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condition. Arranged according to the Sharpe Hand-list, the entire 

 collection is readily accessible. Mr. Bangs has had the helpful 

 cooperation of Mr. T. E. Penard in some of his research work. 



Dr. Barbour reports the accession of an unusual number of 

 species of reptiles and amphibians previously unrepresented in the 

 collection. His field-work and his researches relate chiefly to the 

 fauna of the West Indies. 



Mr. Samuel Garman completed his study of the Galapagos tor- 

 toises in January and has since identified and rearranged certain 

 groups of fishes. As a temporary Assistant, Mr. Alvin Seale was 

 engaged from 17 October, 1916, until the close of the Museum year; 

 his work consisted of a critical revision including the labeling, cata- 

 loguing, and rearrangement of the greater part of the apodal and 

 serranoid fishes, and also a similar work upon a large part of the 

 clupeoid forms. 



The permanent staff of the Museum has been strengthened by 

 the appointment of Mr. Nathan Banks as Curator of Insects. 

 During the early years (1863-1867) of the Museum, the entomo- 

 logical collections were in charge of three Assistants, Samuel H. 

 Scudder, Alpheus S. Packard, Jr., and Philip R. Uhler, later three 

 eminent entomologists. In October, 1867, Dr. H. A. Hagen took 

 charge of the collections, and during his term of service which 

 lasted until his death, they were placed in the front rank of Uni- 

 versity collections. During the fifty years since Dr. Hagen's 

 appointment, the study of insects has become more and more 

 specialized, and the Museum is fortunate in its appointment of an 

 entomologist whose training and interests insure a broad and 

 equitable consideration of the work of his department. Mr. 

 Banks has most generously given to the Museum his private col- 

 lection of insects and arachnids, and also such of his books and 

 pamphlets which relate to the same as are not already in the 

 Museum Library; of his pamphlets more than 700 have been 

 entered and catalogued. His gift constitutes one of the largest 

 and most valuable entomological collections ever received by the 

 Museum; it includes most of the typical material described by 

 him since 1890, and is especially rich in neuropteroid insects and 

 in the Arachnida. 



Dr. R. V. Chamberlin completed his Memoir on the Albatross 

 Annelida Polychaeta, and his manuscript will go to press when the 

 eighty plates are printed. This will naturally require considerable 

 time, but the Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund enables the work 

 to proceed as fast as practicable. 



Mr. W. F. Clapp finished the rearrangement of the Gastropoda, 



