60 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1895. 



Dr. T. II.Bean, Mr. Bartou A. Bean, Mr. Charles H. Beesou, Mr. Carl H. 

 Eigeumauii, and Dr. Theodore Gill. Two new families, 11 new genera, 

 and 9 new species were described in these papers. 



Upward of G,000 specimens were received during the year. The last 

 catalogue entry in June, 1894, was 45451, and in June, 1895, 47504. 



DEPARTMENT OF MOLLUSKS (INCLUDING CENOZOIC FOSSILS). 



The year 1894-95 has undoubtedly been one of the foremost in the 

 accomplishment of work in this department. During the absence of 

 the curator, Dr. AVilliam II. Dall, m Alaska, Mr. Charles T. Simpson, 

 assistant, assumed charge of the work. Dr. R. E. C. Stearns, who has 

 labored so faithfully for many years in this department, still serves 

 in an honorary capacity as associate curator, although he has left 

 Washington to reside in Los Angeles, California. 



The number of accessions received during the year was 111, the same 

 as in 1894. They are, for the most part, smaller in extent, although 

 some of them are reported by Dr. Dall as being quite valuable. The 

 most important contributions, as in many ]>revious years, were made 

 by Eev. Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, to whom the warmest thanks of the 

 Museum are due for so many valuable additions to tbe collections. 

 Among his gifts to the Museum this year was a specimen of Fleuro- 

 tomaria bei/richi, Hilg., from Japan. Series of land, fresh-water, and 

 marine shells from the Philippine Islands were secured from Hamline 

 University, through Prof. H. L. Osborn, in return for naming the large 

 collection belonging to the university. In a similar way series of Ano- 

 doutas and Unios from Canada and British America were obtained 

 from the Geological Survey of Canada, through Prof. J. F. Whiteaves. 

 This material is extremely valuable in furnishing evidence of geograph- 

 ical distribution, on account of the accurate record of the localities from 

 which it was derived. Dr. H. von Ihering also transmitted Uniouidie 

 and other iTesh-water shells from Central and South America, in return 

 for aid in naming his material. Mr. W. W. Herman presented several 

 species of Japanese marine shells, in return for similar services. Mr. 

 W. B. K. Johnson contributed laud and fresh- water shells from the Isle 

 of Pines, Cuba. The Young Naturalists' Society, of Seattle, Wash., 

 gave a series of Terehratula transversa and other shells from Puget 

 Sound. The California Academy of Sciences, through Dr. J. G. Cooper, 

 gave a collection of Lower Californian land shells, in return for identi- 

 ficatioDs made for the Academy. An extensive lot of land shells and 

 other material was collected and transmitted by Dr. Edgar A. Mearus, 

 U. S. A., in connection with his work on the Mexican Boundary Survey. 

 From the Museum of Natural History in Paris, Fravice, has been 

 received, in exchange, a set of brachiopods obtained by the Travailleur 

 at great depths in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. The numerous accessions 

 received from INIiss Ida M. Shepard and Mr. T. S. Oldroyd, in connection 

 with their investigations of the fauna of Sau Pedro Bay, California, are 



