Curator Karl P. Schmidt continued work on fossil turtles, and on 

 various faunal papers begun during past years. 



In the Division of Fishes, Assistant Curator Loren P. Woods 

 brought his manuscript on fishes collected by the Leon Mandel 

 Galapagos Expedition nearly to completion before being called to 

 accept a commission in the Navy. Mrs. Marion Grey, a volunteer 

 assistant, has worked steadily on a report on the fishes of the earlier 



Fig. 15. Unpainted plaster model of a bottle-nosed porpoise, one of a series in 

 preparation to represent the porpoises and whales of the world in the Museum's 

 projected Hall of Whales. 



Mandel Caribbean Expedition. A paper by another volunteer, Mr. 

 Robert Haas, now in the Army, appeared in Copeia (1943, p. 160) 

 under the title "A List of the Fishes of McHenry County, Illinois." 



In the Division of Insects, research on the very curious insect 

 parasites of bats known as bat-flies was continued by Mr. Henry S. 

 Dybas. He was engaged also in studies on a family of minute beetles, 

 the Ptiliidae, found in polyporous fungi. The facilities of the 

 Museum were again made available to local specialists, and studies 

 on mordellid beetles and on conopid flies were made by Messrs. 

 Eugene Ray and Sidney Camras respectively. Dr. Charles H. 

 Seevers, Research Associate in Insects, was extremely helpful in 

 arranging the collections of rove beetles (Staphylinidae) received 

 with the Psota Collection, and has pursued various studies on beetles, 

 in part under Museum auspices. 



