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Among gifts received, mention may be made of a large 

 lava stalactite from a grotto formed in the 1919 eruption of 

 Kilauea, collected in March, 1920, by Dr. T. A. 

 Accessions Jaggar, Jr., and presented by the Hawaii Volcano 

 Observatory, together with other interesting specimens from 

 the volcano. 



Noteworthy additions to our meteorite collection are: An 

 841-gram (1 pound 13.6 ounce) fragment, the largest in exist- 

 ence, of the Colby, Wisconsin, stone; a 96-gram (3.4 ounce) 

 slice of the rare Chinautla, Guatemala, iron, and an 856-gram 

 (1 pound 14.2 ounce) outside slice of the San Cristobal, Chile, 

 iron. Among other purchases we may cite, as being of par- 

 ticular interest, a lava stalagmite from the 1919 Alika flow 

 from Mauna Loa, Hawaii, and a large collection of Upper 

 Silurian fossils from the Island of Gotland collected by Dr. 

 A. Schrammen. 



Through Museum expeditions our collections have been en- 

 riched by specimens of sundry lava flows in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, collected by E. O. Hovey; invertebrate fossils from 

 Helderbergian outcrops at localities in New York and Pennsyl- 

 vania, collected by C. A. Reeds ; rocks and invertebrate fossils 

 from the vicinity of Monticello, Ky., collected by E. J. Foyles. 



