16 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1959 
sion of 591 skins of birds and other ornithological material from 
North America was transferred from the Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior. The Public Health Service, Depart- 
ment of Health, Education, and Welfare, also transferred 75 bird- 
skins from Arctic America. The rarest single specimen received was 
a lyre-tailed honeyguide, Malichneutes robustus, from Cameroons, 
a gift from the Zoological Society of London. ‘This is the second 
known example of this bird to come to an American museum. 
In reptilian and amphibian material a number of accessions of types 
and paratypes of recently described species was received, the most 
notable single lot being a gift of 172 specimens from Haiti, Cuba, 
and Trinidad, received from Dr. W. G. Lynn. 
The division of fishes received two large collections of fresh-water 
fishes from the eastern United States. One of these, comprising 
25,057 specimens, is an exchange from the University of South Caro- 
lina through Dr. Harry Freeman; the other, consisting of 25,000 
fishes, was donated by the University of Maryland through Dr. G. W. 
Wharton. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution gave 852 
fishes from Labrador through Dr. Richard H. Backus. A very fine 
collection totaling 2,449 fishes from the eastern Pacific was presented 
by the University of California through Wayne J. Baldwin. This 
group includes numerous species not otherwise represented in the 
national collections. 
Several outstanding collections were acquired by the division of 
insects: the Monrds collection of 54,245 chrysomelid beetles trans- 
ferred by the U.S. Department of Agriculture; 30,507 insects col- 
lected in El Salvador by O. L. Cartwright; 26,385 specimens of 
beetles from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, collected and donated 
by Paul J. Spangler; the Fish and Wildlife Service transferred 
33,063 miscellaneous New World insects through Dr. Daniel L. Leedy ; 
N. L. H. Kraus presented 6,924 insects from Asia, from many locali- 
ties not previously represented in the national collections. Other im- 
portant accessions are as follows: From Dr. W. B. Muchmore some 
800 New York State centipedes, providing valuable records being in- 
corporated into a statewide survey that is currently in preparation; 
from Dr. Thomas C. Barr, Jr., a number of cave collections of centi- 
pedes, giving information about unexplored fauna; and from Dr. 
George E. Ball, some 1,000 centipedes, comprising the largest chilopod 
collection known to date from Alaska and adjacent islands. 
The outstanding accession of mollusks was a gift from Dr. R. L. 
Alsaker of some 280 specimens of marine species of the family Volu- 
tidae, including many rare and beautful forms. Other notable ac- 
cessions include 900 lots, 3,100 specimens, of mollusks from the British 
Virgin Islands and the Leeward Islands, collected by the Bredin- 
