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Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, contributed by Mr. Carl F. Baker; 

 875 Hemiptera and other insects from Mr. IT. G. Barber; 350 bees 

 from Mr. E. S. G. Titus; 260 Hemiptera from Mr. G. Beyer, and 

 •240 Cuban Lepidoptera from Mr. Mel T. Cook. 



Besides the large amount of material from the Bureau of Fish- 

 fries, already referred to, the division of marine invertebrates re- 

 ceived several important small accessions, of which the following 

 were the most noteworthy: From Dr. P. von Lendenfeld, Prague, 

 Austria. 28s microscopic slides of sponge sections and spicules, pre- 

 pared largely from type specimens from the German and other deep 

 sea expeditions, and from Australia. Zanzibar, and the Adriatic, the 

 basis of eighteen published reports; specimens of madreporarian 

 corals collected by Dr. J. E. Duerden at the Hawaiian Islands and 

 presented by the Carnegie Institution, and from French Somaliland, 

 received in exchange from the Museum of Natural History. Paris, 

 France. Thirty-five species of Malayan Crustacea, reported on by 

 Dr. J. G. de Man. were contributed by the Natural History Museum, 

 of Lubeck. Germany. ' 



The number of specimens added to the helminthological collection 

 was 514, of which the greater number were obtained by transfer from 

 the Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, and 

 many from the United States Public Health and Marine-Hospital 

 Service. 



In addition to the specimens transmitted by the Department of 

 Agriculture, the division of plants acquired many important collec- 

 tions. Through exchange with the Jardin Botanique de l'Etat at 

 Brussels there was received a series of 000 plants collected in Mexico 

 by II. Galeotti many years ago. It is rich in types and will prove 

 of great value in connection with the studies of the Mexican flora 

 now in progress. About 1,300 Mexican plants were collected for the 

 Museum by the associate curator, Dr. J. X. Pose, and 1,648 specimens 

 were purchased. A number of gifts of Central American plants, 

 comprising in all 1,405 specimens, were made by Prof. If. Pittier. 

 About 8.2(H) plants were collected in eastern Cuba by the assistant 

 curator, Mr. W. R. Maxon, and other West Indian plants t<> the 

 number of about 3,100 were received from the Xew York Botanical 

 Garden. By exchange with the Bureau of Science. Manila, the 

 Museum acquired 5.571 Philippine plants, and L75 tropical specimens 

 were obtained in the same manner from the Copenhagen Botanical 

 Museum. Mr. H. I). House added 700 specimens from South Caro- 

 lina to his previous donations; Mr. E. S. Steel., gave the Museum 

 about 5,000 specimens collected by him in the District of Columbia 

 and vicinity, and 1,332 California plants were purchased. Mrs. J. M. 

 Milligan, of Jacksonville, Illinois, presented her private herbarium 

 of about 2,200 specimens, and the collection of the late Prof. T. A. 



