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Haitsma, Calvin College, Grand Eapids, Mich., a paratype of Stri- 

 gea iTnpatiMlis, a new holostomid trematode from the belted king- 

 fisher. 



Echinoderms. — The only accession calling for special notice was 

 the gift from the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, Calif., 

 through Prof. Walter K. Fisher, of four types of new species of 

 holothurians described by Harrington Wells. 



Plants. — Among more important accessions may be mentioned 

 68,244 specimens, received as a gift from the National Geographic 

 Society. Of this material 194 specimens are from New Mexico, 

 collected by members of the Carlsbad Cavern expedition, 8,050 speci- 

 mens were collected on the central China expedition of the society, 

 under the direction of F. R. Wulsin, and about 60,000 specimens 

 were secured in Yunnan and adjacent territory by J. F. Eock while 

 engaged in exploration under the auspices of the society. There 

 are, besides, three cases of botanical material collected in China 

 under the auspices of Mr. Wulsin which have not as yet been ar- 

 ranged, and 23,369 specimens, transferred by the Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, include about 

 2,800 mounted grasses and 20,000 specimens taken in Yunnan and 

 adjacent territory by J. F. Rock, during exploration in the interests 

 of the Department of Agriculture. 



Other important additions include the following: 1,309 specimens, 

 chiefly ferns and grasses, from Asia, received from the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, in exchange; 960 specimens of 

 Brazilian plants, received as an exchange from the Museu Nacional, 

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 611 specimens, collected in Venezuela, by 

 H. Pittier and by A. AUart, received from H. Pittier, Caracas, 

 Venezuela, by gifts and purchase; 1,160 specimens from Panama 

 and the northeastern United States, received as a gift from Ells- 

 worth P. Killip ; 486 specimens of tropical American plants, received 

 from the Universitetets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 

 in exchange; 804 specimens of plants from California, received 

 from Stanford University, California, in exchange; 441 specimens 

 of Costa Rican orchids, presented by Dr. Anastasio Alfaro, San 

 Jose, Costa Rica; 507 specimens from Cuba and Scandinavia, re- 

 ceived from the Riksmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, in exchange; 

 883 specimens, chiefly from lower California, received from the 

 California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Calif., in exchange; 

 500 specimens from New Mexico, collected for the Museum by Paul 

 C. Standley, associate curator, in cooperation with the National 

 Geographic Society; 1,932 specimens from the United States, re- 

 ceived from the Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Mo., in 

 exchange. In addition a number of collections were obtained as 



