28 KEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905, 



the U. S. Geological Survey, which consisted principally of large col- 

 lections of Niagaran fossils from Tennessee, of Ordovician fossils from 

 the slates at Arvonia, Virginia, and of Devonian and Carboniferous 

 fossils from Colorado, the last collection having served as the basis 

 oT Dr. George H. Girty's work on the Carboniferous formations and 

 faunas of that State. A very valuable accpisition was the gift by 

 Mr. E. O. Ulrich and Dr. R. S. Bassler of the type and figured speci- 

 mens of 65 species, 25 being of Paleozoic origin and 40 Tertiary 

 ostracoda. Among other important additions were 400 specimens 

 of Cretaceous bryozoans from Denmark; about 70 species of corals 

 from Germany ; a series of European Tertiary fossils ; Cretaceous and 

 Tertiary fossils from South Carolina; Ordovician fossils from Ken- 

 tucky, and the reverse side of the types of 8 species of fossil nsects 

 from Mazon Creek, Illinois. 



The section of vertebrate paleontology received two large collec- 

 tions from the U. S. Geological Survey, one made in the Wasatch 

 Eocene of the Big Horn Basin, Wyoming, by Mr. C. A. Fisher, 

 and containing remains of Coryphodon, PJienacodus, Eohippus, 

 Crocodilus, and Oxysena; the other from the Oligocene of Oelrichs, 

 South Dakota, and including remains of Merycoidodon, Hyracodon, 

 Daphxnus, a Cameloid, Csenopus, Titanotherium, etc. Mr. A. G. Mad- 

 dren, who visited Alaska on behalf of the Smithsonian Institution 

 during the summer of 1904, brought back from the Yukon basin a 

 collection of Pleistocene fossils, comprising the bones and teeth of 

 Elephas primogeneus and of two extinct species of both the bison and 

 the horse. Among other noteworthy material received were remains 

 of Triceratops from .Elephant Butte, New Mexico, and from the 

 collection at Yale University; and fossil fishes from Pennsylvania, 

 Wyoming, and Brazil. 



In the section of paleobotany the most important additions were 

 about 400 specimens from the States of Sao Paulo and Santa Cath- 

 arina, Brazil, collected by Mr. I. C. White during an official explora- 

 tion of the Brazilian coal fields, and presented by him to the National 

 Museum ; about the same number of specimens from the higher beds 

 of the anthracite series in the vicinity of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, 

 from Mr. C. W. linger, of Pottsville; 70 specimens, including 9 new 

 species obtained from the Upper Eocene at Kukak Bay, Alaska, by 

 the E. W. Harriman expedition of 1889. 



