Oct.  1898.  Annual  Report  of  the  Director. 
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SPECIAL  ACCESSIONS. 
(accessions  are  by  gift  unless  otherwise  designated.) 
AYER,  EDWARD  E.,  Chicago. 
Primitive  wooden  plow — Santa  Fe,  N.  M. 
Bill  of  lading  of  the  steamer  Majestic  from  Natchez  to  St.  Louis  in  1834. 
Receipt  of  money  to  apply  on  stock  of  the  Hudson  River  Steamboat  Co., 
signed  by  Robert  Fulton. 
FIELD  COLUMBIAN  MUSEUM. 
Purchases: 
Collection  of  Folk  Lore  of  precious  stones  (purchased  from  George  F. 
Kunz,  New  York,  N.  Y.). 
DEPARTMENT  OF  TRANSPORTATION. 
(accessions  are  by  gift  unless  otherwise  designated.) 
BALDWIN,  E.  B.,  Naperville,  111. 
1  old  high-frame  bicycle. 
DRAKE,  A.  A.,  St.  Thomas,  Ontario. 
Wooden  models  of  rails,  etc.,  showing-  method  of  holding  nuts  on  bolts  by 
donor's  patented  process. 
MELOY,  E.  S.,  Chicago. 
1  Chicago  &  Rock  Island  R.  R.  Line  pass,  dated  December  31,  i860. 
DEPARTMENT  OF  ZOOLOGY. 
(accessions  are  by  gift  unless  otherwise  designated.) 
ALSTON,  G.  C,  Field  Columbian  Museum. 
1  raccoon. 
AMERICAN  MUSEUM  OF  NATURAL  HISTORY,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
1  female  buffalo  skin  and  skeleton,  1  skin  and  skeleton  of  American  buf- 
falo, 4  Greenland  seals,  6  walrus,  1  skeleton  of  Indian  antelope,  8 
monkeys,  14  carnivore,  6  opossums,  748  rodents  and  insectivora,  skin 
and  bones  of  calf  of  American  bison  (exchange). 
ASHBY,  J.  H.,  Manager  Union  Stock  Yards,  Chicago. 
1  skeleton  of  domestic  hog. 
1  skeleton  of  sheep. 
AYER,  EDWARD  E.,  Chicago. 
34  mammal  skins,  with  their  skeletons — Madagascar. 
BAILEY,  G.  V.,  Field  Columbian  Museum. 
1  squirrel,  Spermophile. 
BEBB,  Dr.  M.  S.,  Rockford,  III. 
Large  collection  of  shells — Illinois  and  Ohio. 
BOSTOCK,  FRANK  C,  Chicago. 
1  giant  kangaroo. 
1  fox. 
1  badger,  Coati  mondi. 
1  lizard,  Gila  monster. 
1  lizard,  Iquana. 
1  alligator. 
BOYER,  LEWIS,  Fort  Bayard,  N.  M. 
1  horned  toad,  Phrynosoma  cornutum. 
BRAGDON,  C.  E.,  147  Fifth  avenue,  Chicago,  111. 
1  brown  bat. 
