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DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS. 



Of duplicate specimens labeled and systematically arranged in sets 

 for teaching purposes two series were available during the year, one 

 consisting of minerals and ores, the other of fossil invertebrate ani- 

 mals. The distribution to schools and colleges comprised 72 sets of 

 the former and 24 sets of the latter, aggregating 7,374 specimens. In 

 addition, some 2,132 duplicate specimens of animals, plants, rocks, 

 minerals, and fossils were supplied in response to special requests 

 for material for educational use or for research. The distribution 

 of duplicates on account of exchanges amounted to 16,009 specimens, 

 of which 114 were anthropological, 13,818 biological, and 2,077 geo- 

 logical. Specialists in this country and abroad received for exami- 

 nation and study, either on behalf of the Museum or in their own 

 interests, 10,288 animals and plants and 1,252 geological specimens, a 

 total of 11,540 specimens. 



Among establishments in other countries with which exchange re- 

 lations were had during the year were the British Museum of Natural 

 Historj'- and the Eoyal Botanic Gardens at Kew% London, England ; 

 the Konigl. Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, the Konigl. Botanischer 

 Garten, Dahlem, Steglitz bei Berlin, and the Zoologische Sammlung 

 des Bayerischen Staates, INIunich, Germany; the Jardin Botanique 

 de I'Etat, Brussels, Belgium; the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmu- 

 seum. Vienna, Austria; the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Co- 

 penhagen. Denmark; the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, 

 Sweden; the Indian Museum and the Royal Botanic Garden, Cal- 

 cutta, India; the Department of Agriculture of the Union of South 

 Africa, Pretoria, Transvaal; the Federated Malay States Museums, 

 Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States; the Western Australian 

 Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia; and the Pro- 

 vincial Museum, Toronto, Canada. 



Exchanges were also conducted with the following individuals 

 abroad: Mr. John Watson, Cambridge, Dr. Malcolm Burr, Dover, 

 Miss Madeline Munro, London, and Mr. Arthur Earland, Watford, 

 England; Dr. J. H. Ashworth, Edinburgh, Scotland; Prof. David 

 Paul von Hansemann, Berlin, Mr. J. D. Alfken, Bremen, Dr. 

 E. Enslin, Fiirth, and Dr. E. Rosenstock, Gotha, Germany; Dr. 

 J. Perner, Prague, Bohemia ; Mr. J. P. Kryger, Gjentofte, Denmark ; 

 Mr. G. Van Roon, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Prof. Luigi Buscalioni, 

 Catania, and Mr. Alwin Berger, Ventimiglia, Italy; Prof. Sokichi 

 Ko, Fukuoka, Japan; Mr. Frank M. Littler, Launceston, and Mr. 

 J. E. Philp, Lindisfarne, Tasmania ; Mr. A. J. Shearsby, Yass, New 

 South Wales, Australia; and Prof Jose Arechavaleta, Montevideo, 

 Uruguay. 



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