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7. WHAT MATERIAL FROM YOUR DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN LENT TO INVESTIGATORS DURING THE YEAR, AND IN CONNECTION WITH WHAT SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS WAS THE MATERIAL NEEDED.

PLEASE ARRANGE ANSWER, ALPHABETICALLY, UNDER NAME OF PERSON TO WHOM SUCH MATERIAL WAS LENT.
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[[strikethrough]] Mr [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] William Brewster [[/underlined]], Cambridge, Mass. — 32 specimens of the genus [[underlined]] Megascops [[/underlined]], a Louisiana example of [[underlined]] Icterus gularis yucatanensis [[/underlined]], and [[strikethrough]] the type [[/strikethrough]] typical specimens of [[underlined]] Tympanuchus attwateri [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Geothlypis poliocephala ralphi [[/underlined]] , for examination by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union.

[[double underlined]] Frank M. Chapman [[/double underlined]] , American Museum of Natural History, New York City. — 22 specimens of various South American birds to assist in the identifcation of his Trinidad collection. (See Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist VI, 1894, pp. 1-86. . . . . .)

[[double underlined]] Osbert Salvin [[/double underlined]], London, England. — 5 specimens of Petrels, to assist in the preparation of the catalogue of the [[underlined]] Procellariidae [[/underlined]] in the British Musuem.

[[double underlined]] Witmer Stone [[/double underlined]] , Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. — 24 specimens Old World Rails and 11 specimens of the genus [[underlined]] Anous, [[/underlined]] to assist in the identification of [[strikethrough]] the Rallidae [[/strikethrough]] specimens in the Academy's collection.