28 liEPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, lUOl. 



collection of about 400 Australian fishes, comprising 119 species, 

 obtained in exchange from the Australian Department of Fisheries. 



The collection of mollusks was increased bv over IIKOOO sj^ecimens. 

 The dredgings of the Albatross in the nortlnvestern Pacific and adja- 

 cent waters constituted the principal source of supply, rich' in new 

 material, the Okhotsk Sea especially furnishing many interesting 

 novelties froui a region where t»iil little collecting had previously 

 been done. The next most conspicuous accession was an exchange 

 from the Senckenbergische Xaturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt 

 am Main. Germany, comprising some GOO species and many cotypes 

 of species described by the late Herr Mollendorf from the Philippines 

 and eastern Asia, all named and labeled with localities, forming a 

 most desirable addition from a region hitherto but poorly represented 

 in the ^Museum. Useful also in the same connection was the contribu- 

 tion of Dr. E. A. jSIearns, who sent a large collection of miscellaneous 

 shells from- the Philij^pines containing many specimens of interest. 

 Next should be mentioned the results of the explorations in the vicin- 

 ity of Wilmington, North Carolina, by Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the 

 jSIuseum statf. who secured a very large number of specimens of land 

 and fresh-water mollusks, comprising several novelties and a good 

 series of the rare ]V(i)iorh'/>i mdfin'ifc^ix. which was the special object 

 of the trip. 



The ^Museum is indebted to the energy and generosity of Prof. 

 H. Pittier, of the Department of Agriculture, who, during his 

 botanical researches in tropical xVmerica. found time to gather several 

 lots of exceptionally interesting land ^licll-. containing a number of 

 species new to the collections. Dr. Fdward Palmer, of the same 

 Department, and under similar conditions, increased the series of 

 Mexican species by acceptable additions. The ^luseum is also under 

 obligations to its old correspondent, the Eev. AV. A. Stanton, S. J., 

 for valuable material from British Honduras. 



The division of insects recei\(>d over 44.000 specimens, comprised 

 ill •'V.tCi accessions, some of the more imoortant of which were as 

 follows: Prof. P. \\. Uhler. of Baltimore, presented "iO.OOO speci- 

 mens of Heunptera, comprising ihe larger part of the celebrated 

 collection wiiicli he has been assembling for many years. ]\li. \\\\- 

 liam Schaus donated 8,000 specimens of Lei)ido|)tei a. constituting 

 the result of his collecting in jSIexico and Cential America during 

 the jjast year, and in continuation of his large gift of a year ago. 

 The Department of Agriculture transmitted about 5,000 specimens of 

 difl'erent groups obtained during field work by nuMnbers of the 

 Bureau of Entomology. Through the same source, !Mr. R. Muller, 

 of the City of Mexico, presented over 2,000 Lepidoptera from Mexico, 

 of which the species were determined and the names supplied to 

 him. Other donations worthy of mention Mere 500 Coleoptera from 



