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and Mr. II. N. Lowe and Mrs. Blanche Trank, several lots of Californian shells; Mr. 

 E. J. Court, of Washington, 1). C., donated a representative series of the land shells 

 of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia; Dr. Dwight Blaney about 800 

 shells dredged near Mount Desert, Me., and Mr. C. A. Davis, many Bermuda shells, 

 ineluding several cotypes. Among the specimens obtained by purchase was a large 

 collection of Japanese land and marine moUusks, and land shells from the Pacific 

 coast and the islands off California. 



The Division of Marine Invertebrates received a collection of Mexican fresh-water 

 crabs from the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture; crustaceans from 

 Catalina and San Clenu'ute Islands, presented by Mr. H. N. Lowe; cotypes of a 

 species of shrimp and of a stomatopod crustacean from the National Museum of 

 Brazil; several beautiful specimens of the Japanese precious coral from Dr. K. 

 Kishinouye; and a collection of sea urchins, chiefly from the Gulf of Siam, from the 

 Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. 



The additions to the Division of Insects were numerous and valuable. Among 

 those of greatest importance may be noted two lots of over 6,000 specimens from the 

 Department of Agriculture; an extensive collection of Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, etc., 

 made by Mr. E. A. Schwarz, in Texas; several lots of Philippine insects from Rev. 

 W. A. Stanton, of Manila, and one from Mr. R. C. McGregor, of the Philippine 

 Museum; a large miscellaneous collection from the grounds of the Washington Biol- 

 ogists's Field Club at Plummer's Island; and a valuable collection of Lepidoptera, 

 from Mr. E. M. Anderson, of the Provincial Museum at Victoria, British Columbia. 

 From foreign sources the following collections were received as gifts: Indian Hymen- 

 optera from Maj. C. G. Nurse; Indian spiders from Prof. N. JamVjunathan; Venezu- 

 elan beetles from Mr. Edward A. Klages; Peruvian insects from Mr. M. J. Pusey; 

 and Norwegian Lepidoptera from Sir George Hampson, of the British Museum. 



Of 555 accessions to the Division of Plants, the most valuable was the deposit made 

 by Dr. E. L. Greene, of his collection of about 60,000 sheets of plants, and his entire 

 botanical library. Next in importance was the gift by Mrs. T. A. Williams, of Mem- 

 phis, Nebr., of about 15,000 plants from various parts of the United States. Mr. C. 

 V. Piper, of Pullman, Wash., presented more than 600 plants from that State, and 

 Mr. E. W. D. Hoi way, of Minneapolis, Minn., an interesting collection of Mexican 

 plants. Important exchanges were made with the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture, 

 the New York Botanical tJarden, and the Royal Gardens at Kew, England. Sixty- 

 eight ])otanical accessions were received from the Department of Agriculture, the 

 most important comprising specimens obtained in Texas by Mr. Arthur Howell, 

 in New Mexico and Oklahoma by Mr. Fred. G. Plummer, and in New Mexico by 

 Mr. Vernon Bailey. Plants from Australia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and 

 from several of the States were acquired by purchase. 



The most extensive additions to the geological collections were, as usual, received 

 from the United States Geological Survey, prominent among them having been about 

 40,000 invertebrate fossils, mostly named and including a large amount of material 

 on which Dr. William H. Dalland his assistants have been working for several years. 

 The Survey also transmittetl a series of 1 ,932 tertiary insects, assembled by Dr. Samuel 

 H. Scudder, together with a number of original drawings. The acquisition of this 

 material is believed to make the Museum collection of fossil insects the largest in the 

 LTnited States, if not in the world. 



A collection of platiniferous rocks from the Demidoff mines in Russia was pre- 

 sented by Juarez Sponville; a series of rocks illustrating the occurrence and associa- 

 tion of diamonds at the De Beers consolidated mines in South Africa, by Mr. Gardner 

 F. Williams, manager of the mines; a rich nugget of native silver, by A. L. Pellegrin, 

 .of Nogales, Ariz., and a specimen of diamond-bearing gravel from Minas Geraes, 

 Brazil, to which a small diamond was attached, by Dr. O. A. Derby, of Sao Paulo. 



