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REPORT ON THE VERMES. 



By W. McM. Woodworth. 



During the past year the entire collection of Annelids has been 

 catalogued and arranged systematically, and considerable progress 

 has been made in cataloguing and arranging the other groups. 



The chief additions to the collections are a fine series of New 

 Zealand and Australian Land Planarians received from Mr. Arthur 

 Dendy, a collection of British Turbellaria from Mr. A. Lyster 

 Jameson, a collection of fresh-water Planarians from Professor 

 Paul Hallez, and one of Nemerteans from Dr. T. H. Montgomery. 

 Thanks are also due to Professor J. S. Kingsley for contributions 

 to the collections. 



The Museum Gordiidae were sent to Dr. T. H. Montgomery, and 

 have been returned by him with a report based upon the collection. 

 The Arenicolidae have been forwarded to Mr. F. W. Gamble, of 

 Queen's College, Manchester. 



The United States National Museum collection of Nemerteans 

 has been lent to the Assistant. This supplemented by the Museum 

 material forms a superb collection for the study of the representa- 

 tives of this group from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 



The Assistant has published the following papers during the past 

 year : — 



Notes on Turbellaria. Am. Naturalist, Vol. XXX., 1896. 



On the Occurrence of Filaroides mustelarum in American Skunks. Am. 

 Naturalist, Vol. XXXI., 1897. 



The Cambridge Natural History (a review). Science, N. S., Vol. V. 

 No. 129, 1897. 



On a Method of Graphic Reconstruction from Serial Sections. Zeitschr. 

 f. wiss. Mikroskopie, Bd. XIV, 1897. 



Contributions to the Morphology of the Turbellaria. II. On some 

 Turbellaria from Illinois. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. XXXI. No. 1. 

 1897. 



A report on the Planarians collected by the Barrier Reef Expe- 

 dition is nearly ready for the printer, and good progress has been 

 made with the " Albatross " Nemerteans. 



