Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-24
THE EVENING STAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY PAGES

stitution monograph on Landmarks of
Btanical History, and DIR. Albert Nj.
Reese of Syracuse University has received
a grant to assist him In collecting Florida
dhe material for a study of the er1rbry ology
of the alligator
The Smithsonian table at the Naples zoo
iegicai station has been occupied by Prof.
j. Il: Johnston of the University of West
virginia and DR.. Stewart Patton formerly
OF Johns Hopkins University
Dr. j. Walter Fewkes carried ON an ex-
tended archaeological reconnaissance for
the Smithsonian Institution In the gulf
states of Mexico. This trip added much to
what is known of the prehistoric inhabi-
tants of this partially explored region
Mr. A. G.. Maddren was sent on an expe-
dition to Alaska and adjacent territory
for an examination of the pleistocene de-
posts of northern Alaska, in which most
OF the mammoth and other vertebrate re-
mains occur and Prof. William n Scher-
ger of the Michigan State Normal School
was sent out by the institution to the Cana
dian Rockies and Sefkirks for work the
glaciers along the line of the Canadian
Pacific railway.
The institution distributed during the
year total of 6o,06S volumes. or parts of
volumes of its publications, making an in.
crease of Is. 40 over the number sent out
during the previous year.
The most notable additions to the library
were the valuable collection relating to
transportation and civil engineering be-
queathed to the institution by the late DR..
]. Eifreth Watkins. a collection of 1000
books on the flora of tropical America by
Capt. John Donnell Smith. and large
number of additions to the collections on
Napoleon Bonaparte. made by Gen. j..
Watts de Peyster.
National Museum
The National Museum was increased
during the year by nearly $50, 900 speci-
mems, bringing the total number of speci-
mems now preserved in the museum col
lectfons to well over six millions. Four
teen thousand specimens were distributed
during the past year to schools and col
leges throughout the land. The most mo-
table additions were the Maiaysian collec-
ton. contributed by DR.. w. l.. Abbott, and
an interesting Philippine exhibit gathered
by DR. h. A. Mearns, L. S. A. From the
Louisiana purchase exposition over
thirty carloads were received. including
many valuable chronological and techno-
logical exhibits and besides, the usuai
accessions from the government surveys.
The time OF the bureau of American
ethnology has been largely devoted to
the publication of the handbook of In
dams, which will include descriptions Of
the tribes and their settlements.
The collection of animals in the Ma
tional Geological Park comprised 800 In
dividuals of all species, at the end of the
year. "A considerable number of these
were born in the park. and 1913 birds were
received from the exhibit made at st.
Louis. A new house for mammals Is up
preaching completion. The secretary
urges the plan for extending the park to
the nearest boundary road on the south
east and the west, and also mentions as
pressing need of the park a small building
with outlying yards. which can be used as
a hospital and quarantine for sick ami
mails and incidentally as pathological
and anatomical laboratory.