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cal sind etlinolotji'icul ()])jects, which were purchased ])y the Museum. 

 Dr. Edward Pahnor, also exploring in Mexico for the same depart- 

 ment, made collections for the Museum. Dr. Roland Steiner, of 

 Grovetown, Georgia, conducted extensive explorations in aboriginal 

 quarries, workshops, and village sites near the mouth of the Little 

 Kiokec River, Georgia, where he obtained many thousands of speci- 

 mens, which will 1)e included in the collection now" ])eing acquired by 

 the Museum. 



Among the explorations which yielded important results to the 

 Department of Biology, those carried on in connection with the cruise 

 of the steamer i'T.sA Hawk to Porto Rico l)y the naturalists of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission and by Mr. A. B. Baker, of the National Zoological 

 Park, are especially worthy of mention. Of mollusks the Museum 

 received some .5,000 specimens, representing about 400 species, many 

 of which were rare and some undescribed. There were also large 

 series of other marine and fresh- watei' invertebrates, about 180 birds, 

 200 reptiles and batrachians, and 200 l)ats. 



A large and important series of mammals was collected for the 

 Museum in Sweden, Germany, Belgium, and Switzerland by Mr. J. A. 

 Loring, of Owego, New York. Mr. Dall De Weese, who visited 

 Alaska during the summer of 1898, obtained for the Museum several 

 specimens of the Alaska moose and a large number of the wild white 

 sheep of that Territor3^ 



Ornithological collections received at the Museum were made as 

 follows: ])y Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A., in Texas; by Mr. Paul D. 

 Bergen and Mr. George D. Wilder, in China; by Mr. Outram Bangs, 

 in Colombia; by Mr. J. Hornung, in the Western United States; by 

 Mr. R. C. McGregor, in California; by Mr. Eugene Coubeaux, in the 

 Northwest Territory, Canada. 



A large series of reptiles and l)atrachians collected by field parties 

 of the U. S. Fish Commission has been turned over to the Museum. 

 This collection embraces a great deal of valuable material for the 

 study of geographic distribution and individual variation, and includes 

 a unique specimen of a discoglossoid toad,^ the first member of this 

 suborder which has been discovered in the Western Hemisphere. Col- 

 lections of fishes resulting from explorations in the Northern Pacific 

 Ocean, Alaska, Kamchatka, Lake Superior, and Florida have also been 

 transferred by the Fish Commission. Fishes ol^tained by Mr. Chaf- 

 fanjon in northern and central Asia were received from the Museum 

 of Natural History at Paris. 



The Division of Marine Invertebrates has l)een enriched by material 

 collected by Dr. T. H. Bean and Mr. B. A. Bean, on Long Island; 

 by Miss Mary J. Rathbun, at Grand Manan, New Brunswick; by Mr. 



1 Described in Proceedings paper No. 1178, by Dr. Ijeonhard Stejneger. 



