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portant addition as the Miisoiim has Uttle material from that region. 

 L. D. Christenson, Wellsvillc, Utah, donated a collection of 4,550 

 Cuban insects, and D. S. Bullock of Angol, Chile, continued his 

 liberal contributions. About 15,000 insects were transferred to the 

 Museum by the United States Bureau of Entomology, being mis- 

 cellaneous material received for identification from field workers. 



Marine invertebrates. — The total number of specimens received was 

 15,160, of which the following accessions were of special interest: 

 From the estate of the late Dr. Charles Dwight Marsh, his important 

 collection of 3,307 slide mounts of copepods was acquired, including 

 representative material of 26 new species. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, 

 New York City, presented a large collection of miscellaneous marine 

 mvertebrates taken in northwest Greenland waters. Dr. Waldo L. 

 Schmitt collected series of specimens at the Tortugas, Fla., and also 

 a large collection of Crustacea from the Galapagos Islands, during the 

 cruise of the Velero III, of which mention has already been made. 

 The collections brought home by the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea 

 Expedition, under direction of Dr. Paul Bartsch, were highly impor- 

 tant. Dr. R. E. Coker, University of North Carolina, presented 

 alcoholic specimens of copepods, comprising holotypes, paratypes, 

 and other important material representative of species to be de- 

 scribed by him. P. Humm.elinck, of Utrecht, Holland, contributed 

 85 crustaceans, including types, from the Dutch islands off the coast 

 of Venezuela. The deposition of type specimens of new species 

 included the type of a new sponge, by Dr. James T. Penney, University 

 of South Carolina; the type of new species of crab, described by Dr. 

 Mary J. Rathbun, donated by the Museu Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil ; 

 and the type and 3 paratypes of a new species of parasitic copepod by 

 Wilbur M. Tidd, Ohio State Universit3^ An important collection of 

 60 microscopic slide mounts and 49 alcoholic specimens of isopods 

 was obtained from Dr. K. W. VerhoefF, Basing, Bavaria. 



Mollusks. — One of the most important accessions of the year is 

 that of 5,550 mollusks taken principally from the Puerto Rican Deep, 

 during the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition. Four acces- 

 sions, 100,500 specimens, are credited to the Frances Lea Chamber- 

 lain fund, mcluding material from the Maynard collection of Cerions. 

 Dr. Hugh M. Smith contributed 575 specimens of mollusks from 

 Siam; Brother Daniel, Colegio de San Jose, Medellin, Colombia, 66 

 specimens of land, fresh-water, and marine shells; and Walter F. 

 Webb, Rochester, N.Y., 161 specimens from the United States and 

 Australia. A donation from Mrs. Isabel B. Hendry, Rosslyn, Va., 

 contains about 3,100 specimens of land, fresh-water, and marine 

 shells, and 1 from Miss Florence S. Gilson, Nyack, N.Y., 1,400 

 specimens, mostly marine mollusks. From Dr. C. G. Aguayo, 

 Habana, Cuba, were received 67 specimens of land shells from that 



