44 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1910. 



An extensive and very valuable series of crustaceans from the expedition of 

 the British ship Seal ark to the western Indian Ocean in 1905, and smaller series 

 from the explorations of the French ship Travailleur and the German ship Talis- 

 man in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, were presented to the Museum in return for 

 services in working up the respective collections for publication. 



The Bureau of Entomology of the Department of Agriculture transferred 

 to the Museum a most extensive and noteworthy collection, which has been in 

 course of building up for a number of years in connection with investigations 

 on insects injurious to forest trees. It comprises not less than 800,000 speci- 

 mens, mainly beetles of the family Scotytidae, and remains in charge of Dr. A. 

 D. Hopkins, of the Bureau, who has been designated as its custodian in the 

 Musuem. 



The division of plants received over 33,000 specimens, including about 10,000 

 obtained during an expedition under the associate curator, Dr. J. N. Rose, to 

 the southwestern United States and western Mexico; the material collected by 

 the Smithsonian African Expedition ; exchanges from the Philippine Islands, 

 and transfers from the Department of Agriculture. 



In geology and mineralogy some interesting specimens from different parts 

 of the world were secured. The accessions in invertebrate paleontology were 

 not only extensive but also of special importance, having been mainly the re- 

 sults of field work conducted during the year under the auspices of the Institu- 

 tion, the Museum, and the Geological Survey, accompanied by stratigraphic 

 observations, and furnishing material for investigations of exceptional value. 

 The largest and most noteworthy collections consisted of Cambrian fossils ob- 

 tained in Alberta, Canada, by the Secretary, and in Utah and Manchuria, 

 China, by others under his direction. Next should be mentioned Ordovician 

 and Silurian fossils from the Ohio Valley, Utah, and the island of Anticosti. 

 Canada, in part collected by the curator of the division and in part secured by 

 transfer and exchange. Interesting contributions were series of Tertiary fossils 

 from North Carolina and the State of Washington. 



A number of remains of rare fossil vertebrates, some in excellent condition 

 for mounting for exhibition, and valuable additions to the collection of mamma- 

 lian remains from the Fort Union beds of Sweet Grass County, Montana, were 

 obtained in connection with explorations by the Geological Survey and the Mu- 

 seum. The types and figured specimens of Cretaceous plants from New York 

 and New England recently described and published by the Geological Survey 

 constituted the principal acquisition in paleobotany. 



Prominent among the accessions in ethnology was a large collection of objects 

 illustrative of the Kanakas of Hawaii, gathered during a long period of years 

 by Dr. N. B. Emerson, of Honolulu, and purchased by the Government for exhi- 

 bition at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. The most notable of many ad- 

 ditions in prehistoric archeology were two collections from North America and 

 one from South America. The former resulted from excavations by Dr. J. W. 

 Fewkes, first at the " Cliff Palace," Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, for 

 the Department of the Interior, and subsequently at the ruins of the Marsh 

 Pass region, Arizona, for the Bureau of American Ethnology. The latter repre- 

 sents the ancient peoples of Argentina and was obtained by exchange. 



Through the courtesy and generosity of the officials of the Metropolitan Mu- 

 seum of Art in New York Dr. Ales Hrdlicka was enabled to visit the excava- 

 tions which that museum has for some time been conducting in Egypt and to 

 secure from the tombs as they were uncovered several hundred remains of 

 ancient Egyptians, which were carefully labeled and prepared for shipment 

 under his personal supervision. The value of this collection, which is still to 

 be worked up, is greatly enhanced by the fact that every specimen is well iden- 

 tified chronologically. 



