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Other valuable gifts included the personal collection of Associate 

 Curator Charles E. Cutress, consisting of 1,056 coelenterates and other 

 invertebrates from the Hawaiian and Marshall Islands, New Zealand, 

 Oregon, and Florida ; 2,326 miscellaneous marine invertebrates from 

 the University of California, through Dr. Theodore H. Bullock ; 75 

 porcellanid crabs from the Institut Frangais d'Afrique Noire, Dakar, 

 through Dr. Theodore Monod ; 300 isopods of the genus Limnoria from 

 Dr. Robert J. Menzies, Lamont Geological Observatory, Palisades, 

 N. Y., and 96 specimens of the nearly extinct shrimp Barbouria 

 cubensis (von Martens) from Dr. Miguel L. Jaume, Museo y Biblioteca 

 de Zoologia de la Habana, Cuba. As an exchange, 37 copepods from 

 the Indian Ocean were received from the Zoological Survey of India, 

 Calcutta. Two comprehensive collections received as transfers — one 

 from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, comprising 1,269 crustaceans 

 and other invertebrates from survey vessel collections in the Gulf of 

 Mexico and off the southeastern United States, the other from the 

 U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office — brought to the national collections 

 plankton samples and other invertebrates amounting to more than 

 10,000 specimens from the Antarctic. 



The division of mollusks was fortunate in receiving considerable 

 material from regions poorly represented in its collections. An ex- 

 change from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum yielded 531 specimens 

 from the Bonin Islands; 600 marine mollusks from Kuwait at the 

 head of the Persian Gulf were sent in by Harrison M. Symmes; 

 and 447 land and marine mollusks from Libya were collected 

 for the Museum by Dr. Henry W. Setzer. Fine series of North 

 American shells were received: 4,150 specimens from Arkansas in- 

 cluding some paratypes from Henry E. Wheeler; 262 miscellaneous 

 mollusks, including 4 holotypes of the new species of the genus 

 Conus, donated by Dr. Jeanne S. Schwengel. For the helmintholog- 

 ical collections Dr. Edwin J. Robinson, Jr., contributed the types of 

 two new species of trematodes, and Prof. Helen I. Ward sent in the 

 holotype of a new acanthocephalan. A specimen of the rare deep- 

 water coral Pocillopora modumanensis Vaughan was donated to the 

 coral section by the Bernice P. Bishop Museum. 



Botany. — Notable gifts to the National Herbarium were 1,298 speci- 

 mens of Brazilian plants, many from remote areas, contributed by 

 the Institute Agronomico do Norte, Belem, Brazil; and 823 grasses 

 given by the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, University College of 

 Wales, as voucher material of cytogenetic studies of Lolium and 

 Festuca. A fine collection consisting of 420 slides and 56 photomicro- 

 graphs of fossil diatoms from the Summulong Shale of the Philippine 

 Islands was presented by Col. William D. Fleming. This accession 

 was assembled by the late James Smith, of Pasadena, Calif., and will 



