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cal and locality data also were obtained. Continuing their studies, 

 the two made a similar collecting trip to the Neuse and Tar River sys- 

 tems of North Carolina, September 16-20. The species under particu- 

 lar consideration there was Notwus furiosus, of wliich nearly 100 speci- 

 mens were obtained from tliree localities in the Tar Eiver system, 

 thus increasing the number of known specunens many times and 

 adequately meeting the needs of the study in progress. These two 

 expeditions resulted in the addition of about 8,500 specimens of fishes 

 to the collections of the U.S. National Museum. 



O. L. Cartwright, associate curator of insects, in December made 

 a research trip to the Academy of Natural Sciences at Philadelphia 

 comparing specimens and examining holotypes of four species of 

 Ontho2)kaguSy a group of scarab beetles he is revising. 



Dr. Ralph E. Crabill, Jr., associate curator of insects, continued 

 his work on chilopods by studies at the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, at Harvard University, July 20-25. He studied specimens 

 housed in the collection, attempted to collect topo types of an obscure 

 species described from that area, and conferred with colleagues con- 

 cerning biological and curatorial problems. With the aid of a Na- 

 tional Science Foimdation grant Dr. Crabill left Washington on 

 March 28 for an extended study of centipedes and millipedes in 

 European museums. He was accompanied by Dr. Richard L. Hoff- 

 man, research assistant, who is a specialist on millipedes. 



Between September 26 and October 4, Charles E. Cutress, Jr., as- 

 sociate curator of marine invertebrates, traveled to Buxton and Beau- 

 fort, N.C., to examine collections of sea anemones at the Cape Hatteras 

 and Duke Marine Laboratories and to collect and photogi-aph sea 

 anemones in both areas. Specimens and notes obtained made it pos- 

 sible to settle problems concerning the anemones of the area. 



In continuation of studies on the Pacific marine fauna undertaken 

 under a contract with the Atomic Energy Commission and the Office 

 of Naval Research, Dr. Harald A. Rehder, curator of mollusks, studied 

 collections in Cambridge, Mass. In studying the Pacific molluslcs he is 

 being assisted by Dr. Joseph Rosewater, research assistant. Studies 

 were made in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; in particular, 

 specimens of the Tellinidae from the Indo-Pacific area were criti- 

 cally examined and recorded in order to facilitate the preparation of 

 a monograph on the members of this large family. Dr. Rehder also 

 visited Salem, Mass., to confer with Dr. Donald Marshall, an ethnolo- 

 gist of the Peabody Museum, who during the course of his fieldwork 

 has made extensive collections of mollusks in the Tuamotus that are 

 of considerable interest to Dr. Rehder in connection with his Pacific 

 studies. Dr. Rosewater examined approximately 270 lots of specimens 

 of the molluscan family Pinnidae at the Museum of Comparative 



