4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



to three months, Mr. Noble got together a considerable series of 

 mammals (125 specimens), birds (507 specimens), and reptiles and 

 amphibians (5,000 -f specimens) ; also a few fishes, and interesting 

 invertebrates, among the latter a new species of Peripatus (P. 

 peruvianus Brues). 



Field-work in the West Indies was carried on by Messrs. G. M. 

 Allen (Porto Rico), Thomas Barbour (Cuba), W. S. Brooks (Cuba 

 and the Isle of Pines), J. L. Peters (Anegada, Porto Rico, St. 

 Thomas, Tortola, and the Virgin Islands), and Goodwin Warner 

 (Cuba and the Isle of Pines). The collections made, though 

 chiefly recent reptiles and birds, include a quantity of bones of 

 fossil mammals from the cave deposits of Cuba, the Isle of Pines, 

 and Porto Rico. 



Dr. W. M. Mann, on the conclusion of his stay among the Solo- 

 mon Islands, collected in Australia. His material from the 

 Solomons, though not thoroughly assorted, contains large series 

 of reptiles and land invertebrates, many of which are new to the 

 Museum collections and to science. This is also true of Dr. Mann's 

 Fijian collections, a part of which were but recently received. 



Dr. H. L. Clark was enabled, through the kindness of Dr. A. G. 

 Mayer, Director of the Department of Marine Biology of the 

 Carnegie Institution of Washington, to spend the month of June 

 at the Laboratory of the Institution at the Tortugas. His col- 

 lections, chiefly echinoderms, contain a few species new to science, 

 as well as others of exceptional interest. 



Prof. P. E. Raymond continued his field-work in the Middle 

 Ordovician of New York. In his work he was assisted by Mr. 

 T. H. Clark, who, later at Martinsburg, made a large collection of 

 fossils which he has presented to the Museum. 



The thanks of the Museum are due Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant 

 for her work upon the collection of Araneina, to Mr. L. W. Swett 

 for his work upon the Geometridae, and to Prof. Carlos de la 

 Torre and to Messrs. J. B. Henderson, Goodwin Warner, and Walter 

 Wilcox who gave most efficient assistance in the field-work in Cuba 

 and the Isle of Pines. 



The new accessions to the collection of mammals, about 1 ,500 

 specimens, have been identified and catalogued by Dr. G. M. Allen, 

 who has also finished the rearrangement of the rodents and made a 

 beginning of the perissodactyles. Dr. Allen has also spent consider- 

 able time in working out from the matrix many hitherto unknown 

 fossils from Cuba and Porto Rico and in describing the same. 



Mr. Outram Bangs's constant work during recent years has 

 brought the ornithological collection into thoroughly satisfactory 



