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Academy of Natural Sciences; Messrs. W. de W. Miller and J. P. 

 Chapin, American Musemn of Natural History, New York; Mr. 

 Frank Bond, Washington City; Maj. Allan Brooks and Mr. Louis 

 Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N. Y. ; Mr. Charles B. Cory, Field Museum 

 of Natural History ; Dr. N. Kuroda, Tokyo, Japan ; Mr. H. H. Bailey, 

 Miami Beach Zoological Park, Fla. ; Mr. A. C. Bent and Mr. J. C. 

 Phillips, Cambridge, Mass. Reptiles and amphibians were sent to 

 Dr. Thomas Barbour and Dr. E. R. Dunn, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology ; Miss M. C. Dickerson, American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York ; Dr. Frank N. Blanchard, Zoological Museum, Uni- 

 versity of Michigan ; and Prof. A. M. Reese, West Virginia Univer- 

 sity. From the division of fishes specimens were loaned to Mr. Carl 

 L. Hubbs, Zoological Museum, University of Michigan, and Dr. 

 Henry W. Fowler, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 

 addition, specimens of fishes havQ been borrowed repeatedly by the 

 specialists of the Bureau of Fisheries. No insect material of any im- 

 portance was transmitted to investigators outside of the Museum. 

 Marine invertebrates were sent to Dr. K. H. Barnard, South African 

 Museum, Cape Town ; Capt. F. A. Potts, Zoological Laboratory, The 

 Museums, Cambridge, England; Mr. W. A. Richter, North Milwau- 

 kee, Wis.; Dr. Frank Smith, University of Illinois; Mrs. Leon S. 

 Stone, New Haven, Conn. ; Mr. Joel H. Swartz, geological laboratory, 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. A. L. Treadwell, 

 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Plants sent out from the Na- 

 tional Herbarium to specialists or institutions outside of Washington 

 for study numbered 4,076, comprised in 71 lots, a slight falling off 

 from the previous year. Only the larger atid more important loans 

 are mentioned in the following list : 208 specimens of Azalea lent to 

 the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, for monographic 

 study by Dr. Alfred Rehder ; 184 specimens of violets of the western 

 United States lent to Dr. Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury, Vt., for study 

 in connection with his forthcoming monograph of the North Ameri- 

 can Vioiaceae ; 298 specimens of Hosachia lent to the University of 

 California, Berkeley, Calif., for study by Prof. W. L. Jepson; 127 

 specimens of Mimulus lent to Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., for 

 study by Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant, who is engaged in a revision of 

 the North American species of this genus ; 108 specimens of FUix lent 

 to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University for study by Mr. C. A. 

 Weatherby; 280 specimens of Hypoxis lent to the Gray Herbarium 

 of Harvard University for study by Miss Amelia E. Brackett; 269 

 specimens of Scrophulariaceae lent to the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den for monographic study by Dr. Francis W. Pennell; 1,474 speci- 

 mens of North American species of Piper lent to Prof. William 

 Trelease, of the University of Illinois, Urbana, 111., for use in connec- 

 tion with his monographic study of this genus. During the year 11 



