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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1919. 



PoGXJE, Joseph E. — Continued. 



(f) Cracking can not meet the Is- 

 sue at a favorable price; (g) The 

 burden, therefore, falls upon the 

 automotive engine, which must 

 consequently so adapt itself as to 

 gain higher thermal efficiency, and 

 to use less specialized (less vola- 

 tile) fuel, 



A review of the motor-fuel sit- 



uation. 



Automotive Industries, Juno 

 12, 1919, pp. 1319-1324. 



This paper reviews the limita- 

 tions and possibilities of the vari- 

 ous fuel sources, discusses the in- 

 terrelation of engine and fuel de- 

 velopments, and comments on the 

 essentials of a research organiza- 

 tion needed. 



The Engine-fuel problem. 



Floe, of Automotive Engi- 

 neers, June 23, 1919, 4 

 pp. 



This paper gives an analysis of 

 the motor-fuel problem and urges 

 the formation of a motor-fuel re- 

 search organization with the three- 

 fold function of economic analysis, 

 laboratory research, and industrial 

 coordination. 



O. 



(See also imder Chester 



Gilbert. ) 



assisted by Isador Lubin 



Prices of petroleum and its products 

 during the war. 



U. /?. Fuel Administration 

 and War Industries 

 Board, 55 pp., 24 figs., 3 

 tables. 



This bulletin was prepared for 

 the Fuel Administration in coordi- 

 nation with a series of price his- 

 tories compiled by the Price Sec- 

 tion of the Bureau of Planning of 

 the War Industries Board, which 

 deal with the fluctuations in the 

 prices of fifty classes of commodi- 

 ties during the past six years. It 

 includes an t-valuation of the prici' 

 factors peculiar to the exploitatiou 

 of petroleum ; a commercial history 

 of the petroleum industry ; and a 

 detailed record and interpretation 

 of the run of prices for petroleum 

 and its products from 1913-1918. 



Ramsden, Charles T. 

 Thoma s Ba rbour. ) 



(See under 



Ransom, Brayton H, and W. D. Fos- 

 ter. Recent discoveries concerning 

 tlie life history of Ascaris lumbri- 



coides. 



Journ. Parasitol., vol. 5, no. 



3, Mar., 1919, pp. 93-99. 



A detailed annotated discussion 



of the life history of Ascaris lum- 



hricoides. 



Rathbun, Mary J. Report on the 

 spider crabs obtained by the F. I, S. 

 " Endeavour " on the coasts of 

 Queensland, New Soutli Wales, Vic- 

 toria, South Australia, and Tas- 

 mania. 



Commonwealth of Australia, 

 Dept. of Trade and Cus- 

 toms, Fisheries, Biological 

 Results of the Fishing Ex- 

 periments carried on hy 

 the F. I. 8. " Endeavour " 

 1909-191Ji, vol 5, pt. 1, Nov. 

 6, 1918, pp. 1-29, pis. 

 1-15, text flgs. 1-3. 

 The spider crabs number 27 

 species, 9 of which are new, one of 

 these represents a now genus 

 Ephippias. 



The second set of specimens has 

 been presented to the U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum ; the types and ad- 

 ditional material are in the Aus- 

 tralian Museum, Sydney. 



Decapod crustaceans from the 



Panama region. 



Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 103, Jan. 8, 1919, pp. 

 123-184, pis. 54-66. 

 Embraces 61 species for the 

 Panama region, including Costa 

 Rica, all but 3 of which are found- 

 ed on material examined by the 

 writer ; it ranges from the Oligo- 

 cene to the Pleistocene. Thirty- 

 nine species are described as new, 

 3 are types of new genera, Calap- 

 pella, MursiUa, and Oatunia, the 

 last being the basis of a new 

 family, Qatuniidae. 



In the list of stations and the 

 table of distribution the data re- 

 lating to Cirripedia from Dr. H. A. 

 Pilsbry's report, also in Bulletin 

 103, are included for convenience 

 of reference. 

 Three new South American 



river crabs. 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 

 vol. 32, Feb. 14, 1919, pp. 

 5. 6. 

 These crabs were obtained for 

 the IT. S. National Museum 

 through the activities of the Uni- 

 versity of Michigan. 



