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Paris, the Alpheidie obtained on the same expedition and the general 

 museum collection of this group, for monographing; to the Rev. T. 

 R. R. Stabbing, of Tunbridge Wells, England, new species of amphi- 

 pods from Costa Rica and Cocos Island; to Dr. S. J. Holmes, of the 

 University of Michigan, specimens of New England amphipods; to 

 Dr. J. P. McMurrich, of the same university, specimens of Atlantic 

 coast actinians; to Dr. C. B. Davenport, of the University of Chicago, 

 specimens of fresh-water polyzoa from Maine. 



From the Division of Plants the principal loans were as follows: To 

 Mr. Oakes Ames, the Ames Botanical Laboratory, North Easton, 

 Massachusetts, about -iOO specimens of orchids; to Dr. L. M. Under- 

 wood, of the New York Botanical Garden, specimens of ferns from 

 Porto Rico, Guatemala and Cuba; to Dr. P. A. Rydberg, of the same 

 establishment, 21 T specimens; to Dr. John K. Small, also of the New 

 York Garden, several specimens of diflferent groups; to Dr. B. L. 

 Robinson, of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 272 speci- 

 mens; to Mr. C. S. Sargent, of Harvard University, specimen of 

 Hocoria; to Mr. C. D. Beadle, of the Biltmore Herbarium, 287 speci- 

 mens of Rudheckia., 322 of Coreojjsia^ and representatives of other 

 groups; to Prof. William Trelease, director of the Shaw Botanical 

 Garden, St. Louis, specimens of yucca; to Mr. R. F. Griggs, of the 

 Ohio State University, specimens of Porto Rican and Guatemalan 

 plants; to Dr. C. E. Waters, of Johns Hopkins University, specimens 

 of Phegojjteris ; to Mr. Aven Nelson, of the University of Wyoming, 

 69 specimens; to Mrs. Caroline W. Harris, of Ticonderoga, New York, 

 specimens of Uhihillcarla and St lota,' to Mr. E. G. Baker, of the 

 British Museum of Natural History, specimens of Laciniarla; to the 

 Royal Botanical Garden, Kew, London, four plants; to Mr. C. L. 

 Shear, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, District of Columbia, 

 specimens of fungi; to Mr. Theodor Holm, of Brookland, District of 

 Columbia, specimens of Carex^ Scirpus, Betula^ Lychnis^ etc. 



In the Department of Geology Mr. Wirt Tassin conducted investi- 

 gations upon the meteorites in the Museum collection and Mr. W. C. 

 Phalen made a study of the rock specimens collected in Greenland in 

 1897 by Mr. Charles Schuchert and Mr. David White. Mr. Schuchert 

 continued his researches on the Lower Devonic fauna and completed a 

 study of the Cvstidea of the Manlius and Coeymans formations. Mr. 

 R. S. Bassler has in preparation papers on fossil Bryozoa and Ostra- 

 coda, one of these reviewing the Bryozoa of the Rochester shale being 

 well advanced. 



Among the visitors to this department were Mr. G. C. Martin and 

 Mr. M. Y. Twitchell, of the Maryland State Geological Survey, who 

 worked upon the collection of fossils from the Miocene formation 

 in Maryland; Mr. F. B. Laney, of the Geological Survey of North 

 Carolina, who studied the collection of building stones in preparation 



