an African flycatcher and several short taxonomic papers. Associate 

 D. S. Rabor returned to Chicago for the summer after a year at 

 Yale University and while here completed (with Chief Curator Rand) 

 reports on the birds of several Philippine islands and a few short 

 taxonomic papers. Chief Curator Rand has also started a review 

 of the sunbird for the continuation of Peters' Checklist of Birds of 

 the World (a series published by Harvard University) and prepared 

 a paper on the tarsal envelope of song birds and its use in classifica- 

 tion. Associate Ellen T. Smith has completed a guide to the birds 

 of the Chicago area (see page 102) . 



Division of Amphibians and Reptiles. The report on the 

 huge collection of Congo frogs from Pare National de I'Upemba, 

 Belgian Congo, by Curator Robert F. Inger and the late Curator 

 Emeritus Karl P. Schmidt (see Annual Report 1955, page 58) is 

 finally completed and in press. Curator Inger has also completed a 

 survey of the amphibians of South Africa, based on the collections 

 made in 1950-51 by the expedition from Lund University (Lund, 

 Sweden), at the request of the university and to be published by 

 it. He is also continuing his studies of the reptiles and amphibians 

 of Borneo, whence he is receiving additional new material from time 

 to time. Among studies completed are papers on new catfishes 

 from North Borneo and a new toad from Sarawak and notes on a 

 Bornean glass snake. Assistant Hymen Marx continued his studies 

 of the reptiles of North Africa and Southwest Asia and completed 

 manuscripts on Egyptian snakes of genera Psamnophis and Cerastes. 



Division of Fishes. Curator Woods continued his intensive 

 study of marine fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and 

 equatorial Atlantic (see page 67). Associate Marion Grey carried 

 on her survey of fish fauna found below a depth of about 900 meters. 

 She completed the preliminary report of the Family Gonostomatidae 

 for Fishes of the Western North Atlantic (a series of volumes pub- 

 lished by Sears Foundation). She also completed a manuscript on 

 fishes collected from the Gulf of Mexico by the research vessel 

 Oregon (see page 67 and Annual Report 1957, page 60). Associate 

 Edward M. Nelson continued his study of electric organs in fishes. 



Division of Insects. Curator Wenzel's main project, a mono- 

 graph on histerid beetles of the genus Margarinotus, is nearing com- 

 pletion. In the course of this work he has studied and identified 

 about 40,000 specimens from Europe, Asia, and North America, 

 many of the specimens on loan from other institutions. He com- 

 pleted a short paper on the genus Margarinotus for inclusion in 

 Professor Melville Hatch's Beetles of the Pacific Northwest and another 

 short paper describing several new species of histerid beetles from the 



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