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different parts of the country. The most important contribution was 

 SjKirgamim froliferum^ a parasite of man, sent by Dr. H. Gates, of 

 Manatee, Horida. The Bureau of Animal Industry supplied a large 

 variety of j^arasites from different parts of the United States, the 

 island j^ossessions, India, China, Anam, Canada, Mexico, and Pana- 

 ma. Many specimens were also obtained at autopsies of animals 

 which had died at the National Zoological Park. 



Of investigations bearing more or less directly on the collections 

 in the Museum, it may be said that the studies by Doctor Stiles have 

 related chiefly to the question of child labor in the South as influenced 

 by the presence of the hookworm disease. He described the ^'par- 

 ganum proUferum, above mentioned, and reexamined the original 

 specimens of Filaria restiformis Leidy (1880), which he finds not to 

 belong to the genus Filaria but to be a member of the family Mer- 

 mithida\ -In conjunction with Dr. Joseph Goldberger, he published 

 on two new species of trematodes, Homalogaster pJiiJipphiensis 

 from the Philij^pine Islands, and Agamodistom.um nainus from Africa, 

 and on a reexamination of the original specimen of Tcenia saginata 

 ahietina. These two authors have also completed a manuscript on a 

 number of trematodes of the family Paramphistomidse. Doctor 

 Ransom continued researches on the nematodes parasitic in ruminants, 

 and, on the basis of Museum material, described the following new 

 species: Trichostrongylus capricola^ Ostertagia trifurcata^ 0. mnr- 

 shalli, 0. occidentalism and Gooperia pectinata, all from America. 

 The genera Ostertagia and Gooperia are also new. A new species of 

 tape worm, Gettotcmia mosaica, from rabbits in California, was de- 

 scribed by Mr. M. C. Hall, of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



Gomparative anatomy. — Several thousand entries of skeletons in 

 the mammal record books were incorporated in the osteological cata- 

 logue. A complete card catalogue of the skulls and skeletons of 

 turtles was made, and this collection was relabeled and arranged in 

 pasteboard boxes. It became necessary to remove the material which 

 had been stored behind the wall cases in the south hall, in order to 

 permit of fireproofing. A large series of rough skeletons stored in 

 one of the outside buildings, including large numbers of the bones 

 of East Indian mammals and birds presented by Doctor Abbott, was 

 listed, transferred to specially made metal boxes, and placed in the 

 Museum building for greater Safety. The three large skeletons of 

 Baird's beaked whale in the possession of the Museum were brought 

 together and measured, and one selected to mount for the exhibition 

 series, as elsewhere described. 



Plants. — The total number of plants received during the year was 

 about 25,000. The adtlitions from the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture comprised 2,458 specimens from the Bureau of Plant Indus- 

 try, 919 from the Forest Service, 247 from the Biological Survey, 



