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value are collections illustrating the work of insects, given by 

 Mr. E. B. Southwick and Mr. H. B. Weiss; Pacific Coast 

 invertebrates received as exchanges with Professor E. C. 

 Starks of Stanford University; invertebrates from Atlantic 

 cables collected and presented by Captain Benoit Boland; 94 

 vials of annulates as a gift from Professor A. L. Treadwell ; 

 invertebrates from Santo Domingo collected by Mr. Clarence 

 R. Halter of this Museum, and specimens of Cerion and of 

 other land shells from Turks Island in the Bahama group, 

 donated by Mr. L. L. Mowbray. 



RECENT AND EXTINCT FISHES, 

 EXISTING REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS 



Department of Ichthyology and Herpetology 



Bashford Dean, Curator Emeritus 

 Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Associate Curator of Herpetology 



FISHES 



The work of the present year is summarized under four 

 headings : Exhibition ; Study Collections ; Research and Pub- 

 lication ; Administration. 



In the foyer of the Museum a temporary exhibition was 

 arranged in the summer to illustrate "man-eating" sharks— 

 in response to many inquiries, for this was a "shark 

 year" along the Atlantic Coast, and a number of 

 bathers were killed or maimed. We showed, accordingly, 

 casts of a large white shark (Carcharodon), of a blue shark 

 (Prionace), of a brown shark (Carcharinus milberti), also 

 teeth and jaws, together with such "accessories" as pilot-fish 

 and sucking-fish. In the cases exhibiting fishes in their clas- 

 sificational arrangement, we record a number of changes : 

 many new labels were put in place, fprms were introduced to 

 fill gaps in the series, an anatomical model was made (illus- 

 trating the head structures of a lamprey) and a simply 

 mounted habitat group was installed. This shows the dolphin 

 Coryphcena in pursuit of flying fish which are scattering into 



