4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



From the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes the Museum has received 

 an immense series of Philippine shells. Governor Forbes's gift 

 contains many species of great beauty and rarity new to the col- 

 lection, but its principal value to the Museum consists in its bulk, 

 a million specimens is a very conservative estimate, which in many 

 cases affords unequalled material for studies in variation. 



Considerable series of invertebrate fossils, shells, insects, fishes, 

 and birds have been received from the Boston Society of Natural 

 History according to the plan of cooperation agreed upon in 1914. 

 The Museum's return consists of a series of New England shells 

 and a few representative species selected by the Curator of the 

 Society for its general collection. The Museum's Preparators 

 also serve the Society upon request. 



The Museum is indebted to Prof. W. M. Wheeler for series of ants, 

 and other insects and of arachnids; to Mr. E. D. Harris for very 

 many Cicindelidae; to Mr. F. C. Bowditch for additional Chryso- 

 melidae; to Mr. B. P. Clark for a number of hawk moths; to 

 Mr. A. H. Clark for an exhibition series of Lepidoptera (Denton 

 mounts) ; to Mr. C. P. Wilson for an especially large Alligator Gar; 

 to Mr. G. R. Agassiz for a Tarpon; to Mr. Daniel Vincent for two 

 valuable vertebrate fossils from Gay Head, and to Mr. H. K. 

 Balch for the heads of Moose from northern Minnesota. 



The death of the Rev. Henry W. Winkley at Danvers on 

 4 February, 1918, is recorded with regret. In June, 1906, the 

 Museum received Mr. Winkley's large and valuable series of 

 land shells collected in many parts of the world with the exception 

 of New England. Since that date Mr. Winkley had shown a 

 deep interest in the Museum collection of Mollusca and had 

 contributed to it many specimens of value. Miss Ruth Winkley, 

 in accordance with the wishes of her father, has given to the 

 Museum his collection of New England shells, a collection well 

 identified and labeled, and especially rich in minute and closely 

 allied species. 



The death of Mr. Goodwin Warner is also recorded with regret. 

 Recently, and' on more than one occasion, Mr. Warner aided 

 most effectively in field-work carried on by the Museum. Mr. 

 Warner at the time of his death, which occurred in France, 29 

 June, 1918, of pneumonia, was second lieutenant American 

 Expeditionary Forces. 



Work upon the collection of mammals has been continued by 

 Dr. G. M. Allen, who has identified and catalogued recent acces- 

 sions and made excellent progress in incorporating much of the 

 fossil material with the osteological series. This work is complete 



