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collect ion of about 400 Australian fishes, comprising 119 species, 

 obtained in exchange from the Australian Department of Fisheries. 



The collection of mollusks was increased by over 1.9,000 specimens. 

 The dredgings of the Albatross in the northwestern Pacific and adja- 

 cent waters constituted the principal source of supply, rich in. new 

 material, the Okhotsk Sea especially furnishing many interesting 

 novelties from a region where but little collecting had previously 

 been done. The next most conspicuous accession was an exchange 

 from the Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Frankfurt 

 am Main. Germany, comprising some 600 species and many cotypes 

 of species described by the late Herr Mollendorf from the Philippines 

 and eastern Asia, all named and labeled with localities, forming a 

 most desirable addition from a region hitherto but poorly represented 

 in the Museum. Useful also in the same connection was the contribu- 

 tion of Dr. E. A. Mearns. who sent a large collection of miscellaneous 

 shells from the Philippines containing many specimens of interest. 

 Next should be mentioned the results of the explorations in the vicin- 

 ity of Wilmington, North Carolina, by Dr. Paul Bartsch, of the 

 Museum stall, who secured a very large number of specimens of land 

 and fresh-water mollusks. comprising several novelties and a good 

 series of the rare Plan orb is magniftcus, which was the special object 

 of the trip. 



The Museum is indebted to the energy and generosity of Prof. 

 II. Pittier, of the Department of Agriculture, who. during his 

 botanical researches in tropical America, found time to gather several 

 lots of exceptionally interesting land shells, containing a number of 

 species new to the collections. Dr. Edward Palmer, of the same 

 Department, and under similar conditions, increased the series of 

 Mexican species by acceptable additions. The Museum is also under 

 obligations to its old correspondent, the Rev. W. A. Stanton. S. J., 

 for valuable material from British Honduras. 



The division of insects received over 44,000 specimens, comprised 

 in 39(5 accessions, some of the more important of which were as 

 follows: Prof. P. R. Uhler, of Baltimore, presented 20,000 speci- 

 mens of I Iemiptera. comprising the larger part of the celebrated 

 collection which he has been assembling for many years. Mr. Wil- 

 liam Schaus donated s. 000 specimens of Lepidoptera, constituting 

 the result oi hi- collecting in Mexico and Central America during 

 the past year, and in continuation of his huge gift of a year ago. 

 The Department of Agriculture transmitted about 5,000 specimens of 

 different groups obtained during held work" by members of the 

 Bureau of Entomology. Through the same source. Mr. P. Muller, 

 of the City of Mexico, presented over -2,000 Lepidoptera from Mexico, 

 of which the species were determined and the names supplied to 

 him. Other donations worthy of mention were 500 Coleoptera from 



