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seum by the late Col. Thomas L. Casey. For 40 years Colonel Casey 

 devoted his available time to building up and working with this 

 magnificent collection. The results of his studies, including the 

 description of about 5,000 new species, the types of which are in 

 the collection, fill a series of volumes published privately by the 

 author. The basic importance of this collection to entomologists 

 will be appreciated as well as the necessity for the utmost care re- 

 quired in labeling and recording before these specimens can be made 

 available for critical study by other specialists. It has been decided 

 to keep the collection exclusively in the curator's charge until the 

 requisite work of proper installation has been completed. 



Another collection, second only to the preceding in importance 

 received as a transfer from the Bureau of Entomology of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, is the Fernald collection of micro- 

 lepidoptera, formed by Prof. C. H. Fernald, of Amherst, Mass., and 

 purchased from his estate because of the importance of the 600 or 

 more types of economic species which it contains. A large and im- 

 portant collection of insects was received from Rev. D. C. Graham, 

 Suifu, China, collected mainly in the mountainous regions of western 

 China from which the Museum had little material except from 

 previous sendings by the same collector. Several important gifts of 

 moths and other insects were received during the year from Prof. 

 C. F. Baker, dean of the College of Agriculture, Los Bafios, P. I. 

 A collection of 2,800 specimens from Argentina was received as a 

 gift from G. L. Harrington of Buenos Aires. A gift of local insects, 

 mostly lepidoptera, comprising about 1,600 specimens, were received 

 from Miss Kate B. Preston, of Alexandria, Va. 



Marine invertebrates. — Prof. S. F. Light, department of zoology, 

 University of California, donated more than 700 specimens of Crus- 

 tacea collected at Amoy, China, and adjacent regions. Dr. Hugh M. 

 Smith sent a number of marine invertebrates, mostly crustaceans, 

 from Siam. A collection of marine invertebrates, comprising 800 

 specimens, was made at the Tortugas in July and August, 1924, 

 by the curator, Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, under the auspices of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, D. C. Among other noteworthy 

 accessions may be mentioned two sections of a submarine telegraph 

 cable with barnacles attached, collected by the United States cable 

 ship Dellwood and transferred by the Signal Corps, United States 

 War Department, through Col. C. A. Seoane, and a series of com- 

 mercial sponges from the Bahamas and Florida, transferred by 

 the Bureau of Fisheries, United States Department of Commerce. In 

 addition various smaller collections were received from indivdual 

 collectors that added species new to the Museum. By exchange with 

 the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, through Theodore Monod, 



