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The Divinidn of Fishe;? was fortunate in securing, tlirougli Messrs. Anderson and 

 Priee, of Orniond, Fla., tht^ skin (jf a whale shark {Rlihiodon), 18 feet long, the first 

 of its kind recorded as being taken ifi the North Atlantic Ocean. The Leland Stan- 

 ford Junior University presented the types of a large numher of Jajianese Hshes 

 described by Dr. David 8. Jordan, and also specimens from Panama, Cocos Island, 

 and the ( Jalapagos Islands. A colit'ction of Egyptian fishes from tlie Nile was con- 

 tributed l)y Dr. Bashford Dean, of (olund)ia University, and interesting material 

 from several sources was transmitted by the United States Fish Commission. 



Twelve sj)ecies of land shells from (V)t'os Island, cotyjK's of s[)ecies described in 

 E. von Marten's work on the moUusksof that locality, were donated by Mr. William 

 H. Dall. Some 2,000 shells from Lower California were received from Lieut. ('. A. 

 Clarke, U. S. Navy, and a number of new species of North .Vmerican laml sliells 

 from .Mr. J. H. Ferris, of Joliet, 111. 



The largest addition to till' Division of Insects comprised about 65,000 specimens 

 collected by Mr. E. A. Sclnvaiz, custodian of the coleoptera in the Museum, in Ari- 

 zona, at his own expense, and by him ju'esentcil to the national collections. The 

 Museum was already indebted to this generous friend for tlie gift of his extensive 

 private collection previously formed. Some 7,0ll0 insects of several groups were 

 brought from the Hawaiian Islands by Mr. W. 11. Ashmead, and 10,000 specimens 

 of lepidoiitera froni Colorado by Dr. II. < i. Dyar, assisted l)y Mr. A. N. Caudell. The 

 expeditions on which this material was secured are referred to elsewhere. Ten 

 thou.^and beautifully prepared specimens of Imtterflies, mainly from Mexico and 

 Central America, have l)eeu deixisited in the Museum Ity ]Mr. \\'illiani Schaus, of 

 Twickenham, England. 



The Division of Marine Inverte))rates received from the United States I'^ish Com- 

 mission a series of Porto Kit-an sj)onges, identified by Dr. II. X. Wilson, of the 

 University of North Carolina; echini and holothurians fnjm tlie same locality, iden- 

 tified liy Prof. n. L. Clark, of Olivet C(jllege; the crustaceans and echinoderms col- 

 lected during the expedition < if 1901 to the Hawaiian Islands; and a quantity of material 

 from the marine station at Woods Hole, Mass. The extensive collection of corals 

 made some years ago at the Philii)pine Islands by Prof. J. B. Steere and Prof. Dean C 

 Worcester was obtained by purchase. Among the smaller accessions of imj)ortance 

 were a (luantity of marine invertebrates from EUesmere Land, collected by ]Mr. Robert 

 Stein; a series of the cave crustaceans of Kentucky and Tennessee from Prof. W. P. 

 LLay; a nund)er of Alaskan crustaceans from Mr. K. S. Mc(4regor, of the U. S. Coast 

 Survey steamer I'lifliJhK'rr: and samples of the Atlantic sea-Iiottom from the United 

 States Navy. 



Through the generous bequest of Dr. Charles Mohr, of Asheville, N. C, who died 

 in July, 1901, -the Division of Plants became possessed of his entire collection of fiow- 

 ering plants, comprising more than 18,000 specimens, chiefly from the southern 

 United States. Two years previously Dr. INIohr had presented to the Museum his 

 collection of about 3,000 specimens of cryi)togamic plants from the same region. 

 From his trip to Central America during the summer of 1901 'Slv. J. N. Rose brought 

 back a large number of plants, including specimens from Mount Orizaba and Mount 

 Popocatepetl, and also some living plants, which were dcpositefl in the greenhouse of 

 the Department of Agriculture. A valuable collection from China and the Phili|)- 

 pine Islands was I'ontributed by the Royal Botanic (iardens of Kew, luigland; over 

 6,000 plants from various parts of the United States and from r>ra/.ii, (iuatemala, 

 Mexico, and Porto Rico were transmitted l)y the Department of .\griculture; and 

 about 4,200 (!hinese plants were acipiired by luan^hase. 



In the De})artment of (leology the ac(;essions have been mnncrous, and in some of 

 its divisions of more than ordinary importance. Among the nx'ks and ores trans- 

 mitted by the United States (ieological Survey were many specimens illustrative of 



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