30 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



AA'illiani^. oomprisinii' ;^l)Out 4.400 spec-iincns, was i)urc]uise(l. Two 

 small collections of Kiiro])cnn plants were obtained tbrouiili excliaiiiie 

 with the Botanical (rarden at Bi-iissels and the Natural History 

 Museum at Freil)Ui"^, Switzerland. 



Geology. — The more inij)ortant accession^ in llic division of sys- 

 tematic and a])])lied g;eolo<:y were as follows: A quantity of iron me- 

 teorites, "shale halls," altered sandstone, etc., from Coon Butte, 

 Arizona, deposited by Mr. D. !M. P>arrino:ton. of Philadelj)hia : a 

 similar collection from the same re^jion, obtained l)y the head curator 

 of ^eolo<ry dnrin*:; his investipitions in May, 1907, under a grant 

 from the Smithsonian Institution; G21 specimens of rocks and ores, 

 secured durin<2: investigations l)y tlie V. S. Geological Survey, from 

 Encampment and the Big Horn ^h)untains in Wyoming, the Pearl 

 district and the Silverton and Ouray quadrangles in Colorado, the 

 Snoqualmie quadrangle in Washington, and the Penobscot Bay 

 quadrangle in Maine, and six fine examples of fractured and crushed 

 bowlders from the Deer Creek coal fields of Arizona; a fine large 

 mass of scheelite from Atolia, San Bernardino County, California, 

 donated by the De Golia & Atkins Company; a representative series 

 of copper and nickel ores, from Coi:)per ClitF Mines. Ontario, 

 presented b}' the Canadian Copper Company ; a selected series of 

 Bohemian igneous rocks, in exchange, from Dr. J. E. Hibsch ; and a 

 number of scarred ])ebbles from the ground moraine of China, col- 

 lected by Mr. Bailey Willis and deposited by the Carnegie Institution. 



Tlie division of mineralogy received a small collection of specimens 

 of native gold from mines in the Grass Valley district of California, 

 donated by the President of the United States; several minerals new 

 to the collection or representing new localities, and meteorites from 

 the following places: Santa Rosa, Colombia; Elm Creek. Kan.^as; 

 Rich Mountain, North Carolina, through exchange with the State 

 Museum, Raleigh; Uberaba, Brazil, through exchange with the K. K. 

 Naturhistorisches Hofnuiseum, Vienna ; La Becasse, France, through 

 exchange with the Museum of Natural History, Paris: autl Selma, 

 Alabama, presented by th6 American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York. 



Tlie division of stratigraphic paleontology was the recipient of the 

 most extensive and valuable accessions of any of the l)ranches of this 

 department. The U. S. (Jeological Survey transferred about 45,000 

 s])ecimens of fossil invertebrates from the pre-Cambrian. Cambrian, 

 and Ordovician horizons of the United States, composing the collec- 

 tion which has for some years past been the subject of special study 

 I IV Dr. Charles D. Walcott. The Hon. Frank Springer, who pur- 

 chased during the vear the so-called Pate collection of fossil inver- 

 tebrates. after reserving the crinoids in wliicli he is personally inter- 

 ested/ presented the remainder, comprising about 50,000 specimens, 



