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the former met his heroic death on the Intrepid in the war with 
Tripoh, in 1804. A pistol and 9 military commissions were added 
to the collection of Gen. George W. Morgan, U. S. Army, by his 
widow, now residing at Zanesville, Ohio, and a marble top table 
which had belonged to Thomas Jefferson was received as a gift from 
Mrs. Frederic C. Brinton, of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Several 
relics of the Sutton family of Virginia were donated by Mrs. Minnie 
J. Elliott, of Washington, and Mr. William R. Hawkins, of Eden, 
Arizona, presented the life-preserver worn by the late Maj. J. W. 
Powell during his first and most notable exploration of the Green 
and Colorado rivers and their great canyons. The. Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago, contributed 18 pieces of Arctic cloth- 
ing and other articles used by members of the Greely Relief Expe- 
dition. The Rev. J. L. and Mr. Leon L. L. French, of Washington, 
deposited a large collection of historical relics, relating mainly to 
the civil war. The National Society, Colonial Dames of America, 
added 50 objects to its collection and the National Society, Daughters 
of the American Revolution, also increased its deposit. A chair from 
Morro Castle and an Indian beaded cane, relics of the late Sergt. 
Hamilton Fish of the Rough Riders, who was killed in Cuba, were 
presented by Mrs. Nicholas Fish, of Washington. From the govern- 
ment exhibits at the Jamestown and Bordeaux expositions a large 
number of photographs, photographic enlargements, and other his- 
torical material were received. 
DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY. 
Accessions of greater or less extent were received from the custom- 
ary government sources, such as the Bureau of Fisheries, the Bu- 
reau of Plant Industry, the Bureau of Entomology, the Biological 
Survey, and the Forest Service, as explained further on. Among 
private contributors Dr, W. L. Abbott and Maj. E. A. Mearns, U. 8S. 
Army, stand foremost, the former having presented several hundred 
mammals, birds, and reptiles, mainly from Siak River, Sumatra, and 
southwestern Borneo; the latter, over 1,000 bird skins, about 250 
specimens of bats and other mammals, and many land shells, from 
the Philippines. Both of these collections contain a large number 
of new species and some new genera. 
This department has also been more or less benefited by recent ex- 
plorations of the Leland Stanford Junior University in Japan, the 
Philippine Islands, the Fiji Islands, California, and Mexico; of M. de 
Rothschild’s expedition to East Africa; of the Egyptian Government 
in the Nile Valley; of Charcot in the Antarctic region; of Prof. J. Fid 
Tristan and Dr. A. Alfaro in Costa Rica; of Dr. S. E. Meek at Lake 
Amatitlan, Guatemala; of Mr, William Schaus in Central America; 
