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from Arnhem Land, Australia; and 1,164 bird skins procured by the 
joint National Geographic Society-Yale University-Smithsonian 
Institution Expedition to India and Nepal. Other accessions com- 
prised 611 bird skins from Nyasaland: 177 birds and 1 egg from 
northeastern Venezuela: 171 bird skins from Pacific War areas; and 
125 bird skins from Korea. 
Snakes, lizards, and frogs from Arnhem Land, amphibians from 
Perit, reptiles and amphibians from Honduras, and a general collection 
from Virginia and North Carolina constituted the most important 
additions to the herpetological collection. 
The most noteworthy accessions received by the division of fishes 
were nearly 14,000 specimens from the Solomon Islands and the East 
Indies, which were presented by Dr. Wilbert M. Chapman; 14,300 
from Arnhem Land; and approximately 5,000 from the Persian Gulf 
and the Red Sea, resulting from a survey sponsored by the Arabian- 
American Oil Co. Other important collections of fishes came from 
Puerto Rico, Panam4, British Columbia, and Florida. 
Approximately 25,000 miscellaneous insects from South Pacific 
Islands came to the Museum by transfer from the U. S. Commercial 
Co. Among other large lots were approximately 12,000 flies; 3,500 
chalcidoid wasps; 500 beetles; and some 53,000 insects transferred 
from the United States Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
During the year considerable significant material was added to the 
marine invertebrate collection, of which the most important accessions 
were 11,765 miscellaneous invertebrates from the Department of 
Zoology, University of California; 70 lots of paratypes, hypotypes, 
and topotypes of hydroids from the Allan Hancock Foundation, 
University of Southern California; 760 marine invertebrates from 
California and Mexice; 709 specimens from Bahama Islands; 1,781 
from Pacific Islands and California; 452 from the Persian Gulf and 
the Red Sea; and 859 from Arnhem Land. By transfer from the 
Office of Naval Research, the Museum acquired 3,668 invertebrates 
from Point Barrow, Alaska. The United States Geological Survey 
transferred 568 specimens from the Marianas Islands. 
A rare deep-water Pleurotomaria, dredged at a depth of 160 fathoms 
off Natal, South Africa, and presented by Dr. Cecil von Bonde, con- 
stituted the most notable accession received by the division of 
mollusks. From other sources the division received 250 Peruvian 
terrestrial and fresh-water mollusks and 540 marine mollusks from 
Canton Island, and 150 Japanese land mollusks. Exchanges brought 
to the Museum approximately 1,080 shells from Spain and lesser 
numbers from South Africa, Italy, and Cuba. By transfer the Museum 
received about 1,200 mollusks obtained in the Caroline Islands from 
the United States Geological Survey; approximately 30,600 specimens 
