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Wisconsin; Monroe, North Carolina; Tombigljee, Alal)ania; Tono-a- 

 noxic and Kiowa County, Kansas, and San Ang-elo and Kendall Count}-, 

 Texas. 



In invertebrate paleontology there were stn'eral very large and 

 important additions. Some 15,000 specimens, including 1<),00() 1)rach- 

 iopods, 4,200 bryozoans. man}' cretaceous forms from New Jerse}", and 

 cystids and crinoids from Maryland, composing the private collection 

 of Mr. Charles Schuchert, Assistant Curator of Stratigraphic Paleontol- 

 ogy, were donated by him to the Museum. Prof, (reorge M. Perdew 

 also presented his entire collection of Silurian and Devonian fossils, 

 about 1,300 specimens, from Cumberland, Marvland. The PI O. 

 Ulrich collection of Ostracoda, containing about 5,000 specimens and 

 the type and figured specimens of 100 species was ac<piired by pur- 

 chase. The transmissions from the Geolog-ical Survey included 8,755 

 specimens of Cambrian T)rachiopods, which had been tlu^ su])ject of 

 special study by the Director, Dr. Charles D. AValcott. 



The extensive series of teeth of the elephant and mastodon, obtained 

 by Mr. W. H. Holmes at Afton, Indian Territor}-, associated with 

 prehistoric implements, has proved of great interest, several species 

 being represented. 



The accessions in paleobotan}- include a valuable collection of fossil 

 plants, comprising- the t3"pe specimens descril)ed ])y Pi'of. Ebenezer 

 Emmons in his American Geology, part G, 1857; 10(> specimens from 

 the auriferous gravels of California, collected by Mr. (J. D. Voy; 10 

 specimens from what ma}" be the Upper Jurassic formation in the 

 vicinity of the Corwin coal mine, near Cape Lisburne, Alaska; al)out 

 300 specimens from the Miocene Lake beds of the South Fork of John 

 Day River, in Grant County, Oregon, transmitted by the Geological 

 Survey, and about 100 specimens of Upper Carboniferous plants from 

 the vicinity of Plympton, Missouri, described by ^Nlr. David White in 

 the Fossil Flora of the Coal Measures of Missouri, and presented by 

 Dr. John H. Britts, of Plympton. 



The approximate number of specimens received l)y the Museum 

 during the year and the total iuimb(u- in the possession of the Musemu 

 at the close of the year are recorded by subjects in the following ta])lc: 



Division. 



Anthropology: 



Ethnology 



Historic archeology . . 

 I'rehistoric archeologx 



Technology 



Graphic arts 



Medicine 



Religions 



History and biography 



Somatology 



Ceramics 



