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of an Egyptian priest of Thebes, of the sixteenth century B.C., made, 

 probably, from the skin of an ibex or an oryx; this, with another spec- 

 imen found with it, being absolutely unique in character, and the only 

 specimens in existence. In the Department of Ornithology the addi- 

 tions to the collections have been largely by expedition and purchase, 

 although several gifts are reported, as will be seen in the list of 

 accessions. The department collected in Phoenix, Arizona, San 

 Clemente Island, and Monterey, California, and in the Huachuca 

 Mountains of Arizona, and secured over eleven hundred and forty-one 

 (1,141) bird skins, and one hundred and seventy-six (176) eggs, 

 which were especially important when it is considered that the 

 department did not possess a representative collection from any of 

 those localities. Accessions of eggs and skins of several species not 

 previously represented were added, while of other species, of which 

 there were only one or two skins, there is now a series sufficient for 

 comparative study. The donation from Mr. Rowley of forty-three 

 (43) bird skins collected in Sonora, Mexico, were also particularly 

 valuable in this respect, coming as they did from a locality otherwise 

 almost wholly unrepresented in this department. The Curator of 

 Botany reports important additions to the Herbarium, of which the 

 following may be mentioned: Smith's Colombian Plants, 2,312 

 sheets; Egger's West Indian Plants, 1,025 sheets: Pringle's Plants of 

 Mexico, 918 sheets; Egger's Ecuadorian Plants, 817 sheets; Harper's 

 Plants of Georgia, 669 sheets; Tracy's Plants of the Gulf States, 579 

 sheets; Northrop's original set of Bahama Plants, 523 sheets; Heller's 

 Plants of Porto Rico, 498 sheets; Pollard & Palmer's Plants of Cuba, 

 390 sheets; Heller's California Plants, 385 sheets; Smith, E. C, Plants 

 of Illinois, 375 sheets; Schaffner's Mexican Plants, 337 sheets; Lan- 

 sing's Plants of the Lake Chicago Basin, 304 sheets; Newcombe's 

 Plants of Alaska, 288 sheets; Miller's Plants of Venezuela, 274 sheets; 

 Cusick's Oregon Plants, 265 sheets; Exsciccatce Grayanae, 245 sheets; 

 Palmer's Mexican Plants, 235 sheets; Bebb's Illinois, Indiana and 

 Wisconsin Plants, 218 sheets; Rowlee's Plants of the Isle of Pines, 107 

 sheets; Pringle's Plants of Cuba, 54 sheets. The classification of 



accessions follows : No.ofAcces- No. ofSpeci- 



sions. mens. 



G^ftS, 139 3 .119 



Loans, 3 240 



Exchanges, 39 3,616 



Collected, 59 14,527 



Purchase, 69 10,784 



Deposit, 2 3 



Collated, 4 169 



Award, . i i 



