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Davenport, Medford, Massachusetts; Mr. A. A. Eatou, Seabiook, New 

 Hampsliire; Dr. N. M. Glatlelter, St. Louis, Missouri; Mr. J. ]\I. Greeu- 

 iium, Cambridj;e, INIassacbusetts; Mr. Tlieo. Hohu, WasUiiigton, J)is- 

 trict of Columbia; Dr. C. F. Millspaugb, Field Columbian Museum, 

 Chicago, Illinois; Dr. B. L. Robinson, Cambridge, Massacliusetts; Mr. 

 P. A. Rydberg, Cohimbia University, New York City; Mi\ C. S. Sar- 

 gent, Jamaica Plain, Massacliusetts; Dr. J. K. Small, Columbia Uni- 

 versity, New York City, and Prof. John Donnell Smith, lialtimore, 

 Maryland. 



To Prof. Alpheus Ilyatt, Cambridge, Massachusetts, were sent 51 

 specimens of Fort Cassin cephalopods and 29 specimens of Placen- 

 tieeras to aid him in tlie preparation of a synopsis of the class Cepha- 

 lopoda. A few specimens and slides of Bogosloff and Ahiskan rocks 

 were lent to Mr. C. W. Purrington, of the U. S. (ieological Survey. 



Photographs and drawings of Museum cases and information regard- 

 ing their construction have T)een furnished to the following: Mr. F. H. 

 Gerrodette, director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania; Mr. C. II. Hitchcock, Dartmouth Museum, Dartmouth, New 

 Hampshire; INIr. H. L. Preston, Rochester, New York; Mr. W. H. 

 Bishoj), Dehiware College, Newark, Delaware; Mr. F. J. V. Skiff, 

 director of the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, Illinois; Woman's 

 College, Baltimore, Maryland, and Mr. H. Nehrling, Public Museum, 

 Milwaukee. 



WORK OF STUDENTS AND INVESTIGATORS AT THE MUSEUM. 



Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. A., has continued his studies of the mam- 

 mals collected in connection with the survey of the Mexican boundary. 

 He has already i)ublishcd several preliminary |)apers in the Proceedings 

 of the ^luseum, and later a general treatise on the vertebrate animals 

 of that region Avill probably be issued. Mr. C. H. Townsend, of the 

 U. S. Fish Commission, studied the series of Bald Eagles; Mr. C. B. 

 Cory, Il^'annis, Massacliusetts, examined some West Indian pigeons, 

 and Mr. E. W. Nelson, of the Department of Agriculture, made exten- 

 sive studies of Mexican birds in connection with the identification of the 

 large amount of material colle(!ted by him in Mexico and Guatemala. 

 Dr. A. K. Fisher, of the I)ei)artment of Agriculture, examined numerous 

 types in connection with his oflicial work, and Messrs. H. C. (Jberholser 

 and W. II. Osgood, of the same Department, made use of the Museum 

 collections on a niimlx^r of occasions. INIr. William Palmer, chief taxi- 

 dermist of the Museum, studied birds from the Pribilof Islands in order 

 to ascertain the status of some of the forms. Dr. David S. Jordan 

 examined the collection of fish(\s from Bering Sea, comparing the mate- 

 rial with recent collections made by the Fur-Seal Investigation Commis- 

 sion. Dr. B. W. Evermann made extensive use of the collections in con- 

 nection with the ])reparation of Bulletin 47, by Jordan and F>vermann, 

 on the "Fishes of North and Middle America." He also made com])ari- 



