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tion consisting of 3,694 foreign fishes was received from the State 

 University of Iowa through Dr. Walter Thietje. These specimens 

 were collected largely in the course of the several university expedi- 

 tions to various parts of the world by the late Prof. C. C. Nutting, 

 long a collaborator of the Smithsonian Institution. Some 1,155 fishes 

 from the Guadalupe River, Tex., were presented by Robert Kuehne of 

 the State Fish Hatchery at San Marcos. Dr. Giles W. Mead of Stan- 

 ford University presented 137 fish specimens, including 4 holotypes 

 and 2 paratypes. As exchanges there were added to the collections 

 22 parrotfishes from the Chicago Natural History Museum through 

 Loren P. Woods; 14 fresh-water fishes including 2 paratypes from Dr. 

 Frank B. Cross, University of Kansas; and 2 paratypes of the North 

 American catfish from the National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 

 through Dr. Paulo de Miranda Ribeiro. 



More than 100,000 mosquitoes collected in Thailand by the donors, 

 Mrs. Ernestine Thurman and her late husband, Lt. Comdr. Deed Thur- 

 man, formed an extremely important accession. Received from Dr. 

 Annette Braun was a unique and valuable gift of 440 specimens of 

 the work or "mines" of identified leaf-mining insects mounted in 22 

 books. Dr. Frank Morton Jones presented 3,758 beautifully prepared 

 specimens of skippers and Microlepidoptera. A valuable series of 

 1,752 elaterid beetles selected from the J. A. Hyslop collection was 

 presented to the museum by Helen Sollers. 



By transfer from the Pacific Science Board, National Research 

 Council, the Museum acquired an outstanding collection of approxi- 

 mately 5,760 specimens of miscellaneous marine invertebrates from 

 Ifaluk Atoll, Caroline Islands, through F. M. Bayer. Also trans- 

 ferred were 65 crustaceans from the Joint U. S. Army-British Colo- 

 nial Office Scrub Typhus Expedition, obtained in North Borneo 

 through Capt. Bryce C. Walton. Among the more important gifts 

 were 1,584 invertebrates from Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands, and 

 Yap Island, Caroline Islands, received from Dr. Robert W. Hiatt; 

 35 bathypelagic nemerteans, including 16 type specimens, from the 

 eastern Pacific presented by Dr. Wesley R. Coe, Scripps Institution 

 of Oceanography; 271 crustaceans from Saipan, Marianas Islands, 

 donated by Dr. A. H. Banner, University of Hawaii ; 534 crustaceans, 

 including the holotype, allotype, and morphotype of a crayfish from 

 Virginia, received from Dr. Horton H. Hobbs, Jr., University of 

 Virginia. 



The Museum's collection of Cuban shells was greatly enhanced this 

 year by two significant donations. Mrs. Charles E. Ramsden of Cuba 

 presented to the collections about 23,200 specimens acquired by her 

 late husband and comprising one of the largest accessions of Cuban 

 land shells. Likewise Sefiora Blanca de la Torre de Rosales of Cuba 

 donated a valuable collection of some 8,930 land shells, including 81 



