36 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. [Jan. 



Museum of the University of Montpellier, France, Professor Martins, 

 Director. 242 specimens, 111 species. 



J. G. A. Salmin, Hamburg. 780 specimens, 94 species. 



Professor Gegenbaur, Jena, Germany. 40 specimens, 19 species. 



Professor Von Siebold, Munich, Bavaria. 39 specimens, 18 species. 



Professor R. Wagner, Gottingen. 7 specimens, 4 species. 



Lyceum of Natural History, of Williams College, Mass., S. M. Buck, 

 Curator. 70 specimens, 37 species. 



Boston Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass., F. W. Putnam, 

 Curator. 344 specimens, 108 species. 



State Collection of Natural History, Boston, Mass., C. L. Flint, Sec- 

 retary. 68 specimens, 30 species. 



State Normal School, Salem, Mass., Professor Crosby, Principal. 

 133 specimens, 64 species. 



Professor Wyman, Cambridge, Mass. 1 specimen, 1 species. 



Professor Hamlin, Waterville College, Maine. 1 specimen, 1 species. 



Total number of specimens, 4,766, of 189 different species. 



Report on the Collection of Insects, by A. S. Packard, Jr. 



Good progress has been made during the past year in the 

 final arrangement of the Insects. Mr. Scudder has placed on 

 exhibition in the cases all the Orthoptera in frhe collection, 

 having completed their arrangement, begun last year. He has 

 also completed a temporary arrangement of several families 

 of diurnal Lepidoptera, illustrating the European and Brazilian 

 faunae. Moreover, by removing from the cases boxes of unar- 

 ranged insects, he has made more room for exhibiting other 

 families. I have spent considerable study upon the hymenop- 

 terous families, Crabronidae, Larridae, Pompilidae, and Sphegidae, 

 arranging them by faunal and systematic collections, which are 

 placed in boxes, ready to be carried up stairs. Besides, all the 

 Vespidae in the collection are arranged in the same way ; and 

 there is a small typical collection representing the different 

 families of Hymenoptera, which has been set aside to be placed 

 in the room illustrating the principal types of animals. 



There has been a steady increase in the number of specimens 

 brought in during the year ; the number amounting to nearly 



