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been allotted space in the division of raollusks and have consulted the 

 collections of recent mollusks in connection with their work, as fol- 

 lows : Dr. C. Wythe Cooke, in intervals between field details, work- 

 ing on the Eocene and Oligocene faunas; Dr. W. P. Woodring, also 

 incidental to the time spent in the field, studying the West Indian 

 Tertiary fossil mollusks; Dr. Julia A. Gardner, a constant worker, 

 studying the Oligocene faunas ; Dr. W. C. Mansfield, likewise a con- 

 stant worker, preparing reports on fossils from Suva and the Fiji 

 Islands, the Miocene stratigraphy, etc.; Dr. William E. Clapp of 

 Cambridge, Mass., spent two days consulting the shipworm collec- 

 tion. This collection was likewise studied by Prof. Thurlow C. Nel- 

 son, Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., and Frank Potts of 

 Cambridge University, England; Dr. W. S. Barbeau of Mauritius 

 spent a day studying the mollusks which serve as intermediate hosts 

 of human and animal parasites; R. Z. Fahs of Los Angeles, Calif., 

 spent a day with the general mollusk collection ; Mrs. H. K. Marshall 

 of Carville, La., spent three days studying shells from the Fiji 

 Islands; William C. Metcalfe of New York City spent three days 

 reviewing the Cypraeidae; Mrs. T. S. Oldroyd, curator of mollusks 

 at Stanford University, Calif., spent about a month with the West 

 American mollusk collections, gathering up literature and figures 

 of such material as is not contained in the collection at Stanford; 

 Dr. J. Strohl of the University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, 

 worked one day in connection with his studies on bacteria found in 

 certain land mollusks; Dr. Carlos de la Torre, President of the 

 University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, worked with Mr. Henderson 

 for two days on the West Indian mollusk collection; Mr. and Mrs. 

 Walter F. Webb of Rochester, N. Y., worked with Doctor Bartsch 

 for two days on the Philippine collections; Miss Mary Quick, a 

 student at George Washington University, devoted six hours a week 

 for the entire school year to comparative anatomic studies of the mol- 

 lusks of the genus GeHon; J. Edward Hoffmeister, a graduate 

 student in geology at Johns Hopkins University, completed a de- 

 tailed study of about 85 species of living corals from Pago Pago 

 Harbor, Samoa. This work will be published by the Carnegie In- 

 stitution of Washington; L. A. Faustino, Assistant Director of the 

 Bureau of Mines of the Philippine Islands, spent nearly a year with 

 the collections of Philippine corals. Among professional botanists 

 from outside of Washington who have visited the National Her- 

 barium are : Dr. B. L. Robinson, curator of the Gray Herbarium, who 

 was engaged in examination of the National Museum representation 

 of the group Eupatorieae, of which he is preparing a monographic 

 treatment; Dr. J. H. Barnhart, of the New York Botanical Garden, 

 in connection with his studies of the Bladderwort Family (Lentibu- 



