Director's Report for i()i". 9 



carefully packed to the steel trays in the steel cases provided for 

 their safe storage. This has been done with care and the collec- 

 tion was found generally in good order. Labels designating family, 

 genus and species were printed and placed upon cases and trays, 

 and the specimens were arranged in the cases, sy.stematically in 

 regard to the Hawaiian portion, and the balance of the collection 

 geographicalh-. This work has taken part of the last two years, 

 and r have been assisted by Messrs. H. Leon Ebersole, Woods 

 Peters, in their vacation time, and by my Secretary' Richard Ern- 

 est Lambert, until the catalogue is complete, so far as there is room 

 in the cases, and each species can readily be found. Before under- 

 taking the task, I did not imagine that the Museum presented so 

 many species not only indigenous to these islands, but also from 

 the other groups of the Pacific and the coast of California, and 

 Australia and the East Indies. They are in such excellent cases, 

 that with occasional airing the specimens should last man}- years, 

 even if the Museum has no regular curator of ornithology. 



Pultnonata. — The Curator of Pulmonata, Dr. C. Montague 

 Cooke, reports: 



"In the year 191 7 your Curator can report that more work 

 has been accomplished than in an}- previous 5'ear. Practically all 

 the material that has come in during the >ear has been catalogued 

 except the specimens collected on Molokai during the early part of 

 December. In addition numerous odd lots of shells were cata- 

 logued, some of which had been acquired b}- collection or gift as 

 fBr back as 19 13. There still remain six different collections wait- 

 ing to be catalogued (estimated between 50,000 and 75,000), made 

 up for the most part of the genus Acliatinella. As these shells 

 ought to be numbered individually, your Curator does not feel like 

 undertaking the work at present as the amount of time necessary 

 to do this can be more advantageously employed. 



"Collection. — The type and cotype material belonging to the 

 genus Auriculella has been catalogued and arranged in the collec- 

 tion. Also the entire collection of this genus, made before 1905, 

 was entered into the catalogue. This contained more than 14,000 



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