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Africa (in general) 

 Mauritius 

 Morocco 

 Mozambique 

 North Africa 

 Somaliland . 

 South Africa 

 Uganda . 

 Zanzibar . 

 Oceania (in general) 

 Australia (in general) 



New South Wales 



North Australia 



Queensland . 



South Australia 



Victoria . 



West Australia 

 Cooks Islands 



Raratonga 

 New Zealand 

 Samoa 



Sandwich Islands 

 Tahiti . . . 

 Tasmania 

 Timor . . . 

 Horticultural 

 Illustrations, Drawings 

 sheets 



etc., mounted as herbarium 



58 



1,012 



The total increase of the organized herbarium during the year 

 amounted to 41,401 specimens. 



Several interesting and valuable accessions were received by the 

 Department of Geology. Of especial interest were two gold nuggets 

 obtained in the California gold fields in 1850, presented by Mr. William J. 

 Chalmers; also a quantity of silver nuggets from Lake Superior. A fine 

 series of lead minerals and mercury ores was presented by Christopher 

 Murphy. Six slabs of standard museum size of Georgia marble illus- 

 trating different varieties of this marble were presented by the Georgia 

 Marble Company; 13 slabs of Vermont marble, similarly prepared, were 

 presented by the Vermont Marble Company; and three slabs of Cana- 

 dian marble, likewise of standard size, by the Dominion Marble Company. 

 A large mass weighing 400 pounds, of Versailles, Missouri, fire clay 

 was presented by the W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company, 

 and six varieties of pottery and other clays from various localities by 

 the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway. A 

 series of 14 specimens illustrating a natural change of pyrite to hematite, 



