1913] Proceedings of the Cleveland Meeting 147 



"It seems to me that the committee ought to strongly urge the 

 designation of only one specimen as type, and that all such types should 

 be put in institutions easy of access, having fire-proof buildings and 

 careful curators." — -F. E. Lutz, American Museum of Natural History. 



"I think that insect types ought to be especially available to the 

 men most active in working with the groups represented by them. If 

 these men are in or near the greater museums, then the types should be 

 in these museums. My belief is that the types should be where they 

 can be and will be most effectively used. " — ^V. L. Kellogg. 



"Respecting types in general, I believe that they should be most 

 carefully cherished and available for study by any competent party. 

 The ideal arrangement would be to deposit all such types at some 

 central point, for example, the National Museum, but as matters are 

 now I fear this is impractical. Even were I personally willing to deposit 

 all my types in the National Museum, I do not believe that the parties 

 responsible for the integrity of the Museum and its collections would 

 for a moment consider such a proposition. In any event, I should not 

 care to part with types until certain that my studies in the group were 

 completed. You can readily understand that in many cases it would be 

 extremely difficult to fix any such date. It seems to me very desirable 

 to segregate, so far as practical, the types of any one group; for example, 

 the type of a single species of Coleoptera might much better be deposited 

 in a large collection where there are numerous types of allied forms, 

 than retained in some other collection possibly equally extensive, with 

 practically no other type inaterial in that order. My reason for sug- 

 gesting this is that it is so easy by scattering types in widely separated 

 groups for them to be lost unless they are in some collection known to be 

 valuable because of the large amount of such material it may contain. 

 It should at least be possible to deposit co-types with workers in special 

 groups or in our larger collections, for example, those of the National 

 Museum."— E. P. Felt. 



"In general I do not approve of types being held by private individ- 

 uals where the collection is not properly looked after and liable to 

 destruction at any time {vide the French collection, which is now 

 totally destroyed by Dermestes, types and all). Of course in Dr. Barnes' 

 case it is different. His collection has assumed museum proportions 

 just as the Walsingham collection in England. " — ^J. McDunnough. 



Location of Types in the Collections. In nearly all collections, so 

 far as we have ascertained, the types are placed in the systematic series. 

 At the British Museum certain special collections, as the Banks collec- 

 tion (types of Fabricius) and the Wollaston collection (Coleoptera from 

 the Atlantic Islands) are kept separate; while other types are in the 

 accession drawers or in special cabinets, awaiting the rearrangement of 

 the groups to which they belong. At the Museum of the University 

 of Michigan all types (including cotypes and paratypes) are kept 

 together in a fire-proof case on the first floor of the building. They are, 

 however, not very numerous. At the Carnegie Museuni the Ulke 

 collection of Coleoptera remains in the boxes exactly as received from 

 Mr. Ulke, and the Smith collection of Brazilian bees studied by Cockerell 



