SHELLS, INSECTS, INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY 
The acquisition of the Haines collection of shells greatly added to "^'nes 
the quality and scope of this Department. It consisted of marine, 
fresh-water, and land shells, being especially rich in the last-named. 
The collection contained 3,891 species, and was purchased in 1895 
for $12,000. 
Nearly 18,000 specimens of land and fresh-water shells, with 1,000 ^ope 
species, were received in 1898 from the estate of Professor Edward D. 
Cope. 
A collection of shells important to the Museum, because of the Storer 
1 11-.,.,, Collection. 
more showy genera, was presented by Mr. Albert H. Storer in 1904. 
It comprised about 3,500 specimens. 
To Mr. F. A. Constable the department is indebted for many fine constable 
. . •' Collection. 
specimens of shells, pnncipally from China and Japan. Between 
the years 1901 and 1905 he presented 737 species from Japan, 464 
specimens from China, besides 18,000 specimens representing 4,000 
species from other localities. 
The collection of shells from the Philippine Islands numbers about Philippine 
5,530 specimens, 700 of which were gifts from Colonel C. A. H. 
McCauley and Dr. Hugh M. Smith, the remainder, containing 477 
species and varieties, being received through an exchange. 
The specimens now in the Conchological Department number 
about 200,000, embracing over 16,000 species, and representing local- 
ities all over the world. 
CHIEF BENEFACTORS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
CONCHOLOGY 
GIFTS TO THE VALUE OF $500 OR MORE 
Albert S. Bickmore, Coleman T. Robinson, 
John J. Crooke, D. Jackson Steward, 
Fred. A. Constable, Albert H. Storer, 
E. D. Cope, R. A. Witthaus, 
Frank Daulte, Mrs. M. Witthaus, 
Rev. Richard B. Post, Miss Catharine L. Wolfe. 
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