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tus, tanks, alcohol, etc., have been furnished. During the year 1889-'90 

 the following collectors have been supplied : 



1SS9. 



October 1. — Mr. William Harvey Brown, of the National Museum, 

 who was appointed naturalist on the United States Eclipse Expedition 

 to South Africa, was supplied with a large outfit, including tanks, al- 

 cohol, jars, oil, linen, tools, guns and ammunition, to be used in collect- 

 ing natural history specimens. Several collections of fishes, shells, and 

 marine invertebrates from the Azores have been received. 



November 12. — Mr. Frank Burns, of the U. S. Geological Survey, 

 kindly offered to collect shells and birds in Florida. An outfit has 

 been sent to him, including tanks, alcohol, and shellac. One wood- 

 pecker, 8 specimens of shells from Chattahoochee Station, and 21 shells 

 from the Kitchen midden at Alum Bluffs have been received. 



December 17. — Mr. John C. Tolman, collector of customs at Kadiak, 

 Alaska, has expressed his willingness to collect birds, shells, and plants 

 in that vicinity for the National Museum. He has been supplied with 

 cotton, dissecting-tools, etc. Unfortunately, however, owing to ill- 

 health, he has been compelled to defer his work. He has, therefore, 

 placed the outfit in the hands of Mr. W. J. Fisher, who has been for 

 many years a generous collector for the Smithsonian Institution. Mr. 

 Fisher has been requested to collect ethnological specimens, and to 

 endeavor to complete, as far as possible, our collections of the fauna 

 aud flora of Alaska. Mr. Tolman intends, however, to send a collec- 

 tion of bird's skins. 



December 27. — Dr. John I. Northrop, of Columbia College, New York, 

 who sailed in January for the Bahama Islands, has kindly offered to 

 present a duplicate series of specimens of marine invertebrates and 

 fishes from the Bahamas to the Smithsonian Institution. An outfit, 

 including tanks and tags, has been sent to him. He expects to collect 

 star-fishes, sea-cucumbers, small corals, and shore species of fishes. 



1890. 



January 6. — Mr. C. R. Orcutt, of San Diego, California, having 

 arranged for an expedition to the Colorado River and the Gulf of Cali- 

 fornia, kindly offered to collect shells, fishes, reptiles, and plants from 

 that region. An outfit, consisting of tanks, tank-boxes, alcohol, butter- 

 jars, padlocks, and a small seine, was sent to him at Yuma, Arizona. 

 On September 23, 3 cans, containing 31 specimens of reptiles, snakes, 

 and lizards, were received from him. Mr. Orcutt has already donated 

 2G collections to the National Museum. 



January 7. — Rev. F. Gardiner, jr., who sailed from Newport News, 

 Virginia, for the West Indies, in February, was supplied with tanks, 

 tank-boxes, alcohol, tin-tags, etc., for the purpose of collecting natural- 

 history specimens. Two tank-boxes, containing alcoholic specimens of 

 fishes, have already been received. 



