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U. S. Fisa Comncission: STEAMER “ ALBATROSS,” FROM Ocrosnr, 1904, to Marcu, 1905, LrzuTenant CoMMANDER L. M. Ganrerr, U. Ss. N,, rats ees ¢ CoMMANDING, PUBLISHED OR IN PREPARATION: — | algae Be A. AGASSIZ. V.5 Expedition. A. AGASSIZ. I... Three Letters to Geo. M. Bowers, U.S. Fish Com. _ H. B. BIGELOW. XVI.16. The Medusae. H. B. BIGELOW. XXIII.2 The Sipho- nophores. H. B. BIGELOW. XXVI.% The ees ~ phores. R. P. BIGELOW. The Stomatopods. O. CARLGREN. The Actinaria. R. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. H. L. CLARK. The Holothurians. H. L. CLARK. The Starfishés. H. L. CLARK. XXX.%° The Ophiurans. S. F. CLARKE. VIII[8 The (nd gps W. R. COE. The Nemerteans. L. J. COLE. XIX.® The Pycnogonida. W. H. DALL. XIV.1* The Mollusks. C. R. EASTMAN. VII. The Sharks’ Teeth. S. GARMAN. XII? The Reptiles. -H. J. HANSEN. The Cirripeds. H. J. HANSEN. XXVII.27. The Schizo- pods. S. HENSHAW. The Insects. W. E. HOYLE. The Cephalopods, W. C. KENDALL and L. RADCLIFFE. General Report on the ‘ a 4 C. A. KOFOID he J. R. MICHENER. XXII.2% The Protozoa. ee C. A. KOFOID and E. J. RIGDEN. Shar Mit XXIV.*%4 The Protozoa. P. KRUMBACH.. The Sagittae. . R. VON LENDENFELD. XXI.~ The © Siliceous Sponges. oa R. VON LENDENFELD. XXIX.% Hexactinellida. G. W. MULLER. The Ostracods. : JOHN MURRAY and G. V. LEE. XVIL! + The Bottom Specimens. it MARY J. RATHBUN.. X.10 tacea Decapoda. HARRIET RICHARDSON. — II. TIsopods. ahs e W. E. RITTER. IV.4 The Tunicates. B. L. ROBINSON, The Plants. G. O. SARS. The Copepods. © F. E. SCHULZE. XI." The Xenophyo- phoras. HARRIET R. SEARLE. XXVIII. Iso- pods. H. R. SIMROTH. bee cdae Heteropods. E. C. STARKS. XIII.13 Atelaxia. TH. STUDER. The Alcyonaria. — JH. THIELE. XV.% Bathysciadium The Gene Fis The XXV.% The Fishes. T. W. VAUGHAN. VI.2 The Corals. C. A. KOFOID. III* IX8 XX. The | R. WOLTERECK. XVIII.° -The Am- Protozoa. phipods. 1Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 4, April, 1905, 22 pp 2Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 6, July, 1905, 4 pp., 1 pt. 3 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 9, September, 1905, 5 pp., 1 pl. 4Bull.. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 13, January, 1906, 22 pp., 3 pls. 5 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXIII., January, 1906, 90 pp., 96 pls. 6 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. L., No. 3, August, 1906, 14 pp., 10 pls. - 7 Bull. M.C.Z., Vol. L., No. 4, November, 1906, 26 pp., 4 pls. 8 Mem. M: C. Z., Vol. XXXV., No. 1, February, 1907, 20 pp., 15 pls. 9 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. L., No. 6, February, 1907, 48 pp., 18 pls. 10 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV, No. 2, August, 1907, 56 pp., 9 pls. 1 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LI., No. 6, November, 1907, 22 pp., 1 pl. 2 Bull. M. OC. Z., Vol. LII., No. 1, June, 1908, 14 pp., 1 pl. 13 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 2, July, 1908, 8 pp., 5 pls. 14 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. XLIII., No. 6, October, 1908, 285 pp., 22 pls. 16 Bull, M. C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 5, October, 1908, 11 pp., 2 pls. 16 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXVII., February, 1909, 243 pp., 48 pls. : 17 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXVIII., No. 1, June, 1909, 172 pp., 5 pls., 3 maps. , 1 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LIL., No. 9, June, 1909, 26 pp., 8 pls. SASS oa eee 19 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LIL, No 11, August, 1909, 10 pp., 3 pls. . PS ome ih 40 ACs 20 Bull. M. OC. Z., Vol. LII., No. 13, September, 1909, 48 pp., 4 pls. Pe 21 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XLI., August, September, 1910, 323 pp., 56 pls. . Ep: PA 22 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. 7, August, 1911, 38 pp. eh 23 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XX XVIII., No. 2, December, 1911, 232 pp., 32 pls. ae a4 2% Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. 10, February, 1912, 16 pp., 2 pls. Sonic he Saas % Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV., No. 3, April, 1912, 98 pp., 8 pls. | 198 eres O17! 81141 10}.8] 3-|—} 4} —] 52+3|13| 5 oy 2 | 3-8] 1 (eat 42S S| Se SS ee 3 6 Se ee ee ee ae Geer ay | a eT Tel 1 eet P| = | |). 8 ee Src |1 1 ee ee ay oe econ eee Drees Pe oo eS) df | id i Fare est 1117/19) 9) 1) 6} 2} —|—]| 5842} —] — EE a a aS ee es ee ae ee ee eee | 2) 1) yt) } | 2 | — 1 — | 1344) —] — emererris | —{—)—)—)—|—}—}—] 442) —] — A200} 2 Bet AA ese oe | — | —] 2 bie : 206 | 1 — |}— | — | —} — | —I1—-—!|—!/]—]: 1 —} — Ae |. 7 — |}—{|—|—}—,—|]—|—|—| 7 ea aa. — |'2 1 Sp ty ey ty ep gael ees eee a9) nee RP oe | 3 ee ee ey A eS “ 20f i 5 ieee iP SBE ey ee | ee (| ed 5 ef 20 3 Pe eee + Meteorology 1 52 “ 19 4 “ Dy 4 : 20b 8 (for 134 courses) a‘ 3 5 ee f ¢ 6 2 . 20e 1 : 20 2 Geography 1 191 ¥ 20a 2 x =) © At Radcliffe Geology 4 was given to twenty-two students and Geology 5 to twelve students. The total enrollments at Harvard were 703 as against 515 in 1915-1916 and 232 five years ago; at Radcliffe, twenty-four as against forty-nine in 1915-1916. The number of Harvard courses and half-courses was twenty-eight as against fifteen in 1912-1913. Owing to war conditions none of the summer courses was given this year. In June the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was con- ferred on Messrs. D. H. McLaughlin, Alfred Wandtke, and Edward Wigglesworth. Part of the income of the Wis Fund was granted to Mr. T. H. Clark, for his stratigraphic investigations in New York State. The Sheldon Fund committee granted to Mr. J. P.. Connolly $650. for his studies of mining camps in the far west. The fund given by Dr. W. 8. Bigelow, noted last year, was again most useful, defraying the travelling expenses of three visiting lecturers, Professor Scott of Princeton, Professor de Martonne of Paris, and Professor Barrell of Yale. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. £5 Mr. Wigglesworth reports on the Gardner Collection of photo- graphs and lantern slides, as follows: Photographs Slides ——_— Accessions since last year 1 621 Unidentified views 150 0 Duplicates 116 0 Broken 0 2 Last accession number 7,855 10,060 Number now in collection 7,744 10,060 Card catalogued 0 9,550 The most valuable accession of recent years is a set of 4380 lantern slides of the French Alps and the Pyrenees, the gift of Professor Raoul Blanchard. Professor McAdie presented a small set of slides of exceptional merit, illustrating frost forma- tion. The slides given by the Australian Commonwealth men- tioned in the last report have been catalogued. | Owing to other duties, Mr. Wigglesworth resigned the curator- ship of the Gardner Collection. 'The Department heartily regrets this and records its gratitude for his unselfish devotion. Professor Woodworth gave the Harvard courses, Geology 5, 12, 19, and 20e and the Radcliffe courses, Geology 4 and 5. Owing to his work on the geology of Cape Cod and the islands along the Massachusetts coast for the U.S. G.S., he was not able to maintain the monthly issues of the seismographic records; during the latter half of the year 1916, the records of the Harvard station were kindly deciphered and published by the U. 8. Weather Bureau. Room 55 in the Geological Section of the Museum has been fitted up for laboratory work in Professor Woodworth’s advanced courses. As a member of the committee on geology and palaeontology of the National Research Council and as chairman of the subcommittee on the use of seismographs in war, Professor Woodworth devoted much time to those services. Professor Atwood conducted the geographical courses numbered 1, 6, 7, and 20a. In codperation with Mr. Peattie he prepared papers entitled “Saving the silts of the Mississippi’ and the “Relation of landslide and glacial deposits to reservoir sites in the San Juan Mountains”. He continued his work on the more comprehensive report, covering the physiography of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado. 16 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Professor Raymond conducted the courses Palaeontology 1, 20, Geology 14; and gave one lecture each week in Geology 5. Geology 14 was given for the first time. Through the assistance of Messrs. Robert W. Sayles and Richard M. Field, the Department was enabled to purchase a modern microphotographic apparatus for use in stratigraphic geology. Mr. Field also contributed toward the fitting up of the dark room. - Having been granted an allotment from the Shaler Memorial Fund for an investigation of the stratigraphy of the Ordovician strata of the Appalachians, Professor Raymond spent two months in the field in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Numerous sections were studied and much information obtained as to the faunas and geographic extent of various formations. In this work, Mr. Richard M. Field of Brown University, Dr. E. W. Shuler of Southern Methodist University, and Prof. 8. L. Powell of Roanoke College, codperated. é Geology 10, conducted chiefly by Professor Graton, included also lectures on iron ores by Professor Smyth and lectures on gold and silver by Professor W. Lindgren of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In reciprocation, Professor Graton gave a course on ore deposits at the Institute during the second half year. These arrangements illustrate the progress being made in the highly desirable codperation between the Harvard and Technology Departments of Geology. Geology 18 of former years was divided into two half courses, Geology 18a being given by Professors Palache and Wolff and Geology 18)b by Professor Graton, with lectures on coal by Professor Jeffrey of the Depart- ment of Botany and on petroleum by Mr. W. F. Jones of the Insti- tute of Technology. Under direction from Professor Graton, two graduate students devoted the entire summer to field-work. ' As heretofore, the principal subjects of research in Economic Geology are among those related to the study of secondary enrich- ment of copper ores. A thesis entitled “Occurrence and signi- ficance of bornite”’ by Dr. D. H. McLaughlin, accepted for the doctorate, will be published as a number of separate articles, one of which has already appeared. Mr. J. P. Connolly began an investigation on ore occurrence in limestones and Mr. D. A. Hall continued his study of the ore deposits at Butte, Montana. Through the interest and generosity of alumni, there was made available for the work in Economic Geology during the year the sum of $3,000. which has been devoted to the improvement and increase of equipment and facilities for instruction. A similar —- = = 15 r + 7 ¥ MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 17 sum has been pledged for a number of years to come and should enable the instruction in this branch to be made very much more effective than has been possible heretofore. Professor Ward gave his usual meteorological courses. In May, at the request of President Maclaurin, he was assigned to the teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has since then, under the direction of the War Department, given regular instruction in meteorology in the United States Army School of Military Aéronautics at the Institute. By direc- tion of the Chief Signal Officer, Professor Ward has prepared an outline of his lectures on meteorology in relation to aviation, to serve as a text in all the Schools of Military Aéronautics. As President of the Association of American Geographers, Professor Ward devoted considerable time to the affairs of that organiza- tion. He is also a member of the Geography Committee of the National Research Council. During March, as visiting Lecturer in the Department of Geography of the University of Wisconsin, he gave a course on climatological subjects. Special attention has been paid to the effects of weather conditions upon military opera- tions in the War, and several papers have been published on this subject. Professor Ward has also prepared a second edition of his “Climate” which is now in press. 18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE MAMMALS. By Outram BAnGs. During the year, the larger collections received were:— remains of land mammals from cave deposits and recent mammals from Cuba, collected by Prof. Carlos de la Torre, Dr. Thomas Barbour, Messrs. W. S. Brooks and Goodwin Warner, about 250 specimens: remains of Isolobodon from Porto Rico, collected by Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Lothrop, about 50 specimens; remains of five other extinct Porto Rican genera, collected by Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. J. L. Peters; an important collection of bonés of Cuban ground sloths from Dr. Barbour, about 220 pieces; 175 skulls and other bones of seals from Greenland, from the Peabody Museum; 100 alco- holic bats from Cuba from Professor de la Torre; 90 skins and skulls from southeastern California, from Col. John E. Thayer; 125 skins and alcoholics from northwestern Peru, collected by Mr. G. K. Noble, as Zodlogist of the Expedition to Peru. In exchange there have been received, 17 fossil specimens from Patagonia and the early Tertiary of North America, from the Museum of Amherst College; a rare monkey, Preslytis potenzianr; and two examples of the Porto Rican bat, Erophylla portoricen- sis, both species new to the collection, from the U. 8. National Museum. Specimens have been loaned for study to nine persons. Single specimens, or small series of specimens have been received from Messrs. G. M. Allen, Thomas Barbour, William Brewster, G. C. Deane, J. W. Elliot, T. R. Fisher, A. B. Fuller, R. T. Jackson, J. E. Law, Theodore Lyman, W. M. Mann, R. M. Marble, George Nelson, J. L. Peters, J. B. Rorer, J. E. Thayer, Carlos de la Torre, C. W. Townsend, and J. B. Woodworth; also from Mrs. A. T. Friend, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Lothrop, the Florida Amalgamated Phosphate Company, the Boston Society of Natural History, the Peabody Museum, and the Shaler Memorial Expedi- tion. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19 REPORT ON THE BIRDS. By WILLIAM BREWSTER. The total number of bird skins acquired during the year falls somewhat short of 1,000 — or, to be more precise, is about 940. Of these, 507 representing 149 species and subspecies, of which 73 are new to the Museum and several equally so to science, were. obtained in northwestern Peru by Mr. G. K. Noble while associ- ated with the Expedition to Peru. Early in this same year Messrs. Barbour, Brooks, and Warner collected, in Cuba and the Isle of Pines, 164 birds many of which possess exceptional rarity or interest. The Curator has transferred to the Museum, by gift from his private collection, a pair of Labrador Ducks, five California Con- dors, four Heath Hens and some other North American birds together with 172 specimens originally given him by the late Dr. James C. Merrill, U. S. A., who collected them, during years now long since past, while stationed at various western army posts including Edinburgh and Fort Brown, Texas, Fort Sherman, Idaho, and Fort Reno, Indian Territory. Two House Sparrows, Passer domesticus (Linné), received from Drs. Walter Faxon and W. M. Tyler deserve especial mention because of their peculiar coloration. This is very generally bright vinaceous russet tinged here and there with rosy and shading into bright terracotta or testaceous on the wing-bars, sides of throat, and middle of belly. These tints pigment the skins as well as the plumage. Both birds were members of a large flock of normally colored Sparrows which frequented a poultry yard at Lexington, Mass., in March, 1917. For gifts of bird skins in small series or singly the Museum is indebted to Miss Mabel P. Cook, to the Massachusetts Commis- sioner of Fisheries and Game (for a Heath Hen from Martha’s Vineyard), to the New York Zodlogical Society, and to Messrs. Outram Bangs, E. N. Fischer, A. B. Fuller, George Nelson, T. E. Penard, J. L. Peters, J. C. Phillips, W. M. Tyler, and C. C. Wil- loughby. By exchange we have received from the Brooklyn 20) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Institute three birds taken at South Georgia Island; from the | United States National Museum thirty specimens collected in the Celebes, Philippines, Nicobar, and Simalu Islands, representing eleven species of which eight are new to us. Twelve bird skins have been sent in exchange to the National Museum of Ireland; three to the Brooklyn Institute; and one to the Boston Society of Natural History. For scientific study we have loaned 115 bird skins to Dr. W. E. Clyde Todd, twenty-seven to Mr. C. B. Cory, twenty-five to Dr. F. M. Chapman, eleven to Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., five to ‘Dr. C. W. Richmond, four to Mr. H. C. Oberholser, three to Mr. C. K. Coale, two to Mr. C.’R. Murphy, while 32 have been submitted to Mr. L. A. Fuertes to serve for purposes of illustrations. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. ZA REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. By Tuomas BaARBour. The year has been a most eventful one for this Department, and an unusual number of species previously unrepresented in the collection have been received. Chief among these was the splendid series secured by Dr. W. M. Mann in the Fiji and Solo- mon Islands. Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. J. L. Peters secured some interest- ing species in Porto Rico. Mr. Peters subsequently collected desirable forms on Anegada, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda. He also visited St. Thomas and some of the smaller islets. The Associate Curator visited Cuba during January—March, and had the enthusi- astic and untiring aid of Messrs. W. S. Brooks and Goodwin Warner. ‘These gentlemen also spent several weeks in the Isle of Pines, and secured there additional material. Dr. Ruthven of the University of Michigan has continued his very kind gifts of paratypes of the new forms which he describes from South America. Many other valued specimens have been received from him in exchange. Through unusual good fortune, a fine skeleton of an adult Tomistoma from Sarawak was obtained, as also specimens of the excessively rare Hyla lichenata from Jamaica. Some rare North American species collected in Arizona were also purchased. But few exchanges were completed this year, these having been with the U. S. National Museum, the University of Michigan Museum, and the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Each of these institutions has likewise loaned and borrowed material for study. Thanks are due to Dr. M.Grabham of Jamaica and Dr. A. W. Sellards of the Harvard Medical School for welcome gifts. 22 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE FISHES. By SAMUEL GARMAN. The most important additions were the gifts of South American fishes by Dr. Hiram Bingham, many of them cotypes from descrip- | tions by Eigenmann; a fine series of Bermudan fishes donated by the Bermuda Biological Station for Research; and a very interesting lot of the species. frequenting the coral reefs of the Solomon Islands, collected by Dr. W. M. Mann. The usual amount of attention has been devoted to the care of the collections, that is, to the regular work demanded by the Department. Mr. Alvin Seale has worked over a large part of the eels and Serranidae. By exchanges and by purchases the Museum has brought together one of the best series known of the Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands; this provided for my memoir, The Gala- pagos Tortoises (Mem. M. C. Z., 30, no. 4). MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 23 REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. By NatTHan BANKs. During the eight months the present Curator has been in _ charge, much of his time has been spent in becoming acquainted with the collection and its arrangement. The collection has been examined for pests and fumigated where necessary. A consider- able amount of material in Hymenoptera and Hemiptera has been pinned, and most of the unmounted Odonata are now pinned and spread. The miscellaneous insects collected some years since by Mr. A. P. Morse in the Southern States and in New England, have been mounted, and much of Dr. Barbour’s East Indian col- lection has also been pinned. The Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera in a number of miscellaneous collections have been assorted and placed in the main collection. The Psammocharidae, Scoliidae, and Philanthidae have been studied, and the new species described; the Psammocharidae of Cornell University have been determined for the desirable dupli- cates, and the collection of Prof. C. T. Brues in this family, kindly presented to the Museum, has also been identified. In the Diptera the Asilidae have been partly studied and the genera Dasyllis and Dioctria revised and the results published. In the Neuroptera various species of Myrmeleonidae and Termi- tidae have been examined. The accessions have been very large. The Curator’s collections contain fully 60,000 pinned insects and more than 60,000 Arach- nida. This, with that already in the Museum, makes the Museum collections in the Neuroptera and Arachnida more important than the combined collections of these groups in this country. In the Neuroptera the Curator’s collection contains nearly 900 types, and about as many in the Arachnida, with over two hundred addi- tional types in other orders of insects. This collection materially increases the Museum collection in Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Hemiptera. The Curator has collected a thousand or more speci- mens in the vicinity of Lexington, Mass. Valuable donations of insects have been received from Messrs. 24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE C. F. Baker, J. C. Bradley, H. Brauns, C. T. Brues, F. Campos, J. H. Emerton, F. Grinnell, H. R. Hagan, E. D. Harris, C. Gordon Hewitt, R. C. Smith, E. W. Thompson, W. M. Wheeler, E. B. Williamson, and a fine collection of Cuban insects from Dr. Thomas Barbour. Specimens in exchange were received from Messrs. R. J. Tillyard and E. Petersen. The purchases include several families of the G. Birkmann collection of Hymenoptera and the collection of Diptera (largely Tachinidae) of Mr. Harrison E. Smith. Specimens were loaned for study to Messrs. J. M. Aldrich (An- thomyidae), C. P. Alexander (Tipulidae), C. T. Brues (Serphi- dae), E. A. Chapin (Cleridae), G. H. Chapman (Buprestidae), F. C. Cole (Cyrtidae), J. H. Comstock (Myiodactylus), G. C. Crampton (Merope and other Neuroptera), C. L. Kennedy (Odonata), J. R. Malloch (Tiphia), H. M. Parshley (Tingidae and Aradidae), J. C. Root (Coccinellidae), and H. E. Smith (Tachinidae). Mr. L. W. Swett has kindly continued his work on Geometridae. PO ON, CM A Md, LRA ED = PP MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 25 REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS, ARACHNIDS, AND WORMS. By Ratpepu V. CHAMBERLIN. Accessions of chilopods and diplopods were received during the year from Messrs. J. W. Bailey, (from Louisiana), H. L. Clark, R. T. Cotton, C. R. Crosby, W. J. Crozier, Harold Cummins, (about Nashville, Tenn.), J. H. Emerton, Harold Heath, W. C. Henderson, W. Hilton, Chas. F. Horan, L. O. Howard, C. A. Kofoid, W. M. Mann, P. S. Parrott, Phil. Rau, C. B. Williams. Specimens of arachnids were received from Miss E. B. Bryant, Messrs. S. C. Chamberlin, H. L. Clark, W. M. Mann, and C. B. Williams. Gifts of worms were received from Messrs. H. B. Bigelow, H. L. Clark, Thurlow C. Nelson, and Max H. Ruhmann. Aside from routine work on various small collections of myrio- pods and arachnids received for identification, and some days in August spent in field-work in the Wahsatch Mts., my time during the year was almost wholly devoted to the completion of a report on the annelids of the Albatross expeditions of 1891, 1899-1900, and 1904-1905. 26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE ECHINODERMS. By Hupert Lyman Cuark. The routine work has consisted chiefly of the identification and cataloguing of the extensive additions received from various sources. ‘These additions total nearly 3,300 specimens. Aside from this work, the preparation of reports has occupied the time. The monograph of Recent Echini. begun by Mr. Agassiz and myself in 1904 was completed and the final portion, Part 6, dealing with the spatangoids, was published in March. This part contains an index to the entire work. Reports were also completed on the ophiurans collected by the ALBATROSS in 1899- 1900 and in 1904-1905, and on new or notable ophiurans in the M. C. Z. collection. Progress has also been made on a monograph on the echinoderms of South Africa. The month of June was spent at the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, where more than 800 specimens of 71 species of echinoderms were collected, half a dozen of which are new, not only to the M. C. Z. collection, but apparently to science also. Some very interesting additional species were collected near Key West, Florida. Besides this material, which has been identified and catalogued, the chief accessions of the year were the collec- tion from Tobago (referred to in last year’s report) and series of spatangoids and of holothurians from the U. 8. National Museum, in return for the identification of material. Specimens were received from Messrs. F. N. Balch, W. J. Crozier, W. A. Hilton, E. G. Humphrey, R. T. Jackson, W. M. Mann, A. G. Mayer, Alvin Seale, and D. Thaanum. At the end of the year, the collec- tion of echinoderms was made up as follows:— No. of Genera No. of Species No. of Specimens Crinoids 45 164 2,936 Asteroids 122 538 12,973 Ophiurans 144 777 24,351 Kehini 132 467 44,620 Holothurians 59 372 5,118 Totals 502 2318 89,998 five rs as “ago nas an increase of 11% in number of ww in number of species and 19% in number of 28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE COELENTERATES. By Henry B. BiGELow. The most important accession to the collection is a series of hydroids from British Columbia, from Dr. C. McLean Fraser, including many species not previously represented in the Museum. Bermudan Medusae have been presented by Dr. W. J. Crozier, and specimens from the Gulf of Mexico by Mr. Percy Viasco. My chief work has been the preparation of a report on the Medusae and siphonophores collected by the U. S. Coast and Geodetic steamer BACHE during her cruise in the western Atlantic in 1914, and the working up of the results of the GRAMPUS cruise of 1916. During the winter, in collaboration with the Interdepartmental Board on International Ice observation and Patrol in the North Atlantic, a program of oceanographic work was laid out for the coast guard steamer SENECA, to be carried out during her ice survey of the Grand Banks. But the outbreak of the war caused its temporary abandonment. ” eel eA Ee pe eo ¥ MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 29 REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY. By Percy E. RAYMOND. The rearrangement of the collection of trilobites has been con- tinued during the year, and the Agnostidae, Harpedidae, and Goldiidae finished. The study of the Agnostidae brought out new points in connection with the classification of the trilobites which were discussed in an article published in the American Journal of Science. Some time was given to the final revision of an article describing a number of new species of fossils from the Trenton, collected by the writer and his assistant while members of the Geological Survey of Canada. The major research of the year relates to the appendages of trilobites, the unique material in the Yale University Museum having been put at my disposal for the purpose of gathering together for one publication all at present known concerning the morphology of these organisms. The results of this study will be published as a memoir by the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. In September, 1916, I spent a week in collecting fossils from the middle Ordovician formations of the Mohawk and Black River valleys in New York, being accompanied by Mr. T. H. Clark, who remained at Martinsburg for two weeks after my return, and made a large collection, which he has presented to the Museum. In June of this year, on the invitation of a former student, Prof. W. G. Foye, I spent a week in Vermont, devoting a part of the time to field-work, and a part to the identification of fossils in the Geological Museum of Middlebury College. In exchange for my assistance in this work, the Museum received a good assort- ment of duplicates from their material, including many specimens new to the collection. In addition to material collected by the Curator, the Museum has received during the year three drawers of Ordovician fossils from Dr. Sidney Powers, one lot of Carboniferous and one lot of Eocene fossils from Dr. D. C. Barton, and one drawer of Triassic fossils from Dr. Alfred Wandtke. Prof. S.“L. Powell has also sent four boxes of Ordovician fossils from Virginia. 30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION. By Rospert W. SAYLES. During the past year there have been few accessions to the col- lections. In July, a collection of sand-blasted pebbles was made near Highland Light on Cape Cod. In August, September, and October, an investigation of the annual layers in the glacial clays of the Connecticut Valley was undertaken, for a comparison with the annual layers in the glacial slate at Squantum peninsula. From Hanover, N. H., northward for about fifty miles, clays were examined on both sides of the river. Practically all the pheno- mena observed in the Squantum glacial slate was found also in these clays of the Connecticut River Valley. During the winter, almost the entire time was used in writing a memoir, of a com- parative nature, on the Squantum slate and the Connecticut River clays. In conjunction with this work in the Connecticut Valley, many specimens of the annual layers of the clays were taken for exhibition purposes. Some of these have folds due to glacial over-riding. A large number of clay concretions of unusual shapes were collected at Woodsville. The Museum is indebted to Prof. E. L. Mark for some specimens of calcareous rock of aeolian origin used for building purposes in Bermuda, to Dr. Laurence LaForge, for the first striated pebble found in the tillite at Hyde Park, and to Professors Woodworth and Palache for other desirable gifts. In June, the Kilauea model, made by Mr. George C. Curtis, a gift of the Curator, was formally exhibited at a private view to members of the University interested in the Geological section of the Museum. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. ol REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. During the Museum year from August, 1, 1916, to July 31, 1917, inclusive, 644 volumes, 1,225 parts of volumes, and 2,029 pam- phlets have been added to the Library. The total number of volumes in the Library is 54,427, the total number of pamphlets is 52,499. Four hundred and twenty-three volumes have been bound; twelve hundred pamphlets have been separately bound. ae. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1916-1917 (1 Aueust, 1916-31 Juty, 1917) MusEuM oF CoMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. BULLETIN: — Vol. LVII. No. 4. The lithobiid genera Oabius, Kiberbius, Paobius, Arebius, Nothem- bius, and Tigobius. By Ralph V. Chamberlin. pp. 90. 10 Plates. October, 1916. Vol. LX. No. 10. The resident birds of Guadeloupe. By G. K. Noble. pp. 40. . August, 1916. No. 11. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Direc- tor. The ants of Brazil. By William M. Mann. pp. 94. 7 Plates. September, 1916. No. 12. The fossil Elateridae of Florissant. By H. F. Wickham. pp. 37. 7 Plates. October, 1916. Vol. LXI. No. 1. New fossil mammals from Cuba. By G. M. Allen. pp. 12. 1 Plate. January, 1917. No. 2. The ants of Alaska. By William Morton Wheeler. pp. 10. March, 1917. No. 3. New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. By Ralph V. Chamber- lin. pp. 54. 5 Plates. April, 1917. No.4. Newspecies of apodal fishes. By Alvin Seale. pp.18. May, 1917. No. 5. New fossorial Hymenoptera. By Nathan Banks. pp. 22. May, 1917. No. 6. The introduction of West Indian Anura into Bermuda. By P. H. Pope. pp. 16. 2 Plates. June, 1917. No. 7. Notes on some Falkland Island birds. By W. Sprague Brooks. pp. 28. 3 Plates. June, 1917. No. 8. Explorations of the coast water between Cape Cod and Halifax in 1914 and 1915, by the U.S. Fisheries Schooner Grampus. Oceanog- raphy and plankton. By Henry B. Bigelow. pp. 198. 2 Plates. July, 1917. ‘ Sim. E+ a Ts MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 33 MeEMoIRs :-— Vol. XXX. No. 4. The Galapagos tortoises. By Samuel Garman. pp. 40. 42 Plates. January, 1917. Vol. XLVI. No. 2. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Echinoneidae, Nucleo- litidae, Urechinidae, Echinocorythidae, Calymnidae, Pourtalesiidae, Palaeostomatidae, Aeropsidae, Palaeopneustidae, Hemiasteridae, and Spatangidae. By Hubert Lyman Clark. pp. 203. 18 Plates. March, 1917. REPORT :— 1915-1916. pp. 40. December, 1916. ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY. CONTRIBUTIONS :— 277. Wewnricu, D. H.— Notes on the reactions of bivalve mollusks to changes in light intensity: Image formation in Pecten. Journ. animal behav., July-August, 1916, 6, p. 297-318. 278. Arey, L. B.— The influence of light and temperature upon the migration of the retinal pigment of Planorbis trivolvis. Journ. comp. neurol., August, 1916, 26, p. 359-389, 1 pl. 279. Watton, A. C.— Reactions of Paramoecium caudatum to light. Journ. animal behav., September—October, 1916, 6, p. 335-340. 280. Watton, A. C.— The ‘refractive body’ and the ‘mitochon- dria’ of Ascaris canis Werner.. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci., October, 1916, 52, p. 253-266, 2 pls. 281. Parker, G. H. anp Tirus, E. G.— The structure of Metridium (Actinoloba) marginatum Milne Edwards with special refer- ence to its neuro-muscular mechanism. Journ. exper. zoil., November, 1916, 21, p. 433-459, 1 pl. 282. Parker, G. H.— The effector systems of actinians. Journ. exper. 206l1., November, 1916, 21, p. 461-484. 283. Watton, A. C.— A case of the occurrence of Ascaris triquetra Schrank in dogs. Journ. parasitol., September, [November], 1916, 3, p. 39-41. 284. Parker, G. H.— Nervous transmission in the actinians. Journ. exper. z06l., January, 1917, 22, p. 87-94. 285. Parker, G. H.— The movements of the tentacles in actinians. Journ. exper. 206l., January, 1917, 22, p. 95-110. 286. Parker, G. H.— Pedal locomotion in actinians. Journ. exper. z00l., January, 1917; 22, p. 111-124: 287. Parker, G. H.— The responses of hydroids to gravity. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., February, 1917, 3, p. 72-73. o4 r ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 288. Cor, W. H.— The reactions of Drosophila ampelophila Loew to gravity, centrifugation and air currents. Journ. animal behav., January—February, 1917, 7, p. 71-80. 289. OtmsteED, J. M. D.— Geotropism in Planaria maculata. Journ. animal behav., January-February, 1917, 7, p. 81-86. 290. Parker, G. H.— Actinian behavior. Journ. exper. zodl., February, 1917, 22, p. 193-229. 291. REDFIELD, E. S. P.— The rhythmic contractions in the mantle of lamellibranchs. Journ. exper. zodl., February, 1917, 22, p. 231-239. ; 292. Reprretp, A. C.— The reactions of the melanophores of the horned toad. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1917, 3, p. 202- 203. 293. Reprretp, A. C.— The codrdination of the melanophore reac- tions of the horned toad. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1917, 3, p. 204-205. 294. Popr, P. H.— See supra, Bull. 61, no. 6. BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION FOR RESEARCH. CONTRIBUTIONS :— 46. Crozier, W. J.— The taste of acids. Journ. comp. neurol., August, 1916, 26, p. 453-462. 47. Wenricu, D. H.— See supra, Contrib. Zodl. Rabi 277. 48. Crozier, W. J.—Cell penetration by acids. IL, Further observations on the blue pigment of Chromodoris zebra. Journ. biol. chem., September, 1916, 26, p. 217-224. 49. Crozizr, W. J.— Cell penetration by acids. II]. Data on some additional acids. Journ. biol. chem., September, 1916, 26, p. 225-230. 50. Crozier, W. J.— Ona barnacle, Conchoderma wirgatum, attached to a fish, Diodon hystrix. Amer. nat., October, 1916, 50 p. 636-639. . 51. Crozier, W. J.— On the immunity coloration of some nudi- branchs. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., December, 1916, 2, p. 672-675. 52. Arry, L. B.— The sensory potentialities of the nudibranch ‘rhinophore.’ Anat. record, January, 1917, 11, p. 514-516. 53. Crozier, W. J.—Studies on Amphioxus. By E. L. Mark and W. J. Crozier. JI. The photoreceptors of Amphioxus. Anat. record, January, 1917, 11, p. 520. 54. Parker, G. H.— See supra, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 285. ee oc OV aN tee AE Oa EE PEG Ue pe eee. + MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 35 Parker, G. H.— See supra, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 286. JORDAN, H.—Rheotropism of Epinephelus striatus Bloch. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1917, 3, p. 157-159. 57. Crozier, W. J.— The nature of the conical bodies on the mantle of certain nudibranchs. Nautilus, January, 1917, 30, p. 103- 106. 58. Watton, A. C.—A case of regeneration in Panulirus argus. Amer. nat., May, 1917, 51, p. 308-310. 59. Crozier, W. J.— On the periodic shoreward migrations of tropi- cal nudibranchs. Amer. nat., June, 1917, 51, p. 377-382. 60. WoprEHouse, R. P.— Direct determinations of permeability. Journ. biol. chem., April, 1917, 29, p. 453-458. 61. Crozier, W. J.— Occurrence of a holothurian new to the fauna of Bermuda. Ann. mag. nat. hist., May, 1917, 19, p. 405-406. 62. Crozier, W. J.— On the pigmentation of a polyclad. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci., May, 1917, 52, p. 723-730, 1 pl. 63. Porr, P. H— See supra, Bull. 61, no. 6: Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 294. 64. Crozier, W. J.— Some structural variations in Chromodoris zebra. Nautilus, April, 1917, 30, p. 140-142. 65. Crozier, W. J— A method of preserving large nudibranchs. Nautilus, April, 1917, 30, p. 142-144. 66. Crozier, W. J.— Multiplication by fission in holothurians. Amer. nat., September, 1917, 51, p. 560-566. 67. Jorpan, H.— Rheotropic responses of LEpinephelus striatus Bloch. Amer. journ. physiol., June, 1917, 43, p. 488-454. 68. Crozier, W. J.— The behavior of holothurians in balanced illumination. Amer. journ. physiol., July, 1917, 43, p. 510-513. ALLEN, G. M. An extinct Cuban Capromys. Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 28 March, 1917, 6, p. 53-56. See also p. 32. Bull. 61, no. 1. Atwoop, W. W. The physiographic conditions of Butte, Montana, and Bingham canyon, Utah, when the copper ores in these districts were enriched. Econ. geol., 1916, 11, p. 697-740. BANKs, NATHAN. Acarians from Australian and Tasmanian ants and ant-nests. Trans. Roy. soc. South Australia, 1916, 40, p. 224-240, pl. 23-30. 36 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE New mites mostly economic (Arach., Aran.). Entomol. news, May, 1917, 28, p. 193-199, pl. 14, 15. Synopsis of the genus Dasyllis (Asilidae). Bull. Brooklyn entomol. soc., June, 1917, 12, p. 52-55. Index to the literature of American economic entomology, January 1, 1905 to December 31, 1914. Melrose Highlands, 1917, 6, 323 pp. See also p. 32. Bull. 61, no. 5. Barsour, THOMAS. | The reptiles and amphibians of Grenada. Grenada handbook for 1916, 1916, p. 236-243. ; : | Additional notes on West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 16 December, 1916, 29, p. 215-220. Amphibians and reptiles from Tobago. Proc. Biol. soc. Washing- ton, 16 December, 1916, 29, p. 221-224. Notes on the herpetology of the Virgin Islands. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 23 May, 1917, 30, p. 97-104. Two new West Indian birds. [With W. S. Brooks]. Proc. N. E. z06l. club, 13 January, 1917, 6, p. 51-52. Catalogo de los reptiles y anfibios de la Isla de Cuba. [With C. T. Ramsden]. Mem. Soc. Cubana hist. nat., 1916, 2, p. 124-143. BicEtLow, H. B. ‘s Halimedusa, a new genus of Anthomedusae. Trans. Roy. soc. Canada, September, 1916, ser. 3, sect. 4, 10, p. 91-95, 1 pl. Explorations of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Steamer “ Bache,” in the western Atlantic, January—March, 1914 *** Oceanography. Rept. U. S. comm. fisher. for 1915, [May], 1917, Append. 5, 62 pp., 1 chart. See also p. 32. Bull, 61, no. 8. CHAMBERLIN, R. V. See p. 32... Bull, 57, no. 4; 61, no. 3. CuarK, H: ‘1. | The miriamites. Scient. month., February, 1917, 4, p. 97-109. Report on studies at Tobago, British West Indies. Carnegie inst., Yearbook no. 15, 15 February, 1917, p. 192-193. - See also p. 33. Mem. 46, no. 2. Daty, R. A: | bot ¥ A new test of the subsidence theory of coral reefs. Proc. Nat. acad. sct., December, 1916, 2, p. 664-670. The geology of Pigeon Point, Minnesota. Amer. journ. sci., June, 1917, ser. 4, 48, p. 423-448. Metamorphism and its phases. Bull. Geol. soc. Amer., June, 1917, 28, p. 375-418. 7 ~~, aoe ee, ee ee ee ee 7 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 37 Faxon, WALTER. Unusual late autumn and winter records for eastern Massachusetts. Auk, April, 1917, 34, p. 217. GARMAN, SAMUEL. See p. 33. Mem. 30, no. 4. GrRaATON, L. C. } Ore deposition and enrichment at Engels, California. [With D. H. McLaughlin]. Economic geol., 1917, 12, p. 1-33. Mark, E. L. Report on the Zodlogical laboratory. Ann. rept. M. C. Z., 1915- 1916, December, 1916, p. 10-12. The Zodlogical laboratory. Rept. President Harv. coll., 1915-1916, March, 1917, p. 247-249. ParkKER, G. H. Locomotion of sea-anemones. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., August, 1916, 2, p. 449-450. The behavior of sea-anemones. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., August, 1916, 2, p. 450-451. The sources of nervous activity. Bull. Scripps ist. biol. research, December, 1916, no. 2, p. 11-18: Science, 22 June, 1917, n. s., 45, p. 619-626. The fur-seals of the Pribilof islands. Scient. month., May, 1917, 4, p. 385-409. PuHIi.uires, J. C. A new form of Chloéphaga hybrida. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p. 423-424. A note on the mottled duck. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p. 432-433. Early flight of Wilson’s snipe in Massachusetts. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p. 434. Eskimo curlew in Massachusetts. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p. 434. The steamer duck. Jbis, January, 1917, ser. 10, 5, p. 116-119. Raymonp, P. E. A new Ceraurus from the Chazy. WN. Y. state mus. bull. 189, Sep- tember, 1916, p. 121-126, pl. 30, fig. 9-12. Beecher’s classification of trilobites, after twenty years. Amer. journ. sci., March, 1917, ser. 4, 48, p. 196-210. Warp, R. DEC. The weather factor in the great war. Journ. geogr., November, 1916, 15, p. 79-86; April, 1917, p. 245-251. The prevailing winds of the United States. Ann. Assoc. Amer. geogr., 1917, 6, p. 99-119. Immigration after the war. Journ. heredity, April, 1917, 8, p. 147- B52: 38 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Warp, R. DEC. The tornadoes of the United States as climatic phenomena. Quart. journ. Roy. meteorol. soc., July, 1917, 48, p. 317-329. — Meteorology and climatology. Amer. year book for 1916, 1917, p. 601-603. | Notes on climatology and reviews. Bull. Amer. geogr. soc., and Journ. geogr., throughout the year. WHEELER, W. M. See p. 32. Bull. 61, no. 2. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 39 ~ INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM. In THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE. feiss 2. ee ee et. he. «650,000.00 ee ic sw we he «CLT 7,469.34 I coco ae ke ee 8,474.13 Sturgis Hooper Fund RR, tare i Fe. 107,418.18 Seminal und . . ..... =.=. =. =. ... . 297,933.10 sya FUN . 9. . )- « 1. se we 7,594.01 Virginia Barret Gibbs Fund ee Romane ea My Ps 6,794.65 Willard Peele Hunnewell Meriorial Fund Cg oA al Sagi aE 5,605.49 Maria Whitney Fund eg Se kw 6,442 .96 Alexander Agassiz Fund ; Ment os ye 99,500.00 Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund cM eat Mee 6g -o- ar, 10 George Russell Agassiz Fund . . fetes chee t .<. — SOBD8; 00 George Russell Agassiz Fund. Bpedal”. Pee res oe 8: OD Maria Whitney and James Lyman Whitney Fund RB SS S le 23 341 .38 ge a 5,107.94 $899,618 . 28 The payments on account of the Museum are made by the Bursar of Harvard College, on vouchers approved by the Director. The accounts are annually examined by a committee of the Overseers. The only funds the incomes of which are restricted, the Gray, the Humboldt, the Whitney, the Louis Cabot, and the Alexander Agassiz Expedition Funds, are annually charged in an analysis of the accounts, with vouchers, to the payment of which the incomes are applicable. The income of the Gray Fund can be applied to the purchase and mainte- nance of collections, but not for salaries. The income of the Humboldt Fund (about $400.) can be applied for the benefit of one or more students of Natural History, either at the Museum, the United States Fish Commission Station at Woods Hole, the Stations at Ber- muda, or the Tortugas. The income of the Whitney Funds can be applied for the care (binding) and increase of the Whitney Library. The income of the Louis Cabot Fund can be applied to the purchase of books on travel, sport, and natural history. The Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund was bequeathed by Alexander Agassiz for the publication of reports on collections brought together by the expeditions with which he was connected. The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship Fund, of the value of $325., is assigned annually with the approval of the Faculty of the Museum, on the recommendation of the Professors of Zodlogy and of Comparative Anatomy in Harvard University, ‘‘in supporting or assisting to support one or more students who may have shown decided talents in Zoélogy, and prefer- ably in the direction of Marine Zodélogy.”’ Applications for the tables reserved for advanced students at the Woods - Hole Station should be made to the Faculty of the Museum before the Ist of May. Applicants should state their qualifications, and indicate the course of study they intend to pursue. The following Publications of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy are in preparation: — LOUIS CABOT. Immature State of the Odonata, Part IV. E. L. MARK. Studies on Lepidosteus, continued. E. L. MARK. On Arachnactis. Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations in 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880, in charge of ALEXANDER AGassiz, by the U. 8. Coast Survey Steamer “‘ Blake,”’ as follows:— A. MILNE EDWARDS and E. L. BOUVIER. The Crustacea of the ‘‘Blake.’’ A. E. VERRILL. The Alcyonaria of the “‘Blake.’’ Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer “* Alba- tross,”” Lieutenant Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., Commanding, in charge of ALEXANDER AGassiz, as follows:— EK. BRANDT. The Sagittae. W.A. HERDMAN. The Ascidians. K. BRANDT. The Thalassicolae. S.J. HICKSON. The Antipathids O. CARLGREN. The Actinarians. E. L.-MARK. Branchiocerianthus. R. ¥. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. JOHN MURRAY. The Bottom Speci- W. R. COE. The Nemerteans. mens. REINHARD DOHRN. The Eyes of Deep- P. SCHIEMENZ. The Pteropods and ' Sea Crustacea. Heteropods. H. J. HANSEN. The Cirripeds. THEO. STUDER. The Alcyonarians. H. J. HANSEN. The Schizopods. —— The Salpidae and Doliolidae. HAROLD HEATH. Solenogaster. H. B. WARD. The Sipunculids. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of ALEXANDER AGassiz, on the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer ‘‘ Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N., Commanding, as follows: — R. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. MARY J. RATHBUN. The Crustacea H. L. CLARK. The Holothurians. Decapoda. — 5! The Volcanic Rocks. G. O. SARS. The Copepods. L. STEJNEGER. The Reptiles. Sear cee. Lamcetones. T. W. VAUGHAN. The Corals, Recent S. HENSHAW. The Insects. and’ Fossil G. W. MULLER. The Ostracods A. WETMORE. The Mammals and Birds. “MUSEUM oF ‘COMPARATIVE 20 AT HARVARD ‘COLLEGE. Viots. LY. LVIL,, LXL ‘adel LXIL. of Ps See Ka XXXIX., SLT Oey. XLVII. to ‘XLIX. oe the: / are now in course of publication. ae ae a ae The BuLietin and Memorrs are devoted to ae uli ati original work by the Officers of the Museum, ‘of i investi; : ca on | by students and others in. _ the different Laborat at _ tions and. Explorations. at ae i ue Pree ih The folleuatias publications « are in n preparation:— Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 t 0 18 Alexander Agassiz, by the U. 8. Coast. Survey. Steamer “ Commander.C. D. Seaeten U: 8. Ny sn Commander J Ursa Saas saan. wae Ave ‘ manding, i in charge of ‘Micgidok Ane 4 Reports on the Scientific Results of the Papeditios to t charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish’ ‘Con “‘ Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, Re = ona Moser, .U. 8. N., Hd tare a ete Pacific, in pe of. ‘Alexander ‘Aah on ae U. 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