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Missouri, 14; M. C. Fernald, Maine, 4; L. R. Gibbes, South 

 Carolina, i ; Donald Gunn, British America, 5 ; C. F. Hartt, 

 Nova Scotia, 2 ; Jed Hotchkiss, Virginia, 7 ; Charles A. Joy, 

 New York, 6 ; Alexis A. Julien, Antilles and New York, 4 ; 

 Robert C. Kedzie, Michigan, 1 1 ; W. C. Kerr, North Caro- 

 lina, 2 ; Jared P. Kirtland, Ohio, i ; S. A. Lattimore, New 

 York, i; Increase A. Lapham, Wisconsin, 20; Captain John 

 Henry Lefroy, Canada, 3 ; W. W. Mather, Ohio, 3 ; Alfred 

 M. Mayer, Maryland and Pennsylvania, 5 ; J. Meehan, Penn- 

 sylvania, 15; Marshall Macdonald, West Virginia, i; W. A. 

 Norton, Delaware, i; David D. Owen, Indiana, 4; Reverend 

 Roswell Park, Wisconsin, i ; Henry W. Ravenel, South Car- 

 olina, 5 ; Professor Orin Root, New York, i ; Charles Sarto- 

 rius, Mexico, 14; A. P. S. Stuart, Nova Scotia and Illinois, 

 6 ; James M. Tower, New York, 3 ; Bela White, Nebraska, 

 4; R. B. Warder, Ohio, 2 ; Alexander Winchell, Alabama, 2; 

 Theodore G. Wormley, Ohio, 2 ; Charles A. Young, Ohio, 6; 

 and Ira Young, New Hampshire, 2. 



Among those who reported on periodical phenomena in 

 plants and animals were not only many of the foregoing, but 

 also the following well-known names : James G. Cooper, 

 Washington Territory ; William Darlington, Pennsylvania ; 

 Chester Dewey, New York ; Franklin B. Hough, New 

 York ; Robert W. Kennicott, Illinois ; A. S. Packard, Jr., 

 Maine ; F. Peyre Porcher, South Carolina ; John M. Ord- 

 way, Missouri, and N. B. Webster, Virginia. 



Of these men Baird has well said : 



" The interest of the observers was maintained by a con- 

 stant correspondence with the Institution. Copies of the 

 Smithsonian Reports and other publications were duly trans- 

 mitted to them, and any inquiries or communications from 

 them on scientific subjects were promptly responded to. In 

 this way a body of collaborators was secured to the Institu- 



