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Hawaiian plants received from members of the staff include a large number of 

 rusts and other fungi collected and determined by F. L. Stevens, specimens of 

 Abutilon collected by Otto H, Swezey, and three plants' collected on Haw^aii by 

 Gerrit P. Wilder. 



The large and important collection of approximately 28,000 specimens brought 

 together at the Station of the Board of Agriculture and Forestry and at the Uni- 

 versity of Hawaii by J. F. Rock was transferred to the Museum by arrangement 

 with these institutions. 



From the Austral Islands, Robert T. .-Mtken and John F. G. Stokes, members 

 of the Bayard Dominick E-xpendition, brought back approximately 1,600 dried plants 

 and 120 wood samples. A. J. Fames obtained about i.ooo sheets of specimens dur- 

 ing his short stay in Samoa in 1920. By far the largest accession is that of 9,000 

 specimens of dried plants and 120 wood samples collected by Forest B. H. Brown 

 and Elizabeth Wuist Brown during two years of field work in the Marquesas. Tua- 

 motu archipelago and New Zealand. 



Collections of plants procured outside of Hawaii include also several hundred 

 specimens collected in southern Polynesia by the Whitney South Seas Expedition 

 and received in exchange from the American Museum of Natural History ; 80 

 specimens collected on Fanning Island by Stanley C. Ball and Charles' H. Edmond- 

 son of the Bishop Museum staff ; 274 plants from Borneo purchased from their 

 collector, Mr. A. E. D. Elmer : 300 specimens collected and donated by Mr. D. 

 Wesley Garber of Samoa, 390 Philippine specimens given by Mr. E. D. Merrill, and 

 131 Samoan plants collected and presented by Professor W. A. Setchell of the Uni- 

 versity of California. 



SHELLS 



From the report of C. Montague Cooke, Jr., Malacologist, the following notes 

 on accessions have been abstracted : 



Exchanges have been arranged with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, the American Museum of Natural History and the Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology. From the Philadelphia Academy specimens of Pacific zonitoids and 

 endodonts and paratypes of two species of tornatellids' were received. From the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology. 135 lots of shells were received, among them the 

 paratypes of species established by Pease, Gulick, and Newcomb. The type speci- 

 mens of Planamastra prostrata and P. depressiformis found in the collection of this 

 Museum proved to be non-Hawaiian species. (See Nautilus, vol. XXXVI, 1922). 

 Mr. W. F. Clapp, Curator of MoUusca, contributed additional material. 



From the American Museum 16 lots of shells were received. Probably the rarest 

 species acquired is the Carclia liyaltiana, of which but seven specimens are known. 

 The one we received has been carefully compared with the type specimen in the 

 collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and there is no doubt 

 that the identification is correct. Other important species from the American 

 Museum are Amastra pctricola and pusilla. The former, as far as I know, has not 

 been collected since Newcomb, in 1850 or 1851, found his original lot, and as these 

 specimens were received by the American Museum from Newcomb, they may be 

 considered as paratypes. The Boston Society of Natural History gave to the 

 Museum a small but very valuable series of Endodontidae. which contains a single 

 specimen of Thaumatodon stcllula from the Mayo collection. 



Collections were made by Marie C. Neal on Kauai, and on Hawaii, in Kohala 

 district and near the Volcano House. The material from Kauai included a new 

 genus of operculate land shells. Collecting expeditions were made by C. Montague 

 Cooke, Jr., to Kauai, Maui, and to the Waianae Mountains. Oaliu. Mr. Cooke 

 reports : 



