26 | REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1906. 
of Natural History; Coleoptera and Hemiptera from New Guinea, 
through Mr. O. Kronov; and a collection of Hymenoptera containing 
many cotypes of recently described species, from the Sarawak Museum, 
Borneo. 
The division of plants received 575 accessions, containing in the 
ageregate 37,751 specimens. The most important accession was the 
collection made by Dr. J. N. Rose and Mr. J. H. Painter, while 
detailed for field work in Mexico. It comprises 4,477 specimens, is 
especially rich in cacti, and includes many rare species from type 
localities, as well as numerous undescribed species. The number 
of specimens transferred from the Department of Agriculture was 
15,145, of which 13,786 specimens came from the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, 931 from the Biological Survey, 320 from the Forest Serv- 
ice, and 108 from the Bureau of Entomology. Through exchange with 
the New York Botanical Garden 1,748 plants, including much West 
Indian material, were obtained; and by gift from Dr. H. Pittier, 406 
specimens, chiefly from Central America. 
Geology.—The total number of specimens received by the Depart- 
ment of Geology, exclusive of duplicates, was approximately 21,000, 
comprized in 164 accessions, of which 91 consisted of rocks, ores, and 
minerals, 16 of fossil vertebrates, 44 of fossil invertebrates, and 13 of 
fossil plants. Four hundred and seventy-two lots of specimens were 
also received from different parts of the country for identification 
and report. 
The division of systematic and applied geology obtained by transfer 
from the Geological Survey 1,335 specimens of rocks and ores illus- 
trating field work in the Mount Stuart and Tacoma quadrangles of 
Washington; the gold belt of the Blue Mountains; ‘the Cripple Creek 
district, and the Needle Mountain Quadrangle of Colorado; the Marys- 
ville district of Montana; the Clifton Morenci district of Arizona, and 
the lead and zine district of western Kentucky. The same bureau 
also transmitted about 475 hand specimens of native and foreign rocks 
and a large collection of phosphates, associated rocks, and fossils col- 
lected in Florida by the late George H. Eldridge. 
Among other noteworthy additions to this division were specimens 
of Alaskan ores, presented by the Alaskan Commission at the Lewis 
and Clark Exposition; a collection of rocks and ores from the Philip- 
pine Islands, obtained at the same exposition; a fine specimen of 
phonolite with a telluride of gold from Cripple Creek, Colorado, 
donated by Mr. A. B. Frenzel; a large number of specimens of basalt, 
phonolite, and dolorite collected in Colorado and Wyoming by Prof. 
R. D. George; a large mass of tin ore from Lincolnton, North Carolina, 
a gift of the Piedmont Mining Company; 13 samples of volcanic dust 
from several eruptions of Mount Vesuvius from 1822 to 1867, donated 
by Prof. J. W. Mallet, of the University of Virginia; a small collection 
