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[[strikethrough]] There was also purchased during the year by the Department the collection of Mr. O. Meske of Albany, N.Y., not so long since ranking among the best collections of Lepidoptera in the United States, and containing a considerable number of types. [[/strikethrough]]  There are fully 700 species and over 2000 specimens, contained in 45 glass covered drawers and boxes, and as a whole in very good condition.  It contains a fair collection of European species also, obtained in exchange from some of the leading Lepidopterists of Germany.  There was also purchased by said department for the museum the collection of the late H.K. Morrison of Morganton, N.C., containing a few Lepidoptera, Diptera and Neuroptera and a very large lot of Coleoptera - many hundreds of species and many thousands of specimens, contained in 56 large double boxes and 45 cigar boxes.  This collection contains a considerable number of species not in the other museum collection and an abundance of duplicate material valuable for exchanges.
     Mr. A. Koebele, collecting for the Department in California, has sent in thousands of insects of all orders very carefully mounted and containing a large number of new species