24 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1905. 



islands, containing several undescribed species and a large number 

 new to the Museum, obtained through Air. Alan Owston, of Yoko- 

 hama; 584 specimens from the Philippine Islands, including 4 new 

 species, presented by Dr. E. A. Mearns, U. S. Army; 33 specimens 

 from the Malay Peninsula and adjacent islands, the gift of Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott ; specimens from China, collected by Mr. E. Blackwelder, and 

 donated by the Carnegie Institution; from France and Switzerland, 

 collected by Dr. Leonhard Stejneger and Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr.; 

 from Jamaica, collected by Mr. W. R. Maxon; from Guatemala, 

 collected by Mr. Maxon and Mr. Robert Hay; from California and 

 Indiana, transferred by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries; from Mani- 

 toba, presented by Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton; and from Louisiana, 

 collected by Mr. Andrew Allison. 



The division of fishes received by transfer from the IT. S. Bureau of 

 Fisheries a large amount of material of exceptional value, as follows: 

 A collection from Samoan waters, made in 1902 by Dr. D. S. Jordan 

 and Prof. V. L. Kellogg, of Leland Stanford Junior University, and 

 containing the types of 100 new species; an extensive series of 

 specimens from the explorations of the steamer Albatross in Hawaiian 

 waters in 1901 2, including many deep-sea forms and the types and 

 cotypes described; a ureal number of fishes resulting from investiga- 

 tions on the Pacific coast of North America from Bering Sea to 

 California, and on the Atlantic coast from Nova Scotia to Florida. 

 Type specimens from other localities were also received from the 

 Bureau of Fisheries and from Prof. C. II. Gilbert, of Leland Stanford 

 Junior University. 



The Bureau of Fisheries was the largest single contributor to the 

 division of mollusks, Inning transferred to the Museum, from the 

 dredgings of the steamer Albatross on the coast of California in the 

 spring of 1904, about 5,000 specimens, many oi which are of special 

 interest and value. Next may be mentioned an accession from the 

 Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, consisting 

 mainly of land and fresh-water shells from Texas, California, and 

 Montana. Scientifically, the most important addition of the year 

 was a scries of about 1,500 specimens of Philippine shells from the 

 collection of the late llerr Mollendorff, obtained by purchase, many 

 of the species being cotypes. This acquisition will prove extremely 

 useful in the future working up of material from the Philippine 

 Islands, especially in view of the fact that many of MollendorfFs 

 species were never figured and can, with difficulty, be identified from 

 his descriptions. Among other noteworthy additions were about 

 100 marine mollusks collected in Alaska by Dr.'T. W. Stanton, of the 

 U. S. Geological Survey; about the same number of mollusks ;in<l 

 brachiopods obtained in the same region many years ago by Dr. W. II. 

 Da 11, and comprising numerous types of species described in the Pro- 



