116 REPORT OP NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



January 25. — An outfit, including tanks, tank-boxes, alcohol, etc., 

 has been forwarded to Mr. J. Francis Le Baron, Superintendent of the 

 Nicaragua Canal Construction Company, at San Juan del Norte, Nica- 

 ragua, for the collection of reptiles and insects. Several bottles of 

 alcoholic specimens, principally snakes and insects collected in Nicara- 

 gua and Costa Bica, have been received. Mr. Le Baron has for more 

 than twenty years taken a great interest in the welfare of the National 

 Museum, having since 1867 been a contributor to the collections from 

 the New England States and Florida. Since the transmission of the 

 outfit, the Museum has been informed that Mr. Le Baron has severed 

 his connection with the company. His outfit has been turned over to 

 Mr. Menocal, who has kindly consented to carry on the work of collect- 

 ing specimens. 



February 14. — Mr. C. H. Eigenmann, of San Diego, California, con- 

 templating a journey to Wood's Holl, offered to spend two or three 

 weeks in collecting natural history specimens between Yuma and St. 

 Louis, along the Texas Pacific and Iron Mountain routes, and on his re- 

 turn between New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio, and Northeastern 

 Mexico. A collecting outfit was forwarded to him. A tank has been 

 received from him containing alcoholic specimens of fishes, mollusks, 

 crabs, and shrimps. 



March 13. — Mr. Henry D. Woolfe, who went to Point Barrow, Alaska, 

 in the employment of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, has kindly 

 offered to continue to collect birds' skins, insects, fossils, mammals, 

 minerals, fishes, and ethnological specimens. An outfit has been for- 

 warded to him, in care of the Pacific Steam Wbaling Company, in San 

 Francisco. He has already made large collections for the National 

 Museum. 



April 24. — Dr. William H. Eush, of the United States Naval Bospi- 

 tal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who accompanied the school ship Sar- 

 atoga on its recent trip to the Azores and the English coast, has offered 

 to make a collection of fishes for the National Museum. For this pur- 

 pose dredging-nets have been sent to him. 



April 25. — The collecting outfit which had been placed at the disposal 

 of Ensign W. L. Howard, has been transferred to Mr. Henry W. Elliott, 

 to be used for the preservation of the smaller specimens obtained dur- 

 ing his visit to Alaska. Mr. Elliott was also supplied with a large 

 outfit, including cotton-batting, alum, arsenic, etc. Twenty-two pack- 

 ages of specimens have been received, but have not yet been examined. 



