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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Library of the

Museum of

Comparative Zoology

ANNUAL REPORT.

OF

THE DIRECTOR

}| MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE

TO THE

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

FOR

2a

1917-1918.

CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.::
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM.
1918.

v nd

REPORTS ON THE SCIENTIFIC°>- RESULTS OFTHE EXpHprrron TO THE East-
ERN TROPICAL PACIFIC, IN CHARGE OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, BY THE
U. 8. Fish Commission STEAMER ‘‘ALBATROSS,” FROM OcTOBER, 1904,
to Marca, 1905, Lizurenant ComMAnpER L. M. Garrett, U. S. N.,
CoMMANDING, PUBLISHED OR IN PREPARATION: —

. AGASSIZ. V.5
Expedition.
. AGASSIZ. I... Three Letters to Geo.
M. Bowers, U.S. Fish Com.
. B. BIGELOW. XVI.16 The Medusae.
. B. BIGELOW. XXIII.*%2 The Sipho-
nophores. ot 2
. B. BIGELOW. XXVI.’6
phores.
P. BIGELOW. The Stomatopods.
CARLGREN. The Actinaria.
. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids.
. L. CLARK. The Holothurians.
. L. CLARK. The Starfishes.
. L. CLARK. XXX.30- The Ophiurans.
F. CLARKE. VIII. The Hydroids.
. R. COE. The Nemerteans.
J. COLE. XIX. The Pycnogonida.
W. H. DALL. XIV.“ The Mollusks.
_C. R-. EASTMAN. VIL? 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,

Generat Report on the

ao thes“? eer gee Oa

The Cteno-

PaPRrmnronm

GEO.

C. A. KOFOID and J. R. MICHENER.
XXII. The Protozoa.

C. A. KOFOID and E. J. RIGDEN.

XXIV.24 The Protozoa.

P. KRUMBACH. The Sagittae.

R.. VON LENDENFELD. XXI.2 The
Siliceous Sponges.

R. VON LENDENFELD. -XXIX.29

Hexactinellida.
G. W. MULLER. The Ostracods.

‘'JOHN MURRAY and G. V, LEE. XVIL.17

The Bottom Specimens.

-MARY J.. RATHBUN. X.10 The Crus-
“tacea Decapoda. “ '
HARRIET RICHARDSON. II.2 The

Isopods.
W..E. RITTER. IV.‘ The Tunicates.
B. L. ROBINSON. ‘The Plants.
SARS. °The Copepods.

F. E. SCHULZE. XI." The Xenophyo-
phoras.
HARRIET R. SEARLE. XXVIIL28

pods.
H. R. SIMROTH. Pteropods, Heteropods.
E. C. STARKS. XIII3 Atelaxia.

Iso-

W. C. KENDALL and L. RADCLIFFE.

‘“XXV.25 The Fishes. T. W. VAUGHAN. VI.6 The Corals.
C. A. KOFOID. TIL IX.» XX.% The R. WOLTERECK. XVIII.

Protozoa. ; phipods.

‘Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 4, April, 1905, 22 pp.

? Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 6, July, 1905, 4. pp., 1 pl.

3 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 9, September, 1905, 5 pp., 1 pl.

‘Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVI., No, 13, January, 1906, 22 pp., 3 pls.

5’ Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XX XIII., January, 1906, 90 pp., 96 pls.

‘ Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. L., No. 3, August, 1906, 14 pp., 10 pls.

7Bull. 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.

® Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. L., No. 6, February, 1907, 48 pp., 18 pls.

0 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XX XV, No. 2, August, 1907, 56 pp., 9 pls.

4 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LI., No. 6, November, 1907, 22 pp., 1 pl.

2 Bull. M. C.Z., Vol. LII., No. 1, June, 1908, 14 pp., 1 pl.

8 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 2, July, 1908, 8 pp., 5 pis:

44 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLIII., No. 6, October, 1908, 285 pp., 22 pls.

15 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. ©

7 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XX XVIII., No. 1, June, 1909, 172 pp., 4 pls., 3 maps:

8 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIL, No. 9, June, 1909, 26 pp., 8 pls. ’

9 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 11, August, 1909, 10 pp., 3 pls.

* Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 13, September, 1909, 48 pp., 4 pls.

21 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XLI., August, September, 1910, 323 pp., 56 pls.

2 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. 7, August, 1911, 38 pp. .

23 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XX XVIII., No. 2, December, 1911, 232 pp., 32 pls.

4 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. 10, February, 1912, 16 pp., 2 pls.

25 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV., No. 3, April, 1912, 98 PD.» 8 pls.

26 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. 12, April, 1912, 38 pp., 2 pls.

” Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV., No. 4, July, 1912, 124 pp., 12 pls.

28 Bull. M. ©. Z., Volk. LVITE,; No. 8, August, 1914, 14 pp-" "ee

29 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XLII., June, 1915, 397 pp., 109 pls.

30 Bull. M.C. Z., Vol. LXI., October, 1917, 28 pp., 5 pls.

TH. STUDER... The Alcyonaria.
JH. THIELE. XV.

Bathysciadium.

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ANNUAL REPORT
THE DIRECTOR

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE
TO THE :
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

FOR

1917-1918.

CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A.:
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM.
1918.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

Faculty.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, President.

HENRY P. WALCOTT.

SAMUEL HENSHAW, Director.

GEORGE L. GOODALE
JOHN E. THAYER.

Committee on the Museum.

HENRY P. WALCOTT.

SAMUEL HENSHAW
WALTER FAXON
SAMUEL GARMAN

WILLIAM BREWSTER
OUTRAM BANGS

HUBERT da: CLABRK ain0%
HENRY B. BIGELOW . .
ROBERT W. SAYLES

PERCY E. RAYMOND .
THOMAS BARBOUR...

RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN .
JOHN C.4PHELUEIPS: Uae, i

NATHAN BANKS

GEORGE NELSON © 2.2.2 -

REGINALD A. DALY
EDWARD L. MARK. .

WILLIAM H. CASTLE. .
WILLIAM M. WHEELER
ROBERT DreC. WARD. .

WALLACE W. ATWOOD .
LOUIS C. GRATON

JAY B. WOODWORTH. .
PERCY E. RAYMOND. .
HERBERT W. RAND i
CHARLES T. BRUES. . .

GEORGE L. GOODALE.

Officers.

. Director.

Curator of Crustacea and Mollusca.

. . Curator of Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes.
. Curator of Birds.

Curator of Mammals and Associate Curator
of Birds.

. Curator of Echinoderms.

. Curator of Coelenterates.

. . Curator of the Geological Collections.

. Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology.

. Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibi-

ans.
Curator of Arachnids, Myriopods, and Worms
Associate Curator of Birds.
Curator of Insects.
Preparator.

. . . Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology.
. . Hersey Professor of Anatomy.
GEORGE H. PARKER...
. Professor of Zodlogy.
. Professor of Economic Entomology.
. Professor of Climatology.
ALEXANDER G. McADIE .
. Professor of Physiography.

. Professor of Economic Geology.

. Associate Professor of Geology.

. Associate Professor of Palaeontology.

. Assistant Professor of Zodlogy.
. Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology.

Professor of Zodlogy.

Professor of Meteorology.

REPORT.

To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS oF HARVARD COLLEGE: —

DurinG the Academic year 1917-1918, most of the instruction
in Zodlogy, Geology, and Geography offered in Harvard University
and in Radcliffe College was given in the Laboratories and Lecture
Rooms of the Museum.

In Zodlogy sixteen courses and half courses were taken by
263 students in Harvard University and ten courses and half
courses were taken by 121 students in Radcliffe College.

In 1916-1917 these courses and students were:—

Harvard:— 19 courses, 410 students.

Radcliffe:— 10 courses, 98 students.

In Geology and Geography eleven courses were given in Harvard
University and two courses were given in Radcliffe College.

The number of students taking these courses was 372 in Harvard
University and 24 in Radcliffe College.

In 1916-1917 these courses and students were :—

Harvard:— 28 courses, 703 students.

Radcliffe:— 2 courses, 34 students.

In December an imperfection in the sprinkler system caused a
water damage to the building and cases. Fortunately, however,
the break occurred at an hour when the prompt and energetic
work of the Museum force prevented serious injury to the col-
lections.

Though the field-work and most of the activities of the Museum
have been curtailed during the year, the Museum has been fortu-
nate in having much voluntary assistance in the care and develop-
ment of its collections. Especial mention should be made of the
work of Mr. T. E. Penard in the Ornithological department; of
Mr. E. H. Dunn who has studied and catalogued the entire col-
lection of urodele amphibians; of Mr. G. K. Noble for his study
of a large number of reptiles and amphibians from South America;
of Mr. H. W. Fowler for his study of a large part of the Indian
fishes received in the early seventies from Rev. M. M. Carleton;
of Mr. L. W. Swett who has continued the rearrangement of the
geometrid moths; of Miss E. B. Bryant for her work on the col-
lection of Araneina; and of Prof. W. H. Twenhofel who has iden-
tified and labeled the Ordovician and Silurian fossils collected
during the 1914 expedition to the Baltic.

4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

From the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes the Museum has received
an immense series of Philippine shells. Governor Forbes’s gift
contains many species of great beauty and rarity new to the col-
lection, but its principal value to the Museum consists in its bulk,
a million specimens is a very conservative estimate, which in many
cases affords unequalled material for studies in variation.

Considerable series of invertebrate fossils, shells, insects, fishes,
and birds have been received from the Boston Society of Natural
History according to the plan of codperation agreed upon in 1914.
The Museum’s return consists of a series of New England shells
and a few representative species selected by the Curator of the
Society for its general collection. The Museum’s Preparators
also serve the Society upon request.

The Museum is indebted to Prof. W. M. Wheeler for series of ants,
and other insects and of arachnids; to Mr. E. D. Harris for very
many Cicindelidae; to Mr. F. C. Bowditch for additional Chryso-
melidae; to Mr. B. P. Clark for a number of hawk moths; to
Mr. A. H. Clark for an exhibition series of Lepidoptera (Denton
mounts); to Mr. C. P. Wilson for an especially large Alligator Gar;
to Mr. G. R. Agassiz for a Tarpon; to Mr. Daniel Vincent for two
valuable vertebrate fossils from Gay Head, and to Mr. H. K.
Balch for the heads of Moose from northern Minnesota.

The death of the Rev. Henry W. Winkley at Danvers on
4 February, 1918, is recorded with regret. In June, 1906, the
Museum received Mr. Winkley’s large and valuable series of
land shells collected in many parts of the world with the exception
of New England. Since that date Mr. Winkley had shown a
deep interest in the Museum collection of Mollusca and had
contributed to it many specimens of value. Miss Ruth Winkley,
in accordance with the wishes of her father, has given to the
Museum his collection of New England shells, a collection well
identified and labeled, and especially rich in minute and closely
allied species.

The death of Mr. Goodwin Warner is also recorded with regret.
Recently, and’ on more than one occasion, Mr. Warner aided
most effectively in field-work carried on by the Museum. Mr.
Warner at the time of his death, which occurred in France, 29
June, 1918, of pneumonia, was second lieutenant American
Expeditionary Forces.

Work upon the collection of pe iF has been continued by
Dr. G. M. Allen, who has identified and catalogued recent acces-
sions and made excellent progress in incorporating much of the
fossil material with the osteological series. ‘This work is complete

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 5

for the proboscideans and palaeotheres. The accession most
worthy of note is several specimens of Capromys nana a small
Cuban rodent. This species first described in March, 1917, was
based on some fragments of jaws found in cave-deposits in a
subfossil condition. The living individuals were secured by or
through the aid of Dr. Thomas Barbour.

Mr. Bangs’s constant work upon the collection of birds keeps
pace with the growth and development of the same. Throughout
the year, Mr. Bangs has enjoyed the codperation of Mr. T. E.
Penard to whom the Museum is also indebted for several types of
Surinam birds. The notable accessions include series from the
Cameroons and Hawaii, (purchased), New Guinea and Cuba,
(gift of Dr. Thomas Barbour), and Surinam, (gift of Mr. F. F.
Jonesberg). .

About six months of the Museum year were spent by Dr.
Thomas Barbour in Cuba, during which time the interests of the
Museum were advanced when not inconsistent with the duties
which occasioned his stay in Cuba. Among the more impor-
tant accessions to the collections of reptiles and amphibians,
Dr. Barbour mentions a series of venomous snakes of Brazil,
(gift of Dr. Vitel Brazil), amphibians from Central Peru, (gift of
Mr. J. M. Boutwell), and Cuban reptiles, (gift of Mr. C. T.
Ramsden).

Mr. Garman’s work upon the fishes, owing to the extent of the
year’s accessions, has been almost wholly curatorial. These acces-
sions include, among others, collections from North America,
(F. W. Putnam), Japan, (E. S. Morse), Hawaii, (C. F. Winslow),
Cuba, (F. Poey), and the embryos, dissections, and skeletons,
the basis of many of the classic memoirs of Dr. Jeffries Wyman.
All the above were received from the Boston Society of Natural
History. Collections from Michigan, (gift of Prof. Jacob Reig-
hard), Bermuda (gift of Dr. E. L. Mark), and Cuba, (gift of Dr.
Thomas Barbour), are also noteworthy. Mr. Alvin Seale, as a
temporary Assistant, has worked throughout the year upon the
clupeoid fishes. He has studied not only the extensive series
in this Museum but also the collections of the University of Cali-
fornia, Leland Stanford Junior University, U.S. National Museum,
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and the American
Museum of Natural History; the officials of these museums most
courteously gave Mr. Seale every facility for his work, a work
which has enabled him to examine most of the types extant in the
United States. Mr. Seale effected some interchanges of specimens
advantageous to the collection of the Museum.

6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

Large accessions have been made to the Entomological collec-
tions by gift, exchange, and by the field-work of the Curator. Mr.
Banks’s duties also involve assistance to the many students who
consult the collection. Aside from his curatorial service, Mr.
Banks has prepared papers on the termites (white ants) of the
United States, of Panama, and of the West Indies. His taxo-
nomic work also includes descriptions of new Hymenoptera,
Diptera, and Neuroptera. As a recognized authority upon the
Arachnida, Mr. Banks not infrequently receives collections of
this class of which he has not official charge, and reports upon the
same.

Though Dr. Chamberlin as Curator of the myriopods, arachnids,
and worms gave a part of his year’s work to each of these groups,
by far the larger portion of the time was given over to a study of
the chilopods and diplopods of the West Indies and the islands of
the Pacific, a study which has added the types of more than
300 new species to the collection. Dr. Chamberlin has also
worked over and prepared a report upon the Pacific Coast anne-
lids collected by Mr. Agassiz in 1859-1860. Several collections
of arachnids and worms have been received for study and report,
duplicates from which will be retained by the Museum.

Mr. W. F. Clapp has identified, labeled, and catalogued the
very considerable accessions to the collection of Mollusca; these
with few exceptions are distributed systematically. The Pelecy-
poda, exclusive of the Unionidae, have been rearranged, a work
which makes the entire collection readily available. Governor
Forbes’s Philippine shells and the Winkley collection have been
already mentioned; other important accessions include a large
series of Unionidae from the Boston Society of Natural History,
one hundred and twenty-six species, nearly all new to the Museum,
from the University of Colorado, and many Cuban land shells
from Dr. Thomas Barbour.

Dr. H. L. Clark states that more than 1,000 specimens have
been added to the collection of echinoderms during the year,
all of which have been identified, labeled, and catalogued. He
has prepared reports, complete or partly so, upon the echinoderms
of South African waters and upon the holothurians and sea-stars
collected during the ALBATROSS expeditions to the Tropical
Pacific.

Dr. H. B. Bigelow’s services for the government of the United
States gave him very little time for his Museum duties as Curator
of Coelenterates. He has cared for the accessions received and
studied the medusan collections and data to be used for reports

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOSLOGY. 7
on the Canadian Arctic expedition of 1913-1915 and during the
cruise of the GrampPus in 1916.

Prof. P. E. Raymond, Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology,
as Associate Professor of Palaeontology, gives somewhat more
than half of his time to the instruction of students in Harvard
University. His field-work in both capacities and the work of
his advanced students accrues very largely to the advantage of the
collections of the Museum. During the year, Professor Raymond
collected in the Ordovician and Devonian strata of Iowa, and in
the Ordovician of southwestern Virginia and eastern Tennessee.
From his recent collectings, Professor Raymond has secured and
described a large number of new species of trilobites. He has
also identified and labeled a number of trilobites belonging to
several families, and has determined several collections of fossils
sent for that purpose by the Geological Survey of Canada, and
by Yale University. The accessions include a large series of
fossils from many localities and formations, from the Boston
Society of Natural History, a considerable series of corals and
mollusks from the Fiji Islands, from Prof. W. G. Foye, and many
fine specimens from Mr. J. R. Bradley, Jr., and Mr. A. G. Becker.

Mr. R. W. Sayles, Curator of the Geological collections, spent
most of his time in the preparation of a memoir entitled Seasonal
deposition in aqueo-glacial sediments. ‘Toward the publication
of this memoir Mr. Sayles has generously contributed the illus-
trations. The only addition of importance received during the
year consists of twenty-seven specimens received in exchange
from the Boston Society of Natural History. A recent census of
the collection gives a total of 5,850 specimens, 3,615 illustrative of
dynamical and structural geology, and 2,235 specimens of eco-
nomic geology.

Though the employment of a Preparator in a large museum
offers little opportunity for detailed report, it consists of an endless
mass of varied work, at times requiring the most skilful workman-
ship, and at times entailing the most monotonous drudgery.
Mr. George Nelson, during the year, has mounted for exhibition
vertebrates of every class, has repaired and mounted skeletons of
the same, made skins of mammals and birds from fresh material,
and repaired and made over old specimens of the same, and has
made casts of a considerable series of unique fossil vertebrates.
Mr. Nelson has also made some elaborate colored drawings and
his excellent photographic work has been utilized for the illus-
tration of Museum publications and not infrequently for the
benefit of other institutions and investigators. Mr. A. B. Fuller’s

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time has been given over chiefly to the improvement of the research
collections of mammals and birds; he has made over in a most
satisfactory manner a very large number of skins. For exhibition,
Mr. Fuller has mounted the young Bison received last year from
Dr. W. L. Smith and for the New England collection of the Boston
Society of Natural History, he has remounted the Whooping Crane
killed in the summer of 1908 in Connecticut.

The Library contains 55,184 volumes and 55,808 pamphlets;
757 volumes and 3,309 pamphlets have been added during the
year; these figures are according to the principle that every
printed publication of one hundred pages is recorded as a volume,
one of less than one hundred pages as a pamphlet.

The publications of the year include two parts of volume 43
of the Memoirs, fourteen naimbers of the Bulletin and the Annual
Report, a total of 787 (208 quarto and 579 octavo) pages, illus-
trated by 66 (88 quarto and 28 octavo) plates. Volume 43 of
the Memoirs, a review of the American characins by Prof. C. H.
Eigenmann, will be completed in five parts with 101 plates.
This Memoir is based largely upon the immense collection obtained
by the Nathaniel Thayer expedition to Brazil. The plates are
printed and the parts will be issued as rapidly as the interests of
the Museum as a whole will allow. Eight numbers of the Bulletin
contain reports on Museum collections, and three numbers pub-
lished as Contributions from the Bussey Institution are based,
wholly or in part, upon Museum collections; one number contains
an account of the ophiurans collected during two of the ALBATROSS
expeditions to the Pacific carried on under the direction of Mr.
Agassiz; one number contains the seventh annual report of the
Harvard Seismographic Station, and another a detailed illustrated
description of the Harvard deep-sea thermograph, an ingenious
instrument working satisfactorily in waters of moderate depth,
though as yet not tested in deep water. The eighty plates for
Dr. Chamberlin’s memoir on the ALBaTrRoss Pacific polychaete
annelids have been printed. Professor Verrill’s report on the
BLAKE alcyonarians will be illustrated by 140 plates, and this
series of plates has been completed during the year as have those
for two memoirs, one (10 plates), on the ALBATROSS Dolabellinae,
and one (14 plates), on the Atlantic Solenogastres.

Toward the publication of the Report of the Seismographic
Station, the Corporation granted $200.

SAMUEL HENSHAW,
Director.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9

REPORT ON THE ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

By E. L. Marx.

The courses in Zoélogy offered for the year 1917-1918 were,
with the exception of those given in alternate years, the same as in
1916-1917, and were conducted by the same instructors; but the
opportunity for laboratory work in Zodédlogy 8 was withdrawn.
As in the previous year, and to a greater extent, the numbers in
courses were affected by the war, the total number of revistrations
in Harvard being about thirty per cent less than in 1916-1917.

Tables I and II give the statistics regarding each of the courses
in Harvard and in Radcliffe College, respectively.

TABLE I.

Courses Graduates Med.| Bussey
1917-1918 A.& 8. Ap. 5. Sen. | Jun. |Soph.|Fresh.| Uncl.| OCC.| Sp. Trop.| Instn. | Total

Zodlogy 1 | 3 eae er ee, PR Ad ps eta |) — ‘]aa2
Sees) 44 104-7) 5 Boles)! ot Sa dep Oe | aps
Pee iy j0+1| 4 “ES ES OS) a a) ee vee
eee ary | — | 1 5 Sad Gye ea TSC) eee py ee Be
Fe | 1 oa SET Ge eS ee ee cel ea |
e270} 1 2 AE A og gone Sk Raed ee ee
So 18+) 6 7 jeg OSA Se ee, ee ee
ceeee 1 6+2 | — eS eS SS SS Ss on een ee
ees | 5] Of 11 1¢-—) 1 |—|—] 041] 13+8
Ee a ee RE en a ee ee eee en ee or
e 20a| 3 ee Pee eT 8
« “205 | 1 agent ie Se Pa pa pty
“ — 20¢ | 2 Sea e ian Gere eg, eee ceeeen Went, eee OS | 3
Sos 20e | 4 = ee Pes ee eee ee ae ee re |
re OF | 1 sea WU 0 Ey Se Se eae GS, eg a es
lg | 1 SSS, Ct Ee es ee en eee

Sums 48+8 |0+3]438+1) 38 | 56 | 51 ihe 3] 1 |'1+1 )251+8

Norte: Numbers in italics indicate students who attended the lectures, but
were not enrolled in the course.

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TABLE II

Courses
1917-1918 Grad. Sen. Jun. Soph. | Fresh. | Uncel. Sp. Total

Zoology 1 2 t 6 16 7 3 1 39
‘ 2 = 8 15 19 = + 2 48
i 3 3 if 3 1 1 — 1 10
5 4 2 i! 1 == sabe 1 1 6
e 5b 2 = 1 = a= 1 —= 4
“s FO a 5 2 a — = —. 7
4 146) 2 1 a = a re 3
. Ws 2 — ate =e co == 2
‘ 20 1 al = = =: == aa i
we Seog lt at {eS pp RE eee 1
Sums 10 24 29 36 8 9 5 12)

The assistants in courses were as follows: — Zodlogy 1, Harvard:
chief-assistant, Mr. J. P. Baumberger, sub-assistants, Dr. A. J.
Bigney, and Messrs. A. W. L. Bray, V. Obreshkove, C. 8. Simkins,
and G. K. Noble; Radcliffe: chief-assistant, Mr. A. C. Kinsey,
sub-assistant, Mr. R. J. Dobson. Zodlogy 3, Harvard: chief-
assistants, Messrs. J. M. D. Olmsted (for two weeks), and R. J.
Dobson, sub-assistant, Dr. A. J. Bigney; Radcliffe: assistants,
Messrs. R. J. Dobson and V. Obreshkove. Zodlogy 4, Harvard:
assistants, Messrs. A. C. Walton (for four weeks) and A. B.
Dawson; Radcliffe: assistant, Mr. A. B. Dawson. Zodlogy 5b,
Harvard and Radcliffe: assistant, Mr. A. W. L. Bray. Zodlogy 12,
Harvard: assistants, Messrs. A. C. Walton (for four weeks) and
A. W. L. Bray.

Courses 7a, 7c and 20f were given at the Bussey Institution,
the others in Cambridge. Of the twelve Harvard students en-
rolled in Zodlogy 14a, six pursued it with laboratory work, the
others as a thesis course. Of the former, one prepared a paper
which has been published in the Contributions from the Laboratory.
One of the three Radcliffe students took the course with laboratory
work. All the Harvard students enrolled in Zodlogy 17 took the
course with laboratory work; of the two in Radcliffe College, one
elected to take laboratory work, the other thesis work.

The University Extension Course in Elementary Zodlogy —
fifteen exercises on the comparative anatomy of selected groups
of animals — was given as usual by Professor Parker, during the

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 11

first half-year. Seventeen persons were in attendance. The
laboratory assistant was Mr. J. P. Baumberger.

Research work was counted as equivalent to courses as follows :—
in Harvard, Zoédlogy 20a and 20b, under Professor Mark, five
courses; Zodlogy 20c, under Professor Parker, three and three
fourths courses; Zodlogy 20e and 20g, under Assistant Professor
Rand, five and one fourth courses; Zodlogy 20f, under Professor
Wheeler and Assistant Professor Brues, four and one half courses;
in Radcliffe, Zodlogy 20c, under Professor Parker, one course;
Zoology 20g, under Assistarit Professor Rand, one half course.

The degree of Ph.D. was conferred in June on Alden Benjamin
Dawson, his thesis being entitled The integument of Necturus
maculosus Rafinesque.

Opportunities for war service prevented students who had
planned to spend a portion of the summer at the Bermuda Biologi-
cal Station from going there, so that the Resident Naturalist,
Dr. Crozier, and his family were the only occupants.

The Harvard Table at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods
Hole, was occupied by a research student, studying problems in
experimental zodlogy, and the Radcliffe Table was shared by an
unclassified student taking the course in physiology, and a gradu-
ate taking the course in botany.

The Zodlogical Club held twenty-two meetings, at which sixteen
original papers and twenty-one reviews were presented.

Lists of the Contributions from the Zodlogical Laboratory and
from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research for the year
1917-1918 are given on pp. 30, 31; other papers by members of
the Department are listed under the authors’ names.

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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND
GEOGRAPHY.

By J. B. WoopwortTu.

Professor Daly acted as Chairman of the Department until
February, 1918; he conducted Geology 4 during the first half year
with the assistance of Messrs. N. E. A. Hinds and T. H. Clark.

War service for the U. S. government caused the withdrawal or
curtailment of many of the usual courses of Professors Daly, Ward,
McAdie, Atwood, Graton, Woodworth, and Raymond. Messrs.
T. H. Clark, D. H. Hall, and N. E. A. Hinds, Assistants to Pro-
. fessors Daly and Graton, resigned to enter governmental service.
The number of students taking the different courses was: —

Harvard

Geology 4 — Professor Daly; Messrs. Clark and Hinds . . . 77
; 5 — Professors Woodworth and Raymond... . 25
. 10 — Professor Graton; Mr. Hall) <= 4:2. 407 So ee
: 16 — ¥ Woodworth 22)... 4k \.4> no
Geography 1— . Atwood . <a) fois) ee ee
AO Gene ee : cig gh ep
Palaeontology 1— e Raymond © .<"0 2s “= ee ee
« 20 — . 2 . JRE S LG ee
Meteorology 1— " Wards 2. .4.. -cs8. (aaa
“ (marine) — _ : 2 50
377

Radcliffe:
Geology 4— Professor Woodworth =- :~. . ° ~i. 4. #2 9) ee
Pe 5— 2 f ~ Gs 7 ORES ee
24

In Geology 12, one student completed the work of the first half
year. The course in Marine meteorology was conducted chiefly
for naval students. Several students included in the above enum-
eration left with full credit for the course because of their enlist-
ment in the army or navy.

The great reduction in the number of students, graduate and
undergraduate, allowed several of the staff to conduct instruction

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 13

in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps in military sketching and map-
reading.

Mr. Randolph C. Ray has given efficient service throughout
the year as preparator and as assistant in the mechanical work of
the Seismographic Station. To facilitate his work, a small room
was partitioned off in the hall of the second floor of the Geological
Museum.

A few additions have been made to the Gardiner Collection of
Photographs; but no significant changes or additions to the equip-
ment of the laboratories were made during the year.

The building was struck by lightning in August, 1918, the bolt
entering the motor room and setting fire to gas from a pipe which
it burned through. It should be recorded that the brick chimney
of the ventilator on the building was broken down by lightning
two years ago. It is probable that the copper roof and the large
amount of iron piping in the fire-service installed in the building
will ordinarily dissipate an electric discharge.

Professor Ward continued his instruction in meteorology at the
U.S. Army School of Military Aeronautics at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology until the end of December, when the
Ground School for flying cadets was discontinued; the lectures
given at this School have been printed. Professor Ward has con-
tinued his study of the effects of current weather conditions upon
military operations in the war, and has made progress in the prepa-
ration of a book on the climatology of the United States.

A new marine barometer, and a new thermometer of the U. S.
Navy pattern, were added to the Laboratory equipment for use
in Professor Ward’s course in Marine meteorology.

Professor Atwood gave a number of lectures at Camp Devens
and completed the field-work and manuscript on the Physical
Geography of the Camp Devens Region for the U. S. Geological
Survey.

He has directed the preparation of the chapter on land forms
for a new text-book on geology and geography for use in the
national Students’ Army Training Corps. He also directed special
students in aerial photography and the making of maps based on
aeroplane photographs.

Some time was given to the preparation of a report on the
Physiography of the San Juan Mountains.

Associate Professor Woodworth continued his office-work on
the preparation of a report on the Geology of Cape Cod and the
islands of the south coast for the U. S. Geological Survey. A

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special report was prepared on the water supply of the district
at the request of the U.S. government. As Chairman of the sub-
committee on the use of the seismograph in war, much time was
given to a project which proved less feasible than the employment
of sound waves in locating enemy heavy batteries. The Seismo-
graphic Station has been kept in running order during the year,
though the issuance of the monthly mimeographed bulletin has
been much interfered with and the annual reports for the past
two years are yet to be written.

During the summer, Professor Raymond spent seven weal in
southwestern Virginia and eastern Tennessee in continuation of the
Shaler Memorial study of the stratigraphy of the Ordovician
strata of the Appalachians. This second season’s work on the
problem has yielded valuable results which justify the compila-
tion of a preliminary report on the progress of the investigation.

Six models of extinct animals, and four books were added to the
student palaeontological collection during the year.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 15

REPORT ON THE MAMMALS.

By Outram BANGs.

During the year many interesting additions have been made to
the collection, though no large series have been received.

From Sefior don José Garcia we received a complete specimen
of Capromys nana, caught alive. Later Dr. Thomas Barbour
secured four specimens. Before this discovery the species had
been known only from bones found in caves and was supposed to
be extinct.

In exchange there have been received thirty-four skins and skulls
_ of South American rodents and opossums, thirty skins and skulls
and ten alcoholic African bats, from the American Museum of
Natural History; twenty-three skins and skulls from Arkansas
from W. G. Savage; two Porto Rican bats from the United States
National Museum.

By purchase we have received 188 skins, skulls or skeletons,
from the Cameroons, collected by the Rev. George Schwab;
twelve skins of Australian mammals.

Single specimens or small series have been presented by Messrs.
H. K. Balch, Thomas Barbour, William Brewster, W. E. Castle,
Donald R. Dickey, W. R. Forrest, A. B. Fuller, don José Garcia,
E. L. Mark, George Nelson, Roland Thaxter, J. E. Thayer, and
David Vincent.

Some additional bats were received from Fiji Island Expedition
collected by W. M. Mann and from the Harvard Peruvian Expedi-
tion collected by G. K. Noble.

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REPORT ON THE BIRDS.

By WILLIAM BREWSTER.

~ The Museum has received 389 bird skins by gift, 271 by pur-
chase, sixty-four by exchange. Thus the total number added
within the year scarce exceeds 700, as compared with upwards
of 900 in 1916-1917 and about 5,500 in 1915-1916. This numer-
ical falling off is not surprising in times like these, when such
material cannot be sought freely.

Dr. Thomas Barbour has given us seventy-one birds, ae
from Australia, New Guinea, and Cuba, among which are repre-
sentatives of no less than forty-six species or subspecies not
hitherto possessed by the Museum; Mr. F. F. Jonesberg, 111,
collected in Surinam by A. P. Penard, representing eighty species
or subspecies of which four are new to us; Mr. G. K. Noble,
110 New England birds, almost all taken by him in or near
Cambridge.

For specimens contributed in smaller series or singly, the Museum
is indebted to Miss Mary T. Palmer, and to Messrs. H. B. Bigelow
(for a Hutchins’s Goose killed at Pea Island, North Carolina,
January 1, 1918), G. B. Brainard (for a Prairie Horned Dove
having only one wing and apparently never possessed of any other
although found running about in a field at Gloucester, Mass.,
December 24, 1917), William Brewster (for fifty-one birds collected
by A. T. Wayne near Charleston, South Carolina), W. B. Cabot,
Walter Faxon, W. Cameron Forbes, J. B. Goodwin, J. A. Hagar,
F. H. Kennard, F. 8. Kingsbury, C. R. Lamb, W. M. Mann,
George Nelson, T. E. Penard (for six type specimens of Surinam
birds) Bene van Rippen (for twelve birds from Portuguese East
Africa), G. A. Stiles, and W. M. Tyler.

Of purchased skins twenty-five came from the Hawaiian Iitsnds
and 245 from the Cameroons, the former representing three, the
latter thirty-eight, birds new to the Museum.

The specimens obtained by exchange include representatives of
about thirty-five species or subspecies not heretofore in the Mu- -
seum. Most of them were furnished by Dr. L. C. Sanford, Mr.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 17

H. K. Coale, Mr. C. W. Chamberlain, and the Dublin National
Museum. In return for some of them, thirty birds have been sent
to Mr. Coale, four to Mr. Chamberlain, one to the U. S. National
Museum, one to Mr. G. G. Cantwell. A Great Gray Owl, taken
in northern Maine (Bangs Collection), has been given to the
Boston Society of Natural History.

For scientific study 162 skins have been loaned to Dr. W. E.
Clyde Todd, forty-seven to Mr. C. B. Cory, twenty-six to Mr. H.
C. Oberholser, five to Mr. Schuyler Matthews, two to Dr. E. W.
Nelson.

Mr. Bangs continues to devote himself to the care and develop-
~ment of the bird collection, thereby rendering the Museum dis-
interested and highly valued service.

18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS.

By THomas BARBOUR.

The Associate Curator spent about half of the year in Cuba and
the Isle of Pines, and during part of the time had the capable
cooperation of Mr. W. S. Brooks.

Mr. E. M. Dunn studied the collection of Amphibia Caudata
and prepared for publication an annotated catalogue of the same.
Mr. G. K. Noble studied the unidentified South American material.

The gifts have been many. Dr. Vital Brazil has given an
almost complete series of the venomous snakes of Brazil; Mr.
J. M. Boutwell some rare amphibians from the Andean lakes of
central Peru; Mr. C. T. Ramsden specimens from eastern Cuba;
Dr. A. G. Ruthven paratypes of new forms; Dr. E. Uhlenhuth
desirable urodeles.

The material transferred from the Boston Society of Natural
History is of great interest and includes the fine series of Pipa
which formed the basis for Wyman’s pioneer work on its develop-
ment and anatomy. ‘

A Yellow Boa (Epicrates subflavus) from the U. S. N. M. in
exchange, completes the representation of the Jamaican reptile
and amphibian fauna, with the exception of Sphaerodactylus gilvi-
torques. Other exchanges have been effected with the U. S.
National Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia,
the American Museum of Natural History and the Zodlogical
Museum of the University of Michigan.

The purchase includes a large series of reptiles and amphibians
from the Cameroons and a desirable series of amphibians from
Louisiana.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19

REPORT ON THE FISHES.

By SAMUEL GARMAN.

Much the larger additions to the collection have been made
with a minimum of expense for collecting, manipulation, and
preservation, from material contributed by the Boston Society of
Natural History, drawn from a considerable portion of the world’s
surface. Among them are Cuban collections made by Prof. F.
Poey, others by Prof. E. S. Morse from Japan, by Prof. F. W.
Putnam from numerous localities in North America, by C. F.
Winslow from the Hawaiian Islands, and by Dr. Jeffries Wyman,
including evidences of his industry for many years in the way of
skeletons, dissections, and embryos, mainly from South America.
Cuban collections have been received from Dr. Thomas Barbour,
and some from the Solomon Islands from Dr. W. M. Mann. A lot
of carefully selected Bermudian specimens were received from
Prof. E. L. Mark.

Mr. G. K. Noble secured a number of Andean fishes from the
stomachs of frogs. Dr. J. Reighard furnished a representation
of the lampreys of Michigan. A purchase from Rev. George
Schwab contains a large series of species from the Cameroons;
others were obtained from Madagascar, taken by Mr. F. R.
Wulsin.

The Carleton collections were returned by Dr. H. W. Fowler.
Considerable amounts of cataloguing, identification, and labeling
_ have been done.

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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

By NatHan BANKS.

For accessions during the past year we are indebted to Messrs.
C. P. Alexander, C. F. Baker, F. C. Bowditch, S. E. Cassino,
T. D. A. Cockerell, J. H. Emerton, H. R. Hagan, C. W. Johnson,
M. D. Jones, W. M. Mann, Herbert Osborn, R. Ottolengui,
E. Varas, W. M. Wheeler, and E. B. Williamson.

Exchanges were made with Dr. H. Brauns, Messrs. C. E.
Mickel, R. J. Tillyard, and R. T. Webber. Specimens for study
were loaned to ten persons. Besides the local entomologists,
ten others have visited the collection for comparison and study.

The Curator has examined the collection for pests, and noted
only a few cases of infestation. During the year more than
ten thousand specimens have been pinned, and many labeled.
Much of the winter was spent in preparation of revisions of
American termites. Papers were prepared on the termites of the
West Indies, of Panama, and of the United States. For this
purpose material was borrowed from several Museums and
Experiment Stations. Numerous types and paratypes were
thus added to our already rich collections of American termites.

Several collections were received for determination. The
Canadian Entomological Department sent the Neuroptera and
Acari collected on the Canadian Arctic Expedition, the National
Museum a small collection of Neuroptera and spiders from China,
the Universities of Kansas and of Michigan collections of North
American Neuroptera, the American Museum the Neuroptera
collected on their Congo Expedition, Pomona College a collection
of Acari, and the South Australian Museum a collection of Acari
from Norfolk and Lord Howe Island. Several papers have been
prepared on these collections.

In the Diptera, various genera of Asilidae have been studied
and the new species described; in the Hymenoptera, the Bembe-
cidae have been named and additional Psammocharidae described ;
in the Neuroptera, unnamed Sialidae, Panorpidae, and Psocidae
have been determined or described.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 21

REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS, ARACHNIDS, AND
WORMS.

By Ratpew V. CHAMBERLIN.

About two weeks were spent in the field in Millard Co., Utah,
where intensive collecting of the arachnids of the desert region
and certain isolated mountains was carried out in continuation
of previous field-work in the Great Basin region.

Considerable time was devoted to a study of the collections
of chilopods and diplopods from the West Indies and the islands
of the Pacific, and a report prepared upon the myriopod fauna of
each of these regions. This work resulted in the addition of
more than three hundred new types. A report was prepared
upon the myriopods from Louisiana and Okefenokee Swamp
received from Cornell University through Prof. C. R. Crosby;
several briefer papers on other collections were also prepared.

Accessions of chilopods and diplopods were received from Messrs.

C. R. Crosby, W. J. Crozier, H. F. Dietz, E..O. Essig, H. J. Hart,
W. A. Hilton, L. O. Howard, P. Rau, E. R. Sasscer, H. J. Smith,
and the Southern Biological Supply Co. through Percy Viasco.
An extensive collection of spiders from southern California
made during a series of years by Prof. W. A. Hilton and his
students was received during the year. Series of the species
are to be retained in return for identification. Several small lots
of arachnids, chiefly foreign, were also identified. Spiders were
also received from Messrs. Joseph Chamberlin, C. L. Marlatt,
Joseph Robinson, and Miss Edith Jamieson.

Work on the annelids included the identification of material
taken by Mr. Alexander Agassiz on the Pacific Coast in 1859-1860
and of an extensive and highly interesting collection made by
Prof. W. A. Hilton on the California coast at and near Laguna
Beach. Professor Hilton has kindly consented that the types of
the more than forty new species shall be retained by the Museum.
Several smaller collections were also identified and catalogued.

Through the agency of Mr. F. Johansen, the Museum received
from the Canadian Geological Survey the annelids secured by the
Canadian Arctic Expedition for study and report. In return for

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this work the Museum is to retain the first set of duplicates.
In addition the other Arctic and Subarctic annelids in the collections
of the Geological Survey have been received on similar terms.
The gephyreans of the Canadian Expedition have been received
for study from the U. 8. National Museum.

Prof. A. L. Treadwell spent a few days at the Museum in an
examination of the West Indian material.

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REPORT “ON THE ECHINODERMS.

By Huspert LyMAan CLARK.

The curatorial work has consisted in the rearrangement, accom-
panied by relabeling, of certain large genera, additional material
of which has made a revision practicable. The identification,
labeling, and cataloguing of the accessions has kept pace with
their receipt.

More than 1,000 specimens were added during the year, includ-
ing representatives of fifty-six species previously lacking. The
most notable accession was a series of nearly 500 specimens re-
ceived from the South African Museum, Cape Town, in return
for the identification of material; this series included forty-eight
species and eleven genera new to the collection, with paratypes
of twenty-three new species. Other lots received in return for the
identification of material were a series of 141 crinoids and Echini,
including four genera new to the collection, from the vicinity of the
Straits of Florida, presented by the University of Iowa, through
Prof. C. C. Nutting; 135 specimens from the Bermuda Biological
Station, presented by Prof. E. L. Mark; and eighty-eight speci-
mens from the Labrador and New England coast, presented by
the Boston Society of Natural History. A very valuable collec-
tion of fifty-seven specimens from the Falkland Islands was gen-
erously given by Dr. Richard H. Wace. A small but valuable
collection from Samoa was the gift of Mr. John W. Mills. From
the estate of the late Rev. H. W. Winkley, forty-nine specimens
from the New England coast were received. Additional accept-
able gifts were presented by Messrs. W. F. Clapp, W. A. Hilton,
R. T. Jackson, A. G. Mayer, and D. Thaanum.

The preparation of an extensive report on the echinoderms of
South Africa occupied a considerable part of the year. A report
on the holothurians collected during Mr. Agassiz’s expeditions in
the Tropical Pacific, on the ALBATROSS in 1899-1900 and 1904-
1905, was also completed, and a similar report on the sea-stars of
the same expeditions was partially prepared.

24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE COELENTERATES.

By Henry B. BIGELow.

The most important accessions to the collection received during
the year are a series of the fresh-water Medusa Craspedacusta
sowerbit Lankester, from Benson Creek, Kentucky, the gift of
Dr. Harrison Garman; a series of ctenophores and hydroids from
the coasts of New England, from the late Rev. H. W. Winkley;
ctenophores from Massachusetts Bay from Dr. Thomas Barbour;
a series of Renilla, from Beaufort, N. C., from Dr. G. H. Parker;
of siphonophores and Medusae from Bermuda, from Dr. W. J.
Crozier; and a considerable series of hydroids, Medusae, and
ctenophores from the coast of Louisiana, presented by Mr. Perey
Viasco.

My Museum work consists of the preparation of the report on
the GRAMPUS cruise of 1916, and of an account of the Medusae
collected by the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-1915, of
which the Museum is to receive a representation.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 25

REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY.

By Percy E. RaymMonp.

The greater part of the year was devoted to the preparation and
study of the fossils collected by the Shaler Memorial Expedition
of 1917. This collection contains many species new to science,
and a manuscript has been prepared in which a large number of
the new species of trilobites are described. A part of the illus-
trations for this work have been drawn. Prof. Charles Schuchert
sent for determination and description the Ordovician trilobites
collected by Professor Twenhofel and himself in Newfoundland
and the Mingan Islands some years ago, and this large collection
served well to supplement the information derived from the
Museum collections from Virginia.

Besides this work, the Curator was able to spend some time on
the main collection of trilobites, identifying and labeling the Cyclo-
pygidae and the species of some other genera belonging to various
families. He also determined three collections submitted by
the Geological Survey of Canada, and a few small lots for private
individuals. Sixty drawers of fossils received from the Boston
Society of Natural History were unpacked, sorted, and distributed,
largely to the stratigraphic collection.

The Curator spent three weeks in June in collecting from the
Ordovician and Devonian strata of lowa. A small but interesting
collection was obtained from the Maquoketa and Galena at
Dubuque, and a larger quantity of material from the Maquoketa
in the vicinity of Clermont, while one day was spent in picking
up the beautifully preserved Upper Devonian brachiopods on
Lime Creek. During the greater part of the trip Mr. J. H.
Bradley, Jr., of Dubuque, assisted, and his efforts contributed
many fine specimens. The Museum is also very grateful to Mr.
A. G. Becker of Clermont, whose guidance made the collecting
in the Maquoketa possible, and whose donations greatly enriched
the results.

Prof. W. H. Twenhofel has returned to the Museum the Upper
Ordovician and Silurian fossils, collected mainly by himself during

26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

the Shaler Memorial Expedition to the Baltic in 1914. These
are all carefully identified and labeled and the Museum is much
indebted to Professor T'wenhofel for his labor on them.

Dr. Carl Dunbar spent a week at the Museum in March, study-
ing the Ordovician fossils collected in 1885 in Newfoundland by
Prof. Alpheus Hyatt, and Mr. C. C. Stockman spent several weeks
in an investigation involving the use of our large collection of
Leptaena rhomboidalis and allied species.

In addition to the accessions alluded to above, the Museum
has received by donation, three drawers of corals and Mollusca
from the Fiji Islands, from Prof. W. G. Foye, and three brachio-
pods from Dr. R. S. Bassler. In exchange, three trilobites have
been received from Prof. Charles Schuchert, and six blastoids from
Mr. D. K. Greger. A few trilobites were collected by the Curator
from the Middle Cambrian strata at Braintree, and one large
specimen from the same locality was purchased.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27

REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION.

By RosBert W. SAyYLEs.

During the past year there have been few additions to the col-
lections. From the Boston Society of Natural History we have
received in exchange twenty-seven specimens illustrating dynam-
ical and structural geology. No better exhibition specimens have
ever come to the Museum. About thirty specimens illustrating
seasonal deposition in glacial slate have been placed on exhibition.
We are grateful to Professor Palache for a section of a fossil tree
from Clover Creek, Idaho.

Most of the time during the fall and winter was spent in writing
a memoir on Seasonal deposition in aqueo-glacial sediments.

The specimens in the collection are as follows:

Dynamical and Structural Geology, and Geography;

Specimens on exhibition 2155
Specimens in trays, (reserve) 1460 3615
Models on exhibition 28
Models in storage 14
Wooden structural models 16
Maps on exhibition 17
Photographs on exhibition 280
Transparencies 12

Economic Geology;

Specimens on exhibition 1721
Specimens in trays, (reserve). 514 2235
Total specimens 5850
Total specimens on exhibition ; 3876

Total specimens in storage 1974

28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE LIBRARY.

During the Museum year from August 1, 1917, to July 31, 1918,
inclusive, 757 volumes, 1,304 parts of volumes, and 3,309 pamphlets
have been added to the Library.

The total number of volumes in the Library is 55,184, the total
number of pamphlets is 55,808.

Three hundred and eighty-six volumes have been bound; two
thousand and fifty pamphlets have been separately bound.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 29

PUBLICATIONS

FOR THE YEAR 1917-1918
(1 Aueust, 1917—31 Juty, 1918)

MusEeuM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

BULLETIN : —

Vol. LV. Geological Series, Vol. IX.

No.5. Harvard Seismographic Station. Seventh Annual Report including
records, 1 January—31 December, 1915. By J. B. Woodworth. pp. 54.
1 plate. November, 1917.

Vol. LVII.

No.5. The Gosibiidae of America north of Mexico. By Ralph V. Chamber-

lin. pp. 54. 6 plates. December, 1917.
Vol. LXI.

No. 9. New blastoids and brachiopods from the Rocky Mountains. By
Thomas H. Clark. pp. 22. 2 plates. August, 1917.

No. 10. A new species of Peripatus from the mountains of Northern Peru.
By Charles T. Brues. pp. 8. 1 plate. September, 1917.

No. 11. Birds from the Northern Coast of the Dominican Republic. By
James L. Peters. pp. 38. October, 1917.

No. 12. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical
Pacific, 1899-1900. XVIII. Reports on the Scientific Results of the
Expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific, 1904-1905. XXX. Ophi-
uroidea. By Hubert Lyman Clark. pp. 28. 5 plates. October, 1917.

No. 18. Jamaican ants collected by Prof.C.T.Brues. By William Morton
Wheeler. pp. 18. 2 plates. December, 1917.

No. 14. Vertebrata from Madagascar. By George R. Agassiz, Thomas
Barbour, Outram Bangs, and Glover M. Allen. pp. 44. 2 plates.
February, 1918.

No. 15. The Harvard deep-sea thermograph. By Harry Clark. pp. 12.
5 plates. March, 1918.

Vol. LXII.

No. 1. New neuropteroid insects. By Nathan Banks. pp. 22. 2 plates.
March, 1918.

No. 2. Notes on a collection of Surinam birds. By Outram Bangs and
Thomas E. Penard. pp. 72. April, 1918.

No. 3. Parasitic Hymenoptera from the British Solomon Islands collected
by Dr. W. M. Mann. By Charles T. Brues. pp. 36. 1 plate. May,
1918.

No. 4. Fossil mammals from Cuba. By Glover M. Allen. pp. 18. 1
plate. May, 1918.

No. 5. The Chilopoda and Diplopoda of the West Indies. By Ralph V.
Chamberlin. pp. 114. July, 1918.

30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

MeEmoIrirs: —

Vol. XLITT.
The American Characidae. By Carl H. Eigenmann. Pt. 1. pp. 102.
16 plates. August, 1917. Pt. 2. pp. 106. 22 plates. January, 1918.
REPORT: —
1916-1917. 39 pp. December, 1917.

ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY.

CONTRIBUTIONS: —

295. Van Heusen, A. P.— The skin of the catfish (Amiurus nebu-
losus) as a receptive organ for light. Amer. journ. physiol.,
September, 1917, 44, p. 212-214.

296. Parker, G. H. anp Van Heusen, A. P.— The responses of the
catfish, Amiurus nebulosus, to metallic and non-metallic rods.
Amer. journ. physiol., October, 1917, 44, p. 405-420.

297. Parxer, G. H.— The pedal locomotion of the sea-hare Aplysia
californica. Journ. exper. zool., October, 1917, 24, p. 1389-145.

298. Parker, G. H. anp Van Heusen, A. P.— The reception of
mechanical stimuli by the skin, lateral-line organs and ears
in fishes, especially in Amiurus. Amer. journ. physiol.,
November, 1917, 44, p. 463-489. :

299. Parker, G. H.— The power of suction in the sea-anemone
Cribrina. Journ. exper. 206l., November, 1917, 24, p. 219-
Does

300. Parker, G. H.— The activities of Corymorpha. Journ. exper.
zo00l., November, 1917, 24, p. 303-331.

301. SrrincER, C. E.— The means of locomotion in planarians.
Proc. Nat. acad. sci., December, 1917, 3, p. 691-692.

302. OxmsTep, J. M. D.— The regeneration of triangular pieces of
Planaria maculata. A study in polarity.. Journ. exper. zodl.,
February, 1918, 25, p. 157-176.

303, 304. Hecut, S.— The physiology of Ascidia atra Lesueur. I.
General physiology. II. Sensory physiology. Jowrn. exper.
zo6l., February, 1918, 25, p. 229-299. |

305. Hecut, S.— The physiology of Ascidia atra Lesueur. III.
The blood system. Amer. journ. physiol., February, 1918,
45, p. 157-187.

306. Bray, A. W. L.— The reactions of the melanophores of Amiurus
to light and adrenalin. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1918,
4, p. 58-60.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 31

Watton, A. C.— The odgenesis and early embryology of Ascaris

307.
canis Werner. Journ. morph., March, 1918, 30, p. 527-603.
308. Oumstep, J. M. D.— Experiments on the nature of the sense
of smell in the common catfish, Amzurus nebulosus (Lesueur).
Amer. journ. physiol., July, 1918, 46, p. 443-458.
309. ReprieLtp, A. C.— The physiology of the melanophores of the
horned toad, Phrynosoma. Journ. exper. zo6l., July, 1918,
26, p. 275-333.
BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION FOR RESEARCH.
CoNTRIBUTIONS: —
69. Coxuins, F. S. anp Hervey, A. B.— The Algae of Bermuda.
Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci., August, 1917, 58, p. 1-195, pl. 1-6.
70. Crozier, W. J.— Evidence of assortive mating in a nudibranch.
Proc. Nat. acad. sci., August, 1917, 3, p. 519-522.
71. Jorpan, H.— Integumentary photosensitivity in a marine fish,

72.

77.

Epinephelus striatus Bloch. Amer. journ. physiol., October,
1917, 44, p. 259-274.

Crozier, W. J.— The photic sensitivity of Balanoglossus.
Journ. exper. zodl., November, 1917, 24, p. 211-217.

OtmsTED, J. M. D.— Notes on the locomotion of certain Ber-
mudian mollusks. Jowrn. exper. zodl., November, 1917, 24,
p. 223-236.

OtmsteED, J. M. D.— The comparative physiology of Synaptula
hydriformis (Lesueur). Journ. exper. zobl., November, 1917,
24, p. 333-379.

Crozier, W. J.— Fusion of “rhinophores”’ in Chromodoris.
Amer. nat., December, 1917, 51, p. 756-758.

Crozier, W. J.— Note on the habitat of Geonemertes agricola.
Amer. nat., December, 1917, 51, p. 758-760.

Crozier, B. B.— Bermudian species of Donatia (Tethya).
Ann. mag. nat. hist., January, 1918, ser. 9, 1, p. 11-18.

78, 79. Hecut, S.— See supra, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 303, 304.

80.
81.

82.

83.

Hecut, S.— See supra, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 305.

Crozier, W. J.—On sensory activation by alkalies. Amer.
journ. physiol., March, 1918, 45, p. 315-322.

Crozier, W. J.—Sensory activation by acids. I. Amer.
journ. physiol., March, 1918, 45, p. 323-341.

Crozier, W. J.— Cell penetration by acids. IV. Note on the
penetration of phosphoric acid. Journ. biol. chem., March,
1918, 33, p. 463-470.

B2 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

84. Crozier, W. J.— Note on the coloration of Planes minutus.
Amer. nat., April-May, 1918, 52, p. 262-263.

85. Crozier, W. J.— A land planarian found at Bermuda. Amer.
nat., April-May, 1918, 52, p. 616-617.

ALLEN, G. M.
Two undescribed West Indian bats. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington,
23 October, 1917, 30, p. 165-170.
Natural history collecting. [With Thomas Barbour]. Handbook
of travel. Cambridge, 1917, p. 473-496.
See also p. 29. Bull. 61, no. 14; 62, no. 4.
Atwoop, W. W. —
Physical geography of land areas. American year book. New
York, 1918, p. 586-590.
BaANnGs, OUTRAM. |
Notes on the geographical races of Tangara gyraloides. Proc.
N. E. zo6l. club, 21 December, 1917, 6, p. 73-76.
Description of a new woodpecker from Peru. [With G. K. Noble].
Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 7 June, 1918, 6, p. 85-86.
See also p. 29. Bull. 61, no. 14; 62, no. 2.
Banks, NATHAN.
Notes on some new species of Dioctria (Asilidae). Psyche, August,
1917, 24, p. 117-119.
See also p. 29. Bull. 62, no. 1.
BaRBourR, THOMAS.
A most regrettable tangle of names. Occ. papers Mus. z06l. Uni.
Mich., 12 September, 1917, no. 44, p. 1-9.
A new Antillean Sphaerodactylus. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington,
23 October, 1917, 30, p. 163-164.
Occasional papers of the Museum of zoédlogy University of Michigan.
[Review]. Sczence, 28 December, 1917, new ser., 46, p. 643.
A note on the Pez agujon. Copeia, 17 January, 1918, no. 52, p. 1-2.
A check list of North American amphibians and reptiles. [With
Leonhaid Stejneger]. Cambridge, 1917, 125 pp. |
Natural history collecting. [With G. M. Allen]. Handbook of
travel. Cambridge, 1917, p. 473-496.
See also p. 29. Bull. 61, no. 14.
BREWSTER, WILLIAM.
The European widgeon in Massachusetts. Auk, January, 1918,
35, p. 75.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 30

The subspecific name of the Northern Parula Warbler. Auk, April,
1918, 35, p. 228.
BruEs, C. T.
See p. 29. Bull. 61, no. 10; 62, no. 3.

CHAMBERLIN, R. V.
Four new western diplopods. Journ. ent. & 206l., March, 1918,

10, p. 9-11.
Myriapods from Nashville, Tennessee. Psyche, April, 1918, 25,
p. 23-30.
See also p. 29. Bull. 57, no. 5; 62, no. 5.
Crank, H. L.

The habits and reactions of a comatulid, Tropiometra carinata.
Public. 251 Carnegie inst., [August], 1917, p. 111-119.

Report on the Crinoidea and Echinoidea collected by the Bahama
expedition from the University of Iowa in 1893. Bull. Lab. nat.
hist. Univ. Iowa, April, 1918, 7, no. 5, p. 1-37, pl. 1-5.

Tail-feathers and their major upper coverts. Auk, April, 1918, 35,

p. 113-123.
Notes on the anatomy of the Cuban trogan. Auk, July, 1918, 35,
p. 286-289.
See also p. 29. Bull. 61, no. 12.
Mark, E. L.

Report on the Zodlogical laboratory. Ann. rept. M. C. Z., 1916-
1917, December, 1917, p. 9-11.
The Zodélogical laboratory. Rept. President Harv. coll., 1916-1917,
28 February, 1918, p. 235-237.
Parker, G. H.
Some underlying principles in the structure of the nervous system.
Science, February, 1918, 47, p. 151-162.
The growth of the Alaskan fur seal herd between 1912 and 1917.
Proc. Nat. acad. sci., June, 1918, 4, p. 168-174.
A critical survey of the sense of hearing in fishes. Proc. Amer.
philos. soc., 1918, 57, p. 69-98. -
See also p. 30. Contrib. Zoél. lab., 296-300.
Puiuuirs, J. C.
Arms and ammunition. Handbook of travel. Cambridge, 1917,
p. 83-89.
SAYLEs, R. W.
A new contribution to American geology. Science, August, 1917,
new ser., 46, p. 162-163.
A naturalistic model of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii. Geogr. rev.,
January, 1918, 5, p. 38-43.

34 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

Warp, R. DEC.

Rainfall types of the United States. Geogr. rev., August, 1917, 4
p. 131-144.

The weather and the war. Journ. mil. ser. instn. U. S., September-
October, 1917, 61, p. 145-155.

Cleveland Abbe. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci., October, 1917, 52,
p. 827-829. :

The weather factor in the great war. Journ. geogr., October-
November, 1917, 16, p. 47-51, 86-90.

The weather and the war. III. The eastern European war zone.
Journ. mil. ser. mnstn. U. S., November—December, 1917, 61,
p. 293-302.

Meteorology and war-flying. Month. weather rev., December, 1917,
45, p. 591-600. |

The thunder storms of the United States as climatic phenomena.
Proc. 2d Pan-Amer. sci. congr., 1917, 2, p. 393-410.

Meteorological observations. Handbook of travel, ee
1917, p. 451-472.

- Weather controls over the fighting in the Italian war zone. Sci.
month., February, 1918, 6, p. 97-105.

Weather controls over the fighting in Mesopotamia, in Palestine,
and near the Suez Canal. Sci month., April, 1918, 6, p. 289-304.

The weather factor in the great war. VIII. Autumn and winter,
1917-1918. Journ. geogr., April, 1918, 16, p. 291-300.

Weather controls over the fighting during the spring of 1918.
Ser. month., July, 1918, 7, p. 24-33.

The tornadoes of the United States. Nature, 18 July, 1918, 101,
p. 395-399.

Climate, considered especially in relation to man. Ed. 2. New
York & London, 1918.

Meteorology and climatology. American yearbook. New York,
1918, p. 583-585. |

Notes on climatology and reviews. Geogr. rev., and Journ. geogr.
throughout the year.

WHEELER, W. M.
‘See p. 29. Bull. 61, no. 18.
WoopwortH, J. B.

Dynamical and structural geology. American year book. New
York, 1918, p. 576-577.

See also p. 29. Bull. 55, no. 5.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 35

INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM.

‘In THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

ee oe eS. P66. 6§50,000.00
DS SL er ee. Ow. 7,469.34
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umemoral Fund. . . . . . . . »» « ~ «.. 297,933.10
met tioles Kung . . . . ws. ee ee 7,594.01
Virginia Barret Gibbs Fund... Ce Se ce Xo 6,819.59
Willard Peele Hunnewell Memorial Fund ee dee, bP a 5,605.49
-Maria Whitney Fund Te iO ee a a en eee 6,650.90
Alexander Agassiz Fund Res et Os ee ~ OB OD
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Maria Whitney and James Lyman Whitney Fond Beales. . Ye 419.80
Se 5,216.62

$899,612.39

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 Zodlogy.”’

Applications for the tables reserved for advanced students at the Woods
Hole Station should be made to the Faculty of the Museum before the 1st
of May. Applicants should state their qualifications, and indicate the course
of study they intend to pursue.

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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. S. 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:— F

K. 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. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. JOHN MURRAY. The Bottom Specimens.
W. R. COE. The Nemerteans. P. SCHIEMENZ. The Pteropods and
REINHARD DOHRN. The Eyes of Deep- Heteropods.

Sea Crustacea. THEO. STUDER. The Alcyonarians.
H. J. HANSEN. The Cirripeds. THEO. STUDER. The Salpidae . and
H. J. HANSEN. The Schizopods. ‘ 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 Aagassiz, 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.

G. O. SARS. The Copepods.
L. STEJNEGER. The Reptiles. :
T. W. VAUGHAN. The Corals, Recent

— The Volcanic Rocks,
The Coralliferous Limestones.

-S. HENSHAW. The Insects. and Fossil.’

G. Ww. MULLER. The Ostracods. tay: A. WETMORE. ‘She Mammals and Birds.

PUBLICATIONS
OF THE

MUSEU OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY |
AT HARVARD COLLEGE.

There have been published: ofthe Burterin Vols; Lito LIVeaae
and Vols. LVIII. to LXI.; of the Memoirs, Vols. I. to XXXVIIL.,
and also. Vols, XL. to XLIL, XLIV. to XLVL

‘Vols. LV; LV, LXUL and EXIIL off the Buxuwre, ai Wate
XXXIX., XLITI., XLVI. to XLIX. of the Memorrs,. are now in?) -

course of py plication:

The ButtetiIn and Memoirs are devoted to the pinaeee of
original work by the Officers of the Museum, of investigations carried
on by students and others in the different Laboratories of Natural

History, and of work by specialists based upon the Museum Collee-

tions and Explorations.

The following publications are in preparation :—

Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 to 1880, in charge of |

Alexander Agassiz, by the U. 8S. Coast Survey Steamer ‘“‘Blake,’’ Lieut.
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett,
U.S. N., commanding.

Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U.S. Fish Cindaiaion
Steamer ‘‘ Albatross,” Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S. N., com-

manding, in charge of Alexander Agassiz.

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in
charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. 8. Fish Commission Steamer
‘“‘ Albatross,’’ from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F.
Moser, U. 8. N., commanding.

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Hspedition to the Eastern Tropical
Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish Commission _
Steamer ‘‘Albatross,”’ from October, 1904, to April, 1905, Lieut. Com-

mander L. M. Garrett, U.S. N., commanding.
Contributions from the Zodlogical Laborataee: Professor E. L. Mark, Director.
Contributions from the Geological Laboratory, Professor R. A. Daly, in charge.

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