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specimens of Orolestes for study by Jeannette Oberchain; Dr. W. 

 A. Bryan, Los Angles, Calif., skeletons of tigers and lions; and Al- 

 fred S. Romer, Walker Museum, University of Chicago, alcoholic 

 and skeletal material. Birds were sent to the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, for the use of Dr. Witmer Stone in prepar- 

 ing his report on the Princeton Patagonian expedition ; 404 skins to 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York, to aid Dr. F. M. 

 Chapman and Mr. Chapin in their studies of South American and 

 African birds; PI. H. Bailey, Miami Beach, Fla., for use in deter- 

 mining Florida material; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., for 

 Mr. Todd; Donald R. Dickey, Pasadena, Calif., for use in determin- 

 ing material from California; Field Museum of Natural History, 

 Chicago, for Dr. Hellmayr; Los Angeles Museum of Science and 

 Arts for use of Dr. L. H. Mjiller, in determining bird material from 

 the Rancho la Brea deposits; Museum of Comparative Zoology for 

 the benefit of James L. Peters, O. Bangs, Thomas E. Penarcl, and F. 

 H. Kennard ; and Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C, to assist 

 in determining South Carolina material. 



Reptiles and amphibians were sent to Prof. E. R. Dunn, Smith 

 College; Museum of Comparative Zoology for Dr. Thomas Barbour 

 and Dr. Afranio do Amaral; 481 specimens to Dr. A. G. Ruthven, 

 Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor ; snakes to Professor Blanchard, and 

 frogs to Mrs. H. T. Gaige, also of Ann Arbor; E. L. Troxell, New 

 Haven, Conn., a crocodile pelvis. To assist in his studies of Indo- 

 Pacific eels, 31 specimens were loaned to Dr. Johannes Schmidt, 

 Copenhagen, from the division of fishes. Entomological material 

 was loaned to a number of institutions and investigators to aid them 

 in their studies, thus to H. J. Reinhard, College Station, Tex. ; Prof. 

 Stanley Freeborn, Amherst, Mass.; B. A. Porter, Vincennes, Ind. ; 

 Dr. W. D. Funkhouser, Lexington, Ky. ; W. A. Hoffman, Johns 

 Hopkins University; Prof. James S. Hine, Columbus, Ohio; Prof. 

 A. Damf, Mexico City; Dr. S. M. Walker, Toronto, Canada; and 

 Henry G. Good, Ithaca, N. Y. From the division of marine in- 

 vertebrates material was sent to Dr. A. Gruvel, Museum of Natural 

 History, Paris, France, isopods for study in connection with a mono- 

 graph prepared by Mr. Monod on the isopod family Gnathiidae ; Dr. 

 C. C. Nutting, State University of Iowa ; Dr. Raymond C. Osborn, 

 Ohio State University; Miss Belle A. Stevens, Marine Biological 

 Station, Friday Harbor, Wash., for study in connection with a sys- 

 tematic paper being prepared by her on the hermit crabs of the north- 

 west coast; and Dr. A. E. Verrill, New Haven, Conn., alcyonarians 

 from Porto Rico, for study in connection with his Blake expedition 

 report. Samples of deep sea ooze were sent to William L. Bryant, 



