the African and Pacific Faunal Rooms. The first invoice of mate- 

 rial to illustrate the fauna of Japan has safely reached us. 



Extensive changes and repairs in the Entomological Department 

 have greatly facilitated the use of the collections, upon which Mr. 

 Henshaw presents his first annual report. The collections of the 

 Museum generally continue in good condition. The reports of 

 the Assistants of the Museum will give the details of the work ac- 

 complished, and of the additions to the collections received in their 

 departments during the past year. 



Upon Professor Faxon, who has been placed in charge of the 

 collection of Invertebrates, has also fallen the principal share of 

 the care of the Museum as a whole since he began his duties, and 

 the improvement in the general appearance of the Exhibition Rooms 

 is very marked. We are indebted to Professor Hyatt for the care 

 he has given to the Palaeontological Collections in his charge, and 

 to Mr. Brewster for his interest in supervising the arrangement 

 of the Greene Smith Collection of North American Birds. 



On the 9th of November Dr. Hagen died, in his seventy- 

 seventh year, after a lingering and painful illness of more than 

 three years. Dr. Hagen joined the Museum staff in 1867, and 

 until incapacitated in 1890 he devoted his time and energies 

 to the interests of the institution with which he had cast his lot. 

 In 1876 he refused an urgent invitation to assume the charge of 

 the entomological collection of the University of Berlin, the great- 

 est scientific prize perhaps in his department. He built up the 

 exceptionally interesting biological collection of the entomologi- 

 cal department from nothing, and the comparatively small collec- 

 tion of Insects which he found on entering upon his duties he has 

 left greatly increased in size and value. His varied and extensive 

 information was always at the service of the specialists who fre- 

 quented his laboratory. During his connection with the Museum 

 Dr. Hagen published a great number of papers on entomological sub- 

 jects. Unfortunately for his influence on the progress of Entomology 

 in this country his publications were usually printed in German. 



With regard to the " Blake " publications, two additional me- 

 moirs have been published, — a Bulletin on the Northern Atlantic 

 Mollusca collected by the " Blake " during the summer of 1880, by 

 Miss Katharine J. Bush, and an elaborate monograph on the Pagu- 

 ridae by Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards and Mr. Bouvier, illus- 

 trated with twelve quarto plates. Professor Milne-Edwards has also 



