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echinoids, alcyonarians, and liydroids were overhauled, the nomen- 

 clature revised, fresh labels put on the outside of jars and boxes, 

 and a systematic arrangement made. At the same time the card 

 catalogae of these groups Avas brought up to date. Miss Eathbun 

 also cooperated with Dr. Bartsch in the preparation and arrange- 

 ment of the marine faunal exhibits, in which good progress was 

 made. 



The helminthological collection, which had been retained in the 

 Smithsonian building, was moved in the spring to the new building, 

 where the alcoholic spechuens have been arranged in two cases in 

 the stack room and the microscopic slides in the adjacent corridor. 

 Better accommodations for the latter and laboratory facilities for 

 this section are intended to be provided. The collection of onycho- 

 phores was transferred to this division from the division of insects. 

 It now contains representatives of four genera and seven species, 

 including the type of a new subspecies. The four microscopic slide 

 cases in the division have been almost entirely filled with Foramini- 

 fera mainly of the mountings of North Pacific specimens by Dr. Jo- 

 seph A. Cushman, who has been making rapid progress in this work. 

 The other microscopic slides are now provisionally arranged in a 

 large unit case, awaiting better accommodations for their storage. 



Miss Mary J. Eathbun, assistant curator, completed a report on 

 the decapod and stomatopod crustaceans collected at the Monte 

 Bello Islands, off the northwest coast of Australia, by Mr. P. D. 

 Montague, of Cambridge, England, which is being published in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. She also worked 

 up the crabs of the families Goneplacida? and Gecarcinidee from 

 the expedition of the Fisheries steamer Albatross to the Philippine 

 Islands in 1907-1910, and in a preliminary paper, printed in the 

 Proceedings of the Museum, the new species of the former family 

 were described. All of the unidentified specimens of these families 

 in the possession of the Museum were likewise named at the same 

 time, and the family Inachidae is now receiving attention. 



Mr. Austin H. Clark, assistant curator, prepared a number of 

 papers of greater or less size, as follows: A monograph of the 

 crinoids of the Antarctic regions, to be included in the reports of 

 the German South-Polar Expedition; a monograph of the crinoids 

 of China and Japan, based on the collections of Prof. Dr. Franz 

 Doflein, of Freiburg, which will probably be published by the 

 Bavarian Academy of Sciences; a report on the crinoids collected 

 by the Australian marine surveying ship Endeavour off southwest- 

 ern Australia, to be published by the Western Australian Museum 

 at Perth; and a detailed account of the crinoids of the British 

 Museum. Mr. Clark was also the author of several shorter papers 

 describing small crinoid collections or revising restricted crinoid 



