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received as a transfer from the U. S. Department of Health, Educa- 

 tion, and Welfare. 



Two notable gifts greatly enhanced the collection of polychaete 

 worms maintained by the division of marine invertebrates; 3,645 

 specimens, mostly from New England, including 3 holotypes and 3 

 paratypes, from Dr. Marian Pettibone, University of New Hampshire, 

 and more than 200 identified specimens from the Gold Coast, Africa, 

 received from the Rijksmusemn van Natuurlijke Historic, Leiden, 

 through Dr. L. B. Holthuis. Twelve lots of octocorals were received 

 from His Imperial Majesty's collections, laboratory of the Imperial 

 Household, Tokj'^o, Japan. Other noteworthy gifts to the collections 

 were 7 remarkable fossil sea-pens presented by H. G. Kugler, Pointe- 

 d-Pierre, Trinidad, and 3 large balanoglossid worms from Grand Isle, 

 La., given by Dr. Harry J. Bemiett, Louisiana State University. 

 Three exchanges from Dr. Alejandro Villalobos F., Universidad 

 Nacional A. de Mexico, netted 54 isopod and decapod crustaceans, of 

 which 34 were paratype specimens. Among the transfers was one 

 from the Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Department of the Interior, 

 which included more than 1,019 crustaceans and other invertebrates 

 collected in the Gulf of Mexico by the exploratory fishing vessel 

 Oregon under the direction of Stewart Springer. 



The division of molliisks received types of seven new species of 

 nudibranch mollusks described and presented by J. M. Ostergaard. 

 Thirty-four specimens of gastropods from the Gulf of Mexico, includ- 

 ing the types of three new species, were donated by Daniel Steger. 

 As in the past, Jeanne S. Schwengel gave many fine specimens to the 

 Museum, including a specimen of the rare cowrie, Cypraea armeniaca, 

 from South Australia. Of the years five accessions of helminths two 

 are worthy of special mention because they brought types of two new 

 si^ecies, On^hocotyle 807nniosi, a trematode, described by the donor. 

 Dr. David Causey, and Oigantohilharzia huttoni presented by the 

 author, Dr. W. Henry Leigh. 



The most important accession of corals comprises 400 specimens 

 from the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland, Australia, collected and 

 donated by Dr. John W. Wells, Cornell University. 



Botany. — Two significant collections were obtained for the Museum 

 by stajff members: 2,850 specimens, largely grasses, in the states of 

 San Luis Potosi and Chiapas, Mexico, collected by Dr. Ernest E. 

 Sohns, and 3,445 specimens from Big Pine Key, Fla., and Isle of 

 Pines, Cuba, obtained by E. P. Killip, research associate. 



Among the numerous collections received as gifts, with names re- 

 quested, one is especially noteworthy, 588 plants from the Herbario 

 "Barbosa Rodrigues," Itajai, Santa Catarina, Brazil. The Ohio State 

 University presented 4,084 plants of Guatemala collected by W. A. 



