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Added to Total 



. /■ 1N Herbarium now in 



Africa (in general) . IOI2 . Herbarium. 



Rodriguez Island . • 37 37 



Saint Helena 1 1 



South Africa 60 1,233 



Oceania (in general) • 9 9 



Australia (in general) 82 1,919 



New South Wales 71 414 



North Australia 5 5 



Queensland 3 19 



West Australia 23 32 



Friendly Islands 10 10 



New Zealand 1,440 2,753 



Sandwich Islands 51 452 



Tahiti 86 86 



Tasmania 8 190 



Horticultural 23 2,009 



Illustrations, Drawings, etc., mounted as herbarium 



sheets 74 944 



The total increase to the organized herbarium during the year 

 amounted to 18,921 specimens. The material received for exhibition 

 purposes during the past year proved highly gratifying both in character 

 and amount. The principal accessions were the following: Alex. Camp- 

 bell & Company, 29 examples of China teas; Prof. N. B. Ingraham, 

 13 Eucalyptols from California; The American Trading Company, 

 Yokohama, 20 specimens of Japanese papers, paper materials and 

 fibers; The Indian Museum, Calcutta, 297 ample specimens of vege- 

 table oils, resins, gums, seeds, tans, dyes, etc.; the Botanical Garden 

 at Peridynia, Ceylon, 23 fruits, fibers, barks and woods; the Pacific 

 Coast Kelp Mulch Company, 9 specimens illustrating, the extraction 

 of rubber from sea weed; the Bureau of Forestry, Philippine Islands, 

 22 specimens of gums, woods and fibers; C. F. Millspaugh, collections 

 made in the Sandwich Islands, Japan, China, Philippines, Straits Settle- 

 ments, Java, Burmah, India and Ceylon, consisting of 362 specimens 

 of fruits, seeds, gums, articles fashioned from crude vegetable sub- 

 stances, etc. The above material serves to fill gaps in many plant 

 families and to round out that already on hand into installable form 

 and sequence. The most important accession received by the Depart- 

 ment of Geology during the year and one of the most important ever 

 received by the Department, was that of the Ward-Coonley collection 

 of meteorites. This collection was gathered by the late Professor Henry 

 A. Ward during a period of about twelve years of effort devoted exclu- 

 sively to this work, and at the time of his death was the largest private 

 collection of meteorites in the world. Besides material gathered directly 

 by Professor Ward, his collection included the large private collections 



