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to purchase. During the past year important exchanges have 



been arranged with the following institutions: 



Australian Museum, Sidney, Australia 



British Museum of Natural History, London, England 



Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Columbia University, New York, N. Y. 



Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Durban Museum, Natal, Africa 



Geological Survey of India, Calcutta, India 



Konigl. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich, Bavaria 



K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna, Austria 



Konigl. Naturalien-Sammlung, Stuttgart, Germany 



Krai's, F., Bakteriologisches Museum, Vienna, Austria 



Musee Oceanographique, Monaco 



Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden 



Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland 



New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y. 



Peabody Museum, New Haven, Conn. 



Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass. 



Queensland Museum, Brisbane, Australia 



Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, Georgetown, British Guiana 



San Pablo College, San Juan, Porto Rico 



Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main, 



Germany 

 Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences, St. George, S. I. 

 United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. 

 University of California, Berkeley, Cal. 

 University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. 



HOSPITALITY TO SOCIETIES 



The location of the Museum makes it a convenient meeting 

 place for scientific organizations in the City, and as usual cour- 

 tesies of this kind have been extended to a number of Societies. 

 The benefits derived from these relations are mutual. For 

 example, through cooperation with the New York Academy of 

 Sciences, the Members of the Museum were able to see and 

 hear Dr. Hugo de Vries of the University of Amsterdam, 

 Holland, who gave a lecture on "Experimental Evolution," 

 and Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical 

 Research, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, 191 2, who 

 lectured on "The Results of the Suture of Blood Vessels"; 

 through cooperation with the American Scenic and Historic 

 Preservation Society, our Members had an opportunity to hear 

 Professor Herschel C. Parker of Columbia University give an 



