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London dealer in ethnological material. This collection consisted 

 almost exclusively of rare specimens from different islands of 

 the Pacific, especially Polynesia, and some unusually interesting 

 material from Benin, West Africa. The most notable specimens 

 in this collection are four beautifully carved ceremonial clubs 

 from the Marquesas Islands. From Mr. Irving Channon, for many 

 years a missionary to Micronesia, was secured by purchase a collec- 

 tion of several hundred specimens from that region, especially from 

 the Marshall and Gilbert groups. These specimens are of more than 

 usual value, for they were collected personally by Mr. Channon, and 

 are thoroughly identified as to locality. From Mr. Rudolph Parkin- 

 son, Ralum, Bismarck Archipelago, was secured by purchase seventy- 

 seven skulls from New Britain. Two exchanges with other institu- 

 tions have been made during the year, which are worthy of mention. 

 One is with the Brooklyn Institute Museum, whereby this Institution 

 secured a large quantity of osteological material from the Southwest, 

 and a small, but carefully selected collection of ethnological specimens 

 from the peublo of Zuni. Arrangements were made during the year 

 whereby the Museum expects to receive shortly from the Museum 

 fur Volkerkunde, of Berlin, a considerable portion of the great collec- 

 tion made in the interior of Brazil by Theodore Koch. Word has 

 been received by the Museum that Mr. Cole has shipped from Manila 

 a very large collection of ethnological material, which he has accumu- 

 lated during his two years' residence with the Tinguianes, in north- 

 western Luzon, especially in the province of Abra. 



In the Department of Botany the most important accession 

 during the year is the complete herbarium of the University of 

 Chicago, founded upon the collections of Prof. John M. Coulter, 

 and augmented under his direction. This herbarium has been 

 entirely rearranged for the purpose of cataloguing and distribution 

 into the organized herbarium of the Museum. It is found to con- 

 tain about 51,000 specimens, of which about three fourths are 

 mounted. The principal collectors represented by fairly complete 

 sets are: O. D. Allen; Baker, Earle & Tracy; John Ball, Thomas 

 H. Bonser, Wm. Canby, M. A. Carleton, John M. Coulter, 

 A. H. Curtiss, Drake & Dickson, B. W. Evermann, M. L. Fernald, 

 Heyde & Lux, Volney Havard, F. H. Horsford, Thos. Howell, 

 Marcus E. Jones, T. H. Kearney, Jr., T. Kirk, B. F. Leeds, J. G. 

 Lemmon, G. C. Neally, Edward Palmer, S. B. Parish, H. N. Patterson, 

 C. G. Pringle, C. A. Purpus, J. Reverchon, Sadie Rider, Robinson & 



