REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 39 



A number of specimens of small mammals were transmitted to Dr. 

 Edgar A. Moarns, U. S. A., Fort Myer, Ya. A portion of tbis material 

 belonged to the Mexican Boundary collection, and much of it was 

 obtained by Dr. Mearns himself. A specimen of Florida shrew was 

 transmitted to Mr. Frank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History, iSTew York City, and to Mr. G. S, Miller, jr., of the 

 Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy of the Department of Agri- 

 culture several specimens of alcoholic bats were sent, to be used in the 

 preparation of a paper on the genus Ve.spcrtiUo, Mr. S. N. Ehoads, of 

 tbe Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, made use of speci- 

 mens of the genera Synaptomys and Geomys in connection with the 

 preparation of papers on these genera. 



Seven specimens of Palm Warblers were sent to Mr. Witmer Stone, 

 of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to aid in tbe 

 identification of specimens in his possession; also specimens of shore 

 birds, for illustration in a fortbcoming work by Mr. D. G. Elliot. 

 'Five specimens of Atlapetes pileatus and two specimens of Parus atri- 

 copiUus oecidentdlls were sent to ]\[r. William Brewster, Cambridge, 

 Mass., the former for use in connection with the determination of spec- 

 imens in his possession and the latter for comparison. Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin, London, England, obtained the loan of several specimens of 

 Procellarida', to be used in connection with the preparation of the 

 British Museum catalogue of tbat family. A specimen of Harporhyn- 

 chus viiteretis was transmitted to Mr. A. W. Anthony, San Diego, Cal., 

 for comparison with a new species discovered by him. 



Specimens of alcoholic birds were sent to Mr. Hubert Lyman Clark, 

 Pittsburg, Pa.; skulls of reptiles to Prof. E. D. Cope, of Philadelphia; 

 viscera of various animals to Dr. C. S. Huntington, Columbia College, 

 New York ( Ity, and the type of Aceratherium oecideniale to Prof. H. F. 

 Osborn, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 

 for use in connection with his studies of tbe extinct species of the rhi- 

 noceros in North America. 



Tbe various orders represented in tbe large collection of insects 

 received from the Jai)anese Commission to the World's Columbian 

 Exposition were transmitted to specialists for study and repor.t. The 

 parasitic Hymenoptera were sent to Mr. William H. Ashmead, of tbe 

 Department of Agriculture; the Orthopterato Prof. Lawrence Bruuer, 

 Lincoln, Nebr.; the Odonata to Mr. P. P. Calvert, of tbe Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; and the Lepidoptera to Dr. W. J. 

 Holland, of Allegheny, Pa. The East African Orthoptera, collected 

 by Messrs. Abbott and Chanler, and a few West African species, were 

 sent to Prof. Lawrence Bruner, and a series of Odonata, collected in 

 Kashmir by Dr. Abbott, was sent to Mr. Calvert. The Museum col- 

 lection of the Dipterous family Phorida' was submitted for identifica- 

 tion to ^tr. D. W. Co(juillett, of tbe Department of Agriculture. To 

 Dr. William G. Diet/,, of Hazelton, Pa., a select series of tbe Coleop- 

 terous tribe Ceutorrhyncbini was transmitted for use in connection 



