86 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



SECTION OF INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY. 



1. A collection of some 1,2()() species (75,00(> specimens) of bryozoa 

 and 2,500 thin sections, from the E. O. Ulrich collection. 



2. The Carl Rominger collection of Mississippi Valley Paleozoic 

 invertebrates. This consists largely of corals (many of which are 

 lignred and described in the reports of the Geological Survey of 

 Michigan), crinoids, and molhisks, representing not less than 14,000 

 specimens, 



3. The Andrew Sherwood collection of Pennsylvania Upper Devonic 

 vertebrate and inverto])rate fossils. This contains many choice slabs 

 tilled with large bi-achiopods and molhisca, besides about 8,000 small 

 specimens. 



4. Collections of trilobites with limbs {Tnarf/iru.s heckl) studied by 

 Doctor Walcott and descril)ed in the Proceedings of the Biological 

 Society of Washington, 1894; of Little Metis sponges, and some 

 twenty boxes of Paleozoic fossils, from the U. S. Geological Survey. 



5. One large slab containing 18 fine specimens of melonites and some 

 185 labeled specimens from the Marcellus limestone; received from 

 Dr. C. E. Beecher, of Yale University. 



SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOCiY. 



1. Casts of mandibulai- rami; teeth oi Mastodon humholdfl q.\\(\ 2f<is- 

 todon cordillennii; recei\^ed from the British Museum. 



2. Cast of Qgg of Emeus crass us. 



3. Reptilian footprints in sandstone, from Mount Carbon, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



4. A tooth (type) of Oladodus formosus, from Needle Mountains 

 quadrangle, Colorado; collected by Whitman Cross. 



SECTION OF PALEOBOTANY. 



1. Eighty-three specimens of Paleozoic plants, from the Ulrich 

 collection. 



2. A small series of fossil plants, from the Permian of Ohio. 



3. Four hundred and eighty-eight specimens of Triassic plants, from 

 Connecticut and Massachusetts; received from the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



ROUTINE. 



During the year under consideration the geographic exhibit of 

 economic minerals in the southwest court has been largely overhauled 

 and cases and specimens cleaned and rearranged. The collection of non- 

 metallic minerals on the balcony has likewise undergone rearrange- 

 ment. The case containing the stratigraphic and historical collections, 

 against the south wall in the west-south range, has been entirely recon- 

 structed and the collections reinstalled. In the course of this work 



