38 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



The total number of accessions received during the year is given in 

 Mr. Dall's report as 87. The total number of specimens received is 

 estimated at 3,500, representing about 1,200 species. Valuable collec- 

 tions have been contributed by Mr. Henry Hemphill, from Lower Cali- 

 fornia. Important additions to the fauna of Florida have been received 

 from Messrs. G. W. Webster, J. J. White, and I. Greegor; and collec- 

 tions of West Florida shells have been presented by Mr. W. F. De- 

 Golier. The Geological Survey has transferred to the Museum a val- 

 uable collection of Post Pliocene types, illustrating the paper of Mr. 

 R. E. Call in regard to the fresh- water fossils of Bonneville Lake Basin, 

 Utah. A series of the smaller species of land shells has been presented 

 by Dr. Sterki. Mr. W. G. Binney has contributed several additions 

 to the Binney collection of American land-shells. A series of slides 

 of sections of typical mollusks has been received from Dr. P. H. Car- 

 penter, of Eton College, England. 



Mr. Dall reports that about 75,000 specimens are now ready for sys- 

 tematic arrangement in the new cases which have been provftled for 

 this Department. 



Department of Insects. — Prof. C. V. Riley, entomologist of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, continues in charge of the Department of 

 Insects. The laboratory space of this department has been enlarged. 

 The educational series in the exhibition hall has been improved. A 

 large number of illustrations of North American insects, prepared by 

 Professor Riley for exhibition at the Paris Exposition, have been added 

 to the exhibition series 



Several important accessions have been received during the year. 

 Lord Walsingham has presented 125 species of rare Micro-Lepidoptera. 

 Mr. A. Koebele has placed in the collection a well-mounted series of 

 Australian and New Zealand insects, and has also presented to the 

 Museum 4,000 specimens of insects, chiefly Coleoptera, collected by 

 him in California. A collection representing 120 species of Lepidoptera 

 from East Africa has been received from Dr. W. L. Abbott, the col- 

 lector. An interesting collection of West and South African insects 

 collected by Mr. William Harvey Brown, has been received. The col- 

 lection of insects belonging to the late Dr. Asa Fitch, and purchased 

 by the Department of Agriculture, has been placed in the Museum. 



The arrangement of the collection of North American Coleoptera has 

 been completed. Several special researches on entomological subjects, 

 and relating more or less to Museum material, have been made during 

 the year by the curator, and by Messrs. L. O. Howard, of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture; John B. Smith, formerly assistant curator; W. 

 H. Ashmead, and Lawrence Brunei". 



About 15,000 specimens have been added to the collection during the 

 year, and 89 entries have been made in the catalogue. 



Department of Marine Invertebrates. — Mr. Richard Rathbun, honor- 

 ary curator, reports iucreased activity in the work of his department, 



