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the former met his heroic death on the Intrepid in the war ^Yith 

 Tripoli, in 1804. A pistol and 9 military commissions were added 

 to the collection of Gen. George W. Morgan, U. S. Army, by his 

 AvidoAV, now residing at Zanesville, Ohio, and a marble top table 

 which had belonged to Thomas JeH'erson was received as a gift from 

 Mrs. Frederic C. Brinton, of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Several 

 relics of the Sutton family of Virginia were donated by Mrs. Minnie 

 J. Elliott, of Washington, and Mr. William R. Hawkins, "of Eden, 

 Arizona, presented the life-preserver worn by the late Maj. J. W. 

 Powell during his first and most notable exploration of the Green 

 and Colorado rivers and their great canyons. The Field Museum 

 of Natural History, Chicago, contributed 18 pieces of Arctic cloth- 

 ing and other articles used by members of the Greely Relief Expe- 

 dition. The Rev. J. L. and Mr. Leon L. L. French, of Washington, 

 deposited a large collection of historical relics, relating mainly to 

 the civil war. The National Society, Colonial Dames of America, 

 added 50 objects to its collection and the National Society, Daughters 

 of the American Revolution, also increased its deposit. A chair from 

 Morro Castle and an Indian beaded cane, relics of the late Sergt. 

 Hamilton Fish of the Rough Riders, who was killed in Cuba, were 

 presented by Mrs. Nicholas Fish, of Washington. From the govern- 

 ment exhibits at the Jamestown and Bordeaux expositions a large 

 number of photographs, photographic enlargements, and other his- 

 torical material were received. 



DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. 



Accessions of greater or less extent were receiA'ed from the custom- 

 ary government sources, such as the Bureau of Fisheries, the Bu- 

 reau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of Entomology', the Biological 

 Survey, and the Forest Service, as explained further on. Among 

 private contributors Dr. W. L. Abbott and Maj. E. A. Meariis, U. S. 

 Army, stand foremost, the former having presented several hundred 

 mammals, birds, and reptiles, mainly from Siak River, Sumatra, and 

 southwestern Borneo; the latter, over 1,000 bird skins, about 250 

 specimens of bats and other mammals, and many land shells, from 

 the Philippines. Both of these collections contain a large number 

 of new species and some new genera. 



This department has also been more or less benefited by recent ex- 

 plorations of the Leland Stanford Junior University in Japan, the 

 Philippine Islands, the Fiji Islands, California, and Mexico; of M. de 

 Rothschild's expedition to East Africa ; of the Egyptian Government 

 in the Nile Valley ; of Charcot in the Antarctic region ; of Prof. J. Fid 

 Tristan and Dr. A. Alfaro in Costa Rica ; of Dr. S. E. Meek at Lake 

 Amatitlan, Guatemala ; of Mr. William Schaus in Central America ; 



