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and implements of warfare, personal ornaments and utensils of carved 

 jade, inlaid boxes, etc. (gift from Mr. H. N. Higinbotham) ; 2,000 

 specimens of quarry and shop-site material, refuse, rejects and 

 finished forms, etc., Union Co., Ills., (collected by George A. Dorsey);. 

 466 herbarium specimens (exchange— V. H. Chase); 1,800 herbarium 

 specimens (collected by C. F. Millspaugh on the Allison V. Armour 

 Expedition to the West Indies). The complete herbarium of Mr. H. 

 F. Munroe, of Chicago, presented by himself; Schimck & Smith's 

 Nicaragua ferns; Coombs' Cienfuegos collection; Dr. Lucy's Susque- 

 hanna Valley set; Earle's Colorado plants; Heller's Texan species; 

 Bang's Bolivian plants; Tonduz's Costa Rican, Simpson's Floridian, 

 Chase's Illinoisian, Schweinfurth's Abyssinian, and Pringles' and 

 Palmer's Mexican sets; four centuries of Lansing's Lake Michigan 

 plants, and Savage and Stull's Iowa species. 105 specimens of 

 briquettes, burned from brick clays, etc. (gift from J. J. Moroney); 

 74 specimens of crystallized native copper and calcite (loan— J. M. 

 Stanton); 100 specimens of copper, zinc, silver, and gold ores, 

 stalactites, crystallized copper and galena (gift — Mrs. J. M. -Walker); 

 fifteen specimens of antimony ores, 25 specimens of metallurgi- 

 cal products from antimony ores (gift — Mathison & Co.); 556 speci- 

 mens of Indian fishes, lizards and suckers (exchange — British 

 Museum); 505 specimens of rodents, carnivora and deer (collected— 

 D. G. Elliot); 540 specimens of shells (exchange— C. R. Orcutt); 750 

 specimens of fishes (exchange — Stanford University); 620 specimens 

 of fishes (gift— United States Fish Commission); one buffalo skin and 

 skeleton and five buffalo skins (purchase); six mammals, mounted 

 (purchase); eight mountain sheep skins, one tiger cat skin, one 

 spotted bushbuck, one eland skin (purchase). 



Appended is a table which shows the amount expended on col- 

 lections and articles purchased during the year for the different de- 

 partments: 



Department of Anthropology, $10,235 



Higinbotham Hall, ..." goo 



Department of Geology, 233 



Department of Zoology, 2,496 



Department of Botany, 831 



Ornithology, 5 



Total, $14,703.06 



Exchanges. — The system of exchanging material with other insti- 

 tutions and individuals has been considerably extended during the 

 past year, especially abroad, and a great deal of correspondence 

 has taken place between the curators of the different departments 



