392 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



This collection is of historic value, and is a most interesting addition to the Museum 

 collections, although many types are missing. 



Accession 2G525. — The Lea collection, which contains a number of fine specimeus 

 that arc suitable for the exhibition series, and a large number for the student col- 

 lection. 



Accession 21650 is of value in affording the means of comparison between the 

 Cambrian fauna of Sweden and that of North America. There are a number of 

 species illustrating genera that arc not known from North American strata. 



Accession 21716 is a small but very welcome addition to the Museum collections, 

 as the fauna of the Calciferous terrane of New York is very meager and but poorly 

 represented in the collections. 



Accession 21838 adds materially to the series of graptolites and, with accession 

 21887, gives the Museum a fair representation of that fauna from Canada. 



Accession 21855 gives the data for comparison of an extensive group of problemat- 

 ical fossils from the Silurian (Ordovician) strata of Portugal with somewhat similar 

 forms from Great Britain and North America. 



Accession 21861 contains the types of thirteen species, and the collection is of 

 interest and value from its having been the means of settling a most important geo- 

 logic question in relation to North American geology. United with accession 21914 

 it gives the largest series of Cambrian fossils yet obtained from Newfoundland. 



Accessions 21904 and 21869 add to the means of comparison of the European Cam- 

 brian fauna with that of North America, and also give a representation of several 

 genera not hitherto known to the Museum collections. 



RECAPITULATION OF ACCESSIONS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR. 



20956 . . 



21180.. 



21280*. 



213521 



21521.. 



21029.. 



21630 . . 



21639.. 



21650.. 



21651 . . 



21056.. 



21657. . 



21716.. 



21720.. 



217:;.-;- 

 21838.. 

 21845.. 

 2 is:,:, . 

 21861. . 

 21869.. 



21887$ . 

 21903.. 

 21904 . . 

 21914.. 



22' 1 10; 



Accession No. 



No. of 

 genera. 



No. of 



species. 



No. of 

 speci- 

 meus. 



19 

 16 



3 

 3 



9 



10 



13 



24 



12 



5 



o 



6 



1 



o 



3 



12 



13 



22 



46 



13 



5 



2 



7 



1 



19 



60 



95 



682 



431 



17 



6 



3 



21 



1 



9 

 2 

 2 



16 

 9 

 7 



12 



2 



4 



26 



12 



8 



37 

 3 



13 



125 



36 



33 



Total 



3 



In 

 15 



172 



3 

 12 

 19 



6 



315 



3,241 



238 5. 179 



■ In process of Mini y ami identification. 

 I Not yet identified. 



' For ref< rence to Department of Lithology. 

 5 N'i>t j > i examined 



