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Dr. Y. Sterki, of Xevv riiihidelphui, Ohio, for study. A collectiou of 

 Miocene corals from America aud eJamaica was sent to Prof. Hem y S. 

 Gaue, of Jolius Hopkins University, Baltimore, who had iu view the 

 preparation of a jjaper on this material. A nuiuber of fossils from the 

 Maryland Eocene formation were transmitted to Prof. W. B. Clark, of 

 Johns Hopkins University, who desired to use them in the preparation 

 of illustrations. Four species of land shells from the Philij)pine Islands 

 were sent to Mr. H. A. Pilsbry, of Philadelphia, for study. 



Material relating to games and gambling has been sent to Mr. Stew- 

 art Oulin, director of the Museum of Archteology and Paleontology of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. A paper by Mr. Culiu, entitled '• Mau- 

 cala, the l^ational Game of Africa," is printed in Part ii of tlie lleport for 

 1894. To Mr. William Dinwiddle, of the Bureau of Ethnology, were sent 

 a number of specimens of rude implements, also a series of pottery and 

 pottery tools, for use in connection with an address to l)e delivered 

 before the Anthropological Society of Washington on the art of pottery- 

 making among the Papago Indians^ A series of prehistoric drills aud 

 specimens of drilled stone were lent to Mr. J. D. McGuire for study. 



To Prof. Johu M. Clarke, of Albany, N. Y., fossils were transmitted 

 for examination. Twenty-eight specimens, including twelve species of 

 Echinoids, were lent to Prof. W. B. Clark, of Johns Hopkins University, 

 for use in connection with the preparation of a monograph of the fossil 

 Echinoids of America. To Prof. J. F. Whiteaves, of the geological 

 survey of Canada, fifty-four sj)ecimens of fossils from Manitoba and the 

 northwest were sent for study and identification. Professor Whiteaves 

 is at work on a monograph of the fossils of this region. 



A number of herbarium specimens were transmitted to Prof. IST. L. 

 Britton, of Columbia College, New York City. Specimens of the genus 

 Fhy.saUs were sent to Prof. C. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebr., and twenty 

 specimens of Astra galufi to Mr. M. E. Jones, of Salt Lake City. Prof. 

 J. M. Coulter, of Lake Forest University, Lake Forest, 111., obtained 

 the loan of specimens of the Amarautaceous genera Guillemiiiea^ Alter - 

 nanthera^ Gossypimithus, Gelosla, Iresine, Gomphrena, Cladothris, Free- 

 lichia, Solmium, and CoUixsia. A number of specimens, including 

 twelve miscellaneous Umbellifera?, were sent for study to the director 

 of the Eoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, and to Dr. B. L. Robin- 

 son, Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass., a number of mounted speci- 

 mens were lent for study in connection with the preparation of a paper 

 on the "Synoptical Flora of North America." Specimens of the genus 

 Agave were sent to Prof. William Trelease, director of the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden, St. Louis, and specimens of the genus Plantago to 

 Prof. Stanley Coulter, Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind. 



A small collection of rocks from the Bear Paw Mountain region was 

 lent for study to Mr. Walter H. Weed, of the U.S. Geological Survey. 



A number of blue prints aud photographs of standard museum cases 

 have been sent out during the year to colleges and uuiseums desiring 

 to adopt the styles iu use iu the National Museum. 



