|8 Fiiii.h Col iMtiUN MisruM —Reports, Vol 



« li Mai from Nuiui .xiask.i. which wiil iitui its way to the 



Mii>. uii. .lii. i its exhibition l»y (apt. Hnur at the I'.xposition at 

 Atlanta, whcrr it is at th«' «lale of this report. 



Prcsidfut Aycr viMteil ICn\piin firmary hist, remaining about 

 two months and obtaining by purcl lar^^c amount of very valu- 



able, unique and Kcncrally intcrrstint; Ef^yptian archcologic material. 

 The collections arrived hrr«- sal May ami Jtinf, and having l>cen 



attractivily installed, adtl largely to the growing interest of the Egyp- 

 tian suite of halls. 



Prof. O. F. II.i lor ui uic L'cp.irinn nt oi /oology, 



has ma«lc a number .-i .■< ..i iiij- . "nccting material in the Ichthyology, 

 nerpot«>loi;y an-l Tom In.l.u'v i,f IHinois. His collections have added 

 to the Musrum n hundred sp»timcns and one hun- 



dred and fifteen sp< Specimens of the Illinois riv« r shells were 



sent to the Smithsonian Institution for identification. 



Mrs. M. S Snyder, of Champaign, III., has been a very success- 

 ful volunteer collector for the Museum in the Botany of Lower Cali- 

 fornia. The lady carefully identified and splendidly mounted two 

 hun»lretl and throe specimens and seven species of Alga- and onehun- 

 ilrcil ami ( ighty four specimens, and thirty-seven species of phane- 

 rogamic plants. 



Prof. Harrington, the Curator of Geology, has accomplished 

 considerable work in the field during the past year, his labors includ- 

 ing a survey of the rocks of the Green Mountain Chain as exposed 

 in Western Massachusetts and Northern Connecticut; of the Triassic 

 rocks of the Connecticut Valley; a study of the emery licposits at 

 Chester. Mass., and of the f- of the local geology made visible 



by the excavations for the Lnica;;o Drainage Canal. The work in 

 Massachusetts and Connecticut was carried on in company with sev- 

 . r.i! ..fh«r geologists under the guidance of Prof. Kmerson, of .\mherst 

 t .•', and Prof. Hobbs, of the University of Wisconsin. A com- 



plete series of specimens illustrating the different formations of the 

 <freen Mountains and the rocks of the Connecticut Valley was 

 obtained, and several specimens illustrating structural features. At 

 Chester. Mass.. a rolI«Tiion was made which illustrates fully the 

 mode of occurrence of th- v, the rocks by which it is surrounded 



and the minerals which i>any it. This will form a part of the 



r-"''-tion illustrating at;.. -..iS in the Department of Economic 

 <j ;;y. Study of the Drainage Canal has been carried on by 

 means of visits of from one to four days in length, which offered 

 opportunity for collecting specimens from the material that is being 

 excavated and for taking photographs of the specimens as they 

 were exposed. In this latter work the photographer of the Museum 



