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late Judge W. J. Graham; and 67 from another important Indian 

 site at Accokeek, Md., were presented by Mrs. A. L. L. Ferguson. 

 Biology. — Biological specimens added during the year numbered 

 over 240,000, and the total in this department now exceeds 12,500,000. 

 Of the mammals received, more than 1,200 were transferred from the 

 United States Biological Survey. A particularly welcome gift was 

 that of a mounted specimen of a Montana grizzly bear of a form now 

 extinct (true Ursus horribilis) from Dr. C. Hart Merriam. A fine lot 

 of cetacean material also was received. Important avian accessions 

 included birds collected in Venezuela by Dr. Alexander Wetmore, 

 in Siam by H. G. Deignan, in Tennessee by W. M. Perrygo, and in 

 China by Dr. D. C. Graham. New reptile and amphibian material 

 came from many places, notably reptiles from the Lesser Antilles, 

 Siam, Ceram, and Sumatra, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Maine, and 

 Vermont; frogs and toads from Brazil ; and salamanders from Central 

 America. About 5,100 fishes were transferred to the Museum collec- 

 tion from the United States Bureau of Fisheries; 12,780 specimens 

 from the middle Atlantic coast were presented by the Bingham 

 Oceanographic Foundation of Yale University and the United 

 States Bureau of Fisheries; the Carnegie Institution of Washington 

 gave 6,200 fishes collected by the late Dr. W. H. Longley from the 

 Tortugas and the Dutch West Indies; and many hundreds of others 

 came from the National Geographic-Smithsonian Expedition in 

 Sumatra, the Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition of 1937, the Tennes- 

 see Valley Authority, the United States Biological Survey, the Bass 

 Biological Laboratory, and H. G. Deignan, to name but a few of the 

 many donors. The more important accessions of insects include the 

 following: The Blackmore collection of Lepidoptera (2,111 speci- 

 mens), the Quirsfeld collection of weevils (1,157 specimens), 15,000 

 ants donated by Dr. M. R. Smith, 10,000 Chinese insects collected by 

 Dr. D. C. Graham, and 54,000 insects transferred from the United 

 States Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. The 15,300 

 marine invertebrates added consisted mostly of specimens new to the 

 collections or type material. Over 1,000 specimens of marine in- 

 vertebrates were added through the explorations of Capt. Robert A. 

 Bartlett in West Greenland in 1937, and another large group from 

 the West Indies resulted from the Smithsonian-Hartford Expedition. 

 The outstanding accession of mollusks was the Bohumil Shimek col- 

 lection of loess shells, obtained through the Frances Lea Chamberlain 

 Fund. This collection, of both recent and fossil species, consisted of 

 nearly 25,000 lots and aggregated more than a million individual 

 specimens. About 36,500 plants were added to the herbarium collec- 

 tions, from many points of North, South, and Central America. 



