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accompanied Dr. Edward Palmer, of the Department of Agriculture, 

 in the spring of 1902 on an expedition to eastern Cuba, where they 

 obtained an interesting collection of plants, birds, bats, insects, and 

 marine inv(n'tebrat(^s. 



The station of the Cabot Steam Whaling Compan}^ on the south 

 coast of Newfoundland, was visited during the summer of 1901 by Dr. 

 Frederick W. True, who made a special study of the sulphur-l)ottom 

 whales, ol)tained man}- photographs, and arranged for the preparation 

 and shipment to Washington of the skeleton of a large whale. In a 

 collecting trip to Colorado, Dr. H. G. Dyar, in compan}^ with Mr. 

 A. N. Caudell, of the Department of Agriculture, secured some 10,000 

 specimens of Lepidoptera, and Mr. E. A. Schwarz made in Arizona, 

 at his own expense, a ver}" large collection of insects. Two months 

 during the spring of 1902 were spent in southern Illinois by Mr. Uobert 

 Ridgway in the interest of the Division of Birds. Botanical explora- 

 tions were carried on in Central America during the summer of 1901 

 b}^ Mr. J. N. Rose, assisted by Mr. Robert Hay, of Washington. 



Important collections were made by Mr. Charles Schuchert of 

 Helderbergian fossils in New York and of Cretaceous fossils in New 

 Jersey. Mr. F. W. Crosby obtained for the Museum a remarkably 

 fine series of potholes from the basalt rocks near Snake River Falls, 

 Idaho. 



Outfits to be used in collecting material for the National Museum 

 have been furnished to the following persons: Mr. F. L. J. Boettcher, 

 Washington, District of Columbia; Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. Army; 

 Mr. H. Caracciolo, Port of Spain, Trinidad; Capt. Luther S. Kelly, 

 Surigao, Mindanao, Philippine Islands; Prof. O. F. Cook, U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture; Mr. W. W. Simpson, Shanghai, China; 

 Mr. Arthur B. Chilson, New York City; Miss Thora Stejneger, 

 Washington, District of Columbia; Mr. Charles S. Banks, Bacolod, 

 Negros, Philippine Islands; Dr. S. P. Bartlett, Quiuc}", Illinois; and 

 Capt. Wirt Robinson, U. S. Army. 



DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGi^. OF SPECIMENS. 



Six thousand five hundred and three specimens have been sent to 

 specialists for study, in some cases as loans, in others to be worked up 

 for the Museum. The gifts to educational establishments and the 

 material used in making exchanges comprised 30,893 specimens. The 

 gifts have consisted of duplicate series of marine invertebrates and 

 fishes, and of the collections, recently prepared, to illustrate rock 

 weathering and soil formation. 



A detailed statement of all the material sent out is contained in 

 Appendix III. The following table shows the number of lots of speci- 

 mens sent to eac-h State and foreign countiy: 



