34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



Philadelphia; over 600 specimens, mostly of Dermaptera and Orthop- 

 tei-a, to Mr. James A. G. Rchn, of the same academy; 285 specimens 

 of Odonata to Dr. Philip P. Calvert, also of the Philadelphia Academy, 

 1,883 specimens of Sphecidte to Dr. H. C. Fernald, of Amherst, Massa- 

 chusetts; 1,570 specimens of Ptinidte to Prof. H. C. Fall, of Pasadena, 

 California; 632 specimens of Jassoidea, for use in writing- up the 

 Mexican and Central American species of this group for the Biolog-ia 

 Centrali-Americana, to Prof. Elmer D. Ball, of the State Ag-ricidtural 

 College of Utah; over 200 specimens of Nomadidas to Prof. T. D. A. 

 Cockerell, of East Las Vegas, New Mexico; 1,000 specimens of Myri- 

 apoda to Dr. Karl M. Friedr. Kraepelin, Naturhistorisches Museum, 

 Hamburg, Germany; specimens of the families Multillid£e,Th3mnid{e, 

 Myrmarida^, etc., to M. Ernest Andre; of Gray, France; 106 speci- 

 mens of Ophionids, to Dr. E. P. Felt, New York State entomologist; 

 55 specimens of Fulgorid* to Mr. Otto H. Swezey, of the Ohio State 

 University; 125 specimens of Tettigida3 to Prof. J. L. Hancock, of 

 Chicago, Illinois; specimens of Tabanidie to Prof. J. S. Hine, of the 

 Ohio State University; specimens of Lepidoptera to Dr. W. J. Hol- 

 land, of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg; specimens of Cephida^ to 

 Mr. J. Chester Bradley, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia; specimens of Fulgorid^ to Prof. W. S. Blatchley, State geolo- 

 gist of Indiana; specimens of Noctuidje to Prof. John B. Smith, of 

 Rutgers College, New Jersey; and specimens of Hemiptera to Prof. 

 R. Uhler, of Baltimore. 



A number of specialists connected with other institutions are engaged 

 in studying for the Museum the entire material of several groups of 

 marine invertebrates, and all report satisfactory progress at the close 

 of the year. Prof. Charles L. Edwards, of Trinity College, Hartford, 

 has the pedate holothurians; Prof. Hubert Lyman Clark, of Olivet 

 College, Michigan, the apodal holothurians; Prof. C. C. Nutting, of 

 the University of Iowa, the hydroids, of which he has nearly ready 

 a monograph of the Sertularia; Dr. Charles B. Wilson, of the State 

 Normal School, Westtield, Massachusetts, the parasitic copepods, one 

 family of which, the Argulidfe, Avas completed and reported on during 

 the year; Mr. R. W. Sharpe, of Wilmette, Illinois, the ostracoda; 

 Mr. T. Wayland Vaughan, of the U. S. Geological Survey, the madre- 

 porarian corals, and Prof. A. G. Mayer, scientific director of the 

 museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, who is finish- 

 ing the uncompleted studies of the late Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, on the 

 Museum collection of Achatinellida?. 



Material from the Division of Marine Invertebrates was also sent 

 out during the year as follows: To Dr. R. P. Bigelow, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology, the stomatopods collected by the 

 Fish Commission steamer Albatross in Hawaiian and Samoan waters, 

 for report; to Prof. H. Coutiere, of the Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie, 



