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States Fish and Wildlife Service; 67 paratypes of Mexican fishes from 

 Dr. Jose Alvarez ; and 582 fishes from the Red Sea collected by Dr. 

 Eugenie Clark. As exchanges there were received 144 fishes, including 

 32 holotypes and paratypes, from the University of Hawaii, and 161 

 specimens, representing 100 species of Indian fishes, from the Zoologi- 

 cal Survey of India. 



The Korschefsky collection of ladybird beetles, comprising over 

 14,000 specimens and containing 1,445 named species representing 206 

 genera, was acquired by purchase by the Smithsonian Institution, thus 

 increasing the usefulness of the reference series for this family of 

 beetles. As a result of the gift of 539 termites, comprising 96 species 

 hitherto unrepresented in the collections, of which 65 were represented 

 by type material, by Dr. Alfred Emerson, University of Chicago, the 

 national collections now contain representatives of more than 1,000 of 

 the 1,800 known species. 



Over 3,200 identified polychaete worms were presented by Dr. 

 Marian H. Pettibone, of the University of New Hampshire. As 

 transfers from the Pacific Science Board, the Division of Marine In- 

 vertebrates received 3,412 forms of marine life found on Raroia Atoll 

 in the I'uamotus ; 3,980 invertebrates collected on the northern Mar- 

 shall and Gilbert Islands from the United States Geological Survey ; 

 and more than 10,000 identified peneid shrimps and some 500 miscel- 

 laneous crustaceans and other marine invertebrates of the Gulf of 

 Mexico from the Fish and Wildlife Service. About 800 holotypes and 

 paratypes were added to the marine-invertebrate collections by the 

 donors who described the new species. 



Mollusks from atolls in the northern Marshall Islands, Onotoa Atoll 

 in the Gilbert Islands, Raroia in the Tuamotus, and localities in the 

 Fiji, Cook, and Society Islands were transferred by the Pacific Science 

 Board and the United States Geological Survey. Approximately 

 2,000 land, fresh-water, and marine mollusks from Stewart Island, 

 New Zealand, were presented by Miss Olive Allan. A representation 

 of almost all known races and colonies of the colorful tree snails 

 {Liguus) of Florida, totaling 1,680 specimens, was received from 

 Ralph H. Humes. Dr. George R. LaRue, University of Michigan, 

 one of the leading American parasitologists, presented 1,200 lots of 

 tapeworms and digenetic trematodes. Nearly 100 echinoderms from 

 Onotoa Atoll collected by Dr. P. E. Cloud, Jr., and 707 from the 

 Marshall Islands collected by F. S. MacNeil were transferred by the 

 United States Geological Survey. 



Botany. — An important addition to the South American collections 

 resulted from the transfer to the National Herbarium from the herb- 

 arium of the National Arboretum, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, of 45,000 botanical specimens collected in Ecuador and 

 Colombia by the staffs of the Cinchona missions. The Division of 



