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time that certain of the glacial deposits and 

 those immediately following were made. 



An exceptionally large amount of ethno- 

 logical material was installed. Early in the 

 year, the Chinese collections were placed on 

 temporary exhibition, and in the spring work 

 was begun on the installation of the Siberian 

 collections of the Jesup North Pacific Ex- 

 pedition. 



The work of the Jesup North Pacific Ex- 

 pedition progressed satisfactorily. The aim 

 of the expedition to collect full information 

 of all the tribes of the North Pacific coast has 

 in the main been accomplished. The whole 

 district from Columbia Kiver in America 

 westward to the Lena in Siberia, has been 

 covered fairly exhaustively, and it is already 

 evident that the relationship between Asia and 

 America is much closer than has hitherto been 

 supposed. 



The Huntington California Expedition and 

 the North American Research were continued, 

 and much information gained in regard to 

 certain of the native tribes of America. 



The East Asiatic work of the Expedition to 

 China promises important scientific results. 



The Hyde Expedition carried on work in 

 the southwest and in northern Mexico during 

 the year. 



The results of the work of the Mexican 

 Expedition throw much light on the burial 

 customs of the ancient Zapotecans, and the 

 collections obtained add materially to the im- 

 portance of the collection in the museum. 

 Eare specimens of gold, copper and jadeite se- 

 cured by the expedition, added to those already 

 in the museum, make this part of the Mexican 

 collections the best in any museum. From 

 the Duke of Loubat, the museum received a 

 gem collection of great importance from the 

 state of Oaxaca. 



Local explorations were carried on in the 

 Shinnecock and Poosepatuck reservations on 

 Long Island and Staten Island and at Shin- 

 necock Hills. 



Several additions were made during the year 

 to the gem collection in the department of 

 mineralogy, namely, five magnificent crusts 

 of amethyst, a large yellow sapphire, two 



parti-colored sapphires, an immense star sap- 

 phire and a curious archaic axe of agate, gifts 

 of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. A splended col- 

 lection of gold and silver coins from the Phil- 

 adelphia Mint, the gift of Mr. Morgan, was 

 placed in the gem room. 



The department of invertebrate zoology re- 

 ceived an important accession in a collection 

 of West Indian corals, actinians and alcyona- 

 rians collected in Jamaica. 



The New York Zoological Society and the 

 Department of Parks were the principal 

 donors of reptiles and batrachians. 



In the department of entomology, the Hoff- 

 man collection of butterflies was transferred 

 to the new cases, and the Schauss collection 

 of moths provisionally arranged. Erom the 

 Black Mountains of North Carolina, 7,000 

 specimens were obtained for this department. 



The publication of the scientific results 

 attending the investigations of the museum 

 progressed during the year. 



Several courses of lectures were ojBfered, un- 

 der various auspices : To teachers, to members 

 of the museum and to the public (holiday 

 course), under a grant from the state; to 

 teachers, by the museum in cooperation with 

 the Audubon and Linnsean societies; to the 

 public, by the city department of education in 

 cooperation with the museum. 



The president sums up his report in the fol- 

 lowing words : " In concluding this my twenty- 

 second report, I take pleasure in assuring the 

 members of this board that the past year has 

 been one of achievement. The increase in the 

 annual appropriation, the growing popularity 

 of the lectures, the large sums spent for labo- 

 ratory research, the long list of publications, 

 the opening of new exhibition halls, the ap- 

 propriation by the city of $200,000 for a new 

 power house, the receipt of large invoices of 

 ethnological material from Siberia and China, 

 the conclusion of negotiations leading to the 

 purchase of the Cope collection, and the de- 

 parture of several exploring expeditions, are 

 only a few of the indices of activity at the 

 museum, of the generosity of our friends, and 

 of appreciation on the part of the city officers 

 and the visiting public." 



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