MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



earlier gifts of Dr. Barbour, gives the Museum a very serviceable 

 representation of the shells of the Japanese province. 



A gift of great scientific value has been received from the Pea- 

 body Museum of Yale University through Prof. Charles Schuchert. 

 It consists of a series of specimens of a trilobite, Triarthrus becki 

 Green, showing appendages; these specimens are a part of the 

 original set prepared and studied by Prof. C. E. Beecher, and are, 

 according to Professor Schuchert, in completeness -and value 

 secondary only to the series at Yale. 



The Museum is greatly indebted to Mr. Arthur F. Gray for the 

 gift of his collection of shells, an enormous series of several million 

 specimens, the accumulation of a life-time of a close student and 

 zealous collector. Mr. Gray's studies were associated with the 

 work of many conchologists, and his collection contains a large 

 amount of original material from the collections of W. G. Binney, 

 Thomas Bland, and James Lewis, three distinguished students of 

 the land shells of the United States and the Antilles. 



The Museum is likewise indebted to Col. John E. Thayer for a 

 beautiful series of mammals from New Mexico, California, and 

 Victoria Land, and for a similar series of reptiles and amphibians 

 from New Mexico; to Mr. Charles P. Curtis for a collection of 

 mammals and birds from British East Africa; to Mr. T. E. 

 Penard for a number of birds from Surinam; to Prof. H. W. Smith 

 for a large and well-preserved collection of reptiles from Sarawak; 

 to Prof. J. B. Woodworth for the type of Dromopus woodworthi 

 Lull; to Prof. W. M. Wheeler for a collection of Chinese ants, in- 

 cluding the types of new species, and for a number of interesting 

 insects from British Guiana; and to Dr. William Barnes for 

 several types of Plume-moths, Pterophoridae. 



Of other accessions the following may be noted : — 



From Dr. J. C. Phillips, a fine head (mounted) of Pere David's 

 Deer; from the Rev. George Schwab, a considerable series of bird 

 skins and fresh-water fishes; from the Raffles Museum, bird skins 

 from Sarawak; from Mr. C. T. Ramsden, a collection of Cuban 

 fishes; from Stanford University, through Chancellor emeritus 

 D. S. Jordan, a slab of diatom rock showing Xyne grex Jordan 

 and Gilbert, a Miocene representative of the Herrings; from 

 Mr. B. P. Clark, a number of Sphingidae new to the collec- 



