8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



sendings have been prepared by Rowland Ward and are presented 

 as the joint gift of Mr. de Milhau and the late Mr. J. W. Hastings. 



The Museum is also indebted to Miss H. E. Hooker, and to 

 Messrs. E. N. Fischer, Henry Hales, and William McNeil for 

 specimens for its collection of domestic fowls, to Col. John Caswell 

 for a skin and skeleton of the rare African Nandi Maned Rat, 

 Lophiomys testudo, to Mr. R. A. Spaeth for a series of copepods, 

 to Prof. W. M. Wheeler for some desirable arachnids and myrio- 

 pods from the western United States, and to the American museum 

 of natural history for the skin and skeleton of the West Indian 

 Seal, Monachus tropicalis. Prof. J. B. Woodworth and Mr. R. W. 

 Sayles have presented fossils of value, and acknowledgment is also 

 due Mr. W. T. Davis and the Hon. Mason Mitchell for specimens 

 sent to the Museum. 



Thanks to the kind interest of Mr. J. H. Emerton and Miss 

 E. B. Bryant the collection of Araneida is in excellent condition; 

 by their work and their gifts the value of the collection is greatly 

 enhanced. 



The Museum is indebted to Prof. S. F. Clarke for the identifica- 

 tion of a series of hydroids loaned him for study several years ago. 

 Prof. A. E. Verrill has studied at the Museum such of the alcyo- 

 narian corals as relate to his report on the species collected by the 

 U. S. C. S. S. "Blake." For this report ninety-eight plates have 

 been delivered and the text and remaining plates are well advanced. 



The ornithological collections have profited greatly by the 

 zealous work of Mr. Bangs. The addition of a large case for the 

 research collection of skins has enabled him to arrange the passer- 

 ine families, Fringillidae to Streperidae inclusive, in the order of 

 Sharpe's Hand-list; this work necessitated the reidentification of 

 many skins and also took considerable time for labeling and 

 cataloguing. In addition to the above, Mr. Bangs has kept the 

 ordinary current work of the ornithological department well in 

 hand. 



Mr. Robert W. Sayles who has had charge of the exhibition 

 collections in the Geological Section of the Museum since December, 

 1906, is rapidly making the rooms devoted to these collections 

 instructive to students and attractive to the general visitor. 

 Attention may be called to a model illustrative of earthquake 

 action and to one of a Japanese earthquake-proof house, that have 

 been installed this year. 



Dr. G. M. Allen has continued his work on the collection of 

 mammals; he has finished the revision of the Muridae, Spalacidae, 



