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the Foote Mineral Company. From Mr. H. B. Derr were obtained 37 

 specimens of analyzed soils, besides limestones and clays from various 

 localities in Missouri. From Mr. William Foshag were obtained by 

 exchange eight specimens of rare California minerals, and from Mr. E. 

 G. Norton three specimens of crystallized . calaverite from Cripple 

 Creek, Colorado. The principal accession by purchase was a number 

 of specimens of the rare Carboniferous crinoid Phalocrinus, which had 

 not previously been represented in the collections. Specimens of tracks 

 of a Carboniferous batrachian were included in the same accession. 



In the Department of Zoology the ntmiber of accessions during the 

 year were as follows: Birds 143; mammals 16; fishes 276; insects 923; 

 and shells 432. Of these, 125 of the birds were an important purchase 

 of Dutch Guiana birds from Mr. Penard; 152 Nicaraguan butterflies 

 were obtained from Senor Dion. Chaves of Managua; 24 species of sphinx 

 moths were presented to the Museiun by Mr. B. Preston Clark of Bos- 

 ton, these with one or two exceptions being new to the Museum collec- 

 tion and some of them very rare; also 116 Bolivian insects secured by the 

 Collins and Day expedition to South America. There was obtained 

 by piu"chase a very interesting abnormal form of Heliconius doris viridis. 

 Of the 276 fishes added to the collection 265 were the gift of Dr. C. Eigen- 

 mann and were desirable acquisitions. Of the 432 shells received, 255 

 from southwestern United States were the gift of Mr. R. C. Orcutt; 52 

 specimens from the Museiun's South American Expedition, and 117 from 

 the Joseph N. Field South Sea Islands Expedition. 



EXPEDITIONS AND FIELD WORK- — Dr. Gcorge A. Dorsey, to whom leave of 

 absence had been granted for a visit to the Orient, availed himself of the 

 opportunity of his sojourn in India to acquire an ethnological collection 

 for the Museum with funds provided through the generosity of Mr. 

 Homer E. Sargent, Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick and Mr. Martin A. 

 Ryerson. A description of the collection appears elsewhere in this re- 

 port. 



The discontinuance of the regular zoological expedition to South 

 America was compensated for by participation in an expedition 

 known as the Collins-Day South American Expedition, organized and 

 financed by Mr. Alfred M. Collins of Philadelphia and Mr. Lee Gamett 

 Day of New York City. This expedition included besides Mr. Collins 

 and Mr. Day and their associate, Mr. W. T. Walker, two zoological 

 collectors, one, Mr. R. H. Becker, representing the Musetmi, and the 

 other, Mr. G. K. Cherrie, representing the American Museimi of Nat- 

 ural History of New York. The entire expenses and salaries of the 

 collectors were generously defrayed by Mr. Collins and Mr. Day and 

 every opportunity was afforded for work with the result that, despite a 



