Oct. 1902. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



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each tipi will be the shield and other objects especially conneoted 

 with their very remarkable system of heraldry. Two collections 

 which were of unusual interest were purchases. The first is a 

 collection of about 1,400 specimens from the Tlingits of Alaska 

 and known as the Spuhn collection, although the majority of 

 the specimens were collected by Lieut. Emmons, while the entire 

 collection was labeled by him. The collection is unusually complete 

 even to the minutest detail and is especially welcome inasmuch as 

 this region of the northwest coast was not before represented except 

 by certain priceless specimens illustrating a certain few phases of 

 culture in the Edward E. Ayer collection. The second collection 

 purchased was kindly selected for the Department by Mr. Ayer and 

 comprised a number of remarkable bronze castings from Benin, 

 Africa, and two ancient and valuable Etruscan tombs. 



The accessions in the Department of Botany have been many and 

 important. The Herbarium has been augmented to the extent of 

 20,469 sheets of dried plants from various countries, principally from 

 the United States. Of these 9,946 sheets have been mounted, classi- 

 fied and arranged in the genus covers, together with about 1,500 

 sheets from the Patterson Herbarium, which is now about one-half 

 mounted and installed. Among the notable collections secured were 

 the following: The private herbarium of Mr. Mason Bross, compris- 

 ing 1,118 sheets, representing his work of collecting, principally of the 

 flora of Cook County and Northern Illinois and Indiana; the private 

 herbarium of the late Mr. J. A. Stewart of Peoria, 111., consisting of 

 1,622 sheets, representing his collection of the flora of the Peoria 

 region and a tour through the Southern States in 1862. Mrs. Agnes 

 Chase also contributed 190 sheets of the more interesting plants of 

 the Chicago region. By purchase the herbarium of Mr. A. A. Heller, 

 of Lancaster, Pa., was obtained, consisting of over 13,000 sheets of 

 plants. In addition to the above, the following sets were secured: 

 Frank E. McDonald, Southern Illinois plants, 355 sheets; Rugel's 

 Florida collection, 430 sheets; S. M. Tracy's Gulf States collection 

 for 1901, 437 sheets; C. G. Pringle's Mexican collection for 1901, 197 

 sheets; the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, N. S. W. , 100 sheets of 

 Australian plants; Rev. Ernest C. Smith, 212 sheets of plants from 

 the Yellowstone National Park, and the Robert Bebb series of 252 

 sheets from his Southern Illinois and Indiana collection, 1901. Much 

 economic material has also been acquired, the notable additions being 

 as follows: Mr. J. N. Rose, 84 specimens of economic material; Mr. 

 W. R. Ruffner, series of coffees; Marshall Field & Company, 98 type 

 specimens of typical cotton cloths and laces; the Celluloid Company, 



