40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 
York Botanical Garden; nearly 1,600 Chinese plants from the collec- 
tion of Mr. E. H. Wilson; about 10,000 specimens of cryptogams 
collected by the late John B. Leiberg and presented by Mrs. Leiberg; 
and important contributiorts from Venezuela, Guam, the Philippines, 
and the southern and southwestern States. 
Among the additions in geology and mineralogy were an impor- 
tant series of rocks and ores from the Sudbury nickel region and the 
Cobalt mining district of Canada; a suite of recently described min- 
erals from Peru; a 200-pound specimen of copper from Nevada; an 
unusual deposit of carnotite in a fossil tree trunk; a large piece of 
quartz vein, containing an abundant development of blade-like crys- 
tals of tungsten ore; and many specimens of minerals from various 
sources, including rare and excellent examples and some new forms. 
The collections of meteorites and building stones received many 
desirable additions, and the Geological Survey deposited a number 
of series of rocks, of petrological value, from different parts of this 
country and from Hawaii. The accessions in invertebrate paleon- 
tology included about 150 types of Cambrian fossils collected and 
described by Secretary Walcott; some 5,000 specimens from the 
Middle Cambrian of British Columbia, also collected by him; and 
about 150 type specimens of Bryozoa and Ostracoda, representing 
work of the curator of the division on the Silurian collections from 
the island of Anticosti, preserved at Yale University. The Geolog- 
ical Survey transferred several collections, some of which had been 
described; Dr. E. O. Ulrich presented about 3,000 Paleozoic fossils, 
of much value to the Museum; and an important series of Tertiary 
mollusks and Ordovician graptolites was received in exchange from 
Australia. The most important acquisitions in vertebrate paleon- 
tology consisted of a large collection made by Mr. Charles W. Gil- 
more in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; of the results of further 
explorations by Mr. James W. Gidley in the Pleistocene cave deposits 
near Cumberland, Md.; and of cetacean remains collected in the 
Miocene beds near Chesapeake Beach, Md., by Mr. William Palmer 
and Mr. Norman H. Boss. The section of paleobotany was enriched 
by three valuable type collections from the Geological Survey, rep- 
resenting the Jurassic formation at Cape Lisburne, Alaska; the 
Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama; and the Cretaceous and Tertiary 
in South Carolina and Georgia. 
‘The number and value of the accessions in the division of textiles 
were greatly increased over those of the previous year, due to the 
appreciation shown by the producers in the important work which 
the Museum has undertaken. Only a brief summary can here be 
given of the many contributions which were almost wholly in the 
form of gifts. 'To the cotton collection were added fancy wash 
dress goods and shirtings, comprising pleasing and artistic combina- 
