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The collection which he has assembled and is studying will form a valuable 

 addition to the Academy's Cretaceous series. 



The large collection of recent shells gathered by Henry Hemphill and 

 which now forms a part of the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology 

 has been consulted for study by Mrs. I. S. Oldroyd of Stanford University. 



Several valuable lots of recent shells have been received during the 

 year. The land shells obtained from the Channel Islands of California by 

 Messrs. Evermann, Van Duzee, and Slevin include some species which have 

 rarely been collected. These islands are the type locality for several species 

 and owing to their isolation have rarely been visited by naturalists. Mr. 

 Slevin of the Department of Herpetology also secured a considerable num- 

 ber of land shells during his explorations in Lower California in 1919. 

 A collection of over 8,000 mollusks was secured by the curator by dredging 

 in Bering Sea and collecting on the Alaska and British Columbia islands. 

 Numerous species not previously represented in west coast collections were 

 thus secured. 



Through the absence most of the year of a head of the Department not 

 much in the way of exchanging could be attempted. However, a collection 

 of the local shells in the vicinity of Sulphur City, Arkansas, was received 

 in this manner from Mr. A. J. Brown. Also some radulse of mollusks were 

 received from Mrs. L. J. Thompson and Mr. Fred Tableman in exchange. 



Accessions to the Museum and Library 



Abbott, Mrs. E. K., Salinas, (The herbarium of the late Dr. E. K. 

 Abbott) : One hundred and fifty-five herbarium specimens from 

 northern France, the region where the war has been fought, re- 

 ceived by Dr. Abbott as an exchange in 1888; 400 herbarium speci- 

 mens from Hillsdale, Mich., and Dekalb County, Illinois, collected 

 by Dr. Abbott and labelled; 743 herbarium specimens from Mon- 

 terey County, California, collected by Dr. Abbott, mostly not 

 labelled; 166 specimens collected by Mrs. Joseph Clemens in Mon- 

 tana, Utah, and Texas, chiefly not labelled; total 1464 specimens. 

 Gift. 



Allen, Mr. C. A., San Geronimo: One ornithological specimen from 

 Marin County. Gift. 



American Museum of Natural History, New York: Three lizards from 

 Gulf of California. Exchange. 



Beck, Mr. R. H., San Jose: One thousand and ninety-six specimens of 

 South American insects, mostly beetles. Purchase. 



Bent, Mr. Edward F., San Francisco: Two bound volumes (Museum 

 of Natural History, New York, Vols. I, II). Gift. 



Berry, Dr. S. S., Redlands: Eleven lots of land- and freshwater mol- 

 lusks from Western United States, a total of 65 specimens. Gift. 



Bethel, Mr. E., Denver, Colorado: Two botanical specimens. Gift. 



Bickle, Miss Margaret Emily, and Master John Richard Peers, Niagara 

 Falls, Ontario, Canada: Fifty botanical specimens collected near 

 Clive, Alberta, Canada. Gift. 



