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fish and 25 specimens of Apus. Other accessions which deserve men- 

 tion are a spiny lobster (Panulirus laevicauda) , the first of its species 

 to be taken in Florida, received in exchange from the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History; 11 species (109 specimens) of isopods and 

 3 species (45 specimens) of amphipods new to our collections, re- 

 ceived in exchange from Dr. Charles Chilton, Christchurch, New Zea- 

 land; 3 specimens of the isopod Leptantliura laevigata new to our 

 collections; 1 cotype of Spirontocaris zebra from St. Mary's Bay, 

 Nova Scotia, received in exchange from the Biological Board of Can- 

 ada through A. H. Leim ; the largest spiny lobster of which there is 

 authentic record, received as a gift from the Sarosota County, Fla., 

 Chamber of Commerce; one of the largest known specimens of an 

 anomuran crab, Lopholithodes mandtii, caught by Bert Arthur Han- 

 sen, of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, and presented by E. A. 

 Wakefield; 37 specimens of Maderian Crustacea collected and pre- 

 sented by Dr. Adolfo Cesar de Noronha, Funchal, Madeira. 



Mollusks. — In the division of mollusks the most important acces- 

 sions have been those purchased with part of the accrued interest of 

 the endowment known as the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund of the 

 Smithsonian Institution. Three of these were small, aggregating 

 only 140 specimens, but they are of special interest as representing 

 material new to the collection. The fourth was the largest and most 

 valuable accession received during the year. It is the part of the 

 Quadras Philippine collection formerly owned by the Chicago Acad- 

 emy of Sciences, and purchased from the academy with part of the 

 income from the Chamberlain fund. The curator of mollusks says 

 of this material : " Quadras was a forester in the Philippine Islands 

 during the Spanish regime, and, next to von Mollendorff, made the 

 largest collection of land mollusks that has ever been brought to- 

 gether from these islands. The Quadras collection was exhibited 

 at the World's Fair in St. Louis, and a set thereof came into the 

 possession of the Chicago Academy of Sciences, the material re- 

 ferred to above. This collection was loaned the National Museum 

 some years ago to assist Doctor Bartsch in monographing the Phil- 

 ippine mollusks. He has already described a large number of new 

 species, the types of which are based upon this material, and many 

 more will follow in course of time. Sr. J. G. Hidalgo, the Spanish 

 authority upon Philippine land shells, reported upon many of 

 Quadras's findings, and the collection now purchased contains topo- 

 types of most of the things handled by Hidalgo. This collection, 

 together with the first series of duplicates from the von Mollendorff 

 collection obtained some years ago by exchange with the Sencken- 

 bergische naturforschende Gesellschaft, together with the collections 

 made by Doctor Bartsch on the United States Bureau of Fisheries 



