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partments to which they properly belonged. Special mention may be 

 made of the following contributions : From Mr. John W. Lee, of Balti- 

 more, Md., a choice collection of twenty-six specimens, principally from 

 Maryland and Pennsylvania, for exchange; from Mr. F. L. Moore, of 

 Georgetown, D. C, a contribution of six hundred pounds of gypsum 

 from Windsor, Nova Scotia, which furnished us several handsome speci- 

 mens for the reserve series, and two hundred and fifty-one specimens 

 for the duplicate series; from Prof. F. W. Clarke, as an officer of the 

 TJ. S. Geological Survey, we received a collection of beryl crystals, 

 hyalite, &c, from Ashe County, North Carolina, consisting of thirty- 

 seven specimens; a collection of muscovite, tourmaline, &c, from New 

 Hampshire, consisting of twenty-four specimens; and a collection of 

 allanite, triphylite, lepidolite, &c, from Maine, consisting of one hun- 

 dred and forty-three specimens. Besides these, from his private collec- 

 tion we received a contribution of thirty-one specimens from various 

 localities. In the collection from North Carolina there were three hand- 

 some specimens of hyalite and an exceptionally interesting crystal of 

 quartz. All these specimens were received from Professor Clarke, prior 

 to his official connection with this department. From Mr. N. H. Perry, 

 of South Paris, Me., we received a collection from Oxford County, Maine, 

 consisting of eighty-six specimens. These specimens were obtained for 

 the Museum by Mr. George P. Merrill, of the department of rocks and 

 building stones. From Dr. Wm. H. Jones, U. S. N., a box of garnets, 

 both detached and in mica schist, from Alaska, consisting of one hun- 

 dred and ninety specimens. This contribution was one of the most de- 

 sirable received during the year. From Mr. George P. Merrill, a collec- 

 tion of minerals from Maine, consisting of one hundred and two speci- 

 mens. Besides other good specimens in this lot, there was an inter- 

 esting group of calcite crystals from Bockland, Me. From Mr. Joseph 

 Willcox, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a collection of minerals 

 from various localities, consisting of one hundred and nineteen speci- 

 mens. Besides the gift of these, Mr. Willcox has been kind enough to 

 lend to the department one thousand three hundred and thirty-four of 

 the choicest specimens from his handsome collection of American min- 

 erals, to assist in filling a deficiency in our exhibition series. This col- 

 lection being a loan, its withdrawal would leave quite a gap in our exhi- 

 bition series. From Dr. Theo. Schuchardt, of Gorlitz, Germany, was 

 purchased a very good set of sixty specimens of minerals representing 

 the Vesuvius Ideality. The private collection of Dr. George W. Hawes 

 (late curator of this department), consisting of over five hundred spec- 

 imens, has recently been turned over to me. The specimens are small, 

 but some of them are very desirable. From the dump heap of the ex- 

 cavation for the foundation of a large building on Connecticut avenue, 

 in this city, I obtained one hundred and twenty specimens of vivianite 

 in clay, a mineral new to this locility. 



