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Colmnbia; to Prof. William R. i:)iulley, Lelaud Stanford Junior Uui 

 versify, a number of specimens for critical determination; to Prof. A. 

 Engler, Berlin, Germany, three hundred and eighteen African plants 

 lor determination; to Prof. C. S. Sargent, Jamaica Plain, Mass., Coni- 

 fera' collected by the Mexican Boundary Commission, for determina- 

 tion; to Dr. John K. Small, Columbia University, Kew York City, 

 material for use in connection with his work on the southern flora, and 

 to Prof. William Trelease, Missouri Botanic Garden, St. Louis, a large 

 number of specimens, including the entire collection of North American 

 Celastrace.i'. 



Eocene echinoderms and a specimen of Cidaris were lent to Prof. 

 W. li. Clark, of Johns Hopkins University, who has in i:>reparatiou a 

 work on American i)Ost-Paleozoic Echinoids. Six specimens, repre- 

 senting three species, of Cretaceous Gastropods were sent to M. Coss- 

 mann, for use in connection with a general revision of the Gastropods. 

 Prof. Alpheus Hyatt received six species of Ammonites for examination, 

 and about one hundred and fifty specimens of Blastoids were sent to 

 Prof. Otto Jaekel, Berlin, Germany, for monographic work. Other 

 paleontological material was sent out as follows : Four specimens of 

 ConchopeJtis alicrnaia to Mr. E. O. Ulrich, Newport, Ky., for use in a 

 revision of the Lower Silurian Gastropoda; ten lots of Foraminifera to 

 Dr. Anthony Woodward, New York City, for determination; three 

 si)ecies of Paleozoic Echinoids to Dr. Robert T. Jackson; one hundred 

 and forty specimens of Paleozoic Cephalopods to Prof. John M. Clarke, 

 Albany, N. Y., and specimens of fossil corals to Mr. H. S. Gane, Johns 

 Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. 



b^thnological material has been lent to the Bureau of American P^th- 

 nology, for the purpose of preparing illustrations. Three stone adzes 

 were transmitted to Mr. H. R. Bishop, New York City, and twelve 

 si)ecimens of aboriginal implements were sent to Miss Alice Fletcher, 

 of this city, for use in illustrating a lecture before the Women's Anthro- 

 pological Society. 



About sixty thin sections of slates were lent to Prof. T. Nelson Dale, 

 Williamstown, Mass.; twenty-five thin sections of Quincy granites to 

 Mr. Theodore G. White, Columbia College, New York City; twenty-one 

 thin sections and thirty-one specimens of Alaskan rocks to Mr. C. W. 

 Purrington, United States Geological Survey, and fifty-five specimens 

 of rocks from the Bear Paw Mountains to Mr. W. H. Weed, United 

 States Geological Survey. 



WORK OF STUDENTS AND INVESTIGATORS AT THE MUSEUM. 



A number of students and investigators examined the collections in 

 several departments of the Museum during the year, for the purpose 

 of identifying specimens or of studying the characteristics of certain 

 families or orders. A few of those who have availed themselves of 

 this privilege are here mentioned. 



