EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1915. 45 



From Prof. C. C. Adams, of the New York State College of For- 

 estry at Syracuse, was received the entire series of types of the mol- 

 luscan gemis /o, the basis of his monograph in course of publication 

 by the National Academy of Sciences, besides a very large number 

 of additional specimens. Dr. F. Wood-Jones, of London, England, 

 presented about 106 specimens of corals, representing about 50 spe- 

 cies, from the Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean, including the 

 material figured in papers published by him in the Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London and in his book " Coral and 

 Atolls." The Museum of the University of Michigan contributed 

 14 specimens of crustaceans from the Santa Marta Mountains in 

 Colombia, collected by the Bryant Walker expedition and described 

 by Mr. A. S. Pearse. Two hundred specimens of small reef crabs 

 and 30 species of corals, the latter from around Fanning Island, 

 Pacific Ocean, were received as a gift from the College of Hawaii, 

 Honolulu; and 11 alcyonarians from the Philippine Islands were 

 obtained in exchange from the University of the Philippines at 

 Manila. 



Types and cotypes of species were presented as follows: By Mr. 

 George H. Clapp, of Pittsburgh, Pa., cotypes of recently described 

 land shells; by Prof. G. S. Dodds, of the University of Missouri, 

 type slides and specimens of Streptocephalus coloradensis and Diapto- 

 mus arapohensis from Colorado, described by himself; and by Dr. 

 C. D. Marsh, of the Department of Agriculture, the types of his 

 Diaptomus virginiensis. A gift from Mr. H. K. Harring of 50 

 microscopic slides of Rotatoria from the District of Columbia in- 

 cluded types, as did also a collection of 30 Japanese crabs from Mr. 

 T. Urita, of Kagoshima, Japan. Two cotypes were contained in a 

 small lot of crinoids presented by Mr. Frank Springer. Here may 

 also be mentioned the gift of more than 175 specimens of parasitic 

 copepods from the private collection of Dr. Charles B. Wilson; of 

 29 specimens of identified corals from Dr. J. Stanley Gardiner, of 

 the University of Cambridge, England; and of 65 specimens of 

 Brazilian crabs from Dr. H. von Ihering, of Sao Paulo. Reference 

 has elsewhere been made to the marine invertebrates collected in 

 Borneo hj Mr. Raven, and in Panama by Mr. Zetek, A number of 

 interesting specimens were added by members of the Museum staff, 

 including about 160 specimens from the Tortugas, Fla., by Dr. T. W. 

 Vaughan; over 160 crustaceans from the District of Columbia and 

 neighboring region, by Mr. C. R. Shoemaker, and 100 miscellane- 

 ous invertebrates from Virginia, by Miss P. L. Boone. 



In the spring of 1914 a circular soliciting specimens of earthworms 

 and giving directions for their collection and preservation was dis- 

 tributed to a number of correspondents, this material being desired 



