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there vcere several types. The crustaceans given by Dr. Carl C. 

 Kngberg, University of Nebraska, contained the tj'pe and para- 

 types of Balamis enr/herf/ianus Pilsbrv. Among a number of land- 

 shells presented by Mr. Walter F. Webb, Eochester, New York, was 

 a type of a new species described b}^ Dr. Paul Bartsch, who also 

 described the Teredo {Neoteredo) reynel., a new subgenus and species, 

 from material donated by Mr. A. Reine, Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. 

 A miscellaneous collection received from the Museu Paulista, Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil (Mr. Alfonso d'S. Taunay, director) contained types 

 of 2 worms and 4 crustaceans. ]Mr. H. X. Low, Long Beach, Cali- 

 fornia, presented, with other moUusks, 4 types of new subspecies. 

 The type of a new species of amphijiod was found among 10 species 

 of Crustacea received from the Brookh-n Museum, and of a terres- 

 trial isopod among some Bahaman specimens collected by Dr. Wil- 

 liam ]\fann. A collection of natural history objects made in Chile 

 by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, included an isopod described as new. Two paratypes 

 of the moUusk Vertigo modesta 7riicrophasma was donated by the 

 describer, Dr. S. S. Berry, Redlands, California, and a cotj'pe of 

 Brachupodella nidicosfata, from Venezuela, also a mollusk, was like- 

 wise presented by its describer, Mr. George Spence, Pine Grove, 

 Lancastershire, England. Three new subspecies were described from 

 some Philippine landshells donated by ]Mr. H. C. Higgins, Belmar, 

 KeAv Jersey. Type material was also represented in a collection 

 obtained in exchange from Dr. F. Felippone, Montevideo, L^ruguay, 

 and in crustaceans from Lake Valencia, collected and described by 

 the donor. Dr. A. S. Pearse, University of Wisconsin. Dr. Bryant 

 Walker, of Detroit, Michigan, presented the museum with 8 speci- 

 mens (4 species) cotypes of Amnicolas, mollusks from Guatemala. 

 An interesting accession consisted of two albino landshells, E piphrcKj- 

 mophora tudicidota Binney. from California, the first of the kind 

 received by the Museum. They were donated by Dr. R. H, Tremper, 

 Ontario, California. 



EcJiinoderms and Onychophores. — The most noteworthy acces- 

 sions were six onychophores collected in Honduras and donated by 

 Dr. William M. Mann, of tlie Bureau of Entomology, and a denuded 

 test of the giant sea-urchin, MetaJia pectoralis (Lamarck), from 

 Jamaica, presented by ^Ir. Charles Emery Asbury, Consular Serv- 

 ice, Department of State. 



Plants. — The accessions include highly valuable collections from 

 all over the Avorld. Besides important North American material, 

 there are represented plants from Mexico and Central America, Co- 

 lombia, British Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Europe, Africa, China, 

 Sumatra, etc. The more important ones are as folloAvs : 8,190 speci- 

 mens transferred by the several bureaus of the U. S. Department of 



