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The meteorite collection has been increased by purchase and through 

 exchange more than in any previous year. One of the most important 

 accessions was a stony meteorite weighing 2,049 grams, which fell at Felix, 

 Alabama, in May, 1900. It was collected by Mr. J. W. Coleman and trans- 

 mitted to the Museum by Mr. R. D. Sturtevant, of Augustine, Alabama. 



Important donations of minerals were as follows : 



A quantity of Georgia corundum in masses and crystals, by the Inter- 

 national Emery Company, of Chester, Massachusetts; a series of zinc ores 

 and associated minerals from Missouri, by Mr. F. W. Crosby; large speci- 

 mens of mohawkite and domeykite, with native silver, from the Wolverine 

 copper mine, Houghton County, Michigan, by Mr. -Fred Smith; 6 nuggets 

 of platinum from Trinity County, California, by the Welsbach Company, 

 through its presiilent, Mr. W. E. Barrows; a fine large nodule of priceite, 

 by Mr. W. C. Lake, of Harbor, Oregon, and 12 specimens of turquoise and 

 2 of opal, by Mr. H. P. Petersen, of Washington, District of Columbia. 

 Among other additions was a series of specimens of native silver and cop- 

 per from Houghton County, Michigan, and 3 samples of beach gold from 

 Cape Nome, Alaska. 



Exploration. — Some of the most important accessions of the year were 

 the results of explorations carried on by members of the Museum staff 

 and by other scientific bureaus of the Government. Mention has already 

 been made of several collections secured in this manner. 



Mr. W. H. Holmes, head curator of Anthropology, accompanied by Dr. 

 W. A. Phillips, of the Field Columbian Museum, examined the extensive 

 flint quarries in the vicinity of Mill Creek, Union County, Illinois, where 

 he obtained a large number of implements and quarry rejects. In June, 

 1901, Dr. Walter Hough l)egan investigations in the Pueblo country in 

 conjunction with Mr. Peter G. Gates, of Pasadena, California, intending 

 to continue the work during the entire summer, chiefly at the expense of 

 Mr. Gates, the collections to be divided between him and the National 

 Museum. The collections made by P-rof. J. B. Steere, of Ann Arbor, 

 Michigan, on the Upper Purus River, in Brazil; by Mr. William A. Cook, 

 near the headwaters of the Paraguay River, and by Lieut. G. T. Emmons, 

 U. S. N., in British Columbia and Alaska, have already been referred to. 

 The expeditions to the Philippines by Col. F. F. Hilder, and to Sonora, 

 Mexico, by Mr. AV J McGee, both of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 

 for the Government board of the Pan-American Exposition, resulted very 

 successfully, and the material obtained will, it is understood, be transferred 

 to the Museum at the close of the exposition. 



Dr. Roland Steiner continued his explorations of quarries, workshops, 

 and village sites near Grovetown, Georgia, and at the mouth of Shoulder- 

 bone Creek and on Little Kiokee River, where he procured many thou- 

 sands of specimens, all of which have been deposited in the Museum. 



During a stay of four months in Florida, Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A., 

 gave his attention to the collecting of birds and mammals for the Museum. 

 Mammals were also collected in Italy, Sicily, and southern France by Mr. 

 Dane Coolidge, and in the vicinity of Peterboro, New York, by Mr. Gerrit 

 S. Miller, jr. Mr. W. H. Ashmead was detailed in the spring of 1901 to 

 obtain entomological material in the Hawaiian Islands, in conjunction with 



