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School Garden Association 

 School Nature League 



Second International Congress of Eugenics 

 Teachers College Club of Ungraded Class Teachers 

 Torrey Botanical Club 



Visual Instruction Association of New York City- 

 West End Medical Association 

 Woodcraft League of America 



Special Gifts and Acknowledgments 



We wish to express our appreciation to the many friends who 

 have added to our collections during the year. A detailed list 

 of Accessions is given on pages 200 to 218. Among the gifts 

 of especial interest and value are the following: From Mr. and 

 Mrs. William M. Baldwin, a feather headdress, skin apron, woven 

 belt, neck-scarf feathers, and 3 feather ornaments, from western 

 Paraguay; Hon. Recaredo Amengual N., an ethnological col- 

 lection consisting of mummies, pottery, blankets, musical in- 

 struments, etc., geological specimens, and series of Chilean Niter 

 minerals, from the Province of Tarapaca, Chile; Capt. E. G. 

 Biggie, a squid, rare and of large size; Bernice Pauahi Bishop 

 Museum, a large plaster figure, busts, and skeleton material; 

 the late Dr. E. A. Bogue (through Miss Holmes), casts of jaws 

 and teeth of 1100 white persons and collection of lantern slides 

 made from the casts; Edgar B. Bronson, Jr., Grace Vernon 

 Bronson Tweedy, and Elizabeth Vernon Bronson, 43 specimens, 

 heads and horns, of African big game; Barnum Brown, collec- 

 tions of fossils, modern reptiles, fishes, invertebrates, shells and 

 ethnological material, from Abyssinia and Somaliland; the late 

 Henry A. Cassebeer (through Mr. Remsen Williams), 57 ethno- 

 logical and several miscellaneous specimens; Gqorge Agnew 

 Chamberlain, 1 inyala, from Portuguese East Africa; Mrs. 

 DeWitt D. Cook, greater kudu ; the late Dr. Titus Munson Coan, 

 about 3800 specimens of Achatinellid land shells and butterflies, 

 from Hawaiian Islands; Mrs. E. H. Danforth, 20 ethnological 

 specimens, from the Navajo, Ute, and Sioux; Miss Isabel Rogers 

 Edgar, ethnological collection, from Labrador; H. R. H. Chow 

 Chom Erp (through Dr. L. C. Bulkley), silver embroidered 

 sash from Siam ; the late Lawrence Preston Goldstone 



