Abstract
Two great collections have recently been added, according to Science Service, to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. John Eliot Thayer has presented his series of thirty thousand specimens of bird skins, forming probably the finest private collection of North American birds. The collection also contains many thousands of nests and eggs. Some of the specimens are very valuable: extinct birds include the Labrador duck, the Eskimo curlew, and the passenger pigeon. There are ten eggs of the extinct great auk, and several of the California condor, which is becoming very rare. The second collection, bequeathed by Andrew Gray Weeks, contains some 75,000 specimens of butterflies and moths, many being type specimens. The former owner also left to the museum a fund for the care and increase of thecollection.
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