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of fishes made by a Chinese artist. A number of outside entomolo- 

 gists studied various groups of insects: Dr. G. Crampton, Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College; Dr. and Mrs. C. Bonne, of Parama- 

 ribo; Mr. Ray T. Webber, Beverly, Massachusetts; Mr. E. D. Ball, 

 Ames, Iowa (now Assistant Secretary of Agriculture) ; Dr. William 

 Barnes, Decatur, Illinois, and 8. E. Cassino, Salem, Massachusetts; 

 Prof. H. F. Wickham, Iowa City, Iowa ; H. C. Fall, Tyngsboro, 

 Massachusetts; R. W. Dawson, Lincoln, Nebraska: S. W. Frost, 

 Arendtsville, Pennsylvania ; Dr. A. H. Sturtevant, of the genetics 

 division of the Rockefeller Institution; Prof. James S. Hine. Univer- 

 sity of Ohio. Mollusks were studied by Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Oldroyd, 

 of Stanford Universitj 7 , California and by Mr. Walter F. Webb, 

 Rochester, New York. Dr. W. G. Van Name made a preliminary 

 survey of the Museum collections of east American and West Indian 

 Ascidians. Dr. A. G. Huntsman, Toronto, Canada, examined cray- 

 fishes. The helminthological collections were utilized by Capt. R. 

 Danbury, of the British Board of Agriculture; Dr. John Scott, of 

 the Wyoming Agricultural College, and Dr. S. Yokogawa. of Korea. 

 Among the professional botanists from other cities who have worked 

 in the herbarium during the year are the following: Mrs. Adele 

 Lewis Grant, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri; 

 Mr. Oton Jimenez, San Jose, Costa Rica ; Prof. J. F. Rock, formerly 

 of the College of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii; Dr. L. H. Bailey, 

 Ithaca, New York; Dr. N. L. Britton, Dr. H. H. Rusby, Dr. J. IT. 

 Barnhart, Dr. Fred J. Seaver, and Dr. Francis W. Pennell, of the 

 New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, New York City. 



Requests for loan of the specimens as an aid in the study of their 

 oavii material were received from a large number of outside investi- 

 gators and institutions. Mammals were sent to Dr. A. J. Allen, Mr. 

 II. E. Anthony, and Mr. H. Lang, of the American Museum of 

 Natural History. New York City, and to Dr. J. Grinnell, of the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California. Birds 

 were loaned to Dr. Frank M. Chapman and Mr. W. de W. Miller, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History; Mr. R. C. McGregor, of 

 Bureau of Science, Manila, Philippine Islands; Mr. Joseph Mailliard, 

 of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California; 

 Mr. W. E. Clyde Todd, of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Penn- 

 sylvania ; Mr. Henry K. Coale, Highland Park, Illinois: Dr. Jona- 

 than Dwight, New York City: Mr. II. C. Robinson and Mr. C. B. 

 Kloss, of the Federated Malay States Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Fed- 

 erated Malay States ; Mr. Charles B. Cory, of the Field Museum of 

 Natural History, Chicago, Illinois ; Mr. Outram Bangs and Thomas 

 E. Penard, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, 

 Massachusetts; Mr. J. Eugene Law, of the Museum of Vertebrate 



