8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
son Victor G. Audubon. The journals cover dates during 1820- 
1821 and 1840-1842; the earlier one is illustrated by a drawing 
showing the nomenclature of the external parts of a bird. The 
letters dating from 1829-1839 are addressed to the Havells, the 
engravers of the plates of Audubon’s works. Of later date are a 
series of more than 150 plates, with colored illustrations of the 
eggs of North American birds, drawn from nature by William S. 
Morgan, for a proposed work of the late Dr. T. M. Brewer. A 
third item of interest among Mr. Thayer’s gifts to the library 
consists of a copy of J. K. Townsend’s Ornithology of North 
America, (Philadelphia. 1839), one of the scarcest publications on 
this subject. 
Dr. J. C. Phillips’s collections from Sinai and Palestine have been 
mentioned; his other contributions include many gallinaceous 
birds, as well as ducks and geese, selected to fill gaps in the Mu- 
seum series; both of these groups are well represented owing very 
largely to Dr. Phillips’s previous gifts. 
From the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, the Museum has received 
a second series of Philippine birds mostly taken by himself during 
his stay as Governor General of the Islands. ‘These two dona- 
tions give the Museum an excellent representation of Philippine 
birds. Mr. Forbes was also good enough to collect for the Mu- 
seum a considerable series of birds during a trip to Cuba, Jamaica, 
and Guatemala. 
To Mr. L. W. Swett the Museum is indebted for a large collec- 
tion of North American Geometridae, a family of moths, to which 
he has paid especial attention during recent years. Mr. Swett’s 
gift of a valuable series of types was recorded in the Report for 
1912-1913; the collection presented this year numbers about 
7,000 specimens and represents more than three fourths of the 
described North American species. Mr. Swett has also begun a 
complete rearrangement of the collection of Geometridae, incor- 
porating his own series with those previously in the Museum, 
verifying the identifications, and revising the nomenclature. 
By the kind thoughtfulness of the officials of the Department 
of Parks of the City of Boston, the Museum has received from’ 
time to time such mammals and birds as have died at the Frank- 
lin Park Zoo. A few of these were not previously in the collection, 
and all have furnished, either as skins or skeletons, specimens of 
scientific value. 
Of the other gifts received from many donors the following 
deserve separate mention: — 
