Scope and Contents Collector, living in Flushing, New York, who exchanged and purchased specimens of Lepidoptera. Some lists are from W. T. M. Forbes and P. P. Babiy giving collection data from the Guianas and West Indies. A paper written by R. C. Williams and E. L. Bell in typescript accompanies the lists. Letters written by Bell to R. C. Williams make up the major part of the collection, that is 328 items. Estimating that 100 answers by Williams are included, the total is only about 100 more than the letters...

Scope and Contents These holdings do not include all of Jones's correspondence in the field of biology, since he believed that collections, papers and letters about material from a given region should be deposited and preserved in that area. Other letters have been distributed among various individual correspondents, Boston Museum of Natural History, Society of Natural History of Wilmington, Delaware, and the U. S. National Museum. The Academy's collection contains letters from 166 authors who wrote a total of...