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appear in Volume VII of the Memoirs, fully illustrated with carefully 

 prepared drawings executed by Mr. Prentice under the supervision 

 of the writer. 



Mr. O. E. Jennings, accompanied by Mrs. Jennings, spent the 

 entire summer in the region north of Lake Superior and about Lake 

 Nipigon, continuing the botanical survey of that region which was 

 initiated in 1912. They brought with them large collections of the 

 plants of the region, and report many interesting observations bearing 

 upon the geographical distribution of species. Their researches have 

 extended the range of many eastern species westward and of many 

 western species eastward of the points at w^hich heretofore it was 

 supposed their respective ranges terminated. Incidentally they made 

 considerable collections of the insects of the region, with results which 

 are quite gratifying. 



Mr. Hugo Kahl, accompanied by his wife, spent his summer 

 vacation in Ontario. The result has been the importation into the 

 Museum of a very large series of beautifully collected specimens of 

 the insects found in August about Georgian Bay and in the region 

 of the Thousand Islands on the St. Lawrence River. The collections 

 of Insecta in the Museum are growing rapidly and a great deal of the 

 time of the staff has been occupied in mounting as well as in classi- 

 fying 'and arranging specimens. Valuable collections have been 

 received from tropical West Africa, made by friends of the Director 

 connected with the missions of the Presbyterian Church in Kamerun 

 and in Spanish West Africa. Our collections of South American 

 insects have also been greatly increased. An impulse toward the 

 systematic arrangement of the latter collections was received at the 

 time when Mr. William Schaus, accompanied by his friend, Mr. John 

 H. Barnes, spent two weeks with us just prior to the Christmas holi- 

 days. Mr. Schaus with the most obliging kindness undertook the 

 arrangement of the South American Syntomidce. While our collection 

 is very far from being thoroughly representative of this family as 

 found upon the soil of the new world, nevertheless it is gratifying to 

 know that we have many hundreds of species represented, possibly 

 one-third of the whole number which have up to this time been de- 

 scribed, together with a good many forms which have not as yet 

 been named. 



