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bows, arrows, and swords. Swords are also thrust in the belt of each of 

 the five cotirt-musicians, two of whom sit upon lacquered stands while 

 the other three squat upon the ground. The musical instruments, the 

 flute, the hand-drum, and flat-drum, are faithfully reproduced in 

 miniattire. Under the auspices of Mr. William Wrigley, Jr., the Museum 

 entered into an agreement with the Musetmi of the American Indian 

 of New York City, for the purpose of organizing an extensive archaeo- 

 logical survey of Catalina Island on the Calif ornian coast. The under- 

 standing was that the material resulting from this exploration should 

 be equally divided between the two institutions. The field-work was 

 placed in charge of Mr. George G. Heye, Director of the Musetun of 

 the American Indian, and conducted during last simimer. As a result 

 of these excavations, the Museum received from Mr. Heye in November 

 a large quantity of archaeological material, consisting chiefly of pestles, 

 mortars, and other implements of stone, particularly steatite, bone, 

 shell, and clay. The collection is thoroughly representative of that 

 culture-area. In order to make this collection more interesting and to 

 illustrate some of the adjacent ciiltures in connection with it, Mr. Heye 

 added to it as a gift to the Musetim a considerable collection from San 

 Nicholas and San Miguel islands, California, which contains a number 

 of fine prehistoric shell and bone ornaments. 



The notable additions to the herbaria during the year are: the first 

 installment of the E. T. and S. A. Harper mycologic collection, con- 

 sisting of about 10,000 specimens; the Santa Catalina Island collections 

 of C. F. Millspaugh (595) and L. W. Nuttall (946 specimens) ; Pennell^s 

 North American (55) and U. S. Colombian (33) Scrophulariaceas; Mrs. 

 Wilcoxson's Massachusetts plants (95 specimens) ; Howe's distribution 

 of Marine Algse, principally West Indian and Bahaman (146 speci- 

 mens); Maxon & Killip's Jamaican Plants (1,128 specimens); E. T. & 

 S. A. Harper's Virginia and Massachusetts fungi of 1920 (210 speci- 

 mens) ; and Ames' Bomean Orchids. 



Of especial importance among the accessions of the year in the 

 Department of Geology the Curator of the department reports that 

 the collection of ores and minerals presented by Dr. Frederick J. V. Skiff 

 is of especial interest and value. The Ciu-ator states; "This collection 

 contains not only many specimens unique in beauty and rarity, but 

 also some which since they came from localities from which it would 

 be impossible, at the present time, to obtain specimens, may be con- 

 sidered priceless. Series of special interest and value in the collection 

 are the following: A number of specimens of free gold, especially from 

 South American localities and specimens of placer gold from Colorado 

 and Idaho; other gold ores; platinum from the Urals; some fine sped- 



