8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



of the work of one of the ablest students of Pacific Coast Mollusca, 

 the late R. E. C. Stearns. 



The collections of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians, 

 have received many additions, the generous gifts of Dr. Thomas 

 Barbour. A second series, 350 species, of Japanese shells, choice 

 specimens selected from the stock of Y. Hirase, is also the gift of 

 Dr. Barbour. An excellent series of nearly 300 skins of mam- 

 mals, largely with skulls, chiefly from western North America, 

 is the gift of Dr. L. C. Sanford. 



The Museum is indebted to Dr. R. V. Chamberlin for a collec- 

 tion of fossils from Utah; to Prof. C. C. Nutting for a collection 

 of echinoderms; to the American Museum of Natural History for 

 twenty-two species of land mollusks from the Belgian Congo; 

 to the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Dr. E. L. Mark, 

 Director, for many marine mollusks from Bermuda; to Dr. R. C. 

 Murphy for a collection of arachnids from the Guano Islands of 

 Peru; to Mr. F. C. Bowditch for a large series of Chrysomelidae; 

 to Mr. G. H. Edwards for the tooth of a fossil elephant from Mon- 

 tana; to Mr. Hey ward Cutting for an Alaskan Moose, and to 

 Col. John E. Thayer for a series of small mammals from New 

 Mexico. 



From Dr. L. C. Sanford the Museum has received in exchange 

 a series of 73 species, 101 specimens of bird skins, and from the 

 U. S. National Museum, 59 species, 192 specimens; both series 

 contain many species new to the collection of the Museum; those 

 from the United States National Museum were obtained by Mr. 

 H. C. Raven in Celebes, Dr. Sanford's from many localities not 

 well represented in most collections. 



These accessions and those received during recent years show a 

 growth that justifies the hope that the Museum will, in the near 

 future, afford adequate facilities for the systematic study of the 

 birds of the World. In the Sharpe Hand List 2,647 genera of 

 recent birds are recognized; the Museum collection at present 

 contains specimens of 2,204 genera. 



Dr. G. M. Allen worked three days each week upon the collec- 

 tions of Mammals. He continued his study of the fossils collected 

 in the early Eighties by Messrs. Garman, Clifford, and Sternberg, 

 in the Tertiary formations of the Middle North American states. 



