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the highest standard of accuracy, beauty and permanency. 

 Among the sprays installed during the year are the hornbeam 

 (201 leaves), the Florida turkey oak (30 leaves), the Florida 

 bluejack oak (92 leaves), the Florida live oak (93 leaves), the 

 fringe tree (63 leaves), the paper birch (123 leaves), the sugar 

 maple (58 leaves), and the shellbark hickory (80 leaves). 



Mr. Barrington Moore, a graduate of the School of For- 

 estry, Yale University, has been appointed associate curator 

 in the department. Mr. Moore was a member of the United 

 States Forest Service from 1909 to 1914, and has done con- 

 siderable independent research in silvics and silviculture. It 

 is hoped that there will be notable progress in 191 7 in the 

 educational exhibits so long delayed because of lack of funds 

 and assistance. 



There have been some additions to the reference collection 

 of foreign woods and to the descriptive labels in the hall. The 

 walls of the hall have been tinted with a refreshing shade of 

 green that harmonizes well with the woods and the sprays of 

 flowers and leaves in the cases. Among accessions special 

 mention must be given to a small collection of California 

 woods presented by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, and to a valuable 

 specimen of the cones of Coulter's pine from 6,000 feet eleva- 

 tion in the San Jacinto Mountains. 



In addition to the work of the department of forestry and 

 that of herpetology, the editorship of The American Museum 

 Journal has been carried. 



EXISTING INVERTEBRATES 

 Department of Invertebrate Zoology 



Henry Edward Crampton, Curator 



The activities of the past year have been concerned largely 

 with the "consolidation" of the results of earlier field-work, 

 research, publication and exhibition, for the greater 

 effectiveness of the department as a part of the 

 Museum. Mr. Miner, assisted by Mr. Shimotori and Mr. 

 Olsen of the Preparation Staff, revisited Nahant and areas of 

 Cape Ann, Massachusetts, to make final studies of inverte- 



