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ical specimens from various parts of Mexico, the Penefiel collection, 

 a series of 100 busts of Mexican Indians, a large and comprehensive 

 ethnological series illustrating the life of the Mexican Indians of to-day, 

 and several miscellaneous collections of the North American Indians, 

 among them the Iroquois, Tonkawa, and Sauk and Fox. The col- 

 lection also included one of the very rare ancient throwing sticks from 

 the ClifE ruins of Utah. Of the new material acquired in the Depart- 

 ment of Botany a fair half was secured by careful selection among 

 the principal foreign countries exhibiting at the Louisiana Purchase 

 Exposition. From this source the following specimens were derived: 

 From Portugal, a series of vegetable oils from the fruits to the prod- 

 ucts, illustrating the utilization of the oil of olives, coco, purging nut, 

 and ground nut ; a very full series of the native plants used in this 

 country in domestic medication by the laity ; a full illustrative collec- 

 tion of the Portuguese method of harvesting pine resins, from a large 

 trunk showing the method of tapping, through the tools and utensils 

 used, to the various resins, gums and oils extracted; an interesting 

 series of the principal agricultural products of the country, and many 

 of its colonial possessions; a few examples of cork products needed 

 to complete the already very full illustrative collection in the depart- 

 ment ; and a series of the rubbers of Porttiguese Africa. F'rom Egypt, 

 a very complete and representative collection of the cereals, legumes, 

 and other edible grains peculiar to the delta of the Nile ; an excellent 

 series of the more valuable Egyptian cottons; a fine series of sugar, 

 exemplifying the products from the cane ; a valuable collection of 

 dried dates representing all the Egyptian varieties of the fruit ; and 

 a series of the native rubbers of upper Egypt. From Ceylon, an unique 

 series of specimens showing the various utilizations of cocoanut; the 

 husks, shells, nuts, meat, trunk, sheath, leaf ekels, and wood of the 

 tree ; a very full and selected series of the native spices of the country 

 in a large variety of forms and sorts; a full series of the plants em- 

 ployed in disease by the natives, accompanied by a pamphlet giving 

 the source and utilization of each; a complete set of odd fibers, em- 

 ployed by the natives, but not yet having commercial value or ex- 

 ploitation, each of these accompanied by a cord or rope manufactured 

 from the same; various wild and agricultural grains, nuts, berries 

 and other fruits entering into domestic use; the gums, tans, dyes, 

 and barks utilized in woodcraft and domestic arts ; the starches manu- 

 factured from native plants, utilized but not 3^et commercial; a very 

 full collection of the varieties of Ceylon teas ; a very complete series 

 of the cereals, legumes and other grains of Ceylon ; also of the cottons ; 



