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the following list: Dr. C. Hart Merriam, Prof. C. V. Kiley, .Mr. F. L. J. 

 Boettcher, Dr. A. K. Fisher, Mr. Albert Hassall, Mr. Frauk II. Hitch- 

 cock, Mr. Theodore IIoliii, ^Iv. J. F. James, Dr. George ^larx. Dr. E. 

 Palmer, Mr. E. A, Preble, and -Mr. II. E, Van Demau. 



The U. S. Fish Commission is so closely associated in its work with 

 the Museum, and each year contributes so extensively to its collections, 

 that it seems almost impossible to make special acknowledgments 

 apart from those in the list of accessions. Keference must however 

 be made to the assistance rendered by the following officers of the 

 Commission : Col. ^Marshall McDonald, U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries; 

 Dr. Kichard llathbun, Dr. T. H. F)ean (both honorary curators), Mr. 

 Viual N^. Edwards, Prof B. W. Evermaun, Dr. E. R. Gurley, Dr. Hugh 

 M. Smith, Mr. C. H. Townseud, and :Mr. S. G. Worth. 



Since the Bureau of American Ethnology is, like the National Museum, 

 a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, it is scarcely perhaps ])roper 

 to refer to it under this head, exce])t to say that its entire stafl"is con- 

 stantly in cooperation with that of the Museum, During the past year 

 special contributions have been received from the following persons con- 

 nected with the Bureau : Maj. J. W. Powell, director ; Mr. F. H. Cashing, 

 Dr. A. S. Gatschet, Mr. H. W. Henshaw, Mr. F. Webb Hodge, Dr. W. 

 J. Hoffman, ^Ir. -lames Mooney, and Mr. James C. Pilling. 



SPECIAL EXPLORATIONS. 



During the year special (collections from various parts of the world 

 have been made by explorers who have offered their services to the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and many of whom have been supplied with 

 instruments and materials for collecting. 



Among the most interesting groups of objects sent m from abroad are 

 those collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in Kashmir and other parts of 

 India; from the Seychelles, from Aden, and from Aldabra. (xlorioso, 

 and the adjacent islands. Dr. Abbott is a man of private means, whose 

 interest in exploration and in field sports is happily supplemented by 

 great enthusiasm for natural history work. His collections cover every 

 branch of natm-al history, as well as ethnology, and are sent to the 

 Museum with the understanding that they shall be promptly studied 

 and des('ril)ed and the results i)ublished. A number of papers descrip- 

 tive of his collections have already a})i»eared, and others are in prci)a- 

 ration. Dr. Abbott has previously sent much imijortant material from 

 Kilima-Njaro and other important localities in Africa. 



Equally im])ortaiit have been the explorations of a similar charac- 

 ter made by Mr. William Astor Chanler, of New York City, who has 

 already sent in extensive ethnological, zoological, and botanical collec- 

 tions from Mashonaland, the Tana River, and other localities in East 

 Africa. 



Mr. 11. C. Moore, while making explorations in South Africa, obtained 

 a valuable collection of skins, skulls, and horns of antelopes and other 

 large animals. 



