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tributed among a large number of scientific experts, both at home 
and abroad, for investigation and determination mainly for the 
direct benefit of the Museum, but partly in the interest of other 
institutions. All were to be returned, and seme had been received 
before the close of the year. 
Exchange relations were carried on during the year with the fol- 
lowing establishments abroad: The British Museum of Natural His- 
tory, London, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Geological 
Museum, Cambridge, and Alexandra Park, Manchester, England; 
the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle and the Herbarium of Prince 
Roland Bonaparte, Paris, France; the Kgl. Zoologisches Museum and 
the Rudolf-Virchow Krankenhaus, Berlin, the Konig]. Botanisches 
Museum, Dahlem, Steglitz bei Berlin, the museum of the Geolog- 
isches Institut der Universitit, Breslau, the Naturhistorisches Mu- 
seum, Hamburg, the Museum fiir Vélkerkunde, Leipzig, and the 
Zoologische Sammlung und Zoologisches Institut, Munich, Germany ; 
the Botanisches Laboratorium, K. K. Universitat, Graz, and the 
K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, Austria; the Con- 
servatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Geneva, and the Musée d’Histoire 
Naturelle, Neuchatel, Switzerland; the Royal Botanical Garden, 
Palermo, Italy; the Musée Royal d’Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 
and the Geological Survey of Belgium, Brussels, and the Université 
de Litge, Litge, Belgium; the Universitets Botaniske Museum and 
Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; the Naturhistoriska 
Riksmuseum, Botaniska Afdelning, Stockholm, Sweden; the Kaiser- 
licher Botanischer Garten, St. Petersburg, and the Komitet Imp. 
Geograficeskago Musei Oscesstva, Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia; the Geo- 
logical Commission of Finland, Helsingfors, Finland; the Durban 
Museum, Durban, and the Rhodesia Museum, Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 
Union of South Africa; the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South 
Wales, Australia; the Indian Museum and the Geological Survey of 
India, Calcutta, and the Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, India; the 
Botanical Garden, Lawang, Java; The Museo Nacional, San José, 
Costa Rica; the National School of Agriculture, Lima, Peru; the 
University of Alberta, Edmonton South, Alberta, the Provincial 
Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum of Mineralogy, Toronto, 
Canada. 
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART. 
The most important acquisition of the year consisted in the formal 
transfer to the Smithsonian Institution by Mr. Charles L. Freer, of 
Detroit, Mich., on February 24, 1914, of 198 objects as additions 
to his munificent gift to the Nation, comprising all of the material 
which he had assembled since the last previous transfer on November 
6, 1912. This contribution may be summarized as follows: 
