egyptian Joint Parching, and Rice Parching corn, from 
Hiram Sibley & Co., seedsmen, Rochester, N. Y. 
June 19, One package of huckleberry seed, from John R. Kane, 
Sumpter Court House, 8. C. 
September 21. Four quarts of two-rowed Scotch barley, from A. D. 
Baker, Aurelius, N. Y. 
September 26. One package each of the following varieties of winter 
wheat: Champion Amber, German Amber, Red Amber, California | 
Blue Stem, White Blue Stem, Yellow Blue Stem, Hungarian White 
Chaff, Silver Chaff, Velvet Chaff, York White Chaff, Clawson, Egyp- 
tian, Finley, Fultz, Golden Straw, Grecian, Lancaster, Mediterranean, 
Rice, Russian May, Russian Number Two, Sandemiska, Scott, Smooth 
Scott, Swift's Improved, Swamp, ‘lappahannock, Theiss, Travis, 
Treadwell, Treadwell Bearded, Washington Glass, White Eldorado, 
and Zimmermann, also Russian spring wheat, from Prof. W. R. 
Lazenby, Columbus, Ohio. 
November 11. One large box of ear corn, in varieties, for museum, 
and fifty-one bottles of named grass seed, from Prof. W. J. Beal, 
Lansing, Mich. 
November 27. One dozen varieties of ear corn, from F. C. Lowman, 
Nicholas, N. Y. 
December 6. Two packets of Carica papaya seed, from Wm.8. Allen, 
Key West, Fla. 
December 16. One packet each of Horsford, Rochester, and No. 0 
tomato seed ; also one packet each of Horsford’s Market Garden and 
Racket peas; also one packet each of Black Champion oats, and of a 
new hybrid barley, from F. H. Horsford, Charlotte, Vt. 
The following books and pamphlets have been received : 
March 24. Experiments in Amber Cane and the Ensilage of Fod- 
ders at the Experimental Farm, Madison, Wis. Hight vo.; Madison, 
1882 ; pages, 78; from Prof. W. A. Henry, Madison, Wis. 
March 29. First and Second Annual Reports of the New Jersey 
State Agricultural Experiment Station, for the years 1880 and 1881? 
and also various Bulletins, from Prof. Geo. H. Cook, New Brunswick, 
N. J. 
April 12. Tenth Census of the United States, 1880; population, 
Part I. 
Statistics of the Iron and Steel Production of the United States. 
Statistics of the Production of Precious Metals in the United States. 
Social Statistics of Cities ; History of the Present Condition of New 
Orleans, La., and Report of the City of Austin, Texas. 
Extra Census Bulletin Report of the Cotton Production of the State 
of Louisiana, from Hon. J. W. Wadsworth, M. C. 
May 31. Bulletin of the United States "National Museum No. 22} 
Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity. 
United States Entomological Commission Bulletin, No. 3; The 
Cotton Worm, by Chas. V. Riley, A OR MED oa cB 2 
United States Entomological Commission Bulletin, No. 6; General 
Index and Supplement to the Nine Reports on the Insects of Missouri, 
by Chas. V. Riley, M. A., Ph. D. 
United States Entomological Commission Bulletin, No. 7; Insects 
Injurious to Forest and Shade ‘Trees, by A. 8. Packard, Jr, M. D. 
