60 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1899. 



of the National Museum at Prague, Bohemia, studied the fossil M3a'ia- 

 poda and Arachnida in the Lacoe collection, and material has been 

 transmitted to him for further examination. Prof. F. W. Cragin, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, spent considerable time at the Museum in 

 working up a collection of Jurassic fossils from Texas. 



Dr. E. C. E. Lord, of Washington, studied the rocks collected on 

 the Mexican border by Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A. The results of 

 Doctor Lord's studies were embodied in a paper which has been pub- 

 lished in the Proceedings. 



Material has been sent out for examination as follows: 



To Mr. F. H. Gushing, of the Bureau of Ethnology, a collection of 

 pipes, gorgets, ceremonial objects, etc. To Mr. Stewart Culin, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, specimens of Indian gambling implements. 

 To Mr. V. K. Chesnut, of the Department of Agriculture, 27 speci- 

 mens of Mexican drugs. 



From the Division of Mammals the type of Mictoinys imiultus was 

 lent to Mr. E. A. Preble, of the Department of Agriculture, for use in 

 connection with the determination of species from New Hampshire, 

 and he was also supplied with several specimens belonging to the genus 

 Zapus. Ten squirrels and more than 100 mice were furnished to 

 Mr. G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton, London, England; representatives of 

 the genus 3ficrotns to Mr. Vernon Bailey, of the Department of Agri- 

 culture, for use in a revision of the genus; about 50 small mammals to 

 Mr. E. W. Nelson, of the Department of Agriculture; 5 pocket mice 

 and 1 gray fox to Mr. W. H. Osgood, of the same Department. The 

 skull of a deer was sent to Mr. Outram Bangs, Boston, Massachusetts. 



A specimen of Desmognathus was forwarded by the Division of Rep- 

 tiles and Batrachiaus to Dr. J. Percy Moore, of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, for comparison; and a specimen of Amphystonia to Dr. J. D. 

 Lindahl, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Three double-headed snakes were sent 

 to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



From the Division of Fishes a specimen of Nemichthys scolopaceus and 

 one of Chirostoma estor were sent to Dr. David S. Jordan, of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University; several Mj^xinoid fishes to Prof. Howard 

 Ayres, of the University of Missouri, and a number of specimens to 

 Mr. E. C. Starks, for use in determining the range of certain genera. 



The following sendings were made by the Division of Birds: Thirty- 

 five specuiiens to Mr. Outram Bangs, Boston, Massachusetts, for use in 

 connection with the determination of material from Colombia; 67 spec- 

 imens of wrens, sparrows, etc., to Mr. William Brewster, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts, who was studying the status of these groups in the 

 western part of the United States; 76 specimens of small shrikes to 

 Mr. K. M. Strong, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for study in determining 

 the percentage of variation in that group; 13 specimens of thrushes to 

 Mr. Reginald Heber Howe, jr., Longwood, Massachusetts; 60 bird skins 

 to Dr. Jonathan D wight, jr.. New York City; 62 specimens of House 



