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and Cystids and Crinoids from jNIaiyland, the gift of Mr, Charles 

 Schuchert, the Assistant Curator of the Division of Stratig-raphic Pale- 

 ontolog3% This is an important series and formed a part of Mr. 

 Schuchert's private collection at the time he became connected with 

 the Museum. 



19. Teeth of Elej^has columhi and Elephas im2>eratoi\ obtained at 

 Afton, Indian Territor}^, by Mr. W. EL. Holmes. 



20. Sixt3^-eight specimens of fossil plants from the Triassic of North 

 Carolina, received from Mr. H. F. Cleland, of Williams College, Wil- 

 liamstown, Massachusetts, a valuable collection representing the type 

 specimens of Prof. Ebenezer Emmons and described by him in his 

 American Geology, Part 6, 1857. 



21. One hundred specimens of fossil plants collected from the aurif- 

 erous gTa\'el of California, by Mr. C. D. Voy. prior to 1878. 



22. Forty specimens of fossil plants from the vicinity of Corwin 

 Coal Mine, near Cape Lisbourne, in Artie Alaska, the gift of Mr. A. G. 

 Maddren, of Seattle, Washington. 



23. About 300 specimens of fossil plants from the Miocene lake beds 

 of the South Fork of John Day River in Grant County, Oregon. 

 Collected by Messrs. F. 13^. Knowlton and John C. Merriam, and 



"received from the U. S. Geological Survey. 



24. About 100 specimens of Upper Carboniferous fossil plants from 

 the vicinity of Clinton, Henry County, Missouri, the gift of Dr. J. H. 

 Britts, of Clinton, Missouri, The collection includes a number' of 

 types described by Dr. David White in the Fossil Flora of the Coal 

 Measures of Missouri. 



SOURCES OF NEW MATERIAL. 



The sources of the new material are in part indicated above. As 

 in years past the U, S, Geological Survey has been the principal con- 

 tributor, though several valuable specimens have been obtained by 

 purchase and exchange, jus noted, 



Mr. F. W. Crosby collected for the Museum a remarkabl}^ fine series 

 of pot holes in l)asalt, found in the vicinity of Snake River Falls, Idaho. 



The meteorite collection and the collection of minerals have been 

 enriched mainl}^ through exchanges and purchase. As noted, Dr. L. 

 T. Chamberlain has made an important addition to the gem collection. 



Mr. Schuchert, during his vacation, made important additions to 

 the collections in the way of Helderbergian and Cretaceous materials 

 from New York and New Jerse}'. Mr. Bassler, while at the Pan- 

 American Exposition, devoted a few days to collecting- Bryozoa in the 

 Devonian and Silurian rocks of the vit-inity. 



ROUTINE, 



In all the divisions of the Department there were received upward 

 of 4,100 specimens requiring entering and numbering, and in many 



