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Curtiss, of Jacksonville, Florida, 1,100 specimens from the United States. Dr. J. N. 

 Rose made a large collection of plants on his expedition to Mexico during the early 

 part of the year, as mentioned elsewhere. The Department of Agriculture has trans- 

 mitted 2,500 plants collected in Alaska by Mr. F. V. Coville and Mr. T. H. Kearney; 

 807 plants collected in the State of Washington by Mr. Kirk AVhitead, and 2,300 

 plants collected in Virginia and North Carolina by Mr. T. H. Kearney. Four hun- 

 dred and thirteen plants from Oregon have been received from the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. 



The princiisal addition to the Department of Geology was the extensive and unique 

 collection of vertebrate fossils made for the U. S. Geological Survey by, or under the 

 direction of, the late Prof. 0. C. Marsh, and which was in the possession of the latter 

 at Yale University at the time of his death, in 1899. A part of this collection, com- 

 prising two carloads, had been transferred to the Museum several years before. The 

 remainder, filling 600 boxes and requiring 5 cars for its transportation, was received 

 during the past year. This collection is the most important of its kind ever brought 

 together, being exceedingly rich in large Dinosaurs, especially of the genera Trlcera- 

 topH and Stegosaurus. Of Titanothermm there are nearly 50 complete skulls. Forty 

 or more species of Dinosaurs and of Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary mammals are 

 represented by type specimens. 



A nearly complete femur of a large Dinosaur, a fine specimen of the fossil gar 

 {Lepidostejis atrox) , a series of Mesozoic invertebrate fossils, and many lithological speci- 

 mens were obtained in "Wyoming by Mr. Charles Schuchert, and an interesting series 

 of cycads was collected in the same State by Prof. Lester F. Ward and Mr. Schuchert. 



A fine skull of an ElotJieriwn and another of a Diceratherium were obtained by 

 purchase; a series of Jurassic fishes, recently described by Mr. C. R. Eastman, was 

 transmitted by the Geological Survey, and a well-preserved specimen of fossil gar 

 {Lepidosteus simplex) was secured through exchange from the Glen Island Museum, 

 New York. 



An important collection of Texas Jurassic invertebrate fossils, described by Prof. 

 F. W. Cragin, was received from the Geological Survey; a large immber of Lower 

 Helderberg fossils from New York, containing several new species, were obtained 

 from Mr. John M. Clarke, and many Guelph (L^^pper Silurian) fossils were acquired 

 by purchase. 



A series of specimens showing the twenty stages in developnient of tlie Cambrian 

 trilobite {Sao hirsutn) was received in exchange from the National Museum at Prag, 

 Bohemia, through Dr. Anton Fritsch, and a restoration by Prof. C. E. Beecher of 

 the fossil Crustacean, Stylonurus, from Yale L^niversity. 



Many fossil corals were presented by the Hon. Delos Arnold, Prof. J. C. Merriam, 

 Mr. T. W. Vaughan, and Mr. J. A. Singley, and a specimen of the rare echinoid 

 Oligoporus nobilis was donated by Mr. W. L. Woods. 



Collections of Cambrian brachiopods, of Rocky Mountain, Ordovician, Silurian, and 

 Devonian fossils, and of fossil plants from a number of localities, as well as about 

 2,000 rock specimens representing areas recently examined by the Survey, including 

 the Little Belt Mountains, the Uvalde, Anthracite and Crested Butte, and Big Trees 

 quadrangles, and the' Silver Cliff and Rosita districts of Colorado, were transferred 

 by the Geological Survey to the keeping of the Museum. 



A meteorite weighing about 64 pounds, which fell at Allegan, Michigan, on July 

 10, 1899, was purchased, and other meteorites were secured by exchange from the 

 following localities: Jerome, Gove County, Kansas; Bishopville, South Carolina; 

 Indarka, Augustinowka, and Bischtube in Russia; Lissa, Bohemia, and Schonenberg 

 in Bavaria. 



A large number of sjiecimens of volcanic material collected in Hawaii by Prof. 

 C. H. Hitchcock, and a series of orbic-ular granites from Finland, Sweden, and 

 Rhode Island were added to the collections. 



