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Botanical Garden; Prof. E. S. Burgess, of the New York Normal 

 College, and Dr. R. II. True, of Harvard University. 



In his work upon the fossil Titanotheres for the United States 

 Geological Survey, Prof. Henry F. Osborn, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, has utilized the extensive series of remains of this 

 reptilian group contained in the Marsh collection recently transferred 

 to the Museum by the Geological Survey. 



In the Department of Anthropology investigations were carried on 

 by Hon. A. I). Tompkins, of the Industrial Commission, relative to 

 the African races, in eonnection with studies upon the negro population 

 of the Southern States, and by Miss Woolson, of Columbia University, 

 New York, regarding primitive weaving. 



The number of loans made to specialists to aid them in researches 

 was quite large. In the field of anthropology much material relating 

 to primitive games was sent to Mr. Stewart Culin, director of the 

 Museum of Science and Art of the University of Pennsylvania; various 

 articles bearing upon Asiatic contact with the west coast of America 

 were supplied to Dr. Franz Boas, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York; and a series of spindle whorls was lent to Mrs. 

 II. Newell Wardle, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 

 Among smaller sendings were a Cufic tombstone to Mrs. Alexander 

 McD. Lee, of Frederick, Maryland, and a relief map of Palestine in 

 New Testament times to Mr. F. Burgi, of Rochester, New York. 



The principal loans of zoological material were as follows: Twenty- 

 eight specimens of Hutia rats (Capromys) to Mr. F. M. Chapman, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History; 35 bats to Mr. James A. G. 

 Rehn, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; 185 skins 

 of chicadees, nuthatches, and creepers to Mr. Francis J. Birtwell, of 

 Albuquerque, New Mexico; 28 skins of Aegialites to Dr. Jonathan 

 Dwight, jr., of the American Museum of Natural History; 68 skins of 

 Macrochamphus to Mr. ReginaldH. Howe, of Brookline, Massachusetts; 

 several specimens of theChimaera, ll<iri<>tt<i raleighana, to Mr. Samuel 

 Carman, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; the entire collec- 

 tion of New England Amphipod crustaceans to Prof. S. J. Holmes, of 

 the University of Chicago, for use in preparing a report for the U. S. 

 Fish Commission; specimens of Nemerteans from the Pacific coast 

 to Dr. Wesley R. Coe, of Yale University; samples of foraminifera 

 to Prof. B. W. Priest, of Keepham, England; insects of the group 

 Rhynchota to Prof. E. D. Ball, State Agricultural College of Colorado; 

 specimens of Diptera and Hemiptera to Sir George Hampson, of the 

 British Museum of Natural History; a collection of fleas to Prof. C. F. 

 Baker, of St. Louis. Missouri; insects of various groups to Prof . E. S. G. 

 Titus, of the Colorado State Agricultural College, Prof. J. B. Smith, 

 of Rutgers College, New Jersey, Prof. J. S. Hine, of the Ohio Stat'* 

 University. Miss M. M. Enteman, of the University of Chicago, 



