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serials, in the publications of governmental surveys, and in the 

 writings of the early masters of geology. The Maria Whitney 

 Fund assures an annual increase to this valuable series of books. 



Miss Man* Dandridge Peck has given the Museum some most 

 interesting memorials (original letters and drawings, together with 

 a large crayon likeness) of her grandfather, William Dandridge 

 Peck, America's first scientific entomologist, and Harvard's first 

 Professor of Natural History (1805-1822). 



From Dr. P. R. Uhler, the Museum has received the Mever 

 Diir series of European Hemiptera. This collection contains a 

 very large number of species determined by Dr. Franz Fieber, 

 and has been studied critically by Dr. Uhler himself. Dr. Uhler's 

 gift is an important one and emphasizes a most precious asset of 

 the Museum, namely, the constancy with which the assistants 

 and students of the Museum's Founder contribute valuable re- 

 search material to its stores. 



Another gift of great scientific value has been received from Dr. 

 George W. Peckham and Mrs. Elizabeth G. Peckham; it consists 

 of a considerable number of Attidae (Jumping spiders), including 

 the types of most of the species described by the Peckhams, the 

 acknowledged authorities on this group of animals. 



Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant has most kindly given her large series 

 of spiders, principally from New England and New York; this 

 series is fully identified and most carefully labeled. The Menge, 

 Keyserling, Emerton, Peckham, and Bryant collections of spiders 

 constitute a series of specimens that cannot be overlooked by future 

 students. 



Among the many collections most generously given the Museum 

 by Mr. John E. Thayer, especial mention should be made of the 

 series of mammals from Lower California and the first installment 

 of mammals from central and western China. 



Mr. Thomas Barbour's collections from India, Burmah, the 

 Dutch East Indies, and New Guinea have enriched the Museum's 

 study series of specimens in every Department, and to his generous 

 interest the Museum is indebted for many other desirable additions. 

 Among the more notable of these, mention may be made of a 

 valuable series of skins of Birds of Paradise and of a number of 

 magnificent specimens of the great bird-winged butterflies (Orni- 

 thoptera spp.). 



