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Some of the larger collections were from the Philippines and from 

 Jamaica and other West Indian Islands, Mexico, Chile, and British 

 Columbia. The principal gifts, in point of number of specimens, 

 came from Dr. Edward L. Greene, Mr. William E. Safford, Mr. F. V. 

 Coville, Mr. M. B. Waite, Mr. E. S. Steele, Mrs. L. H. Earll, Mrs. 

 Laura O. Talbot and Mr. F. J. Tyler, all of Washington, D. C, and 

 Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army. 



The additions to the Department of Geology numbered 16,984 

 specimens, of which 16,231 were paleontological. The division of 

 systematic and applied geology acquired by gift through the Loui- 

 siana Purchase Exposition an important series of ores of nonmetallic 

 minerals from Brazil, a large collection of tin, copper, and gold ores 

 from Siam, a fine series of crude and refined graphite from Ceylon, 

 a large pedestal of Thessalian marble from the Verde Antico Marble 

 Company of London, and a quantity of economic products from the 

 State commissions of Colorado, Kentucky, Alabama, and New Mexico. 

 A collection of rocks and ores from New Zealand was obtained in 

 exchange from the Waihi School of Mines at Auckland. Mention may 

 also be made of five large masses of zinc ores from Arkansas, five large 

 slabs of onyx marble from Arizona and Wyoming, a large block of 

 serpentine with veins of asbestos from Canada, a nugget of native 

 copper with native silver from upper Michigan, a fine specimen of 

 Alaskan tin ore, large masses of selenite and gypsum from Oklahoma, 

 and of bauxite from Arkansas, a block of diatomaceous earth measur- 

 ing 40 cubic feet from California, a large quantity of coquina from 

 Florida, rocks of the Silverton quadrangle, Colorado, through the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, and a nearly complete cone of a hot spring 

 from southern Wyoming. 



To the division of mineralogy. Dr. W. S. Disbrow, of Newark, New 

 Jersey, contributed a fine series of zeolites from New Jersey, as did 

 also Dr. W. F. Hillebrand, of the U. S. Geological Survey. Other 

 interesting additions of minerals consisted of specimens of pyrite with 

 dodecahedral faces, and one of datolite from Westfield, Massachusetts; 

 examples of the recently discovered thorianite; a fine beryl of 

 unusual form and color from Utah, an exceptionally large nodule of 

 josephinite, molybdenite from Cooper, Maine, and tourmalines from 

 southern California. One meteorite of iron from Rodeo, Mexico, was 

 received, and the following cut gems purchased for the Louisiana 

 Purchase Exposition have been added to the Museum exhibition 

 series: Australian matrix opals, California tourmalines, beryls from 

 Connecticut, a fine specimen of peridotite from Arizona and a deep 

 colored amethyst from North Carolina. 



The collections of fossil invertebrates in the division of strati- 

 graphic paleontology were mainly increased through transfers from 



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