100 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Museum from India. The thanks of the Museum are due to Mr. How- 

 ard for his services as acting curator of the Department of Insects in 

 the Museum during the absence of the honorary curator. 



Through Dr. B. E. Fernow, chief of the Division of Forestry, has 

 been received a large map which was exhibited at the Paris Exposi- 

 tion, showing the percentage of forest-areas. 



The valuable services of Professor Riley, as honorary curator of the 

 Department of Insects; of Dr. B. E. Fernow as honorary curator of the 

 forestry collection, and of Dr. George Vasey, as honorary curator of 

 the Department of Botany, have been continued. 



UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



The cruise of the steamer Albatross in the West Indies and in the 

 Pacific Ocean has resulted in some very important additions to the 

 collections of the National Museum. 



The following statement gives the general character of these collec- 

 tions, which have been transmitted to the Museum by Col. Marshall 

 McDonald, Commissioner of Fisheries. 



A series of Echini from the North Pacific Ocean ; 226 specimens of 

 birds collected by the naturalists of the steamer Albatross on the west 

 coast of America during 1888-'89. (The collection was made mainly 

 through the efforts of Mr. Charles H. Townsend.) A collection of 

 alcoholic fishes from Galapagos Islands; specimens of bats, coyote 

 skull, botanical specimens, dried plants, guano, birds' nests, stone im- 

 plements and shells, human skulls and skeleton, specimens of natural 

 history, reptiles and batrachians, and insects from the western coast of 

 North America, were also received. Samples of dried hake sounds, 

 and sheet isinglass manufactured from the same, two Gulls (Larusglau- 

 cescens), fresh specimens of Pickerel and of Weak-fish from the aquaria 

 of the Commission, two skeletons of Cormorants {Phalacrocorax dilophus 

 and Phalacrocorax penicillatus) and a stuffed skin of Saw-fish (Pristis 

 pectinatus), have also been received. 



Through Dr. D. S. Jordan, president of the Indiana State University, 

 have been received type series of fishes collected in Colorado, Utah, and 

 Kansas ; 115 specimens of cray -fishes from Virginia, North Carolina, 

 Tennessee, Michigan and Indiana. Specimens of reptiles, batrachians, 

 and insects, collected in Virginia and elsewhere, also type series of 

 fishes, alcoholic shells, mammals, and reptiles from the Yellowstone 

 Park have been received. Dr. Jordan has made several important 

 collections of fishes during the summer, and, with the assistance of Dr. 

 Bollman, has described them. These descriptions have been published 

 by the Fish Commission. The fishes have been transferred to the col- 

 lection in the National Museum. 



Mr. William F. Page, superintendent of the U. S. Fish Commission 

 station at Neosho, Missouri, presented the wing of a bird which was 



