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comprehensive collection of grasses in this country. Other impor- 

 tant accessions were the Wooton collection of 10,000 plants mostly 

 from New Mexico, about 10,000 West Indian plants, a valuable series 

 from British Guiana, and the C. Henry Kain collection of diatoms, 

 one of the finest in the world, and supposed to be the largest in the 

 United States. 



The more important additions to the department of geology were 

 illustrative of published results of investigations by the Geological 

 Survey, comprising rocks, ores, and minerals from some of the 

 Western States, and fossils from the middle Devonian of New 

 York, the early Devonian and Silurian of Maine, and the Ordovician 

 of Tennessee. Other noteworthy collections of fossil invertebrates 

 received were from the Silurian and Devonian of the Detroit River 

 region, the Silurian of Ohio, and the Tertiary of the Panama Canal 

 Zone, while of vertebrate remains the accessions included a large 

 series of mammals from the Fort Union beds of Montana, many 

 genera and species from recently uncovered Pleistocene cave deposits 

 in Maryland, and a small but interesting series of bones from the 

 Yukon territory containing the first evidence of the former extension 

 of the range of the camel on this continent beyond the Arctic Circle. 

 The Geological Survey transmitted a large collection of Cretaceous 

 and Tertiary plants from Colorado and New Mexico, containing 271 

 type and illustrated specimens. Large collections of Cambrian fos- 

 sils were made by Secretary Walcott in British Columbia and Alberta 

 in connection with his geological work in the Canadian Rockies. 



NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 



The permanent additions to the Gallery consisted of 12 paintings, 

 10 of which were gifts and 2 bequests. Of the former, T were re- 

 ceived from Mr. William T. Evans as contributions to his notable 

 collection of the work of contemporary American painters and are 

 as follows : " The Meadow Brook," by Charles Paul Gruppe ; " The 

 Mourning Brave," by Edwin W. Deming; "The Fur Muff," by 

 Robert David Gauley; " Water Lilies," by Walter Shirlaw; " Castle 

 Creek Canyon, South Dakota," by Frank De Haven ; and " Christ 

 before Pilate " and " Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me," 

 by Otto W. Beck, the last two being pastels. The other gifts were 

 " Twilight after Rain," by Norwood H. MacGilvary, presented by 

 Mr. Frederic F. Sherman in memory of Eloise Lee Sherman ; " The 

 Wreck," by Harrington Fitzgerald, donated by the artist ; and " The 

 Lace Maker," after Terburg, contributed by Miss Julia H. Chadwick. 

 The bequests consisted of the " Tomb of ' Mahomet the Gentleman ' 

 at Broussa," by Hamdy Bey, from Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hobson; and a 

 portrait from the widow of the late Col. Albert B. Brackett, United 

 States Army, by G. P. A. Healy. The additions to the loan collec- 



