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York Botanical Garden, New York City ; and C. A. Weatherby, East 

 Hartford, Conn. 



The usual large number of specimens was asked for as loans by 

 outside investigators and institutions as an aid in the study of their 

 own material. Mammals were lent to the American Museum of 

 Natural History, New York City (for use of H. E. Anthony, Childs 

 Frick, and Herbert Lang) ; Melville A. Carpenter, Newark, N. J. ; 

 Dr. H. C. Cooper, Abercrombie, N. Dak. ; A. B. Howell, Pasadena, 

 Calif. ; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, Washington, D. C. ; Southern Branch, 

 University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, 

 Berkeley. Birds were sent to the American Museum of Natural 

 History (for use of James P. Chapin, Dr. Frank M. Chapman, Dr. 

 Jonathan Dwight, Ludlow Griscom, and Dr. R. C. Murphy) ; Frank 

 Bond, Washington, D. C; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (for W. E. 

 Clyde Todd) ; Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ithaca, N. Y. ; E. R. Kulm- 

 bach, Washington, D. C. ; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. (for Outram Bangs) ; public schools, Washington, 

 D. C. ; Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, Washington, D. C. ; Southern Branch, 

 University of California, Los Angeles (for Dr. Loye Miller) : Uni- 

 versity of Oklahoma, Norman. Okla. (for E. Crabb) ; and Arthur 

 T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. From the division of reptiles and 

 batrachians specimens were sent to Dr. F. N. Blanchard, Ann Arbor, 

 Mich.; J. Van Denburgh, San Francisco, Calif.; Dr. E. R. Dunn, 

 Northampton, Mass.; Prof. W. W. Swingle, New Haven, Conn.; 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge; Dr. Alexander G. 

 Ruthven, Ann Arbor, Mich. ; American Museum of Natural History, 

 New Y T ork City; A. I. Ortenburger, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Percy 

 Viosca, jr., New Orleans, La. Fishes were sent to C. M. Breder, 

 New York City; Bureau of Fisheries, Washington, D. C. ; and the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New Y^ork City. In con- 

 trast with the conditions during the previous fiscal year, a consider- 

 able number of insects has been sent to outside specialists. Among 

 the persons receiving such material are A. L. Melander, Pullman, 

 Wash.; C. P. Alexander, Urbana, 111.; M. C. Van Duzee, Buffalo, 

 N. Y.; T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Colo.; L. H. Taylor, Boston, 

 Mass. ; F. E. Lutz, New Y r ork City ; Alfred Kinsey, Boston, Mass. ; 

 P. H. Timberlake, Honolulu, Hawaii; Fred E. Winters, Santa Bar- 

 bara, Calif.; Charles Schaeffer, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; Howard Notman, 

 Brooklyn, N. Y^. ; Franz Spaeth, Vienna, Austria; G. de LaPouge, 

 Poitiers, France; H. B. Hungerford, Lawrence, Kans. ; J. A. G. 

 Rehn and Morgan Hebard, Philadelphia, Pa.; and Professor Claa- 

 sen, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Marine invertebrates have been sent out chiefly to the " volunteer 

 staff " already mentioned. Other specimens have gone to Charles J. 

 Fish, Brown University, Providence, R. I. ; Rev. E. W. Menzel, Buf- 



