26 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1907. 



Carew, of Ridgewood, New Jersey; a Catholic priest's cassock, do- 

 nated by the Rev. John F. Fenton, D. D., Brookland, District of 

 Columbia, and a collection of 58 Chinese and Japanese rosaries, 

 deposited by Miss E. R. Scidmore, of Washington. The rosaries of 

 Miss Scidmore are of various materials and makes, and some are 

 finely carved ; from the point of view of the study of religious senti- 

 ments and practices, they are highly interesting, as they invite a 

 comparison of the form and use of the rosary in Brahmanism, 

 Buddhism, Catholicism, and Mohammedanism. 



Biology. — One of the most noteworthy contributions to the depart- 

 ment of biology was a collection made in the Philippine Islands by 

 Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, U. S. Army, consisting chiefly of mammals, 

 birds, reptiles, fishes, and mollusks, many of which came from locali- 

 ties not heretofore explored by naturalists. 



The Bureau of Fisheries transmitted large and important collec- 

 tions of fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, crinoids. and other marine 

 invertebrates, and many specimens of birds, from the expedition of 

 the steamer Albatross to the northwestern Pacific Ocean in 1906, 

 during which the Okhotsk Sea, the Aleutian Islands, the Commander 

 Islands, Kamchatka, the Kuril Islands, and Japan were visited. 

 The same Bureau also transferred nearly '_'()() species of Japanese 

 fishes, including many new and rare forms, collected by Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith, Deputy Commissioner of Fisheries, in 1003; the alcyonarian 

 corals (with 36 types) and the hydroids (with 25 types) from the 

 Hawaiian explorations of L902, described by Prof. C. C. Nutting; 

 the medusa' from the same source, reported on by Dr. A. G. Mayer; 

 \) species of the myzostome parasite of crinoids from Japan, described 

 by Dr J. F. McClendon; specimens of the rare tunicate. Octacnemus, 

 from the Albatross cruise of 1904 _ 5 in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and 

 over 3,000 specimens of fishes obtained by Prof. W. 1'. Hay in several 

 streams in West Virginia. 



The principal transfers from the Department of Agriculture were 

 as follows: From the Bureau of Entomology, about 5,000 miscel- 

 laneous insects from various localities and 2,500 Lepidoptera from 

 Mexico presented by Mr. K. Midler; from the Biological Survey, 200 

 reptiles from Lower California, collected by Mr. F. W. Nelson and 

 Mr. E. A. ( roldman, and 44s specimens of plants; from the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. .">,<',(;:', specimens of plants. A number of animals, 

 mainly mammals and birds, were received from the National 

 Zoological Park, the most important being a moose, llama. Brazilian 

 tapir, thar. markhor, Bactrian camel, lion, nilghai, zebu, rhea, and 

 California condor. 



The principal accessions consisting wholly of mammals comprised 

 about 100 specimens, mostly bats, from Venezuela, Cuba, and Ja- 

 maica, presented by Capt. Wirt Robinson. U. S. Army; 29 specimens 



