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In the ceramic gallery loans were credited from Miss E. B. Lowe of 

 old English porcelain, and from Miss Eliza Kuhamah Scidmore of 

 Japanese porcelain and bronze. 



The additions to the biological collections aggregated approxi- 

 mately 186,765 specimens. Not only was the year numerically a very 

 prosperous one, but the reports of the curators show a gratifying 

 increase in the scientific importance of the material received. This 

 is particularly true of the division of birds in which no less than 

 163 species new to the collection were among the accessions. This 

 splendid result was to a great extent due to the liberality of Mr. 

 B. H. Swales, of Washington, District of Columbia, who placed a 

 fund at the disposition of the Museum for this particular purpose. 

 No less important was the material received through the continued 

 generosity of Dr. W. L. Abbott. Impressed by the importance of 

 .securing for the Museum an adequate representation of the fast dis- 

 api^earing higher vertebrate fauna of Australia, he granted the 

 means to send Mr. Chas. M. Hoy to that continent for the purpose 

 of collecting especially mammals and birds. No less than 240 speci- 

 mens of the former and 228 of the latter from a region hitherto very 

 poorly represented in the national collection are contained in this 

 first installment. Doctor Abbott's personal explorations in Haiti 

 have also yielded very important additions. A third expedition was 

 of particular interest as supplementing our African collections which 

 were hitherto confined chiefly to the eastern side of the continent, 

 namely, the Collins-Garner expedition to the Erench Congo. More 

 than 2,350 mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and invertebrates were 

 thus added, among them 2 gorillas, 2 chimpanzees, 2 buffalos, etc. 

 The first installment of another African expedition, carried out by 

 the Institution in conjunction with the Universal Film Manufactur- 

 ing Compan}^, contained 239 mammals and birds from southei'n 

 Africa, still further contributing to the excellency of our series from 

 the dark continent. 



Among the large collections of insects acquired, tlie following are 

 especially noteworthy: Mr. B. Preston Clark presented 5,500 lepidop- 

 tera of the Hawaiian Islands and South America. Similarly Dr. AVil- 

 liam Barnes donated 2,000 moths, including 60 types, and 150 butter- 

 flies. From Dr. AV. M. Mann, through the Bureau of Entomology, the 

 Museum received 6,000 insects of various orders, collected by him in 

 Honduras, and similarly from Dr. E. A. Schwarz a collection of 5,770 

 miscellaneous insects made in Florida. Besides 6,930 specimens 

 transferred by the Department of Agriculture, numerous accessions 

 were received from Costa Kica, Australia, South Africa, Mexico, etc. 



The mollusk collection was the recipient of two particularly valua- 

 ble and important gifts, namely, the collection of Hawaiian marine 

 shells donated by ^Ir. D. Thaanum and a part of the William F. 



