Oct. i8g8. Annual Rkport of the Director. 305 



KENKEL, LOUIS, 140 Fifty-fourth street, Chicago, 

 g salamanders. 

 I shrew. 

 I mouse. 



3 frogs. 

 LAWRENCE, W. J., Chicago. 



4 carpet shells. Tapes staminea. 



MEARNS, E. A., United States Army, Fort Clark, Kinney Co., Texas. 

 17 species of land and fresh-water shells. 



MEEK, HIRAM, Hicksville, Ohio. 

 I woodchuck skin. 



1 chipmunk skin. 

 3 red squirrels. 



2 fox squirrels. 

 I minkskin. 



MEEK. S. E., Field Columbian Museum. 



I hellbender, Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis. 



MITCHELL, LUCIAN, Greenway, Ark. 

 I mole, 7 bats — Greenway, Ark. 



NORRIS, PHILLIP, Field Columbian Museum. 

 I turtle — Chicago. 



OGDEN, DR. H. V., Milwaukee, Wis. 



12 species of small fresh water fish (for examination). 

 27 small mammal skins (for examination). 



ROLFS, PROF. P. H., Lake City, Fla. 

 I alligator for skeleton. 



STERT, A., 5649 Cottage Grove avenue, Chicago. 

 I ground squirrel-^— Uoalde County, Texas. 



THOMPSON, A. J., Field Columbian Museum. 



3 fishes (2 species). 



UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, Washington, D. C. 

 I fish, Cyprinodon mydrus — Key West. 

 I fish, Cyprinodon bovinus — Chihuahua, Mex. 

 I fish, Cyprinodon riverendi — Cuba. 



ZOOLOGICAL MUSEUM, OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, Columbus, Ohio. 

 7 fishes, Etheostoma variatum — Ohio (exchange). 

 3 fishes, Etheostoma camurum— Ohio (exchange). 

 I fish, Leuciscus elongatus — Ohio (exchange). 



THE LIBRARY. 



(accessions are by exchange unless otherwise DESIGNATED.) 



Books, Pamphlets and Serials. 



ACHELIS, TH., Bremen, Germany. 



Archiv fur religionswissenschaft, vol. i, no. i. 

 Friedrich Ratzel. 



ALABAMA INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY, University, Ala. 

 Proceedings, vol. 7, pt. 2. 



AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, Boston, Mass. 



Proceedings, current nos. 

 AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, Worcester, Mass. 



Proceedings, vol. 11, pt. 3, and vol. 12. 

 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADV. OF SCI., Boston, Mass. 



Preliminary announcement of th% Boston meeting, 1898. 



Proceedings, 46th meeting, 1897. 



