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German New Guinea collection; R. Parkinson German New Guinea 

 collection ; G. F. Emmons collection from Alaska ; H. N. Higinbotham 

 collection from Korea; Hassler collection of feather work, etc., from 

 Indians of Paraguay; Remenyi collection from South Africa; Pogoski 

 collection from Siberia ; various collections from the northwest coast of 

 North America, and from California. 



The more notable collections in archeology are: The Montez, 

 Harris, and Dorsey Peruvian collections; United States Colombian 

 collection of gold, earthenware, and stone; Allison V. Armour collec- 

 tion of Mexican antiquities; Martin A. Ryerson collection of Swiss 

 Lake material; Johnson collection of reproductions of Irish antiqui- 

 ties; originals and reproductions of ancient Italian bronzes; Cyrus H. 

 McCormick collection from Chile; material from Hopewell Group of 

 Mounds, Ohio; Charnay casts of Central American sculpture; Wyman 

 collection of copper implements; Zavaleta collection of Argentine 

 archeology; Riggs collection from the southern states; and various 

 collections from Egypt. 



BOTANY. A herbarium of 300,000 phanerogams and ferns, includ- 

 ing 25oo types and figured specimens; a small herbarium of crypto- 

 gams ; and economic collections which are said to be the most complete 

 and important in the country. Among special collections may be 

 mentioned the herbarium of Dr. Arthur Schott, including plants from 

 the Isthmus of Darien and the United States boundary survey, and his 

 Yucatan and Hungarian series; the M. S. Bebb collection, comprising 

 the largest representation of the genus Salix in this country; the Harry 

 N. Patterson collection, with its complete representation of the plants 

 of Gray's 'Manual' and its full sets of Curtiss, Pringle,Cusick, Chapman, 

 Hall and Harbour; the-H. J. Wahlstedt collection, comprising his very 

 complete series of Chara, Viola, Epilobium, and Scandinavian plants; 

 the Dr. J. T. Rothrock collection, rich in the plants of the early surveys 

 west of the Mississippi; the Charles F. Millspaugh collection, particu- 

 larly valuable for the complete and type-compared representation of 

 the genus Euphorbia', and the Arthur A. Heller collection. It also 

 contains the Gaumer Yucatan plants and the plants of the two Allison 

 V. Armour expeditions. The dendrology collection represents a large 

 number of countries in all parts of the world. 



GEOLOGY. Minerals, on exhibition, 6500, in storage, 9500; Rocks, 

 on exhibition, 1000, in storage, 1600; Dynamic geology, relief maps, 

 models, etc., on exhibition, 2400, in storage, 500; Meteorites, 500; 

 Economic geology, on exhibition, 10,000, in storage, 5000. The eco- 

 nomic series is one of the largest in the world, especially notable for the 



