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Florida, and Slo from ^lis.sigsippi and Florida. Messrs. William Palmer 

 and J. H. Rile}', of the National Museum, jjathered more than 300 plants 

 in Cuba, while Messrs. C. L. Pollard and W. R. Maxoii, attached to the 

 btitanit-al staff of the Museum, secured at least 1,600 specimens in Ala- 

 bama, Georgia, and Tennessee. 



All the divisions in the Department of Geology have received important 

 additions, the Geological Survej', as in past years, being one of the princi- 

 pal contril)utors. Among the material transmitted by the Survey was a 

 type series of 386 specimens of asphalt and associated rocks, collected in 

 various parts of the United States by Mr. G. H. Eldridge, as well as some 

 rocks and ores from the Ten Mile District, and Silverton, Pikes Peak, and 

 Cripple Creek c^uadrangles, Colorado. 



From the Geological Survey the following valuable collections of fossils 

 have also been received: Three hundred and seventy-five specimens of 

 pre-Cambrian invertebrate fossils, including species figured and described 

 by the Director of the Survey, Dr. Charles D. Walcott, in the Bulletin of the 

 Geological Society of America; a collection of 2,370 specimens from the 

 Cambrian, consisting mainly of brachiopods; 2,425 Ordovician fossils from 

 southern Nevada and near El Paso, Texas, and 114 Silurian and 1,550 Devo- 

 nian specimens from the Helderberg and Oriskany beds of Indian Terri- 

 tory and the higher Devonian of Colorado and New Mexico. A portion 

 of the material last mentioned was described by Dr. George H. Girty in 

 the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Survey. Mention should also be 

 made of the receipt of large collections of Cambrian fossils from Russia, 

 Norway, Sweden, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, obtained for the 

 Museum by Dr. Walcott and his assistants, Mr. M. Schmalensee and Mr. 

 S. Ward Loper. Mr. Schuchert, of the National Museum, made extensive 

 collections of Carboniferous, Silurian, and Devonian fossils in New Bruns- 

 wick, the Gaspe region in Quebec, western New York, Maryland, and 

 eastern Pennsylvania. 



An excellent collection of cephalopod mollusks was acquireti during the 

 year, and a remarkably fine slab of crinoid, Uintacrinus socialis, from the 

 Upper Cretaceous of Logan County, Kansas, was presented by Mr. Frank 

 Springer, of Las Vegas, New Mexico. There was also secured the Randall 

 collection containing upward of 3,600 specimens of Upper Devonian and 

 Lower Carboniferous fossils. A fairly complete skeleton of an adult female 

 mastodon was excavated in Michigan for the Museum. The skull of an 

 Elotheriam and other vertebrate fossils from the Bad Lands of Dakota 

 were presented by Dr. J. R. Walker, of the Pine Ridge Agency. A nearly 

 complete, though composite, skeleton of the New Zealand Emeus crassiis 

 was purchased, and a series of Moa bones was acquired by exchange from 

 F. W. Hutton, of New Zealand. 



Several valuable lots of fossil plants were received in exchange. Thus, 

 the University of Kansas transmitted 150 Carboniferous and Permian fossil 

 plants; 173 plants from the Middle and Upper Miocene ami the Upper 

 Pliocene of Germany were received from the Natural Science Society of 

 the Museum Senckenberg in Frankfort, and a small series of fossil plants 

 from the Triassic of York County, Pennsylvania, was transmitted by 

 Prof. A. Wanner, of York, Pennsylvania. 



