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Dr. Robert E. Kuiitz; and a collection of wooden game-bird calls, 

 together with tape recordings demonstrating their use, from Dr. 

 August© Euschi, director, Museu de Biologia Prof. Mello Leitao, 

 Brazil. 



In the division of reptiles and amphibians, several additions to the 

 collections are noteworthy : a gift of 325 Colombian frogs, including 

 types and paratypes, from Brother Hermano Niceforo Maria, Bogota, 

 Colombia; a gift of 162 reptiles and amphibians collected in Mexico 

 and Central America from Elkan J. Morris, Fairbanks, Alaska; 71 

 reptiles and amphibians obtained for the Museum in South America 

 and Panama by Dr. Charles O. Handley, Jr., and Francis M. Green- 

 well; 70 amphibians acquired for the Museum from South America 

 and Panama by Mrs. Doris H. Blake and Dr. Doris M. Cochran ; an 

 exchange of 27 Colombian frogs with the Chicago Natural Histoiy 

 Museum; and an exchange of 21 Brazilian frogs with Werner C. A. 

 Bokermann, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



Exchanges of si^ecimens netted the division of fishes the major por- 

 tion of the current year's new accessions. Received on exchange was 

 the holotype of a new Dascylus from D. Wolfgang Klausewitz, Frank- 

 fmt, Germany. Horace Loftin and Dr. R. W. Yerger sent, on ex- 

 change, 10,000 fresh- water fishes from the Canal Zone, Panama, col- 

 lected by Mr. Loftin. Other contributors of holotypes include Drs. 

 Giles W. Mead and Henry B. Bigelow, Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, Harvard University; Dr. George S. Myers, Stanford Uni- 

 versity; and Loren P. Woods, Chicago Natural History Musemn. 

 Among the contributors of paratypes were Dr. C. Richard Robins, 

 University of Miami, Marine Laboratory ; Dr. Norman J. Wilimovsky, 

 University of British Columbia; Dr. Jacques R. Gery, Laboratoire 

 Arage, France ; and Dr. Jose Alvarez del Villar, Instituto Politecnico 

 Nacional, Mexico. 



Tlie division of mollusks added a total of 23,967 specimens to its 

 collections. Dr. Joseph Rosewater of the Museum staff collected 1,194 

 marine and land mollusks on Eniwetok Atoll. Mr. and Mi's. Delmas 

 H. Nucker donated 699 specimens of marine mollusks from the Caro- 

 line Islands, and Dr. Tadashige Habe added 120 specmiens, of which 

 28 are paratypes, of recently described mollusks from Japan. Holo- 

 types of molluscan species and subspecies were received from Dr. Raul 

 Guitart, Dr. Harry W. Wells, Messrs. Leslie Hubricht, Thomas L. 

 McGinty, and William G. Pearcy, and from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service Laboratory, Pascagoula, Miss., through Harvey R. Bullis, Jr. 

 A total of 1,257 helminthological specimens, among which were many 

 types of new species, were added to the collection housed in the Para- 

 sitological Laboratory of the Animal Disease and Parasite Research 

 Branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Md. 



