68 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSKUM, 1895. 



ill tlie Museum, uudor such terms ;is wo shall agreo upou. as a nucleu.s of the collec 

 tioii, ill case you cau give mo a room in which the si)eciineus may be kept, aiul the 

 necessary apparatus (hottles, etc.) to take care of material which may be sent iu. 



Oil January 13 I addressed the following- reply to Dr. Stiles: 



I need not say that I shall be very ghid indeed to have you attached to the IVInseum 

 staff iu an honorary cajjacity. I do uot think we wish to establish a section of 

 medical zoology, but a section of lielminthology, in connection with one of the 

 zoological euratorships, would bo very desirable. 



This letter was followed, on March 17, by a formal letter of ai)i)oint- 

 meut from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 



By an arrangement already completed, thec-ollection will be enriched 

 by the transfer of the collections made by the Bureau of Animal Indus- 

 try and by Dr. Stiles personally. The collections of Dr. Hassall and 

 Dr. Leidy will also be temporarily turned over to the Museum. By 

 exchanges with museums in Berlin and Vienna, as well as with various 

 specialists, much important material will, it is expected, be obtained. 

 An invitation has already been extended to all workers in helmiuthol- 

 ogy to deposit types or typical specimens in the Museum. Several 

 colleges have been supplied with parasitic material for study, from the 

 reserve series, and it is hoped that by pursuing a generous policy iu 

 this direction the Museum will ultimately be the recipient of much 

 desirable material. 



The greater i)art of the collection at present consists of material 

 which has been obtained by Dr. Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry, Department of Agriculture, Dr. Stiles, and Dr. Albert 

 Hassall, who is also on the official staff of the Bureau. Dr. Salmon 

 has deposited a number of types of species which have been described 

 in the i)ublications of that Ikireau. Dr. Hassall has presented several 

 cotypes of species described by Cobbold. Through Dr. Stiles's ottices 

 a collection of types of species described by Dr. Leidy and belonging 

 to the University of Pennsylvania has been secured as a loan. In 

 addition. Professor Stossicli, of Trieste, Austria, has transmitted a 

 number of parasites, and Dr. A. Looss, of Leipzig, Germany, has for- 

 warded, in exchange, a collection of parasites from Egypt. Dr. H. B, 

 Ward, of Lincoln, Nebr., has added a number of cotypes to the collec- 

 tion, and from Prof. R. Ramsay Wright, Toronto, Canada, and Mr. 

 Robert Mills, Chuluota, Fla., very acceptable material has been received. 

 Prof A. Duges, of Guanajuato, Mexico, transmitted some specimens 

 for determination. 



No attem]>t has yet been made to form an exhibition series. The 

 material obtained by Dr. Stiles is retained in the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry until it has been studied, after which it is formally deposited, 

 according to law, iu the National Museum. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry has partly for its object the investi- 

 gation of diseases of animals. The members of its staff are therefore 

 constantly placed in a peculiarly favorable positiou for obt^'iniug 



