18 ANNUAL HEPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1942 



eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European ware including pottery, 

 porcelain, and glass; and examples of Sandwich glass dating to 

 about 1840. 



Biology. — The important mammalian accessions of the year in- 

 cluded 30 Antarctic seals, representing 4 genera and including 3 

 skins and 3 skeletons of the rare Ross's seal ; 151 mammals from Mo- 

 have County, Ariz.; 54 Manchurian mammals, one of which w^as new 

 to science; a Tibetan fox skin {Gynalopex corsac), a genus hitherto 

 unrepresented in the Museum, from Yunnan, China; and 35 bats 

 collected in caves near Washington. 



Among the most important and valuable avian accessions of the 

 year are 1,845 skins collected in Colombia by Dr. Alexander Wet- 

 more and M. A. Carriker, Jr. ; 447 birds from Brazil from the Rocke- 

 feller Foundation; bird skins from Mexico, Manchuria, Paraguay, 

 and Alaska. Skins representing forms new to the Museum collection 

 included 5 from Venezuela, 1 from Chile, and 1 from Ecuador. The 

 Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior trans- 

 ferred 53 birds from various parts of the world and 3 sets of eggs of 

 rare North American waterfowl. Of the skeletal material acquired, 

 63 skeletons were collected by members of the staff, and 90 were re- 

 ceived from the National Zoological Park. 



An outstanding accession of the division of fishes consisted of 

 14,219 specimens from the area between Peru and Alaska, received by 

 transfer from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. Presi- 

 dent Franklin D. Roosevelt presented a fine "mother of eels," 

 Macrozoarces amei'icanus, caught off Novia Scotia on August 9, 1941. 

 The type material of Hypsohlenniops rickettsi was included in a col- 

 lection of 107 specimens of fishes from the Gulf of California. New 

 material, received in exchange, included the following: Holotypes 

 and paratypes of new species from Liberia and Cameroons; 29 para- 

 types from Brazil, Yucatan, and Venezuela; a cotype of Elanura 

 forfjcata from Bering Sea; and one paratype each of Sebastodes 

 owsfoni, Nectarges nepenthe, Machaerenchelys vanderhilti, and 

 Spinoblennius spiniger. 



The division of insects received the collection of Hemiptera built 

 up by Waldo L. McAtee, of the Fish and Wildlife Service, consisting 

 of approximately 25,000 specimens and containing much type ma- 

 terial. Mr. McAtee also presented volumes and papers on entomo- 

 logical subjects needed for the division's sectional library. The col- 

 lection of the late George P. Engelhardt and his entomological books 

 were also acquired by the division — these in addition to the more than 

 5,000 specimens of Lepidoptera presented by Mr. Engelhardt before 

 his death. The material collected by the curator, Dr. Edward A. 

 Chapin, during an expedition in Jamaica, consisting of about 7,600 

 specimens, mostly termites, was accessioned during the year. A large 



