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Added to 



Total 



Africa (m general) 



Herbarium 

 1913. 



now in 

 Herbarium. 





I 



9 





I 



7 





7 



7 







205 





4 



4 



South Africa 



10 



1,243 





4 



4 



Zanzibar 



26 



75 



Oceania (in general) ■ 







Australia (in general) 



424 



2,343 



New South Wales 



III 



525 



NJ/^-r*"f*rl A 1 1 c^r'o 1 1 o 



10 



15 





7 



26 



ooucn riubcraiia ........... 





I 



Victoria 



488 



488 



West Australia 



10 



42 







Raratonga 



29 



29 





2 



2,755 



Samoa 



40 



103 





10 



462 



Tahiti 



94 



180 



Tasmania 



I 



191 



Timor 



I 



4 



Horticultural 



613 



2,622 



Illustrations, Drawings, etc., mounted as herbarium 







sheets 



58 



1,012 



The total increase of the organized herbarium during the year 

 amounted to 41,401 specimens. 



Several interesting and valuable accessions were received by the 

 Department of Geology. Of especial interest were two gold nuggets 

 obtained in the California gold fields in 1850, presented by Mr. William J. 

 Chalmers; also a quantity of silver nuggets from Lake Superior. A fine 

 series of lead minerals and mercury ores was presented by Christopher 

 Murphy. Six slabs of standard museum size of Georgia marble illus- 

 trating different varieties of this marble were presented by the Georgia 

 Marble Company; 13 slabs of Vermont marble, similarly prepared, were 

 presented by the Vermont Marble Company; and three slabs of Cana- 

 dian marble, likewise of standard size, by the Dominion Marble Company. 

 A large mass weighing 400 pounds, of Versailles, Missouri, fire clay 

 was presented by the W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company, 

 and six varieties of pottery and other clays from various localities by 

 the Land and Industrial Department of the Southern Railway. A 

 series of 14 specimens illustrating a natural change of pyrite to hematite, 



