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Brewster, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 8 specimens for examination, 

 and to Mr. W. E. Brooks, Mount Forest, Ontario, 2 specimens for 

 identification. 



Specimens of west coast sharks were sent to Dr. C. H. Gilbert, Stan- 

 ford University, California; also specimens of sculpins from Bering 

 Sea. A plaster cast of a brook-trout was sent to the American Museum 

 of Natural History; G young specimens of HydroJagus coUiei to Dr. 

 Bashford Dean, New York City, and a number of specimens of gobioid 

 fishes to the Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden. Duplicate 

 named specimens of niollusks were lent to Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, and to Mr. B. IT. Wright, 

 Penn Yan, New York, for use in connection with their investigations of 

 Dentalinm, BuUmnhis, and Tlnio. 



Dr. W. McM. Woodworth, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, is making a special study of the Turbellarians 

 and Nemerteans, and the entire collection in the National Museum has 

 been transmitted to him. The collection of leeches has been sent to 

 Mr. J. Percy Moore of the University of Pennsylvania, who has nearly 

 completed a report upon the same. Sixty-three microscopic slides of 

 Plumularida' were sent to Prof. C. C. Nutting of the State University 

 of Iowa. These are types of species described by Professor Nutting 

 in his monograph of the Plumularian Hydroids, now nearly ready for 

 the press. Mr. F. S. Morton, Portland, Maine, received several small 

 lots of unassorted Foraminifera; also a number of species mounted for 

 microscopic study. Two lots of Solenogasteridic were sent to Prof. 

 A. Agassi/ for the use of Dr. Kofoid, who is studying the material of 

 that group collected by the Albatross. A cranium of a fossil skate 

 was sent to \)v. C. E. lOastman, Museum of Comparative Zoology, who 

 described it as a new genus and species, and named it Tamiobatis 

 retustus. 



From the department of insects the following material has been 

 lent: Homoptera, belonging to the family Ty])hlocibidte, to Prof C. P. 

 Gillette, Fort Collins, Colorado; Homoptera, belonging to the families 

 Jassidie and Cercopid.e, to Prof. Carl F. Baker, Fort Collins, Colorado; 

 specimens of bees of the genus Frosopis, to Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 Las Cruces, New Mexico; the collection of Acronyctas, to Prof. John B. 

 Smith, New Brunswick, New Jersey; a series of Odonata, to Prof. 

 D. S. Kellicott, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; one species of 

 the genus Cori.ra to Prof. H. Garman, Lexington, Kentucky; the col- 

 lection of Ixodidie, with manuscripts, bought from the heirs of Dr. 

 George Marx, to Prof. G. Neumann, Toulouse, France, for monographic 

 study. 



Specimens of plants have been sent to the following persons for 

 study and determination: Mr. W. W. Ashe, State Geological Survey, 

 Ealeigh, North Carolina; Mr. E. G. Baker, British Museum, London, 

 England; Mr. T. S. Brandegee, San Diego, California; Mr. George 



