34 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1902. 



Bean and Mr, B. A. Bean completed reports on the fishes of New York 

 for the State museum, and of Great South Bay, New York, for the 

 New York Fish Commission, and notes b}^ the latter on a whale shark 

 from Florida, a steelhead salmon, and a larval conger eel were pub- 

 lished hy the Museum. Dr. Theodore Gill and Mr. Bean reported on 

 the collection of Egyptian fishes from the Nile presented by Dr. Bash- 

 ford Dean. 



In the Division of Mollusks the curator, Mr. William H. Dall, has 

 continued his work of revising and summarizing the groups of Amer- 

 ican ])ivalves, both Tertiary and recent. His researches during the 

 year have comprised the preparation of a report on the newly discovered 

 Eocene of Alaska and the revision of the family' Veneridaj, one of the 

 largest and most interesting of all the groups of bivalves. Mr. Paul 

 Bartsch has made good progress in his studies of the Pyramidellidte of 

 the Pacific coast, and Mr. Charles T. Simpson has continued his inves- 

 tigations on the Naiades of the world. . 



Mr. James E. Benedict has finished his monograph, begun some 

 time ago, on the Crustacean family Galatheida?. The work completed 

 or in progress by Miss M. J. Bathbun has comprised studies upon the 

 macruran and l)rachyuran crustaceans of the northwest coast; a list of 

 the decapods of the northwest coast for the report of the Harriman 

 Alaskan Expedition; a report upon the stalked-eyed crustaceans col- 

 lected in Japan by Dr. D. S. Jordan and Mr. A. O. Snyder; a descrip- 

 tion of a new species of fossil crab froui the northeast coast of Brazil, 

 for Di". J. C. Branner's work on the geology of that region; identifi- 

 cations of the brachyura and macrura collected l)y the U. S. Fish (Com- 

 mission in Hawaii, in 11>01, and studies upon the fresh-water crabs 

 belonging to the Museum of Natural Histor^^ of Paris. Miss Harriet 

 Richardson, collaborator, has completed for Prof. A. E. Yerrill a 

 report upon the Isopods of the Bermudas, and has begun studies upon 

 the Japanese Isopods collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross^ Dr. Jordan and Mr, Snyder, and ui)on the Bopyridse in the 

 Museum collection. She also has in press descriptions of a new fresh- 

 water Isopod from Indiana and a new terrestrial Isopod from Cuba. 



ITnder arrangements with specialists connected with other establish- 

 ments, the collections in several of the groups of aquatic invertebrates 

 are l)eing worked up foi' the National Museum, as follows: The sertu- 

 larian and companularian hydroids by Prof. C. C. Nutting, of Iowa 

 University, whose monograph on the Plum ularidw was recently issued 

 as a special bulletin; the holothurians by Prof. Charles L. Edwards, 

 of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and Prof. H. L. Clark, of 

 Olivet College, Michigan, the former having the Pedata, the latter 

 the Apoda; the parasitic copepod crustaceans by Prof. Charles B, 

 Wilson, of the State Normal School, Westfield. Massachusetts, who 

 completed during the A^ear a monograph on the family ArgulidtB, 



