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type and 16 paratypes of one species, given by Dr. James HE. Lynch; 
2,341 polychaete worms and crustaceans from Lake Pontchartrain, 
La., a gift from Dr. Rezneat M. Darnell. 
The largest important accession acquired by the division of mollusks 
is the collection totaling 14,350 specimens made mainly by the curator, 
Dr. Harald A. Rehder, on the Smithsonian-Bredin Expedition to the 
Society, Tuamotu, and Cook Islands. Other notable accessions are 
1,600 specimens of marine mollusks from the Palau Islands received 
from the George Vanderbilt Foundation and the Office of Naval Re- 
search through Dr. F. M. Bayer; 3,550 marine shells collected by Dr. 
Cadet Hand on Kapingamarangi Atoll, Caroline Islands, under the 
auspices of the Pacific Science Board; and 2,034 specimens from the 
Samoan Islands, Palaus, and New Guinea, received from the Academy 
of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service transferred to the Museum 113 cephalopods from the Gulf 
of Mexico through Harvey R. Bullis, Jr., and 311 land and fresh- 
water mollusks of South America were received in exchange from the 
Chicago Museum of Natural History. 
Botany —The largest gift to the department of botany consists of 
10,847 lichens, constituting the personal herbarium of Dr. Mason E. 
Hale, Jr., associate curator of the division of cryptogams; most of the 
material is from the eastern and southern United States. Another 
notable gift received from Dr. José Cuatrecasas, resident investigator 
of the department, comprised 1,165 specimens of his own collections 
from Colombia, mostly a comprehensive collection of the Hepaticae 
(liverworts). These are being studied by Prof. Margaret Fulford, a 
principal specialist on the Hepaticae. Other gifts include 162 speci- 
mens from William O. Douglas, Associate Justice of the Supreme 
Court, representing his personal collection of Himalayan plants, and 
1,735 plants of the Philippine Islands collected by Dr. José Vera 
Santos and presented by the University of the Philippines. To be 
mentioned especially are the 117 samples of diatoms from the Ant- 
arctic collected by the British Australian-New Zealand Antarctic Ex- 
pedition and presented by the University of Adelaide in Australia. 
Dr. Lyman B. Smith, curator of phanerogams, collected 15,133 
specimens in southern Brazil. Other botanists and institutions in 
Brazil have been collaborating with Dr. Smith in his study of the 
Brazilian flora and have contributed specimens as follows: 422 from 
Father Raulino Reitz, 378 from the Instituto Agronémico do Norte, 
Belém, 163 from Dr. Amaro Macedo, and 90 from Sr. G. Hatschbach. 
Dr. Egbert H. Walker, associate curator of phanerogams, obtained 
291 plant specimens on his field trip to Okinawa in connection with 
his current studies of the flora of the Ryukyu Islands. In helpful as- 
sistance to Dr. Walker’s work, Kagoshima University, Kyushu, Japan, 
