HYATT: REPORT OF THE CURATOR 
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Mollusca. 
The large collection purchased of Rev. J. T. Gulick last year and 
described in the report of 1898 has been completely catalogued and 
every lot labeled, each shell having been also numbered. The col¬ 
lections of Achatinellidae previously mentioned have been still 
further increased by the loan of eight thousand shells belonging to 
Mr. C. M. Cooke, Jr., of Honolulu, making in all about thirty 
thousand shells of this family at present available for study. The 
Curator has found it essential to trace as far as - practicable the 
migrations of the Achatinellae from island to island, and has made 
good progress during the past year, having reviewed most of the 
genera that are found in islands outside of Oahu. A small but 
valuable collection of Achatinellidae from the island of Molokai 
that filled a number of blanks in our own collection has been given 
us by Dr. W. P. Wesselhoeft. Miss Martin completed the work of 
labeling the duplicate Gasteropoda having no locality labels, and 
these were in part given away to the public schools and in part 
exchanged for invertebrates collected in the West Indies by Mr. 
C. J. Maynard. Miss Martin has made a complete series of colored 
drawings of the animals of Pteropoda and arranged these in com¬ 
pany with a series of the shells purchased from Mr. Sowerby. 
The death of Mr. Edward W. Roper, a member who had taken a 
great interest in this collection and was practically an assistant in 
this department, was a severe loss. He had, in the short time that 
he was connected with us before his health obliged him to seek 
refuge in southern California, done much efficient work, and had 
also planned the revision of all our land shells. His entire con- 
chological collection was bequeathed to us and is now in our pos¬ 
session, with the exception of the Cyrenidae. These are in the 
hands of Mrs. Roper, who will deliver them to us as soon as prac¬ 
ticable after her return to the east. A detailed report on this 
collection will be made after these have been received and the 
whole collection has been catalogued. This work has been begun 
by Miss Martin. 
Crustacea. 
The work of restoring the faded labels of alcoholic preparations, 
begun by Miss Martin last year, was renewed this year, and will be 
