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We would urge that each one of you take every opportunity to 
educate the people relative to the importance and needs of the National 
Museum as a whole for we must build up every branch of the Museum 
if in future years we are to maintain a normal growth and expansion 
of the Division of Insects. 
Third: Deposition of Types in the U. S. National Museum. Your 
committee feels that the National Museum should be the mecca for 
taxonomic entomological activity in the United States and would urge 
that entomologists make it a point to deposit types in the Museum. 
We would urge state institutions to likewise place the types, now in 
their collections, in the custody of the National Museum. This is already 
being done by certain institutions. Thus the type collections of the 
Connecticut Agricultural College, Colorado Agricultural College, Kan- 
sas Agricultural College, The Norton Collection at Yale, and others, 
will all probably be in the National Museum. We cannot urge too 
strongly that other institutions and individuals follow suit. In return 
the Division of Insects of the Museum promises to give the donors 
species new to their collections and help to build up their collection 
along the lines which will be most valuable to them. . They further 
agree that any of the types there deposited are accepted on the con- 
dition that they can be borrowed by their institution at any time and 
for any reason, but they are not to go to any institution, or individual 
not connected with the institution presenting the material. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Joun J. Davis, 
W. J. HoLvanp, 
Ve Le ieernoce 
EE. Pebeae 
HERBERT OSBORN, 
Committee. 
