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about 1,400 fish specimens in their original jars which were sent to 

 Wesleyan University in the early 1880's by Dr. G. Brown Goode. 



The division of insects received as its most important accession the 

 collection of O. L. Cartwright of approximately 6,000 miscellaneous 

 insects, a large portion of which was made on the grounds of the 

 Inter- American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Costa Rica. An- 

 other noteworthy accession comprised about 4,300 Neotropical bugs 

 which were donated by Dr. Luis F. Martorell, of the agricultural 

 experiment station, University of Puerto Rico, and Dr. John S. Cald- 

 well, of Centerville, Ohio. By transfer from the Department of Agri- 

 culture the division acquired nearly 2,000 insects from Alaska, collected 

 by Dr. R.I. Sailer. 



As gifts, the division of marine invertebrates received more than 

 10,979 specimens of barnacles and other marine invertebrates, as well 

 as publications, notes, and lantern slides from the collections of the 

 late Dr. J. Paul Visscher, presented by Mrs. J. Paul Visscher and 

 children, Cleveland, Ohio ; and from Dr. Stillman Wright, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, more than 533 lots of copepods and other fresh- water plank- 

 ton from South America. Dr. E. A. Lachner collected for the Museum 

 247 crayfishes and 2 shrimps from the southern United States. 

 Through David C. Nutt, the Museum received 1,387 specimens of 

 miscellaneous marine invertebrates collected by the Blue Dolphin 

 Expedition along the coast of Labrador. As exchanges, through 

 Dr. H. B. Goodrich there were added to the collections more than 2,141 

 specimens of marine invertebrates from Wesleyan University; and 

 from the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Holland, 

 through Dr. L. B. Holthuis, 10 paratypes of crayfishes from New 

 Guinea, and 4 paratypes and 19 other specimens of fresh-water 

 shrimps from Surinam. By transfer, more than 1,410 miscellaneous 

 invertebrates were acquired from the United States Navy Arctic- 

 Research Laboratory, through J. Bohlke. 



The largest accession received this fiscal year in the division of 

 mollusks consisted of 22,000 specimens collected by Dr. Joseph P. E. 

 Morrison in the area from Pennsylvania to Virginia, west to Missouri. 

 Among the outstanding gifts received were 1,380 marine mollusks, 

 largely from western Australia, presented by Mr. and Mrs. James A. 

 Grigg ; 264 marine mollusks from the Red Sea, a gift from Sozon Vati- 

 kiotis ; 55 specimens of rare Japanese marine mollusks from the Kyoto 

 University through Dr. Tadashige Habe. There were received in 

 exchanges from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Uni- 

 versity, 1,543 mollusks; and from the Institut Francais d'Afrique 

 Noire of Dakar, French West Africa, 169 marine mollusks. Note- 

 worthy also was a transfer of several rare shells from the Gulf of 



