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collected marine materials along the coasts of Hawaii and southern 

 California to be used in plamied exhibits. Following this trip Mr. Cut- 

 ress visited the Friday Harbor Laboratory of the University of Wash- 

 ington in search of clarification of the taxonomy of the swimming 

 anemones StoTriphia. 



Dr. Raymond B. Manning, who joined the staff at the end of last 

 year as associate curator of marine invertebrates, in May and June 

 teamed with a research group from the Institute of Marine Science, 

 University of Miami, for a 20-day offshore scientific cruise in the 

 Gulf of Guinea. Following the cruise he spent several days collecting 

 inshore marine invertebrates near Dakar, Senegal, before visiting 

 natural history museums in Paris, Leiden, and London to study types 

 of stomatopod crustaceans. 



During the year. Dr. Manning finished most of a manuscript revis- 

 ing the stomatopods of the western Atlantic, collaborated with L. B. 

 Holthuis, of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, on a con- 

 tribution dealing with stomatopods for the publication "Treatise on 

 Invertebrate Paleontology," and completed two additional manu- 

 scripts on these animals. 



Associate curator Marian H. Pettibone completed a revision of 

 the polychaete family Pilargiidae, including a description of three 

 new species from Virginia. 



Museum specialist Henry B. Eoberts completed a description of a 

 new genus of Cretaceous crab, redescribed the Cretaceous crab Cam- 

 pylostoma pierrense Rathbmi, and compiled a checklist and bibli- 

 ography of the Pleistocene decapods of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal 

 Plain. 



Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, honorary research associate, completed the 

 revision of "Crustaceans," a popular account prepared a few decades 

 ago for the Smithsonian Scientific Series. 



Curator Harald A. Rehder continued work on a study of the marine 

 mollusks of Polynesia. He sorted and arranged the material he 

 gathered in Tahiti last year, and identified and studied specimens from 

 Tongo and Hawaii. A bibliography of Polynesian marine malacology 

 was initiated, and progress was made on his monograph of the Har- 

 pidae and on a study of certain species of the family Volutidae. 



From late October to late December, Dr. Joseph Rosewater, asso- 

 ciate curator of mollusks, participated in the International Indian 

 Ocean Expedition, Auxiliary Cruise "A" aboard the R/V Te Vega. 

 After a delay of 2 weeks in Singapore for ship repairs, which gave 

 him an opportunity to make local collection, the ship headed north 

 through the Straits of Malacca along the west coast of Malaysia with 

 stops at Kuala Lumpur and Penang, then to Phuket, Thailand, and 

 north to the Similan Islands, westward to Sumatra and southeast- 



