40 AN-NUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1916. 



both as coming from localities not hitherto represented in the Mu- 

 seum and as supplementing the existing large collections from the 

 related faunal regions of the Malay Peninsula, the Philippine 

 Islands, and Borneo. From northern China and Manchuria was re- 

 ceived a valuable series of mammals, birds, and reptiles, the results 

 of further field work by Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby. Obtained by 

 Mr. Copley Amory, jr., during a collecting trip to the little-known 

 Kolyma River region of northeastern Siberia and presented by him, 

 were 365 mammals and 2J:3 birds, besides a number of nests and eggs 

 of the latter. 



Additional mammals were received from Baluchistan through ex- 

 change with the McMahon Museum at Quetta and from East Africa 

 as a gift from Mr. Elton Clark. The most important accessions of 

 reptiles, batrachians, and fishes consisted of the specimens obtained 

 in connection with the Smithsonian biological survey of the Canal 

 Zone by Mr. S. F. Hildebrand, Prof. S. E. Meek, and Mr. E. A. Gold- 

 man, the number of fishes amounting to about 18,000. An extensive 

 collection of Peruvian fishes made by Dr. R. E. Coker in 1907 and 

 1908 was presented by the Government of Peru, and another from 

 South American localities was received from Indiana University in 

 exchange. The Bureau of Fisheries deposited 1,242 specimens from 

 Albatross explorations in the Pacific Ocean. 



The receipts by the division of marine invertebrates were excep- 

 tionally extensive. Twenty-seven separate collections were trans- 

 ferred b}^ the Bureau of Fisheries, a part of which had been worked 

 up and described. They represented investigations by the steamer 

 Albatross in the Pacific Ocean, by the steamers Fish Hawh and 

 Boxlie and the schooner Gimmpus in the Atlantic Ocean and con- 

 tiguous waters, and certain other inquiries. Of crustaceans there 

 were about 15,000 specimens, of annelids about 1,000 specimens, of 

 pteropod mollusks about 3,200 specimens, of starfishes nearly 150 

 types, and of fresh- water mollusks about 1,000 specimens from the 

 Mississippi River, besides ver}^ many unassorted lots of crustaceans, 

 salpa, pyrosoma, and other groups. 



A very large number of miscellaneous invertebrates from the Dan- 

 ish West Indies and about 5,000 specimens of land and marine mol- 

 lusks from the Florida Ke^'s were deposited by the Carnegie Institu- 

 tion of Washington, while over 3,000 miscellaneous specimens from 

 dredgings off the coast of Florida and about 7,000 land and fresh- 

 water shells from Cuba were presented b}' Mr. John B. Henderson. 

 An accumulation of samples of ocean bottom, filling nearly 11,000 

 bottles, obtained by vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey dur- 

 ing hydrographic investigations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans 

 and the Gulf of Mexico, were transferred to the custody of the 

 Museum. 



