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moUusks by Dr. Williaia II. Dall, and the insects by Mr. Trevor Kincuid, of Seattle. 

 The col lection of insects is supposed to be the most complete one for Alaska that has 

 yet been ol)tained, and was presented to the Museum by Mr. Harriman. 



Extensive additions have been made to tlie collection of bats from Trinidad, Bar- 

 bados, Cuba, and the Philippine Islands by Mr. E. T. Giers, Mr. P. D(jnough, Lieut. 

 J. W. Daniel, jr., and Mr. L. M. McCormick. A skeleton of the recently discovered 

 marsupial mole, Notoryctcs, was received from University College, Dundee; an Afri- 

 can rhinoceros was presented by the Forepaugh & Sells Brothers Menagerie, and 

 many European mammals were acquired by purchase. 



The Division of Birds has received the Goodfellow collection of humming birds, 

 comprising about 1,200 specimens; 300 specimens of the l)irds of the United States of 

 Colomliia, fnjm Mr. Outram Bangs; 500 specimens of Hawaiian birds, from Mr. H. W. 

 Henshaw; a specimen of the Cuban Macaw {Ara tricolor), now believed to be extinct, 

 from Maj. W. A. Glassford, U. S. A., and a skeleton of the rare Harris's Cormorant, 

 from Leland Stanford Junior University. 



Of fishes Dr. David S. Jordan has contributed a collection from Japan, including 

 the types of 14 new species; the Museo Civico of Milan, Italy, a collection from the 

 Red Sea and the Mediterranean; and the U. S. Fish Commission, specimens from 

 Japan, Alaska, Hawaii, and California. 



Many additions have been made to the Division of Insects, some of the most note- 

 worthy being the following: The very important collection of spiders brought 

 together by the late George Marx, containing several thousand specimens, among 

 which were many types and cotypes; a large collection of Coleoptera from the late 

 Hugo Soltau, of Louisville, Kentucky; many types and cotypes of species described 

 by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, received from the New Mexico Agricultural Experiment 

 Station; a series of insects collected in Porto Rico by Mr. August Busck, from the 

 Department of Agriculture, and collections of Mexican Hymenoiitera and South 

 American Lepidoptera, obtained by purchase. Mr. E. A. Schwarz has continued to 

 make important additions to the Hubbard and Schwarz collection of Coleoptera, 

 presented to the Museum in 1898. 



The Division of Mollusks has been enriched by collections made in Samoa by Sir 

 Charles Eliot, the British representative on the Samoan Commission, and in Alaska 

 and Hawaii by Dr. William H. Dall and others; by a series of South Australian 

 shells received from Mr. Walter B. Reed, of Adelaide, and by a valuable lot of land 

 shells from the Galapagos Islands, presented by the Leland Stanford Junior Uni- 

 versity. Through the addition last mentioned the National Museum is supposed 

 to have acquired the most complete representation of Galapagos land shells now 

 existing. 



The more important acquisitions among the other groups of marine invertebrates 

 have been as follows: From Dr. J. C. Branner, the crustaceans collected on the Bra- 

 zilian coast by the Agassiz-Branner expedition of 1899; from Mr. H. W. Henshaw, 

 Hawaiian crustaceans; from the U. S. Fish Commission, crustaceans and corals from 

 Porto Rico; from the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture, crusta- 

 ceans from Texas and Mexico; from Dr. C. H. Eigenmann, cotypes of an isopod 

 crustacean from Izels Cave, Texas; from Dr. C. A. Kofoid, cotypes of a new genus 

 of Volvocidse; from Rev. George W. Taylor, of Nanaimo, British Columbia, cotypes 

 of two species of British Columbia sponges. 



The Herbarium is constantly in receipt of material from all parts of the world. 

 Its most important addition last year was the private collection of plants belonging 

 to Dr. Charles Mohr, of Mobile, Alabama, which he has generously presented to the 

 Institution. This contribution, comprising upward of 3,000 specimens from the 

 Southern States, is of especial value, as this region has heretofore been poorly repre- 

 sented in the National Museum. Mrs. Marie de Chalmot, of Holcomb Rock, Vir- 

 ginia, has donated 3,000 specimens of European and American plants, and Mr. A. H. 



