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Smithsonian Institution — Cont'd, 

 nell Smith (4S06S) ; 22 plants from 

 the Sello collection of the Botanical 

 Museum, Berlin, Germany, presented 

 by Capt. John Donnell Smith 

 (48153) ; the Gustav Hambach col- 

 lection representing the main divi- 

 sions of the North American Paleo- 

 zoic, including numerous echino- 

 derms and a fine representation of 

 Mississippi Valley Subcarboniferous 

 fossils, also the types of a large 

 number of Pentremites, fossil leaves, 

 fishes, and some of the figured speci- 

 mens of the old Shumard collection 

 (48175) ; 3 skeletons of Eskimos, 

 collected by C. W. Gilmore in 

 Alaska (48191) ; collection of In- 

 diana Niagarau fossils, purchased 

 from J. R. Gilbert, Ubee, lud. 

 (48201) ; pottery jar found by an 

 Indian on the San Carlos Reserva- 

 tion, Ariz., and obtained through the 

 courtesy of the Commissioner of In- 

 dian Affairs (48211) ; the 55-horse- 

 power, 5-cylinder gasoline engine, 

 used on Dr. Samuel P. Langley's 

 aerodrome, 1903 (48265) ; a silver 

 figurine from Bolivia, in the style 

 of the Titicaca region, doubtless of 

 native origin and belonging to the 

 pre-Columbian period, presented by 

 Dr. Thomas S. K. Morton, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. (4S276) ; life-preserver 

 worn by Maj. J. ^Y. Powell during 

 his famous exploration on the Green 

 and Colorado rivers in 1869, and pre- 

 sented by Mr. William R. Hawkins, 

 Eden, Ariz., through Mr. Robert B. 

 Stanton, New York City (48296) ; 

 ethnological material from the Phil- 

 ippine Islands, etc., presented bj- 

 :Maj. George P. Ahern, U. S. Army 

 (retired) (48368) ; a collection of 

 corals, shells, and other inverte- 

 brates from Flint Island, obtained 

 l)y Mr. C. G. Abbot, of the Astro- 

 physical Observatory, in connection 

 with the solar eclipse expedition 

 (48373) ; 27 plants, mainly Guate- 

 malan orchids, presented by Capt. 

 John Donnell Smith (48470) ; 48 

 speciemns of Guatemalan orchids, 

 presented by Capt. John Donnell 



Smithsonian Institution — Cont'd. 

 Smith (48537) ; 139 plants collected 

 chiefly by Lehmann in Colombia and 

 Central America, presented by Capt. 

 John Donnell Smith (4S569) ; about 

 5,000 specimens of Cambrian fossils 

 from British Columbia, and about 

 2.500 from Montpelier, Idaho, col- 

 lected by Dr. Charles D. Walcott 

 and party during tlie summer of 

 1907 (4S712) ; 12 pieces of pottery 

 purchased through the Office of In- 

 dian Affairs by Horton M. Miller, 

 superintendent Moqui Agency, Keams 

 Canon. Ariz. (48724). 



Bureau of America n EthnoJouy: 

 Collection of ethnological specimens 

 and plants made by Mrs. M. C. Ste- 

 venson in the pueblos of Zuiii and 

 Taos, N. Mex. (47686) ; aboriginal 

 soapstone objects from a quarry on 

 Connecticut avenue extended (Rose 

 Hill), collected by W. H. Gill 

 (47687); large steatite pipe illus- 

 trating the use of the ordinary 

 pump-drill, made by G. Wiley Gill ; 

 arrow-points collected in a village 

 site in Sussex County, Del., by G. 

 Wiley Gill (47688) ; small bronze 

 (hawk) bell frcm a mound in Ala- 

 bama, obtained by Peter A. Brannon, 

 of Montgomery, Ala. (47689) ; iron 

 or steel hammer picked up on the 



. beach at Coan River, lower Poto- 

 mac, by De Lancy Gill (47690) ; 

 Hopi notched '"fiddle" and 2 perfo- 

 rated bits of metal, presented by 

 Mrs. H. T. Hall, Chicago, 111. 

 (47691) : stone ax and flaked im- 

 plements from Popes Creek, Md., 

 collected by W. H. Holmes (47692) ; 

 cast of a stone ax belonging to D. 

 I. Bushnell, of St. Louis, Mo. 

 (47963) ; steatite pot from Mecklen- 

 burg County, Va. (47964) ; basket- 

 box made by the Chitimacha Indians 

 of Louisiana, collected by J. R. Swan- 

 ton (47965) ; 2 grooved axes and a 

 hammer-stone (47996) ; collection of 

 objects representing the industrial 

 and social life of the Tahltan In- 

 dians, Stikine River, British Colum- 

 bia, collected by George T. Emmons 

 (47997) ; 2 human skulls, one from 



