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were sent to the American Museum of Natural History, New York, 

 for the use of Dr. F. M. Chapman, Dr. James P. Chapin, W. deW. 

 Miller, and L. Griscom in their studies of South American, African, 

 and Nicaraguan birds, respectively; to the Field Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, for Dr. C. E. Hellmayr, Museum of Comparative Zo- 

 ology for F. H. Kenard, Dr. J. C. Phillips, Dr. A. O. Gross, and 

 James L. Peters; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, 26 

 skins of Lagopus rwpestris for the benefit of H. S. Swarth, and other 

 birds to Allan Brooks, Okanogan, British Columbia, and D. R. 

 Dickey, Pasadena, Calif. Eight skeletons of turkeys were sent to the 

 Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. Reptiles and am- 

 phibians were loaned to the Zoological Museum of the University 

 of Michigan to be studied by Dr. A. Ruthven, Mrs. H. T. Gaige, 

 and J. P. Jones; to Dr. Thomas Barbour, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology; A. I. Ortenburger, University of Oklahoma; Dr. E. R. 

 Dunn, Smiths College; Dr. K. P. Schmidt, Field Museum of Natu- 

 ral History, Chicago ; L. E. Wyman, Los Angeles, Calif., and L. M. 

 Klauber, San Diego, Calif. Ten salmonoid fishes were lent to the 

 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., and 15 liparid fishes to A. E. 

 Parr, Norwegian Fisheries Administration, Bergen, Norway, in 

 connection with studies of arctic liparids. 



Of insects 12,421 specimens were sent out for study and identifica- 

 tion by outside entomologists. The recipients embrace the leading 

 institutions and specialists in this country and Hawaii besides cor- 

 respondents in France, Germany, Italy, and Canada. Numerous 

 lots of marine invertebrates were lent to investigators at home and 

 abroad. Thus there were sent to Prof. John H. Ashworth, Uni- 

 versity of Edinburgh, Scotland, 8 lots of Arenicola for examination 

 in connection with his studies on this group of annelid worms ; arctic 

 medusae to Dr. H. B. Bigelow, and arctic sipunculids to Dr. R. V. 

 Chamberlain,! both of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; addi- 

 tional arctic marine invertebrate material to Dr. A. G. Huntsman, 

 University of Toronto, and to Prof. Chancey Juday, University of 

 Wisconsin; to Dr. H. Boschma, University of Leiden, Holland, 100 

 lots, 193 specimens, of Rhizocephalids from various localities for 

 study in connection with a monograph on the group; to Dr. H. 

 Lohmander, Lund, Sweden, 30 specimens of isopod crustaceans for 

 study in connection with his monograph of the north and middle 

 European Trichoniscidae ; to Dr. T. Odhner, Swedish National 

 Museum, Stockholm, crabs for study in connection with a mono- 

 graph of the family Xanthidae; to Prof. G. O. Sars, University at 

 Oslo, Norway, 50 specimens from Utah to assist in his studies on 

 the development of Artemia; 257 lots of larval Crustacea from the 

 New England coast to Dr. C. J. Fish, United States Bureau of 

 Fisheries, Woods Hole, Mass., for study. The division of moUusks 



