Game-bird Collection is now completely rearranged. Every bottle 

 of reptile and amphibian specimens was examined during the year 

 by Assistant Marx to make sure that the liquid preservative was 

 adequate, and similar work was done for the fish collection by 

 Assistant Pearl Sonoda. Dr. G. Alan Solem, Assistant in the Division 

 of Lower Invertebrates, rechecked about 1,300 lots of landshells 

 of the Ferriss Collection. 



Curator Emeritus Gerhard completed the work of transferring 

 his Hemiptera-Homoptera collection into cabinets and began the 

 transfer and organization of the Hymenoptera collections (ants, 

 bees, wasps). Assistant August Ziemer completed pinning the 

 insects collected by the Philippine Zoological Expedition (1946-47), 

 but more than half of the specimens still must be labeled before 

 the insects will be available for study. A little less than half of 

 Ziemer's time was devoted to work on the collection of larger North 

 American moths. Research Associate Alex K. Wyatt spent six 

 weeks in collating and transferring Microlepidoptera into unit 

 trays, and Research Associate Charles H. Seevers transferred into 

 unit trays several thousand species of staphylinid beetles, including 

 about 2,000 species acquired in exchange with the British Museum 

 (Natural History) during last year. Harry Nelson, Assistant Pro- 

 fessor of Biology at Roosevelt University, was employed in the 

 Division of Insects during the summer months to begin the transfer 

 into trays of the recently acquired Knirsch-Brancsik collection of 

 beetles (see Annual Report 1955, page 64). 



Miss Phyllis Wade, Assistant in the Division of Vertebrate 

 Anatomy, carried on routine care of the collection and made illus- 

 trations for Curator Davis. Miss Sophie Andris, Osteologist, pre- 

 pared for study 1,380 skulls for the Division of Mammals and 150 

 skeletons for the Division of Vertebrate Anatomy. Miss Laura 

 Brodie, Assistant in the Department of Zoology, continued in charge 

 of zoology photograph-files, which included care and filing of material 

 and filling requests for animal pictures. 



Great assistance in routine tasks was given during the year by 

 our Antioch College students. With the help of Miss Janet Curl, 

 Miss Joan Davis, and Miss Anne Terborgh many thousands of in- 

 sect specimens were labeled, more than ten thousand unit-trays were 

 lined with cork and prepared for use, several thousand tray-labels 

 were typed, loan records and files were kept up to date, and recently 

 acquired books were shelved. In labeling specimens of lower 

 invertebrates and writing their catalogue numbers on them Miss 

 Anita Pope, Miss Carolyn Reusch, and Miss Terborgh helped, and 

 Miss Reusch also aided in checking the fish collections. 



65 



