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REPORT ON VERMES. 



By W. McM. Woodworth. 



Owing to the Assistant's absence from Cambridge during a large 

 part of the year, but little progress was made in the arrangement 

 of the collections. A generous share of the Turbellarian material 

 collected by the Biological Experiment Station of the University 

 of Illinois, and recently reported upon by its Assistant, has been 

 received from that institution. The Department is indebted to Mr. 

 H. Lyster Jameson for two small collections of European Turbel- 

 laria supplementing the larger collection presented by him last 

 year. Thanks are also due to Messrs. R W. Hall and R H. John- 

 son, and to Lieut. Wirt Robinson, for additions to the collections. 



The Museum collection of Gordiacea loaned to Dr. T. H. Mont- 

 gomery has been returned by him, and his report on the collection 

 published as one of the Bulletins of the Museum. 



The authorities of the Zoological Department of Columbia Uni- 

 versity have loaned to the Assistant the splendid collections of 

 West Coast Nemerteans of the Columbia expedition to Puget 

 Sound. With the collection have also been loaned the prepara- 

 tions, drawings, and notes of the late B. B. Griffin, who had begun 

 the study of the collection. It will be the endeavor of the Assist- 

 ant to complete the work so well begun by Mr. Griffin. 



Good progress has been made with the work on the " Alba- 

 tross " Nemerteans, which has been interrupted by long absences 

 from Cambridge. 



The Assistant has published Some Planarians from the Great 

 Barrier Reef of Australia. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zob'L, Vol. XXXII. 

 No. 4, pp. 63-67. 1 Plate, April, 1898. 



