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published as one volume of text (514 pp.) and one of eighty plates, 

 gives a taxonomic account of 162 forms, of which 118 are described 

 for the first time. Two numbers of the Memoirs complete two 

 additional volumes; one, (vol. 35, no. 5), by Dr. F. M. MacFarland, 

 includes an account of a small subfamily (Dolabellinae) of mol- 

 lusks obtained during the 1899-1900 cruise of the Albatross, and 

 in another number, (vol. 45, no. 2), by Prof. Harold Heath, the 

 Solenogastres of the eastern coast of North America are described 

 and figured. 



Mr. Sayles's Memoir, (vol. 47, no. 1), Seasonal Deposition in 

 Aqueo-Glacial Sediments, is the first quarto publication of the 

 Museum of a purely geological nature published for more than 

 thirty years. The Reptiles and Amphibians of Cuba by Dr. 

 Thomas Barbour and Mr. C. T. Ramsden constitute the subject 

 matter of the second number of vol. 47, a memoir of 148 pages with 

 fifteen plates. Five numbers of the Bulletin contain reports based 

 on Museum collections; three are Contributions from the Ento- 

 mological Laboratory of the Bussey Institution, the collections 

 reported upon being in part Museum material; three Bulletins 

 contain reports upon field-work undertaken for the Museum; one 

 is an annotated list of the Amphibia caudata contained in the 

 Museum; and one is a Contribution from the Zoological Labora- 

 tory. 



Toward the Contributions from the Laboratories, the Corpora- 

 tion contributed $200. — . 



William Brewster died in Cambridge, 11 July, 1919. Keenly 

 interested from early boyhood in the ways of birds, Mr. Brewster 

 spent much of his life afield, acquired a broad and accurate knowl- 

 edge of the life-habits of North American birds, and got together 

 a large and valuable series of the same, their nests and eggs, all, 

 scientifically, in exceptional condition. Mr. Brewster was in 

 charge of the ornithological collections of the Museum from 1885 

 until his death; he also had charge of the collection of mammals 

 from 1885 until 1900. In accepting Mr. Agassiz's invitation to 

 assume the care of these collections, Mr. Brewster wrote that he 

 could not "at any time agree to undertake work that will involve 

 any considerable expenditure of my time which is very fully taken 

 up with other duties"; thus, while never an active Curator, the 



