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Colombia, collected by Philip Hershkovitz during his tenure of the 
Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship of the Smithsonian 
Institution. From the Fish and Wildlife Service came by transfer 
the year’s second-largest mammalian accession, 624 mammals from 
various North American localities. A beaked whale foetus, about 7 
feet long, the largest in the National collections, is also notable. 
As in the division of mammals, the largest accession of the year 
to the division of birds came from Colombia. This collection com- 
prised 3,281 specimens, sufficient to give the Museum a reasonably 
complete representation of the bird life of northeastern Colombia. 
A smaller avian collection, 85 specimens, also from Colombia, repre- 
sents localities not included in the larger collection first mentioned. 
Another collection included 20 species of birds hitherto unrepresented 
in the study series. 
As a result of exchanges with other institutions, several species ' 
of reptiles and amphibians hitherto unrepresented or poorly repre- 
sented in the Museum have been added to the collections. Specimens 
from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Jamaica, and Hon- 
duras were received, and 60 turtles, lizards, snakes, and frogs were 
contributed by Philip Hershkovitz, through the Walter Rathbone 
Bacon Traveling Scholarship. 
Exchanges consummated during the year brought much valuable 
material, including 321 cotypes, to the division of fishes. Smaller 
ichthyological collections, received as gifts, also included type ma- 
terial and some specimens from type localities not previously repre- 
sented in the National collections. 
The vital and significant role played by entomology and entomol- 
ogists in the war is reflected in the host of mosquitoes and mosquito 
larvae received from the sanitary and medical corps of the armed 
forces—more than 10,000 specimens. About 67,000 bees, butterflies, 
and insects, including some holotype and paratype material, came as 
gifts and by transfer from other Government departments. 
Seven of the year’s accessions in the division of marine invertebrates 
included type material. Especially noteworthy is the fact that dur- 
ing the past year seven accessions, totaling 2,380 specimens, many of 
them rare, were collected and donated to the Museum by men in the 
armed forces. 
The collection of Mexican land shells in the division of mollusks 
was materially enhanced by three gifts, totaling 1,490 specimens. The 
largest known single collection of Jamaican representatives of the 
molluscan family Neritidae, consisting of 51,000 specimens and ac- 
companying 850 microscopic slides, came as a gift. 
Several valuable accessions in the form of types and cotypes came 
to the helminthological collections as gifts. These included species of 
