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plying of important data. In the division of reptiles and batracliians 

 Dr. O. P. Hay and C. W. Gilmore have examined skeletons in con- 

 nection vvith studies of fossils; Remington Kellogg has continued 

 his work on an economic and systematic study of the toads ; Dr. G. K. 

 Noble has paid special attention to the frogs of the Dominican 

 ifepublic and has borrowed some of our material; K. P. Schmidt 

 has written some interesting reports on the herpetology of Lower 

 California, making use of our collections; A. I. Ortenburger has 

 identified snakes, and Dr. E. E. Dunn has identified salamanders. 

 Dr. Henry W. Fowler has cooperated with Mr. Bean in preparing a 

 report on the fishes of the Wilkes Exploring Expedition. 



The division of insects has once more been particularly fortunate 

 in the number of persons who have added to the value of the collec- 

 tion b}^ examining specimens. Most of this material has been studied 

 here. The following names may be mentioned in this connection: 

 Ray T. Webber, Melrose Highlands, Mass. ; Prof. H. B. Hungerford, 

 Law^rence, Kans. ; S. E. Cassino and L. B. Swett, Salem, Mass.; 

 Alfred M. Emmerson, Pittsburgh, Pa. ; George M. Greene, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; M. W. Blackman, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. ; 

 H. C. Huckett, L. S. West, and Prof. J. Chester Bradley, all of 

 Cornell University; L. H. Taylor, Bussey Institution, Forest Hills, 

 Mass.; S. W. Bromley and Prof. G. C. Crampton, Amherst, Mass.; 

 r>r. A. H. Sturtevant, Columbia University; William Barnes and 

 A. W. Lindsay, Decatur, 111.; Prof. E. T. Owen, Madison, Wis.; 

 I'rof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Colo.; J. R. Malloch, Biological 

 Sur\^ey; H. J. Reinhard, College Station, Tex.; Dr. J. Villeneuve, 

 Rambouillet, France; J. A. G. Rehn, Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 l^hiladelphia ; Morgan Hebard, Philadelphia ; and G. F. Ferris, Stan- 

 ford University. 



In marine invertebrates the Museum has continued to receive very 

 valuable aid from its so-called " volunteer staff," that is, from special- 

 ists to whom we have sent material on which we have had no specialist 

 working here. To these collaborators the Museum is under great 

 obligation. Their names follow : Dr. Henry B. Bigelow and Dr. 

 R. V. Chamberlin, Museum of Comparative Zoology; Dr. K. H. 

 Barnard, South African Museum; Dr. L. R. Cary, Princeton 

 University; Dr. Leon J. Cole, University of IVisconsin; Dr. Henri 

 Coutiere, Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie, Paris, France ; Dr. Joseph 

 A. Cushman, Boston Society of Natural History; A. A. Doolittle, 

 Washington, D. C. ; Prof. Max M. Ellis, University of Missouri; 

 Dr. A. G. Pluntsman, University of Toronto; Frits Johansen, Ottawa, 

 Canada ; T. Kaburaki, Science College, Tokyo, Japan ; Dr. C. D. 

 Marsh. United States Bureau of Animal Industry; Dr. Maynard M. 

 Metcalf, Oberiin, Ohio; Dr. J. Percy Moore and Dr. Henry A. 



