82 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



A line large nodule <>t' Oregon priceite, the gift of W. C. Luke. 



Twenty-two specimens of minerals from the trap rocks near Trenton, 

 New Jersey, gift of W. A. Rocbling. 



Five cut beryls from Topsham, Maine. 



Twelve cut turquoise and two cut opals, gift of H. B. Petersen. 



Two specimens of pisanite, a mineral new to the collection, received 

 from the United States Geological Survey. 



One specimen of reinite, also new to the collection, the gift of T. 

 Kotchibe. 



From the United States Geological Survey, 375 specimens of Pre- 

 Cambrian invertebrate fossils, including material figured and described 

 by Dr. Charles D. Walcott in the Bulletin of the Geological Society of 

 America; 2,370 specimens, mainly brachiopods, from the Cambrian; 

 2,425 Ordovician fossils, being the first collections of considerable value 

 from this horizon, from southern Nevada and near El Paso, Texas; 114 

 Silurian and 1,550 Devonian specimens, from the Helderbergian and 

 Oriskanian beds of Indian Territory and the higher Devonian of Colo- 

 rado and New Mexico, a portion of which was described by Mr. G. IT. 

 Girty in the Nineteenth Annual Report of the United States Geo- 

 logical Survey, and a very large number of duplicate Miocene and 

 Pliocene molhisca. 



In addition to these should be mentioned the collections of Cambrian 

 fossils from Russia, Norway, Sweden, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland 

 made by Mr. Walcott and his assistants, Messrs. Schmalensee and S. 

 Ward Loper, and extensive Carboniferous, Silurian, and Devonian 

 collections made by Charles Schuchert in New Brunswick, the Gaspe 

 region in Quebec, and in western New York, Maryland, and eastern 

 Pennsylvania. 



An excellent series of cephalopod mollusks. purchased from Messrs. 

 Krantz and Sturtz, of Bonn, Prussia. 



A fine scries of Oriskanian and Helderbergian fossils from near 

 Cumberland, Maryland, obtained by gift and exchange from Messrs. 

 Robert II. Gordon, Frank Hartley, and George W. Perdue. 



A remarkably fine slab of the floating crinoid Uintacrinus socialis, 

 from the Upper Cretaceous of Logan County, Kansas, gift of Mr. 

 Frank Springer. 



The private collection of F. A. Randall, of Warren. Pennsylvania, 

 containing upward of : > .,t'»no specimens of Upper Devonian and Lower 

 Carboniferous fossils, obtained by purchase. 



The greater portion of the skeleton of the gigantic toothed diver, 

 Hesperornis regalis, from Logan County, Kansas, purchased for the 

 Pan-American Exposition. 



A series of Mo:i bones, obtained by exchange from Capt. F. W. 

 Button, of Christ Church, New Zealand. 



A nearly complete though composite skeleton of the New Zealand 

 Emeus crassus, obtained by purchase, 



