REPORT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY. 97 



tious. Thirty-five offers of this kind, each of which necessitates con- 

 siderable correspondence, have been received duriug the year, and are 

 briefly shown in the following statement : 



Max Baudelot (201 West Madison street, Chicago, Illinois) offers "to make a 

 study of every subject concerning the history and civilization of the Republic 

 of Honduras." 



Miss FaUSTINE Butler, A. M. (1620 Rush street, San Francisco, California), desires 

 to make explorations and collect specimens along the Pacific coast from Mexico 

 to Alaska. 



Dr. John M. Crawford (registrar of the Pulte Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, 

 and now United States consul at St. Petersburg, Russia), has kindly consented 

 to make special ethnological researches in Finland, and to collect specimens, par- 

 ticularly musical instruments. 



Mr. J. Crawford (through the Department of State) offers to collect from the De- 

 partment of Nueva Segovia in Nicaragua, mineralogical and other specimens, 

 and to procure for the Museum such portions of the exhibit made by tho Nicara- 

 guan Government at the Paris Exposition as may be desirable. 



Mr. Jeremiah Curtin (through Maj. J. W. Powell, Bureau of Ethnology) offers to 

 collect ethnological specimens in connection with an expedition to the Hupa 

 Valley. 



Vinal N. Edwards (Wood's Holl, Massachusetts) offers to collect sea birds. 



L. L. Frost (Susanville, California) offers to collect ethnological and archaeological 

 specimens. 



E. C. GREENWOOD (Brownsville, Texas) offers to collect birds in Texas. 



B. M. Haywakd (Weybridge, Vermont) offers to continue his explorations in northern 



Mexico, and to collect birds for the Museum. 

 Dr. A. E. Hkighway (Cincinnati, Ohio) offers to make explorations and collections 



in Central and South America. 

 Ensign W. L. Howard, U.S.N. (Office of Naval Intelligence) offers to collect in 



Alaska mammals, fishes, and ethnological objects. 

 Prof. O. B. Jenkins (De Pauw University, Greencastle, Indiana) offers to collect and 



present to the Museum a series of fishes from tho Hawaiian Islands. 



F. M. Lamb (Nestockton, Oregon) offers to collect minerals. 



James Lisle (Gordon, Nebraska) offers to collect ethnological specimens. 



GEORGE W. McGlumphy, A. B. (professor of Zoology, Botany and Geology at Ozark 

 College, Greenfield, Missouri) offers to make explorations in southwestern Mis- 

 souri, and to send specimens of the fauna and flora of that section. 



E. W. Martin (Medina, Ohio) offers to collect bird skins in his vicinity. 



C. S. Mason (Engineer's Office, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad Com- 



pany, Toledo, Ohio), offers to collect iron ores in his vicinity. 

 A. .1. Miller (Evansvillc, Indiana) offers to collect specimens of natural history 



geology, and archaeology in Central America. 

 8. CLAIR MITCHELL (Dolores, Colorado) offers to continue his explorations in Colo- 



rado and Arizona. 

 Solon Obr (Melrose, Silver How County, Montana) offers to collect specimens from 



the lava beds of Idaho. 



HENRY DU R. PHELAN (11 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California) offers to 



make general explorations and collections. 

 Rev. Stephen I>. I'm (Mendou, Illinois) proposes to make mound explorations in 



his v iciuity. 

 Thomas II. 1',. Pierce 1 1 textei . Maine I offers assistance in the exploration of mounds 



in his vicinity. 



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