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and  their  contemporaries  that  will  result  in  largely  increased  acces- 
sions from  this  source.  Among  the  institutions  with  which  transac- 
tions have  been  had  during  the  past  year  may  be  mentioned  the 
Herbarium  Boissier,  of  Switzerland  ;  the  Hope  Botanical  Gardens,  of 
Jamaica,  Kingston  :  the  University  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City.  Iowa  :  the 
Hof  Museum  at  Vienna  ;  the  Newark  Technical  School  ;  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin  ;  the  British  Museum  ;  the  Indian  Museum  at  Cal- 
cutta; the  National  Museum  at  Washington  :  the  Leland  Stanford,  Jr. 
University,  and  the  Australian  Museum.  Sydney.  The  number  of 
specimens  sent  in  exchange  during  the  year  was  577,  representing 
23  different  transactions.  The  number  of  specimens  received  in 
exchange  was  5.852,  representing  29  transactions. 
Expeditions  and  Field  Work. — Each  department  of  the  Museum 
has  performed  valuable  work  in  the  field  during  the  year  ;  valuable 
not  alone  as  a  contribution  to  science,  but  valuable  to  the  Museum 
as  regards  the  new  material  obtained  thereby.  The  following  is  a 
list  of  the  expeditions  of  the  Museum  since  the  date  of  the  last 
report : 
Locality.  Collectors.  Material. 
West  Indies,      .    .    .    .    C.  F.  Millspaugh,  .    .  Plants. 
Pacific  Coast,        .    .    .    S.  E.  Meek,  ....    Fishes,  Reptiles,  etc. 
Southern  Illinois,    .     .    .    G.  A.  Dorsey,    .     .    .    Quarry  Shop  Material. 
Wyoming,  E.  S.  Rig\2:s,      .    .    .  Fossils. 
Winona  Lake,  Ind.,     .     .    S.  E.  Meek,  ....  Fishes. 
Medicine  Co.,  Calif.,    .     .    G.  A.  Dorsey,    .    .    .    Ethnological  Material. 
Puget  Sound,     ....    G.  A.  Dorsey,    .    .    .    Ethnological  Material, 
Quarry  Stones  and 
Casts. 
Vancouver  Islands,     .     .    G.  A.  Dorsev.    .    .     .    Plaster  Casts. 
During  April  of  this  year,  Mr.  Dorsey,  Curator  of  the  Depart- 
ment of  Anthropology,  accompanied  by  Mr.  Phillips,  of  Evanston, 
visited  Mill  Creek,  Union  County,  Illinois,  and  collected  a  very  large 
number  of  stone  implements  and  rejects.  More  recently  Mr.  Dorsey 
visited  the  Pomo  Indians  of  California,  and  had  a  most  successful 
trip.  From  California  he  went  to  Tacoma.  where  he  was  joined  by 
the  modeling  force,  and  casts  of  Indians  of  that  section,  intended  to 
represent  the  principal  aboriginal  industries  and  customs.  wTere 
obtained.  From  Tacoma  the  expedition  went  to  Vancouver  Island,, 
for  the  purpose  of  taking  of  several  Kwakiutl  Indians  casts  intended 
for  a  large  ceremonial  group  illustrating  certain  phases  of  religious 
life.  Mr.  Millspaugh,  Curator  of  the  Department  of  Botany,  was  in- 
vited by  Mr.  Allison  V.  Armour,  one  of  the  patrons  of  the  Museum, 
to  map  out  a  cruise  of  the  Antillean  Islands  calculated  to  best  corre- 
