ANNUAL RECEPTION 
SepaFtment of MioFOSoop? 
OF THE 
BROOKLYN INSTITUTE, 
EDO WAillliTiS ®THBJETf 
BROOKLYN. 
THURSDAY, MAY Sth, IS9O, 
AT 8 P. M. 
ADMISSION BY TICKET ONLY 
Officers of the Department. 
KEY. J. L. ZABRISKIE, President. 
GEORGE M. MATHER, Vice President. 
■CffiCtEGE E. ASHBY, Secretary. 
KJ)W. C. CHAPMAN, Treasurer. 
J. D. MALLONEE, Arator. 
Reception Committee. 
-CL&Ashby, 
J. H. Mallonee. 
Edw. C. Chapman. 
J. AY. Freckelton 
Rev. J. L. Zabriskie ROG R A MIVI IS. 
No. 1. VOLCANIC DUST FROM JAVA ERUPTION, - Mr. Henry Fincke 
Fell on the bark “ Arabella,” Aug. 28, 1888, 1,000 miles from Java. Lat. 5° 37" S., 
Long. 88° 58" E. 
No. 2. RINGWORM OF SCALP, - - - Mr. Henry Fincke 
Prepared to show its effect on the hair. , 
No. 3. FOOT OF SILKWORM. .... Mu. Henry Fincke 
No. 4. PEPTIC GLANDS FROM THE CARDIAC REGION OF THE STOMACH OF 
THE FROG, - •- - - - - Dr. Heber N. Hoople 
No. 5. SKIN OF EEL, scales in situ, - - - Mr. William Finney 
Shown by Polarized Light, 
No. 6. MICRO-PHOTOGRAPH —DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 
Prop. W. LeConte Stevens 
No. 7. SECTION OF PALLASITE (Meteorite) FROM KIOWA COUNTY, KANSAS, 
Mr. George F. Kunz 
The Kiowa County Meteorites numbered twelve in all of which six were pallasites (a 
spongy iron tilled with olivine.) 
No. 8. POLLEN OF THE CENTURY PLANT—Agave Americana, Mr. W. G. Bowdoin 
From a plant in the conservatory of the late Wm. Darlington. Pittsburg, Pa. Age at 
bloom, 51 years. 
No. 9. DIATOMS Mr. G. D. Hiscox 
112 different varieties and species arranged on one slide. Illustrating the beauty and 
perfection of infinitesimal creation. 
No. 10. SECTION OF HUMAN KIDNEY. Double injected. Dr. Herbert Fearn 
Arteries and malphigian tufts injected red, and veins injected blue. In the lighter 
portions will be seen the uriniferous tubules. 
No. 11. SECTION OF MELAPHYRE FROM BAS MATACHIN, ISTHMUS OF PAN- 
AMA, ------- Mr. Thomas B. Briggs 
One of the very hard rocks encountered in the excavation of the proposed Panama 
Canal. Melaphyre may be denned as a line grained brownish-black aggregate of pla- 
gioclase, augite, olivine, magnetite and delessite or chlorophocite. 
No. 12. SECTION OF PREHNITE, - Mr. James Walker 
From the Glacial Drift of Brooklyn. 
No. 18. VERTICAL SECTION OF HUMAN SCALP, - - Dr. C. K. Belijin 
Showing hairs, etc., in situ. 
No. 14. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF LEAF (PINE NEEDLE) OF SCOTCH FIR 
Pi-n/us Sylvestris, ...... Mr. George E. Ashby 
No, 15. SPIRACLES (breathing pores) AND TRACHEAE (air tubes) OF SILKWORM, 
Mb. George E. Ashby 
The aeration of the blood in insects is provided for, not by the transmission of the 
fluid to any special organ, but by the introduction of air into every part of the body 
through a system of minutely distributed air tubes. 
No. 16. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF PEDUNCLE OF YELLOW WATER LILY— 
Nnphar lutea. ...... Mr. Joseph Ketchum 
No. 17. RUTILE CRYSTALS IN QUARTZ, FROM NORTH CAROLINA, 
Mr. George M. Mather 
Rutile is an oxide of Titanium. 
No. 18. CRYSTALS OF CADMIUM, ARTIFICIAL, Mr. George M. Mather No. 19. POLYCYSTINA FROM SPRINGFIELD, BARBADOES, Mr. Frank Heauy 
Silicious shells of a minute form of animal life. 
No. 30. BUTTERFLY SCALES, ARRANGED TO FORM A BOUQUET OF FLOWERS, 
Mr. Frank Heart 
No. 31. QUARTZ CRYSTALS, FROM HERKIMER CO., NEW YORK, 
Mr. Charres Ronferdt 
No. 33 and 33. POND LIFE, Mr. C. H. Tayror 
No. 34. CALL IMOME REGIUS, .... Mr. Henry Fincke 
A parasitic fly. 
No. 35. SPORE-OASES OP FERN, FROM NEW ZEALAND, Dicksonia sgunrrosa, 
Mr. Warter H. Kent, Ph. D. 
No. 36. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF PETIOLE (leaf-stalk) OF CARROT—ZGwcas 
etrota, ....... Mr. Wirrxam W. Laing 
No. 37. POLLEN OF MOON FLOWER, - - - Mr. Wirriam Lowey 
No. 38. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF STEM OF BEECH— Fagus sylvatica, 
Mr. Edward C. Chapman 
No. 39. CLUSTER OF GOLD PRISMS, - Dr. A. J. Wyatts 
An artificial formation. 
No. 30. AURIFIED CLOTH, - - - - - Dr. A. J. Watts 
The cotton fibre of this specimen has been replaced by Gold, a substitution similar 
to that which has taken place in petrified wood. 
No. 31. CRYSTALS OF PROUSTITE, “RUBY SILVER," FROM CHILI, S. A., 
Dr. Joseph H. Hunt 
A silver ore containing 65 per cent, of the metal. Illuminated by means of a parab- 
oloid condenser. 
No. 33 and 33. ANCIENT IRIDESCENT GLASS FROM CYPRUS, 
Mr. Geo. M. Hopkins 
No. 32. Shown by Reflected Light. No. 33. Shown by Polarized Light. 
No. 34 FORAMINIFERA, - Mr. Wirriam Potts 
The skeleton remains of a low order of animal life, chiefly marine. They are found 
fossil in many geological periods and vast deposits of rock are made up entirely of 
these calcareous remains. 
No. 35. SECTION OF GRANITE, - - - Prop. Frankrin W. Hooper 
Shown by Polarized Light. 
No. 36. CYCLOSIS (circulation) OF PROTOPLASM IN CELL OF CHARA, ONE OF 
THE FRESH WATER ALGHS, - - Prof. Frankrin W. Hooper 
No. 37. TRANSVERSE SECTION THROUGH HEAD OF LARVA OF NEWT, 
Salnmandra Maculosa, - Mr. Ludwig RieDerer 
Showing cerebrum, eyes with lens and retina, tongue and lower jaws, cartilaginous 
bones and blood vessels. 
No. 38. TEETH OF MOSQUITO, Culex sp , - - - Rev. J. L. Zabriskie 
Showing eleven teeth at the extremity and upon the thin edge of each flattened, bris- 
tle-like mandible. 
No. 39. OVIPOSITOR OF THE NARROW-WINGED KATYDID, Soudderia curvicauda. 
De Geer, ------- Rev. J. L. Zabriskik 
Polarized. Showing two saws, two sheaths and two stylets. 
No. 40. SECTION OF METEORIC STONE FROM SEGOWLEE, INDIA. Fell March 
1853, ’ - - - - - Mr. Arbert A. Hopkins 
Shown by Polarized Light. No. 41. METEORIC IRON FROM TOLUCA, MEXICO, Mr. Albert A. Hopkins 
Etched to show the Widmanstatlian lines. 
No. 43. STINGING HAIRS OP NETTLE, TJrticn hispidn, Prof. W. C. Peckham 
The tip of the sting is broken off on entering the skin and the poison from the gland 
below is pressed through the tube of the sting into the flesh. 
No. 43. SCALES OF 30 VARIETIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA, 
Mr. J. L). Mallonee 
Opaque. Shown by automatic revolving stage. 
No. 44. FLE A—Pulex irritans, ... . . Mr. J. D. Mallonee 
Shown on an old style microscope with non-achromatie lenses. 
No. 45. IRON SAND FROM SHELTER ISLAND. Opaque. Mr. George A. Street 
No. 46. SECTION OF OPAL FROM HONDURAS, - Mr. H, Hensoldt, Ph. I). 
The beautiful display of colors for which these gems are noted is here exhibited in a 
section of the thinness of tissue paper. 
No. 47. FOOT OF THE EMERALD SPIDER, Micromata smaragduln, 
Mr. H. Hensoldt, Ph. D. 
In this object the two combs used by the spider in arranging the lines of his web are 
seen in rare perfection. 
No. 48. EGGS OF BOT-FLY, - - - Mr. Henry 8. Gibson 
No. 49. HIPPURIC ACID, - .... Dr. E. W. Owen 
Shown by Polarized Light. 
No. 50. HOUSE PLY, entire insect, .... Dr. E. W. Owen 
No. 51. PLATINO CYANIDE OF BARIUM, - - - Dr. E. W. Owen 
Shown by Polarized Light. 
No. 52. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF OVARY OF RHODODENDRON PONTICUM, 
Dr. Hugh M. Smith 
No. 53. TORBERNITE CRYSTALS FROM CORNWALL, ENGLAND, 
Mr. J W. Freckelton 
A cupreous phosphate of Uranium. 
No. 54. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF SPINES OF ECHINUS, Dr. S. E. Stiles 
These spines stud the shell of the Sea-Urchin, and are the organs of locomotion. 
No. 55. SAWS OF SAW FLY, - - - - Mr. H. S. Woodman 
These appendages are-used by the insect to saw a fine slit in a leaf, in which the eggs 
are deposited. 
Nos. 56 to 65. SECTIONS ILLUSTRATING HUMAN TISSUE, Dn. J. M. Van Cott, Jr. 
No. 56. Muscular tissue, non-striated. 
No. 57. Muscular tissue, striated. 
No. 58. Muscular tissue of the heart. 
No. 59. Nerve fibres. 
No. 60. Spinal cord. 
No. 61. Reticular Cartilage. 
No. 62. Compact Bone.' 
No. 63. Oesophagus. 
No. 64. Stomach. 
No. 65. Intestine. 
No. 66. ELYTRON (wing-cover) OF JEWEL SNOUT BEETLE. Entimus Regalis, FROM 
BRAZIL, S. A., - - - - - Mr. Artis H. Ehrman 
No. 67. SULPHIDE OF NICKEL, FROM CHILI, S. A., - Mr. F. L. Lathrop 
No. 68. CRYSTALS OF OXALATE OF LIME, Mr. Frederick J. Welling, Ph. G. 
Shown by polarized light. 
No. 69. BLOOD OP SNAKE, - - - Mr. Frederick J. Welling, Ph. G. 
Double stained, showing the corpuscles and their nuclei. 
No. 70. SEED OF GENTIAN, - Mr. John H. Royael 
No. 71 and 72. POND LIFE, - - - Mr. Stephen Helm, F. R. M. S.