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there were several types. The crustaceans given by Dr. Carl C. 

 Engberg, University of Nebraska, contained the type and para- 

 types of B alarms engbergianus Pilsbry. Among a number of land- 

 shells presented by Mr. "Walter F. Webb, Rochester, New York, was 

 a type of a new species described by Dr. Paul Bartsch, who also 

 described the Teredo {Xeoteredo) reynei, a new subgenus and species, 

 from material donated by Mr. A. Eeine. Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. 

 A miscellaneous collection received from the Museu Paulista, Sao 

 Paulo, Brazil (Mr. Alfonso d'S. Taunay, director) contained types 

 of 2 worms and 4 crustaceans. Mr. H. X. Low, Long Beach, Cali- 

 fornia, presented, with other mollusks, 4 types of new subspecies. 

 The type of a new species of amphipod was found among 10 species 

 of Crustacea received from the Brooklyn Museum, and of a terres- 

 trial isopod among some Bahaman specimens collected by Dr. Wil- 

 liam Mann. A collection of natural history objects made in Chile 

 by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, included an isopod described as new. Two paratypes 

 of the mollusk Vertigo modesta microphasma was donated by the 

 describer, Dr. S. S. Berry, Redlands, California, and a cotype of 

 Brachypodella nidicostata, from Venezuela, also a mollusk, was like- 

 wise presented by its describer, Mr. George Spence, Pine Grove, 

 Lancastershire, England. Three new subspecies were described from 

 some Philippine landshells donated by Mr. H. C. Higgins, Belmar, 

 New Jersey. Type material was also represented in a collection 

 obtained in exchange from Dr. F. Felippone, Montevideo, L T ruguay, 

 and in crustaceans from Lake Valencia, collected and described by 

 the donor, Dr. A. S. Pearse, University of Wisconsin. Dr. Bryant 

 Walker, of Detroit, Michigan, presented the museum with 8 speci- 

 mens (4 species) cotypes of Amnicolas, mollusks from Guatemala. 

 An interesting accession consisted of two albino landshells, Epipkrag- 

 mqphora tudieulata Binney, from California, the first of the kind 

 received by the Museum. They were donated by Dr. R. PI. Tremper, 

 Ontario, California. 



Echinoderms and Onyehophores. — The most noteworthy acces- 

 sions were six onychophores collected in Honduras and donated by 

 Dr. William M. Mann, of the Bureau of Entomology, and a denuded 

 test of the giant sea-urchin, Metalia pectorcdis (Lamarck), from 

 Jamaica, presented by Mr. Charles Emery Asbury, Consular Serv- 

 ice, Department of State. 



Plants. — The accessions include highly valuable collections from 

 all over the world. Besides important North American material, 

 there are represented plants from Mexico and Central America, Co- 

 lombia, British Guiana, Brazil, Argentina, Europe, Africa, China, 

 Sumatra, etc. The more important ones are as follows: 8,190 speci- 

 mens transferred by the several bureaus of the U. S. Department of 



