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Museum, a number of Mexican and Central American mammals; Mr. 

 Glover M. Allen, of the Boston Societ}^ of Natural History, specimens 

 of South American mammals; Dr. F. A. Jentink, of the Museum of 

 Natural History, Leiden, Holland, skins and skulls of the genus j\fu.^; 

 Dr. Pierre A. Fish, of Cornell University, the brain of a walrus; Dr. 

 W. C. Mills, of the Ohio Static Archeolog-ical and Historical Society, 

 the skeletons of various mammals; Dr. A. H. Frieberg, of Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, femora of the orang and gi})bon. 



Of birds, specimens were sent to Mr. Outram Bangs, of Boston; 

 Mr. William Brewster, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Mr. Frank M. 

 Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History, and Mr. 

 Reginald Heber Howe, jr., of Longwood, Massachusetts. Specimens 

 of frogs were supplied to Dr. Burt C. Wilder, of Cornell University, 

 and of water snakes to Prof. Hu))ert L. Clark, of Olivet College, 

 Michigan. Fishes were transmitted as follows: To President David 

 S. Jordan and Dr. C. H. Gilbert, of Stanford University, one of the 

 collections to the former consisting of 315 specimens from Negros, 

 Philippine Islands, which it was desired to have classitied for the 

 Museum; to Prof. Edwin Linton, of Washington and Jefferson Col- 

 lege, Washington, Pennsylvania; to Dr. Bashford Dean, of Columbia 

 University, specimens of TTarriota; to Prof. S. E. Meek, of the Field 

 Columbian Museum, and to the University Zoological Institution, 

 Upsala, Sweden. 



The material representing the moUuscan family Achatinellidic, 

 which had l)een in the possession of the late Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, was 

 transferred to the custody of Prof. A. G. Mayer, of the Brooklyn 

 Institute, for working up. 



Insects of various groups have ])een lent to Prof. John B. Smith, of 

 Rutgers College; Dr. W. J. Holland, of the Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 

 burg; Dr. A. S. Packard, of Brown University; Prof. James G. 

 Needham, of Lake Forest University; Mr. Chester Bradley and Mr. 

 H. L. Viereck, of the Philadelphia Academ}^ of Natural Sciences; 

 Prof. H. A. Morgan, of the Louisiana State University; Prof. C. H. 

 Fernald, of Amherst, Massachusetts; Prof. Ralph V. Chamberlain, of 

 Latter Day Saints College, Salt Lake City, Utah; Mr. Alex. D. Mac- 

 Gillivray, of Cornell University; Mr. L. H. Joutel, of New York 

 City; Dr. E. P. Felt, of Albany, New York; Dr. Joseph L. Hancock, 

 of Chicago, and Sir George F. Hampton, of the British Museum. 



A large number of shrimps of the species Palo'inonetes exillpes has 

 been furnished to Mr. Roswell H. Johnson, of Madis<ni, Wisconsin, 

 for the study of individual variation, and a few specimens of hydroids 

 have been lent to Prof. S. F. Clarke, of Williams College. 



The sendings of plants have been as follows: To the New York 

 Botanical Garden, 372 specimens of mosses, fungi, and other groups; 

 the Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 147 specimens of 

 Mexican, Galapagos, and Cocos Islands plants; Mr. A. W. Evans, 



