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and their contemporaries that will result in largely increased acces- 

 sions from this source. Among the institutions with which transac- 

 tions have been had during the past year may be mentioned the 

 Herbarium Boissier, of Switzerland ; the Hope Botanical Gardens, of 

 Jamaica, Kingston ; the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa ; the 

 Hof Museum at Vienna ; the Newark Technical School ; the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin ; the British Museum ; the Indian Museum at Cal- 

 cutta ; the National Museum at Washington ; the Leland Stanford, Jr. 

 University, and the Australian Museum, Sydney. The number of 

 specimens sent in exchange during the year was 577, representing 

 23 different transactions. The number of specimens received in 

 exchange was 5,852, representing 29 transactions. 



Expeditions and Field Work. — Each department of the Museum 

 has performed valuable work in the field during the year ; valuable 

 not alone as a contribution to science, but valuable to the Museum 

 as regards the new material obtained thereby. The following is a 

 list of the expeditions of the Museum since the date of the last 

 report : 



Locality. Collectors. Material. 



West Indies, . . . . C. F. Millspaugh, . . Plants. 



Pacific Coast, . . . . S. E. Meek, . 



Southern Illinois, . . . G. A. Dorsey, 



Wyoming, E. S. Riggs, 



Winona Lake, Ind., . . S. E. Meek, . 



Medicine Co., Calif., . . G. A. Dorsey, 



Puget Sound, . . . . G. A. Dorsey, 



Fishes, Reptiles, etc. 

 Quarry Shop Material. 

 Fossils, 

 f ishes. 



Ethnological Material. 

 Ethnological Material, 

 Quarry Stones and 

 Casts. 

 Vancouver Islands, . . G. A. Dorsey, . . . Plaster Casts. 



During April of this year, Mr. Dorsey, Curator of the Depart- 

 ment of Anthropology, accompanied by Mr. Phillips, of Evanston, 

 visited Mill Creek, Union County, Illinois, and collected a very large 

 number of stone implements and rejects. More recently Mr. Dorsey 

 visited the Pomo Indians of California, and had a most successful 

 trip. From California he went to Tacoma, where he was joined by 

 the modeling force, and casts of Indians of that section, intended to 

 represent the principal aboriginal industries and customs, were 

 obtained. From Tacoma the expedition went to Vancouver Island, 

 for the purpose of taking of several Kwakiutl Indians casts intended 

 for a large ceremonial group illustrating certain phases of religious 

 life. Mr. Millspaugh, Curator of the Department of Botany, was in- 

 vited by Mr. Allison V. Armour, one of the patrons of the Museum, 

 to map out a cruise of the Antillean Islands calculated to best corre- 



