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southern South America, etc. The Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund, 

 which was created for the benefit of the Isaac Lea collection of mol- 

 lusks, made it possible to secure 121 species of Cerions, mostly topo- 

 types, by purchase. 



Echinoderms. — All the accessions received during the year were 

 small. 



Plants. — The more important accessions are as follows : 9,918 

 specimens transferred by the Bureau of Plant Industry, United 

 States Department of Agriculture. These include 5,000 specimens of 

 plants collected in southeastern Asia by Dr. Joseph F. Rock; 2,010 

 mounted grasses, from various sources; 1,700 specimens collected in 

 Ecuador and Peru by Dr. A. S. Hitchcock; 100 palms collected in 

 Panama by Dr. O. F. Cook ; 403 specimens of agave, constituting the 

 collection assembled by Mr. Alwin Berger, and purchased by the 

 Department of Agriculture; 2,021 specimens, largely from Alaska, 

 received as a transfer from the Bureau of Biological Survey, United 

 States Department of Agriculture; 17,000 specimens of plants from 

 Panama and Costa Rica collected for the Museum by Paul C. Stand- 

 ley, associate curator; 4,500 specimens from Panama, Costa Rica, 

 and Nicaragua collected for the Museum by William R. Maxon, as- 

 sociate curator ; 846 specimens of plants, collected chiefly in Peru by 

 Francis J. Macbride, received as an exchange from the Field Museum 

 of Natural History, Chicago, 111. ; 2,734 specimens, chiefly from 

 eastern Canada, received as an exchange from the Gray Herbarium 

 of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. ; 1,872 specimens of plants 

 from British Guiana, purchased ; 500 specimens from the Dominican 

 Republic, collected and presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; 1,364 specimens of Philippine plants received as an ex- 

 change from the Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. ; 3,820 specimens 

 of plants, largely from Kansas and Colorado, comprising the pri- 

 vate herbarium of Prof. E. A. Popenoe, received as a gift from W. P. 

 Popenoe, Topeka, Kans. ; 861 specimens from Salvador, received as 

 a gift from the Direccion General de Agricultura, San Salvador, 

 Salvador, through Sr. Dr. Salvador Calderon; 485 specimens of 

 plants from Salvador, received as a gift from Dr. Sisto Alberto 

 Padilla, Ahuachapan, Salvador. In addition a number of collec- 

 tions including from 450 to nearly 800 specimens of plants from 

 various localities in tropical America were obtained as gifts from 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York; Brother Claude 

 Joseph, Nuhoa, Chile, Prof. H. Pittier, Caracas, Venezuela, and 

 Brother Ariste Joseph, Bogota, Colombia; or in exchange, from 

 Dr. E. Rosenstock, Gotha, German}^, and the New York Botanical 

 Garden. 



