78 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1901. 



M r. Francis J . Bi it well, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, received 60 skins 

 of the Mountain Chickadee, Parus gambeli, 50 skins of the Nuthatches, 

 Sitta carolim nsis aculeata and mexicana, and 75 skins of various sub- 

 species of Creepers ( ( '< rthia) for comparison with New Mexican speci- 

 mens. 'To Dr. Jonathan Dwight, jr., were sent 28 skins of JEgialites 

 to aid him in determining the status of the subspecies JE, meloda cir- 

 cumcincta. Mr. Reginald H. Howe, of Brookline, Massachusetts, 

 received 68 skins of Maerorhampkus to assist him in determining the 

 relationships of two recognized forms. Messrs. Birtwell and Howe 

 published papers during the year based partly on the material sent 

 them. 



The type of the Chimsera, Hariotta raleighana, and two other fishes 

 of the same species were lent to Dr. Samuel Garman, of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Prof. C. C. Nutting, of Iowa University, received the general col- 

 lection of hydoids of the families Sertularidse, Campanularidse, etc., to 

 be used in the second part of his monograph of the American Hydroids, 

 which forms a Special Bulletin of the National Museum. 



The general collection of parasitic copepod crustaceans was placed 

 in the hands of Prof. Charles B. Wilson, of the State Normal School, 

 Westfield, Massachusetts, to be worked up for the benefit of the 

 Museum. 



Prof. S. -T. Holmes, of the University of Michigan, received the 

 Museum collection of amphipod crustaceans from New England, to 

 be used in the preparation of a report for the United States Fish Com- 

 mission. 



To the general collection of pedate holothurians, now in the hands 

 of Prof. Charles L. Edwards, of Trinity College, were added examples 

 of all the named species in the Museum. 



Dr. Wesley R. Coe, of the Sheffield Scientific School, obtained the 

 loan of the nemerteans from the Pacific to assist him in preparing a 

 report on the collection of these animals obtained during the recent 

 cruise of the Albatross in the South Pacific. 



The genera] collection of Ostracoda was sent to Prof. R. W. Sharpe, 

 oi Dubuque, Iowa, for study. 



Twelve lots of the Foraminifera, obtained during the various cruises 

 of the United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross, were sent to 

 B. W. Priest, esq., Keepham, England. 



Prof. E. 1). Ball, State Agricultural College. Colorado, who is pre- 

 paring a monograph of the Rhynchota, obtained from the Museum a 

 loan of 4oj! specimens of insects of that group. 



A collection of fleas for monographic work was sent to Prof. Carl F. 

 Baker, of St. Louis, Missouri. Similar loans were made to Prof. E. S. 

 G.Titus, State Agricultural College. Fort Collins, Colorado (332 bees); 

 Prof. J. B. Smith. Rutgers College (192 butterflies); Prof. J. S. Hine, 



