Director' s An^iual Report. 33 



species of this group are only known, at present, from the island 

 of Kauai and Maui. 



"A remarkable species of fossil Endodonta was found by your 

 Curator on the Round Top road. In building the road a small 

 pocket of fossil earth was uncovered by the workmen. This Endo- 

 donta is the only close relative of the extremely rare E7idodo7ita 

 stelhda Gld. which is not at present represented in our collection. 



"The manuscripts prepared by your Curator for the Manual 

 of Conchology, dealing with Auriculella, Elasmias, Tornatillina, 

 7 ornatillides and Tornatillaria, have nearly all appeared during the 

 year. The Memoir on E7idodonta has received a good deal of at- 

 tention during the year, and work on one of the groups has been 

 completed. A shorter paper on new species of Aviastra which 

 have come to the Museum since Dr. Pilsbry's final publication is 

 in preparation, and as soon as all new species have been catalogued 

 will be finished. 



"Mr. W. H. Hoogs, Jr., very kindly gave his collection of 

 Hawaiian land shells to the Museum on November 9th. This 

 collection, numbering about two thousand specimens, contains a 

 number of interesting color forms of some of the Tantalus and 

 near-by colonies. Gifts of shells have been catalogued from the 

 following: Misses J. Kilbourne, A. and L. von Tempsky, A. T. 

 Cooke and C. A Cooke; Messrs A. F. Judd, L. A. Thurston, 

 I. Spalding, A. Gouveia, J. S. Emerson, T. C. White, D. T. 

 Fleming, P. Spalding, C. H. Cooke and G. P. Cooke; Masters 

 D. R. and C. Penhallow, E. von Tempsky, M. Desnouee, H. and 

 C. M. Cooke III." 



The Museum I^ibrary. "The annual reports of the Libra- 

 rian during the five years since the removal of the Library to the 

 new wing having been lists of accessions only, some details in 

 regard to the nature and progress of the work in this department 

 of the Museum may be of interest. 



' 'Library Records ayid Catalogtdng . The records of the Library 

 consist of two accession registers in book form — one for serials, re- 

 ceived chiefly by exchange, the other for single books and pam- 

 phlets — and an alphabetical or dictionarj' card catalogue. A card 

 catalogue is kept also of all publications sent to exchanges, and 



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