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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 



REPORT ON VERMES. 



By W. McM. Woodworth. 



The work done on the Museum collections of Vermes was con- 

 fined chiefly to the preparation and arrangement of specimens for 

 exhibition. All of the material in the Atlantic and Synoptic 

 Rooms has been relabelled and rearranged, and a number of jars 

 have been added to these exhibits. Considerable progress has 

 been made with the systematic exhibit, the chief additions being 

 some fine preparations of several intestinal parasites of the Sheep 

 and Hog, collected and presented by Mr. C. Bullard. A good 

 beginning has been made in the arrangement of the general col- 

 lections, in separating the determined material from the undeter- 

 termined, and a systematic arrangement of the same. 



The Chaetognatha were sent to Mr. F. C. Conant for determina- 

 tion, and were returned by him with some additions to the collec- 

 tion. Thanks are also due to Dr. S. Goto for determining the 

 ectoparasitic Trematodes, and to Prof. H. B. Ward for depositing 

 in the Museum the Turbellaria collected by the Michigan State 

 Fish Commission during 1893 and 1894, descriptions of which 

 have been published in the Museum Bulletin. 



The Assistant has deposited in the Museum his collection of 

 Vermes, amounting to about one hundred bottles, and the Museum 

 has also received from the Bureau of Animal Industry of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture a small collection of parasites. 



A card catalogue of the Vermes in the Museum collection is in 

 course of preparation, and includes a generic list as well as a 

 serial one. 



The report on the Nemertines of the " Albatross " Expedition is 

 well advanced, as is also a report on the Turbellaria of the Illinois 

 State Survey. 



The Assistant has published two papers on Turbellaria : see 

 Contributions from the Zoological Laboratory, Nos. LXIII. and 

 LXV. 



