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a valuable study of general mammalian osteology. Fourteen skele- 

 tons of recent lions and tigers were sent to the Museum of History, 

 Science and Art, Los Angeles, Calif., for comparative study with 

 the Pleistocene fauna of Rancho la Brea. Nearly 400 skins' of 

 African birds were lent to the American Museum of Natural His- 

 tory, New York, for the use of J. P. Chapin in his study of the Congo 

 collection of that museum. 'W. E. Clyde Todd, of the Carnegie 

 Museum, Pittsburgh, borrowed 134 birds for comparison with mate- 

 rial in that museum. The Field Museum of Natural History, Chi- 

 cago, borrowed 117 bird skins' from South America to assist Doctor 

 Hellmayr in his work on the " Catalogue of Birds of the Americas," 

 begun by the late C. B. Cory. These gentlemen also visited the 

 Museum for several days examining material in connection with 

 the above studies. Prince N. Taka-Tsukasa, president' of the Orni- 

 thological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, spent a day in the 

 collection examining various groups' and especially the types of 

 Japanese species of birds. Herbert L. Stoddard, Milwaukee, Wis., 

 spent about two weeks studying specimens and literature relat- 

 ing to the bob-white. Other ornithologists who examined bird 

 skins were: Dr. Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York; W. L. G. Edson, Rochester, N. Y.; Dr. E. H. 

 Forbush, State ornithologist of Massachusetts; Robert Gordon, 

 Columbus, Ohio; Maria C. Klagh, Detroit, Mich.; Frederick H. 

 Kennard, Newton Center, Mass.; Robert C. Walker, Washington, 



D. C. ; and Frank C. Willard, Farmingdale, N. Y. The egg collec- 

 tion was examined by Edward Arnold, Montreal, Canada; Herbert 

 W. Brandt, Cleveland, Ohio ; W. S. Brooks, Cambridge, Mass. ; and 

 Alexander Sprunt, jr., Charleston Museum, S. C. Doctor Amaral's 

 studies in the division of reptiles have already been alluded to. 

 Dr. Thomas Barbour, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Prof. 



E. R. Dunn, visited the division repeatedly, studying material. Dr. 

 A. G. Ruthven, Zoological Museum, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Prof. 



F. N. Blanchard, University of Michigan, likewise spent some time 

 there, the latter nearly a whole month. Dr. Alfred C. Herre, of 

 the Bureau of Science, Manila, studied the gobies of the Indo-Pacific 

 region contained in the collection of the division of fishes. Dr. David 

 Starr Jordan has continued his relations with the division. Dr. 

 J. R. Norman, of the British Museum, has been aided in his work 

 upon the right-sided flounders, as has been Dr. Johannes Schmidt, 

 of the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, Denmark, in his studies 

 on the Indo-Pacific eels. 



The collections of the division of insects have been examined by a 

 number of entomologists, as follows : H. W. Allen, Mississippi Agri- 



