REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



133 



Clark, Austin Hobakt — Continued. 



Psathyrometra and Trichometra ; 

 In the PentacrinitidiB, one of Hy- 

 pulocrinus, and in the Bourgue- 

 ticrinid:p, two of Bathycrinus. 



Part of the material is in the 

 U. S. National Museum. 



Clark, Hxjbert Lyman. (See under 

 Alexander Agassiz.) 



Edwards, Charles Lincoln. Varia- 

 tion, development, and growth in 

 " Holothuria floridana ", Pourtales, 

 and in " Holothuria atra '", Jiiger. 



Biometrika, vi, Xos. 2 and 

 3, Sept., 1908 (published 

 July, 1908), pp. 2.36-.301, 

 pis. i-y. figs. B-K. 

 The introduction gives a his- 

 tory of the subject and the au- 



Edwards, Charles Lincoln — Cont'd, 

 thor's methods of study. Under 

 each of the 2 species discussed, 

 are given statistics concerning the 

 form and size of body, develop- 

 ment and growth, color, tentacles 

 and ampullae, pedicels and papillae, 

 thickness of body wall, calcareous 

 spicules and ring, Polian vesicles, 

 etc. 



Biometry as a method in tax- 

 onomy. 



Am. Naturalist, xlii^ Xo. 

 500, Aug., 1908, pp. 5.37- 

 540. 

 Demonstrates the value of biom- 

 etry as a method in taxonomy and 

 illustrates by means of the holo- 

 thurians, Holothuria floridana and 

 H. atra. 



WORMS. CCELENTERATES, ETC. 



Annandale, Nelson. Fresh - water 

 sponges in the collection of the 

 United States National Museum. 

 Part. I. Specimens from the Philip- 

 pines and Australia. 



Proc. U. 8. Xat. Mus., 

 sxxvi. No. 1690, June 19. 

 1909, pp. 627-632, figs. 

 1^. 



Describes 3 species, of which 2, 

 ■collected in the Philippine Islands, 

 are new. 



BiGELOw, Henry B. Reports ou the 

 scientific results of the expedition to 

 the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge 

 of Alexander Agassiz, by the JJ. S. 

 Fish Commission steamer Albatross, 

 from October, 1904, to March. 190.5. 

 Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, 

 U. S. N., commanding, xvi. The 

 Medusfe. 



Memoirs Mus. Camp. Zooh, 

 xxxvii, Feb., 1909, pp. 

 1-243, pis. 1-48. 



Records 72 species (17 new) in- 

 cluding excellent examples of sev- 

 eral little-known genera. De- 

 scribes a series of stages in the 

 development of Pegantha smarac/- 

 dina, and demonstrates the oc- 

 currence of internal budding in 

 Cunina and Pegantha. Of the 

 plates, 3 are charts showing the 

 route of the Albatross and the dis- 

 tribution of the species. 



CusHMAN, Joseph A. Ammodiscoides, 

 a new genus of arenaceous foramini- 

 fera. 



Proc. U. S. yat. Mus., 

 xsxvi. No. 1676, May 

 13, 1909, pp. 423, 424, 

 pi. 33. 

 Described from specimens from 

 the Gulf of Mexico, 1.181 fathoms 

 collected by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission steamer Albatross and 

 referred by Dr. Goes to Atnmo- 

 disciis inccrtus d'Orbigny. 



Hall, Maurice C. A new rabbit ces- 

 tode, Cittotaenia mosaica. 



Proc. U. 8. Xat. Mus., 



XXXIV, No. 1629, Sept. 



15, 1908, pp. 691-699, 



figs. 1-6. 



A full description of the species 



which has been found parasitic in 



Sylvilague pinetis in Colorado. 



Nutting, Charles C. Descriptions of 

 the Alcyonaria collected by the U. S. 

 Bureau of Fisheries steamer Alba- 

 tross in the vicinity of the Ha- 

 waiian Islands in 1902. 



Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 

 XXXIV, No. 1624, Sept. 

 12, 1908, pp. 543-601, 



pis. XLI-LI. 



A systematic synopsis of Ha- 

 waiian Alcyonaria, a table show- 

 ing their geographical and bathy- 

 metrieal distribution, and a record 

 of the dredging stations at which 

 Alcyonaria were obtained, precede 

 the discussion of species. Of the 

 68 species, 39 are new. 



