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DONATIONS TO MUSEUM 
In May anp Jung, 1853. 
May 3d. 
Sixty-one specimens of woods, fourteen of birds, and a small collection of 
shells, echinoderms and insects, from Texas. Presented by Dr. G. Engelmann, 
of St. Louis, Missouri. 
Dryinus nasutus, Madras. Presented by F. Brown, Jr. 
Mounted skeleton of the great extinct Irish elk, (Megaceros hibernicus.) De- 
posited by Mr. John Abell, of Limerick, Ireland, through Peter Wright & Sons. 
Fifty specimens of carboniferous fossils, from Greensburg, Penn. Presented 
by Dr. A. T. King, through Mr. Cassin. 
Tyrannus nepeto; Molothrus sericeus, from Lima, Peru. Presented by Mr. 
Joseph A. Clay. 
Crystalline slag, from an anthracite iron furnace. Presented by Prof. 8. S. 
Haldeman. 
A large collection of marine shells from the coast of Lower California. Pre- 
sented by Dr. A. L. Heermann. 
May 10th. 
Impressions of Encrinites, from Hampshire Co., Virginia. Presented by Dr. 
Chas. Carter, through Dr. Bridges. 
The entire Anatomical Collection of the late Dr. Samuel George Morton, con- 
sisting of 867 crania of Man, 601 crania of the inferior animals,* and all the osteolo- 
gical, mummified and other specimens heretofore deposited in the Museum of the 
Academy, and now presented by the following named gentlemen: Chas. Henry 
Fisher, Thos. Biddle, Dr. Chas. D. Meigs, Henry J. Williams, Thos. T. I.ea, 
John Farnum, John A. Brown, Wm. Welsh, Dr. George B. Wood, J. Francis 
Fisher, David S. Brown, John B. Meyers, ‘Lewis R. Ashhurst, Caleb Cope, 
Richard D. Wood, J. Pemberton Hutchinson, Morris L. Hallowell, Joseph D. 
Brown, William Platt, Joseph Swift, Singleton A. Mercer, A. J. Lewis, Geo. W. 
Carpenter, John Price Wetherill, John Cook, John Lambert, Robert Pearsall, 
Joseph 8. Lovering, J. G. Fell, Caspar W. Pennock, Samuel We Merrick, James 
Dundas, Henry Pepper, Richard Price, John Grigg, Joseph Jeanes, T. P. Rem- 
ington, Henry Seybert, Thos. McEwen, Robert Swift, Jacob G. Morris, and 
Wn. S. Vaux. 
May 24th. 
Larus occidentalis, from Texas, and four eggs of the same. Presented by 
Dr. Heermann. . 
Leopardite - Presented by Mr. A. Jessup. 
Bubo virginianus (mounted.) From Mr. Jas. Mears. 
Two specimens of Exogyra costata, from the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. 
From Mr. George Ord. 
June 14th. 
Fossils from a Prairie, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana. Presented by Dr. C. D. 
Meigs. 
Five coal fossils, from the South Joggins, Nova Scotia. Presented by J. W. 
Dawson, Esq., of Pictou. . 
Living specimen of Phrysonoma cornutum, from Texas. Presented by G. 
W. Page, Esq. 
A. collection of Reptiles. From Dr. Rand. 
A collection of seventy Mammal! and Bird Skins from California and Oregon, 
presented by Col. Geo. A. McCall, as follows : 
Mammals: Seiurus Douglasii, Tamias Townsendii, Suemmaaplillne Douglasil, 
Geomys rufescens, Lepus artemesia. 
Birds : Hypotriorchis columbarius, Tinnunculus sparverius, Elanus leucurus, 
* Catalogue. 3d edition, Philada., 1849. 
