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Alexander Agas.^iz in 1901 and 1902, was received from the Museum of C'om])arative 

 Zoology, Camljridge, Mass., and similar material from (.'osta Rica and Cocos Island 

 was acquired through exchange with the National Museum of Costa Rica. Among 

 other accessions of special interest may be mentioned four lots of isopod crustaceans, 

 including types obtained by the Harriman expedition, received from Prof. Trevor 

 Kincaid, Seattle, Wash. ; 23 specimens of echinoderms and crustaceans from Great 

 Britain and from various localites in the East, contributed by Mr. H. M. Parritt, of 

 London, England; a quantity of foraminifera from Great Britain and the Seychelles 

 Islands, jjresented by Mr. H. Sidebottom, Cheshire, England, and a collection of 

 parasites of fishes, transmitted by Prof. Edwin Linton, of "Washington, Pa. A very 

 interesting series of European parasites, comprising trematodes, cestodes, and nema- 

 todes, was deposited in the ]VIuseum by the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department 

 of Agriculture. 



To tlie Osteological collection were added a skeleton of the giant salamander, Sie- 

 boldia japonica, presented by the Imperial Museum of Tokyo; three skeletons of 

 Harris's cormorant, Nanopternm JiarrisRi, purchased from Mr. R. H. Beck, of Berryessa, 

 Cal., and a skeleton of musk ox from Ellesmere Land, representing a species new to 

 the Museum, from Mr. J. S. Warmbath, of Washington, D. C. 



The National Herbarium has been enriched by a collection of about 1,400 plants 

 from the Philippine Archii)elago, contributed by tlie Philippine bureau of agricul- 

 ture, and by another collection from the same locality received from the Royal 

 Botanical Gardens, Kew, England. Mr. William R. Maxon, of the Museum staff, 

 obtained a large collection of ferns and other plants during a collecting trip of about 

 two months' duration in Jamaica. Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army, presented a large 

 series of plants collected in the Yellowstone National Park, and Capt. John Donnell 

 Smith, of Baltimore, Md., who has made extensive contributions to the Herbarium, 

 continued his donations during the past year, transmitting a series of plants from the 

 West Indies and Central America. 



As in past years, the principal accessions to the geological collections were from 

 the United States Geological Survey. Among the more important ones of the year 

 were two series of minerals, rocks, and ores, constituting a jwrtion of the exhibit 

 made by the Survey at the expositions recently held in Buffalo and Charleston. An 

 interesting lot of tourmalinitic quartz from Little Pipestone district, Montana, of 

 which some of the specimens are covered on one side with parallel layers of ame- 

 thysts of different hues, accompanied this material. 



A valuable series of massive and cut polished stalactites and stalagmites from the 

 Copper Queen mine was presented by Mr. James Douglas, of Bisbee, Ariz. 



A specimen of pallasite, weighing 351 pounds, from Mount Vernon, Ky. ; a mass of 

 meteoric iron from Arispe, Mexico, weighing 116 pounds; a mass of meteoric iron from 

 Persimmon Creek, in North Carolina, weighing 9 pounds, and a meteoric stone, weigh- 

 ing nearly 9 pounds, from Hendersonville, N. C, are among the most important 

 additions to the meteoric collections. 



A small piece of the only known specimen of footeite was donated by Mr. Warren 

 M. Foote, of Philadelphia, and 35 very desirable minerals not previously represented 

 in the INIuseum collection were obtained by purchase. 



The largest and most valuable addition to the Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology 

 was the second installment of the E. O. ITlrich collection of Paleozoic l)ryozoans, 

 comprising about 7,500 specimens and 2,500 microscopic slides. The collection as a 

 whole is the most extensive of its kind in existence and contains many unique speci- 

 mens. A])out 14,000 corals, crinoids, mollusks and other invertebrate fossils were 

 received from Prof. Carl Rominger, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Many of these have been 

 figured and described in the reports of the geological survey of Michigan. The 

 Andrew Sherwood collection of Pennsylvania Upper Devonic vertebrate and inver- 

 tebrate fossils is also entitled to special notice. This collection was brought together 



