Oct.  1898. 
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lead  ores  of  the  Kootenai  District  from  R.  I.  Kirkwood,  and  a  collec- 
tion of  Colorado  ores  from  Mrs.  E.  F.  Dyche.  Many  valuable  speci- 
mens, illustrating  Western  ores  and  minerals,  were  secured  by  the 
Curator  and  Assistant  Curator  while  visiting  the  Omaha  Exposition, 
and  other  specimens  have  been  promised  by  the  exhibitors  there.  In 
the  Department  of  Zoology  the  largest  contribution  of  material  has 
come  from  the  expedition  of  its  Curator  to  the  Olympian  Mountains 
and  the  Northwest,  comprising  about  520  specimens.  President  Ayer 
presented  the  department  with  thirty-four  rare  mammal  skins  with 
their  skeletons,  from  Madagascar,  collected  by  Dr.  Forsyth-Major. 
The  American  Museum  of  Natural  History  presented  a  very  valuable 
amount  of  exchange  material,  including  buffaloes,  greenland  seals, 
walruses,  etc.,  etc.  Mr.  Frank  C.  Bestock  presented  a  valuable  lot  of 
material.  Mr.  Chope,  an  assistant  in  the  Division  of  Entomology, 
collected  several  thousand  specimens  during  the  year.  Dr.  Meek, 
Assistant  Curator  of  Ichthyology,  was  very  successful  in  two  expedi- 
tions. By  purchase  the  department  has  acquired  numerous  specimens 
of  fishes  and  many  very  valuable  skins,  as  will  appear  from  the  detail 
list  of  accessions  elsewhere.  The  Department  of  Ornithology  has  had 
a  number  of  desirable  accessions  during  the  year,  mostly  resulting 
from  the  local  expeditions  of  the  department.  It  will  be  observed 
from  the  list  elsewhere  that  many  valuable  specimens  were  also 
obtained  by  purchase.  An  important  and  interesting  collection  of 
folk-lore  of  precious  stones  was  purchased  for  Higinbotham  Hall  of 
Mr.  George  F.  Kunz.  Following  is  a  table  showing  the  amount 
expended  on  collections  and  articles  purchased  during  the  year  for 
the  different  departments: 
Department  of  Anthropology,   $1,272.10 
Higinbotham  Hall,   1,150.00 
Department  of  Geology,   905.65 
Department  of  Zoology,   301 . 17 
Department  of  Botany,   5,807.32 
Department  of  Ornithology,   47.89 
Total                                                                            .  $9,484.13 
The  amount  expended  for  collections  in  the  Department  of  Botany 
represents  the  price  paid  for  the  Bebb  collection,  $5,000,  and  half  the 
amount  due  on  the  Gaumer  collection,  $650. 
Exchanges.  —  Reference  is  made  elsewhere  to  the  system  of 
exchanges  adopted  by  the  Museum,  and  in  its  proper  place  will  be 
found  a  list  of  the  materials  received  through  this  medium.  The 
