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are specially due to Dr. McGillicuddy of the Pine Ridge Indian 

 Agency for the assistance he has given to Mr. Garman, and for 

 his interest in his behalf. 



Professor A. Lakes has continued to send fossil plants from 

 Colorado to the Museum ; they have as formerly been carefully 

 identified by Professor Lesquereux. 



The past winter Mr. Sternberg spent in Texas collecting fossil 

 vertebrates from the permian. His collections have reached 

 Cambridge safely ; we are indebted to Major Henry of the 

 19th Cavalry, the Commander of Port Sill, for the assistance he 

 rendered to Mr. Sternberg while at work in his district. Later 

 in the season Mr. Sternberg returned to Kansas, where he is still 

 engaged in making collections for the Museum. 



I have specially to thank the Secretary of War, the Hon. 

 R. T. Lincoln, and the Secretary of the Treasury, the Hon. H. 

 M. Teller, for the letters of introduction they were kind enough 

 to send to Messrs. Sternberg and Garman for use in the Territo- 

 ries they explored. 



Major Powell, the Director of the United States Geological 

 Survey, kindly allowed the Museum the privilege of sending a 

 collector under certain restrictions with the expedition sent by the 

 survey in charge of Mr. C. D. Walcott to collect palaeozoic fossils. 

 It will of course be of great importance to the Museum, in view 

 of our recent acquisitions, that we should have as full a repre- 

 sentation as possible of the Western palaeozoic fossils. 



Mr. Fewkes was sent by the Museum to examine the Bermudas, 

 in hopes of finding it a suitable and accessible locality for study- 

 ing the surface Fauna' of the Gulf Stream. He is preparing a 

 report of his expedition for the Bulletin. 



Dr. Hagen spent the greater part of the summer on the line of 

 the Northern Pacific Railroad making an entomological survey 

 for the Northern Pacific Transcontinental Company. He col- 

 lected during his trip a large number of insects from localities as 

 yet little visited by naturalists. 



Large accessions for the faunal collections have been purchased 

 from Professor Ward. In addition to these purchases, we have 

 also received in exchange or as gifts a number of collections 

 mentioned in the special Reports. 



During the past year the accessions to our invertebrate palaeon- 

 tological collections have been most important. The Museum 



