14 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1958 
New Guinea and Borneo obtained as an exchange from the Chicago 
Natural History Museum; 17 paratypes of Mexican reptiles and am- 
phibians from the University of Illinois Museum of Natural History ; 
a valuable lot of 128 reptiles and amphibians from Formosa collected 
by Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2, and the Museum’s first ex- 
ample of a leatherback turtle from Cuba, presented by the Museo 
Ignacio Agramonte. 
Among fishes received is a cast of the recently discovered living 
representative Latimeria chalumnae of the otherwise wholly fossil 
coelacanths purchased from the Muséum National d’Histoire Natu- 
relle, Paris. ‘This interesting specimen was placed on exhibition. 
A collection of 15,897 fresh-water fishes from West Virginia was 
presented by Dr. F. J. Schwartz; another lot of 3,398 fishes, mostly 
seahorses, was received from Dr. Kirk Strawn; and 1,185 Australian 
fishes were received in exchange from Prof. L. R. Rivas of the Uni- 
versity of Miami—an important addition to the Museum’s Australian 
collections, since it included numerous species not previously rep- 
resented here. The New York Zoological Society presented 73 holo- 
types and 62 paratypes of tropical fishes, through Dr. William Beebe. 
Insect material constitutes the bulk of the year’s accessions numeri- 
cally. The largest single lot is the famous Carl J. Drake collection 
of Hemiptera, worldwide in scope and comprising over 100,000 speci- 
mens and containing more than 1,000 types. The valuable and im- 
portant Tippmann collection of wood-boring beetles, Cerambycidae, 
comprising 97,830 specimens, was purchased with assistance of a grant 
from the National Science Foundation. This material, with 611 holo- 
types, 1,415 paratypes, and cotypes, is a useful supplement to the 
specimens already in the collections since it originates largely from 
regions not heretofore represented. Other important accessions of 
insects are the John L. Buys collection of 12,128 leafhoppers 
(Homoptera), presented by Mrs. Buys, and the David Dunavan col- 
lection of 4,386 North American beetles, presented by Mrs. Dunavan. 
The Raymond C. Osburn collection of 3,572 bryozoans, including 
145 type lots, together with extensive manuscript notes and microfilm 
of Dr. Osburn’s library catalog and bibliography, was presented by 
Mrs. Osburn to the division of marine invertebrates. This accession 
is an important enrichment of the Museum’s facilities in this area of 
research. Other notable accessions include 4,956 miscellaneous in- 
vertebrates from the Palau Islands received from the George Vander- 
bilt Foundation and the Office of Naval Research, through Dr. F. M. 
Bayer; 10,991 specimens from waters off Surinam, transferred from 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 2,850 crustaceans, largely cope- 
pods, chiefly from Africa, containing 2 holotypes and 388 paratypes, 
presented by Dr. A. G. Humes; 685 crustaceans, including the holo- 
