78 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1921. 
Academy of Natural Sciences; Messrs. W. de W. Miller and J. P. 
Chapin, American Museum of Natural History, New York; Mr. 
Frank Bond, Washington City; Maj. Allan Brooks and Mr. Louis 
Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N. Y.; Mr. Charles B. Cory, Field Museum 
of Natural History; Dr. N. Kuroda, Tokyo, Japan; Mr. H. H. Bailey, 
Miami Beach Zoological Park, Fla.; Mr. A. C. Bent and Mr. J. C. 
Phillips, Cambridge, Mass. Reptiles and amphibians were sent to 
Dr. Thomas Barbour and Dr. E. R. Dunn, Museum of Comparative 
Zoology; Miss M. C. Dickerson, American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, New York; Dr. Frank N. Blanchard, Zoological Museum, Uni- 
versity of Michigan; and Prof. A. M. Reese, West Virginia Univer- 
sity. From the division of fishes specimens were loaned to Mr. Carl 
L. Hubbs, Zoological Museum, University of Michigan, and Dr. 
Henry W. Fowler, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. In 
addition, specimens of fishes have been borrowed repeatedly by the 
specialists of the Bureau of Fisheries. No insect material of any im- 
portance was transmitted to investigators outside of the Museum. 
Marine invertebrates were sent to Dr. K. H. Barnard, South African 
Museum, Cape Town; Capt. F. A. Potts, Zoological Laboratory, The 
Museums, Cambridge, England; Mr. W. A. Richter, North Milwau- 
kee, Wis.; Dr. Frank Smith, University of Illinois; Mrs. Leon 5S. 
Stone, New Haven, Conn.; Mr. Joel H. Swartz, geological laboratory, 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. A. L. Treadwell, 
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Plants sent out from the Na- 
tional Herbarium to specialists or institutions outside of Washington 
for study numbered 4,076, comprised in 71 lots, a slight falling off 
from the previous year. Only the larger and more important loans 
are mentioned in the following list: 208 specimens of Azalea lent to 
the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, for monographic 
study by Dr. Alfred Rehder; 184 specimens of violets of the western 
United States lent to Dr. Ezra Brainerd, Middlebury, Vt., for study 
in connection with his forthcoming monograph of the North Ameri- 
can Violaceae; 298 specimens of Hosackia lent to the University of 
California, Berkeley, Calif., for study by Prof. W. L. Jepson; 127 
specimens of Mémulus lent to Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., for 
study by Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant, who is engaged in a revision of 
the North American species of this genus; 108 specimens of F'2/z# lent 
to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University for study by Mr. C. A. 
Weatherby; 280 specimens of Hypowis lent to the Gray Herbarium 
of Harvard University for study by Miss Amelia E. Brackett; 269 
specimens of Scrophulariaceae lent to the New York Botanical Gar- 
den for monographic study by Dr. Francis W. Pennell; 1,474 speci- 
mens of North American species of Piper lent to Prof. William 
Trelease, of the University of Ilinois, Urbana, I], for use in connec- 
tion with his monographic study of this genus, During the year 11 
