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Mestayer and Miss Marjorie Mestayer, of Wellington, New Zealand, 

 donated a number of New Zealand mollusks. including paratypes 

 of 5 new species, and 4 slides of foraminifera, including 1,241 

 specimens dredged by H. M. S. Hinemoa and containing many forms 

 new to science. Dr. Joseph A. Cushman has made the latter ma- 

 terial the basis of a monographic report now going through the 

 press. Dr. W. L. Abbott's own exploration in Santo Domingo re- 

 sulted in the addition of about 500 specimens (25 species) of land 

 and fresh-water mollusks from Santo Domingo, while the Raven 

 collection contained 5 marine invertebrates from Borneo. The 

 Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, presented a first 

 set of duplicates of decapod crustaceans, 15 species in 42 specimens, 

 secured by the Endeavour's investigations in Australian waters and 

 reported on by Dr. Mary J. Rathbun. The land and marine shells 

 donated by Mr. W. E. Crane, of Washington, District of Columbia 

 (414 specimens), from various localities are especially valuable to 

 the Museum, not only because many are exceedingly rare, but also 

 because they are selected with a view to filling gaps in the Museum 

 collections discovered by Mr. Crane during his research in this 

 division. Dr. F. Felippone, of Montevideo, Uruguay, has added 

 48 species, mostly mollusks, to his previous contributions, which 

 have more than tripled the Museum's collections of the Uruguayan 

 fauna, including types of several new genera and species. A collec- 

 tion of about 2,000 specimens of Australian chitons was obtained 

 in exchange from Mr. Edwin Ashby, of S^^dney, New South Wales, 

 admirably filling the gaps and rounding out our series, and con- 

 taining besides many paratypes. Mr. B. Preston Clark, of Boston, 

 Massachusetts, donated 35 specimens of Philippine land shells of 

 the genus Amphidromus. Hon. Jaime C. de Veyra, Resident Com- 

 missioner from the Philippines, United States House of Representa- 

 tives, Washington, presented 22 Philippine mollusks, among them 

 the type of Columbella deveyrai described by Doctor Bartsch. One 

 hundred invertebrates were received from Prof. N. Gist Gee, of the 

 Soochow University, China, among which the type of a new species 

 of isopod crustacean. Dr. A. L. Herrera, the director of the Na- 

 tional Museum of Natural History of Mexico, generously con- 

 tributed an unusually rare and perfect gorgonocephalid echino- 

 derm, which was described by Mr. Austin H. Clark in the Museum 

 Proceedings as a new genus and species under the name Astro- 

 cynodus herrerai. Doctor Herrera also contributed 10 microscopical 

 preparations of bio-artifacts. Mr. William H. Weeks, of Brook- 

 lyn, New York, donated 21 mollusks from various localities, among 

 them the type of Leptopoma nitidv/n weehsi Bartsch, from Bohol, 

 Philippine Islands. Another collection of Philippine mollusks, 



