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with the mainland of south-eastern Asia. Of special interest is a frag- 

 ment of Celadon pottery of Chinese origin, the body of which exhibits 

 a pure white porcelain mass, while as a rule the early Celadon glaze is 

 wrought over a crude stoneware body. Mr. Arthur B. Jones enabled 

 the Museum to acquire a silver statuette made in Lhasa, Tibet, and 

 inlaid with pearls, turquois, and coral; it represents Amitabha, the 

 Buddha of Light. Two fine old Navaho blankets, one of bayeta, are 

 gifts from Mr. Homer E. Sargent. Mr. Sargent also provided funds 

 for the purchase of a collection of ancient pottery from Casas Grandes, 

 Mexico. It consists of 162 small pieces comprising coiled and indented, 

 smooth, undecorated, polished red and black, as well as the beautiful 

 polychrome ware characteristic of that region. It is equally of scientific 

 and artistic value. Mr. Sargent also presented to the Museum twenty 

 beautiful old head-plumes worn by the Karok Indians of northwestern 

 California in the White Deer-Skin Dance. To Mr. Edward E. Ayer 

 are due six fine old buckskin skirts, two aprons ornamented with pine- 

 nuts, three excellent head-bands of buckskin, worn in the Jumping 

 Dance, and a quiver of basketry carried during the same dance-cere- 

 mony, all from the Hupa, Yurok, and Karok Indians of northwestern 

 California. Mr. Ayer also contributed thirty-eight prehistoric stone 

 implements collected in the vicinity of Phoenix, Arizona. An inter- 

 esting image carved from green quartz, of Mexican origin, was presented 

 by Mrs. S. E. Barrett. 



The number of accessions received by the Department of Botany 

 during the year numbered 48, of these all the specimens of 44 have been 

 prepared, organized, and catalogued. The accessions comprise 44 

 economic and 20,248 herbarium specimens. The most important addi- 

 tion to the plant collections is that of the private herbarium of Elihu 

 Hall, presented by the family of the late Mr. Hall. This herbarium is 

 estimated to contain about 35,000 sheets; it also comprises a great mass 

 of duplicates that will be utilized in exchanges. The Hall herbarium 

 embraces Mr. Hall's personal collections in Illinois, Texas, and Oregon, 

 and Hall and Harbor's Rocky Mountain Plants; together with a mass 

 of material acquired in exchange with his contemporaries: Curtiss, 

 Bebb, Clinton Patterson, Bolander, Faxon, Gray, M. E. Jones, Mohr, 

 Canby, Hale, Vasey, Blake, Bishop, Fendler, Eaton, Garber, Howell, 

 Parry, Lemmon, Macowan, Oakes, Porter, Ravenel, Wolf, and many 

 others in North America. From his foreign exchanges he secured a 

 complete set of all the numbers of the Relique Mailleanas, and very 

 full series of Bourgeau, Spain; Dasnen, Switzerland; Blanche, Syria; 

 Laresche, Switzerland; Gaillardot, Syria; Cosson, France; Heldereich, 

 Greece; Mathonnet, France; Bourgeau, Italy; Timothee, France; Pisa 



