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mainly from the Paleozoic rocks of the Mississippi Valley, to the 

 National Museum. This gift is of exceptional value in that it repre- 

 sents the fauna of horizons and localities in which the Museum has 

 been deficient. Mr. Springer also donated about 500 specimens of 

 fossil invertebrates from the Devonian of Callaway County, Missouri, 

 and two fine exhibition specimens, one a type of Archimedes wortheni. 

 Other noteworthy additions of fossil invertebrates were the Nettel- 

 roth collection, containing practically all of the many types figured in 

 Nettelrotlvs " Kentucky Fossil Shells," many of the specimens illus- 

 trated by Davis in his " Kentucky Fossil Corals," and an especially 

 fine representation of the Silurian and Devonian faunas of Indiana 

 and Kentucky; a collection of 120 Cretaceous fossils from San Juan 

 Roya, Mexico, the gift of Prof. Charles Schuchert, of Yale Univer- 

 sity; and a series of plastotypes of all the types of Cambrian Ostra- 

 coda described by Dr. George F. Matthew, the specimens having been 

 lent to the National Museum for the. purpose by Prof. W. A. Parks, 

 of the University of Toronto. 



Among the additions to the section of fossil vertebrates were casts 

 of four specimens, including three skulls and an entire skeleton, of 

 Pareiasaurus baini from the Karoo beds of South Africa, received in 

 exchange from the British Museum: teeth and other skeletal remains 

 from the Oligocene of Germany; and a life size restoration in place 

 of a Pteranodon, made by Dr. George F. Eaton, and received from 

 the Yale University Museum. 



Twenty-two specimens of fossil plants from the Fort Union Terti- 

 ary of North Dakota, presented by Dr. F. H. Knowlton, of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, and a large quantity of fossil wood from the Fossil 

 Forest of Arizona, collected by the head curator, were among the 

 additions to the section of paleobotany. 



GENERAL WORK ON THE COLLECTIONS. 



The revision of the osteological collections in physical anthropology, 

 a considerable part of which had been gathered before the recent 

 establishment of the division, was completed during the year. This 

 work involved the cleaning, sorting, numbering, and cataloguing of 

 many specimens, and the systematic arrangement of all in standard 

 drawers, the order followed being geographical by tribes. The stor- 

 age quarters were remodeled and so extended as to render accessible 

 every specimen in the collection, which comprises parts of about 

 8,000 skeletons. The card or reference catalogue was completed for 

 all of the collections of the division. A number of busts of Indians 

 were made, the opportunity for this having been furnished by visiting 

 delegations. 



In the division of ethnology the storage space was also somewhat 

 increased, permitting the classified arrangement of many additional 



