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gift of about loo pounds from Austin Q. Millar. Mr. Millar also pre- 

 sented a series of gem garnets and olivines occurring at the same 

 locality. About eighty specimens of garnet and sapphire from the 

 United States of Colombia were presented by F. Pereira Gamba. 

 A series of fossil plants from Ziegler, Illinois, containing many excel- 

 lent specimens was presented by Joseph Leiter. Prof. C. N. Gould 

 gave thirty-two specimens of sand-barite crystals of unusual character. 

 From Harry Hill a good series of tin and bismuth ores from Alaska 

 was received, and from the Premier Diamond Mining Company, a 

 model of the CuUinan diamond, which is an exact fac-simile of this 

 largest known diamond. Accessions by exchange include twenty 

 specimens of the minerals and ores of Rhodesia, from the Rhodesia 

 Museum, South Africa. In this collection an occurrence of gold in 

 tc.lc is especially noteworthy, and other unusual occurrences are 

 shown. By exchange with the University of Arizona a section of the 

 Weaver meteorite weighing 372 grams was acquired, and, from the 

 Natural History Museum of Paris, 62 grams of the La Becasse meteor- 

 ite. From Dr. A. Brezina, Vienna, were received five specimens of new 

 meteorite falls, and from the late Prof. H. A. Ward, a large section of 

 the Cobija meteorite. A number of specimens of rare minerals were 

 obtained from Mr. W. C. E. Seeboeck, also by exchange. A number 

 of purchases were made within the year, chief among which may be 

 enumerated relief maps of the Panama Canal, of New York City and 

 vicinity, of the State of New York, of the United States showing 

 rainfall and temperature, and of Niagara river and vicinity. Besides 

 these, the Museum, acquired by. purchase a section of the Ilimaes 

 meteorite weighing 393 grams, a full-sized slab of the Estacado me- 

 teorite, 28 inches by 16 inches, and individual examples of the Ness 

 City and Modoc falls. Other additions by purchase include a large 

 series of the lavas and other products of the eruption of Vesuvius 

 of 1906; a slab of fossil echinoids from California; and about 100 

 specimens of Ordovician fossils of Bohemia, containing about 50 

 species new to the collections. 



In the Department of Zoology an exceedingly large number of 

 specimens were added — by gift, purchase, exchange and expedition. 

 A collection of one hundred and seventy specimens of mammals was 

 purchased from Professor Cory, most of the material having been taken 

 in Florida and the West Indies. During the year in all six hundred 

 and thirty specimens have been added to the collection of mam- 

 mals. The most interesting mammals purchased were those from 



