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microscope and outfit, four additional microscope objectives, 

 and a Rotifer slide cabinet ; Commendatore Bartolomeo Mazza 

 (through Dr. George F. Kunz) : a specimen of coral sur- 

 mounted by a statuette carved from hardened indurated clay, 

 from Vesuvius; bas-relief carved on stone from Spalato (Dal- 

 matian Coast), representing bust of Augustus Caesar, three 

 fragments of stone (Calcare silecio) from Vesuvius eruption 

 of 79 A. D., 9 fragments of stone (Marna arzillifera) from 

 the mountains of Avellino and St. Angelo dei Lombardi, 3 

 B. C, 5 fragments of stone (Marna arzillifera) from the 

 mountains of Spalato, 1643 A. D. ; John Marshall: horn of 

 Indian rhinoceros presented to Pope Gregory XIV in 1590; 

 from the New York Zoological Society we received important 

 accessions of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles; from 

 Mengo L. Morgenthau, cut topaz, 1,463 carats, from Japan; 

 from Colonel J. C. F. Tillson, ethnological specimens from 

 China, Egypt and the United States ; from J. M. Vandergrift, 

 English bulldog, champion "Katerfelto," mounted. 



Through Secretary Baker, Dr. Crampton obtained accom- 

 modations on the United States Army Transport to Guam and 

 thence to Manila. Through Secretary Daniels he obtained 

 a helpful letter to the Governor of Guam. Through Admiral 

 Swinburne, he met and conferred with Captain Roy C. Smith, 

 a former Governor of Guam. Through Mr. Woolcott H. 

 Pitkin, former Attorney General of Porto Rico and later for 

 two years the legal adviser to the King of Siam, he obtained 

 numerous letters to members of the royal family and to offi- 

 cials in Siam. Through President Woodward of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, he obtained personal letters of 

 introduction from the Minister of the Netherlands to the 

 Governor General of the Netherlands East Indies and from 

 the Minister of Siam to a member of the royal family. Secre- 

 tary Polk furnished letters to the diplomatic and consular 

 officers in the countries visited by Dr. Crampton. 



The Governor of Guam, Captain Ivan C. Wettengel, 

 U. S. N., granted to Dr. Crampton many unusual favors, and 

 made it possible for him to proceed to Saipan on a naval ves- 

 sel, the island being a more northerly member of the Mariana 

 group, in the possession of Japan. 



