THOMAS WILSON. Glacial phenomena and its relations to the gravel deposits of the Delaware River at Trenton, New Jersey.

International Congress of Anthropology and Prehistorie Archæology, Paris, 1889, 10 pp.. 8vo,

THOMAS WILSON. Report on Hygiene and Demography.

Annual Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 1890-1891, 28 pp., 8vo. THOMAS WILSON. Address before the Washington Training School for Nurses.

Washington, 11 pp., 8vo.

THOMAS WILSON. The amulet collection of Prof. Belucci, of Perugia, Italy, exhibited at the French Exposition, Paris, 1889. Read at the annual meeting of the American Folk-Lore Society, New York City, November 29, 1890. Journal of American Folk-Lore, IV, No. 13, April-June, 1891, pp. 144-146,

THOMAS WILSON. The statistics of crime in the United States of North America. Proceedings of the International Congress of Criminal Anthropology. Paris, pp. 224-229. THOMAS WILSON. Report on the Department of Prehistoric Anthropology in the U. S. National Museum, 1888.

Report of the Smithsonian Institution (U. S. National Museum). 1888 (1890), pp. 123–138. WILLIAM C. WINLOCK. Astronomy for 1887, 1888.

Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888 (1890), pp. 125–216.

SECTION V.

LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1891.

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS.*

ABBE, Prof. CLEVELAND (See under W. E. Frye; Mr. Seal; The Bishop Taylor Mission).

ABBOTT, W. H. (See under U. S. Fish Commission).

ABOTT, Dr. W. L. (Philadelphia, Pa.). A magnificent collection of spears, shields, bows, swords, wooden dishes, and personal ornaments of the Wa Chaga and Wasai negroes of the Kilima-Njaro region; specimens of insects, representing all orders; 107 birds' skins, representing about 60 species; specimens of Snakes, Bucephalus and Coluber, both species of which are undeterminable, and specimens of mammal skins (23656); 79 specimens of mammal skins and skulls, representing 29 species; collection of alcoholic and dry insects, cousisting of 10 specimens of lepidoptera and 6 of neuroptera, 10 species of orthoptera, 10 of hemiptera, and 50 of coleoptera, 60 specimens representing 30 species of arachnida, and 18 specimens representing 8 species of myriopoda from Mt. Kilima-Njaro, Seychelles Islands, and Madagascar; 2 specimens of Coco de Mer (Lòdoicea seychellarum Labil) and 2 pieces of wood of the same; 46 reptiles and batrachians, representing 20 species, from the same localities; 117 birds' skins, representing 45 species, obtained from the same region; 100 African plants and a number of lichens and mosses; 5 eggs of Anous stolidus from Isle Siche, Seychelles Islands, and a nest and egg of a small sun-bird, species not determined, from Mt. Kilima-Njaro; 11 shells, representing 3 species, from the Seychelles Islands; collection of ethnological objects (93 specimens in all), including shields, quivers, arrows, models of huts, wooden vessels, wallets, mortar, beehive, war capes, game board, and other articles and utensils; 4 gallinules (24008); photographs taken in East Africa, showing natives, scenery, habitations, and objects representing native life (24334).

ADAMS, C. F. (Champaign, Ill.). Sixteen skeletons of birds and skin of mammal (23432); bird-group composed of shrikes, with nest and young (23622); group of gibbons (Hylobates sp.) from Borneo (23890). Purchase.

ADAMS, W. H. (Elmore, Ill.). Two flint scrapers from Peoria County. 23927. ADAMS, W. W. (Mapleton, N. Y.). Fragment of human skull from an ancient grave in Fleming, Cayuga County. 24206.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE (Lansing, Mich.), through Prof. A. J. Cooke. Forty species of North American coleoptera, 17 of which are new to the collection. Exchange. 24941.

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF. Twenty-seven photo-lithographs illustrating forest destruction and reforestation in France (23584); section of tulip-tree, with historical chart of events contemporaneous with growth (23585); 2 maps showing forest destruction (23587); 100 label maps showing distribution of species (23589). Deposit.

*The accessions of the year are included under the numbers 23341-24527.

This collection is fully described in the catalogue published in Section III of this volume.

The mammal specimens of Acc. 23656 are incorporated with those of Accession 24008.

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF-Continued.

Through Dr. C. Hart Merriam, chief of Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. Fossil turtles and mammals in fragmentary condition from Fort Bridger, Wyoming, and pieces of the jaw and radius of bear from a cave in Grant County, New Mexico (23344); 11 land-shells representing 4 species from Texas (23484); 5 horned toads (Phrynosoma brevirostre douglassii) from Idaho (collected by Mr. V. Bailey) (23548); two turtles, representing two species (deposit) (23704); Pacific pine Snake (Pituophis catenifer) from Marshall, Washington (deposit) (23734); Specimen, in flesh, of Bruennich's Murre ( Uria bruennichii), from Throg's Neck, Long Island (collected by Mr. A. Ferriera) (23895); 5 species of land-shells (collected by Mr. William Lloyd, of Monterey, Mexico) (24074); 31 reptiles and batrachians, representing 11 species from Idaho (deposit) (24213).*

Through Prof. C. V. Riley, entomologist: Alcoholic insects, mostly coleoptera from southern California (collected by Mr. D. W. Coquillet, of Los Angeles, California) (23916); 382 species of North American lepidoptera and 62 species of European lepidoptera (23934); 54 species of well-mounted coleoptera, some of which are new to the collection (collected by Mr. Coquillet) (23942); 110 specimens of North American coleoptera, representing 54 species new to the collection (collected by H. F. Wickham, of Iowa City, Iowa (23964); 225 species of coleoptera from the United States, 20 species of coleoptera from Mexico, 29 species of hemiptera from the United States and Mexico, 75 species of hymenoptera from the same localities; 4 species of diptera from the United States and 6 specimens of Vanessa californica from Idaho (collected by Prof L. Bruner, of Lincoln, Nebr.) (23974); 25 species of North American coleoptera, many of which are new to the collection (24009); 425 specimens, representing 60 species of lepidoptera, and 2,400 specimens, representing 375 species of coleoptera, collected in California and Washington by Mr. A. Koebele, and transferred to the Museum collection by Prof. Riley (24017); 30 species of coleoptera collected in southern California and transferred to the Museum collection by Prof. Riley (24018); 30 species collected and transferred in the same manner (24056); series of 400 species of coleoptera and 130 species of hemiptera (collected by Prof. Bruner in the United States and Mexico) (24136); collection of tineida containing 900 specimens, representing about 430 North American species, and 500 specimens, representing aboout 140 European species (24277). (See under Massachusetts Society for Promotion of Agriculture; Northern Pacific Railroad.)

AIKEN, WALTER (Franklin, N. H.). Two fresh specimens of Golden Trout (Salvelinus aureolus). 23725.

ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY (San Francisco, Cal.), through the QuartermasterGeneral's Department, U. S. A. Bidarka and outfit from Akoutan Island. 23768. (See under Capt. Frank Curling.)

ALDRICH, T. H. (Blocton, Ala.). Ten species of Red Bluff Eocene fossils, named by the describer, Otto Meyer (23408); collection of Tertiary fossils from the southern United States, illustrating the species described by Otto Meyer and for the most part identified by him (23763).

ALFARO, Señor ANASTASIO. (See under Museo Nacional de Costa Rica.) ALLEGHANY COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE (Alderson, W. Va.), through Mr. H. A. Evans. Skull of a lion cub (Felis leo). 24030.

ALLEN, GEORGE A. (United States Indian Agent, Colorado River Agency, Parker, Ariz.). Collection of pressed flowers and plants; 5 alcoholic specimens of Hadrurus hirsatus and 6 specimens of Trombidium sp.; 4 lizards, representing 3 species, from the Colorado Indian Reservation; 8 ethnological objects and 5 pieces of pottery from the Mojave Indians (24160); 4 photographs of Mojave Indians (24190).

* These are the result of the biological explorations carried on by Dr. Merriam and his assistants in Idaho during the summer of 1890. A separate report has been prepared and has been published in “North American Fauna" No. 5, pp. 109–113.