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determination of the species, the large number of types described 

 by the donors, and many cotypes of Count Keyserling, Simon, 

 and others. This collection, combined with that previously 

 formed, makes one of the most important of the family in ex- 

 istence. 



Dr. Roland Thaxter's stay in Grenada and Trinidad has added 

 much desirable material to many departments of the Museum; 

 his beautiful series of more than two dozen specimens of Peripatus 

 is especially noteworthy. 



To Prof. Harrison W. Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, the Museum is indebted for a valuable series of verte- 

 brates and invertebrates obtained during his trip to Sarawak, 

 Borneo. Probably the specimen most worthy of note received 

 from Professor Smith is shown on Plate 1. This species, Lantha- 

 notus borneensis, of which until recently there were but two speci- 

 mens, one in the Museum at Sarawak and the other in Vienna, 

 is related to the poisonous Helodermatidae of North America, and 

 is the only representative of the Lanthanotidae. 



The Museum is also indebted to the Hon. W. C. Forbes for 

 many desirable vertebrates, principally birds, obtained in the 

 Philippines, a number of which were new to the Museum col- 

 lection; to Prof. J. I. Westengard for an excellent specimen of 

 Herpetodon tentaculatum, an aquatic snake peculiar to the brackish 

 waters of Siam and Cochin China; to Mr. L. W. Swett for the 

 types of 78 species of Geometridae described by himself and 

 others in recent years; to Prof. F. W. Putnam for a large series of 

 fishes brought together many years ago; and to Col. John Caswell 

 for a number of birds and mammals collected during his recent 

 trip to Eastern Africa. 



Acknowledgement for gifts to the collections are also due Miss 

 H. E. Hooker, Miss M. R. Rotch, Drs. W. S. Bigelow, A. C. 

 Coolidge, and W. M. Wheeler. 



The details of the work accomplished in the several departments, 

 and the additions to the same received during the year, will be 

 found in the reports of the Curators. 



Through the zeal of Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant, the collection 

 of Araneinae continues in excellent condition, with recent acces- 

 sions properly incorporated, and the whole well labeled and 

 arranged. 



Mr. George Nelson's work has been continued along the same 

 lines as in recent years. He has mounted for exhibition a number 

 of fishes, reptiles, and mammals, one of the latter group, a series of 



