REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914, brs 
paleontology, 11,041; vertebrate paleontology, 1,430; and_paleo- 
botany, 574. There were also received for examination and report 
546 lots of specimens, of which 217 were geological, 280 mineralogical, 
and 49 fossils, and it is interesting to note that in the material sent 
for this purpose there has been a great increase in the proportional 
amount supposed to contain radioactive minerals. While the Mu- 
seum has not the means for making detailed analyses of specimens, 
simple determinations are generally sufficient to decide their nature 
and general value and of all of the specimens received in this con- 
nection during last year only 27 were of any interest either to science 
or to the Museum. 
Systematic and applied geology—The Royal Ontario Museum of 
Mineralogy, of Toronto, Canada, transmitted as an exchange a series 
of rocks and ores illustrating the geology and petrology of the Sud- 
bury nickel region and the Cobalt mining district, including some 
exceptionally good exhibition examples of native silver in gangue 
and of nickel-cobalt minerals. The American Vanadium Co., of 
Pittsburgh, Pa., presented a suite of the recently described Peruvian 
minerals quisqueite, patronite, and other forms. A gift from the 
Mason Valley Mines Co., of Mason, Nev., through Mr. Victor C. 
Heikes, consisted of a large specimen of native copper, weighing 
some 200 pounds and forming an attractive addition to the recently 
installed exhibition of this metal. Two sections of the trunk of a 
fossil tree impregnated with carnotite, quite unusual in character 
and important for display, were obtained from Grand Junction, 
Colo., by purchase. Also worthy of mention are the following gifts: 
From Mr. Charles H. Hussey, Mr. M. S. Duffield, and Mr. F. L. 
Woods, of Ogden, Utah, a piece of a 6-inch quartz vein, weighing 
over 100 pounds and containing an abundant development of blade- 
like crystals of tungsten ore; and from the Maine Feldspar Co., of 
Brunswick, Me., large specimens of pegmatite well illustrating the 
phenomenon of graphic intergrowth of quartz and feldspar, and 
many hand specimens of feldspar of the grade used in the manu- 
facture of pottery. 
Among the additions to the building stone exhibit were a slab of 
dark Mohegan granite, measuring 32 by 32 by 3 inches thick, and 
two 5-inch cubes, from Peekskill, N. Y., presented by the Mohegan 
Granite Co.; and two large slabs, measuring 78 by 20 inches, of “ Mar 
Villa” marble from the quarries of the Beaver Dam Marble Co., at 
Cockeysville, Md. A number of slabs of marbles which had been 
submitted in connection with the competition for the Lincoln 
Memorial in Washington were contributed by the Amicalola Marble 
Co., of Ball Ground, Ga.; the Lee Marble Works, of Lee, Mass.; Wm. 
Bradley & Son, of Long Island City, N. Y.; the Colorado Yule 
