REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1914. 105 
Mollusks.—The accession of greatest moment was the gift by Mr. 
Thomas H. Bryant, of Cincinnati, of the collection of the late Prof. 
F. W. Bryant, of Lakeside, Cal., consisting of five cases of miscel- 
Janeous shells of which a large number were desirable for the reserve 
series. A contribution of about 2,000 specimens was received as 
the results of a dredging expedition by Mr. John B. Henderson, to 
Chincoteague, Va., in which the assistant curator, Dr. Paul Bartsch, 
also took part. Several of the species obtained are apparently new. 
A miscellaneous lot of marine shells, mostly from the Gulf of Cal- 
ifornia, presented by Mrs. Julian James, consists of material ob- 
tained by her brother, the late Lieut. Commander T. B. M. Mason, 
United States Navy. <A collection of minute marine shells of con- 
siderable interest from the island of Mujeres, off the coast of Yuca- 
tan, was donated by Mr. Russell H. Millward; and a fine series of 
nearly 1,000 specimens of Bulimulus from 43 localities in Texas, was 
presented by the Hon. J. D. Mitchell, of Victoria, Tex., an old friend 
and correspondent of the Museum. Mr. Charles R. Orcutt added to 
the collections previously sent by him from various places in Mexico 
about 500 specimens of very acceptable mollusks; Mrs. T. S. Oldroyd 
furnished some excellent Californian marine specimens from the 
vicinity of San Pedro; and Mr. James Zetek presented interesting 
specimens from Panama. 
The reserve collection has been kept in good condition and is 
readily accessible for study and reference. The western American 
marine material has been partly gone over, recent acquisitions have 
been incorporated in their proper places and the nomenclature has 
been so far revised as to present the latest data for about one-fifth 
of the entire series from the Pacific coast. A very large amount of 
fine dredgings, bottom samples, etc., has been searched for minute 
shells, and the pickings have been submitted to rough sorting and 
labeled with the locality and other data preparatory to further study 
and identification. Part of this material came from Philippine 
dredgings by the Fisheries steamer Albatross and part from the Gulf 
of California. The series of mollusks for the faunal exhibit of the 
District of Columbia was completed, and the assistant curator also 
gave much time to the preparation and arrangement of marine in- 
vertebrates for the general exhibition. 
The special investigations of the curator, Dr. William H. Dall, 
were directed to the fauna of the northwest coast of America pre- 
liminary to a manual of this fauna which he is preparing, but on 
which progress has been slow, owing to the pressure of routine work. 
A small collection of shells made on both coasts of Canada was 
studied and a report made to the Dominion Geological and Natural 
History Survey, which has been printed in the Bulletin of the Vic- 
toria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. Dr. Paul Bartsch, the assistant 
