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the crustaceans and eehinoderms collected by the Princeton University 

 Arctic Expedition of L899. Other accessions which may be mentioned 

 arc the types of the Oligochete worms collected by the E. W. Harri- 

 man Alaskan Expedition of L899,a fine series of the marine and fresh- 

 water crustaceans of Hawaii, presented by Mr. H. W. Henshaw; and 

 the specimens of ocean bottom obtained by the U. S. S. Nero in its 

 surveys for cable routes in the Pacific Ocean. 



In botany the most prominent accession was the collection of 10,000 

 specimens of lichens, from various parts of the world, which had 

 belonged to the late Henry Willey, of New Bedford, Massachusetts, a 

 well -know ii specialist in the group, and which was purchased from his 

 estate. Next in importance by reason of their size were a collection 

 of 5,400 plants made in Oregon by Mr. E. P. Seldon and transferred 

 by the Department of Agriculture, and 1,600 specimens collected in 

 Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee by Mr. Charles L. Pollard and Mr. 

 "William 1\. Maxon, of the Museum. 



In th«' Department of Geology by far the greater bulk of the acces- 

 sions was received from the U. S. Geological Survey, the more impor- 

 tant contributions from this source comprising a type series of 386 

 specimens of asphalt and associated rocks from various parts of the 

 United States; a large number of rocks and ores from the Ten Mile 

 district, and Silverton, Pikes Peak, and Cripple Creek quadrangles of 

 ( !olorado; 375 specimens of Pre-Cambrian marine invertebrate fossils, 

 including materia] figured and described by Dr. Charles D. Walcott; 

 2,370 fossils, mainly brachiopods, from the Cambrian, 2,425 from the 

 Ordovician of southern Nevada and near El Paso, Texas, and 114 

 Silurian and L,550 Devonian fossils from the Helderbergian and 

 Oriskanian beds of Indian Territory, and the higher Devonian of 

 Colorado and New Mexico. Other noteworthy additions were exten- 

 sive and valuable collections of Cambrian fossils made by and under 

 the direction of Dr. Walcott in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Russia, 

 Norway, and Sweden; the private collection of Mr. F. A. Randall, of 

 Warren, Pennsylvania, comprising upward of 3,600 specimens of Upper 

 Devonian and Lower Carboniferous fossil plants; a remarkably line 

 slab of the floating crinoid, Uintacrinus social Is, the gift of Mr. Frank 

 Springer; a skeleton of the gigantic toothed bird, Hesperornis regalis, 

 one of the most complete in existence, and of especial value as throw- 

 ing new light upon the structure of this somewhat anomalous form; a 

 complete but composite skeleton of the New Zealand Emeus crassus; 

 a fairly complete skeleton of an adult female mastodon, unearthed at 

 Church, Michigan; an exceptionally tine nugget of native platinum, 

 weighing 444 grams, from the Nijni-Tagilsk district in the Russian 

 Crab and some line (lusters of distorted crystals of native silver, in 

 dendritic and fere, like forms, from the Lake Superior district. 



