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W. L. Albright; a jaw of Smilodon and remains of Mammoth also 

 from Texas from W. L. Crawford, Jr. ; six large slabs of marble from 

 the Alabama White Marble Company; a relief map of Palestine from 

 the Atlas School Supply Company; and a specimen of moss agate 

 from Wyoming from B. Bridge. Exchanges made with several in- 

 stitutions and individuals afforded considerable new material, among 

 which may be mentioned twenty-two specimens of Colorado rocks 

 and minerals from the Colorado School of Mines ; fifty-four specimens 

 of the minerals of Pennsylvania from the Philadelphia Mineralogical 

 Club; thirty-three large crystals of selenite from the Deseret Mu- 

 seum, Salt Lake City, Utah, through Dr. J. E. Talmage; and one 

 hundred and eighteen specimens of fossils, minerals, and rocks from 

 E. L. Moseley of Sandusky, Ohio. The Colorado accessions included 

 especially fine specimens of fluorite, covellite, molybdenite, geyserite, 

 lithophysae and spherulites; that from the Philadelphia Mineralog- 

 ical Club noteworthy specimens of cyanite, anthophyllite, andalusite, 

 and orthoclase, and that from E. L. Moseley representatives of 

 Macropetalicthys, Onychodus, and other Devonian fishes, and speci- 

 mens of Zaphrentis, Cyathophyllum and other Devonian corals. 

 Among material purchased may be mentioned the Leighton meteorite, 

 all of which was obtained, and sections of the Ainsworth and Williams- 

 town meteorites; relief maps of Nebraska, the Catskill Mountains, 

 Ottawa, Illinois, and Marshall, Missouri; two hundred and twenty- 

 five specimens of vertebrate and invertebrate, chiefly Miocene, fossils 

 from Patagonia; two hundred and thirty-seven specimens, repre- 

 senting sixty-eight species, of Devonian corals from the Falls of the 

 Ohio; thirteen specimens of minerals and eight specimens of gold 

 ores from the Raw Hide District, Nevada. The relief maps pur- 

 chased, besides other features afford illustrations of stream robbing, 

 old and young valleys, and a graded river. Especially important 

 among the Patagonian fossils purchased are two skulls of the rare 

 extinct ungulates, Protypotherium and Icochilus, lower jaws and 

 part of a carapace of an extinct armadillo, and about twenty-five 

 unusually well-preserved specimens of Terebratella. The series of 

 Devonian corals purchased was selected from several thousand 

 specimens of a collection made by G. K. Greene. Especially notable 

 specimens are those of Blothrophyllum decorticatum, a cup coral about 

 one foot in height; Chonophyllum magnificum, a large cup coral; 

 the largest known frond of Cladopora pinguis; a large group of 

 cups 18 inches in diameter and excellent single cups of Cystiphyllum 



