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Santia<i() de Las Vegas, Cuba, contributed by Mr. Carl F. Baker; 

 ;j75 IIeiiii])tera and other insects from Mr. II. (r. liarber; 350 bees 

 from Mr. E. S. (x. Titus; 260 Hemiptera from Mr. G. Beyer, and 

 240 Cuban Lei)id{)ptera from Mr. Mel T. Cook. 



Besides the lar<>:e amount of material from the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries, already referred to, the division of mai'ine in\'ertebrates re- 

 ceived several impoi'tant small accessions, of whicli the followinjjj 

 were the most noteworthy: From Dr. K. von Lendenfeld, Prague, 

 Austria, 238 microscopic slides of sponge sections and spicules, pre- 

 pared largely from ty2:)e specimens from the German and other deep- 

 sea ex})editions, and from Australia, Zanzibar, and the Adriatic, the 

 basis of eighteen published reports; specimens of madrepora-rian 

 corals collected by Dr. J. E. Duerden at the Hawaiian Islands and 

 presented by the Carnegie Institution, and from French Somaliland, 

 received in exchange from the Museum of Xatural History, Paris, 

 France. Thirty-five species of ]Malayan Crustacea. re])<)rted on by 

 Dr. J. (i. de Man. were contributed by the Natural History ]\Iuseum, 

 of Lubeck, Germany. 



The number of specimens added to the helminthological collection 

 was 514, of which the greater number were obtained by transfer from 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, and 

 many from the United States Public Health and ^Marine-Hospital 

 Service. 



In addition to the specimens transmitted by the Department of 

 Agriculture, the division of plants acquired many important collec- 

 tions. Through exchange with the Jardin Botanique de FEtat at 

 Brussels there was received a series of 900 plants collected in Mexico 

 by H. Galeotti many years ago. It is rich in tvpes and wnll prove 

 of great value in connection with the studies of the ^Mexican flora 

 now in progress. About 1,300 Mexican plants were collected for the 

 Museum by the associate curator. Dr. J. X. Rose, and 1,648 specimens 

 were purchased. A number of gifts of Central American plants, 

 comprising in all 1,405 specimens, were made by Prof. H. Pittier. 

 About 3,200 plants were collected in eastern Cuba by the assistant 

 curator, Mr. W. R. Maxon, and other West Indian plants to the 

 number of about 3.100 were received from the New York Botanical 

 Garden. By exchange with the Bureau of Science, Manila, the 

 Museum acquired 5,571 Philippine plants, and 175 tropical specimens 

 were obtained in the same manner from the Copenhagen Botanical 

 Museum. Mr. H. D. House added 700 specimens from South Caro- 

 lina to his previous donations; Mr. E. S. Steele gave the Museum 

 about 5,000 sj^ecimens collected by him in the District of Columbia 

 and vicinity, and 1,332 California plants were purchased. Mrs. J. M. 

 ]Milligan, of Jacksonville, Illinois, presented her private herbarium 

 of about 2;200 specimens, and the collection of the late Prof. T. A. 



