66 Report of the President 



During the year the following have been catalogued: The 



Tomlin Collection, the marine Gastropods of the Steward 



Collection, the Achatinellid Collection, the 



~ °.. us r Achatinellids and other Hawaiian shells re- 



collections 



ceived in exchange from Dr. C. Montague 



Cooke, and the Oldroyd Collection. Through the courtesy of 

 Dr. C. Montague Cooke, the entire Museum collection of 

 Hawaiian Achatinellid shells was reidentified and revised, 

 and many gaps were filled by exchange. This time-consuming 

 process has proceeded most satisfactorily. The large Steward 

 Collection was removed from the Mineral Hall and arranged 

 in its proper place in the collection, and the Belgian Congo 

 land shells, as well as several smaller collections, were dis- 

 tributed into the series. 



Dr. Crampton returned from his sixth trip in Pacific 

 regions, in the latter part of February. Through his 



efforts, the Museum is enriched by a large num- 

 w , ber of specimens representative of the fauna of 



the Mariana Islands, Manila, China, Siam, the 

 Malay Peninsula, the Dutch East Indies and Australia. He 

 was able to secure for purposes of research nearly 10,000 

 specimens of snails of the Genus Partula, alone, from more 

 than forty localities in Guam and Saipan of the Mariana Is- 

 lands. Professor Crampton brought back 60 vials of Myria- 

 pods, miscellaneous land shells, worms and isopods, as well 

 as numerous marine shells. He also secured 3,000 dried in- 

 sect specimens, about 40 specimens of reptiles and amphib- 

 ians, a number of items of ethnological interest, and some 

 geological specimens from Australia. 



During September, Mr. Miner visited Mount Desert Is- 

 land, Maine, where, through the courtesy of Director Ulric 

 Dahlgren and his associates of the Harpswell Laboratory, 

 a preliminary examination of the coastal invertebrate fauna 

 of the region was made. Through the cooperation of Pro- 

 fessor Dahlgren and Mr. William Procter, ten localities were 

 visited on the island and collections were obtained in each 

 with appropriate data, while numerous photographs were 

 secured. Cordial relations were established with the labora- 

 tory officials, and preliminary arrangements made for future 



