312 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



In February we had the pleasure of welcoming to the Museum 

 for a brief visit Mr. B. Preston Clark, of Boston, who, in the midst 

 of a very active business career, is devoting as much of his leisure 

 as he can command to the collection and study of the hawk-moths 

 (Sphingidae) of the world. We are greatly indebted to him for the 

 addition to our collection of a number of species which have not 

 hitherto been represented with us. The collection of Mr. Clark has 

 grown to be the largest in the number of species which it contains in 

 America. It was gratifying to learn from him that with the exception 

 of his own collection he regards that in the Carnegie Museum as 

 being the largest in any museum in the new world. It contains 

 approximately one half of all the known species and subspecies which 

 up to the present time have been described, and Mr. Clark, with 

 great generosity, has signified his intention in the not distant future 

 of filling up a number of the gaps which exist in it. 



Very large collections of the birds and insects of Bolivia have been 

 recently received from our collector, Mr. Jose Steinbach. The 

 Director is informed by Mr. Todd that these collections add some 

 seventy-five species of birds hitherto not represented in our collection. 

 What proportion of the new material contained in the entomological 

 collections will prove to be new to us, or in fact new to science, it has 

 not yet been possible to decide. The collections are being classified 

 and arranged in a preliminary way with a view to study. 



Mr. Garrett C. Pier, formerly connected with the Metropolitan 

 Museum in New York, spent some time in January last at the Museum 

 in labeling the collection of ivories donated or deposited in the Museum 

 by Mr. H. J. Heinz. He also labeled the Chinese collections deposited 

 in the Museum by Miss Jean Adams. 



A great deal of pleasure has been given, especially to the children 

 frequenting the Museum, by an exquisite model of a Pullman Palace 

 Car, presented by Mr. Herbert DuPuy, the exterior of which has been, 

 made at great expense of gold and silver, and the interior of which 

 carries out the pattern of the original in every minute detail. We 



