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ing been obtained by Mr. Paul C. Standley and Mr. H. C. Bollman 

 in North Carolina, and a collection of marine invertebrates from 

 Plum Point, Md., having been contributed by Mr. William Palmer. 



Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby continued his field work in Manchuria 

 and northeastern China, sending two lots of mammals, only one of 

 which was received within the year. In the course of anthropological 

 investigations in northern Zululand, conducted under the direction 

 of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka in the joint interest of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and the Panama-California Exposition, Dr. V. Schiick ob- 

 tained the skeleton of a black rhinoceros and formalin preparations 

 of several important carnivores, rodents, primates, and reptiles. 

 Dr. Albert M. Eeese, of the University of West Virginia, visited the 

 Philippine Islands as a temporary collaborator of the Museum and 

 secured for its collections many specimens of reptiles, batrachians, 

 fishes, and marine invertebrates. Dr. Fred Baker, of Point Loma, 

 Cal., also made a trip, which is still unfinished, to Oceania and the 

 Orient, largely for the benefit of the Museum, and has already sent 

 in a considerable amount of noteworthy material, especially fishes, 

 from Fanning Island and the Philippines. Mr. H. Pittier, of the 

 Department of Agriculture, while on furlough and conducting an 

 investigation of the resources of Venezuela, made an extensive 

 collection of the plants of that country, which he generously pre- 

 sented to the Museum. 



Of Government explorations there were three which merit notice 

 in this connection because of the immediate returns secured. One 

 was the oceanographic cruise of the Fisheries schooner Grampus off 

 the New England coast during July and August, 1913, in cooperation 

 with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the work being in charge 

 of Dr. Henry B. Bigelow of that institution. Large collections of 

 plankton were made from which many specimens of several groups 

 have been transferred to the Museum. Prof. A. S. Hitchcock and 

 Mrs. Agnes Chase, both of the Department of Agriculture, conducted 

 extensive investigations with special reference to grasses, the former 

 in southern California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, the latter in 

 Porto Rico. Besides grasses, of which a large number were obtained, 

 many other plants were secured in both regions, and the entire re- 

 sults have been deposited in the Museum. Prof. Hitchcock had with 

 him as assistant his son, Mr. A. E. Hitchcock, who attended to the 

 miscellaneous collecting. 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 



The total number of accessions jjertaining to this department was 

 199, with an aggregate of 16,693 specimens, which were assigned to 

 the several divisions and sections, as follows: Systematic and ap- 

 plied geology, 775; mineralogy- and petrology, 2,873; invertebrate 



