University of Virginia Library

GIFTS

TO THE LIBRARY, FROM FEB. 1 1872 TO FEB. 1 1873.

Have been made by the following persons:—

John M. Gordon, Esq.

Conway Robinson, Esq.

J. W. Randolph, Esq.

A. R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress.

Alfred Stebbens, Librarian of Mercantile Library Association of
San Francisco.

Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C. — 77 Volumes of
Public Documents.

S. R. Stone.

W. S. Clark, President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

Commodore B. F. Sands, U. S. N.

Brig.-General A. A. Humphreys, Chief of Engineers, U. S. A.

Rev. H. Wetzel.

Francis N. Walker, Superintendent of the Census.

Treasury Department, Washington, D. C.

Prof. Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent U. S. Coast Survey.

Hon. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston.

Society of Arts, London, (through Smithsonian Institution.)

J. R. McDaniel Irby — 35 volumes of The London Philosophical
Transactions.

Editors of the Virginia University Magazine.

Albert J. Myer, Brig.-General and Chief Signal Officer U. S. Army.

The Commissioner of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.

Martyn Paine, A. M., M. D., LL. D.

The Commonwealth of Virginia.

University of the State of Missouri.

William H. Clark, Esq.

Industrial League, Pennsylvania — the Publications of the League.

Hon. L. Chandler, U. S. Senate.

Prof. Alfred M. Mayer, Ph. D.

Prof. J. H. C. Coffin, U. S. N., Superintendent American Ephemeris
and Nautical Almanac.

American Philosophical Society.

Her Britannic Majesty's Secretary of State for India — Vol. 1st of
the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India.

Dr. J. W. Hoyt, President of the Wisconsin Academy of Science.

Campbell Morfit, M. D., F. C. S., London.

Hon. R. T. W. Duke — 70 Volumes of Public Documents.

Librarian, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct.

H. B. M's Government — the complete Series of Calendars, Chronicles,
Historical Memorials, and other publications of Her Majesty's
Record Commission under the authority of the Master of the Rolls
— 258 vols. in all.

GIFTS TO THE COLLECTIONS OF THE SCHOOL OF GENERAL
AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY.

H. B. M.'s Secretary of State for India — Additional collection of
specimens of Indian pottery.

Justus Eck, Esq. — A superb mass of gum kowrie from Australia,
vanillon, finest Siam benzoin, Chinese insect wax, &c.

Judge J. L. Cochrane, Charlottesville — Iron ores from Missouri.

U. S. Department of Agriculture — Seeds, and the current publications
of the Department.

Messrs. C. J. & J. Field — Collection of specimens illustrating the
manufacture of candles from Austrian ozokerite.

Hon. Alexander H. H. Stuart, Staunton — Iron ore from Augusta
County, Va.

Dr. G. W. Lawrence — Novaculite from Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Messrs. Smith & Son — Collection of coloring lichens for dyers'
use.

The Phosphor-Bronze Company — Specimens of phosphor-bronze,
and articles manufactured from it.

From U. S. Department of Agriculture — A valuable collection of
samples of Australian wools, with printed descriptive catalogue.

GIFTS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MINERALOGY AND
GEOLOGY.

H. M. Dawson Esq., of Alabama — Remains of Zeuglodon cetoides,
and other fossils, from the tertiary rocks of Alabama.

Dr. J. S. Davis — Collection of copper ores from the Burra-burra
mines, Ducktown, Tennessee.

Julian Pratt, Esq. — Yellow ochre and calcareous tufa from
Augusta county.

Peyton Skipwith, Esq. — Chalcopyrite from Ducktown, Tenn.

Lieutenant Calender Noland, U. S. N. — Dodecahedral pyrites, and
specular oxide of iron from Elba.

— Davis, Esq. — Galena in very large cubic crystals, from
Illinois.

Rev. Thos. W. Gilmer — Hematite from Iron Mountain and Pilot
Knob, Mo.

Hon. Jos. C. Cabell — Collection of Italian marbles, and other
minerals.

Dr. J. W. Mallet — A collection of Zeuglodon and molluscan remains
from the tertiary beds of Alabama.