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carefully packed to the steel trays in the steel cases provided for 
their safe storage. This has been done with care and the collec- 
tion was found generally in good order. Labels designating family, 
genus and species were printed and placed upon cases and trays, 
and the specimens were arranged in the cases, systematically in 
regard to the Hawaiian portion, and the balance of the collection 
geographically. This work has taken part of the last two years, 
and I have been assisted by Messrs. H. Leon Ebersole, Woods 
Peters, in their vacation time, and by my Secretary Richard Ern- 
est Lambert, until the catalogue is complete, so far as there is room 
in the cases, and each species can readily be found. Before under- 
taking the task, I did not imagine that the Museum presented so 
many species not only indigenous to these islands, but also from 
the other groups of the Pacific and the coast of California, and 
Australia and the East Indies. They are in such excellent cases, 
that with occasional airing the specimens should last many years, 
even if the Museum has no regular curator of ornithology. 
Pulmonata.—The Curator of Pulmonata, Dr. C. Montague 
Cooke, reports: 
‘In the year 1917 your Curator can report that more work 
has been accomplished than in any previous year. Practically all 
the material that has come in during the year has been catalogued 
except the specimens collected on Molokai during the early part of 
December. In addition numerous odd lots of shells were cata- 
logued, some of which had been acquired by collection or gift as 
fer back as 1913. ‘There still remain six different collections wait- 
ing to be catalogued (estimated between 50,000 and 75,000), made 
up for the most part of the genus Achatinella. As these shells 
ought to be numbered individually, your Curator does not feel like 
undertaking the work at present as the amount of time necessary 
to do this can be more advantageously employed. 
‘‘COLLECTION.—The type and cotype material belonging to the 
genus Auriculella has been catalogued and arranged in the collec- 
tion. Also the entire collection of this genus, made before 1905, 
was entered into the catalogue. This contained more than 14,000 
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