G6 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 18f)l. 



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Nationnl Duiry ami Food C'ommissioners' Association, . January 11 and 15. 

 National Geographic Society, March 13, Ajiril 10, April 24, May 1, May 2!l. 

 National Academy of Sciences, April 21. 



The usual course of Saturday lectures was omitted this year. Mr. 

 Thomas Wilson, curator of prehistoric anthropology, gave a series of 

 eight lectures. The first four lectures related to art and architecture of 

 prehistoric times. These were delivered on February 4, 7, 11, 14. 

 The other four were as follows: May l.'>, Prehistoric Anthropology at 

 the French Bxi)osition. May 10, Aucieiit Industries, Charms and 

 Amulets (illustrated); May 21, History of Human Habitations (illus- 

 trated); May 23, Anthropological Congresses and Prehistoric ]\Iu- 

 seuuis. 



STUDENTS. 



It has always l)een one of the aims of the National Museum to aid 

 students and others engaged in scientific ^vork by lending them mate- 

 rial to be used in connection with their scientific researches. The fol- 

 lowing statement has reference to the more important transactions of 

 this kind during the year: skins, alcoholics, and skullsof North Ameri- 

 can rodents were sent to Dr. J. A. Allen, xVmerican Museum of Natural 

 History, New York; a series of bats to Dr. Harrison Allen, Philadel- 

 phia, Pa.; skulls of otters and badgers to Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. 

 Army, Fort Snelling, Minn.; bird-skeletons to Dr. E. W. Shufeldt, 

 Takoma Park, D. C; bird-skins to Mr. George N. Lawrence, New York 

 city, N. Y. ; South American Devonian fossils to Prof. J. M. Clarke, 

 Albany, N. Y.; turtles to Dr. G. Baur, Clark University, Worcester, 

 Mass.; fishes to Prof. D. S. Jordan, Bloomington, Ind.; invertebrate 

 fossils to Dr. W. B. Clark, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; 

 mammal-skins to Walter E. Bryant, California Academy of Sciences, 

 San Francisco, Cal. ; geological material to the Geological Survey of 

 Arkansas; crustaceans to Prof. H. A. Ward, Rochester, N. Y. ; stone 

 implements to the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, D. C; bird-skins 

 to William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. ; rocks to Prof. H. D. Campbell, 

 of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Ya. ; bird-skins to C. 

 B. Cory, Boston, Mass.; bird-skins to American Museum of Natural 

 HivStory, New York; clays and earth to Dr. A. M. Edwards, Newark, 

 N. J.; lizards to Prof. E. D. Cope, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Several students have availed themselves of the privilege of exam- 

 ining the collections in the Museum. Dr. (ieorge K. Cherrie, orni- 

 thologist of the Costa Rica National Museum, has examined the collec- 

 tion of Costa Rica birds, and a similar opportunity was also afl'orded 

 to Mr. Charles A. Keeler, of Berkeley, Cal., while engaged in a special 

 investigation of the origin of color in birds. Dr. O. P. Hay, of Irving- 

 tou, Ind., spent several weeks in thi' department of reptiles and 



