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together with a considerable number of exceptionally fine specimens 

 of other kinds. Among them there may be mentioned a topaz crystal 

 weighing over 7 pounds, sets of tourmaline crystals, and a cut yellow 

 sapphire of 25.8 carats. 



Through the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund there were secured 

 blue and yellow diamonds, a Brazilian emerald, and carvings of 

 jade, tourmaline, coral, amber, carnelian and lapis-lazuli. 



Valuable sjjecimens of ores and stones have come from several 

 sources. Numerous type specimens have been accessioned in the 

 division of stratigraphic paleontology, particularly fossil plants 

 described by Prof. E. W. Berry. Further fossil plants from the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Arizona, collected and described 

 by Dr. David White, have been presented by the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington. 



A collection of several hundred fossils from English localities 

 secured by Mr. B. B. Bancroft has come as a deposit from the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. Other valuable specimens secured in field work by 

 Dr. Resser have included more than 1,200 Cambrian forms. 



Eight articulated skeletons of the fossil horse Mesohipjjus hairdi 

 from the Oligocene of Nebraska were purchased. Large series of 

 excellent fossil horse skulls have come also from the field work 

 of Dr. Gidley in Idaho. Valuable material collected by Mr. C, W. 

 Gilmore in the San Juan Basin, N. Mex., has come to the fossil 

 reptile collection through work financed by the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Dr. Remington Kellogg and N. H. Boss collecting in Alabama 

 and Mississippi under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington secured a valuable specimen of zeuglodont, together 

 with other material. There may be mentioned also a complete skull 

 and other bones of a large whalebone whale collected by Dr. Kellogg 

 at Governors Run, Md. 



Arts and industries. — The gift of the Rudolph Eickemeyer col- 

 lection of photographs and books to the section of photography con- 

 stituted one of the most important accessions to this department, 

 as it includes not only an excellent series of pictorial photographs 

 but also a library of books dealing with this subject, and a series 

 of medals and awards made to Mr. Eickemeyer for the excellence 

 of his work. The gift is further accompanied by an item in the 

 will of Mr. Eickemeyer through which $15,000 is designated as a 

 fund to be used in connection with this collection. 



The collection of Edward Goodrich Acheson memorabilia, record- 

 ing the researches of this worker, presented by tlie Acheson Oildag 

 Co., has given important historical material, as has also a collection 



