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other countries, assembled by Mr. Claas Denekas, has been loaned to 
the Museum by Miss Gesine Denekas, of Brightwood, D. C. 
Mention may here be made of the marble bust of the late Walter 
Reed, major and surgeon, U. S. Army, an exquisite example of the 
sculptor’s art, executed by Mr. Hans Schuler, of Baltimore, for the 
Walter Reed Memorial Association, which, through the courtesy of 
the association, now occupies a prominent place in the main hall. 
Although only 51 years of age at the time of his death in 1902, Major 
Reed had attained rank among the most distinguished benefactors of 
humanity by his intelligent and conclusive experiments on the trans- 
mission of yellow fever, resulting in the establishment of effective 
means for checking and even eradicating this most dread disease of 
the American tropics. Scarcely less noteworthy in character and thor- 
oughness were his previous investigations upon the subject of typhoid 
fever 
Biology.—The largest biological accession of the year, and one of 
the largest donations the department has ever received, was the collec- 
tion of 75,000 American Lepidoptera, presented by Mr. William 
Schaus, as elsewhere described. _ 
The Museum has also continued to be indebted to Dr. W. L. Abbott, 
one of its associates, who sent three large zoological collections from 
the East Indies, comprising about 2,600 specimens, of which about 
1,700 were vertebrates. They represent investigations by Doctor 
Abbott on the west coast of Sumatra and the adjacent islands of 
Engano and Nias; on the coast and islands of eastern Sumatra, and in 
West Borneo. The Engano and Nias collection consists of 442 mam- 
mals, 363 birds, 77 reptiles, and 850 butterflies; the eastern Sumatra 
collection, of 352 mammals and 95 birds; and the West Borneo collec- 
tion of 296 mammals and 70 birds. There was also received from 
Doctor Abbott and Mr. C. B. Kloss jointly a series of 98 mammal 
skins from the Rhio Archipelago. None of these collections have yet 
been fully worked up, but many new species have already been dis- 
covered, and the contribution as a whole is of exceeding interest and 
value. 
The U.S. Bureau of Fisheries transmitted an exceptionally large 
number of important collections of fishes and marine invertebrates. 
Among the former were many type specimens of new species from 
the Hawaiian and Philippine islands, Japan, and the northwest coast 
of America. Of the latter, which were comprised in about 3,000 
packages, there were, besides much unidentified material, twelve 
important collections which had been studied by specialists, consist- 
ing of about 1,000 lots of specimens and 143 types of new species, 
belonging to the following groups: Barnacles, schizopod crustaceans, 
and annelids from Hawaii; isopod crustaceans, echinoderms, and 
corals from Porto Rico; annelids from Alaska, Japan, and the Great 
