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cellaneous lot of invertebrates from British Columbia and the 

 coast of Cahfornia secured from Mr. W. F. Thompson, a small 

 collection of California echinoderms donated by the University 

 of Southern California, a representative series of invertebrates 

 collected in the vicinity of Hilo, Hawaii, by Miss Leslie Tul- 

 loch, and a small lot of echinoderms from Boundary Bay, B. C, 

 contributed by Prof. Frank W. Weymouth. 



Department of Mammalogy. — As in the previous year the 

 acting curator and his assistants devoted their time to the in- 

 stallation of habitat groups. Little or no time was given to 

 enlarging the collections. 



As no catalogue of the specimens in this department had 

 ever been prepared, a proper record book was ordered made, 

 and the collection was catalogued by Mr. Rowley, assisted by 

 Mr. Bolton and Mr. Fair. 



The total number of entries is 2300. Very few of the speci- 

 mens in this department have been accurately identified. There 

 is urgent need of a mammalogist competent to make the identi- 

 fications and who can add to the collection so that it may be- 

 come a fair representation of the California mammalian fauna. 



Department of OrnitJwlogy. — This department being tem- 

 porarily without a curator, has done no field collecting in the 

 past year. The only additions to the collections are a few 

 specimens received from miscellaneous sources. Mr. L. M. 

 Loomis has continued to make use of the Tubinares of the col- 

 lection in connection with the preparation of a monograph upon 

 that group of birds upon which he is engaged. 



Library. — Mr. Edward P. Van Duzee, who entered upon his 

 duties as assistant librarian June first, came to us with long ex- 

 perience in library work. He had been connected with the 

 Grosvenor Library of Buffalo, N. Y., for 28 years, 10 years as 

 assistant librarian and 18 years as librarian. Although Mr. 

 Van Duzee's primary duties are those of curator of Ento- 

 mology, he nevertheless devotes a portion of his time to the 

 library. With the assistance of Mr. Ignatius W. McGuire and 

 Mr. John L Carlson commendable progress has been made in 

 classifying and arranging the books on the shelves. After ma- 

 ture consideration it was the opinion of the assistant librarian 

 that the Decimal classification would best meet our needs, and 



