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EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM^ 1915. 



Agricxjt.tube, Department of — Contd. 



Bureau of Entomology: 4 ba- 

 trachians and 5 lizards, from Texas 

 (57197) ; 31 vials of miscellaneous 

 insects (57407) ; 200 specimens of 

 Hymenoptera, representing about 80 

 species and including types of 69 

 species (57411), and 292 dragonflies 

 from West Virginia, collected by Mr. 

 R. P. Currie, received from the 

 Branch of Forest Insect Investiga- 

 tions (58065) ; about 3,500 Diptera, 

 100 bred Diptera, 1,000 miscellane- 

 ous insects and 30 vials of alcoholic 

 material, collected by Mr. R. C. 

 Shannon in the vicinity of Washing- 

 ton, D. C. (57692; 57800); 221 

 slides of muscoid maggots and eggs, 

 collected in 1909 ; 725 vials of female 

 reproductive systems in rough, mus- 

 coid maggots and eggs (Florida and 

 South Carolina, 1908, 1909) ; 117 

 vials of complete reproductive sys- 

 tems, male and female, dissected out 

 (New England, 1914) ; 903 pinned 

 muscoid flies from New England, in- 

 cluding over 100 from which dissec- 

 tions have been made; all collected 

 by Dr. C. H. T. Townsend (57894) ; 

 72 dragonflies from Chesapeake 

 Beach, Md., and 924 from the vicin- 

 ity of Washington, D. C, collected 

 by Mr. R. P. Currie and Miss Bertha 

 Currie; 30 dragonflies from the vi- 

 cinity of Washington, collected by 

 Mr. V. A. Roberts and Mr. H. L. 

 Nichols (58063) ; 74 named Euro- 

 pean insects, sent to the Bureau by 

 Mr. H. du Buysson of Vernet, Allier, 

 France (58361) ; 1 European and 12 

 American specimens of Diptera, Os- 

 cinis sp., determined by Mr. J. M. 

 Aldrich (.58463). 



Bureau of Plant Industry: 4 speci- 

 mens of gums, 3 of vegetable wax 

 and 1 of starch (57277) ; 11 land 

 shells, representing 2 species, from 

 the loess near Tchan-tcho, China 

 (57288) ; 240 specimens of plants 

 from the western part of the 

 United States and 2 from Ciudad 

 Juarez, Mexico, collected by Prof. 

 B. O. Wooton (57306; 57582; 57615; 

 57627; 57758; 58350), 44 from Costa 



Agrictjltuee, Department of — Contd. 

 Rica (57398; 57986), 1 from Wash- 

 ington (57398) ; 2 specimens of 

 rushes, Juncus, from New York 

 (57422) ; 19 specimens of plants 

 from the United States and 2 from 

 the Canal Zone, collected by Mr. 

 O. F. Cook (57509; 57582; 57716; 

 57859; 57981; 58153) ; 274 collected 

 in Guatemala and British Honduras 

 by Mr. Cook and Mr. C. B. Doyle 

 (57509) ; an exliibit of waste from 

 standardized Upland cotton, com- 

 prising samples of picker waste, 

 card waste and No. 22's warp yarn 

 obtained from the five standard full 

 grades of raw Upland cotton 

 (57544) ; 6,000 duplicate specimens 

 of grasses (57588) ; 17 specimens of 

 plants from New York (57716), 69 

 from Brazil (57728), 11 collected in 

 Florida by Prof. S. M. Tracy 

 (57758) ; 4 specimens of ferns col- 

 lected in Texas by Mr. C. S. Sco- 

 field (57810) ; 50 specimens of 

 plants collected in Wisconsin by 

 Mr. C. J. Humphrey, 625 from Brit- 

 ish Columbia, Alberta, and the 

 northwestern part of the United 

 States, collected by Prof. A. S. 

 Hitchcock (57868), 304 collected in 

 Idaho by Mr. Henry J. Rust 

 (57882) ; 12 specimens of thorns, 

 Crataegus, from Michigan (58153) ; 

 988 specimens of plants principally 

 from California and Idaho, 529 

 chiefly from Utah and 404 from 

 Arizona, all collected by Mr. W. W. 

 Eggleston (58160; 58181; 58272); 

 1,297 mounted specimens of grasses 

 from various sources (58160) ; 10 

 living specimens of Cactaceae col- 

 lected in Arizona and California by 

 Dr. H. L. Shantz (58184) ; 1,100 

 specimens of plants collected in 

 Colorado and California by Dr. 

 Shantz and Mr. R. L. Piemeisel 

 (58372), 26 collected in Utah and 

 Arizona by Mr. L L. Harter 

 (58280) ; 9 species of land shells 

 collected by Mr. Frank N. Meyer on 

 mountain slopes 4,000 to 8,000 feet, 

 near Siku, Kansu, China ; also con- 

 cretions of siliceous sand cemented 



