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Sieker; 7,848 miscellaneous insects from various parts of the world 

 given by N. L. PI. Krauss; and 1,128 specimens of Hymenoptera do- 

 nated by Dr. Karl V. Krombein. 



Contributing materially to another record-breaking year for acces- 

 sions in the division of marine invertebrates were 54,480 amphipod 

 crustaceans, including 15 type specimens, received from the Scripps 

 Institution of Oceanography, University of California. From the 

 Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Copenhagen, through Dr. H. 

 Vols0e, were received 9 deep-sea invertebrates from the world-re- 

 nowned Danish Deepsea Expedition of the Galathea^ including para- 

 types of unusual holothurians, starfishes, polychaete worms, and sea 

 anemones. The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, The 

 Netherlands, through Dr. L. B. Holthuis, donated 402 crustaceans, 

 including two scyllarid lobsters and an authoritatively identified set 

 of European isopods. A collection of 5,528 miscellaneous Antarctic 

 invertebrates from Operation Deep Freeze IV was received from 

 Stanford University, through Dr. Donald E. Wohlschlag. Another 

 large series of 5,256 miscellaneous marine invertebrates was collected 

 for the Museum in Bermuda by Mrs. LaNelle W. Peterson. 



The most important accession in the division of moUusks consisted 

 of 12,200 specimens collected at Jaluit Atoll, in the southern Marshall 

 Islands, by Dr. Harald A. Eelider. The Fourth Smithsonian-Bredin 

 Caribbean Expedition added 6,000 moUusks from Yucatan. Dr. 

 Wendell P. Woodring collected 485 specimens of marine moUusks on 

 the Atlantic coast of Panama. From the Institute of Oceanology of 

 the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, through Dr. E. A. Filatova, 

 came 607 specimens of fresh-water mollusks from the USSR. 



Botany. — One of the most important accessions in the department 

 was the Cladonia collection of the late Alexander W. Evans, compris- 

 ing 39,204 specimens, received in exchange from the Osborn Botani- 

 cal Laboratory of Yale University. Unusually fine specimens of 

 Rhododendron and Primula, numbering 2,895, collected in Asia by 

 George Forest, were received in exchange from the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Others, also in exchange, were : 7,786 

 specimens of Asia and South America, mostly significant historical 

 collections, from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; 

 1,287 plants of Indonesia from the Herbarium Bogoriense; and 527 

 photographs of plants in the Pliilip Miller Herbarium from the 

 Bailey Hortorium, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The American Musuem of Natural History forwarded 15,780 speci- 

 mens collected by L. J. Brass on the Sixth Archbold Expedition to 

 New Guinea. The University of California sent 497 specimens of 

 South American plants collected by W. Eyerdam on the Sixth Botani- 

 cal Garden Expedition to the Andes, in return for identifications. 



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