British Museum (Natural History) in London, the Institut Royal 

 des Sciences Naturelles in Brussels, and the Museum National 

 d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Field Associate Hoogstraal gave a 

 collection of 400 reptiles and amphibians from the Near East. 



The United States Fish and Wildlife Service in Pascagoula, 

 Mississippi, continued to send interesting and valuable collections 

 of fishes. Seven paratypes of Gambusia heterochir were given by 

 the University of Texas through kindness of Dr. Clark Hubbs. The 

 more important gifts of insects are a general collection of beetles, 

 containing 12,285 specimens, from Dr. Orlando Park, of Evanston, 

 Illinois; types of 8 new species of cave carabid-beetles from Dr. 

 Carl Krekeler, of Valparaiso, Indiana; 466 beetles of western United 

 States and Mexico from Dr. Richard B. Selander, of Urbana, 

 Illinois; 503 insects of Tennessee from Bernard Benesh, of Burrville, 

 Tennessee; and 1,036 insects and a reprint library of 2,300 papers 

 on the true bugs from William J. Gerhard, Curator Emeritus of 

 Insects. Among notable accessions of lower invertebrates are a 

 collection of more than 500 lots of Canadian inland mollusks given 

 by the Museum of Zoology of the University of Michigan through 

 kindness of Dr. Henry van der Schalie; a large collection of about 

 8,000 lots of world-wide shells gathered by the late Edwin E. Hand 

 of Chicago and presented by his daughter Miss La Verne Hand, 

 now of Grants Pass, Oregon; and a specimen of the gigantic deep- 

 sea sowbug so rarely seen in museum collections, which was received 

 in exchange from the United States National Museum. 



Care of the Collections— Zoology 



Availability is one of the keynotes in our filing of specimens. In 

 the systematic arrangement that we use, the ideal is to be able to 

 put our hands on any specimen with as little trouble as possible. 

 But as the collections grow, certain sections become crowded and, 

 because of size of specimens or because of their numbers, some are 

 housed temporarily out of place. Continual adjustments are made. 

 With volunteer help of George Brien, Tom Mclntyre, and Wayne 

 Shadburne the marsupials were moved and consolidated to make 

 more space available for African primates. Tanner Dominick Villa, 

 in addition to routine preparation of skins, renovated a number of 

 old stored-specimens, including some rare insectivores, and made 

 them available for use. The major redistribution of the bird col- 

 lection, begun last year, was continued with the help of two summer 

 assistants, Albert Gilbert and Ralph Eiseman, and the Conover 



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