30 REPORT (3F NATIONAL MU8EUM, 1897. 



sons with species recently obtained by the Conunission. Dr. Bashford 

 Dean, of jS'ew York Citj', examined certain Chini;eroid fishes, and 

 Prof. S. E. Meek studied collections from the Pacific slope. Dr. W". C. 

 Kendall, of the U. S. Fish Commission, made comparisons with recent 

 acquisitions by the Commission. 



Mr. T. Wayland Vaughn, of the U. S. Geological Survey, has had 

 the use of the entire collection of Eocene corals in connection with his 

 researches in that group, and Prof. Gr. D. Harris, of Cornell Univer- 

 sity, utilized material in the Museum in connection with his work on 

 the Lower Eocene faunas. The collections of the department of com- 

 parative anatomy have been studied at various times by students from 

 medical colleges and the city high schools. Mr. Samuel J. Holmes, of 

 the University of Chicago, who is i)reparing a list of the crustaceans 

 of the west coast of the United States for publication by the California 

 Academy of Sciences, spent a short time at the National Museum in 

 examining and comparing specimens. Miss Harriet Richardson has 

 aided in the identification of the Isopoda, esitecially the Sphieromida?. 

 Dr. Albert Hassall, of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of 

 Agriculture, and Dr. Murray Gait Motter have prosecuted investiga- 

 tions upon the material in the section of helminthology. 



The collections of the National Herbarium have been used by a num- 

 ber of S])ecialists not connected with the Museum. Dr. N, L. lirittoii, 

 of New York City, made three visits to ^Vashington in order to settle 

 certain points in connection with i)lants described in one of his works^ 

 Prof. F. W. Card, Lincoln, Nebraska, studied the genus Kibes; Prof. 

 J. M. Coulter, Chicago, Illinois, spent several days in the study of the 

 Umbellifenie, and Miss Clara E. Cummings, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 

 examined the cryptogamic collections. Prof. E. L. Greene, of the 

 Catholic University of America, made frequent visits to the Herbarium, 

 chiefiy for the purpose of studying various types of Composit.e. Many 

 specimens of Astragali<s were determined by Mr. Marcus E, Jones, Salt 

 Lake City, Utah. Mr. John B. Leiberg, a field agent of the Department 

 of Agriculture, devoted several months to the determination of material 

 . collected in Oregon and Idaho. The collections were also utilized for 

 comparison or for other purposes by Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Ithaca, New 

 York; Mr. W. L. Jepson, Berkeley, California; Prof. C. S. Sargent, 

 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; and Mr. K. M. Wiegand, Ithaca, New 

 York. 



Dr. E. R. Gurley, of Worcester, Massachusetts, has continued his 

 study of the graptolites in connection with the monograph which he 

 has in preparation for the U. S. Geological Survey. Dr. T. G. White, 

 Columbia College, New Y"ork City, visited the Museum in March for the 

 purpose of studying the collection of Trenton fossils. The ammonites 

 were examined by Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

 The geological material collected by Dr. E. A. Mearns along the line of 

 the Mexican boundary has been worked up by Dr. E. C. E. Lord, of 



