Editorial. 5 



We have purchased a collection of the lepidoptera of Arizona made 

 by Mr. O. C. Poling during the past summer, which will add a number 

 of species to the collection which heretofore have not been represented. 



We are indebted to Mr. Herbert DuPuy for the gift to the Museum of 

 a model of a Pullman parlor car. It is one of two models, in the fabri- 

 cation of which it is stated that two thousand dollars' worth of gold 

 and sih^er was employed. The model is about three feet long. It 

 will be provided with small electric lights which will enable the inte- 

 rior as well as the exterior, to be thoroughly inspected. Every 

 minute detail is reproduced in miniature, even to the cuspidors on 

 the fioor. 



Dr. L. E. Griffin has been working diligently during the summer of 

 1 91 5 in arranging the collections of recent reptiles in the Museum, 

 and reports that he is now in a position to begin the preparation of a 

 catalog, which will include, when published, descriptions of a 

 number of species new to science. 



Much industry has been displayed by Dr. Eigenmann, the Curator 

 of Ichthyology, during the past summer. He has partly re-arranged 

 the collections and has studied and described a number of species new 

 to science. He was assisted by Mr. Arthur W. Henn, who has now 

 left us in order to take up a course of postgraduate study at Columbia 

 University, where he is reading for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. 

 One of the results of Mr. Henn's work during the summer has been 

 the preparation of a highly interesting and important paper upon 

 the Poeciliidse, which the Director takes pleasure in issuing in the 

 present number of the Annals. A large and important paper by 

 Dr. Eigenmann upon the Cheirodontinse will shortly appear as Part i 

 of Vol. VTI of the Memoirs. It is in the hands of the printer. 



Arrangements have been concluded for the purchase from Mr. Alan 

 W. Owston of Yokohama of his entire collection of the fishes of Japan, 



