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cleaned, many labels restored, and the family members added to the 

 labels for convenience in locating specimens. The collection of type 

 specimens has been gone over carefully and many specimens removed 

 to more suitable jars. The card catalogue has been brought up to 

 date as far as possible. 



Mr. B. A. Bean, the assistant curator of fishes, prepared an anno- 

 tated list of a second lot of fishes collected by officials of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of Canada and forwarded it to Ottawa for inclusion 

 in the report upon the fishes collected around Vancouver Island, now 

 in the hands of the editor. At the suggestion of Dr. David S. Jor- 

 dan, he has undertaken a detailed description of the unique type 

 specimen of Steinegeria rubescetis to accompany the publication of 

 an illustration of this little-known form. Dr. O. P. Hay, during the 

 year, examined various skeletons in the collection in comparison with 

 fossil remains from different localities. Mr. W. W. Welsh, of the 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries, also examined various specimens 

 in connection with his study of recently collected material. The 

 fishes collected by Mr. W. H. Brown with the United States Eclipse 

 Expedition to West Africa, 1889-90, as well as those collected by 

 Mr. Eolla P. Currie, of the Department of Agriculture, in the St. 

 Paul River, Siberia, in 1907, were sent for examination and report 

 to Mr. Henry W. Fowler, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia, who has submitted for publication a manuscript based 

 on these collections. The fishes of the United States Exploring Ex- 

 pedition under Captain Wilkes were also sent to him for study and 

 report. A large number of fishes collected during the Smithsonian 

 Biological Survey of Panama were sent to Mr. S. F. Hildebrand, of 

 the United States Bureau of Fisheries, at present located at Key 

 West, Florida, for study. Also 13 specimens of chub mackerel 

 {Scomher colias) to Prof. E. C. Starks, Stanford University, for 

 study and comparison with west coast material. 



Injects, — Owing to the very small number of transfers from the 

 Department of Agriculture the increase in the entomological col- 

 lections has been slight as compared with previous years. The only 

 accession worthy of special mention is the deposit bj^ Mr, J. R. de 

 la Torre Bueno, of White Plains, New York, of part of the Kirkaldy 

 collection of Hemiptera. The late G. W. Kirkaldy was one of the 

 foremost authorities on the order Hemiptera, and the collection 

 contains the material on which his valuable work on that order 

 was done. Owing to a lack of drawers there has not been any 

 great advance in the arrangements of the collections. Some prog- 

 ress, however, has been made in the Lepidoptera, the Coleoptera, and 

 to a lesser extent in the Hymenoptera where the North American 

 bees have been assembled. 



