40 ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1913. 



tween the Museum of Comparative Zoologj^ and the National Mu- 

 teum. Dr. W. L. Abbott, who continued his collecting work in 

 Kashmir, also maintained a naturalist in Borneo to extend the field 

 work which he had so effectively carried on for several years. From 

 the former region a large number of small mammals were received 

 during the year, and from the latter many specimens of mammals, 

 birds, and reptiles. Mr. Arthur de C. Sowerby transmitted mam- 

 mals and reptiles from China; Mr. D. D. Streeter, jr., collected 

 mammals and reptiles in Borneo; Mr. George Mixter visited Lake 

 Baikal, Siberia, and its vicinity, securing specimens of the native 

 bear, of the seal peculiar to the lake, and of a number of small 

 mammals; and Mr. Copley Amory, jr., joining a Coast Survey party 

 in Alaska, obtained many mammals, including several caribou and 

 an interesting series of bones of fossil species. Mr. A. C. Bent in 

 the course of investigations in Newfoundland and Labrador made 

 collections of birds, and Dr. Paul Bartsch and Dr. T. Wayland 

 Vaughan, as guests on the Carnegie steamer Anton Dohrn, collected 

 marine invertebrates among the Florida Keys, as did also Mr. John 

 B. Henderson, jr., by means of dredgings from his yacht EoUs. Mr. 

 Paul G. Russell, of the division of plants, who accompanied an ex- 

 pedition of the Carnegie Institution to the West Indies, secured for 

 the Museum several thousand botanical specimens. 



The division of mammals was fortunate in obtaining an excep- 

 tionally fine mounted specimen and skeleton of the rare okapi from 

 the Kongo region of Africa. The principal accessions of fishes and 

 marine invertebrates were from explorations by the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries in various parts of the Pacific Ocean, consisting mainly of col- 

 lections that had been studied and described. Among fishes were 

 the types of 110 new species, while the marine invertebrates included 

 extensive series of crustaceans and echinoderms, besides ascidians 

 and plankton material from the Atlantic coast. Mollusks were re- 

 ceived from various localities in North America and from the Ba- 

 hama Islands, Venezuela, South Australia, and the Dutch East 

 Indies. Of insects over 37,000 specimens were acquired, including 

 15,000 forest insects from West Virginia, valuable material from 

 India and Great Britain, and about 10,000 well-prepared beetles 

 from the District of Columbia, which are intended to be used in 

 connection with the exhibition series of the local fauna. The division 

 of plants was enriched to the extent of 140,000 specimens. The prin- 

 cipal addition consisted of some 80,000 specimens of grasses, trans- 

 ferred by the Department of Agriculture, which, with 12,800 speci- 

 mens purchased during the year and the material previously in the 

 herbarium, places the Museum in possession of the largest and most 

 comprehensive collection of grasses in this country. Other impor- 

 tant accessions were the Wooton collection of 10,000 plants mostly 



