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During the fiscal year the following specimens were obtained: 
Accessions 
DONATIONS 
Special acknowledgment is made to the International Nickel Com- 
pany, the Mond Nickel Company, and Messrs, Henry Wiggin and Com- 
pany of Birmingham, England, for valuable donations of specimens of 
metallurgical products from the nickel ores of Sudbury district. These 
specimens have been added to the nickel exhibit. 
Two specimens of cryolite from Greenland, from W. S. McCann. 
Two quartz crystals, 1 specimen of zinc blende, 1 quartz ball, 1 quartz pagoda, 1 flower 
vase, from Ani mine, Ugo province, Japan, from Mr. Shimmatsu Ichikawa, Japan. 
Series of nickel products from International Nickel Company. 
Series of nickel products from Mond Nickel Company. 
Specimens of lead-zinc ore from Worthington mine, Sudbury, Ont., from J. T. O'Connor, 
Sudbury, Ont. 
Specimens of apophyllite, pyrite, and calcite enclosing byssolite from Falls of French 
Creek Iron mine, Pa., U.S.A., and prehnite from Paterson, N.J., U.S.A., from Mr. 
Biernbaum, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A. 
Graphite from south end of lac Vert (or Castor), Joly township, Labelle county, Que., on 
the portage route from lac Tremblay and lac Caribou, from Mr. W. O. Anderson, care 
American Bank Note Company, Bronx, New York city, N.Y. 
Four specimens of calcite, 2 specimens messolite, 1 specimen scolecite, 1 specimen volcanic 
glass, 1 specimen lignite, from Iceland; 1 specimen volcanic ash from Reyk janes, S.W. 
Iceland; aragonite, Girgenti, Sicily; fluorite, Wolsendorf; from H. Eiriksson, Idnsko- 
linnm, Reykjavik, Iceland (through R. A. A. Johnston). 
Coal nodules taken from Victoria colliery, Raneguij coal field, Bengal, India. (New 
Beerhhoom Coal Company, Limited.) Donated by Mr. G. S. Caldwell. 
Sphalerite from Lucky Jim mine, Slocan mining division, B.C., from C. E. Cairnes. 
PURCHASES 
Thirteen specimens of native silver and argentite from Frontier mine, Cobalt, Ontario. 
Purchased from Mining Corporation of Canada, Cobalt, Ont. 
One boulder of native silver from Vemer, Ont., 2 fragments and one small bag of silver. 
Purchased from Mr. Mederic Beauparlaut. 
DIVISION OF PALAEONTOLOGY (GEOLOGICAL SURVEY) 
E. M. Kindle, Chief of the Division, reports: 
Field Work and Collections 
Field work by three members of the division and other members of 
the Geological Survey has resulted in several interesting and valuable 
collections of fossils. E. M. Kindle collected in Jasper park a fauna of 
Ozarkian or Canadian age comparable with the Ozarkian fauna previously 
known farther south in the Rocky mountains; Devonian and Carboniferous 
faunas were collected in the same region. Collections of a Blairmore flora 
were made on the east and west sides of the Front range of the Rocky 
mountains near the eastern entrance to Jasper park, by B. R. MacKay and 
E. M. Kindle. In Stikine River district, British Columbia, F. A. Kerr 
obtained a Permian fauna allied to the Permian of Alaska and Ural mount- 
ains. The collection of Mr. C. S. Evans from British Columbia includes 
late Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian fossils. Collections of vertebrate 
fossils of fragmentary character were made by F. H. McLearn from the 
