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sylvania minerals and rocks and the preparation of a number of 
new accessions. Among the more notable of these Avas a collection 
of zoolites from the Perkiomenville quarry, in Montgomery County, 
presented by Messrs. Hilbiber and Tallis. 
From May 28 to November 15 Mr. Gordon was absent on the 
expedition to South America elsewhere described. 
During the year a Goldschmidt two-circle goniometer was 
purchased for the laboratory of the department. 
Archeology 
M iss H. Newell Wardle, in charge of this department, reports 
that another portion of the Gottschall collection, including costumes 
and weapons of the Apache and Kiowa and a series of Navajo 
blankets, has been placed on exhibition, while progress has been 
made in cataloguing other portions of this collection. 
Mr. Clarence B. Moore’s winter expedition to Florida resulted 
mainly in securing duplicates of shell artifacts which have been 
used in exchange with other museums for valuable collections 
from the Cliff-dwellings, the ancient Pueblos, and from Mexico, 
thus greatly enriching the department. 
