40 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Lorraine formation of Ordovician, transferred by the U. S. Geological 

 Survey. The third, also transferred by the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 is a collection of 178 specimens from the Hudson Terrane of the Ordo- 

 vician, and 109 specimens from the Upper Silurian. 



The curator has been specially interested iu the collection of material 

 for the illustration of the middle Cambrian fauna, and in studying the 

 literature of the Cambrian rocks of America. The fossils from the Cin- 

 cinnati formation of Ohio have been rearranged by Prof. Joseph F. 

 James, and attention has been paid to the exhibition series of crusta- 

 ceans from the Waterlime formation of New York, and to the collec- 

 tion from the Chazy horizon of New York and Vermont, which has 

 been relabeled and placed upon exhibition. Dr. R. R. Gurley has been 

 employed in labeling and in making a special study upon American 

 graptolites. Twenty-nine accessions have been received during the year. 

 These represent 1,229 individual specimens, including 180 genera, 239 

 species, and 5 varieties. Five thousand four hundred and twelve en- 

 tries have been made in the catalogue. 



Department of Mesosoic Invertebrate Fossils. — Dr. C. A. White, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey, continues to act as curator of the collection of 

 mesozoic fossils. The pressure of work connected with his duties as an 

 officer of the Geological Survey has rendered it impossible for him to 

 devote more than a small portion of time to Museum matters. Con- 

 siderable progress has been made in identifying collections transferred 

 to the Museum by the Geological Survey. 



The arrangement of the exhibition series has been for the present 

 completed. 



DIVISION OF BOTANY. 



Department of Botany. — The report of Dr. George Vasey, honorary 

 curator, shows that several collections of considerable value have been 

 added to the National Herbarium during the year. 



Among the more important accessions are : A set of 550 species of 

 Japanese plants from S. Tegima, Director of the Educational Museum, 

 Tokio, Japan; 335 specimens collected in Mexico by C. G. Pringle; 

 1,800 specimens of Southern Californian plants from C. R. Orcutt, San 

 Diego, California; 80 species of Canadian grasses from John Macoun, 

 Geological and Natural History Survey of Canada ; 2,817 specimens of 

 Texan plants collected by G. C. Nealley, of Houston, Texas; 900 speci- 

 mens of East Florida plants from J. H. Simpson, Manatee, Florida; 

 400 specimens, collected in Lower California and Western Mexico by 

 Edward Palmer; 327 specimens of Californian and Mexican plants, 

 from the California Academy of Science; the first 135 species of a set 

 of Bolivian plants collected by Miguel Bang; about 100 Pacific Slope 

 species from E. L. Greene, Berkeley, California; 142 species of the 

 Hepaticai Cubensis Wrightiance, from the Harvard University herbarium; 

 500 specimens from the United States Eclipse Expedition to Africa; 



