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Among other important acquisitions may be mentioned 



twenty-four meteorites new to the collection, obtained partly 



through purchase and partly through exchange. 



The chief of these is a \dV 2 pound end piece of 

 Meteorites . __ ,. . , A *i- c a 



the Mungindi iron from Australia; a 6,105 gram 



piece of the Arispe iron from Mexico; a 3,570 gram piece of 



the Santa Rosa iron from Colombia, South America; a 3,149 



gram piece of the Tocavita iron from Colombia, and a 3,025 



gram piece of the Gilgoin aerolite from New South Wales. 



The most interesting from a scientific point of view is a 760 



gram piece of the Saint-Michel, France, aerolite belonging to 



the rare rodite subdivision of the classification. 



The Mohler Collection, the result of twenty-five years of 



discriminating collecting at Weyers Cave by J. L. Mohler, for 



_, , , ^ many years the principal guide to the cavern, 



Mohler Cave . J , ^ F . m . . ' 



_ „ is another important accession. 1 his series 



Collection t , ' . , \ . .. . 



includes, besides the ordinary stalactites and 



stalagmites, a considerable number of glass and crockery 



vessels that were placed where the dripping waters would coat 



them with stalagmitic material, and they show the amount of 



deposition acquired during differing periods of time. 



The reorganization of the Crocker Land Expedition, in- 

 cluding its scientific staff, was completed during the first half 

 of the year, the Curator serving as Chair- 

 tt ih \A7 t man °^ ^ e Committee in Charge. Acknowl- 



edgment should be made of the material 

 assistance rendered by the University of Illinois, through the 

 contribution of $10,000 toward the funds of the Expedition, 

 which made possible the appointment of a specialist for the zoo- 

 logical work. The American Geographical Society added $3,000 

 to its previous subscription and individual subscribers increased 

 the amount of their gifts. The expedition is now under the 

 auspices of the American Museum of Natural History, the 

 American Geographical Society and the University of Illinois. 



The staff as finally appointed was as follows : Donald B. 

 MacMillan, A.M., leader and ethnologist; Fitzhugh Green, 

 U.S.N., engineer and physicist; W. Elmer Ekblaw, A.M., 

 geologist and botanist; Maurice C. Tanquary, Ph.D., zool- 

 ogist; Harrison J. Hunt, M.D., surgeon; Jerome Lee Allen, 



