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of rocks from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, presented by Mr. I. C. 
White, of Morgantown, West Virginia; and a specimen of metallic 
zinc smelted in Washington, District of Columbia, in 1835, said to be 
the first zinc smelted in America from American ores. 
The most important accessions in the division of mineralogy con- 
sisted of the type materials of the new minerals coronadite and 
morencite, and of specimens of the rare minerals emmonsite, spango- 
lite, dioptase, and libenthenite from the Geological Survey, and a 
unique and remarkable cube of iron pyrites, about 2 inches in diameter, 
containing numerous small crystals of gold, showing cubic, octahedral, 
and dodecahedral faces, and some good crystals of argentite, obtained 
by purchase. Other valuable additions were a specimen of stibiotan- 
talite; a complete individual, weighing 1,170 grams, of the meteorite 
which fell at Modoc, Kansas, September 2, 1905; a 576-gram mass of 
the Kernouve meteorite which fell in May, 1867; and a 200-gram slice 
of a meteorite found at Coon Butte, Arizona, in 1905, the last named 
being the gift of Mr. D. M. Barringer. 
From the Geological Survey there was transferred to the section of 
invertebrate paleontology a collection of Upper Cretaceous fossils 
from the Judith River beds of Montana, containing the types and 
other figured specimens described by Dr. T. W. Stanton in Bulletin 
No. 257 of the Survey; a collection of type specimens of Miocene 
foraminifera from the Monterey shale of California, described by Mr. 
R. M. Bagg in Bulletin No. 268 of the Survey; and about 3,000 speci- 
mens of Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian fossils collected in Vir- 
ginia by Doctor Bassler, under the auspices of the Survey. Dr. A. von 
Mickwitz, of Eastland, Russia, presented over 2,000 specimens of Rus- 
sian Ordovician bryozoans; Prof. Charles Schuchert, a large slab con- 
taining Helderbergian crinoids from New York State, and Dr. H. 
Pittier some 500 specimens of Pliocene and Pleistocene fossils from 
Costa Rica. Through exchange much valuable material was also 
obtained, including collections of Paleozoic fossils from Mr. George W. 
Stose, of European Mesozoic, and Cenozoic fossils from’ Mr. W. E. 
Crane, and of European Tertiary fossils from Mr. J. Vaquez, of 
Pantin, France. 
The section of vertebrate paleontology has received but few speci- 
mens, since at present it is practically impossible to obtain material 
of this character without sending collectors into the field, which the 
Museum’ is not able to do. The following additions, however, are 
deserving of mention: A nearly complete skeleton of a new species of 
Sinopa from the Bridger (Eocene) of Wyoming, collected in 1902 by 
Mr. Walter Granger under the auspices of the Geological Survey, and 
described by Dr. W. D. Matthew under the name Sinopa granger/; 
a nearly complete skull of a new genus of musk ox from the Pleisto- 
cene of Alaska, obtained by Mr. W. H. Osgood, of the Department of 
