36 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



The committee on nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' 

 Union gave several daj^s to the examination of recently described 

 North American birds represented in the Musemn, Among assistants 

 of the Department of Agriculture who consulted the collection of 

 birds in connection with their special researches were Mr. W. W. 

 Cooke, Mr. E. W. Nelson, Mr. H. C. Oberholser, Mr. E. A. Preble, 

 and Mr. Wilfred H. Osgood. Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History, made studies of South American 

 birds; Mrs. Florence M. Bailey, of Washington, District of Columbia, 

 of Western birds; Mr. Outram Bangs, of Boston, of neotropical and 

 Japanese birds, and Dr. Jonathan Dwight, jr., of New York City, on 

 the moulting of birds. Mr. E. A. Preble, of the Biological Surve}^, 

 consulted the specimens of Northern batrachia in identifying the col- 

 lection brought by him from the Hudson Bay region. 



Dr. H. M. Smith, Dr. B. W^. Evermann, Mr. E. L. Goldsborough, 

 and Dr. W. C. Kendall, of the U. S. Fish Commission, made frequent 

 use of the collections of fishes in connection Avith their researches, and 

 specimens of fishes forwarded from time to time by Dr. D. S. Jordan 

 and Dr. C. H. Gilbert, of Leland Stanford Junior University, were 

 compared for them with type specimens in the possession of the 

 Museum. 



Among those who consulted the collections of insects were Mr. W. V. 

 Wai'ner, of the Washington High School; Mr. E. J. Voegtley, of 

 Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Mr. Ernest Shoemaker, of New York City; 

 Mr. H. L. Viereck, of the Philadelphia Acadenw of Sciences; Mr. 

 James A. G. Rehn, of Philad(dphia; Mr. La Rue Klingle Holmes, of 

 Summit, New Jersey; Mr. Henry H. Lyman, of Montreal, Canada; 

 Dr. Edwin C. Van Dyke, of San Francisco, California, and Prof. 

 Adolph Hempel, of the Instituto Agronomico, Campinas, Brazil. 



The botanists who conducted researches at the Museum were Dr. 

 N. L. Britton, director of the New York botanical garden; Dr. P. A. 

 R3'dberg, of the same estal)lishment; Dr. Charles F. Millspaugh, of 

 the Field Columbian Museum; Dr. L. M. Underwood, of Colum])ia 

 University; Mrs. E. G. Britton, of New York City; Mr. J. B. Lei- 

 berg, of Athol, Idaho; Dr. E. L. Greene, of the Catholic Universit}^, 

 Washington; Mr. E. L. Morris, director of biology in the Washington 

 high schools. 



The amount of biological material lent for stud}^ has been quite 

 large. Mr. Oldtield Thomas, of the British Museum, has received a 

 collection of rodents, mostly from the East Indies; Mr. James A. G. 

 Rehn, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, specimens of 

 bats and sloths; Mr. S. N. Rhoads, of the same museum, specimens 

 of Mustela; Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, a large number ot mammals from Patagonia, of squirrels 

 from Alaska, and seal skulls; Dr. D. G. Elliot, of the Field Columbian 



