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curator, has given much attention to the Philippine land sliells, for 

 which a large number of illustrations have been prepared by photog- 

 raphy. He has completed, with the illustrations, the report on the 

 marine shells of South Africa, chiefly contributed by Lieut. Col. 

 W. H. Turton, retired, of the British Army, except certain bibli- 

 ographic additions which it is desirable to include. The collections 

 have been extensively used by Mr. John B. Henderson, of Washing- 

 ton, who is continuing his studies of east American and Antillean 

 mollusks. Miss Julia Gardner, of Johns Hopkins University, and 

 members of the Geological Survey have also utilized the collections 

 in connection with their studies of fossil shells. 



Marine invertebrates. — The principal accessions from the Bureau 

 of Fisheries were as follows: One hundred and sixty-two lots of as- 

 cidians, including the types of 8 new species, obtained on the Philip- 

 pine expedition of the steamer Albatross, 1907-1910, and worked up 

 by Dr. W. G. Van Name; large collections of plankton taken by the 

 schooner Grampus on the New England coast during the summers of 

 1912 and 1913, including schizopods identified by Dr. H. J. Hansen, 

 salpa3 identified by Mr. W. F. Clapp, and Medusae, amphipods, etc., 

 identified by Dr. H. B. Bigelow; 36 lots of Foraminifera (Xeno- 

 phyophora) dredged in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 1904-1905 by 

 the steamer Albatross under the direction of Alexander Agassiz and 

 reported on by Prof. F. E. Schulze ; a collection of leeches made dur- 

 ing the investigation of the Great Lakes in 1899, and studied by Dr. 

 J. Percy Moore; and many samples of plankton and specimens of 

 invertebrates collected in Lake Maxinlmckee, Ind., during several 

 years, under the supervision of Dr. B. W. Evermann. 



Mr. H. K. Harring, custodian of the rotatoria, contributed 103 

 microscopic slides representing almost as many species of rotifers, 

 from the District of Columbia and vicinity ; and Dr. Albert M. Reese, 

 of the University of West Virginia, obtained a large number of 

 invertebrates for the Museum during his trip to the Philippine 

 Islands. Forty species of invertebrates were received in exchange 

 from the University of the Philippines at Manila, and 16 species of 

 ascidians, identified by Dr. B. Hartmeyer, were secured in the same 

 manner from the Royal Zoological Museum in Berlin, Germany. 

 The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Fisheries 

 Branch), Dublin, Ireland, presented 16 species of deep-water echino- 

 derms from oil' the Irish coast. 



The routine work connected with the care, sorting, labeling, and 

 cataloguing of the extensive and varied material received was 

 promptly attended to and much time was spent in the preparation 

 and shipment of specimens for study elsewhere and for distribution 

 to educational establishments. The alcoholic and dried collections 

 of sponges and ophiurans, and the dried collections of asteroids. 



