LIST OF. ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING 
THE FISCAL YEAR 1907-1908. 
[Exeept when otherwise indicated, the specimens were prese nted or were transferred by 
bureaus of the Government in accordance with law.] 
ABBE, CLEVELAND, jr., Washington, 
D. C.: German and Austrian cakes 
(12409: loan), 
Appott, W. L., Singapore, Straits Set- 
tlements: A large and valuable col- | 
lection of ethnological and natural 
history specimens from Sumatra and 
adjacent islands (47566); a large 
and very interesting collection of 
material illustrating the manners 
nnd customs of the Dyaks, and of 
natural history specimens, including 
mammals, birds, reptiles, etc., from 
Borneo (48220). 
ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Phila- 
delphia, Pa.: Collection of birds’ 
skins, Formicariidae (4SSGS: loan). 
ADLER, Cyrus, Smithsonian Institu- 
tion: Pair of Jewish phylacteries 
from Jerusalem (48064). 
AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF: 
Bureau of Animal Industry: Skin 
and skeleton of a female Greyy Ze- 
bra from Abyssinia (47992). 
Bureau of Biological Survey: 8 
living cacti, Opuntia, collected in 
Colorado by Merritt Cary (47552) ; 
2 living cacti, Opuntia, collected by 
‘Vernon Bailey at Warren, Cal. 
(47568): 3 cacti, Opuntia, collected 
by Vernon Bailey in California 
(47627); 5 plants from California 
collected by Vernon Bailey (47628) ; 
2 cacti, Opuntia, from California col- 
lected by IX. A. Goldman (47629) ; 
lizard from China (47680); speci- 
men of living cactus, Opuntia, from 
Colorado (47638); 31 flies (47651) ; 
2 plants from California collected 
AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF—Cont'd. 
by Vernon Bailey (47652); plants 
from Colorado collected by Merritt 
Cary (47653); 12 specimens of Dip- 
tera from the District of Columbia 
and vicinity (47708); living cacti, 
Opuntia, collected in Colorado by 
Merritt Cary (47711); 2 plants, 
Pinus, collected in Colorado by Mer- 
ritt Cary (47735); 5 specimens of 
living cacti, Onuitiv, collected in 
California by Vernon sailey 
(47804); living specimen of cactus, 
Opuntia, collected in California by 
Vernon Bailey (47811); 2 specimens 
of Juniperus occidentalis collected 
in Siskiyou County, Cal., by C. Hart 
Merriam (47825); 6 plants collected 
in Colorado by Merritt Cary 
(47838) ; 2 living cacti, Opuntia, col- 
lected in California by Vernon 
Bailey (47888); living specimen of 
cactus, Opuntia, collected in Cali- 
fornia by Vernon Bailey (47978) ; 
7 plants collected in Colorado by 
Merritt Cary (48017); specimen of 
living plant, Dudleya, collected in 
‘alifornia by E. <A. Goldman 
(48020) ; 2 living cacti, Opuntia, col- 
lected in California by Vernon 
Bailey (48028); 14 plants collected 
in California by KE. A. Goldman 
(48059); 38 living cacti, Opuntia, 
collected in Colorado by Merritt 
Cary (48073); 2 specimens of cacti, 
Opuntia, collected in Washington 
and North Dakota (48125) ; 4 plants 
collected by Merritt Cary in Colo- 
rado (48137); 6 plants from Ne- 
braska collected by Merritt Cary 
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