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Exchanges. — The increase of material obtained by means of 

 exchange is highly gratifying, and during the year this mode of 

 increasing the collection has been considerably extended. Among 

 the institutions and individuals from whom specimens have been 

 received through this medium, may be mentioned the British 

 Museum; the Australian Museum, Sydney; Botansk Have, Chris- 

 tiana, Norway; K. K. Naturhistorisches Hof Museum, Vienna; 

 Botanical Gardens, Sydney; U. S. National Museum; Free Museum 

 of Science and Art, Philadelphia; Ohio State University; New York 

 Botanical Gardens; Gray Herbarium, Cambridge; U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, Washington. 



Expeditions and Field Work. — The field work of the Department of 

 Anthropology has already been touched upon in a notice of the 

 accessions. In continuation of a plan begun two years ago, Dr. C. F. 

 Newcombe has continued his explorations among the tribes of the 

 Northwest Coast. He has paid especial attention during the year to 

 the region of the Thompson and Frazer Rivers, and has also made an 

 extended trip to the west coast of Vancouver Island. During the 

 summer months, a considerable portion of his time was devoted to the 

 Haida of Queen Charlotte Islands, where he secured a large number of. 

 skeletons, and a number of very interesting carvings of large size, 

 which form interesting additions to the collection illustrating this 

 phase of Northwest Coast art. Also in continuation of a plan begun 

 two years ago, for collection and investigation in Northern California, 

 Dr. J. W. Hudson has devoted himself to the extreme northwestern 

 part of the state, where he has met with very great success. He has 

 forwarded to the Museum about forty large cases of material. 

 Assistant Curator Owen, in the spring, returned to the White Moun- 

 tain Apache, where he remained several months collecting and con- 

 tinuing his studies among the medicine-men of the Apache. Mr. 

 Owen has added a very large number of interesting specimens to the 

 Apache collection, and has succeeded in obtaining a large fund of 

 valuable and ethnological information concerning the practices of the 

 medicine-men. Assistant Curator Simms, in August, set out on an 

 expedition among the Cree of Canada, and Chippeway of Minnesota, 

 and is yet in the field. Mr. Simms has had a successful period of work, 

 as the collection made by him contains ethnic objects from tribes hith- 

 erto almost without representation in the department. Early in the 

 spring of the year,- Mr. Burt was sent on a short trip to the Pawnee 

 and Wichita for the purpose of obtaining data to be used by him in 

 the construction of miniature groups of those tribes. Two of these 



