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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

1926-1927.

CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.:
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM
1927.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

Faculty.

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, President.

HENRY P. WALCOTT.
GEORGE R.wAGASSIZ.

SAMUEL HENSHAW .
SAMUEL GARMAN
OUTRAM BANGS
HUBERT L. CLARK .
HENRY B. BIGELOW.
ROBERT W. SAYLES .
PERCY E. RAYMOND
THOMAS BARBOUR
JOHN C. PHILLIPS
NATHAN BANKS .
GLOVER M. ALLEN

WILLIAM J. CLENCH .

ARTHUR LOVERIDGE
JAMES L. PETERS .
GEORGE NELSON .

GERTRUDE A. THURSTON

ELEANOR K. SWEET.

REGINALD A. DALY

JOHN E. THAYER.
SAMUEL HENSHAW, Director.

Officers.

Director.
Curator of Fishes.

.- Curator of Birds.

Curator of Echinoderms.

Research Curator in Zoélogy.

Curator of the Geological Collections.
Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology.
Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians.
Research Curator of Birds.

Curator of Insects.

Curator of Mammals.

Curator of Mollusks.

Associate in Zoology (Reptiles and Amphibians).
Associate in Ornithology.

Preparator.

Secretary.

Librarian.

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology.

REPORT.

To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: —

Durinec the year 1926-1927 the invested funds of the Museum
have increased from $1,061,092.60 to $1,068,141.28!; of this in-
crease $2,928.70, received from Dr. Thomas Barbour, has been
added to the William and Adelaide Barbour Fund, and $91.36, re-
ceived from the estate of James Lyman Whitney, has been added to
the Maria and James Lyman Whitney Fund, the remainder being
unexpended income from restricted funds.

The reports of the several Curators show very plainly that the
necessity for additional endowment is today greater than previ-
ously; its need has been recognized for years, and emphasized by
many visiting committees of the Board of Overseers, perhaps never
more clearly than over thirty years ago, when this committee
(Messrs. C. F. Folsom, A. Lawrence Lowell, Louis Cabot, F. L.
Higginson, and A. T. Cabot) gave the needs in detail, stating that
the “scientific work done at the Museum, like its publications, has
added fame to the University.” It may be noted, moreover, that
the yearly disbursements of the American museums, whose work and
aims are most closely those of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy,
greatly exceed the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy endowment.

For the purchase of the La Touche collection of Chinese birds,
there has been received from an anonymous friend, and from Dr.
J.C. Phillips and Mr. J. E. Thayer $500 each, and from Mr. F. R.
Wulsin $100; these gifts, together with others previously acknowl-
edged, and a quota from the William Brewster Fund, completed
the payment for the series of 5,594 birds received; the remainder
of the collection will be forwarded from time to time as Mr. La
Touche’s study progresses. Though new material must be obtained
when available, and to ensure the best service of ambitious curators,
it is always a matter of concern when its acquisition outstrips an
adequate equipment for its preservation and the opportunity for a

‘Includes the Sturgis Hooper Fund ($108,675.84) and the Virginia Barret
Gibbs Fund ($8,807.28) the income of which is not applicable for Museum
purposes.

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thorough and not too remote investigation of it. Happily the La
Touche collection entails no questioning, as it is authoritatively
identified and labeled, and the Curator of birds seems always able
to find a place for one more specimen.

For many years the late Frederick Channing Bowditch was an
earnest and enthusiastic student and collector of Coleoptera, and a
hberal contributor to the entomological department of the Museum.
Specializing in the large and economically important family of leaf-
zating beetles (Chrysomelidae), Mr. Bowditch amassed an enor-
mous series of specimens of great scientific value, which Mrs.
Bowditch has most disinterestedly presented to the Museum. Mr.
Banks’s estimate of the entire Bowditch collection, a most con-
servative one, places the number of specimens at 300,000, with
over 3,000 types.

_ For the large and remarkable series of Jamaican fossil Echini
(21 genera and 45 species, represented by hundreds of specimens),
the Museum has to thank Mr. B. W. Arnold. Collaborating with
Dr. H. L. Clark in the preparation of a report upon this collection,
Mr. Arnold is also providing for its publication as a Museum
memoir (22 plates with accompanying text).

The more noteworthy of the many accessions due to Dr. Barbour’s
interest and liberality are: the Arthur Loveridge African collections;
the M. D. Barber collection of mollusks, important in Unionidae
and Pleuroceridae; the Malcolm Smith collection of sea snakes, “a
large and almost complete series”; part of the Burden collection of
reptiles from Komodo, including five of the large Monitor, Varanus
komodoensis Ouwens; and very considerable series of reptiles, birds,
and mammals from the Americas, Europe, Siam, Borneo, New
Guinea, Australia and elsewhere. Dr. Barbour also contributed
toward the work of the Rock Arboretum expedition to China, se-
curing thereby valuable series of birds and mammals.

The Museum is indebted to Dom. Grégoire Fournier for speci-
mens of Palaeozoic Echini, exceptional for size and preservation,
and to M. Victor Van Straelen, aided by M. Eugéne Maillieux, for a
series of beautiful casts of types, and other specimens of Palaeozoic
Echini preserved in Belgian Museums. These important accessions
are due to the codperation of Dr. R. T. Jackson, who improves
every opportunity to enhance the value of the Museum’s collections.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9)

Dr. Jackson considers the Museum’s series of Palaeozoic Echini,
(46 species, including the types of 15 species, with casts of 12 addi-
tional species and of 12 additional types), the most important
extant.

Of the more important accessions not already referred to, the
following may be mentioned : —

From Prof. W. M. Wheeler, plaster casts (Carl E. Akeley, fecit)
of the hands and foot of a Gorilla.

From the American Museum of Natural History, a representa-
tive series of Chinese rodents, received in return for Dr. Allen’s
reports upon the mammals collected by the Andrews expeditions
to China.

From Mr. J. E. Thayer, a collection of mammals and birds col-
lected in Mexico and prepared by Mr. W. W. Brown, Jr.

From Dr. L. C. Sanford,a specimen of Drepanis pacifica (Gmelin),
in exchange for a specimen of Cirridops annae (Dole).

From Mr. F. C. Carnochan, a collection of Coleoptera.

From Mr.W. J.Clench,a collection, “some6,000 lots”’ of mollusks.

From the South Australian Museum, a large series of echino-
derms, received in return for Dr. Clark’s work upon the same.

From Dr. Theodor Mortensen, a collection of echinoderms, re-
ceived in exchange.

Gifts for present use have contributed toward the salaries of
assistants working upon the collections, and for the acquisition of
collections; a number of unofficial donations have provided for
needed equipment and for additional collections.

The generosity of Dr. Edward Wigglesworth ensures the publi-
cation, as a Museum memoir, of the valuable report on the geology
of Cape Cod and neighbouring islands, prepared for the U. S.
Geological Survey by the late J. B. Woodworth and Edward
Wigglesworth.

To Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant and Dr. Afranio do Amaral the
Museum is indebted for curatorial work upon its collections of
spiders and reptiles.

Dr. G. M. Allen, during four months’ work as a member of Dr.
R. P. Strong’s Liberian expedition, secured a considerable series of
mammals and birds, together with a number of reptiles and other
vertebrates. A report upon this collection is in preparation.

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At the conclusion of his service with the Chrysler-Smithsonian
expedition to Africa, Mr. Arthur Loveridge made large collections
in Tanganyika, which, with those made previously during several
years’ residence in East Africa, evidence great ability as a collector
and preparator, and an adaptiveness to the ways of primitive people.
Mr. Loveridge’s private collection contains representative ma-
terial of most of the larger groups of animals, and is especially rich
in insects, reptiles, birds, and mammals. For both the 1926 field-
work of Mr. Loveridge and for his private collection the Museum
is indebted to Dr. Thomas Barbour.

Prof. P. E. Raymond, once more in charge of the Harvard Sum-
mer School of Field Geology, worked during July among the Cana-
dian Rockies. The instructor in the course, Mr. D. D. Reynolds,
and eight students codperating with Professor Raymond, secured
some remarkably good material from the Middle Cambrian of
British Columbia. The notably cordial relations between Professor
Raymond and his students redound advantageously to the Museum,
as the latter are always willing to forego all claim to valuable
specimens personally collected and of interest to themselves. With
Mr. H. C. Stetson, Professor Raymond worked during two trips
in the Connecticut Valley, securing material at Sunderland and at
Bernardston.

The Library contains 65,372 volumes and 74,325 pamphlets;
1,393 volumes, and 1,844 pamphlets have been added during the
year. i

The publications for the year include one number of the Memoirs,
five numbers of the Bulletin and the Annual Report, a total of 338
(120 quarto and 218 octavo) pages, illustrated by 31 (24 quarto and
7 octavo) plates. The following is the status of five Memoirs in
course of publication: — Clark-Arnold, Fossil Echini, 156 pp. ms.
in galley proof; 22 plates printed.— Eigenmann, American Chara-
cins, 230 pp. ms. edited in part; 11 plates printed.— Kofoid,
ALBATROSS Dinoflagellates, 2,125 pp. ms. in galley to ms. p. 501,
balance edited in part; 31 plates printed, 103 text figures, blocks
received.— Verrill, BLAKE Alcyonarians, 1,158 pp. ms. edited in
part; 140 plates printed.— Woodworth-Wigglesworth, Geology of
Cape Cod, 783 pp. ms. edited in part; 45 plates, 27 printed.

SAMUEL HENsuHAW, Director.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 7

REPORT ON THE MAMMALS.

By Giover M. ALLEN.

The year ending August 1, 1927, has been noteworthy for the
number and value of the accessions. Some 1,182 specimens, skins
and skulls, have been catalogued and identified, and a considerable
number still remain to be organized.

From June 12 to December 8, I was absent from Cambridge,
accompanying the expedition of the Harvard Institute for Tropical
Biology and Medicine to Liberia. Under the leadership of Dr. R. P.
Strong, the expedition spent over four months in Liberia, journey-
ing across the country on foot to its eastern border. In this area of
heavy forest some 200 mammals were collected; these are in part
identified. I have also a report on the birds partly prepared.

Col. J. E. Thayer has given an additional collection of Mexican
mammals (a beautiful series of nearly 200 skins and skulls from San
Luis Potosi, prepared by W. W. Brown, Jr.).

Dr. Thomas Barbour has contributed most liberally to the col-
lection. Notable among his gifts are: — series of skins from Chile,
including several of the small, primitive deer, Pudwa pudu (Molina) ;
a representative series of Irish mammals; specimens from Siam,
Borneo, and New Guinea, adding many species to the collection;
and particularly the beautiful series of East African mammals col-
lected by Mr. Arthur Loveridge, in part comprising his private
collection, assembled during his several years’ residence in that
country, and in part the result of his work for the Museum in 1926.
A joint report on the latter is nearly finished, and the entire series
makes the Museum’s East African representation a very rich one.
Dr. Barbour has also continued his gift of the set of cards recording
recent mammalian literature.

Other collections, received during the year, are: — those from
the Congo, through Dr. R. P. Strong’s expedition, including a fine
gorilla and skeleton, secured by Mr. H. J. Coolidge, Jr.; a number of

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Chinese mammals from the Rock expedition; a collection from the
Cameroons (George Schwab); a series of skins and skulls of small
mammals from Argentina (purchased); an excellent representation
of Chinese rodents from the American Museum of Natural History;
and a number of skeletal remains of Indian dogs and other mam-
mals from the excavations of the ruins of Pueblo Bonito, New
Mexico, through Dr. N. M. Judd, in return for identifying the col-
lection.

Other donations of value are from: — Mrs. S. P. Teare, an East
African lynx; Miss Ruth Whitman, specimens from northern Maine;
Manton Copeland, two Myotis; J. L. Peters, skins from Harvard,
Mass.; J. C. Phillips, a deer from North Carolina; P. T. L. Putnam,
two species from New Guinea; A. de C. Sowerby, two species of
Rattus from China; Oldfield Thomas, bats from Peru; Josselyn
Van Tyne, bats from Panama.

Exchanges have been made with the Kansas University Museum
of Natural History, the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the
Zoological Museum of the University of Moscow. Material has
been loaned for study to six persons.

Some 160 skins, ranging in size from a marmot to the larger
antelopes, and including all the monkeys and antelopes secured
during the Liberian expedition, have been tanned, and are available
for study.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9

REPORT ON THE BIRDS.

By OuTRAM BANGs.

The year has been an unusually fruitful one, and a number of
large collections of much interest have been received. The total of
specimens acquired is 11,034. This includes eighteen genera, and
several hundred species and subspecies new to the collection.

Most important is the La Touche collection of Chinese birds,
secured through the generosity of a number of friends of the
Museum. The collection, made during thirty odd years of residence
in China, is nearly complete, as far as eastern China is concerned,
and contains, besides, many very rare species, actual types of
upwards of eighty forms. Two thirds (5,594 specimens), has now
been received, and the others will come as rapidly as the studies
upon the remaining groups are completed.

Another very valuable addition is the private collection of Mr.
Arthur Loveridge, of birds of East Africa, numbering over 1,500
specimens (770 species and subspecies), presented by Dr. Thomas
Barbour. Mr. Loveridge, after his work with the Smithsonian-
Chrysler expedition to East Africa was finished, collected for the
Museum 379 birds. This lot has been worked up by Dr. Herbert
Friedmann.

Through the generosity of Dr. Barbour, Dr. J. E. Rock had the
assistance of a trained Chinese collector, while exploring the forests
of western Kansu and eastern Koko Nor, for the Arnold Arbore-
tum. A first instalment, 931 birds, of this most valuable collection,
has been received, and the second and last is safely in America,
though not received at the Museum. A report upon the collection,
by Mr. Peters and myself, is in preparation.

Dr. G. M. Allen accompanied the Harvard expedition to Liberia,
and, with the assistance of Mr. Loring Whitman, secured 462 speci-
mens. Some of Mr. Whitman’s collection was made in the Belgian
Congo.

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Other important gifts include: — fifteen sea birds from the
American Museum of Natural History (Whitney South Sea expe-
dition) ; 258 birds from Cuba, twenty-three from Chile, twenty from
Siberia and Russia, 241 from Ireland (B. T. Gault, coll.), 112 from
Marotua Island and 320 from Borneo (Eric Mjéberg, coll.), from
Thomas Barbour; ninety-four North American birds from Dwight
Blaney; 152 birds from Almirante, Panama (H. Wedel, coll.),
and nine birds from Swan Island (Niol Wilson, coll.), from F. H.
Kennard; 110 North American birds from D. H. Linder; seventy-
six birds from San Luis Potosi, Mexico (W. W. Brown, Jr., coll.),
from J. E. Thayer; also small series or single specimens from F. H.
Allen, Griffing Bancroft, Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, A. C.
Bent, H. B. Bigelow, R. D. Camp, F. M. Chapman, P. J. Darling-
ton, Jr., H. L. Ferguson, E. H. Forbush, Joseph Grinnell, Samuel
Henshaw, A. Jorgenssen, F. H. Kennard, C. D. Klotz, Walter
Koelz, Arthur Loveridge, F. G. Palmer, P. T. L. Putnam, Wirt
Robinson, William Rowan, G. E. Smith, and the United States
National Museum.

One hundred and forty-six birds from the Cameroons were pur-
chased of Mr. George Schwab.

A large number of exchanges with Museums and private col-
lectors have been made, 344 specimens having been received in this
way, and much material has been loaned.

Mr. J. L. Peters has continued his work on the card catalogue of
the birds contained in the collection. This year, however, much of
his time has been given to routine work.

Mr. A. C. Bent, Dr. Herbert Friedmann, and Mr. F. H. Kennard
have done much work in the department.

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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS.

By Tuomas BARBOUR.

During the past year the number of new species added to the
collection was not quite as large as was added the year before, but
in spite of this the total number now available for study represents
almost exactly the number which was known when the last edition
of the British Museum Catalogue (1896) was completed by
Boulenger. |

During the year Mr. Brooks returned from his fruitful trip to
Australia with a large and welcome series. Additional material was
received from Mr. George Schwab in the Cameroons and further
collections came from Guatemala (H. E. Anthony, purchased),
Mexico (W. W. Brown, Jr., purchased), Cuba (P. J. Darlington,
Jr., gift), Borneo (Eric Mjéberg, purchased). The great collection
made by Mr. Loveridge in Tanganyika Territory was received,
but is only partially worked up. A large collection of snakes made
by the Health Department of the Panama Canal Zone has been
studied by Dr. Afranio do Amaral, who has assisted greatly in the
identification of other neotropical accessions. Dr. Malcolm Smith’s
collection of sea snakes, which was very large and almost complete,
has been purchased, as also a considerable part of the collection
made during W. D. Burden’s journey to Komodo Island. This
collection included five of the large Monitors. Mr. P. T. L. Putnam
has also given us a nice lot of reptiles and amphibians, taken during
his recent journey to Merauke, Southwest New Guinea.

During several years past the University of Michigan Museum
has sent the M.C. Z. all duplicate material which they believed
might be of value here, and the M. C. Z. has reciprocated fairly.

I was absent from February 1 until nearly June 1, partially owing
to illness and because I went as usual to Cuba and Central America.
I spent some time, also, assisting in the organization of the Anti-
venin Institute of America, of which Dr. Amaral is now in charge.

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Exchanges were completed with eleven Museums and gifts were
received from twenty-two individuals. The collections have been
more than usually used by visiting investigators, working in Cam-
bridge, and through material loaned.

A census of the collection is appended: —

Gain Gain
Genera’ Species Genera Species

Rhynchocephalia 1 1 0 0
Crocodilia 6 19 0 0
Chelonia 55 172 0 2
Lacertilia 268 1,658 11 41
Ophidia 288 1,169 pt 36
Amphibia 202 1,054 2 St

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Totals 820 4,073 24 110

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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
By NaTHAN BANKs.

The outstanding accession of the year is the great collection of
Coleoptera of the late Mr. F. C. Bowditch, presented by Mrs.
Bowditch. Based on the G. D. Smith collection, Mr. Bowditch
added material collected by himself, and purchased numerous col-
lections. At first a general collection, in later years Mr. Bowditch
specialized in the Chrysomelidae, and bought much valuable
material, notably the first Jacoby collection, and the Tring Museum
series, making thereby the largest series of Chrysomelidae ever
accumulated by one person. I| estimate that there are fully 300,000
specimens, and the types of more than 3,000 species.

Another large collection is the insects obtained by Mr. Arthur
Loveridge during ten years’ stay in East Africa, presented by Dr.
Barbour. There are about 20,000 specimens, the butterflies and
some other groups identified.

Other useful material has been received from Messrs. C. F. Baker,
Thomas Barbour, F. C. Carpenter, T. D. A. Cockerell, P. J.
Darlington, Jr., G. Fairchild, F. C. Fraser, Samuel Henshaw, C. W.
Johnson, A. C. Kinsey, Arthur Loveridge, Charles Robertson,
George Salt, F. C. Schott, Roland Thaxter, J. B. Wallis, and F. X.
Williams.

A large collection of Bolivian Hymenoptera, Homoptera, and
Neuroptera was purchased from José Steinbach, also some African
insects from George Schwab. A few hundred local insects were
added by the Curator.

Trichoptera and Hymenoptera were named for the Ohio State
University, Neuroptera for F. M. Schott and F. X. Williams, and
fossorial Hymenoptera for the South Dakota Experiment Station.
A large collection of Philippine Psammocharidae and Neuroptera,
from the Federated Malay Museum, was received for identification.

Returned collections include: — Panama Locustidae, part

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(Hebard), Myers’s Cuban Mutillidae (Mickel), Odontaeus (Wallis),
Myers’s Cuban Typhlocybinae (McAtee), Megachile, remainder
(Mitchell), exotic Tipulidae (Alexander), Sphex (Fernald), Co-
rixidae (Hungerford), and Panama Apidae, part (Cockerell).

Material loaned includes: — Cuban Asilidae (Bromley), Panama
Tipulidae (Alexander), Micropezidae (Cresson), Dolichopodidae
(Van Duzee), and several families of Panama Diptera (Curran).

Many Collembola and Acari have been put into double vials for
safety, part of the Odonata rearranged, some material in Hymen-
optera and Hemiptera identified, over 300 types marked, and
studies made on the genera of the Myrmeleonidae. Mr. O. L.
Austin, Jr. has spent much time working on the Mallophaga. The
usual inspections of the collection show that it is in good condition.

Besides numerous visits from local entomologists, eight others
have studied the collection, one, Prof. R. C. Smith of Kansas,
staying about a month.

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REPORT ON THE MOLLUSKS.

By WILuiAM J. CLENCH.

A considerable portion of the year has been devoted to determin-
ing and cataloguing the A. F. Gray collection, the Curator’s col-
lection, and a major part of the year’s accessions. Several genera
in the main collection have been revised and their nomenclature
brought up to date.

Exchanges have been made with thirty-five institutions and
individuals, resulting in the addition of 1,986 lots, while 212 lots
were received by gift in addition to the two large collections men-
tioned below.

There have been added twenty-seven genera and 260 species not
previously represented in the collection, as well as two holotypes,
forty-eight paratypes, and thirteen cotypes.

Through the kindness of Dr. Barbour, two collections were ob-
tained: — one, the Manly D. Barber collection, is very rich in
Unionidae and Pleuroceridae, mainly from Tennessee; the other,
a small but very interesting series collected by Mr. Arthur Love-
ridge in Tanganyika.

The Curator’s private collection of some 6,000 lots was donated
to the Museum early in the year, and a portion of this has been
catalogued and installed in the regular collection.

The Museum is indebted to the following for gifts of material:
J. S. Bailey, Thomas Barbour, J. H. Blake, C. T. Brues, A. W.
Cheever, P. W. Darlington, Jr., J. A. Dawson, J. H. Emerton,
R. T. Jackson, E. C. Jeffrey, J. P. Jones, Benjamin Kropp, E. L.
Mark, Theodor Mortensen, George Nelson, W. C. Schroeder and
L. E. Wehmeyer.

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REPORT ON THE ECHINODERMS.

By Husert L. Cuark.

Aside from routine work in connection with the accessions of the
year, and with Miss Deichmann’s work on the holothurians, the
time has been occupied with the completion of the study of Jamai-
can fossil Echini, and of the collection of echinoderms (other than
holothurians), belonging to the South Australian Museum.

In August, 1926, Dr. Theodor Mortensen spent three weeks
studying the collection of Cidaridae. From October to June, Miss
Elizabeth Deichmann of Copenhagen studied the holothurians,
much of her work serving as the basis for a thesis on the holo-
thurians of the western Atlantic, for which she received the degree
of Ph.D. from Radcliffe College in June. While her work is not
completed, it has resulted in the discovery of many undescribed
species. |

The additions total 1,500 specimens of 221 species, representing
142 genera; eighteen genera and seventy-one species are new to the
collection, and forty-four species are represented by type material.
The largest addition, 699 specimens, was received from the South
Australian Museum, in return for the work done on their collection.
This fine series includes seven genera and twenty-seven (twenty-
two paratypes) species new to the collection. Of the seven genera,
two, one a sea-urchin and one a brittle-star, are extraordinary new
forms. Another exceptionally valuable series was received from Dr.
Mortensen, in exchange with the Copenhagen Museum. This con-
tained 144 specimens (8 genera and 37 species new to the M.C. Z.),
notable for their fine condition; eighteen of the species are repre-
sented by type material. ‘Mr. Arthur Loveridge collected a con-
siderable number of echinoderms at Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika,
in November, and, through the generosity of Dr. Thomas Barbour,
his earlier East African coast collections have been added to these.
The Loveridge collections, (520 specimens), contain one species new

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to the Museum. A small collection of twenty-four specimens, re-
ceived in exchange from the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad,
through Dr. A. Djakonovy, contains three genera and six species
new to the Museum. For the remaining 113 specimens, thanks are
due to Sefiorita Irene Bernasconi and Messrs. B. W. Arnold, W. S.
Brooks, R. V. Chamberlin, W. J. Clench, Ulric Dahlgren, R. T.
Jackson, P. T. L. Putnam, R. W. Sayles, and W. C. Schroeder.

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REPORT ON ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

By Henry B. BicELow.

Two accessions of coelenterates deserve mention; series of the
Rhizostome Medusa Rhopilema, from the late Prof. A. E. Verrill,
and of the freshwater Medusa Craspedacusta, from the Washington
D. C. filter beds, presented by the U.S. National Museum.

Oceanographic exploration, in which the Museum codperates
with the U. 8. Bureau of Fisheries and with the International Ice
Patrol, has been extended to the Atlantic basin off the northeastern
United States. With the aid of a grant from the Milton Fund,
Mr. C. Iselin, 2d, under my supervision, ran hydrographic sec-
tions of the triangle between Cape Hatteras, Bermuda, and
Nova Scotia, during July and August, taking serial records of
temperature and salinity at 85 stations. He also dredged around
Bermuda, and collected plankton at many of the stations.

In May, the ALBatross II carried out a general oceanographic
and plankton survey of the coast sector between Woods Hole and
Delaware Bay, out to the continental slope. Preliminary examina-
tion of the towings proves this to have been a year of abundant
production of mackerel eggs and larvae, in the southern part of its
range.

During the summer, serial temperatures and towings were taken
at various localities in the Gulf of Maine, and the tagging of cod
and other gadoids, by the Bureau of Fisheries, has been extended
to Browns Bank, under Mr. W. C. Schroeder’s direction.

I continue to serve as consulting oceanographer to the U. S.
Bureau of Fisheries, as scientific adviser to the International Ice
Patrol, and as chairman of the North American committee on
sheries investigations.

The final report on the exploration of the Gulf of Maine is in
press. Otherwise, my time has been devoted to the preparation of

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19

reports on the Arcturus Medusae, and on Canadian Atlantic
sharks and rays.

Lieut. Commander E. H. Smith has published the oceanographic
report on the Ice Patrol of 1926 (Coast Guard Bulletin 15); Mr.
C. Iselin, 2d, has completed his report on his explorations of the
Labrador current in 1926; and Mr. W. C. Schroeder’s account of
the biology of the cod of the Nantucket shoals region is nearly
ready.

20 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY.

By Percy E. Raymonp.

Mr. H. C. Stetson and the Curator, in an attempt to add to the
collection of fossils from Massachusetts, made two trips to the
Connecticut Valley during the year. On the first occasion, Mr.
Stetson found an unusually well-preserved specimen of a rare fish,
Seminotus agassizi (Redfield), at the old locality in the Triassic
at Sunderland. This has been placed on exhibition. On the second
trip a large collection of brachiopods was obtained from the
partially metamorphosed sandstone at Bernardston. Although this
locality has been known for fully seventy-five years, the exact age
of the rocks has never been ascertained, since few fossils have been
collected there. It is hoped that the specimens in the present col-
lection, although distorted, may yield the desired information.

July, 1927, was spent in the Canadian Rockies with the Harvard ~
Summer School of Field Geology. Some remarkably good speci-
mens were obtained, especially from the Middle Cambrian on
Burgess Pass, B. C. Some of the best of them were collected and
presented to the Museum by the instructor in the course, Mr.
Donald D. Reynolds, and the following students: John M. Birdsall,
Gilbert K. Brower, Andrew V. Corry, Henry H. Cutler, Ernest B.
Dane, Jr., Addison A. Howe, Henry A. Rusch, Jr., and Gerrish
Thurber. All these men showed great generosity in parting with
rare and valuable specimens of much interest to themselves.

Mr. H. C. Stetson continued his studies of the Anaspida during
the year, publishing the results of his discoveries relating to the
structure of one of the most remarkable genera, Lasanius, in the
Journal of Geology. He codperated with the Museum in sharing
the expense of reopening one of the old localities in Lanarkshire.
The Museum is indebted to Mr. D. Tait of Edinburgh for under-
taking this work, and to Director M. MacGregor of the Scottish

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. Di

Branch of the Geological Survey of Great Britain for making it
possible.

Mr. Carey Croneis completed the study of his collections of
fossils from the younger Mississippian formations of Arkansas.
He is very generously giving the types of the new species of in-
vertebrates to the Museum.

Mr. Ralph Stewart, now at Johns Hopkins University, studied
the pelecypods in the J. D. Whitney collection of Mesozoic and
Cenozoic fossils from California, finding among them several of
Gabb’s types.

The Curator undertook the study and relabeling of the Phacop-
idae, a group of trilobites represented in the collection by over
eighty drawers of specimens. This study involved research into so
voluminous a literature that it could not be completed, but is well
advanced. Mr. J. R. Moseley assisted in this work by undertaking
a preliminary study of the American representatives of the family.

In addition to the accessions noted above, specimens have been
received by donation from Mr. W. J. Clench, Dr. R. G. Lusk, and
Mr. Gordon Bell. About 350 specimens of Triassic ammonites
from Nevada were purchased from Mr. Percy Train.

22 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.
By RosBEert W. SAYLES.

During the past year the work of the Curator related mainly to
the Bermuda collections, and the structure of the seasonal banding
in the Squantum slate. The discovery that near the contact of
slate and conglomerate in a quarry in Brighton the winter com-
ponent of the banding was divided into a number of alternating
coarse and fine layers, while the summer component was usually
one homogeneous layer of sand, led to an examination of the slate
close to the tillite at Squantum. In both places the conditions near
the tillite contact were identical, the intervals between the compo-
nents very regular. This regularity and also the regularity in the
number of the divisions in the winter components indicates a
seasonal interpretation for this banding, a winter broken by thaws
and freezes, and of no great severity, and a summer relatively short
and hot. In February, a report upon this discovery was sent to the
Committee on Sedimentation of the National Research Council.

Specimens of banded slate, sent for examination, were received
from Dr. E. J. Wayland, Director of the Geological Survey of
Uganda, Africa. ;

Mr. H. C. Stetson has undertaken the installation of a strati-
graphical exhibit of typical fossils.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. BS

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.

By Eveanor K. Sweet.

During the Museum year from August 1, 1926 to July 31, 1927,
inclusive, 1,393 volumes, 1,844 parts of volumes and 1,849 pam-
phlets have been added to the Library.

The total number of volumes in the Library is 65,372, the total
number of pamphlets is 74,325.

Two hundred and eighty-six volumes have been bound; six
hundred pamphlets have been separately bound.

The checking of this library’s holdings on the National Union
List of Serials was completed in June. This work was begun in
April, 1924, and has taken much time each month for over three
years; it has helped to familiarize the Librarian with many obscure
or seldom-used publications; and it has also revealed some lacunae
in our files, of which many of the more important ones have been
secured.

From the Harvard College Library the Museum has received
179 titles; other contributors are Henry B. Bigelow (203 titles),
Samuel Henshaw (148 titles), William J. Clench (119 titles),
Nathan Banks (99 titles), William M. Davis (89 titles), George H.
Parker (69 titles), John C. Phillips (66 titles), Outram Bangs (60
titles), Thomas Barbour (53 titles), Reginald A. Daly (48 titles),
William M. Wheeler (25 titles), Peabody Museum of American
Archaeology and Ethnology (20 titles).

24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

PUBLICATIONS
FOR THE YEAR 1926-1927
(1 Aucust, 1926 — 31 Jury, 1927).

MUsEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

BULLETIN : —
Vol. LXVII.
No. 15. Birds from the rain forest region of Vera Cruz. By Outram Bangs
and James L. Peters. 20 pp. January, 1927.
No. 16. Some hydroids of South China. By Charles W. Hargitt. 32 pp.
2 plates. May, 1927.
Vol. LXVIII.
No. 1. Revision of the Nearctic Myrmeleonidae. By Nathan Banks. 84
pp. 4 plates. May, 1927.
No. 2. The distribution and relationships of the Trinucleidae. By Henry C.
Stetson. 20 pp. 1 plate. July, 1927.
No. 3. Descriptions of new South American fresh-water fishes collected by
Dr. Carl Ternetz. By George L. Myers. 32 pp. July, 1927.

Mewmorrs: —

Vol. XLITI.
Part 4. The American Characidae. By Carl H. Eigenmann. 120 pp. 24
plates. May, 1927.

REPORT: —
1925-1926. 30 pp. December, 1926.

ALLEN, G. M.

Birds of an ocean voyage. Bull. Essex county ornith. club, December,
1926, 8, p. 5-12.

An interesting deer from Szechwan. Journ. mammalogy, February,
1927.8, p.. 62-03.

The range of Chiroderma isthmicum Miller. Journ. mammalogy,
May, 1927, 8, p. 158.

Murid rodents from the Asiatic expeditions. Amer. mus. nowtates,
31 May, 1927, no. 270, 12 pp.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 25

Banos, OuTRAM.

The Chinese form of Grandala. Proc. N. E. zo6l. club, 12 November,
£976, 9, p. 77-78.

A new form of the Lesser vasa parrot. Proc. N.E. zoél. club, 8 Janu-
ary, 1927, 9, p. 83-84.

Atthis heloisa morcomi Ridgway, not a valid ET Page eles. Condor,
March, 1927, 29, p. 118-119.

Birds from Maratua Island, off the east coast of Borneo. [With J. L.
Peters]. Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 13 June, 1927, 5, p.
235-242.

Kennard on snow geese. [With A. C. Bent and J. L. Peters]. Auk,
July, 1927, 44, p. 471-472.

See also p. 24, Bull. 67, no. 15.

Banks, NATHAN.

Several new species of Psammocharidae (Hymenoptera). Canad.
entom., August, 1926, 58, p. 201-203.

Heteroptera or true bugs of eastern North America. By W. S.
Blatchley. (Review). Science, 10 December, 1926, 64, p. 578.

[Myrmecotypus cubanus, sp. nov.|. Trans. Ent. soc. London, 21 De-
cember, 1926, 74, p. 433-434.

The Bowditch collection of Coleoptera. Entom. news, March, 1927,
38, p. 79.

See also p. 24, Bull. 68, no. 1.

BarBour, THOMAS.

A remarkable new bird from Cuba. Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 21 October
1926, 9, p. 73-75.

A new North American snake. [With Afranio do Amaral]. Proc.
N. E. zo6l. club, 25 December, 1926, 9, p. 79-81.

Yellow-crowned night heron in New Hampshire. Auk, January,
1927, 44, p. 97. |

A museum can even be useful. Harvard alumni bull., February, 1927,
29, p. 603-604. |

Studies on African Ophidia. [With Afranio do Amaral]. Bull. Anti-
venin inst. Amer., March, 1927, 1, p. 25-27.

Two more remarkable new birds from Cuba. [With J. L. Peters].
Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 12 May, 1927, 9, p. 95-97.

26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

BicELow, H. B.
Plankton of the offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine. Bull. U. S.
bur. fish., 1924, (1926), 40, pt. 2, 509 pp.
Oceanographic reconnaissance of the northern sector of the Labrador
current. [With C. Iselin]. Sczence, 3 June, 1927, 65, p. 551-552.
Dynamic oceanography of the Gulf of Maine. Bull. Nat. res. counc.,
July, 1927, no. 61, p. 206-211.

Cuark, H. L.
Notes on a collection of echinoderms from the Australian museum.
Rec. Austral. mus., 18 November, 1926, 15, p. 183-192.
Will science replace religion? Congregationalist, 28 April, 1927, 112,
p. 622-523.
Carelessness in nomenclature. Science, 10 June, 1927, 65, p. 571-572.

CLENCH, W. J.

Some notes and a list of shells of Rio, Kentucky. Nautilus, October,
1926, 40, p. 65-67.

Melanoides tuberculata meussoni, new name. Nautilus, January, 1927,
40, p. 101.

A new subgenus and species of Bulinus from Japan. Nautilus, April,
1927, 40, p. 121-122. |

A new subspecies of Thais from Louisiana. Nautilus, July, 1927,
41, p. 6-8.

Peters, J. L.

The present distribution and status of the Lesser Antillean solitaires.
Auk, October, 1926, 43, p. 430-433, pl. 22-23.

Another preoccupied name. Auk, October, 1926, 43, p. 542.

The North American races of Falco columbarius. Bull. Essex county
ornith. club, December, 1926, 8, p. 20-26.

A revision of the Golden warblers, Dendroica petechia (Linné).
Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 5 March, 1927, 40, p. 31-42.

Descriptions of new birds. Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 24 June, 1927, 9,

+. M113,

The Virginia nighthawk in the Bahamas. Auk, July, 1927, 44, p. 421.

The rediscovery of Myiarchus sclateru Lawr. Auk, July, 1927, 44,
p. 422-423.

Streptoprocne semicollaris (De Saussure) in Chihuahua. Auk, July,
1927, 44, p. 424-425.

See also p. 24, Bull. 67, no. 15.

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PuHIiuirs, J. C.
The Essex county shooting season of 1926. Bull. Essex county ornith.
club, December, 1926, 8, p. 27-29.
Success and the birth-rate. Harvard grad. mag., June, 1927, 35, p.
565-570.
[New England sportsmen’s show]. Auk, July, 1927, 44, p. 474-475.

RayYmonp, P. E.
The significance of red color in sediments. Amer. journ. sct., March,

1927, ser. 5, 13, p. 234-251.
SAYLES, R. W.
Three Pleistocene tills in southern Maine. (Abstract). [With E. V.
Antevs]. Bull. Geol. soc. Amer., March, 1927, 38, p. 142-143.

28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM.

In THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

Gray Fund (1859) 0.0 GeO ae rr
Permanent Fund (1859) 2.09302... 2 us 4 a
Sturgis Hooper Fund (1865) Se ee ke pet ee rrr
Humboldt Fund (1869) . . . » ge ag oe 9,869.31
Agassiz Memorial Fund (1875) woe Ne tn a ae
Teachers and Pupils Fund 1375) 2 is ee ee 7,594.01
Virginia Barret Gibbs Fund (1892) . . . We oe 8,807.28
Willard Peele Hunnewell Memorial. Fund (1901) 7 at an 5,566.24
Maria Whitney Fund (1907) i reenter 8,133.63
Alexander Agassiz Fund (1910) ae. pat ,ib oo
Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund (1910) . 1. | + 2
George Russell Agassiz Fund (1911) . . . . . . . . . a= S03RGRaGG
George Russell Agassiz Fund. Special (1912) -. 2 5 =
Maria Whitney and James Lyman ae Fund ines aa 1,290.98
Lous ‘Cabot BundiG@on aya). : ie 6,401.22
Harvard Endowment Fund (1917) . . ; 1 1,000.00
Wilham and Adelaide Barbour Fund (1923) . . . . .. 7 32a engGgis
William Brewster Fund (1924) . . . . . . . | «| 4) 202 eee
Anonymous No. 7 Fund (1925) ee Ma kB oe 8

$1,068, 141.28

The payments on account of the Museum are made by the Bursar of Harvard
University, on vouchers approved by the Director. The accounts are annually
examined by a committee of the Overseers. The income of funds which are
restricted is 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 $500.) 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 Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship Fund, of the value
of $400., 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 Zodlogy, and prefer-
ably in the direction of Marine Zodlogy.”

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 29

Applications for the tables reserved for advanced students at the Wocds
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 income of the WhitneyFunds can be applied for the care (binding) and
increase of the Whitney Library.

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 Louis Cabot Fund can be applied to the purchase of
books on travel, sport, and natural history.

The income of the William and Adelaide Barbour Fund is ‘‘expended wholly
at the discretion of the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy * * *
to increase the collections of the Museum either by exploration or the purchase
of desirable. material.”’

Three quarters of the income of the William Brewster Fund can be used for
the salary of a competent ornithologist and one quarter ‘‘at the discretion of
the Director of the Museum for the increase of the collection by purchase, or
for the renewal or repair of the cases, or for the publication of matter contained
in my manuscripts.”

The income of Anonymous No. 7 Fund is devoted to increasing the salaries of
such of the curators as the Faculty of the Museum may select.

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ILL, The Alcyonaria of the “Blake.”

SMES Hetulls of the Expodition of 1801 of the VJ, S. Fish Commission Steamer “ Alha-

Lieutenant Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., commanding, in charge of
NDEF Aeassiz, as follows: —

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SSS ee S.J. HICKSON. The Antipathids.

oe eto wie as P. SCHIEMENZ. The Pteropods and
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_ The Cirripeds,

‘ the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of
ANDER Acassiz on the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer ‘‘ Albatross,” from August,
to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N., commanding, as follows:—

LER. The Ostracods. ———. The Copepods.
_RATHBUN. The Crustacea L.STEJNEGER. The Reptiles.
ny” . The Corals, Recent and Fossil.

tions and Explorations.

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U.S. N., commanding:

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Moser, U. S. N. Spnmaenditg. Sas Ee eee
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