MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 



graduate studies in the Fiji Islands, collecting there for nine 

 months, August, 1915-April, 1916. A part of the collections 

 secured, including shells, arachnids, myriopods, insects, amphi- 

 bians, and reptiles, often in large series, was received in July, 1916. 

 These collections and the reports received from time to time from 

 Dr. Mann showed that the value of his Fijian studies would be 

 enhanced by similar work among the Solomon Islands. For this 

 work, the Museum provided the necessary funds from its own 

 resources, and the latest advice received from Dr. Mann (dated 

 18 June, 1916), indicates that a successful beginning has been 

 made at Malaita and Tulagi. 



Accepting the courteous invitation of Dr. A. G. Mayer, Director 

 of the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution 

 of Washington, Dr. H. L. Clark enjoyed the facilities afforded 

 by the temporary station of the Institution at Tobago. Echino- 

 derms, the special object of Dr. Clark's search, were abundant, 

 and nearly 2,000 specimens of 75 species were secured; many of 

 these species are new to the collections, others are inadequately 

 represented. The few days devoted to the collection of land 

 animals yielded small series of reptiles, insects, myriopods, arach- 

 nids, and mollusks. A number of specimens of Peripatus, the 

 most interesting of the land animals obtained, were brought to 

 Cambridge alive. 



Professor Raymond's field-work was limited to a single trip to 

 the Catawba Valley, near Salem, Virginia, where a considerable 

 number of invertebrate fossils of Ordovician age were secured. 



For the services of Mr. G. K. Noble as a member of the Expedi- 

 tion to Peru, the Museum is indebted to the generosity of Prof. 

 Theodore Lyman. 



As in recent years, the Museum is indebted to Miss Elizabeth B. 

 Bryant for her interest in and work upon the collection of Araneina. 

 A similar service has been rendered by Mr. L. W. Swett, whose 

 preliminary rearrangement of the Geometridae is progressing 

 most satisfactorily. 



Dr. G. M. Allen's duties for three days of each week have been 

 along the same lines as those of recent years; these are the usual 

 curatorial work of identification, labeling, and arrangement of 

 the collection of mammals, fossil and recent. Dr. Allen has pre- 

 pared for publication a catalogue of the type specimens of mam- 

 mals contained in the Museum, a time-consuming research, as 

 much of the type material of fifty years ago was not specifically 

 labeled as such. 



