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during the year, and pupils from a number of schools outside of Wash- 

 ington also inspected the collections. 



It may be stated here that permission can not be granted to photo- 

 graph objects on deposit and not the property of the Museum, until the 

 written consent of the owners has been obtained, nor can prints from 

 Museum negatives be furnished in such cases without the consent of 

 the owners. 



Material has been sent out for examination as follows: 



Objects of pottery, jade and serpentine axes and ornaments, ceremo- 

 nial axes, banner stones, and drilled and figured tablets were sent to 

 Mr. F. H. Cushing, Bureau of Ethnology. Bone gaming implements 

 were transmitted to Mr. Stewart Culin, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, for use in the preparation of a paper on games. A collection of 

 games from the Philippine Islands was also sent. A series of Ute pipes 

 was lent to Maj. J. W. Powell, Director of the Bureau of Ethnology. 



From the Division of Fishes the following material has been sent 

 out for study : To Dr. D. S. Jordan, Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 California, specimens of Sehastes marinns, Sehastolohus alascanvs^ certain 

 species of the genera Zeus, Chcetodon, Holocentrtis, and AmmodyteSy and 

 a small collection of fishes made near the Commander Islands in 1897, 

 by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger; to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the request of Professor Carman, two 

 specimens of Phycis regius; to Dr. T. H. Bean, specimens of Pantosteiis 

 plebeius; to Dr. C. H. Eigenmann, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 

 Indiana, specimens for study in the preparation of a review of the blind 

 fishes; to S. Watase, Chicago, specimens of phosphorescent fishes, for 

 study in connection with the preparation of a paper upon tlie phos- 

 phorescent organs of animals. 



Frequent use of the collection in the Division of Mammals has been 

 made by specialists of the Department of Agriculture, and a number 

 of specimens were borrowed, including types of Reithrodon montanus, 

 Perognathiis monticola, P. californicus, Microtus edax, M. caUfornicns, 

 Peromyscus hoyli 'penicillatus, Hesperomys melanophrys, Perognathus 

 penicillatus, and P. spinatus. There were sent to Mr. Outram Bangs, 

 Boston, Massachusetts, 5 skulls of certaiu species of Putorius and 5 

 Skulls of species of Prethizon; to Mr. S. IS". Ehoads, Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences, 7 skulls of mammals; to R. Lydekker, Ilarpenden, 

 Hertfordshire, England, 1 deer skull; to Dr. E. A. Mearns, Fort Clark, 

 Texas, 457 rodents from the Mexican bonndary; to Mr. L. McNally, 1 

 muskrat; to Dr. J. A. Allen, American Museum of Natural History, 

 New York City, 196 red squirrels, and to Mr. J. D. Sornborger, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, 1 white-footed mouse. The specimens sent to 

 Dr. Mearns were for use in completing his report on the mammals of 

 the Mexican boundary, and those to Dr. Allen for use in a revision 

 of the red squirrels. 



