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in the study of the Testndiiiata, and Prof. B. 1). Cope, of Phihulelpbia, 

 were given facilities for study in the laboratory of the department of 

 reptiles, in connection with the i)reparatiou of his forthcoming- work on 

 "The Snakes and Lizards of North America," which will be published 

 as a bulletin of the IMuseum, 



Prof. C. W. Johnson, of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Phila- 

 delphia, visited the Museum several times to consult the collection of 

 Stratyomyidw, and Prof. Lawrence Brnner, of Lincoln, Nebr., con- 

 sulted the collections of Lepidoptera and Hynienoptera for the pur- 

 pose of identifying western species. Mr. Ellison A. Smith, professor 

 of biology at the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, Blacks- 

 burg, Va., consulted the collection in connection with the identification 

 of exotic butterflies, and Prof. J. B. Smith, of New Brunswick, N. J., 

 visited the Museum for the purpose of examining material in connec- 

 tion with his monographic work on the Noctuids. Mr. 0. H. Roberts 

 and Mr. Aug. Merkel, of New York City, and C^apt. Henry John Elwes, 

 president of the P]ntomological Society of London, also consulted the 

 collections in the department of insects. 



During the present year, as heretofore. Dr. Theodore Gill made use 

 of the collections of fishes in connection with liis studies of families 

 and genera. Mr. Barton W, Evermann comjiared specimens in the 

 collection with material obtained by field parties of the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



During the summer of 1894, Prof. C. C. Nutting, of the State Uni- 

 versity of Iowa, spent several weeks in the laboratory of the department 

 of marine invertebrates studying the large collection of Hydroids, espe- 

 cially the West Indian forms. Dr. R. P. Bigelow si)ent a few days at 

 the Museum in revising his report on the Stomatopoda. Prof. A. E. 

 Verrill has continued his studies at New Haven of the Fish Commission 

 material from the Atlantic coast north of Cape Hatteras, and especially 

 of tlie echinoderms. 



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

 of Agriculture, has made use of the Museum collections in connection 

 with his studies of scientific and economic helminthology. 



In the department of mollusks, Prof. William B. Clark, of Johns Hop- 

 kins University, studied the Tertiary fauna of ]\Liryland; Mr. Charles 

 W. Johnson, of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, 

 studied the Tertiary fanna of North Carolina, and Mr. T. Wayland 

 Vaughan, of the U. S. Geological Survey, spent some time in the study 

 and examination of the Eocene corals. 



During the year Mr. J. D. McGuire, of Ellicott City, Md., continued 

 his studies of the art of stone working. Mr. Stewart Culin, of the 

 University of Pennsylvania, spent considerable time in the department 

 of ethnology in the study of games and gambling devices, with a view 

 to comparing them witli the series in the Museum of Archipology and 

 Paleontology at the university. Dr. Franz Boas i>rosecuted an extended 



