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Brown, Montana State College; 1,653 specimens of West Indian 

 fishes obtained on the Smithsonian-Bredin Caribbean Expedition 

 and deposited by the Institution ; 190 fresh-water fishes from Colom- 

 bia, the gift of Dr. George Dahl. Included in 8 accessions number- 

 ing nearly 700 specimens were 6 holotypes and 598 paratypes of fishes 

 described by one or another of the donors from various parts of the 

 world : Dr. J. J. Hoedeman, Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam ; Daniel 

 M. Cohen, Stanford University ; Drs. Reeve M. Bailey, University of 

 Michigan, and William R. Taylor, U. S. National Museum ; Wayne J. 

 Baldwin, University of California at Los Angeles; Dr. Andreas B. 

 Rechnitzer, U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, San Diego, Calif.; 

 Dr. John C. Briggs, University of Florida; William C. Schroeder, 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University ; Dr. Boyd W. 

 Walker, University of California at Los Angeles; and Victor G. 

 Springer, University of Texas. 



The largest accession accruing this year to the division of insects 

 consisted of 168,531 specimens of ectoparasites and transferred from 

 the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Department of the Army. 

 Ernest Shoemaker of Brooklyn donated his personal collection of 

 60,338 specimens, chiefly Coleoptera, all exquisitely prepared and in- 

 cluding 101 Morpho butterflies, many of which are rare. Dr. Colvin 

 L. Gibson of Memphis presented 4,327 butterflies and moths, and 

 some representatives of other groups collected in Mexico, the British 

 Solomon Islands, and the United States. Associate Curator O. L. 

 Cartwright presented 11,400 specimens of insects which he collected 

 in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. A gift of 6,546 named lepi- 

 dopterous larvae, mostly from western United States, which were 

 associated with reared examples in the economically important fam- 

 ily of cutworm moths, was received from S. E. Crumb, Puyallup, 

 Wash. Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke, curator, contributed 4,801 miscel- 

 laneous insects, mostly from the State of Washington. Other note- 

 worthy accessions included 5,347 insects from Africa and South, Cen- 

 tral, and North America, received from N. L. H. Krauss of Hono- 

 lulu; 3,753 North Dakota spiders, donated by J. M. Davis, Silver 

 Spring, Md. ; and 10,000 miscellaneous insects from Thailand, re- 

 ceived from the International Cooperation Administration. 



Aside from gifts bringing additional type material to the Mu- 

 seum's marine invertebrate collections, the following are deemed par- 

 ticularly worthy of note: 27,600 specimens from the Smithsonian- 

 Bredin Caribbean Expedition deposited by the Institution; 1,757 

 crustaceans and other invertebrates from survey vessel collections in 

 the Gulf of Mexico and off the southeastern United States, trans- 

 ferred from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 176 identified speci- 

 mens of 40 species of pelagic copepods from Sweden and South 



