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and Mr. C. A. Davis, many Bermuda shells, including several cotypes. 

 Among the specimens obtained by purchase was a large collection of 

 Japanese land and marine mollusks, and land shells from the Pacific 

 coast and the islands off California. Rev. L. T, Chamberlain presented 

 a small collection of rare river mussels. 



The division of marine invertebrates received a collection of Mex- 

 ican fresh-water crabs from the Biological Survey of the Department 

 of Agriculture; crustaceans from Catalina and San Clemente islands. 

 presented by Mr. H. N. Lowe; cotypes of a species of shrimp and of 

 a stomatopod crustacean from the National Museum of Brazil; several 

 beautiful specimens of four species of Japanese precious coral, from 

 Dr. K. Kishinouye, and a collection of sea urchins, chiefly from the 

 Gulf of Siam, from the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. 



The additions to the division of insects were numerous and valu- 

 able. Among those of greatest importance, next to the one already 

 mentioned, may be noted two lots of over 6,000 specimens from the 

 Department of Agriculture; an extensive collection of Coleoptera, 

 Lepidoptera, etc., made by Mr. K. A. Schwarz in Cuba; several lots of 

 Philippine insects from Rev. W. A. Stanton, of Manila, and one from 

 Mr. R. C. McGregor, of the Philippine Museum; a miscellaneous 

 collection from the grounds of the Washington Biologists 1 Field Club 

 at Plummers Island; a valuable collection of Lepidoptera, from Mr. 

 E. M. Anderson, of the Provincial Museum at Victoria. British Colum- 

 bia, and a large collection from Colorado and New Mexico from Prof. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell. From foreign sources the following collections 

 were received as gifts: Indian Hymenoptera from Maj. C. G. Nurse; 

 Indian spiders from Prof. N. Jambunathan; Venezuelan beetles from 

 Mr. Edward A. Klages; Peruvian insects from Mr. M. J. Pusey; 

 Norwegian Lepidoptera from Sir George Hampson, of the British 

 Museum, and Japanese Hymenoptera from Prof. S. Matsumura. of 

 Sapporo. 



Of 555 accessions to the division of plants, the most valuable was 

 the deposit made by Dr. E. L. Greene of his very valuable collection 

 of about 60,000 sheets of plants and his entire botanical library, con- 

 sisting of about 3,000 volumes and pamphlets. Next in importance 

 was the gift by Mrs. T. A. Williams, of Memphis, Nebraska, of about 

 15,000 specimens from various parts of the United States. Mr. C. V. 

 Piper, of Pullman, Washington, presented 658 plants from that State, 

 and Mr. E. W. D. Hoi way, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, an interesting 

 collection of Mexican plants. Important exchanges were made Avith 

 the Philippine Bureau of Agriculture, the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, and the Royal Gardens at Kew, England. Sixty-eight botanical 

 accessions were received from the Department of Agriculture, the 

 most important comprising specimens obtained in Texas by Mr. Arthur 

 Howell, in New Mexico and Oklahoma by Mr. Fred G. Pluinmer. and 



