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REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



small specimens. Smaller collections of interesting fossil inverte- 

 brates were contributed by the U. S. Geological Survey; Dr. Charles E. 

 Beecher, of Yale University; Mr. John M. Nickels, of (Cincinnati, 

 Ohio; Mr. W. T. Lee, of Trinidad, Colorado, and others. 



The collection of vertebrate fossils was increased by several impor- 

 tant additions, one of which, comprising the teeth of Mastodon hum- 

 Ijoldt) and Mastodon cordiUfruin and casts of mandibular rami, was 

 received from the British Museum, London, England. Dr. H. J. 

 Herbein, of Bottsville, Pennsylvania, contril)uted a slab of sandstone 

 showing reptilian footprints, from Mount Carbon, Pennsylvania, and 

 Mr. Whitman Cross, of the U. S. Geological Survey, collected and 

 transmitted a tooth of Cladod us for inosus {Yi^iy) from Needle Mountains 

 quadrangle, Colorado. 



About 500 specimens of Triassic plants, collected in Connecticut 

 and Massachusetts bv Mr. S. Ward Loper, of the U. S. Geological 

 Survey, have been turned over to the Museum; a small series of fossil 

 plants from the Permian of Ohio was donated by Mr. H. Herzer, of 

 Marietta, Ohio, and about SO specimens of Paleozoic plants were 

 received with the Ulrich collection above mentioned. » 



The number of entries made in the catalogue books of the various 

 departments was 41,091. 



The number of accessions received annually since 1881 has been as 

 follows: 



