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island, and from the zoological section of the University of Stellen- 

 bosch, South Africa, 140 specimens. The type and paratype of a 

 new fresh-water mussel from Florida were presented by Berlin Hart 

 Wright, Penn Yan, N.Y.; 16 para types from Santo Domingo by 

 Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and 

 3 cotypes from the Philippine Islands by Dr. Fred Baker, Point Loma, 

 Calif. 



Corals. — More than 200 specimens were received, nearly all from 

 the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea Expedition. 



Helminths. — The total number of helminths accessioned is 1,068. 



Echinoderms. — The most important of the 10 accessions received 

 during the year is that from the Johnson-Smithsonian Deep-Sea 

 Expedition, including a large number of specimens of species from 

 moderately deep water in the Caribbean region that have not been 

 collected since the explorations of the Blake in 1877-80, the Albatross 

 in 1884-87, and the Fish Hawk in 1899. 



Plants. — Accessions for the year comprised 56,125 specimens, most 

 important of which are as follows: 24,124 specimens were transferred 

 by the United States Department of Agriculture, mostly from the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, 4,062 being grasses and 15,308 Argentine 

 specimens collected by Venturi. About 3,600 duplicate specimens 

 of the historic Mutis Herbarium, received as an exchange with the 

 Botanical Garden at Madrid, Spain, through the efforts of E. P. 

 Killip, will be of great importance in the study of South American 

 plants. A considerable number of South American plants were 

 obtained from the British Museum (Natural History). Several other 

 tropical American collections were received in exchange, among them 

 765 specimens of the Ecklon-Zeyler expedition from the Natural 

 History Museum at Vienna, Austria; 530 plants from the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, England; 984 plants from the Botanical 

 Museum at Copenhagen, Denmark; 1,141 specimens from the Natural 

 History Riksmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden; 1,257 specimens, mainly 

 from Peru, from the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; 

 1,709 specimens from British Honduras, Guatemala, and Sumatra 

 from the University of Micliigan. Similarly, 1,619 Chinese plants 

 were received from Lingnan University, Canton, and 500 from the 

 University of Nanking, China; 744 plants collected in the Hawaiian, 

 Fiji, and Society Islands from the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in 

 Honolulu; and 886 mainly Chinese, West African, and Cuban plants 

 from the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University. C. V. Morton 

 collected 1,897 plants for the Museum at Oaxaca, Mexico, with the 

 assistance of Dr. Emil Makrinius. The University of Vermont gave 

 the National Herbarium 306 specimens collected in Mexico by C. G. 

 Pringle, the lot consisting of numbers not previously represented in 

 the collections. Among the numerous gifts by institutions and 



