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history specimens for the National Museum. There have already 

 been received from him several very interesting collections, and a full 

 report of those not mentioned in the accession list accompanying the 

 present Report, will be given in the Report for L893. 

 • Mr. George P. Merrill, of the National Museum, engaged in an explor- 

 ing expedition through Arizona and New Mexico, and secured for the 

 Museum some beautiful specimens of onyx marble and other acceptable 

 geological material. In Virginia and adjoining States he also obtained 

 interesting ores and marbles. 



Mr. Newhail, of the National Museum, while engaged in held work 

 for the Museum, obtained rocks, ores, and conglomerates from Virginia 

 and New Jersey. 



Mr. Charles W. Richmond, Department of Agriculture, in a recent 

 trip through Guatemala and Nicaragua, by an agreement made with the 

 National Museum, secured several large collections of natural history 

 specimens. A detailed report of these collections will be found by ref- 

 erence to the accession list (Section v), and the material received after 

 the close of the present fiscal year will be recorded in the next Report. 



In addition to the collections which have heretofore been received 

 from Mr. I. C. Russell, of the U. S. Geological Survey, in connection 

 with his explorations in Alaska, he has generously contributed a num- 

 ber of ethnological objects, consisting of Eskimo ivory carvings, dishes, 

 spoons, pipes, daggers, dolls, trinkets," etc., from the Upper Yukon 

 River. 



Dr. Timothy E. Wilcox, U.S. Army, Fort Huachuca, Ariz., has con- 

 tinued to transmit specimens for the National Museum from the vicinity 

 of Fort Huachuca. Some very rare specimens of reptiles have been 

 received from him. 



Mr. Thomas Wilson, curator of Prehistoric Anthropology in the 

 National Museum, was present at the opening of the Hopewell mine in 

 Chillicothe, Ohio. The objects exhumed consisted of copper spools, 

 copper pieces, bones, mica cut into stencils, a broken effigy, boat-shaped 

 objects of stone, beads made of bone, and a large number of pearls 

 bored or drilled, etc. 



Mr. William S. Yeates, assistant curator of minerals in the National 

 Museum, collected specimens in North Carolina, and secured some very 

 acceptable minerals and Miocene fossils. 



COLLECTORS' OUTFITS. 



During the fiscal year ending June, 1892, the following collecting 

 outfits have been furnished by the Museum: 



L891. 



July .;.— To Dr. J. T. Scoville, Terre Haute, Ind. Copper tanks, 

 tank-box, alcohol, etc., to be used in collecting and .pit-serving natural 



