44 REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1909. 



southern New England to assist him in his work on the bryozoans of 

 eastern North America. Additional specimens of barnacles were sent 

 to Doctor Pilsbry; of parasitic copepods to Dr. C. B. Wilson; and 

 of ophiurans to Dr. H. L. Clark. 



Reference was made in the report for 1907 to the arrangements 

 made Avith Dr. J. A. Cushman, of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, to sort out, identify, and prepare sets of the foraminifera of 

 the North Pacific Ocean from the large collections of the Museum, 

 mainly secured by the Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, and to 

 j)repare a monograph on the group. This work has progressed 

 steadily during the last two years, a large number of microscopic 

 slides and illustrations has been prepared, and the manuscript is re- 

 ported to be well advanced. The material furnished to Doctor Cush- 

 man last year comi^rised samples of ocean bottom obtained by the 

 steamer Albatross in 1906, the U. S. steamers Nero and Alert ^ and a 

 few others. 



The several groups of marine invertebrates collected by Mr. Owen 

 Bryant, of Cohasset, Massachusetts, during a cruise to Labrador, were 

 sent to the following zoologists who have kindly ottered to identify 

 the species and describe such as are new : Dr. W. R. Coe, Dr. J. Percy 

 Moore, Dr. J. H. Gerould, Dr. L. J. Cole, Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, Mr. 

 R. W. Sharpe, Dr. R. C. Osburn, Dr. W. A. Herdman, Dr.^ J. P. 

 McMurrich, Prof. C. C. Nutting, and Dr. R. W. Miner. Similarly, 

 the sponges and crustaceans of Peru presented by Dr. R. E. Coker on 

 behalf of the Peruvian Government were submitted to Dr. H. V. 

 Wilson, Dr. N. Annandale, Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, Dr. A. O. Walker, and 

 Miss A. L. Weckel. 



Comparative anatomy. — A complete card catalogue of the collec- 

 tion of cetaceans was prepared. In the latter part of the jear all the 

 skeletons and other material belonging to the division were removed 

 from the rented storage buildings, the majority being transferred to 

 the new Museum building in packing boxes and the remainder to the 

 taxidermists' shed south of the Smithsonian building. A card cata- 

 logue of the latter, covering the contents of over 60 packing boxes, was 

 made for reference. The cleaned skeletons were brought to the pres- 

 ent Museum building, numbered, labeled, and put in cases. At pres- 

 ent this division is not manned, the work being carried on personally 

 by the head curator with the aid of preparators and others. 



Plants. — The largest accessions to the National Herbarium were ob- 

 tained by exchange, and include 3,000 plants, chiefly New Mexican, 

 from the Agricultural College of New Mexico ; 1,427 plants, mainly 

 rare cacti and herbarium specimens from the West Indies, from the 

 New York Botanical Garden ; 579 plants from the Bureau of Science, 

 Manila, including duplicates of many ncAV species; and 248 examples, 

 mostly ferns, from the British Museum. Of purchases, the most 



