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ZOOLOGY. Shells, on exhibition, 4500, in storage, 120,000, types, 

 co-types, and figured specimens, 256; Insects, on exhibition, 3800, in 

 storage, 1,125,000^, types, co-types, and figured specimens, 625o; 

 Other invertebrates, on exhibition, 725, in storage, 19,500^, types, 

 co-types, and figured specimens, 40; Fishes, on exhibition, 215, in 

 storage, 3O,66o, types, co-types, and figured specimens, 482; 

 Batrachians, on exhibition, 150, in storage, 2400, types, co-types, and 

 figured specimens, 2; Reptiles, on exhibition, 300, in storage, 42oo, 

 types, co- types, and figured specimens, 6; Birds, on exhibition, 1641, 

 in storage, 29,923, types, co-types, and figured specimens, 25; Mam- 

 mals, on exhibition, 173, in storage, 1661, types, co- types, and figured 

 specimens, 5 . The shells of the Holland and Hartman collection, owned 

 by the museum, contain many types and co-types of Adams, Bland, 

 Lea, Anthony, and Hartman. The Sterki collection also contains 

 many types. The Holland collection of lepidoptera contains the types 

 of W. H. Edwards, Theo. L. Mead, many of Walsingham, Butler, 

 and others, and all the types of species described and figured by 

 Holland in various books and papers. The Ulke collection contains 

 many species described by Leconte and Horn and referred to as in 

 this collection. The museum also contains Dr. Hamilton's types of 

 coleoptera, many of Ashmead's types of South American chalcids, 

 many of Calvert's types of South American odonata, and of Bruner's 

 types of South American orthoptera. The entomological collection 

 is one of the largest in North America. There is a large and increas- 

 ing collection of bird nests and eggs. 9 large and 23 small groups of 

 animals are exhibited in natural surroundings. 



HISTORICAL SKETCH. The Carnegie Museum is one of the three 

 departments of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh, to which Mr. 

 Carnegie has given for buildings and endowment approximately $20,- 

 000,000. It began its work in 1897 and has been almost continuously 

 under the care of the present director, W. J. Holland. The work of 

 research and the formation of the collections was begun in a small 

 way, but has grown rapidly, and there have been no less than 40 explor- 

 ing and collecting parties in the field at different times. 5 parties have 

 been sent to South America, 2 to Costa Rica, i to Labrador, i to Hud- 

 son Bay, 24 to the fossil-fields of the West, 3 to Africa, i to Texas, 

 2 to Canada, i to Florida, and i to the Bahamas. The museum is 

 maintaining a continuous biological survey of the upper valley of the 

 Ohio and its tributaries. It has employed a score of collectors in dif- 

 ferent parts of the world. 



FINANCIAL SUPPORT. By an income of $85,000 annually from 



