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out in Tibetan on imperial yellow silk, which has dragons and other 

 designs woven in, and is stamped with numerous seals. These unique 

 objects naturally are of principal value to the Museum, inasmuch as 

 they furnish substantial evidence for the fact that all treasures in its 

 possession from the Lama Temple in question were indeed turned out 

 during the K'ang-hi era (1662-1722) and prior to the year 1713. 



In the Department of Botany considerable valuable material for 

 exhibition purposes has been received. The Chicago Varnish Company 

 has presented a very complete and valuable collection of 344 charac- 

 teristic specimens of natural varnish gums, many of them the largest, 

 clearest, and most typical examples of their kind known. These have 

 been fully labeled and installed in two cases, accompanied by tubes of 

 varnishes made from each class of gum exhibited. From the Philippine 

 Bureau of Education a series of 147 typical fibers and objects utilizing 

 the same have been received and installed among other objects belong- 

 ing to the various families of plants they illustrate. Dr. Laufer has 

 presented the Department with several characteristic specimens of 

 "brick Tea" and of paper and raw material illustrating Chinese paper 

 made from Derge roots. The U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry has sent 

 in 168 specimens of crude drug substances that will serve to fill many 

 gaps in the systematic exhibitions of plant products. The U. S. Forest 

 Products Laboratory has contributed, in exchange, 44 examples of 

 wood-paper pulps and papers made therefrom. The Forest Economist 

 of India has presented 19 valuable forest products of India that 

 assist greatly in the representation of the economics of several plant 

 families, and the Section of Modeling, during the last month of its labors, 

 turned over 7 models of desmid species; 9 models of diatom species; a 

 full-size reproduction of a leafy, fruiting branch of the Horsechestnut 

 tree; a full-size reproduction of a flowering twig of the same; a full-size 

 reproduction of a pandanus fruit, a chocolate fruit, cakes of manu- 

 factured chocolate, and several sections of the fruit of Connarus. The 

 important additions to the herbarium during the past year comprise 

 the following: The private herbarium of Mr. Geo. F. Curtiss, consisting 

 of ferns of central North America, presented by Miss E. Curtiss; the 

 private herbarium of Miss Carrie A. Reynolds, consisting of plants 

 collected in northwestern North America, presented by herself; the 

 private herbarium of Mr. C. W. Dusener, consisting of plants collected 

 locally in Illinois and Indiana, presented by himself; and the following: 

 Abbon, Mexico, 70; Adole, Mexico, 106; Arsene, Mexico, 689; Britton, 

 Cowell & Shafer, Vieques Isl., 72; Britton and Shafer, Porto Rico, 217; 

 Curacao, 51; Britton, Stevens & Hess, Porto Rico, 78; Broadway, 

 Tobago, 56; Buchtien, Bolivia, 201; Cowles, northwestern North Amer- 



