REPORT UPON THE CONDITION AND PROGRESS OF THE

The government collections in his possession, which practically came under the care of the Commissioner of Patents, were transferred to the Smithsonian Institution in 1858. Army; and the activities of officers of the Signal Corps, and other branches of the Armed Forces.

REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 11 maintain the study series in a manner acceptable to the specialist, the

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REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 13 for the erection of the entire building in granite, at a limiting cost of

SUMMARY OF THE OPEBATIONS 0¥ THE YEAR

APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES

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EEPOKT OF ASSISTANT SECEETARY. 17 and both demand constant attention and repair, at some expense

ADDITIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS

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Biolley, from the National Museum of San Jose, Costa Rica, several very interesting specimens were obtained, including one. Robert Volcott, from the University of Nebraska; specimens of many orders and consisting of t^^Des and cotypes of Prof.

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O. Snyder, was presented by the Leland Stanford Junior University

A valuable series of massive and cut polished stalactites and stalagmites from the Copper Queen mine was presented by Mr. About 11,000 corals, crinoids, molluscs, and other fossil invertebrates from the Mississippi Valley Paleozoic were received from Dr.

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REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 25 The approximate number of specimens received by the Museum

EXPLORATIONS

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DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS

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RESEARCHES

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August Busck has published two articles on the leafhopper and one on a new species of the family Yponomentidic, and he has also published a vision of American warblers of the family GelechiidjB. In the Department of Plants, an unusually large amount of routine work, especially in relation to the rearrangement of the collections, prevented the carrying out of much scientific research.

EEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 33 The herbarium has also been constantly utilized by the botanists of

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PROGRESS IN THE INSTALLATION OF THE EXHIBITION COLLECTIONS

Considerable improvement has been made in the appearance of the exhibit of marine invertebrates, which occupies the west hall in the Smithsonian building. The wall cabinets in the southeast range of the Museum Building have been reconstructed, and the systematic collection of casts of North American fishes has been rearranged and installed to much better advantage than before.

MEETINGS AND LECTURES

39 Number of risttnrs to the Mnwnin and Smithsonian hidldinga since the o]ieinii

CORRESPONDENCE

On 4 April the lecture hall was used for the graduation exercises of the Naval Medical School and on 14 April for those of the Array Medical School. The National Academy of Sciences held its annual meeting from April 21 to 23, 1903, business meetings being held in the assistant secretary's offices and the reading of papers in the lecture hall.

REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 41 PUBLICATIONS

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LIBRARY

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COOPERATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS OF THE GOVERNMENT

THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION

ORGANIZATION AND STAFF

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Wayland Vaughan, Custodian of the Madreporarian Corals on

NECROLOGY

BEPOP.TS OF HEAJ) CURATORS

REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY FOR THE YEAR 1902-3

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Seton-Karr, of London, England

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Plaster bust of George Washington, made from a life mask taken by Jean Antoine Houdon at Mount Vernon in 1785; from Miss Eliza-

Relics of Governor William Shannon, of Ohio and of Kansas;

The Division of Physical Anthropology has been enriched by

PURCHASES

TRANSFERS

There are also specimens of the ore mined and used as paint, a large mass of hematite weighing 1,600 pounds, showing marks of the ancient mining implements, and arrow-heads, leaf-shaped blades, and spear-heads of flint. A description of the collection will appear in a forthcoming report of the Bureau of American Ethnology3. The first of these consists of 289 specimens and was received in a deposit from the Bureau of Ethnology.

EXCHANGES

Two fowling pieces and three Filipino swords; from Mr. Paul Beckwith
One hundred and thirty-one specimens of oriental metal work, lacquer, and porcelain, including a number of examples of Buddhist
Anthropometric apparatus; by the American Museum of Natural History, New York, and the Army Medical Museum, Washington
Collection of pikes and lances used by Confederates during the civil war, uniforms of the same period, guns captured in various
Models of cannon and howitzers used in the United States Army

Collection of 26 relics of the Kevolution period; by Daughtersof the American Revolution via Mrs. Pewter's pewter plate, land, etc.; by the National Association of Colonial Ladies through Miss Virginia Miller, Chairman of the Committee on Relics.

CAKE OF THE COLLECTIONS

A collection of points and spears used by the Confederates during the Civil War, uniforms of the same period, guns captured in various Civil Wars, uniforms of the same period, guns captured in various Indian campaigns, swords and an old uuisket from the ship Somerset^.

KEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 57 The work of labeling the exhibits has been carried forward with all

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Andrews, a statistician from the immigration office of the Tveasurv department, prepared studios in the Ethnology department. Dr. Waldemar Bogoi-as, from the Amencan Museum of Natuial His tofv New York, has carefully examined the Esk.mo collection to find Siberian material. After the meeting of the Society of Americanists in New Yoit, many foreign delegates visited the museum, where a.

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STORAGE

REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY FOR THE YEAR 1902-3

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Richmond, Ashmead, Bartsch, and Currie spent several days in Philadelphia studying the theological collections of the Academy of Sciences and Dr. The accessions of the year, which are treated as separate lots of different sizes received from different sources, were considerably less than last year, except in the .plant department and the bird's egg department. There were more plants present than in any year since 1895, 575 in all, but the number of specimens they contained was less than in the previous year, being about 53,500 specimens ii\.

The total number of zoological specimens received during the 3"ear was, as already stated, about 70,000; of plants about 35,000 specimens.. the most important feature of the accessions was the increase in the number of represented types and cotypes, comprising insects, fish, birds and crustaceans. During the largest zoological additions received were a collection of "all 19,000 gall wasps and parasites ... made in Canada and sent by the United States Department of Agriculture; about 4,000 Costa Rican insects purchased from Mr. P. Schild of Hamburg, Germany; a))of 2000 Chilean insects presented by Mr. Reed of Concepcion; a collection of about 2,000 tish, bird eggs, molluscs, and other marine invertebrates from Hawaii.

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Abbott's East Indian Mammals and uhose of Paraguay just mentioned, the Museum has received several other accessions which deserve mention. Rairden, United States consul at Batavia, Java, obtained for the Museum two specimens of a Java mouse-deer, which was an undescribed species of great importance, and by Mr. Gilbert of Stanford University as Tragtdus focalinus3^ It represents the species Pseudorcacras. - sldens, a form between the killer whales and blackfish, which has not yet been obtained from the vicinity of the Hawaiian.

Homer Davenport, of Morris Plains, New Jersey, presented to the Museum during the year 22 large and valuable birds from his wide range of birds, among which were an Australian goose, a Javan jungle fowl, a black-winged peacock, Pavonigripennis. by some zoologists as a distinct species, and some beautiful pheasants, including Diard's fiery pheasant, Lopkuradiardi. The Bishop Museum, Honolulu, presented a collection of the birds of Guam, containing about 44 specimens, representing species not previously included in the Government collection. Fishes.- The accessions of fishes were unremarkable because of the number of type specimens and the cotypes included in them.

REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY, 71 Purchases of plants to the amount of $1,000 were made during- tlie

WORK ON THE STUDY SERIES

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LOAN OF COLLECTIONS AND COOPERATION OF SPECIALISTS

DISTKIBUTIOX OF DUPLK^ATES

LABORATORY USE OF COLLECTIONS BY INVESTIGATORS

This consolidation of work on the exhibition series, explained in a previous page, left the scientific staff a little more time to carry on investigations, while the activity of systematists in various parts of the country, making use of the involved government collections, showed no decline. It is interesting to note that the articles exceed 150 in number and have appeared in about thirty}^ different journals, including the following: Proceedings of theU. National Museum, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Proceedings of the Philadelphia Acadeni}^ of Natural Sciences, Science Yearbook of the Carnegie Institution, The Auk, Naturen, Nautilus, American Journal of Pharmacy, Journal of Conchology, Smithsonian Report, Biographical Memoirs of the National.

Academy of Sciences, Canadian Entomologist, Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Psyche, Proceedings of the Entomolog-. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Zoologischer Anzeiger, Public Health Report, Report of the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. The preparation of the third volume, covering 15 families, was an advanced stage at the end of the year, about 400 pages already.

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It records the presence of type specimens or type material of 469 species and subspecies. excluding the type specimens in the collection of the Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture, which are probably at least as numerous.). He also prepared papers on Dr. Philippi's species of Chilean porpoises, on an orca beached on the coast of Maine, and on a species of ProdeJphinus obtained from Honolulu; and notes in the name of the common porpoise of the genus Turslop.s, and of the occurrence of the sea whale, BalabiiopteTa horealis^ in American waters. Doctor Ashmead continued his study of the classification of the Chalcidians, which was under publication by Carnegie.

Museum at the end of the year, and series of papers on the wasps of the groups Vespoidea, Proctotrypoidea, and Cynipoidea, were published in the Canadian Entomologist and other entomological journals. August Busck published 2 articles on codling moths and one on new species of the family Iponomentidae. Benedict published descriptions of new species of Galatheidae, and completed a vision of the genus Lejndojxi., and descriptions of other new Albuneidae.

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P. Hay, were published by the Museum

EEPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETAKY. 81 In the meantime preparations were begun for the Louisiana Purchase

PERSONNEL

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REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY FOR THE YEAR 1902-3

Two large specimens of pegmatite from Auburn, Maine; collected by the Head Curator

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A very complete series of talcs from the North Carolina Talc and Mining Company, of Swain County, North Carolina; the gift of the

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Through purchase and exchange with the Foote Mineral Com-

Through purchase and exchange, in part for the St, Louis Expo-

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The Andrew Sherwood collection of Pennsylvania Upper Devonic vertebrate and inverto])rate fossils. This contains many choice slabs

A tooth (type) of Oladodus formosus, from Needle Mountains quadrangle, Colorado; collected by Whitman Cross

ROUTINE

In six floor standing display cases and one wall case, double doors were replaced with single doors, more than doubling the size of the glass. The collections on the west front of the museum have been renovated and many specimens have been put into storage, thus greatly improving the appearance of the west front. This work, together with the general stenographic and clerical work of the department, remained in the hands of Mrs.

The exhibition series has been partially rearranged and new labels have been printed and exchanged for the temporary labels from the Palaeozoic part of the collection. Work in the Section of Vertebrate Paleontology has proceeded but slowly, owing to the small force involved. The work is now nearly completed, and it is expected that this very interesting vertebrate fossil will be exhibited in the south-east yard during the coming autumn.

EXCHANGES AND LOANS

REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 89 there must be a constant weeding out of old material and the insertion

RESEARCH

APPEI^DIXES

SCIENTIFIC STAFF

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

James Wilson, Secretary: Nine hundred and twenty-four specimens of Diptera collected in Texas and Mexico by Prof.C.

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 97

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Manning, Henry S., New York City, received through George F. a gold-headed cane belonging to the late Hon.

LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 125 National Society of the Daughters of

LIST OF ACCESSIONS. 129

One hundred and twenty specimens (42 species) of Coleoptera and 1 Cicada (40018); received through Dr. Rose, A. G., Ferguson, S. C.: Pupa of a butterfly [Papilioasterias). Rousseau, Phileas, NotreDamede Monts, yend^e, France: Nittentrilobites, 5 specimens of Bellerophon, and 4 other fossils from the Siluric of France.

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Shull, George H., HavredeGrace, Md., Washington, D.C., ken Unibersidad ti Chicago: Dagiti espesimen ti Sabbatia dodocandra(L) B.S.P. ken ti Pteridium aquilinum (L) Kuhn (39899); mula manipud Virginia (39989); planta manipud New York.

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE MUSEL"]\I

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HERBARIUM

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM

BIBLIOGRAPHY. 145

BIBLIOGRAPHY. 147 FROM BULLETIN 39

PAPERS BY OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM AND OTHERS, BASED WHOLLY OR IN PART UPON THE NATIONAL COLLECTIONS,

AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION COMMITTEE ON NOMEN-

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Handbook Birds | vande| Western United States I including] the Great Plains, Great Basin, Pacific Slope, and Lower Rio Grande Valley | ByFlorenceMerriam Bailey | With thirty-three full-. A systematic treatise on the birds of the western United States, with brief descriptions of the various species, their nests and eggs.

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Notes on the Cerostoma group of Yponomeutids with descriptions of new North American. species. The article gives an overview of the history and the fundamental beliefs, and of the sacred writings of the Parsees, and description of the collection at the Museum.

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An attempt to clear up some of the confusion caused in the geological literature by the recent use of the name. It is an overview of the history, distribution, bibliography, nomenclature and classification of this family of bivalve molluscs, and a summary of the recent species known to occur on the east and west coasts, respectively, of the North American continent. A summary of the conditions under which the marine mammals of the northwest coast of America exist and a discussion of the likelihood that we can save them from extermination.

This article, in the same manner as the synopsis of the Veneridx, provides an overview of the CardUidse and the Cyclocardiidx and provides lists of the species found on the east and west coasts of North and South America, with numerous notes.

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Danielsat LilyLake, Laporte, Ind.; the second, Pseudarmadillo gillianus, was taken at the Isle of Pines, Cuba, by Messrs. William PalmerandJ.H. 189), Malacopteron notatum (p. 190), and Sta-chyris banjakensis (p. 190) are newly described.

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Reviews the species of Eocene corals of Maryland and cites an additional species, Haimesiastrwaconferta Vaughan, from the lower Marlborough. Proposes the generic name Aldrichiella for Aldrichia Vaughan, recorded, and shows that this type species of Phectopsammia Vaughan is the juvenile of Endopachys maclurei(Lea).

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