26 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



Carew, of Eidgewood, New Jersey; a Catholic priest's cassock, do- 

 nated by the Rev. John F. Fenton, D. D., Brooldand, District of 

 Cohimbia, and a collection of 58 Chinese and Japanese rosaries, 

 d(>liosited by Miss E. R. Scidmore, of Washinffton. The rosaries of 

 Miss Scidmore are of various materials and makes, and some are 

 finely carved ; from the point of A'iew of the study of religious senti- 

 ments and practices, they are highly interesting, as they invite a 

 comparison of the form and use of the rosary in Brahmanism, 

 Buddhism, Catholicism, and ^lohammedanism. 



Biology. — One of the most noteworthy contributions to the depart- 

 ment of biology- was a collection made in the Philii)j)ine Islands by 

 Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. Army, consisting chieHy of mammals, 

 l)irds, reptiles, fishes, and mollusks, many of Avhich came from locali- 

 ties not heretofore explored by naturalists. 



The Bureau of Fisheries transmitted large and important collec- 

 tions of fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, crinoids, and other marine 

 invertebrates, and many specimens of birds, from the expedition of 

 the steamer Albatross to the northwestern Pacific Ocean in 11)0(), 

 during which the Okhotsk Sea, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander 

 Islands, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, and Japan were visited. 

 The same Bureau also transferred nearly 200 species of Japanese 

 fishes, including many new and rare forms, collected by Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith, Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries, in 1903; the alcyonarian 

 corals (with 3G types) and the hydroids (Avith 25 types) from the 

 Hawaiian exi^lorations of 1902, described by Prof. C. C. Xutting; 

 the medusae from the same source, reported on by Dr. A. G. JMayer ; 

 9 species of the m3^zostome parasite of crinoids f roiii Japan, described 

 by Dr J. F. McClendon ; specimens of the rare tunicate, Octacnemus^ 

 from the Albatross cruise of 1904-5 in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and 

 over 3,000 specimens of fishes obtained by Prof. "\V. P. Hay in several 

 streams in AVest Virginia. 



The ])rincij)al transfers from the Department of Agriculture were 

 as follows: From the Bureau of Entomology, about 5.000 miscel- 

 laneous insects from various localities and 2,500 Lepidoj)tei-a from 

 Mexico presented by Mr. R. Muller; from the Biological Survey. 200 

 reptiles from Lower California, collected by Mr. E. AV. Nelson and 

 Mr. E. A. Goldman, and 448 specimens of plants; from the Bureau ol" 

 Plant Industry, 3,663 specimens of plants. A number of animals, 

 mainly mammals and biids, were received from the National 

 Zoological Park, llie most important being a moose, llama, lirazilian 

 la])ii-, tliar. mark'hor. Bactrian camel, lion, nilghai, zebu, rhea, and 

 California coiuhjr. 



The principal accessions consisting wholly ol' mammals comprised 

 about 100 specimens, mostly bats, from Venezuela, Cuba, and Ja- 

 maica, presented by Capt. Wirt Robinson, U. S. Army; 29 sspecimens 



