40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1914. 



York Botanical Garden; nearly 1,C00 Chinese plants from the collec- 

 tion of Mr. E. H. Wilson; about 10,000 specimens of crj^ptogams 

 collected by the late John B. Leiberg and presented by Mrs. Leiberg ; 

 and important contributions from Venezuela, Guam, the Philippines, 

 and the southern and southwestern States. 



Among the additions in geology and mineralogy were an impor- 

 tant series of rocks and ores from the Sudbury nickel region and the 

 Cobalt mining district of Canada ; a suite of recently described min- 

 ei-als from Peru ; a 200-pound specimen of copper from Nevada ; an 

 unusual deposit of carnotite in a fossil tree trunk; a large piece of 

 quartz vein, containing an abundant development of blade-like crys- 

 tals of tungsten ore; and many specimens of minerals from various 

 sources, including rare and excellent examples and some new forms. 

 The collections of meteorites and building stones received many 

 desirable additions, and the Geological Survey deposited a number 

 of series of rocks, of petrological value, from different parts of this 

 country and from Hawaii. The accessions in invertebrate paleon- 

 tology included about 150 types of Cambrian fossils collected and 

 described by Secretary Walcott; some 5,000 specimens from the 

 Middle Cambrian of British Columbia, also collected by him; and 

 about 150 type specimens of Bryozoa and Ostracoda, representing 

 work of the curator of the division on the Silurian collections from 

 the island of Anticosti, preserved at Yale University. The Geolog- 

 ical Survey transferred several collections, some of which had been 

 described; Dr. E. O. Ulrich presented about 3,000 Paleozoic fossils, 

 of much value to the Museum ; and an important series of Tertiary 

 mollusks and Ordovician graptolites was received in exchange from 

 Australia. The most important acquisitions in vertebrate paleon- 

 tology consisted of a large collection made by Mr. Charles W. Gil- 

 more in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation ; of the results of further 

 explorations by Mr. James W. Gidley in the Pleistocene cave deposits 

 near Cumberland, Md. ; and of cetacean remains collected in the 

 Miocene beds near Chesapeake Beach, Md., by Mr. William Palmer 

 and Mr. Norman H. Boss. The section of paleobotany was enriched 

 by three valuable type collections from the Geological Survey, rep- 

 resenting the Jurassic formation at Cape Lisburne, Alaska; the 

 Tuscaloosa formation of Alabama ; and the Cretaceous and Tertiary 

 in South Carolina and Georgia. 



The number and value of the accessions in the division of textiles 

 were greatly increased over those of the previous year, due to the 

 appreciation shown by the producers in the important work which 

 the Museum has undertaken. Only a brief summary can here be 

 given of the many contributions which were almost wholly in the 

 form of gifts. To the cotton collection were added fancy wash 

 dress goods and shirtings, comprising pleasing and artistic combina- 



