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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Cont'd. 
nell Smith (48068) ; 22 plants from 
the Sello collection of the Botanical 
Museum, Berlin, Germany, presented 
by Capt. Jobn Donnell Smith 
(48153) ; the Gustav Hambach col- 
lection representing the main divi- 
sions of the North American Paleo- 
zoic, including numerous echino- 
derms and a fine representation of 
Mississippi Valley Subcarboniferous 
fossils, also the types of a large 
number of Pentremites. fossil leaves, 
fishes, and some of the figured speci- 
mens of the old Shumard collection 
(48175); 8 skeletons of Eskimos, 
collected by CC. W. Gilmore in 
Alaska (48191); collection of In- 
diana Niagaran fossils, purchased 
from J. KR. Gilbert, Ubee, Ind. 
(48201) ; pottery jar found by an 
Indian on the San Carlos Reserva- 
tion, Ariz., and obtained through the 
courtesy of the Commissioner of In- 
dian Affairs (48211); the 55-horse- 
power, 5-cylinder gasoline engine, 
used on Dr. Samuel P. Langley’s 
aerodrome, 1903 (48265); a silver 
figurine from Bolivia, in the style 
of the Titicaca region, doubtless of 
native origin and belonging to the 
pre-Columbian period, presented by 
Dr. Thomas S. K. Morton, Phila- 
delIphia, Pa. (48276); life-preserver 
worn by Maj. J. W. Powell during 
his famous exploration on the Green 
and Colorado rivers in 1869, and pre- 
sented by Mr. William R. Hawkins, 
Eden, Ariz., through Mir. Robert B. 
Stanton, New York City (48296) ; 
ethnological material from the Phil- 
ippine Islands, ete., presented by 
Maj. George P. Ahern, U. S. Army 
(retired) (48568); a collection of 
corals, shells, and other inverte- 
brates from Flint Island. obtained 
by Mr. C. G. Abbot, of the Astro- 
physical Observatory, in connection 
with the solar eclipse expedition 
(48573) ; 27 plants, mainly Guate- 
malan orchids, presented by Capt. 
John Donnell Smith (48470); 48 
speciemrs of Guatemalan orchids, 
presented by Capt. John Donnell 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Cont d. 
Smith (48557); 189 plants collected 
chiefly by Lehmann in Colombia and 
Central America, presented by Capt. 
John Donnell Smith (48569) ; about 
5,000 specimens of Cambrian fossils 
from British Columbia, and about 
2.500 from Montpelier, Idaho, col- 
lected by Dr. Charles DD. Walcott 
and party during the summer of 
190T (48712); 12 pieces of pottery 
purchased through the Office of In- 
dian <Affairs by Horton M. Miller, 
superintendent Moqui Agency, Keams 
Cation, Ariz. (48724). 
Bureau of American Ethnology: 
Collection of ethnological specimens 
and plants made by Mrs. M. C. Ste- 
venson in the pueblos of Zuni and 
Taos, N. Mex. (47686); aboriginal 
soapstone objects from a quarry on 
Connecticut avenue extended (Rose 
Hill), collected by W. H.. Gill 
(47687); large steatite pipe illus- 
trating the use of the ordinary 
pump-drill, made by G. Wiley Gill; 
arrow-points collected in a village 
site in Sussex County, Del., by G. 
Wiley Gill (4768S); small bronze 
(hawk) bell frem a mound in Ala- 
bama, obtained by Peter A. Brannon, 
of Montgomery, Ala. (47689); iron 
or steel hammer picked up on the 
beach at Coan River, lower Poto- 
mac, by De Laney Gill (47690) ; 
Hopi notched * fiddle” and 2 perfo- 
rated bits of metal, presented by 
Mrs. H. T. Hall, Chicago, Il. 
(47691); stone ax and flaked im- 
plements from Popes Creek, Md., 
collected by W. H. Holmes (47692) ; 
cast of a stone ax belonging to D. 
I. Bushnell, of St. Louis, Mo. 
(47965) ; steatite pot from Mecklen- 
burg County, Va. (47964); basket- 
box made by the Chitimacha Indians 
of Louisiana, collected by J. R. Swan- 
ton (47965); 2 grooved axes and a 
hammer-stone (47996) ; collection of 
objects representing the industrial 
and social life of the Tahltan In- 
dians, Stikine River, British Colum- 
bia, collected by George TT. Emmons 
(47997) ; 2 human skulls, one from 
