240 Field Museum of Natural History — Reports, Vol. V. 



LOCALITY 



. Added this Total in 



AFRICA : Year Herbarium 



Congo (French) 1 2 



Asia: 



Amboinia 124 124 



China 679 2,260 



Japan 74 339 



Philippines 715 11-653 



Horticultural 127 3, 181 



Illustrations, mounted as Herbarium specimens . . 45 2,236 



The Department of Geology received its most important accession 

 during the year from Mr. William J. Chalmers, who provided ninety 

 additional specimens for the collection of mineral crystals. These 

 specimens are of high quality and interest and greatly enhance the 

 value of this already unique and remarkable collection. A valuable 

 series of minerals and gems, some of them cut, associated with the dia- 

 monds of the Jagersfontein, South Africa, mines, was presented by Mr. 

 Alexander Fay Brigham. The Great Northern Railway presented a 

 large painting of the Rome glacier of Glacier National Park, Montana. 

 Several valuable accessions were received by exchange, among which a 

 series of Permian reptiles from the University of Chicago was of first 

 importance. The series contains skulls, vertebras and other bones of the 

 rare, primitive forms, Eryops, Labidosaurus, Pariotichus and Dimetro- 

 don. The great scarcity of remains known from the Permian and the 

 primitive characters of these forms, make the addition of these speci- 

 mens to the collections a valued accession. From the Australian School 

 of Mines, Sydney, Australia, a number of rare Australian minerals were 

 secured by exchange. These specimens included chiefly opal, chromite 

 and different forms of tetrahedrite. By exchange with Joseph N. Prokes, 

 fourteen large specimens of an interesting form of calcareous tufa pro- 

 duced by spring deposition were obtained. By purchase, the type speci- 

 ment of Paolia stiperba, an insect of the Carboniferous period allied to 

 the modern locust was obtained. The specimen shows chiefly the wings 

 of the insect, which are about three inches in length and are preserved 

 with complete venation in a fossil concretion. Several large specimens 

 of minerals were also secured by purchase, of special importance among 

 them being some unusually brilliant and well-formed pyrite crystals. 



In the Department of Zoology the accessions of mammals and birds 

 during the year have been few, 12 mammals and 66 birds having been 

 donated, while only 18 mammals and 4 birds were purchased. Five 

 British fishes, representing new groups for synoptic series, were pur- 

 chased from the well known fish taxidermist Mr. Sherman F. Denton. 

 Mr. L. L. Pray presented to the Museum several small Michigan fishes 



