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portance. Under certain conditions exchanges are sometimes 

 made. 



The private collection of Prof. C. H. Fernald consists mainly 

 of Microlepidoptera comprising nearly all of the described 

 species of the family Pterophoridae of North America and 

 Europe and many from South America; all the types of Fitch 

 except one which is not in existence; all the types of Fish as 

 well as his own types and cotypes of nearly all of the species de- 

 scribed by Lord Walsingham from North America. It includes 

 about nine tenths of all the types of the described species of 

 North America belonging to this family. 



Of the Tineina it contains a large number of authentically 

 named species of North and South America together with all of 

 his own t^'pes, a large number of those of Chambers and Miss 

 Murtfeldt and cotypes of most of the species described from 

 North America by Lord Walsingham. 



Of the Pyralidae it contains authentic specimens of nearly 

 all the described North American species, and many from 

 Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, South America, 

 Europe and other parts of the Yv^orld; all of his own types and 

 many cotypes of Hulst and Grote. This collection is rendered 

 more valuable from the fact that the owner has compared it 

 with all the collections in all the American and European mus- 

 eums containing types of North American species and critically 

 compared and marked as homotypes such as were thus proved 

 to be exactly like the types. 



The number of species of the family Tortricidae in this collec- 

 tion is larger than that of any other collection in existence, be- 

 ing about twice as large as that of the British Museum and three 

 times as large as that of the Berlin or Vienna museums with 

 which it has been compared. It contains a Yerj large number of 

 types and cotypes as well as homotypes having been compared 

 by the owner with nearly all of the Tortricid types in existence. 



Botany. This collection consists of a herbarium in which all 

 classes of plants are represented except the algae. It also con- 

 tains sections of most of our Massachusetts woods, many forms. 



