
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 8) 
From Miss L. S. Brewer, a number of ornithological books and 
pamphlets, including two volumes of colored drawings of eggs of 
North American birds; though unsigned, this series of drawings 
was evidently designed for the same work as the series given by 
Mr. Thayer. 
From the heirs of Thaddeus William Harris, a number of 
scarce pamphlets. 
From Dr. C. R. Eastman, several volumes of the reports of 
geological surveys and a collection of invertebrate fossils. 
From Mr. C. T. Ramsden, many vertebrates and invertebrates 
from Cuba. | 
From the University of Michigan, through Dr. A. G. Ruthven, 
specimens of Onychophora and Myriopoda from Colombia. 
From the Rev. John T. Gulick, a valuable collection of Hawaiian 
land shells. _ 
From Prof. H. W. Foote, the Arachnida collected during a 
Yale Peruvian expedition. 
From Mr. J. H. Emerton, Arachnida, including types of many 
new species. 
From Prof. C. H. Eigenmann, a collection of Myriopoda brought 
together and studied by the late Prof. C. H. Bollman, at the time 
of his death the principal American authority on the group. 
From Mr. F. C. Bowditch, a very large series of Chrysomelidae, 
a family of beetles, the special study of Mr. Bowditch. 
From Mr. E. D. Harris, a series of tiger beetles belonging to the 
genera Omus and Tetracha. 
From Mr. B. P. Clark, a number of Sphingidae (hawk moths) 
new to the collection. 
From the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Committee on the Zodlogy of the Sandwich Islands, a large and 
especially valuable collection of insects, a part of the material 
used in the preparation of the Fauna Hawaiiensis. 
From the Rev. George Schwab, a number of West African birds 
new to the collection. 
From Col. John Caswell, mounted heads of several species of 
African big game (Ungulata). 
From Mr. Copley Amory, apparatus for oceanographic work. 
The principal additions by purchase are the George Schwab 
West African collection, (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, 
and invertebrates); the Mexican lower vertebrates and several 
groups of invertebrates collected by Mr. W. M. Mann, and the 
Brazilian Myriopoda also collected by Mr. Mann in 1911; a 
