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EEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1913. 



Colorado, University of, Boulder, 

 Colo. : 3 plants collected in New Mexico 

 byW.W. Bobbins (55374). 



CoMEAU, N. A., Godbout, Quebec, Can- 

 ada: Specimen of holotliurian, Cucu- 

 maria frondosa, from Godbout (54758). 



Commerce, Department or: 



Bureau of Fisheries: 2 specimens of 

 Medusae from tbe coast of Maine (54362) , 

 a keg of jellyfisbea from the mouth of 

 Casco Bay (54766), a box of jellyfishes 

 and pteropods from the Gulf of Maine 

 (55072), 28 vials and bottles of inverte- 

 brates (55618), and 2 boxes of plankton 

 specimens comprising mollusks and 

 other invertebrates from the Gulf of 

 Maine (55165), collected by the 

 Grampus during the summer of 1912 

 and received through Dr. H. B. Bige- 

 low. Head and tail of bottle-nosed 

 whale, type of Mesoplodon mirwn, new 

 species, from Bird Island Shoal, Beau- 

 fort Harbor, N. C. (54403); large collec- 

 tions of tj^es and paratypes of fishes, 

 collected in 1906 in Japan and the 

 northern Pacific by the Albatross, a few 

 types of fluvial fishes from California, 

 and a specimen of stomatopod from 

 Japan (54484); 108 skeletons of birds 

 and 3 skeletons of the house mouse, 

 from St. Paul Island, Pribilof Group, 

 Alaska (54504); 14 boxes of miscellane- 

 ous specimens of mollusks and 154 

 packages of marine invertebrates, col- 

 lected on the Albatross cruise to Mexico 

 in 1911 (54576; 54588); a full-length 

 pastel portrait of Prof. Spencer F. 

 Baird, by D. E. Collins (54609); part of 

 the type specimen of Frimnodendron 

 superbum, collected during the cruise 

 of the Albatross in the northwest Pacific 

 in 1906 and described by Prof. C. C. 

 Nutting (54627); 4 boxes of echinoids, 

 asteroids, etc., from the Pacific Ocean, 

 and a figured specimen of Heterocentro- 

 tus vwmmillatus from Honolulu, col- 

 lected by the Albatross and described 

 by Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark (54656); 2 

 crustaceans taken from Phallusia at 

 Station 2945, southern California, cruise 

 of the Albatross in 1904 (54674); 2 frogs 

 from Alaska, collected by Lee R. Dice, 

 deputy warden, Alaska Fisheries Serv- 

 ice (54745); 167 lots of ascidians col- 



Commerce, Department of — Contd. 

 lee ted by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 from 1871-1887, inclusive, named by 

 Dr. W. G. Van Name, and formerly in 

 the custody of Prof. A. E. Verrill 

 (54773); mammals, fishes, invertebrates, 

 and plants, from St. Paul Island, 

 Alaska, collected in 1910-1912 by 

 M. C. Marsh and W. L. Hahn (54778); 

 348 mounted slides of Foraminifera 

 from the Philippine cruise of the Alba- 

 tross, 1907-1910, received tlirough Dr. 

 Joseph A. Cushman (54783); 700 vials 

 of Scluzopoda collected by the Alba- 

 tross in 1899-1900 and 1904-1905 and 

 described by Dr. H. J. Hansen in Me- 

 moirs of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Vol. 35, No. 4, July, 1912 

 (54843); 6 parasitic isopoda collected in 

 Japan by Dr. Jordan and Dr. Snyder 

 (54892); the type and 11 additional 

 specimens of a flounder, Pseudopleuro- 

 nectes dignabilis, collected by steam 

 trawlers on Georges Bank, through the 

 courtesy of John R. Neal (54959); skin 

 of a large California sea bass, Atracto- 

 scion nobilis, collected near Quadra 

 Inlet, opposite Mary Island, Alaska 

 (55016); 6 types of jellyfishes collected 

 by the Albatross in the northwest 

 Pacific in 1906 (55072); mammals and 

 birds from Celebes, Borneo, etc., col- 

 lected by Roy C. Andrews on the Alba- 

 tross expedition of 1909-1910 and re- 

 ceived through the American Museum 

 of Natural History (55162); type and 

 paratype of Hadropterus sellaris from 

 Swan Creek, Md. (55166); a series of 137 

 bird eggs and 2 nests from the Pribilof 

 Islands, collected by James Judge and 

 M. C. Marsh in 1911 and 1912 (55190); 

 986 specimens of echinoderms (includ- 

 ing 5 type specimens) collected by the 

 Albatross on the west coast of Mexico 

 in 1911 and described by Dr. H. L. 

 Clark (55292; 55337); 2 parkas ob- 

 tained by deputy fur warden G. Dallas 

 Hanna from Indians near Bethel, 

 Alaska (55389). (See under Smith- 

 sonian Institution, Smithsonian Bio- 

 logical Survey of the Panama Canal 

 Zone.) 



Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- 

 m.erce: Samples of foreign fibers, yama, 



