32 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



Prof. E. B. Williamson, of Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, and 

 Mr. II. C. Toll, of Pasadena. California; skeletons of birds to Dr. R. W. 

 Sliiitcl.lt: Leptocephalus forms of fishes and other material to Prof. 

 ('. II. Eigenmann, of Indiana University; acotypeof Bufo argillaceus 

 to Dr. Albert Gunther, of the British Museum of Natural History; 

 and salamanders of the genus Spelerpes to Prof . W. S. Blatchley, of 

 Indianapolis. Indiana. 



From the Division of Plants specimens were lent to Mr. B. L. 

 Robinson and Mr. M. N. Fernald, of theGray Herbarium, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts; Dr. J. K. Small, Mr. P. A. Rydberg, and Prof. L. M. 

 Underwood, of the New York Botanical Garden ; Prof. William Trelease, 

 of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis; Mr. George E. Daven- 

 port, Medford, Massachusetts; Mr. A. A. Eaton, Seabrook, New 

 Hampshire; Mr. A. A. Heller, Lancaster, Pa.; Dr. Charles Mohr, 

 Asheville, North Carolina, and Prof. E. L. Greene, of the Catholic 

 University, Washington, District of Columbia. 



The sendings from the Department of Geology included specimens 

 of rocks from the Galapagos Islands to Prof. Alexander Agassiz, of 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology; sections. of rocks from Alaska 

 to Mr. Charles Palache, of Harvard University; volcanic rocks to 

 Mr. It. A. Robinson, of the Peabody Museum of Yale University; 

 300 specimens of rocks to the Division of Soils of the Department 

 <>i' Agriculture; a series of minerals to the United States Geological 

 Survey, to be used in chemical and physical investigations; Oriskany 

 fossils to Dr. J. M. Clarke, of the New York State Museum, Albany; 

 Carboniferous and Triassic fossils to Prof. James Perrin Smith, of 

 Leland Stanford Junior University, and material relating to the fossil 

 chelonia and fossil horse to Dr. O. P. Hay and Mr. J. W. Gidley, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History. 



PROGRESS IN THE INSTALLATION OF THE EXHIBITION COLLECTIONS. 



The exhibition halls of the Department of Anthropology are now so 

 completely tilled, or rather so overcrowded, as to prevent any further 

 additions except of small objects or as older parts of the collection 

 may he removed to storage. This condition prevails in practically 

 every branch of (he department, and is especially embarrassing in 

 respect to that class of objects, of which many are received from time 

 to time, that must he at once provided for in the display cases to insure 

 their safety. The work of the year upon the exhibition series has, 

 therefore, been confined mainly to the rearrangement of material, to 

 the substitution of new and better prepared specimens for less desir- 

 able ones, and to perfecting the system of labeling. Owing to the lack 



