REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 61 



Wrens to Mr. W. E. Loucks, Peoria, Illinois; 41 specinions of wrens to 

 Mr. Witnior Stono, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



The transmissions from the Division of Insects were as follows: A 

 collection of Mexican and Central American Acrididas to Prof. Law- 

 rence Bruner, of the University of Nebraska; the unworked material 

 in the Odonata to Dr. Philip P. Calvert, of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia; miscellaneous material to Prof. F. H. Chitten- 

 den, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, for illustrating work in 

 progress in the Department; specimens of the family Pyralidte to Prof. 

 C. H. Fernald, of the Agricultural College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 

 for monographic purposes; some wasps and bees to Mr. W. J. 

 Fox, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, for mono- 

 graphic work; a collection of moths to Sir George F. Hampson, of the 

 British Museum of Natural History, for monographic work; material 

 in the family Chrysomelidte to Prof. E. Dwight, College Park, Mar}^- 

 land; 15 species of Acrididas to Prof. Jerome McNeill, of Fayetteville, 

 Arkansas, for use in connection with a synopsis of the species inhab- 

 iting Arkansas; a specimen of Stenopehnatus fascuitus to Dr. S. H. 

 Scudder, of Cambridge, Massachusetts; and 56 specimens of the genus 

 Argynnh to Prof. A. J. Snyder, of Belvidere, Illinois. 



From the Division of Marine Invertebrates, annelids of the genera 

 Ammotrypane, Trophonia., Ophelia^ etc., were transmitted to Mr. 

 F. W. Gamble, of Owens College, Manchester, England; the collec- 

 tion of leeches was sent to Dr. J. Percy Moore, of the University of 

 Pennsylvania; the collection of Gephyreans to Prof. H. B. Ward, of 

 the University of Nebraska; and the collection of Caprellidai to Dr. 

 F. Meinert, of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, all of 

 these having been supplied under arrangement for monographing the 

 several groups. 



A small number of specimens were sent from the Division of Mol- 

 lusks to Dr. V. Sterki, New Philadelphia, Ohio, for examination, and 

 a few slugs to Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. 



Material has been supplied l)y the Division of Plants for special 

 systematic or morphological study to the following: Royal Botanic 

 Gardens, Kew, England, 22 specimens; Dr. T. Maxwell Masters, 

 London, England, 18 specimens; C. De Candolle, Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, 23 specimens; Prof. B. L. Rol)inson, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 

 537 specimens; Mr. C. S. Sargent. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 69 

 specimens; Dr. George Davenport, Medford, Massachusetts, 3 speci- 

 mens; Dr. J. K. Small, Botanical Garden, New York City, 15 speci- 

 mens; Prof. L. M. Underwood, Columbia University, New York City, 

 10 specituens; Mr. B. D. Gilbert, Clayville, New York, 88 specimens; 

 Mr. W. Miller, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 25 specimens; 

 Mr. F. W. Waugh, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, 5 

 specimens; Prof. William Trelease, St. Louis, Missouri, 252 speci- 



