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found on Muskeget Island, Massachusetts; forty-two specimens of 

 Willow Warblers, from Asia, to Mr. William E. Brooks, Mount Morris, 

 Ontario, for determination ; seven skins of Night Hawks to Mr. George K. 

 Clierrie, of the Field Columbian Museum, for use in determining a new 

 form from Central America; tbree birds' skins to Stefan Chernel von 

 Cliernelhaza, Koszeg, Hungary; twenty-six skins of Xanthopygia and 

 forty-nine skins of Orioles to Mr. Witmer Stone, of tiie Academy of 

 jSTatural Sciences of Philadelphia, for use in his studies of the molting 

 of birds; seven skins of Sheerwaters {Piiffintis) to JNTr. L. M. Loomis, 

 California Academy of Science; seven skins of Gyrfalcons and forty- 

 two skins of Sanderlings to Mr. Frank M. Cbai^man, American Museum 

 of Natural History, New York City, the former for use in the determi- 

 nation of specimens in the American Museum, and the latter to be used 

 in a study of the change of plumage of that species; three skins of 

 Asiatic birds to Mr. W. B. Brooks, Mount Forest, Ontario, and one skin 

 of CapHmnUjns uldahvensis to the Tring Museum, Tring, England. 



A specimen of PoUstotrema (lombeiji was transmitted to Dr. Max 

 Fiirbringer, Jena, Germany, and a specimen of Larimus hreviceps to 

 Dr. C. H. CJilbert, Leland Stanford Junior University. 



Specimens have been sent out from the department of insects for 

 study or identification as follows : Material of the genera Monedula 

 and Gnrytes to Mr. William J. Fox, of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of riiiladelphia, for monographic study; the Japanese collection of 

 Hemiptera to Prof. P. E. Uhler, Baltimore, Md., for identification; the 

 collection of Crambid« to Prof. C. H. Fernald, Amherst, Mass., for use 

 in monographic work; the collection of Typhlocybini to Prof. C. P. 

 Gillette, Fort Collins, Colo. ; the collection of Lepidoptera obtained in 

 East Africa by the Chanler Hohnel expedition, to Dr. W. J. Holland, 

 Allegheny, Pa., for study and report; thirteen species of Acridiida^ to 

 Prof. J. McNeill, Fayetteville, Ark., for use in monographic work; 

 fifty species of noctuids to Prof. J. B. Smith, New Brunswick, N. J., 

 for study and identification; the collection in the genus Apion to Mr. 

 C. H. Fall, Pomona, Cal.; certain species of Sessid* to Mr. William 

 Beutenmiiller, American Museum of Natural History, New York City; 

 a number of specimens of the genus Frosopis to Prof. T. D. A. Cock- 

 erell. Las Cruces, N. Mex.; a collection of Jassid;c to Prof. C. F. Baker, 

 Fort Collins, Colo., for special study; a few species of diurnals to Dr. 

 H. Skinner, Philadelphia, Pa., and a collection of Tryphonidic to Prof. 

 G. C. Davis, Agricultural College, Mich., for special study. 



Specimens of Eocene fossils of the 3Iidway or (Jlayton horizon were 

 transmitted to Prof. G. D. Harris, of Cornell University. 



From the department of botany there were sent to Mr. M. S. Bibb, 

 Rockford, 111., ninety-one specimens of Salix; to Prof. L. H. Bailey, 

 Cornell University, a number of specimens of the genus Carex, from 

 Idaho, for determination ; to Prof. E. S. Burgess, Normal College, New 

 York City, about two hundred specimens of Asters from the District of 



