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curator, has given much attention to the Philippine land shells, for 
which a large number of illustrations have been prepared by photog- 
raphy. He has completed, with the illustrations, the report on the 
marine shells of South Africa, chiefly contributed by Lieut. Col. 
W. H. Turton, retired, of the British Army, except certain bibli- 
ographic additions which it is desirable to include. The collections 
have been extensively used by Mr. John B. Henderson, of Washing- 
ton, who is continuing his studies of east American and Antillean 
mollusks. Miss Juha Gardner, of Johns Hopkins University, and 
members of the Geological Survey have also utilized the collections 
in connection with their studies of fossil shells. 
Marine invertebrates—The principal accessions from the Bureau 
of Fisheries were as follows: One hundred and sixty-two lots of as- 
cidians, including the types of 8 new species, obtained on the Philip- 
pine expedition of the steamer Albatross, 1907-1910, and worked up 
by Dr. W. G. Van Name; large collections of plankton taken by the 
schooner Grampus on the New England coast during the summers of 
1912 and 1913, including schizopods identified by Dr. H. J. Hansen, 
salpee identified by Mr. W. F. Clapp, and Meduse, amphipods, etc., 
identified by Dr. H. B. Bigelow; 36 lots of Foraminifera (Xeno- 
phyophora) dredged in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 1904-1905 by 
the steamer A/batross under the direction of Alexander Agassiz and 
reported on by Prof. F. E. Schulze; a collection of leeches made dur- 
ing the investigation of the Great Lakes in 1899, and studied by Dr. 
J. Percy Moore; and many samples of plankton and specimens of 
invertebrates collected in Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind., during several 
years, under the supervision of Dr. B. W. Evermann. 
Mr. H. K. Harring, custodian of the rotatoria, contributed 103 
microscopic slides representing almost as many species of rotifers, 
from the District of Columbia and vicinity; and Dr. Albert M. Reese, 
of the University of West Virginia, obtained a large number of 
invertebrates for the Museum during his trip to the Philippine 
Islands. Forty species of invertebrates were received in exchange 
from the University of the Philippines at Manila, and 16 species of 
ascidians, identified by Dr. R. Hartmeyer, were secured in the same 
manner from the Royal Zoological Museum in Berlin, Germany. 
The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (Fisheries 
Branch), Dublin, Treland, presented 16 species of deep-water echino- 
derms from off the Irish coast. 
The routine work connected with the care, sorting, labeling, and 
cataloguing of the extensive and varied material received was 
promptly attended to and much time was spent in the preparation 
and shipment of specimens for study elsewhere and for distribution 
to educational establishments. The alcoholic and dried collections 
of sponges and ophiurans, and the dried collections of asteroids, 
