REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1925 



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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Con. 



National Museum, collected 62/ 

 members of the staff — Contd. 

 of school sets illustrating rock 

 weathering and soil formation 

 (87687). Standley, Paul 0.: 

 500 plants from the region of 

 the Guadaloupe Mountains, 

 Texas, and New Mexico, col- 

 lected in cooperation with the 

 Carlsbad Cavern expedition 

 of the National Geographic So- 

 ciety, Dr. Willis T. Lee, director 

 (84205). Ulrich, E. O. : Collec- 

 tion of Upper Cambrian (Fran- 

 conia) fossils from Wisconsin 

 ( 84795 ) . Warner, Harry: 

 Granite and weathered products 

 from Rock Creek Park, District 

 of Columbia, for the prepara- 

 tion of school sets illustrating 

 rockweathering and soil forma- 

 tion (87685). Walcott, C. D. : 

 Skin with skuU of a deer and 

 3 skins with skulls of mountain 

 sheep, all from Alberta, Canada ; 

 also 2 skins of the western 

 grebe (84814). Watkins, W. M. 

 N. : Trunk sections of wisteria 

 from property at 1101 Massa- 

 chusetts Avenue, Washington, 

 D. C. (85284). 



National Museum, obtained by 

 purchase: 2 bronze copies of the 

 medal issued by the American 

 Numismatic Society commemo- 

 rating the Paul Revere Sesqui- 

 centennial, 1925 (87955) ; 3 in- 

 scribed Babylonian tablets, 

 cuneiform or arrowhead writ- 

 ing, dating from 2350 to 2000 

 B. C. (85874) ; 100 specimens of 

 mosses from Arizona (86606) ; 

 1,050 specimens of microlepidop- 

 tera (84637) ; 173 plants from 

 Brazil and Costa Rica (83321, 

 83344) ; 6 ethnological speci- 

 mens collected in 1923 among 

 the Makah Indians of N'eah 

 Bay, Wash. (86958) ; 500 Cuban 

 plants (83309) ; model showing 

 the value of public health ac- 

 tivities (87526) ; skull and 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION— Con. 

 National Museum, obtained by 

 purchase — Continued, 

 lower jaw of a fossil horse 

 (83388) ; 25 North American 

 mosses, Fascicle 21 (84206) ; 25 

 specimens of mosses, Fascicle 

 22 (87834) ; 2 stone archeologi- 

 cal specimens (85937) ; skull of 

 an extinct rodent from a cave in 

 Porto Rico (85021) ; 490 grams 

 of meteoric stone from Weld 

 County, Colo. (84259) ; 28 small 

 mammals from Montenegro 

 (85415) ; 25 lichens. Fascicle 1, 

 Nos. 1-25 (86287) ; 25 lichens. 

 Fascicle 2, Nos. 26-50 (87527) ; 

 155 plants (83345) ; 57 plants 

 from Ecuador (84704) ; 176 

 plants from Venezuela (85603) ; 

 320 plants from Venezuela, col- 

 lected by A. Allart (86486, 

 86488) ; collection of Devonian 

 fishes from Chaleur Bay, Quebec, 

 Canada ( 85011) ; fossil fish from 

 Campbellton, New Brunswick 

 (86598) ; block of granite with 

 vein of pegmatite (86716) ; 83 

 plants from South Africa 

 (85073) ; 9' specimens of gums 

 and resins (87948) ; 66 ferns 

 from Siam and Hainan 

 (83343) ; 5 skins and 2 skulls 

 of mammals and 1 skull and 

 skin of a reptile (85833) ; 163 

 microscopic slides of isopods, 

 Palearctic and Australian 

 (85857) ; 500 specimens of Or- 

 dovician and Silurian fossils, 

 and 25 specimens of Cretaceous 

 echinoderms from North Ger- 

 many (83707, 87701) ; 4 speci- 

 mens of minerals (87862). 

 National Museum, made in the 

 Museum laboratories: Set of 26 

 transportation charts, prepared 

 by S. S. Wyer from Museum 

 data and collections (83326) ; 3 

 colored casts of a duck-shaped 

 hammer stone from Turks Is- 

 land, West Indies, the original 

 of which is in the possession 

 of Gerrit S. Miller, jr. (83361) ; 



