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land ti'iiM.sportation were .sent for copying to the Curnegie Museum 

 at Pittsburg, and many models from the historical series of electrical 

 apparatus were turned over to the United States Commissioner- 

 General for exhi))ition at the Paris Exposition. 



In zoology, the collections of mammals and birds have Ijeen util- 

 ized l)y the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, 

 and those of fishes by the Fish Commission. Studies have been con- 

 ducted at the Museum ])y Mr. Outram Bangs, of Boston, Mass., on 

 the ])irds recently received from the region about Panama; by Dr. Louis 

 B. Bishop, of New Haven, Conn., on Alaskan birds in connection 

 with those collected ]>y him in the Yukon region, and by Dr. A. W. 

 Graham, on the Fusidai, a family of mollusks. Miss Harriet Richard- 

 son has continued her work on the Isopod crustaceans; Mr. T. Way- 

 land Vaughan, of the Geological Survey, his studies of West Indian 

 and other recent corals, and Prof. W. P. Hay, of Howard Univer- 

 sity, his investigations on crayfishes. 



Arrangements for monographing the extensive collection of Holo- 

 thurians were made with Prof. Hubert Lyman Clark, of Olivet College, 

 Mic-higan, and Prof. C. L. Edwards, of Trinity College, Hartford, 

 Conn., and the specimens have been sent to them. The Pedata were 

 assigned to Professor Edwards and the Apoda to Professor Clark. 

 Additional specimens of leeches were forwarded to Prof. J. Percy 

 Moore, of the University of Pennsylvania, who has for some time 

 been engaged in working up the Museum's material in this group. 



The principal loans of zoological material have been as follows: 

 The collection of lemmings to Mr. Witmer Stone, of the Philadelphia 

 Academy of Natural Sciences; the collection of meadow larks to Mr. 

 F. M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History, who is 

 engaged upon a revision of the genus SUirnella; the collection of 

 Japanese and Korean fishes to President David S. Jordan, of Leland 

 Stanford Junior University; the crustaceans of the family Alpheidi\i 

 to Di-. 11. Coutiere, of the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, 

 and of the genus Pdlmnonetea to Mr. Robert W. Hall, of Ncw^ Haven, 

 Comi.; a collection of Diptera to Prof. R. W. Doane, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology; a collection of Hymenoptera to Prof. T. D. 

 A. C'ockerell, of Mesilla Park, N. Mex., and specimens of the family 

 Saldidje to Prof. H. E. Summers, of the Iowa Agricultural College. 

 Entomological specimens have also been supplied to Dr. Sanuiel H. 

 Scudder, of Cambridge, Mass.; Prof. John B. Smith, of Rutgers Col- 

 lege, New Brunswick, N. J.; Prof. C. H. Fernald, of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College; Rev. George B. Hulst, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. 

 Herman Strecker, of Reading, Pa., and Mr. William Beutenmiiller, 

 of the American Museum of Natural History. 



SY)Ccimeiis of ])lants were lent to a large number of persons, the 

 principal sendings having been to the Gray Herl)arium, at Cambridge, 



