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tons of birds from South Africa and Southern Khodesia, including 59 

 species new to tlie Museum, which were collected by Dr. Herbert 

 Friedmann. Other accessions of importance were 28 bird skins from 

 the South Australian Museum; 5 Pacific Island birds from Peabody 

 Museum, Yale University; 117 skins of Portuguese East African 

 birds from Muscu Dr. Alvaro do Castro, Lourengo Marques; 188 

 Japanese bird skins from Col. L. K. Wolfe; 219 sets of eggs from 

 Venezuela and Trinidad collected by Robert N. Berryman; and 692 

 skins, 35 sets of eggs, and 28 nests from Alaska transferred to the 

 Museum through Dr. Laurence Irving by the Arctic Health Research 

 Center, United States Public Health Service. 



Among the accessions worthy of note received by the division of 

 reptiles and amphibians were 85 specimens from Korea presented by 

 William E. Old, Jr.; 71 Indian reptiles, including two species of 

 Uropeltis, from the School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta, India; 

 70 reptiles and amphibians collected by Harry Hoogstraal, mostly in 

 Kenya, Africa ; and 15 reptiles and amphibians from Saudi Arabia, a 

 gift of Sgt. Edward Murray. 



The fishery investigations conducted by Stewart Springer on the 

 Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Oregon resulted in the transfer 

 to the INIuseum of one of the most comprehensive collections of fishes, 

 crustaceans, mollusks, and miscellaneous invertebrates ever made in 

 the deeper waters of the Gulf of Mexico. As exchanges, there were 

 received from the Applied Fisheries Laboratory, University of Wash- 

 ington, through Drs. Lauren R. Donaldson and Arthur D. Welander, 

 144 fishes, including a number of types of new species, from the 

 Marshall Islands; from Rhodes University College, through Dr. J. 

 L. B. and Margaret M. Smith, 91 fishes from Knysna Estuary, Cape 

 Province, South Africa; and from the University of Hawaii, through 

 Dr. William A. Gosline, 43 Hawaiian fishes, including several types. 

 Wliile studying the poisonous fishes of Micronesia, Dr. Eugenie Clark 

 made a collection of 3,730 fishes, which she presented to the division 

 of fishes. 



The most important accessions received by the division of insects 

 were transfers from the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 

 totaling 66,498 insects, of which 18,498 were derived from the Alaska 

 insect project. The gift to the U. S. Bureau of Entomology and Plant 

 Quarantine by Dr. Albert R. Shadle of his lifetime collection of nearly 

 5,400 insects and transferred to the Museum, along with Egger's col- 

 lection of bark beetles, and over 1,900 Egyptian insects obtained by 

 Curtis Sabrosky, likewise enhanced the usefulness of the national col- 

 lections. As a gift, the Museum acquired the collection of H. G. 

 Barber, consisting of 32,151 bugs and beetles. 



