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Moore, Thomas J. 7 specimens, 2 species. Liverpool. 

 Salmin, C. L. 131 specimens, 44 species. North Sea. 

 Smithsonian. 64 specimens, 20 species. "Wood's Hole. Prof. 

 S. F. Baird. 



WITH THE GRAY FUND. 



Cooke, C. 354 specimens, 54 species. Zanzibar. 



Garrett, A. 1,000 specimens, about 300 species. Society Islands. 



Gray Fund. 1 specimen. Lake Michigan. 



Poey, F. 41 specimens, 41 species. Havana. 



Reiche Brothers. 1 specimen. Senegal. 



Rich, J. G. 11 specimens, 4 species. Upton, Maine. 



Stimpson, W. 65 specimens, 22 species. Somers' Point, N. J. 



Total — 3,460 specimens, and about 740 species. 



Report on the Collection of Insects, by P. R. Uhler. 



During the past year fair progress has been made in reducing 

 the collection to a state of order, and it now remains less liable 

 to injury from the attacks of parasites. 



Mr. Packard has pinned the Japanese insects received from 

 Mr. J. T. Gulick. He has placed some of the Geometridse and 

 Pyralidae of the New England and Middle States on exhibition 

 up stairs, and he has pinned and spread some of the alcoholic 

 specimens of Coleoptera. He has also placed some of the 

 alcoholic larvae on exhibition, and assorted a portion of the 

 alcoholic specimens into separate drawers. 



The Hymenoptera which were sent to Mr. Edward Norton 

 for identification have been returned well determined, and Mr. 

 Norton has kindly added to them a number of types of his 

 monograph of the genus Allantus. 



The increase of the collections, since the last Report has 

 been very great. The whole number of specimens added 

 during that time amounts to 40,288, of 13,398 species. Of 

 this number, 5,738 specimens were presented; 32,705 were 

 purchased with the Gray Fund, and 1,845 received in 

 exchange. 



Some of these collections are of the highest interest, as 

 exhibiting the features of the insect Faunae of several of the 



