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ceedings of the California Academy of Sciences; a small but interest- 

 ing collection made in Central America by Dr. Edward Palmer, of 

 the Department of Agriculture, containing a remarkable new genus, 

 Hi ndersonia, and a number of new species: many nudibranchs from 

 the coast of California, including 15 types of species recently described 

 by the donor. Dr. M. F. McFarland, of Leland Stanford Junior 

 University, in the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Wash- 

 ington; some 300 specimens of shells from the Philippine Islands, 

 presented by Brig. Gen. A. W. Greely, V. S. Army. From Air. Henry 

 Suter, of Auckland, New Zealand, there was received a pair of Trigonia 

 margaritacea, in alcohol, containing the soft parts well preserved; 

 from Mr. W. Moss, of Ashton-under-Lyne, England, an interesting 

 lot of small but attractive shells from the Loyalty and Lifu islands 

 of the Indo-Pacific; and from Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Oldroyd and Mr. 

 C. H. Hansen, a quantity of material from the coast of California. 



While no single large collection was received during the year, yet 

 the additions to the division ol insects were as a whole of average 

 importance, comprising between 34, 000 and 35,000 specimens from 

 many parts of the world. It would be impossible in this connection 

 to adequately note the principal accessions, but among the more 

 important gifts and exchanges may be mentioned: Hymenoptera, 

 from Maj. C. G. Nurse, of Quetta, India, and the Museo de Ciencias 

 Naturales, Madrid, Spain: Cuban parasitic Hymenoptera, from 

 Dr. George Dimmock, of Springfield, Massachusetts; Cuban beetles, 

 from E. A. Schwarz, of the Bureau of Entomology of the Department 

 of Agriculture; types and cotypes of New Zealand Cicadidas, from 

 Dr. F. W. Coding, American consul at Newcastle, New South Wales, 

 Australia; a collection of Chinese beetles, from Mr. Eliot Black- 

 welder; types of Lepidoptera, from Mr. W. I). Kearfott, of New Jersey; 

 types and cotypes of bees, from Mr. J. C. Crawford, of the Bureau of 

 Entomology; types and cotypes of Rhipiphoridse, from Mr. W. D. 

 Pierce, of the Bureau of Entomology; Orthoptera, from Mr. F. B. 

 Isely, of Wichita, Kansas; and miscellaneous collections from Rev. 

 Robert E. Brown, S. 3., Manila: Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, 

 Colorado: and Mr. A. N. Caudell, of the Bureau of Entomology. 



The division of marine invertebrates received, through transfers 

 from the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, 300 lots of foraminifera from the 

 region about the Hawaiian Islands, the basis of a report to the Bureau 

 by Mr. Rufus M. Bagg, jr. ; a duplicate set of the sea urchins obtained 

 on the cruise of the steamer Albatross to the Panamic region in 1891, 

 and described by Dr. Alexander Agassiz in the Memoirs of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology; a large collection of crustaceans from the 

 Albatross cruise of 1904 off the southern coast of California, which 

 have been distributed to specialists for study, as noted under the head 

 of "Researches," and the samples of ocean bottom taken on the same 



