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maintained a table at the Wood's Hole Biolot^ical Laboratory. 

 It was occupied through the season by Mr. H. W. Fowler. 



Much of the work accomplished during the past year in the 

 arrangement of the collections is described in detail in the reports 

 of the Botanical, Conchological, Ornithological and Mineralogical 

 Sections which follow, while the more important work of other 

 departments is briefly outlined below. 



Mr. Stone has spent the greater part of the spi'ing and summer 

 in the arrangement of the reptiles and batrachians, with the result 

 that all the groups uot handled last year have been catalogued and 

 systematically arranged and many unidentified specimens named. 



Mr. Fowler has continued his study of, and completely rearranged 

 and relabeled the carp-like and deep-sea fishes, the eels and their 

 allies, and the Cypriuodonts, comprising about two-fifths of the 

 entire collection. 



During the year the whole series of alcoholic vertebrates have 

 been carefully examined and the alcohol replenished. 



The mammalian skeletons and skulls have all been relabelled 

 wil h special tags and a systematic card catalogue of all the mammal 

 collections, has been prepared by Mr. Reha. 



In the Archaeological department Miss H. N. Wardle has cata- 

 logued and arranged a large number of specimens, including most 

 of the Haldeman Collection, 



Through the generosity of Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, Mr. C. W. 

 Johnson has continued his care of the Isaac Lea Collection of 

 Eocene Mollusca. Six hundred and fifteen species have been 

 added during the year, mainly through exchange. 



Many important additions to the collections have been received 

 since the preparation of the last report. The Zoological Society of 

 Philadelphia has presented a number of specimens, one of the 

 most notable being a full-grown Indian Rhinoceros, which has been 

 mounted by Mr. David McCadden, the taxidermist. 



Mr. Y. Hirase, of Kyoto, has continued to add most liberally 

 to ihe conchological collection, furnishing many rare and hitherto 

 unknown species. Mr. Arthur Erwin Brown has added largely to 

 the department of reptiles, while a fine series of Porto Rican fishes 

 was received from the United States Fish Commission. 



Dr. A. Donaldson Smith presented a number of valuable birds, 

 mammals and mollusks secured during his recent expedition to Lake 



