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ing been obtained by Mr. Paul C. Standley and Mr. H. C. Bollman 
in North Carolina, and a collection of marine invertebrates from 
Plum Point, Md., having been contributed by Mr. William Palmer: 
Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby continued his field work in Manchuria 
and northeastern China, sending two lots of mammals, only one of 
which was received within the year. In the course of anthropological 
investigations in northern Zululand, conducted under the direction 
of Dr. AleS Hrdlicka in the joint interest of the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution and the Panama-California Exposition, Dr. V. Schiick ob- 
tained the skeleton of a black rhinoceros and formalin preparations 
of several important carnivores, rodents, primates, and reptiles. 
Dr. Albert M. Reese, of the University of West Virginia, visited the 
Philippine Islands as a temporary collaborator of the Museum and 
secured for its collections many specimens of reptiles, batrachians, 
fishes, and marine invertebrates. Dr. Fred Baker, of Point Loma, 
Cal., also made a trip, which is still unfinished, to Oceania and the 
Orient, largely for the benefit of the Museum, and has already sent 
in a considerable amount of noteworthy material, especially fishes, 
from Fanning Island and the Philippines. Mr. H. Pittier, of the 
Department of Agriculture, while on furlough and conducting an 
investigation of the resources of Venezuela, made an extensive 
collection of the plants of that country, which he generously pre- 
sented to the Museum. 
Of Government explorations there were three which merit notice 
in this connection because of the immediate returns secured. One 
was the oceanographic cruise of the Fisheries schooner Grampus oft 
the New England coast during July and August, 1913, in cooperation 
with the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, the work being in charge 
of Dr. Henry B. Bigelow of that institution. Large collections of 
plankton were made from which many specimens of several groups 
have been transferred to the Museum. Prof. A. S. Hitchcock and 
Mrs. Agnes Chase, both of the Department of Agriculture, conducted 
extensive investigations with special reference to grasses, the former 
in southern California, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada, the latter in 
Porto Rico. Besides grasses, of which a large number were obtained, 
many other plants were secured in both regions, and the entire re- 
sults have been deposited in the Museum. Prof. Hitchcock had with 
him as assistant his son, Mr. A. E. Hitchcock, who attended to the 
miscellaneous collecting. 
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 
The total number of accessions pertaining to this department was 
199, with an aggregate of 16,693 specimens, which were assigned to 
the several divisions and sections, as follows: Systematic and ap- 
plied geology, 775; mineralogy and petrology, 2,873; invertebrate 
