84 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



Mr. Stewart, on :t similar errand, also visited Kimmswick and various 

 reported finds in adjacent States: but in none of these cases was mate- 

 rial sufficiently perfect for restoration secured, though some interest- 

 in-; portions of skeletons were obtained. The latter part of May Mr. 

 Stewart was sent to investigate a reported find of bones near Church, 

 in southern Michigan, and was fortunate enough to secure a very well 

 preserved skeleton of a female Mastodon americarvm. It is hoped we 

 may be able to mount this for exhibition some time during the coming 

 year. 



Mi. Schuchert spent the month of July and the greater part of 

 August in collecting fossils from the Silurian along the Arisaig coast 

 in Nova Scotia, and from the Lower Devonian near Dalhousie, New 

 Brunswick, and the Gaspe region of eastern Quebec, ( Janada. In Sep- 

 tember he passed a few days near Cumberland, Maryland, gathering 

 Silurian and Devonian fossils, and after his work of installation at the 

 Pan-American Exposition in early May, a few days were devoted to 

 collecting Silurian fossils in the cement quarries at North Buffalo and 

 about Lewiston and New Bloomtield, in eastern Pennsylvania. During 

 May and June he was again occupied for nearly four weeks collecting 

 Silurian and Devonian fossils in eastern Pennsylvania and about Cum- 

 berland, Maryland. These collections, it may be said, were made with 

 a view to the more accurate fixation of the line separating the Silurian 

 from the Devonian systems in America, a problem upon which Mr. 

 Schuchert has been for sometime engaged. 



In February Mr. J. W. Coleman was sent to Selma, Alabama, where 

 he obtained the Felix meteorite already referred to, and others have 

 been obtained by exchange. Six polished spheres of pegmatite, onyx, 

 marble, serpentine, sphserosiderite, and satin spar have been prepared 

 from material in the reserve series and added to the gem series. 



ROUTINE. 



In all divisions of the department there were received some 80,000 

 specimens which required entering in the Museum catalogues, num- 

 bering, and. in many instances, the preparation of cards for the card 

 catalogue.-, and perhaps labels for exhibition purposes as well. In 

 addition there still remains a large amount of old material needing 

 attention. Mrs. Jouy, who has been placed in charge of this line of 

 work, reports that for the Division of Geology and the sections of 

 paleobotany and vertebrate paleontology there have thus been made 

 T.:;:.i entries in the Museum registers; that between 13,000 and 

 L4,000 catalogue and reference cards, specimen slips, and temporary 

 labels have been prepared, and that 5,383 specimens have been num- 

 bered. These numbers are painted in oil on a. hard-oil finished back- 

 ground and require four or five figures for each number, involving, 

 all t<»ld. therefore, some 25,000 figures, 



