MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



for the proboscideans and palaeotheres. The accession most 

 worthy of note is several specimens of Capromys nana a small 

 Cuban rodent. This species first described in March, 1917, was 

 based on some fragments of jaws found in cave-deposits in a 

 subfossil condition. The living individuals were secured by or 

 through the aid of Dr. Thomas Barbour. 



Mr. Bangs's constant work upon the collection of birds keeps 

 pace with the growth and development of the same. Throughout 

 the year, Mr. Bangs has enjoyed the cooperation of Mr. T. E. 

 Penard to whom the Museum is also indebted for several types of 

 Surinam birds. The notable accessions include series from the 

 Cameroons and Hawaii, (purchased), New Guinea and Cuba, 

 (gift of Dr. Thomas Barbour), and Surinam, (gift of Mr. F. F. 

 Jonesberg) . 



About six months of the Museum year were spent by Dr. 

 Thomas Barbour in Cuba, during which time the interests of the 

 Museum were advanced when not inconsistent with the duties 

 which occasioned his stay in Cuba. Among the more impor- 

 tant accessions to the collections of reptiles and amphibians, 

 Dr. Barbour mentions a series of venomous snakes of Brazil, 

 (gift of Dr. Vitel Brazil), amphibians from Central Peru, (gift of 

 Mr. J. M. Boutwell), and Cuban reptiles, (gift of Mr. C. T. 

 Ramsden). 



Mr. Garman's work upon the fishes, owing to the extent of the 

 year's accessions, has been almost wholly curatorial. These acces- 

 sions include, among others, collections from North America, 

 (F. W. Putnam), Japan, (E. S. Morse), Hawaii, (C. F. Winslow), 

 Cuba, (F. Poey), and the embryos, dissections, and skeletons, 

 the basis of many of the classic memoirs of Dr. Jeffries Wyman. 

 All the above were received from the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. Collections from Michigan, (gift of Prof. Jacob Reig- 

 hard), Bermuda (gift of Dr. E. L. Mark), and Cuba, (gift of Dr. 

 Thomas Barbour), are also noteworthy. Mr. Alvin Seale, as a 

 temporary Assistant, has worked throughout the year upon the 

 clupeoid fishes. He has studied not only the extensive series 

 in this Museum but also the collections of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, Leland Stanford Junior University, U. S. National Museum, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the American 

 Museum of Natural History; the officials of these museums most 

 courteously gave Mr. Seale every facility for his work, a work 

 which has enabled him to examine most of the types extant in the 

 United States. Mr. Seale effected some interchanges of specimens 

 advantageous to the collection of the Museum. 



