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74 skins of Hungarian birds, and with other private funds 344 bird 

 skins from British Cohnnbia were purchased. From Herbert L. 

 Stoddard, the division of birds received 158 skins of birds taken in 

 Georgia. 



By exchange, the division of reptiles and amphibians received from 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology 94 amphibians from the state 

 of Sao Paulo, Brazil. As a gift from Cornell University, the division 

 acquired 141 specimens from Venezuela. Other accessions worthy 

 of note were the gift of 148 reptiles, including a series of water snakes 

 from Ohio, by John T. Wood, and 24 blind cave salamanders {Typhlo- 

 triton spelaeus) from Smellin's Cave near Ozark, Mo., presented by 

 Dr. C. G. Goodchild. 



The Fish and Wildlife Service transferred approximately 4,500 

 fishes taken in the course of shrimp investigations in the Gulf of 

 Mexico by the crew of the Pelican. Other gifts received during the 

 year included a specimen of a rare ribbonfish (Lophotus lacepedei) 

 taken at Clearwater, Fla., donated by Dr. Coleman J. Goin; 517 

 Mexican fishes given by Gen. T. D. White, United States Air Forces, 

 accompanied by color sketches made by Mrs. White; and 80 fishes 

 from Spencer Tinker, of the Waikiki Aquarium, Hawaii. Types and 

 paratypes of a number of fishes were acquired by exchange or donation 

 from several institutions. 



Several outstanding gifts came to the division of insects. Among 

 these were a collection of 5,000 British tortricid moths presented by 

 the British Museum (Natural History); about 15,000 British Micro- 

 lepidoptera, a gift from Norman D. Riley, head keeper of insects, 

 British Museum (Natural History); and an extensive collection of 

 2- winged flies donated by John R. Alalloch. About 10,500 beetles, 

 mostly representing the families Carabidae and Pselaphidae, were 

 received as a bequest from Alan S. Nicolay. 



As a transfer from the Office of Naval Research the Museum ac- 

 quired a collection of 2,571 marine invertebrates made by Prof, and 

 Mrs. G. E. MacGinitie at the Arctic Research Laboratory, Point 

 Barrow, Alaska. Nearly 4,000 miscellaneous invertebrates, obtained 

 off the coast of Labrador by David C. Nutt during the cruise of the 

 schooner Bliie Dolphin under the auspices of the Arctic Institute of 

 North America, were presented to the division of marine invertebrates. 

 Among other noteworthy gifts of collections, including types, were: 

 541 shrimps and other marine invertebrates obtained during the 

 "Crossroads" Expedition to the Marshall Islands, from Dr. Martin 

 W. Johnson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; more than 100 

 isopods from Pacific Marine Station, College of the Pacific and the 

 University of California, through Robert J. Menzies; about 700 marine 

 arthropods, taken off the coasts of North and South Carolina, from 



