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Fossils. — A collection of cretaceous fossils preseutecl by President 

 David S. Jordan, of Indiana State University ; a large series of Lower 

 Cambrian fossils from Conception Bay, Newfoundland, including the 

 types of thirteen species, collected and transferred to the Museum by 

 Mr. C. D. Walcott, of the U. S. Geological Survey. 



Botany. — Herbarium specimens from Dr. Ferdinand von Miiller, of 

 Melbourne, Australia; a series of specimens of algae from the New 

 England coast, presented by Mr. F. S. Collins, of Maiden, Mass.; agat- 

 ized wood from the Drake Manufacturing Company, Sioux Falls, Dak.; 

 fossil leaves from Constantine von Ettingshausen, of the University of 

 Gratz, Austria-Hungary. 



Geology. — Specimens of ancient and modern marbles from Europe 

 and Africa received in exchange from the Museum of Natural History 

 in Paris ; a series of metamorphic and eruptive rocks, presented by 

 Prof. O. A. Derby, of the National Museum of Brazil ; a collection of 

 minerals consisting of nearly 1,400 specimens, and obtained by Prof. 

 S. L. Penfield, of the U. S. Geological Survey, in St. Lawrence County, 

 N. Y.; a similar collection gathered by Mr. W. F. Hillebrand, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona; 

 a series of petroleums and related material collected by Prof. S. F. 

 Peckham, of Providence, R. I., in connection with his work for the 

 Tenth Census. 



MiscellaneoKS. — The following specially important collections have 

 also been added to the collections during the year: A collection of 

 drugs, from Dr. J. W. Jewett, examiner of drugs, custom-house, New 

 York City, and a collection of similar material transmitted by the roj'al 

 gardens at Kew; a valuable collection of photo-mechanical process work 

 presented by Prof. Charles F. Chandler, of Columbia College, New York ; 

 General Washington's toilet-table deposited by Mrs. Thomas C. Cox, 

 of Washington ; account-book belonging to General Washington, to- 

 gether with a number of engravings and other personal property of 

 General Washington, deposited by Mr. Lawrence Washington, of 

 Virginia; an interesting collection of coins, including specimens of the 

 "hook money" and other coins of the native princes of India, from 

 Hon. W. T. Rice, United States consul at Horgen, Switzerland; a model 

 of the locomotive "Old Ironsides," built by Matthias Baldwin in 1832, 

 and presented by the Baldwin Locomotive Works; a model of Trevi- 

 thick's locomotive, built in 1804 by Mr. D. Ballauf, from drawings 

 lent to the Museum ; a stereoscope with examples of the daguerreotype 

 process, and the old albumen process on glass received from Mrs. E. J. 

 Stone, of Washington; a valuable series of prints in carbon and other 

 processes presented by Mr. J. W. Osborne, of Washington. Some of 



