10 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1962 



Among the 1,454 specimens received in the division of birds is a 

 series of 583 bird skms, 27 skeletons, 3 alcoholic specimens, and 14 

 eggs contributed by Dr. Alexander Wetmore, retired Secretary of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. From the Kepublic of Panama Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory, 100 bird skins were received, and by transfer 

 from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 419 bird skins, 47 skeletons, 

 1 alcoholic specimen, and 10 eggs were added to the national 

 collections. 



In the division of reptiles and amphibians, several accessions are 

 noteworthy. Procured from Dr. Fred Medem, Instituto de Ciencias 

 Naturales, Bogota, Colombia, were 226 Colombian frogs. A gift from 

 Dr. Coleman J. Goin, of the University of Florida, of 116 Colombian 

 frogs, an exchange involving the receipt of 9 South American frogs, 

 including a cotype of a Colombian arrow-poison frog, from the British 

 Museum of Natural History, and a gift of 105 South American frogs 

 from Dr. James K. Tamsitt, University of the Andes, Bogota, 

 Colombia, constitute outstanding additions to the Museum's South 

 American holdings. By transfer from the U.S. Naval Medical Re- 

 search Unit No. 2, 41 snakes from Taiwan add to the already excellent 

 collection from that island. 



The majority of the specimens received in the division of fishes 

 was contributed by the tr.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. This co- 

 operation of another Government agency in building up the Smith- 

 sonian research collections should be credited to the following 

 individuals : Elbert H. Ahlstrom, W. W. Anderson, Harvey R. BuUis, 

 Jolm R. Clark, Daniel M. Cohen, Eugene Cypert, George F. Kelly, 

 Craig Phillips, James G. Ragan, Donald W. Strasburg, and Paul J. 

 Struhsaker. Dr. Edward C. Raney and Dr. Bruce B. Collette gave 

 2,500 fishes collected by the latter in Cuba, and Dr. Robert E. Kuntz 

 and Lt. W. H. Wells transferred 1,412 fishes collected at Taiwan by 

 the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2. 



The largest and perhaps most important accession received in the 

 division of insects is the A. L. Melander collection of Diptera, con- 

 sisting of approximately 250,000 specimens, including 1,200 types. 

 Through Dr. Alfred Brauer, the W. D. Funkhouser collection of 

 Membracidae (Hemiptera) consisting of 23,855 specimens was re- 

 ceived from the University of Kentucky. The Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station donated, through Dr. James B. Kring, 346 

 type specimens, including 130 holotypes. Most of these types are 

 Hymenoptera not previously represented in the national collections. 

 Dr. A. Earl Pritchard presented his collection of 12,142 Diptera. 

 N. L. H. Krauss again made a substantial gift in donating 11,572 

 specimens principally from the Neotropical Region. Col. Robert 

 Traub presented more than 10,000 mites from Malaya and Thailand. 



