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site in New Mexico; and a collection of stone graters, pestles, celts, 

 and clay figurines collected by Assistant Secretary Wetmore in the 

 mountains of the Dominican Republic. In the same Republic Mr. 

 H. W. Krieger, working under the auspices of Dr. W. L. Abbott, 

 collected an excellent series of bone and stone implements and 

 potsherds near Samana Bay. 



The department of biology received the large majority of the year's 

 accessions, the total for the department being 680,350 specimens. 

 This great number is accounted for largely by the receipt of several 

 extensive private collections, among them the C. F. Baker collection 

 of insects of the Philippines and the East Indies generally, be- 

 queathed to the Museum by the late Doctor Baker; the C. G. Lloyd 

 mycological collection of 75,000 specimens of the larger fungi; the 

 Charles W. Hargitt collection of hydroids ; and the George M. Greene 

 collection of Coleoptera. Important collections of natural history 

 material came from Dr. Hugh M. Smith, in Siam, and from Mr. 

 A. de C. Sowerby, working under the auspices of Col. R. S. Clark, 

 in China. Mr. W. L. Brown, of the taxidermy staff, joined an expe- 

 dition to the Sudan and brought back a valuable set of mammals, 

 birds, and fishes. Important collections from Hispaniola came to 

 the Museum through the work there of Assistant Secretary Wetmore, 

 Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., and Mr, A. J. Poole. Accessions to the 

 division of plants included 9,000 specimens collected in Honduras by 

 Mr. Paul C. Standley and 3,000 from Formosa and Sumatra, col- 

 lected by Prof. H. H. Bartlett through cooperation of the Museum 

 and the University of Michigan. 



In geology many rare and important minerals were acquired under 

 the Roebling fund established last year. Several beautiful gems and 

 minerals were obtained through the Chamberlain fund, including a 

 65-carat cut gem of alexandrite ; and the Isaac Lea collection received 

 an unusual series of cut stones of sphene given by Miss Nina Lea, 

 granddaughter of the founder of the collection. Dr. W. F. Foshag, of 

 the Museum staff, collected a striking group of gypsum crystals and 

 sets of valuable ores in Mexico. The Frank Springer collection of 

 fossil echinoderms, a complete library on this subject, and a fund 

 to promote work in connection with the collection came to the 

 Museum through the bequest of the late Doctor Springer. In ver- 

 tebrate paleontology there were acquired a skeleton of the extinct 

 lizard Clidastes, one of the rare three-toed horses from the Miocene 

 of Wyoming, and a further series of fossil footprints collected by 

 Mr. C. W. Gilmore. 



The outstanding accession in the arts and industries department 

 and the object of greatest popular interest to be received by the 

 Museum in many years is Colonel Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis. 

 Other interesting accessions in this department include the Pan 



