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Australia, South America, and other countries were also received from 

 diti'erent sources. 



Reptiles from southern Florida were contributed by Mr. E. J. 

 Brown, of Lemon City, and a tine series of salamanders was presented 

 by Messrs. Brimley Brothers, of Raleigh, North Carolina. From 

 Prof. P. Biolley, of the National Museum of San Jose, Costa Rica, 

 there were obtained several ver}' interesting- specimens, including a 

 new gecko, described by Doctor Stejneger as Sphsei'odactylus pacijicns. 

 Eighteen snakes from the island of Cj^prus were purchased from 

 Giacomo Cecconi, of Florence, Italy, and 29 snakes from Jamaica and 

 Michigan were donated by Prof. H. L. Clark, of Olivet College, 

 Michigan, 



The accessions to the collection of fishes were numerous and impor- 

 tant. Dr. O. P. Jenkins, of Leland Stanford Junior University, 

 donated 42 types of Hawaiian fishes, constituting a second installment 

 of a series of types the first of which were transmitted in 1901. A 

 valuable collection of types and cotj'pes of Japanese fishes was received 

 from Dr. David S. Jordan, president of the same univ^ersity. A large 

 salmon, weighing about 50 pounds, taken at Cascapedia, Canada, was 

 presented by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, of Philadelphia. A deep-sea 

 pelican fish, captured at a depth of between 2,000 and 3,000 fathoms, 

 during the survey for the Pacific cable, was transmitted by the officers 

 of the U. S. S. Av^/'o, and a large conger eel was received from Mr. 

 Louis Mowbray, of Bermuda, through the New York Aquarium. 



Besides the mollusks obtained by the Fish Commission expedition to 

 the Hawaiian Islands, a number of well-preserved land shells from the 

 same region were donated by Mr. W. H. Henshaw, of Hilo, Hawaii. 

 Interesting collections of shells were also received from Rev. Henry 

 Loomis, Yokohama, Japan; Mr. F. A. Woodworth, San Francisco, 

 California; Mrs. T. S. 01dro3"d, Burnett, California, and the Imperial 

 Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. A specimen of the rare Valuta 

 inammiUa Sowerby, from Tasmania, and other valuable Australian 

 shells, were also added to the mollusk collection. 



Among the most important additions to the Entomological Division 

 were a collection of nearly 19,000 specimens of gall wasps, parasites, 

 etc., from Canada, transmitted by the Department of Agriculture; a 

 series of Costa Rican insects of different orders purchased from Mr. 

 P. Schild, of New York City; about 2,000 specimens of Chilean insects 

 from Mr. E. C. Reed, Concepcion, Chile; 277 specimens of African 

 Lepidoptera received in exchange from the Royal Museum of Natural 

 History, Stockholm, Sweden, through Dr. Yngve Sjostedt, including 

 examples of several species described by Doctor Aurivellius; a collec- 

 tion of mites, including types and cotypes, from Prof. Robert VVol- 

 cott, of the Universitj^ of Nebraska; specimens of many orders and 

 comprising t^^Des and cotypes from Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, East 

 Las Vegas, New Mexico; about 7(>0 specimens of European Coleoptera 



