g6 Field Columbian Museum — ^Reports, Vol. II. 



New York, 23 specimens illustrating the processes in the manufacture 

 of celluloid; Rev. H. 'R. Voth, 94 specimens of maize raised by the 

 Hopi Indians; the N. K. Fairbank Company, a series of 25 specimens 

 illustrating the utilization of cotton seed oil. The Old Times Distillery 

 Company, a series of 10 specimens illustrating the manufacture of 

 whiskey from maize. 



The chief additions to the Department of Ornithology were 

 obtained by Mr. Breninger in the field, consisting of 1,500 bird skins, 

 many of which were new to the collections, and 163 eggs. Some 

 minor gaps in the exhibition series were filled by purchase in the 

 local market from time to time. 



A series of the ores and minerals of Chile from the Chilean Com- 

 mission to the Pan-American Exposition was among the important 

 acquisitions in the Department of Geology. Other important acces- 

 sions were: Portion of a fossil tree of the Carboniferous period, with 

 markings well preserved, from the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 

 Railroad Company; 5 large slabs showing different varieties of Wash- 

 ington serpentine marble, from the United States Marble Company; 

 several specimens of crystals from Mr. W. J. Chalmers; a number of 

 representative gold, copper and corundum ores from Mr. B. W. Good- 

 sell, and a collection of Hawaiian lavas and minerals from Father M. 

 J. Boarman. Quite an amount of material was obtained by exchange, 

 the most important being about fifty specimens of rocks and minerals 

 of Colorado from the Colorado School of Mines, 200 specimens of 

 foreign invertebrate fossils from Mr. W. E. Crane, Tarrytown, N. Y. ; 

 a section of the Algoma meteorite from the University of Wisconsin, 

 and a number of specimens of modern invertebrates from Ward's 

 Natural Science Establishment. By purchase the chief acquisitions 

 have been a meteorite from Kansas and specimens of three other 

 falls; relief maps of Niagara Falls, the Hawaiian Islands and Porto 

 Rico, and a series of four relief maps illustrating the stages of reces- 

 sion of Lake Michigan; a collection of fossils from Alaska, including 

 some types of Bison; a series of Upper Silurian and Devonian fossil 

 fishes from Scotland and a number of mineral specimens. 



The condition of the specimens obtained by Mr. Heller in the 

 field justifies the great importance which should be attached to this 

 method of obtaining additions to the Zoological collections. This 

 collector's itinerary ranged from Oregon to California and from Cali- 

 fornia to Mexico, and the conscientious manner in which he covered 

 this territory is a matter on which the Museum should be congratu- 

 lated, as will be seen by the accession lists appended. Much desirable 

 material was also obtained by purchase, notably that obtained from 



