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jects from the Port Clarence Eskimo of Alaska. The Alaskan collec- 

 tion now numbers over 10,000 objects. In the Division of Physical 

 Anthropology over 150 skeletons have been received, including many 

 interesting specimens. Dr. R. Parkinson, of Ralum, Bismarck 

 Archipelago, has presented this department of the Museum with 52 

 Papuan skulls from the Gazelle Peninsula of the Island of New 

 Britain. This very valuable and highly appreciated gift was made in 

 exchange for Museum publications. It is hardly necessary to remark 

 that the transaction has left the Museum largely indebted to Dr. Park- 

 inson. Not the least of the valuable contributions to this department 

 resulted from the expedition of the Curator of the department to Ari- 

 zona, of which mention is made elsewhere. The most important 

 collection acquired by the department of Botany during the year was 

 the complete herbarium of the late Mr. M. S. Bebb, including his 

 library, letters, and drawings. Through this collection and that of 

 Dr. Schott, obtained the previous year, the herbarium of the Museum 

 has been in many important collections projected backward to the 

 middle of the present century. Locally, the herbarium of Mr. Bebb 

 is of great value, as it represents much of the flora of the Western 

 States, and about all that of Illinois. His collections of willows is 

 very complete and, in " connection with his notes, drawings, and 

 communicated types, is acknowledged to be the very best. Another 

 collection of Yucatan plants has been received from Dr. Gaumer, 

 consisting of many thousand representatives from old and new 

 localities on the peninsula, which collection will form the basis of a 

 fourth contribution to the flora of that region and will provide a large 

 amount of valuable duplicate material for exchange. In addition to 

 the above more notable accessions to the Department of Botany, the 

 following sets have been acquired during the year: Pringle and Pal- 

 mer's new Mexican material ; Anthony's Insular Mexican collection ; 

 Lumholtz's Mexican plants ; Peary Relief Expedition Plants of Labra- 

 dor and Greenland ; Schlechter's African centuries ; Heller's 

 Sandwich Islands, New Mexican, and Texan plants; Millspaugh's 

 West Virginian and New York plants; Pollock*^s West Virginian 

 species ; Lotentz and Hieronymus' Argentine flora ; Allen's plants 

 of the Cascade Mountains ; Dr. Edward Palmer's Florida col- 

 lection of 1874; Franchsschi's Grecian plants; Lansing's centuries of 

 the plants of the Lake Michigan Basin; and the Curator's plants of 

 Mackinac Island, In Geology, the gift of Mr. L. W. Reese, of Chi- 

 cago, of the Schmidt-Dickert relief model of the moon is a notable 

 acquisition. This great model, 19 feet in diameter, exhibits with 

 scientific accuracy the surface features of the moon. It was prepared 



