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Anderson and Price, of Ormond, Florida, the skin of a whale shark 

 {Rhinodon) 13 feet long, the first of its kind recorded as having been 

 taken in the North Atlantic Ocean. The Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity presented the types of a large number of Japanese fishes described 

 by Dr. David S. Jordan, and also specimens from Panama, Cocos 

 Island, and the Galapagos Islands. A collection of Egyptian fishes 

 from the Nile was contributed by Dr. Bashford Dean, of Columbia 

 University, and interesting material from several sources was trans- 

 mitted by the U. S. Fish Commission. 



Twelve species of land shells from Cocos Island, cotypes of species 

 described in E. von Marten's work on the mollusks of that localit}', 

 were donated by Mr. William H. Dall. Some 2,000 shells from Lower 

 California were received from Lieut. C. A. Clarke, U. S. Navy, and 

 a number of new species of North American land shells from Mr. J. H, 

 Ferris, of Joliet, Illinois. 



The largest addition to the Division of Insects comprised about 

 65,000 specimens collected in Arizona by Mr. E. A. vSchwarz, Cus- 

 todian of the Coleoptera in the Museum, at his own expense, and by 

 him presented to the national collections. The Museum was already 

 indebted to this generous friend for the gift of his extensive private 

 collection previously formed.* Some 7,000 insects of several groups 

 were brought from the Hawaiian Islands by Mr. W. H. Ashmead, 

 and 10,000 specimens of lepidoptera from Colorado by Dr. H. G. 

 Dyar, assisted by Mr. A. N. Caudell. The expeditions on which this 

 material was secured are referred to elsewhere. Ten thousand beau- 

 tifully prepared specimens of butterflies, mainly from Mexico and 

 Central America, have been deposited in the Museum by Mr. Wil- 

 liam Schaus, of Twickenham, England. 



The Division of Marine Invertebrates received from the U. S. Fish 

 Commission a series of Porto Rican sponges, identified b}^ Dr. 11. V. 

 Wilson, of the University of North Carolina; echini and holothurians 

 from the same locality, identified l)y Prof. H. L. Clark, of Olivet 

 College; the crustaceans and echinoderms collected during the expedi- 

 tion of 1901 to the Hawaiian Islands; and a quantity of material from 

 the marine station at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The extensive col- 

 lection of corals made some 3"ears ago at the Philippine Islands by 

 Prof. J. B. Steere and Prof. Dean C. Worcester was obtained l)y pur- 

 chase. Among- the smaller accessions of importance were a quantit}' 

 of marme invertebrates from EUesmere Land, collected ])y Mr. Kobert 

 Stein; a series of the cave crustaceans of Kentucky and Tennessee 

 from Prof. W. P. Hay; a numl^er of Alaskan crustaceans from Mr. 

 R. S. McGregor, of the U. S. Coast Surve}^ steamer J\(thiindei\ and 

 samples of the Atlantic sea bottom from the U. S. Navy. 



Through the generous bequest of Dr. Charles Mohr, of Asheville, 

 North Carolina, who died in Jul v. l!>i>l. the Division of Plants became 



