MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 5 



Dr. Faxon, who was away from Cambridge on leave of absence 

 for half of the year, reports good progress in the arrangement of 

 the Call collection of Unionidae and welcome additions to the 

 collections of Mollusca and Crustacea. 



The assistant in charge of Radiates, Dr. A. G. Mayer, has re- 

 signed from the Museum staff to accept an appointment in the 

 Museum of the Brooklyn Institute. 



The collection of Worms has received a valuable addition from 

 Professor Ludwig von Graff in a long series of specimens of Land- 

 planarians, co-types of many of the forms described by him in his 

 monograph of the group. To Dr. Sateiro Goto of Japan the col- 

 lection is also indebted for a series of Trematod types. Owing to 

 the accumulation of material gathered by Mr. Agassiz's expedi- 

 tions in the Pacific, the task of studying the large collection of 

 Nemerteans in the Museum with those of the U. S. National 

 Museum and the Columbia University Puget Sound Expedition, 

 has had to be abandoned by the assistant in charge, and Dr. Wes- 

 ley R. Coe of Yale University has undertaken to carry on the 

 work, limited to forms from the Pacific Coast. Since his return 

 to Cambridge lie has made good progress with his study- of the 

 Palolo or Bololo worm of Samoa and Fiji and allied Eunieidse 

 from the tropical Pacific, and will soon have ready his report on 

 the Nemerteans of the " Albatross" expedition of 1891. 



The palseontological collections have been enriched by two 

 specimens of great value in the purchase of complete skele- 

 tons of a gallinaceous bird and an alligator gar of large size, 

 both of Tertiary age. These unique specimens have been de- 

 scribed in the Bulletin of the Museum by Dr. Eastman and Mr. 

 F. A. Lucas. Dr. Eastman, in the interests of his department, is 

 visiting the fossil fields of the West, and his travels promise to 

 add largely to our collection of fossil vertebrates. 



From Joseph Willcox, of Philadelphia, there has been received 

 a valuable collection of Eocene shells from the " Isaac Lea Col- 

 lection " in the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences. This gift 

 comes as a contribution from a descendant of Gov. Thomas Dud- 

 ley, who signed the charter of Harvard College in 1650. 



To the Cuban teachers, who were entertained by the University 

 during the past summer, we are indebted for several small mis- 

 cellaneous collections. 



