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species was donated by Prof. Walter K. Fisher, Hopkins Marine 

 Station, Calif. A series of specimens were received from James 

 Cliumley, University of Glasgow, Scotland, and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, 

 Washington, D. C. Ten recent crinoids from the Bonin Islands and 

 southern Japan were obtained in exchange with the Zoological In- 

 stitution of the Upsala University, Sweden (through Dr. Torsten 

 Gislen), while a large series of Ophiura lacertosa was similarly 

 acquired from Dr. Victor van Straelen, University of Brussels, 

 Belgium. 



Plants. — The most important accessions to the National Her- 

 barium were as follows : 13,165 specimens transferred by the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture. These include 

 10,000 mounted grasses from various regions; 1,000 specimens of 

 plants collected in Panama by Dr. C. V. Piper; and about 2,300 

 plants collected in the western United States by W. W. Eggle- 

 ston; 5,413 specimens collected for the Museum by Dr. F. W. 

 Pennell and E. P. Killip in Colombia. This material comprises the 

 largest set of the collections made by Doctor Pennell and Mr. Killip 

 during the spring and summer of 1922 on behalf of the National 

 Museum, the Gray Herbarium, the New York Botanical Garden, 

 and The Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences; 1,340 speci- 

 mens, mostly from the West Indies and northern South America, 

 received in exchange from the New York Botanical Garden. In- 

 cluded are 521 specimens collected in British Guiana by Dr. H. A. 

 Gleason, in continuation of the plan of joint cooperative exploration 

 entered into several years ago by the New York Botanical Garden, 

 Gray Herbarium, and National Museum; 1,635 specimens of British 

 Guiana plants, obtained by purchase; 3,095 specimens received in 

 exchange from the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. This col- 

 lection includes a large number of plants from French Guiana, ob- 

 tained by early collectors, besides interesting series from south- 

 eastern Asia; 1,331 specimens received in exchange from the Field 

 Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 111. A large part of the send- 

 ing consists of the collections made in Peru and Panama by J. 

 Francis MacBride of that institution, part of which have been 

 identified by the staff of the National Herbarium; 1,668 specimens 

 of Salvadorean plants, presented by the Direccion General de Agri- 

 cultura of the Salvadorean government. The collection represents 

 the result of field work by Dr. Salvador Calderon, in continuation 

 of the exploration begun in 1921-22 by Mr. Standley; 1,300 speci- 

 mens of Bolivian plants, presented by Dr. Otto Buchtien of La Paz, 

 Bolivia; 1,851 s])ecimens received in exchange from Riksmuseet, 

 Stockholm, and consisting largely of European and Siberian mate- 



