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dition of 1906 in the Northwest Pacific Ocean. He also identified 

 various species in the Museum collections from Japan, Korea, and 

 elsewhere, and described a number of new species. The members of 

 the American Ornithologists Union and its committee on nomencla- 

 ture consulted the collections, as did the naturalists of the Biological 

 Survey. 



Doctor Stejneger, curator of reptiles, was largely occupied in com- 

 pleting his Herpetology of Japan, to which reference has already 

 been made. He continued work on the Philippine and West Indian 

 reptilian faunas, and took up the study of the Costa Itican. He also 

 began on a revision of the North American salamanders, for which 

 special field work was undertaken, and published a paper on the 

 origin of the Atlantic fauna and flora of Norway, based upon ma- 

 terial in the Museum. 



Doctor Evermann, curator of fishes, in conjunction with Mr. Alvin 

 Scale and Mr. W. C. Kendall, studied and reported on a collection 

 of fishes from Argentina and on two collections of Philippine fishes, 

 one made by Dr. E. A. Mearns, the other received from the Philip- 

 pine government. Doctor Evermann, with the help of Mr. E. L. 

 Goldsborough, also did considerable work on the collections of fishes 

 from the coasts of Alaska. British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, 

 and California. Mr. Bean, assistant curator of fishes, and Mr. Scale 

 prepared a paper relating to Philippine tishes. Many specimens of 

 fishes, mainly from different parts of the Pacific Ocean, were sent to 

 Stanford University for study by Dr. David S. Jorclon and Dr. C. H. 

 Gilbert; and several rays and a specimen of Katheostonia were lent 

 to Dr. Dlric Dahlgren, of Princeton University, for examination. 



Doctor Dyar, acting assistant curator of insects, continued the 

 preparation of a monograph on the mosquitoes, while the several 

 custodians who are also connected with the Bureau of Entomology, 

 and others from that Bureau, pursued investigations along the lines 

 of their specialities. About 2,000 specimens of insects were lent to 

 entomologists, including materials supplied to Prof. E. I). Ball and 

 Dr. P. P. Calvert, for use in working up certain groups for the 

 " Biologia Centrali-Americana." Doctor Calvert now has all of 

 the Central American Odonata belonging to the Museum, and Mr. 

 W. D. Pierce all of the Coleoptera of the order Strepsiptera. 



Doctor Dall, curator, and Doctor Bartsch, assistant curator of 

 mollusks, completed so much of their monograph of Pacific Coast 

 Pyramidelliche as relates to the Oregoniaji fauna, and facilities for 

 the examination and study of certain groups of mollusks were fur- 

 nished to several naturalists. 



Work on the hand book of American crabs, by Miss Rathbun, 

 assistant curator of marine invertebrates, mentioned in the last 



