6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



myriopods accumulated previous to his Museum appointment in 

 1913. 



From Capt. Gilbert Archey, paratypes of recently described 

 chilopods. 



From Prof. Graf Carl Attems, a collection of 409 species, 948 

 specimens of Old World myriopods; this collection contains the 

 types of 162 species described by Attems, one of the chief authori- 

 ties on myriopods. 



From Mrs. N. A. Clapp, a series of Cerionidae, containing a 

 large number of cotypes. 



From the National Research Council (Committee on Marine 

 Piling Investigations) a large number of wood-boring Mollusca. 



From Dr. E. L. Mark, an extremely fine specimen of Pyrosoma 

 atlanticum Per on. 



The scientific library of the late Dr. George F. Becker, (esti- 

 mated at about 1,000 volumes and 2,500 pamphlets), a gift of Mrs. 

 Campbell Forrester, (Dr. Becker's widow), to Harvard University, 

 has been received. This library will not be kept intact, the zoologi- 

 cal and geological works will be added to the Museum library, 

 those on physics, mathematics, and allied sciences, a very con- 

 siderable part of the whole, will be retained in the general or de- 

 partmental libraries. It should be stated that this division has 

 received Mrs. Forrester's approval. Thus far somewhat more 

 than 600 titles have been added to the Museum library from the 

 Becker library. 



The Museum has acquired the scientific correspondence of the 

 late Dr. P. R. Uhler, a leading American entomologist officially 

 associated with the Museum in 1864-1867. 



Prof. E. L. Bouvier has returned the series of Blake Crustacea 

 so long in his hands for study and report. The text, accompanied 

 with exquisite plates drawn under the supervision of the author, 

 was received with the collection. The Museum is fortunate in 

 entrusting the execution of the plates to Mr. E. J. Meisel, who has 

 already finished the twelve plates for the first of the two Memoirs. 

 Professor Bouvier's Memoirs complete the series of reports based 

 on the collections of the Blake, with the exception of an elaborate 

 Memoir on the Alcyonaria by Prof. A. E. Verrill. A small in- 

 stallment of the text for Professor Verrill's Memoir has been re- 



