Watts, H. L. Model of reach boat; from Maine. (Purchased.) Weaks, P. B. Specimen of tertiary lignite taken from stump 30 feet below surface; from Louisiana. Weaver, George B., & Co. Specimens of fresh fish (Amia calva, Lota maculosa); from New York. Webb, W. H. Seven models of ships; from New York. Webster, W. W. Six papier-maché lay figures and one papier-maché head. Weems, Rev. T. D. Specimens of Indian implements; from Illinois. Weidman, A., & Co. (through Thomas Donaldson). Two boxes of masks. Wells, J. G. Specimen of insect; from Grenada, West Indies. Wesleyan University. Five specimens of musical instruments, cornet, ophicleide, trombone, and clarionet. "Marimba;" from Venezuela. Wharton, Joseph. Specimen of cooking vessel made from rolled nickel on iron; manufactured in Germany. Samples of pure nickel rolled in sheets and on iron; from Pennsylvania. Also an exhibit of nickel ore and products; from New Jersey. Wheeler, Charles Le Roy. Collection of shells; from New Jersey. Whipple, S. C. Specimens of biotite granite and quartz porphyry; from Colorado. White, Dr. C. A. from Dakota. Box of land shells; from Indiana. Specimens of chalk; Whittington, G. N. Specimen of ore. Whitman, J. L. Product of artificial planting of Stizostedium vitreum var. Salmoneum; from Kansas. Whitall, Tatum & Co. Two barrels, six hogsheads, and nine boxes, samples of glass bottles, etc.; also apparatus used in making. Wiggins, John B. Specimens of clay, fossils, stone pestle, slag, iron pipe or wrench, and living specimen of fox (Vulpes fulvus); from New York. Soapstone cup and tomahawk; from Virginia. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co. Box of fishing apparatus; from Connecticut. Wilcox, Joseph. Specimens of stone relics and implement; from Florida. Wilcox, Dr. Timothy E., U. S. A. Two pairs of antlers, alcoholic mammals (Cervus macrotis, Alces americanus, Thomomys talpoides), and two mice, piece of stone pestle and fossil bone, bag of kinnikinik made by the Cheyenne Indians, specimen of butterflies (Papilio turnus, Dandus archippus), pair of antelope prongs (Antilocapra americana), specimen of Trochilus alexandri, Juv.; from Idaho. One of skin of Ampelis garrulus; from Nevada. Wilcox, W. A. Specimen of fish basket, two currycombs for cleaning fish, used by New England fish dealers. One fresh specimen of cusk (Brosmius brosme), and three negatives of warehouses and wharfs at Boston; from Massachusetts. Wild, George H. Specimens of alcoholic striped bass (Roccus saxatilis); from the headwaters of North Shrewsbury River, New Jersey. Wilder, Miss Mary. Specimen of mineral; from Tennessee. Wilkinson, Ernest, U. S. N. Specimens of rocks, lava, etc., and alco holic specimens of star-fishes, sea-urchins, crustaceans, and mollusks; from Alaska and Greenland. Wilkins, Mrs. L. J. Seventeen specimens of building stones; from various localities. Willard, S. W. Specimen of bird skin (Vireo Philadelphia); from Wisconsin. Willetts, James C. Specimens of alcoholic fishes, (Argyrosomus, sp.); from New York. Williams, C. A. Eleven specimens of whaling apparatus. Williams, Lieut. C. A., U. S. A. Package of butterflies. Williams, Dr. Edward H. Carved panel (dragon); from Buddhist temple in the interior of Japan. Williams & Page. Specimens of railroad and steamship lamps; from Massachusetts. Williams, W. Specimen of Blepharis crinitus; from Connecticut. Williamson, W. A. Box of insects, with cells; from Toronto, Canada. Wilson, Mrs. Reiley (through John B. Wiggins). Specimens of fossils; from New York. Wiltheiss, C. T. Specimen of an inscribed stone; from Ohio. (Loan.) Wing, L. and W. R. Fifteen specimens of whale-boat fittings, and one specimen of baleen; from Massachusetts. Wise, Morgan R. Two specimens of gold-bearing quartz; from Virginia. Witherow, Jos. M. (through Edward Nichols). Specimen of stone implement, boat-shaped; from North Carolina. Wolff, A. Specimen of hematite; from California. Wolle, sr., A. Mounted specimen of Mareca penelope, shot near Baltimore; eggs of Callipsittacus nova-hollandiæ, laid in confinement; specimen of Pionias vio¡aceus; from Demerara; and birds' skins; from South America. Woltz, George. Clarionet without mouth-piece, and one mouth-piece for A and B flat. Women's Silk-Culture Association, Philadelphia. Frame and three samples of American grown and manufactured silk. Wood, Brightman & Co. Two jacket-lamps, powder-horn, blubber-room lamp, blow-horn for whale-boat, boat and cook's lanterns, and deckscoop, oil; from Massachusetts. Woode, E. and C. Collection of hair and clothes brushes; from New York. Wood, George. Exhibit of corrugated and creased leather. Wood, M. L., U. S. N. Alcoholic specimens of fishes (Batrachus tau, Hemirhamphus unifasciatus, Ocyturus chrysurus, Diabasis formosus); from Florida. Wood, Sir William, Egypt. One large mosaic lion, exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, Pa.; valued at $25,000. Wood, W. M., U. S. N. Specimens of fresh shad (Clupea sapidissima); from Potomac River. Woodbury, J. G. Alcoholic specimens of striped bass (Roccus saxatilis), with parasites, (Livoneca); from California. Woodward, W. Elliott. Two stone mortars, and piece of cloth showing tracing of rock carving; from Massachusetts. Wooster, A. F. Specimen, in flesh, of a bat; from Connecticut. Wooten Well Company. Four demijohns of mineral water; from Texas.. Wright, Harrison. Specimen of sunfish (Lepomis gibbosus); from Pennsylvania. Wright, H. L. Alcoholic specimen of fish; from Washington, D. C. Wright, Reuben. Specimen of living horned-frog (Phynosoma cornutum); from Texas. Yancey, B. M. Package of rocks; from Virginia. Yarrow, Dr. H. C. Two stone implements; from North Carolina. York, William F. Collection of clay concretions; from beds along the headwaters of the Connecticut River. Zeledon, José C. One box of stone images, pottery, celts, fragments of pottery, and one box of insects; from Costa Rica. Zoological Society, Philadelphia, Pa. Specimen of vulturine Guinea-fowl (Numida vulturina); from West Africa. Zorn, George, & Co. Two boxes of wood and clay pipes; over 300 styles. ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUM, ETC. IN CONTINUATION FROM PREVIOUS REPORTS. APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1882. Furniture and fixtures, National Museum.-To expedite the work of constructing the exhibition cases in the new building for the National Museum during the present fiscal year, thirty thousand dollars. (Deficiency appropriation act, March 6, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 10.) Fire-proof building for National Museum.-To pay Thomas J. Hobbs for disbursing the appropriations for the construction of the National Museum building, under appointment of the Secretary of the Treasury of March 28, 1879, two hundred and fifty dollars, in full satisfaction therefor. (Deficiency appropriation act, August 5, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 274.) APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1883. Preservation of collections, National Museum.-For expense of heating, lighting, and telephonic and electrical service for the new Museum building, six thousand dollars; for the preservation and exhibition of the collections received from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employés, seventy-five thousand dollars; for expense of transferring to Washington the collections presented to the United States at the close of the Permanent International Exhibition, in Phila delphia, including necessary expenses already incurred for the purpose, ten thousand dollars. Total, ninety-one thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. Statutes, xxii, pp. 332, 333.) Armory building.-For care of the Armory building and expense of watching, preservation, and storage of the duplicate collections of the Government and of property of the United States Fish Commission contained therein, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employés, two thousand five hundred dollars, and the distribution of duplicate specimens of the National Museum and Fish Commission may be made to colleges, academies, and other institutions of learning, upon the payment by the recipients of the cost of preparation for transportation and the transportation thereof. (Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. Statutes, xxii, pp. 332, 333.) Furniture and fixtures, National Museum.-For cases, furniture, and fixtures required for the exhibition of the collections of geology, mineralogy, natural history, ethnology, and the industrial arts, belonging to the United States, and for salaries or compensation of all necessary employés, sixty thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 332.) North American ethnology, Smithsonian Institution.-For the purpose of continuing ethnological researches among the North American Indians, under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employés, thirty-five thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 332.) International exchanges, Smithsonian Institution.-For expenses of the international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, in accordance with the Paris convention of 1877, including salaries and compensation of all necessary employés five thousand dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. No. 217; Statutes, xxii, p. 332.) War Department.-For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries, through the Smithsonian Institution, three hundred dollars. (Sundry civil appropriation act, August 7, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 319.) Naval Observatory.-For payment to Smithsonian Institution for freight on Observatory publications to be shipped to foreign countries during the fiscal year 1883, three hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-five cents. (Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation act, August 5, 1882. Statutes, xxii, p. 245.) APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1884. International exchanges.-For international exchanges, Smithsonian Institution: For expenses of the international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, in accordance with the Paris con |