Donations to the Museum

 

[Originally published by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec in Transactions, New Series, No. 1 (1862)]

 

FROM SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE, WASHINGTON

A collection of North American Unionidae.

 

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA

Marine shells and other invertebrate collected by the Officers of the survey in the River and Gulf of St. Lawrence.

 

GEO. H. PARKE, ESQ., QUEBEC

A young bald Eagle

 

WILLIAM COUPER, QUEBEC.

1 Egg of Night Heron.

2 Egg of Common Crow.

1 Egg of Yellow-shafted Woodpecker.

1 Egg of Cedar Bird.

1 Egg of Tyrant Flycatcher.

1 Egg of Yellow Warbler

1 Egg of Crow Blackbird.

1 Egg of Robin, or Red-breasted Thrush

 

C. C. JORDESSON, ESQ

Specimen of Lead Ore from Almeria, Spain. A piece of Tablet supposed to have been erected by Columbus on landing on Turks Island West Indies. Specimens of Sugar-cane blossom. Specimens of Sensitive plant. Specimens of Ipecacuana plant. Scales of the Blue-fish.

 

JAMES F. WOLFF, ESQ. M. D

1 Liszard and a Barnacle, in spirits.