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is also still as received from that author. At the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology some recent accessions have not yet been placed in the 

 series. 



It is the nearly universal policy not to separate the types from the 

 rest of the collection. 



Labelling of Types. It is usual to label the types, and in no case is 

 it the regular policy not to do so. In some of the older collections the 

 types are not, or not all marked. In several instances the labelling of 

 the types has been done by curators after the collections had passed out 

 of the hands of the describers. This has of course been necessary, but 

 it has not always been carefully done, and we know of cases, in large 

 museums, where so-called types are either not of the same species, or 

 from the same locality, as the specimens originally described under 

 the name. 



Red is the favorite color for type labels, but great diversity prevails. 

 Some museums have different labels for types, cotypes, etc. A sheet 

 of type-labels is appended for inspection at the meeting. The U. S. 

 National Museum has special red labels for slides and alcoholic 

 specimens. 



Catalogues of Types. Some institutions, as the American Museum 

 of Natural History and the New York State Museum, have published 

 partial or complete catalogues of their types. In many, such as the 

 U. S. National Miiseum, a manuscript catalogue is kept, and each type 

 receives a number. Some institutions have no catalogues; several 

 report one in progress. At the British Museum the types are not 

 catalogued, except in the published catalogues of the Museum, such as 

 that of Sir G. F. Hampson, which will when complete cite all the 

 types of moths. 



Loaning Types. The following replies have been received in answer 

 to our questions : 



"It has never been legal for a type to leave the building, and the 

 rule has been invariably enforced.' ' — G. Meade- Waldo, British Mussum. 



"Recently the rule against the loaning of holotypes has been 

 enforced. Cotypes or paratypes are loaned when we have the type or 

 others of the same sort. If, however, the cotype or paratype is the only 

 type specimen we have it is treated as a holotype, i, e., not loaned. " — 

 J. C. Crawford, U. S. National Museum. 



"The American Entomological Societ}^ does not loan unique types. " 

 The Philadelphia Academy treats each case on its merits. — H. Skinner. 



"All M. C. Z. rules are elastic, but we do not loan types except there 

 is especial reason for so doing. " — S. Henshaw, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology. 



' ' The Society has loaned types ; whether it will continue to do so is a 

 question. " — C. W. Johnson, Boston Society of Natural History. 



"There is a rule against sending types out of the Museum, though 

 the Director has loaned his private types." — Hugo Kahl, Carnegie 

 Museum. 



"It is against our rules to loan types." — C. Schaeffer, Museum of 

 Brooklyn Institute. 



