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Willis, Olga, Washington; Mr. Alfred G. Maddren, Seattle, Wash- 

 ington; Dr. E. A. Mearns, Mindanao, Philippine Islands; Dr. J. R. 

 Harris, U. S. Army, Philippine Islands; Mr. Eliot Blackwelder, Tien- 

 tsin.^ China; Mr. William Brockway, Piedras Negras, Coahnila, Mexico; 

 Mr. E. A. Goldman, Tehuan tepee City, Mexico, and the Rev. Samuel P. 

 Verner, Upper Congo Regions, Africa. 



DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OE SPECIMENS. 



In the distribution of duplicate material to educational establish- 

 ments throughout the country a total of 20,010 specimens was used. 

 These contributions, chiefly to schools and colleges, were comprised 

 in 148 separate lots or sets of objects accurately labeled and adapted 

 for teaching purposes. They consisted of 55 sets of marine inverte- 

 brates, 35 of fishes, 10 of geological material illustrating rock weath- 

 ering and soil formation, -4 of casts of prehistoric stone implements, 

 and 44 of a special and miscellaneous character. 



In making exchanges, for which an equivalent is obtained for incor- 

 poration in the national collections, 216 lots, aggregating 9,005 speci- 

 mens, were disposed of. The number of specimens lent to specialists 

 for study amounted to 20,535, comprised in 115 separate sendings. 



Among the more important exchanges received from establishments 

 abroad were the following: From the British Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, London, England, a number of alcoholic bats; from the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, a large collection of plants from 

 various localities; from the Museum of Natural History, Paris, France, 

 specimens of wasps of the family Vespida?; from the Royal Botanical 

 Museum, Berlin, Germany, 716 plants; from the Royal Zoological and 

 Anthropological-Ethnographical Museum, Dresden, Germany, 3 skins 

 of Sturnidas; from the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, 

 Denmark, about 100 species of European mesozoic and tertiary biyo- 

 zoans, and specimens of living echinoderms; from the First Zoological 

 Institute of the Imperial University, Vienna, Austria, fishes and rep- 

 tiles collected in North Africa, Asia Minor, and other localities; from 

 the K. K. Naturhistoriscb.es Hofmuseum, Vienna, a collection of mes- 

 ozoic and tertiary biyozoans and ostracods from eighteen European 

 localities: from the Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, Christiania, 

 Norway, specimens of reptiles and batrachians from Madagascar, 

 South Africa, Australia, and Formosa; from the Museum of the Impe- 

 rial University, Moscow, Russia, 5 casts of Mastodon borsoni; from 

 the Royal Botanic Garden, Sibpur, Calcutta, India, 143 plants from 

 India; from Albany Museum, Grahamstown, South Africa, 2 elands; 

 from Hope Gardens, near Kingston, Jamaica, specimens of ferns 

 (Asplenium). 



