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REPORT ON THE INVERTEBRATA (EXCLUSIVE OF 



INSECTS). 



By Walter Faxon. 



There have been received, through exchange with the United 

 States National Museum, a collection of 39 species (119 specimens) 

 of Crustacea, 17 species (33 specimens) of Sponges, and a dupli- 

 cate set of the Holothurians secured during the " Albatross " Ex- 

 pedition of 1891. The Peabody Academy of Science has presented 

 the Museum with 22 species (45 specimens) of Crustacea, includ- 

 ing Cymothoids determined by Schiodte and Meinert. To Mr. C. 

 E. Hoyle the Museum is indebted for a small but choice collection 

 of land snails from Jamaica and 39 specimens of land crabs ( Coe- 

 nobita diogenes) brought to Cambridge alive from Jamaica ; to 

 Dr. R. T. Jackson for a small miscellaneous lot of marine Inverte- 

 brata from Eastport, Me. ; to Professor S. E. Meek for 3 species 

 (16 specimens) of Crayfishes from Arkansas and Texas, including 

 the rare Cambarus lancifer ; to D. P. Turnbull for a specimen of 

 Panulirus guttatus from the Barbados ; to Professor H. L. Osborn 

 for specimens of Crayfishes from Fort Snelling, Minn. A small 

 supplementary collection of Japanese Crustacea has been got by 

 purchase. The Pycnogonida and Copepoda of the " Albatross " 

 Expedition of 1891 have been returned by Messrs. Schimkewitsch 

 and Giesbrecht, to be divided between this Museum and the United 

 States National Museum. An interesting Sponge from New Guinea 

 has been presented by Mr. Appleton Sturgis. The Foraminifera 

 sent to Dr. Goes for examination have been returned by him. 

 Material has been sent out, as gift or exchange, to the United States 

 National Museum, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Brit- 

 ish Museum, and Mr. A. F. Foerste. 



A short paper on the Development of Dicranodromia has been 

 published by E. Caustier in the Comptes Rendus for 1895, p. 573, 

 based upon material collected by the " Blake." A number of 

 Memoirs have been issued in the Museum publications (see Ap- 

 pendix A) based upon the collections of this department connected 



