52 BEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New York Botanical Garden, and 

 Dr. P. A. Eydberg and Dr. F. W. Pennell, of tlie same establish- 

 ment; Mr. F. Tracy Hubbard, of Cambridge, Mass.; and Mr. E. D. 

 Merrill, botanist of the Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I. 



A larger number of jDlants were lent for study and determination 

 than in the previous year, and while many of these were supplied 

 for the benefit of the applicant, in most cases the Museum was equally 

 the gainer in obtaining authoritative identifications of the specimens 

 borrowed. The principal sendings were as follows: An aggregate 

 of 877 specimens to the New York Botanical Garden, comprising 

 material in many families of phanerogams and several groups of 

 cryptogams; 312 specimens of Euphorbiaceae to the Field Museum 

 of Natural History for the use of Dr. C. F. Millspaugh ; 320 lichens 

 to Mr. G. K. Merrill, of Rockland, Me., for identification; 607 speci- 

 mens to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, for the use of 

 Mr. G. S. Torrey, Mr. Harold St. John, and Dr. B. L. Eobinson, 

 curator of the Herbarium; 161 specimens of algae of the order 

 Zygnemales to Prof, E. N. Transeau, of Charleston, 111., who is mak- 

 ing an extended investigation of this difficult group ; and 291 speci- 

 mens of Senecio to the Missouri Botanical Garden for study by Dr. 

 J. M. Greenman, the principal American authority on this group. 



Work of jyreparators. — The preparators were mainly employed in 

 mounting specimens for filling gaps in the exhibition collections and 

 replacing old and poorly preserved specimens with fresh ones. Dur- 

 ing the last three months of the year, however, attention was chiefly 

 paid to the installation of the large cast and skeletons of whales in 

 the new building. Mr. George B. Turner, chief taxidermist, with 

 his assistant, Mr. William L. Brown, mounted eleven large and 

 medium sized mammals, and modeled and cast two other specimens 

 which are ready for the skin. They also did much work of repair 

 and renovation, and rebuilt the accessory parts of the African buffalo 

 group, a difficult and tedious task, as the plants brought from Africa, 

 though well preserved, required prolonged treatment before they 

 could be made presentable. Mr. Nelson R. Wood, bird taxidermist, 

 mounted 75 birds for exhibition, and remounted and renovated 30 

 more, besides preparing a number for the study series. Mr. George 

 Marshall was chiefly engaged in mounting small and medium sized 

 mammals and otherwise assisted in the installation of exhibits. 



Mr. J. W. Scollick, osteologist, cleaned and prepai;ed skeletons and 

 skulls of mammals, birds, turtles and fishes to the number of 894 

 specimens; took an important part in the transfer of the whale skele- 

 tons, their renovation and reinstallation; and remounted the skeleton 

 of the extinct Steller's sea-cow. He also cleaned over 2,000 specimens 

 of corals for study purposes. Mr. C. E. Mirguet, preparator, re- 

 modeled and reinstalled the large American alligator which had been 



