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biotocoid I find that it corresponds to the American genus 

 Micrometrus of Gibbons. 



Since the Hume Collection of Indian Birds was presented to 

 the Museum we have not received from any quarter so valuable 

 an addition to our stock as the Collection of North American 

 Birds presented to the Museum by Mrs. Greene Smith, of Peter- 

 borough, N. Y. The terms upon which the collection has been 

 given to the Museum are most liberal, and while the collection 

 will remain intact as the Greene Smith Collection, it will at the 

 same time form the bulk of our collection of North American 

 Birds, just as the Hume Collection practically forms the Bird 

 Collection of the Indian Room. The Greene Smith Collection 

 is well known to ornithologists as perhaps the most complete 

 and best mounted collection of North American Birds brought 

 together by a private individual. The Museum is fortunate in 

 being chosen by Mrs. Smith as the recipient of so valuable a col- 

 lection, and we have to thank her most cordially for the liberal 

 conditions which she attaches to the gift. (See Appendix C.) 



We have to thank the Swiss Confederation for sending us, 

 through the Polytechnicum, a large number of topographical 

 maps published by that government. 



We owe to Mr. Binney the plates which accompany the last 

 Supplement to his North American Land Shells", published in the 

 Museum Bulletin. 



The Museum has sent to Dr. Dall for examination a small 

 collection of Tertiary Fossils from the Isthmus of Panama, sent 

 us by Mr. F. Sousa, 



The remainder of our collection of Bats has been forwarded 

 to the Marquis Doria, at Genoa, for examination. 



We have also sent out for examination small collections of 

 Reptiles, of Sharks, and of Fishes to Messrs. Goode and Bean. 



A number of Crinoids have been sent to Mr. Wachsmuth 

 for comparison. 



A number of European geologists, who attended the Inter- 

 national Congress of Geologists held at Washington last year, 

 visited the Museum, and examined, as far as practicable, some 

 of the special collections in which they were interested. 



That part of the collections of the "Albatross" expedition 

 of 1891 which is to be worked up at Cambridge has been re- 

 ceived in excellent condition, with the exception of the Aca- 



