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UNITED STATES NATIONAL. MUSEUM

REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CON-
DITION OF THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912

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Washington, D. C., May 10, 1913.
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present
condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work
accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1912.
Very respectfully,
Ricuarp RatTueBun,
Assistant Secretary, in charge of the National Museum.

Dr. CHartes D. Watcort,
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

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REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF
THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR
THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1912.

By RicHarD RATHBUN,
Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution,
in charge of the U. S. National Museum.

INCEPTION AND HISTORY.

The Congress of the United States in the act of August 10, 1846,
founding the Smithsonian Institution recognized that an opportunity
was afforded, in carrying out the large-minded design of Smithson,
to provide for the custody of the museum of the Nation. To this
new establishment, was therefore intrusted the care of the national
collections, a course that time has fully justified.

In the beginning the cost of maintaining the museum side of the
Institution’s work was wholly paid from the Smithsonian income;
then for a time the Government, bore a share, and during the past 36
years Congress has voted the entire funds for the expenses of the
Museum, thus furthering one of the primary means “ for the increase
and diffusion of knowledge among men” without encroaching upon
the resources of the Institution.

The museum idea was inherent in the establishment of the Smith-
sonian Institution, which in its turn was based upon a 10 years’ dis-
cussion in Congress and the advice of the most distinguished scien-
tific men, educators, and intellectual leaders of the Nation of 70
years ago. It is interesting to note how broad and comprehensive
were the views which actuated our lawmakers in determining the
scope of the Museum, a fact especially remarkable when it is recalled
that at that date no museum of considerable size existed in the
United States, and the museums of England and of the continent of
Europe were still to a large extent without a developed plan, although
containing many rich collections.

The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as
within the scope of the Museum “all objects of art and of foreign
and curious research and all objects of natural history, plants, and

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geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United
States,” thus stamping the Museum at the very outset as one of the
widest range and at the same time as the Museum of the United
States. It was also fully appreciated that additions would be neces-
sary to the collections then in existence, and provision was made for
their increase by the exchange of duplicate specimens, by donations,
and by other means.

If the wisdom of Congress in so fully providing for a museum in
the Smithsonian law challenges attention, the interpretation put
upon this law by the Board of Regents within less than six months
from the passage of the act can not but command admiration. In
the early part of September, 1846, the Regents took steps toward
formulating a plan of operations. The report of the committee ap-
pointed for this purpose, submitted in December and January fol-
lowing, shows a thorough consideration of the subject in both the
spirit and letter of the law. It would seem not out of place to cite
here the first pronouncement of the board with reference to the char-
acter of the Museum:

“In obedience to the requirements of the charter, which leaves
little discretion in regard to the extent of accommodations to be pro-
vided, your committee recommend that there be included in the
building a museum of liberal size, fitted up to receive the collections
destined for the Institution. * * *

“As important as the cabinets of natural history by the charter
required to be included in the Museum your committee regard its
ethnological portion, including all collections that may supply items
in the physical history of our species, and illustrate the manners,
customs, religions, and progressive advance of the various nations
of the world; as, for example, collections of skulls, skeletons, por-
traits, dresses, implements, weapons, idols, antiquities, of the vari-
cus races of man. * * * In this connexion, your committee
recommend the passage of resolutions asking the cooperation of
certain public functionaries, and of the public generally, in further-
ance of the above objects.

“Your committee are further of opinion that in the Museum, if
the funds of the Institution permit, might judiciously be included
various series of models illustrating the progress of some of the most
useful inventions; such, for example, as the steam engine from its
earliest and rudest form to its present most improved state; but this
they propose only so far as it may not encroach on ground already
covered by the numerous models in the Patent Office.

* Since the Institution was not chartered in a legal sense, but established by
Congress, the use of the word “charter” in this connection was not correct.

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“Specimens of staple materials, of their gradual manufacture, and
of the finished product of manufactures and the arts may also, your
committee think, be’ usefully introduced. This would supply op-
portunity to examine samples of the best manufactured articles our
country affords, and to judge her gradual progress in arts and
manufactures. * * *

“The gallery of art, your committee think, should include both
paintings and sculpture, as well as engravings and architectural de-
signs; and it is desirable to have in connexion with it one or more
studios in which young artists might copy without interruption,
being admitted under such regulations as the board may prescribe.
Your committee also think that, as the collection of paintings and
sculpture will probably accumulate slowly, the room destined for
a gallery of art might properly and usefully meanwhile be occupied
during the sessions of Congress as an exhibition room for the works
of artists generally; and the extent and general usefulness of such
an exhibition might probably be increased if an arrangement could
be effected with the Academy of Design, the Arts-Union, the Artists’
Fund Society, and other associations of similar character, so as to
concentrate at the metropolis for a certain portion of each winter
the best results of talent in the fine arts.”

The important points in the foregoing report are (1) that it was
the opinion of the Regents that a museum was requisite under the
law, Congress having left no discretion in the matter; (2) that
ethnology and anthropology, though not specially named, were yet
as important subjects as natural history; (3) that the history of the
progress of useful inventions and the collection of the raw materials
and products of the manufactures and arts should also be provided
for; (4) for the gallery of art the gommittee had models in exist-
ence, and they proposed, pending the gathering of art collections,
which would of necessity be slow, to provide for loan exhibitions
by cooperating with art academies and societies.

In the resolutions which were adopted upon the presentation of the
report, a museum was mentioned as “one of the principal modes
of executing the act and trust.”? The work was to go forward as

* Resolved, That it is the intention of the act of Congress establishing the
Institution, and in accordance with the design of Mr. Smithson, as expressed in
his will, that one of the principal modes of executing the act and the trust is
the accumulation of collections of specimens and objects of natural history and
of elegant art, and the gradual formation of a library of valuable works per-
taining to all departments of human knowledge, to the end that a copious store-
house of materials of science, literature, and art may be provided which shall
excite and diffuse the love of learning among men, and shall assist the original
investigations and efforts of those who may devote themselves to the pursuit
of any branch of knowledge.

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the funds permitted, and, as is well known, the maintenance of the
Museum and the library was long ago assumed by Congress, the
Institution taking upon itself only so much of the necessary re-
sponsibility for the administration of these and subsequent addi-
tions to its activities as would weld them into a compact whole,
which together form a unique and notable agency for the increase and
diffusion of knowledge, for the direction of research, for coopera-
tion with departments of the Government and with universities
and scientific societies in America, and likewise afford a definite cor-
respondent to all scientific institutions and men abroad who seek
interchange of views or knowledge with men of science in the United
States.

Since that early day the only material change in the scope of the
Government Museum has been the addition of a department of
American history, intended to illustrate by an appropriate assem-
blage of objects the lives of distinguished personages, important
events, and the domestic life of the country from the colonial period
to the present time.

The development of the Museum has been greatest in those sub-
jects which the conditions of the past 60 years have made most
fruitful—the natural history, geology, ethnology, and archeology
of the United States, supplemented by many collections from other
countries. The opportunities for acquisition in these directions
have been mainly brought about through the activities of the scien-
tific and economic surveys of the Government, many of which are the
direct outgrowths of earler explorations, stimulated or directed by
the Smithsonian Institution. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876
afforded the first opportunity for establishing a department of the
industrial arts on a creditable basis, and of this the fullest advantage
was taken, though only a part of the collections then obtained could
be accommodated in the space available. The department or gallery
of the fine arts had made little pregress, though not from lack of
desire or appreciation, until within the past six years, during which
its interests have been markedly advanced.

With the completion of the new large granite structure on the
Mall, the Museum has come virtually into possession of a group of
three buildings, in which there is opportunity for a proper systematic
arrangement of its vast and varied collections as well as a compre-
hensive public installation, and under these favorable conditions it
may be considered to have entered upon an era of renewed prosperity
and usefulness.

While it is the primary duty of a museum to preserve the objects
confided to its care, as it is that of a library to preserve its books and
manuscripts, yet the importance of public collections rests not upon
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assembled and their money value, but upon the use to which they
are put. Judged by this standard, the National Museum may claim
to have reached a high state of efficiency. From an educational point
of view it is of great value to those persons who are so fortunate as
to reside in Washington or who are able to visit the Nation’s
Capital. In its well-designed cases, in which every detail of structure,
appointment, and color is considered, a selection of representative
objects is placed on view to the public, all being carefully labeled
individually and in groups. The child as well as the adult has been
provided for, and the kindergarten pupil and the high-school scholar
can be seen here, supplementing their classroom games or studies.
Under authority from Congress, the small colleges and higher grades
of schools and academies throughout the land, especially in places
where museums do not exist, are also being aided in their educa-
tional work by sets of duplicate specimens, selected and labeled to
meet the needs of both teachers and pupils.

Nor has the elementary or even the higher education been by any
means the sole gainer from the work of the Museum. ‘To advance
knowledge, to gradually extend the boundaries of learning, has been
one of the great tasks to which the Museum, in consonance with the
spirit of the Institution, has set itself from the first. Its staff, though
chiefly engaged in the duties incident to the care, classification, and
labeling of collections in order that they may be accessible to the
public and to students, has yet in these operations made important
discoveries in every department of the Museum’s activities, which
have in turn been communicated to other scholars through its nu-
merous publications. But the collections have not been held for the
study of the staff nor for the scientific advancement of those belong-
ing to the establishment. Most freely have they been put at the dis-
posal of investigators connected with other institutions, and, in
fact, without the help of many such the record of scientific progress
based upon the material in the Museum would be greatly curtailed.
When it is possible to so arrange, the investigator comes to Wash-
ington; otherwise such collections as he needs are sent to him, whether
he resides in this country or abroad. In this manner practically every
prominent specialist throughout the world interested in the subjects
here well represented has had some use of the collections, and thereby
the National Museum has come to be recognized as a conspicuous
factor in the advancement of knowledge wherever civilization has a

foothold.

SOME IMPORTANT RESULTS AND PLANS OF THE YEAR.

Following the establishment of the laboratories and the general
collections in the new building interest has centered in the installa-
tion of the public exhibitions, and until this large and important
task has been essentially completed work in other directions must
necessarily be more or less curtailed. It is seldom, if ever, that any
museum has been confronted with a similar undertaking of such
magnitude and complexity, involving, as it has, the immediate occu-
pation of so extended a floor space, provision for so many and so
great a variety of cases, and the preparation, grouping and arrange-
ment of the large number of specimens needed for a popular pre-
sentation of the natural history branches of the national collec-
tions, which are among the richest in the world. Despite, however,
the many difficulties that have been encountered, the work has pro-
ceeded rapidly and satisfactorily, following a definite scheme which
promises results both intelligible and attractive in character. Only
a short time remains before the public will gain access to the entire
series of halls, but it should be understood that some of the installa-
tions will still.be mainly provisional in character, and all will con-
tinue subject to additions and improvements, which are inevitable in
every museum which keeps abreast of the times.

All of the subjects that have been transferred to the new building
were represented in the older exhibitions, but none of them in a man-
ner and few to an extent that was creditable or adequate. This was
owing chiefly to the restrictions as to space, which also prevented
any concerted action looking to the advance preparation of speci-
mens for the purposes in view. As a whole, therefore, the former
exhibition collections furnished scarcely more than a nucleus for
those demanded by the conditions imposed by the new building.
Whatever they contained that was worthy of being kept on display
has been utilized, the remainder being mostly returned to the reserve
series but in part distributed to schools and colleges. ‘The planning
and development of the new exhibition collections, in view of these
circumstances, has been mainly incidental to the occupation of the
present quarters, in which alone sufficient room could be obtained
for overhauling the material and for much of the ordinary work
of preparation. It has been the procedure not to await the com-
plete arrangement of any of the halls before making them accessible
to the public, but to open them successively and as speedily as the
conditions in each warranted. The public has, therefore, had the

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opportunity of seeing much of the work in progress, and for only
a very short period has any considerable part of the collections been
withheld from view.

The new building was first opened to visitors on March 17, 1910,
at which time only the main floor of the north wing was available.
In the large central hall were assembled the paintings of the National
Gallery of Art, which had been tentatively assigned this place as fur-
nishing better lighting than could be obtained in the older buildings,
while the surrounding area contained a temporary arrangement of
ethnological groups and objects, which has since been improved and
made practically permanent. During the following year, ending
June 30, 1911, only the remaining part of the space allotted to ethnol-
ogy and consisting of the northern sections of the east and west
ranges on the same floor was made accessible, but, last year much
greater progress was shown and additional areas were opened up as
follows: The second story of the north wing containing the col-
lections of archeology other than North American; the entire east
wing, which in the first story is occupied by the several divisions of
paleontology, namely, vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant, and in the
second story by mineralogy and applied geology; the eastern section
of the east range, devoted to systematic geology; and the north hall
in both stories of the west wing, the western section of the west range
in the first story, and the entire west range in the second story, in
which various biological subjects are installed. At the end of the
year, therefore, the only exhibition space remaining closed consisted
of the west wing aside from its two north halls, and the second floor
of the east range, the former assigned to biology, the latter to North
American archeology.

The plans for the biological exhibitions, as far as matured, relate
only to zoology. The greater delays with the installations in this
department as compared with the other departments have been due
to several causes. A much larger proportion of the older collections
was found to be undesirable, and in some branches the amount of
material required to be discarded was so great that the exhibits are
being built up almost wholly anew. Furthermore, practically every
zoological specimen designed for exhibition must be subjected to
some special form of treatment, which, especially with the higher
animals, involves slow and painstaking processes, while with regard
to certain groups of aquatic animals it is only recently that the
methods of preparation have been perfected to a ‘degree promising
the satisfactory presentation of natural colors and effects. Utilizing
the best skill obtainable, the work upon these collections has been so
energetically pushed, however, that, the current year should see the
opening of the remaining halls with many striking and noteworthy
features.

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The general layout of the zoological exhibits, including those in
progress, is as follows: Arranged on a faunal basis, the mammals
and birds occupy the entire space on the first floor assigned to the
department, the former group filling most of the west wing, and the
latter beginning there and extending through the western section of
the west range, while the reptiles, batrachians, fishes, and inverte-
brates are provided for in the north and outer halls of the second
story of the wing, in which the north hall contains the extensive col-
lection illustrating animal development and anatomy, and especially
osteology. In the second story of the west range the western section
is devoted to systematic zoology, and the northern section to domestic
animals and the faunal collection for the District of Columbia. In
this space provision is also made for several special exhibits, includ-
ing albinism, melanism, and hybridism, which have already been in
part prepared.

By the removal of the natural history collections to the new build-
ing a large extent of space has been secured for the reorganization
and development of the department of arts and industries and for
the display on a scale more commensurate with their importance of
the methods and results of the apphed arts and sciences. Following
the erection of the older Museum building in 1881, this department
became one of the most prominent in the Museum, only to have a
large part of its collections relegated to storage with the increasing
demands of the natural history branches. Certain of the subjects,
however, have been kept alive, such as the graphic arts, ceramics,
medicine, naval architecture, land transportation, electrical and other
mechanical invention, measuring devices, and firearms, and in some
of these the collections have been greatly enlarged and made dis-
tinctively important. Final plans for the other subjects have not
yet been definitely formulated, but toward the close of last year the
unpacking of the great mass of material that had been in storage
was taken up and well advanced. Many of the specimens were
found to be more or less damaged, but the greater part can prob-
ably be utilized and will furnish a considerable nucleus of his-
torical interest from which the collections can be extended and com-
pleted to meet the conditions of the present time. This accomplished,
it is proposed that the department shall thereafter keep in touch with
the principal changes and improvements in industrial lines.

In March, 1912, the division of textiles, with a curator in charge,
was reestablished, and for the present at least it will also have cus-
tody of most other vegetable and animal products. Its exhibition
series, to be started without delay, will necessarily be extensive and
varied, and should appeal as strongly to manufacturers and dealers
as to the public. The organization of a division of mineral tech-

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nology, which has long been recognized in the Museum classification,
though under a different term, will be the next step in the develop-
ment of the department. Dealing with the useful mineral sub-
stances, the processes of manufacture and the resultant products, this
division will also cover a wide field of great industrial importance.
The older collection, started as early as 1880, embraces much of in-
terest, and during several years a considerable amount of research
work was carried on in connection with it. The subject was revived
and greatly stimulated by the opportunities afforded at the St. Louis
exposition of 1904 for obtaining valuable material, of which 30 car
loads, donated by exhibitors, were brought to Washington. Compris-
ing a large number of models of mining plants and machinery, and
a great variety of minerals and ores, as well as of finished products,
this collection is sufficiently diversified to serve as the basis for a
representation of the mining industries in a comprehensive and
effective manner. The installation of the material now on hand as
far as it is suitable for exhibition will be one of the first moves
toward giving the division an established position.

The division of graphic arts, formerly located in one of the courts
in the older Museum building, has been moved to the Smithsonian
building where its exhibits, illustrating the printing and binding of
books, as well as the various processes of engraving, will occupy the
public halls on the main floor. The division of history will retain its
present conspicuous position in the older Museum building, near the
main entrance, to which it has gained title by reason of the popularity
of its installations. Consisting mainly of memorials of prominent
national characters and events, its collections have, as a whole, proved
the most attractive of any to the general visitor. With respect to
the other subjects to be provided for in this building, none, with
possibly two or three exceptions, has yet been allotted its definite
space, nor can a- satisfactory subdivision be attempted until such
progress has been made with the collections as will serve to indicate
their respective needs. As about one-half of the area is already
occupied, only as much more remains for the additions still to be
made.

One of the most important events of the year, if not in the history
of the Museum, was the beginning of Sunday opening to the public,
whereby the privileges of the establishment were extended equally
to all classes. First advocated by the Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution at least 50 years ago, the means required for the addi-
tional heating and watchmen only became available in the provi-
sions made for maintenance since the completion of the new building.
This innovation applies for the present only to the new building,
with hours from 1.30 to 4.30 o’clock in the afternoon, but its exten-

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sion to one or both of the other buildings is in view when their
exhibition halls shall have been arranged. On the first date of open-
ing, October 8, 1911, the attendance reached the almost unprecedented
figure of 15,467. It fell to 4,570 on the second, to 3,885 on the third,
and to 3,280 on the fourth Sunday, with an average for all Sundays
of 1,666 visitors as against a week-day average of 693 visitors. There
is no doubt, therefore, that the step has been fully justified, and it is
hoped that the provision of an additional place to which people may
resort on Sundays for instruction and diversion has not been without
some moral influence.

OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR.

APPROPRIATIONS.

The maintenance and operations of the National Museum for the
year covered by this report, namely, from July 1, 1911, to June 30,
1912, inclusive, were provided for by the following items of appro-
priation in the sundry civil act approved March 4, 1911:

Preservation! of collections 224 sae ee ee eae $300, 000
ETUC wa eI CS ee oe ee 175, 000
Heatingvants i ehoin pea ee ee eee eee 50, 000
JEN UNO bWAREAS Tey of: Wh ge pare ye eee eee ee 15, 000
PU CHASe OLIDOOKSS =o eee er ee ee ee et Bea _2, 000
JEG SIT NaC Sees ot, 2, Ba Pes SER a Dn eek ORE PR 500
Printing and DOTY Cl nn ae er Bred ee tt ae a ee en eee 34, 000

ST Cie ee kd Sk 2 Ble py IOS nb lee CBee a ea 576, 500

The appropriations made for the year ending June 30, 1913, and
contained in the sundry civil act approved August 24, 1912, are as
follows:

IPTESeEVaAtlOne Ol COMECE OMS eee ae ee eee eye ee $3800, 000
MULnCUre sands fxtULeSs fe wake) Use ee eee 50, 000
Ie Ketimbars Hewaye ly Red ay hay sG) eee ee 2 ee ee ee 50, 000
TE Oytd Ke Baie gh gC Sy OFS ast Sa eA Se a ae edd Eo 10, 000
RULeChHaASeLOL DOOKS sates tetris yore ee ee ee eee 2, 000
OSU Cyatee mee oe ey ker eh) ys bea ta eet Preise 5 tt bo a ed es 500
iZoharibaves fwatol, ouiaXsb bakes 22 ee Soe ee ee ee 34, 000
EON Bre Sk 820 ne 5 i a ELT UE 20) A ie ae ee ie eee es 446, 500

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT.

It has become necessary to report unfavorable conditions regard-
ing certain parts of the roofing of the new building which require to
be at once remedied. The copper cresting along the edges of the
roofs proves not to have been sufficiently well secured in the begin-
ning, and during a heavy windstorm several hundred feet of it were
torn loose and blown completely over. The répairs, which were made
with as little delay as possible, comprehended a different method of
fastening, supposed to be entirely stable, and with the view of pre-
venting further damage of this character it is proposed to extend this
improvement to all parts of the cresting. The gutters also have given
serious trouble, due to the extensive piercing or cracking of their

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lining, causing many leaks, and experiments have been commenced
looking to the replacement of the copper with tin, which experience
has shown to be much better suited to this purpose. The painting of
the interior plastered walls and ironwork of the new building au-
thorized by a special appropriation approved June 25, 1910, was
completed early in the year, the last important item being the finish-
ing of the south pavilion and rotunda.

While the older Museum building is of a substantial character, and
its walls and roofs, the latter having been largely replaced in recent
years, are, as a whole, in good condition, the building is in need of
extensive renovation after a service of over 30 years, during which
it was given only a moderate amount of attention in this respect. As
a preliminary step in this direction, all of its many windows were
thoroughly overhauled and repaired during the year, and their exte-
rior woodwork was repainted. The outside of the building also re-
ceived many minor repairs, and near the close of the year the remodel-
ing and refurbishing of the toilet rooms, which had reached a very
unsightly and insanitary condition, were begun. Other interior work
performed was mainly of the nature of repairs to floors, walls, and
ceilings.

In the Smithsonian building a beginning was made toward the
renovation of the windows, which are largely worn out and to a con-
siderable extent in such a dilapidated condition as to be in danger
of collapse during any heavy storm. The so-called stable building,
mainly used for preparators’ shops, received a new tin roof.

The mechanical plant was operated during only 10 months of the
year, having been closed down in July and August to permit of the
overhauling of the boilers and engines. This arrangement was found
to be economical as well as advantageous, since the electric current
needed for lighting and power could be purchased during that period
at an exceptionally low rate and the leaves of absence due the mem-
bers of the force could be mainly taken at the same time. The con-
sumption of coal amounted to 8,175 tons for the year, and the gen-
eration of steam for heating purposes extended from October 18,
1911, to May 18, 1912. The cement floor of the large engine room
which had been the source of a fine dust that settled upon the ma-
chinery and even penetrated into the bearings of the engines and
pumps, and which also proved uncomfortable for the men working
about the plant, was covered with lhnoleum.

Three wheeled Kanawha chemical fire engines were added to the
fire-fighting apparatus in the new building, being located, respec-
tively, on the ground, second, and third floors. The electric lighting
system, by the introduction of appropriate fixtures, was extended to
the skylighted sections of the east and west wings, the picture gal-

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lery, the balcony ceilings in the south pavilion, and the outer ap-
proaches to the north entrance.

The principal expenditure under the appropriation for furniture
and fixtures was for exhibition cases, of which 550 were added to the
equipment. The other more important additions of furniture com-
prised 491 storage cases and pieces of laboratory furniture, 263 pieces
of office and miscellaneous furniture, 3,205 unit specimen drawers of
wood, 500 insect drawers, and 1,842 miscellaneous specimen drawers.
The greater part of the furniture was obtained on contract and was
constructed to meet special requirements, although a large amount of
work, including much of a miscellaneous character, was done in the
Museum shops. Awnings were provided for all of the windows in
the ground and third stories except on the north side of the building,
and experiments were continued with reference to devising a form of
curtain for the windows in the exhibition stories that could be
handled satisfactorily. The ground glass in these windows has been
found not to afford adequate protection on bright days for the colors
of specimens exposed in the exhibition cases, and the problem of in-
troducing movable shades is rendered difficult by the large size of
the windows in conjunction with the fact that each contains two
ventilating openings. Less trouble has been encountered in providing
cloth screens for the several skyhghts to subserve the same purpose.

According to the inventory of Museum property made at the close
of the year there were on hand at that time 3,239 exhibition cases,
6,456 storage cases and pieces of laboratory furniture, 3,021 pieces of
office and miscellaneous furniture, 36,106 unit specimen drawers of
wood, 4,712 unit specimen drawers of steei, 7,339 insect drawers and
15,090 miscellaneous specimen drawers and boxes of various sizes.

COLLECTIONS.

The permanent acquisitions for the year embraced approximately
938,072 specimens, of which 5,956 were assigned to the several di-
visions of the department of anthropology; 168,595 were biological
and 63,521 geological and paleontological; and 45 consisted of paint-
ings, engravings, and sculpture presented to the National Gallery of
Art. The loans comprised a single large collection of fossils, num-
bering about 75,000 specimens, besides 1,217 objects accepted for ex-
hibition in the department of anthropology, and 56 paintings and
pieces of sculpture for the National Gallery of Art. A detailed list
of the accessions will be found in the latter part of this report.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY.

Ethnology.—The most important accession of the year consisted of
a collection of relics of the southern Alaskan Indians assembled by
ex-Goy. John Green Brady, and purchased and generously presented

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to the Museum by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, of New York. It comprises
some 600 objects illustrating various activities of the tribes and is,
perhaps, more comprehensive than any other single collection that
has been received from that region. Among the specimens are wood
carvings designed for ceremonial and economic use and examples
of the tools with which they were made, stone mauls, mortars, pestles,
adzes, fishing and hunting implements, clubs, daggers; armor, carv-
ings in slate, wood and horn spoons, boat models, mats, basketry,
drums, costumes, and games. <A collection of much interest, obtained
for the Museum in Panama by Mr. H. Pittier, of the Department of
Agriculture, in the course of botanical explorations, includes basketry,
costumes, bows and arrows, a drum, examples of bark cloth, and a
shell hammer employed for making such cloth. A noteworthy loan
from Mr. Hugh Thomas Carter, of Washington, contains head-
dresses, buckskin shirts, leggings, moccasins, rattles, pipes, basketry,
drums, flutes, etc., of the northern Plains Indians, and the full cos-
tume of a Greenland woman.

Parts of costumes, ornaments, pipes, and other articles of the Ute
Indians were received as a bequest from Miss Fannie A. Weeks, for
many years a teacher in the Indian service. An Oto Indian head-
dress, and a fiute, dipper, hairbrush, and bald eagle wing from an
Oto medicine man’s outfit; a rare old Klamath Indian headdress and
hair wrappings of otter skin; pipes, carved spoons, and a chipped
flint knife from the Hupa Indians; and a Persian bow, a Spanish-
American tapadero, and two South Sea Island war clubs, were ob-
tained in exchange from Mr. E. W. Keyser, of Washington. Twenty-
two paper squeezes of inscriptions on El Morro or “ Inscription
Rock,” western New Mexico, being historical records of the visits of.
the Spanish conquerors, collected by Mr. F. W. Hodge, were trans-
ferred by the Bureau of American Ethnology. Two pieces of rare
basketry, a globular open-work vessel of willow, and a flat fan-lke
tray closely woven, from the Shoshoni Indians of Idaho, were pre-
sented by Brig. Gen. Timothy E. Wilcox, United States Army (re-
tired); and models representing a Porto Rican native house and
numerous articles of furniture and domestic implements belonging to
it were received as a gift from Mrs. John R. Garrison, of Wash-
ington.

The installation of the exhibition collections was actively carried
on and provisionally completed to the extent that the furniture re-
quired had been received and the work on special preparations had
been advanced. Many paintings of Indians from the Catlin collec-
tion and other sources were hung, and a large series of transparencies
of Indian subjects was placed in the windows of the halls. The totem
poles and other carvings and paintings of the northwest coast
tribes, with the exception of the Haida house front and its associated

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totem pole, were installed at the south end of the middle hall, where
they make a striking display. In the arrangement of the collections
from the Pueblo region it was found advisable to separate the an-
tiquities from the ethnological material proper, with which they have
heretofore been associated, and they have been transferred to the
division of prehistoric archeology. The construction of lay figure
groups progressed rapidly, and seven full-sized groups of this charac-
ter were added to the exhibition.

The exhibits of this division are assembled primarily by geo-
graphical areas, and the peoples and their cultures, so far as repre-
sented, may thus be studied in much the same order that the peoples
themselves might be visited by the traveler. Under these heads the
classification is by nations or tribes, and by special exhibition units
illustrating culture as follows: Tribal arts, synoptic series of arti-
facts, family groups, industrial groups, individual figures, pictorial
exhibits, and sculptural exhibits. Of the 16 full-sized lay figure
groups that have been planned the following 12 are finished and
on view, namely, the Eskimo, Chilkat, Hupa, Cocopa, Zuni, Sioux,
Virginia, Tehuelche, Samoan, Negrito, the arrow makers, and the
snake dance.

The reserve collections received due attention, but their final sys-
tematic arrangement has been deferred until practically all of the
specimens required for exhibition have been removed. The material
is, however, in better condition and much more accessible than at
any previous time, and less trouble is experienced from insect pests,
owing undoubtedly to the fact that the metal storage cases and
drawers now employed furnish no breeding places for them.

The curator of the division, Dr. Walter Hough, continued his study
of the culture history of the upper Gila River and the Salt River,
based on the collections of the Museum-Gates expedition of 1905
and the Museum exploration of 1903, together with all other material
from the same region contained in the Museum, and expects to com-
plete his work on this subject during the current year. Progress is
also reported in his researches on fire making and illumination. The
division was visited, for the purpose of securing information, by a
number of ethnologists, among whom were Dr. H. J. Spinden, of
the American Museum of Natural History, who studied the designs
on modern Pueblo pottery, and Mr. C. M. Barbeau, of the Geologi-
cal Survey of Canada, who examined the patterns on the moose hair
and quill work specimens of the old Hurons and Iroquois.

Prehistoric archeology.—KEspecially noteworthy among the addi-
tions was a collection of stone, bone, and pottery objects from the
cemetery of the ruined pueblo of Kwasteyukwa, west of Jemez Hot
Springs, N. Mex., obtained during excavations by the joint expedition
of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the School of American

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Archaeology of the Archaeological Institute of America at Santa Fe,
in the summer of 1911, and received by transfer from the former. An
important loan from Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, of the City of Mexico, con-
sisted of a large series of terra cotta spindle whorls, gathered during
a nine years’ residence in Mexico, chiefly from Texcoco and Cholula,
the centers of the pottery industry in the Valley of Mexico, and said
to be the work of women potters. The collection is unequaled in its
illustration of this very artistic and interesting branch of ancient
Mexican handiwork. Several Toltec clay ornaments, vessels, molds,
and miniature human heads, from San Juan Teotihuacan, Mexico,
were presented by Seftor Don Leopoldo Batres, of the City of Mexico;
and a number of projectile points and other articles made experi-
mentally of flint and glass, together with the bone and stone tools
by means of which they were fashioned, were received as a gift from
Mr. Arthur W. Cline, of Philadelphia.

The work of the division was mainly in continuance of the sorting,
classification, arrangement, and labeling of the collections in their
new quarters, and the installation of the exhibition series, which was
well advanced at the close of the year. With the progress of this
work the head curator of the department of anthropology, Mr. Wil-
liam H. Holmes, carried forward his descriptive and illustrative
work for embodiment in the handbook of archeology which has been
in course of preparation for some years. The opportunity for com-
parison and study was exceptional and the entire body of the collec-
tions for the first time passed fully under scientific scrutiny. Re-
searches were also carried on in the division by a number of students,
among whom were Mr. H. J. Browne, of Washington, who is pre-
paring a paper on the stone collars of Porto Rico; Prof. W. Rehlen,
of Nuremberg, Germany, who is investigating the relation of Ameri-
can stone implements to the Paleolithic implements of Europe; and
Mr. Charles C. Moore, of Lyman, England, who is making similar
comparisons, with reference to the stone implements of Great Britain.

Historic archeology.—The carving of the column capitals for the
portico of the new Museum building was based on a plaster copy,
made from molds in the Louvre at Paris, of one of the capitals
of the Temple of Jupiter Stator, presumably the same as the Temple
of Castor, in the Forum at Rome, Italy, which was erected in 496
B. C. and rebuilt at the beginning of the second century of the
present era. This replica of what is regarded as the most beautiful
known example of a Roman Corinthian capital came into the pos-
session of the Museum during the year as a gift from the architects
of the building, Messrs. Hornblower and Marshall. To Mrs. Julian
James, of Washington, the division is indebted for a number of in-
teresting objects, generously presented, including two Greco-Italian

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vases dating from the fourth or third century B. C., one a hydria
embellished with an outline drawing of a temple, the other a small-
ribbed amphora with traces of painting; an Egypto-Roman bronze
statuette, probably representing Antinous, the page and favorite of
Emperor Hadrian; a statuette of Hercules, and one apparently of
an athlete with a double face; and a fine Egyptian scarab, engraved
with two sphinxes couchant in reversed position. A finely written
Arabic manuscript in a tasteful oriental binding, containing pas-
sages from the Koran and short prayers, was donated by Mr. James
Hunt, of Washington.

The following collections were installed for exhibition as far as the
limitations of space permitted, and were catalogued and labeled:
A selection of Etruscan potteries, comprising the pictured and molded
(Arretine) vases, the ancient terra cotta statuettes, the antiquities
from the sites of ancient Troy and Armenia, the greater part of the
ancient bronzes, potteries, and glazed and molded tiles from Turke-
stan, dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and Roman
terra cotta lamps and pieces of mosaic.

Physical anthropology.—Two of the most important acquisitions
of the year consisted of valuable series of anatomical specimens re-
ceived in exchange from Prof. David Paul von Hansemann of the
Rudolf Virchow-Krankenhaus, Berlin, Germany, and from the Col-
lege of Physicians and Surgeons of New York through Prof. George
S. Huntington. A number of interesting crania and other bones
from mounds and ancient graves in Louisiana and Arkansas were
presented by Mr. Clarence B. Moore, of Philadelphia; and several
Troquois skulls, together with a lower jaw, were obtained from the
Provincial Museum, Toronto, Canada, in exchange. Human ana-
tomical specimens were contributed by Dr. D. S. Lamb of the Army
Medical Museum, Dr. Thomas C. Smith and Dr. 8. R. Karpeles, all
of Washington.

Considerable progress was made in cleaning, repairing, cata-
loguing, and arranging the large skeletal collections from the Pueblo
region and from Peru, and in the preparation of the scientific ex-
hibits which, though by no means complete, have already attracted
the attention of many students. The exhibition series which is gradu-
ally taking shape comprises two classes of specimens, one designed for
the use of experts and provided for in the laboratory, the other of
popular interest and to be installed in one of the public halls.

In addition to the proof reading of his memoir on the Egyptians
and of his paper on early man in South America, the latter of
which was completed during the year, the curator of the division,
Dr. Ale’ Hrdléka, continued his inquiries on the skull capacity
of the American aborigines, and reported briefly on skeletal material

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from the mounds of Arkansas, collected by Mr. Clarence B. Moore,
and from the vicinity of Richmond, Va. Two important investiga-
tions were cemmenced, one comprehending a series of measurements
and observations on white people of the third and later generations
in America; the other, to be carried on in conjunction with the au-
thorities of the Panama-California Exposition at San Diego, being a
comparative study of the development of the child in different
races. Prof. J. S. Foote, of Omaha, Nebr., continued his microscopi-
cal studies on the human femur, the object of which is to determine
racial, age, and sex differences as displayed in the minute structure
of the bone. Dr. George F. Eaton and Dr. George G. MacCurdy,
of Yale University, examined the human bones from Peru in the
collection of the Museum for the purpose of instituting comparisons
with skeletal remains from other Peruvian sources,

Mechanical technology—tThe additions to this division included
many objects of value. Of great historical interest is the Wright
biplane acquired by the United States Government in 1909, being the
first aeroplane to be purchased and operated by any Government. It
was deposited by the Department of War. Substantially like the
machine built by the Wright brothers and successfully tested at
Kitty Hawk, N. C., in 1903, it embodies some improvements. The
two main planes measure 37 feet long by 6 feet wide, and the ele-
vating planes 15 feet long by 2 feet wide in the middle, while the
motive power is supplied by a 4-cylinder, 30-horsepower gasoline en-
gine. The official trials were made by Mr. Orville Wright at Fort
Myer, Va., in the summer of 1909, the duration test, with Lieut.
Frank P. Lahm, United States Army, as a passenger, occurring on
July 27, and the speed test, with Lieut. Benjamin D. Foulois, United
States Army, as a passenger, on July 30. Subsequently officers of
the Signal Corps of the Army were instructed in its management at
College Park, Md., and the following winter it was taken to San
Antonio, Tex., where it remained in almost constant use for about
12 months. It received some repairs at the factory of the Wright
brothers before its transfer to the Museum.

Another noteworthy historical contribution consisted of a zenith
telescope deposited by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, by which it
was purchased of Troughton & Simms in London in 1847, though
embodying certain modifications made in 1867. This portable in-
strument for determining latitudes superseded the zenith sector, in-
troduced in England in 1735 and used up to about 1845, when the
zenith telescope was devised and put into practical operation by Capt.
Andrew Talcott, of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army. It
has been universally employed since that time. From Mr. Claude L.
Woolley, of Baltimore, Md., to whose generosity the Museum was

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already indebted for eight examples of these instruments, there were
received as a gift three aluminum sundials, one calculated for the
latitude of Santiago, Chile, one for the Equator, and a vertical form
for the latitude of Moscow, Russia; and also the model of a sundial
with a signaling gun, calculated for the latitude of New Plymouth,
New Zealand, the dial of which is graduated in Roman numerals and
inscribed “Sol est gloria mundi.” The cannon, 34 inches long, is
fitted with an adjustable aluminum frame carrying a glass lens for
focusing the sun’s rays on the powder in the touchhole. Important
donations, received from the makers, were a comptometer or calcu-
lating machine made by Mr. D. E. Felt in 1886 and used by Joseph
S. McCoy, actuary of the United States Treasury, from 1889 to 1909,
a comptograph or adding-printing machine made by Felt & Tarrant,
and a modern commercial comptometer made by the Felt & Tarrant
Manufacturing Co., of Chicago, Ul., in 1912.

The additions to the collection of firearms were many and valuable.
The War Department deposited 45 rare military muskets, rifles, and
carbines of both Government and private manufacture, among them
being numerous types used by the United States Army; one Savage
and two Colt automatic pistols, including the latest Colt military
model, fitted with a detachable magazine and adopted for the Army
on March 9, 1911; and a Krag-Jérgensen rifle, model of 1898, made
at the Springfield Armory and used in the Army prior to the intro-
duction of the improved Springfield magazine rifle. A selection of
16 guns was contributed by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co.,
of New Haven, Conn., as an addition to the exhibit of arms made
by that company and its predecessors, which now comprises 29
examples illustrating the development of an important class of mili-
tary and sporting weapons from 1854 to the present time. Capt.
J. R. R. Hannay, United States Army, placed in the Museum as a
loan a collection of rifles and shotguns, small cannon of Spanish
make, and knives and swords, obtained by him while on duty in the
Philippine Islands.

The model of a Morse telegraph instrument known as the “ harp
register,” presented by Dr. James Johnson Clark, of Washington,
represents a form made in 1846-47 by Wilham Clark & Son, of
Philadelphia, the harp design being by Mr. James D. Reid. This
was the first Morse register in which the different parts of the mech-
anism were supported in solid side plates. Other noteworthy acqui-
sitions were a standard Victor talking machine, model of 1911, desig-
nated as the “ Victor-Victrola, Style IX,” presented by the Victor
Talking Machine Co., of Camden, N. J.; 8 typical watch movements
of American and foreign makes, donated by Mr. W. E. Emory, of
Washington; models of a Pullman palace car and of a walking-beam

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steamboat engine, lent by Messrs. W. B. Moses & Sons, of Washing-
ton; and 16 pieces of apparatus devised and used by Mr. Emile
Berliner, of Washington, in his early experiments with the gramo-
phone, deposited by Mr. Berliner. ‘

The extensive collections in this division are in excellent condition
and the material generally is readily accessible. The more important
accessions of the year were installed in the public halls, and some
parts of the exhibition series were revised. Further changes in this
direction are contemplated in connection with the rearrangement of
the exhibition halls in the older building, made necessary by the re-
moval of the natural history collections to the new building. As a
result of visits by the curator of the division, Mr. George C. May-
nard, to several arsenals, navy yards, armories, arms companies, and
public and private collections, many additions were obtained or
arranged for, and much valuable information desired for the records
of the division was secured. ;

Ceramics.—This division received only one permanent accession,
which consisted of a vase and a bowl of rare and beautiful terra
cotta ware from northern Africa, the gift of Mrs. Julian James.
The more noteworthy loans were two in number. The first, contain-
ing 21 pieces of porcelain and other pottery from China, Korea, and
Japan, besides bronzes and brass ware from India, Tibet, China, and
Japan, was from Miss Eliza R. Scidmore, of Washington, and was
added to her interesting collection which has been on deposit in the
Museum for some years. The other, comprising 6 examples of
excellent Chinese porcelain, was received from Maj. Henry 8. Green-
leaf, of the Medical Corps, United States Army.

The announcement is made with much regret of the withdrawal
from the Museum during the year of the large and very valuable
collection of Chinese porcelains belonging to Mr. Alfred E. Hippis-
ley, of London, which had formed the chief feature of the ceramic
exhibition since 1887. Assembled by Mr. Hippisley during a long
term of service as a commissioner of the Imperial Maritime Customs
of China, it has become widely known through a descriptive cata-
logue by the owner, published by the Museum some years ago.

Graphic arts——The principal additions to this division consisted of
material desired for exhibition in the section of photography.
Among them were one of the latest motion picture cameras deposited
by Mr. C. Francis Jenkins, of Washington; several large carbon
prints presented by A. W. Elson & Co., of Boston, Mass.; 31 en-
larged photographs donated by the Eastman Kodak Co., of Roches-
ter, N. Y.; and a very fine old silver print of Col. William Louis
Schley, United States Army, contributed by Mr. De Lancey Gill, of
Washington.

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A complete revision of the collections of the division, a large part
of which had been in storage, was started at the beginning of the
year, but owing to the overcrowded condition of the northeast court
in the older building, which had long been utilized for this subject,
the work was commenced in the gallery of the south hall. Later in
the year, however, the entire division, with the exception of the sec-
tion of photography, was moved to the Smithsonian building, where
the exhibition series are being installed in the central and two western
halls on the main floor. While the final arrangement of the collec-
tions is retarded by the necessity of awaiting better case provisions,
this has not prevented the admission of the public. The classification
comprehends a historical and a technical series of engravings of all
kinds, illustrations of bookbinding, and the history of printing.
The division is in charge of Mr. Paul Brockett, assistant librarian
of the Smithsonian Institution, as custodian.

The installation of the collection illustrating the history, methods,
and achievements of photography in the gallery of the northwest
court of the older building was continued with good progress dur-
ing the year, Mr. Thomas W. Smillie, custodian of the section and
photographer of the Museum, giving such time to it as could be
spared from his other duties. As explained in the report of last
year, the collection is of exceptional value and interest, being un-
equaled by any other of a similar character in public or private
possession.

History.—The division of history was richly favored during last
year, and it is gratifying to note that an unusually large proportion
of the accessions were permanent. Standing conspicuously in the lead
was the transfer to the National Museum of all the essential parts
of the extensive collections composing the widely-known museum of
the Post Office Department. The most important feature of this
notable acquisition is the practically unrivaled series of postage
stamps, stamped envelopes, and post cards, representing essentially
every issue of the United States and foreign countries since the
commencement of the present postal system, about the middle of
the nineteenth century. Besides these are many paintings, photo-
graphs, models, etc., relating to the history of mail transportation
and of the postal system in this country, and about 1,000 objects
from the Dead Letter Office, illustrating the great variety of articles
which, through misdirection or other cause, fail to reach their in-
tended destination.

Of exceptional interest is a collection of memorials of Peter Ganse-
voort, jr., brigadier general, United States Army; of his eldest son,
Herman Gansevoort, colonel, Sixty-third Regiment, New York State
Militia; and of his grandson, Henry S. Gansevoort, brevet brigadier

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general, United States Volunteers, donated by the granddaughter
of the first named, Mrs. Abraham Lansing (née Catherine Ganse-
voort), of Albany, N. Y. It includes military and civil costumes,
a sword and a folding camp cot, used by Gen. Gansevoort when a
colonel in the Continental Army during the War of the Revolu-
tion, in which he attained distinction; a miniature painted on ivory
representing him in the Continental uniform and with the badge of
the Society of the Cincinnati, of which he was an original member;
a Lowestoft china plate from a dinner service which he used during
the period of the Revolution; a sword and scabbard with brass-
mounted buckskin belt, presented to him by Daniel D. Tompkins,
governor of the State of New York, and said to have belonged to
the Count de Rochambeau; and one engraved portrait and three
autograph signatures; two swords with scabbards, carried by Col.
Herman Gansevoort, in 1817, and an autograph letter written by
him; a number of uniforms and swords used by Gen. Henry S.
Gansevoort during the Civil War, an autograph letter, and two en-
eraved portraits showing him in military costume.

Six gold and 13 silver medals presented to the late Commander
Matthew Fontaine Maury, United States Navy, by foxeign sover-
eigns and governments in recognition of his eminent services to the
sciences of geography and navigation constituted another notable gift.
They were received from his descendants through a daughter, Mrs.
Mary Maury Werth, of Richmond, Va., and areas follows, the name of
each donor being also given: Gold medal of the Exposition Universelle
of 1855, from Miss Nannie Belle Maury; gold medal presented by the
King of the Netherlands in 1855, from Mrs. Sophia Bruce Maury;
gold medal presented by the Senate of the Republic of Bremen in
1855, from Mrs. Rose Robinson Maury; gold medal presented by
Napoleon III in 1859, from Mrs. Lucy Maury Van Doren; Humboldt
gold medal, 1865, from Mrs. James Parmelee; the Austrian great
gold medal of science, 1868, from Mr. Matthew Fontaine Maury
Werth; and 13 silver medals presented by Pope Pius IX in 1860 and
commemorating notable events during his pontificate, from Mr.
Dabney H. Maury.

For the gift of the following memorials of the distinguished
American physicist, Prof. George Frederic Barker, the Museum is in-
debted to Mrs. Barker: The decoration and diploma of commander
of the National Order of the Legion of Honor of France, and nine
other diplomas conferred by various educational institutions and
scientific societies in recognition of Prof. Barker’s contributions to
science; two silver, six bronze and one aluminum medal presented in
testimonial of his scientific achievements; two scholastic hoods, one
obtained when receiving the degree of Doctor of Science from the

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University of Pennsylvania in 1898, the other when receiving the
degree of Doctor of Laws from McGill University in 1900; a photo-
graph by Gutekunst, and an autograph card.

Samuel Sullivan Cox, for a long period Representative in Con-
gress and at one time American Minister to Turkey, and Mrs. Cox
are represented by three important testimonials donated in their
name by Mrs. Elizabeth Hardenbergh, sister of the latter. They con-
sist of two decorations, one of the Order of the Medjidieh, the other
of the Order of the Shefakat, conferred, respectively, upon Mr. and
Mrs. Cox by the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid IT; and of a silver
memorial vase presented to Mrs. Cox by the members of the Life
Saving Service of the United States in recognition of the successful
efforts of Mr. Cox in establishing and maintaining that service.

Several memorials of Commander Harry Herbert Hosley, United
States Navy, received from Mrs. Hosley as a gift, are as follows: A
dress sword with scabbard and belt, presented to Commander Hosley
by members of the Larchmont Yacht Club on his return from towing
the dry dock Dewey from Chesapeake Bay to the Philippine Islands,
and four official cablegrams of congratulation on the successful com-
pletion of this task; a bronze service medal awarded him by the United »
States Government, and a gold and enameled badge of the Naval
Order of the United States. The sword and cablegrams had pre-
viously been in the Museum as a loan from Mrs. Hosley.

Other noteworthy contributions of relics were the wedding dress
worn by Julia Ward on the occasion of her marriage to Dr. Samuel
Gridley Howe, on April 23, 1843, comprising the waist, skirt, and
shawl of embroidered muslin, and a long Brussels lace veil, the gift
of Mrs. Howe’s daughter, Mrs. Maude Howe Ellott; the United
States Army uniform coat worn by Gen. George A. Custer at the
ceremony of his marriage, February 9, 1864, and a buckskin gauntlet
and coat and a helmet used by him when lieutenant colonel of the
Seventh Cavalry, United States Army, while campaigning against
the Indians of the western plains, presented by Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Custer; a crayon portrait of Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote,
United States Navy, and three oil paintings by a Chinese artist de-
picting the engagement between the United States ships, commanded
by Admiral Foote, and the barrier forts near Canton, China, in 1856,
presented by Mrs. Kate N. Foote; a necklace, two brooches, and two
pairs of earrings made of hair mounted in gold, belonging to a mem-
ber of the Alsop family of Connecticut during the latter part of the
eighteenth century, donated by Miss Mary Alsop Cryder, of Wash-
ington; and a mahogany armchair upholstered in green silk, owned
and personally used by the Marquis de Lafayette near the close of
his life, the gift of the Marquise Arconati-Visconti, of Paris, France.

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A British military uniform vest of crimson cloth, a silk embroid-
ered vest and belt of the colonial period, and a brass gorget bearing
the British coat of arms, worn by Adam Stephen, major general of
the Continental Army, when lieutenant colonel in the British colonial
forces during the French and Indian War, 1755-1763, were received
by transfer from the Library of Congress; and two series of medals
representing the various types of badges, ribbons, bars, and pins
awarded by the United States Government for efficiency while in the
service, one for the Army, the other for the Navy and Marine Corps,
were deposited by the Departments of War and of the Navy, re-
spectively.

Among the donations of paintings were several of historical inter-
est and value. From the municipality of Saint-Dié-des- Vosges,
France, were received portraits in oil of Mathias Ringmann, Martin
Waldseemuller, and Vautrin Lud, that of the first named being by
P. Descelles, the other two by R. Duvernon. Their presentation,
which was made to the United States Government through the
American ambassador to France, Mr. Robert Bacon, was one of the
events connected with a celebration at Saint-Dié on July 15 and 16,
1911, commemorative of the naming of America. These three geog-
raphers, belonging to the Gymnasium Vosagense, were editors of
La Cosmographiae Introductio, in which publication, printed at
Saint-Dié April 25, 1507, appeared the first designation of the new
continent in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, the prior discovery by
Columbus not having become known to these men. The name was
subsequently used on the chart edited at Saint-Dié in 1508 and en-
eraved by Waldseemuller. The celebration took place on the four
hundredth anniversary of the death of Ringmann, which occurred in
1511. Accompanying the paintings were four photographs, entitled
La Féte du Baptéme de lAmerique, Salon du Craduel et de la Cos-
mographiae Introductio, Vue générale de Saint-Dié, and Le Cloitre
de Saint-Dié.

To the Swedish American Republican League of Illinois the Mu-
seum is indebted for two oil paintings, one a portrait of John
Ericsson, by Arvid Nyholm, the other entitled Combat between the
Monitor and the Merrimac, by Henry Reuterdahl, which were exe-
cuted in commemoration of the memorable engagement in Hampton
Roads, March 9, 1862. The presentation was made at the Smith-
sonian Institution on March 28, 1912, in the presence of a delegation
from the league, by Mr. Henry S. Henschen, acting consul of Swe-
den at Chicago, who asked the acceptance of the paintings as coming
from the Swedish Americans of Illinois as a tribute of respect and
affection for the memory of John Ericsson. A brief address of
acknowledgment and appreciation was made by the Secretary of the
Institution.

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From the Department of the Navy two oil portraits were obtained
by transfer. One is of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and was
painted in 1815 by John Wesley Jarvis for Mr. W. B. Morse, of
New York; the other is of Commodore Thomas Macdonough and is
supposed to be by the same artist.

The numismatic collection was increased by two important addi-
tions. The first consisted of 312 pieces representing the coinage of
Poland from the time of Vladislas Jagiello, in 1386, to 1840. besides
two medals relating to notable events in the history of Poland, and
was presented by the Polish National Alliance of the United States of
North America, through its board of directors and president, Mr.
M. B. Steezynski, of Chicago, Ill. In accordance with the act of
donation of the society, of which an illuminated copy accompanied
the collection, the contribution was made “in the name of about
100,000 men and women of Polish extraction now citizens of the
United States as a token of loyalty to this country and in commem-
oration of the friendship between the Republic of Poland and the
United States in the second half of the eighteenth century as ex-
pressed in the participation of Kosciusko and Pulaski in the War
of the American Revolution.” The other collection, a gift from Mr.
Frank N. Meyer, of the Department of Agriculture, comprised 297
antique copper coins of Asia, besides 88 coins of silver, nickel, and
copper from other foreign sources.

The loans to the division were, like the gifts, both varied and note-
worthy. The most prominent consisted of many memorials of the late
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, United States Navy, deposited
by Mrs. Schley, Capt. T. Franklin Schley, United States Army, Mrs.
R. M. Stuart Wortley, and Dr. Winfield Scott Schley, and included
a number of gold and jeweled medals and badges, as well as other ob-
jects, presented to Admiral Schley in recognition of achievements
in the naval service from 1861 to 1901. Notable among these are the
gold medal of the Humane Society of Massachusetts, and a gold
watch and chain from the State of Maryland, in acknowledgment
of his services as commander of the expedition which, in 1884, res-
cued the survivors of the Greely Arctic expedition at Cape Sabine,
Grinnell Land; a gold medal given by the King of Sweden and
Norway in 1890, when éommanding the U. S. S. Baltimore, which
in that year ageneved the remains of John Ericsson to Sweden; and
the following testimonials for services during the Spanish-American
War: A gold medal set with diamonds, from the State of Maryland;
a gold medal set with diamonds and rubies, from the Junior Order
of United American Mechanics of the State of Maryland; a gold-
mounted and jeweled sword with dress belt, from the people of the
State of Pennsylvania; a silver tea set from admirers in the State

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of Maryland; silver loving cups from the citizens of Atlanta, Ga.,
the city of Dallas, Tex., and the Chamber of Commerce and citizens
of Knoxville, Tenn.; a large silver centerpiece, consisting of a basin,
vase, and candelabra, from the citizens of Memphis, Tenn.; and
7 pieces of silverware, part of a service of 69 pieces, made from coin
recovered from the wreck of the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon,
from various admirers. The collection also contains two jeweled
and gold-mounted swords, two loving cups, and a number of gold
and jeweled badges, from fraternal organizations with which Ad-
miral Schley was affiliated; two bronze medals on ribbons, from the
United States Government for services during the Civil War and
the Spanish-American War; a bronze statuette, presented by the
citizens of Binghamton, N. Y., on the occasion of his visit to that
city in 1902; a bronze statuette from the French Society for Marine
Steam Transportation, in recognition of services in saving the French
steamer Bretagne from disaster off the coast of Brazil, while in com-
mand of the South Atlantic Squadron in 1900; a commodore’s pen-
nant flown on the U. S. 8. Brooklyn during the battle of Santiago,
July 3, 1898; and his service sword and scabbard and two uniforms.

To Mrs. John Cropper, of Washington, the Museum is under obli-
gations for the loan of many interesting objects, including oil paint-
ings and furniture. Among the paintings are a portrait of Brig.
Gen. John Cropper, of the Virginia State Militia, who served with
distinction as colonel in the Continental Army during the War of
the Revolution, and one of his wife, Catherine Bayly Cropper, both
executed by Charles Willson Peale in 1792; portraits of Mr. and Mrs.
John Cropper, of Washington, painted by the Italian artist Michele
Gordigiani in 1883; the historical picture by James Peale, entitled
“Captain Allan McLane and the British Dragoons,” illustrating
an incident near Frankford, Pa., during the War of the Revolution,
when Capt. McLane, on being attacked by three British dragoons,
killed one, severely wounded another, and compelled the third to
retire; and a portrait, as passed midshipman, of Allan McLane, who
served in the United States Navy from 1831 to 1852, attributed to
Thomas Le Clear. The principal articles of furniture are as follows:
A large mahogany table used in the White House from about 1835
to 1905; a lady’s French dressing table of the time of Louis XV;
two armchairs of French make of about the period of the First
Empire, once owned by James Monroe; a French sofa and clock of
the period of the First Empire; an English mahogany four-poster
bedstead of the latter half of the eighteenth century; an English
sideboard, Sheraton style, and mahogany wine chest of the last
quarter of the eighteenth century; a mahogany chair, formerly the
property of Alexander Hamilton; two mahogany armchairs, once

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belonging to the historian George Bancroft; a pair of brass-headed
andirons, a brass fire fender, a pair of bronze lamps, a pair of French
gilt candelabra, and six pieces of cut glass, all of the early part of the
nineteenth century; and many other household articles.

Another important loan, made by the Misses Long, of Washington,
consists of memorials of the Bradford family of New England,
formerly owned by Alice Southworth Dearth, a descendant of Gov.
William Bradford, of the Massachusetts (Plymouth) colony, and
Lady Alice Southworth. It comprises, among other things, 28 pieces
of silverware, 54 pieces of china, including old English, colonial, and
Davenport ware, a hand-painted fan, and various articles of wear-
ing apparel, laces, veils, and jewelry used during the colonial period;
an invitation to Maj. William Bradford, of the Continental Army,
to dine with Gen. Washington, written about 1779; a letter to Maj.
Bradford from Col. Alexander Scammell, of the Continental Army,
dated in 1779; a letter to Maj. Bradford from Golden Dearth, dated
in 1807, requesting permission to pay his addresses to the former’s
daughter, Eliza Bloom Bradford; the commission of Golden Dearth
as captain, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in the Rhode Island
Militia in 1820; and many miscellaneous articles of domestic use
In the Bradford family during the eighteenth and nineteenth cen-
turies. The collection also contains a set of antique fire irons of the
early part of the eighteenth century; an oil sketch of the old Brad-
ford house near Austerfield, England; two silver dessert spoons
which belonged to Eliza Bloom Bradford; a silver sugar bow] and
cream pitcher, both exquisitely chased and hand wrought, which
belonged to Abby Taylor, the daughter-in-law of Golden Dearth;
and 32 pieces of early American cut glass from the Isaac Chauncey
Long collection.

A collection of relics of the Washington and Ball families, deposited
by Pay Director R. T. M. Ball, United States Navy, in his name and
that of his sisters, Miss Mary Randolph Ball, Mrs. W. F. Hill, Mrs.
G. C. Lane, and Mrs. J. 8. Baughman, includes a pair of epaulets
worn by Washington during the French and Indian War, 1755,
when colonel in the Virginia Militia and volunteer aid on the staff
of Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock; a Masonic apron belonging to, and
an epaulet worn in the War of the Revolution by, Col. Burges Ball
of the Continental Army, cousin of Washington, and for a time
volunteer aid on his staff; a fragment of a flag carried by the
forces of Col. Ball in the War of the Revolution; a gold mourning
brooch owned by Mary Ball, the mother of Washington; and a
snuffbox of hardwood, presented by the Marquis de Lafayette to
his godson, Fayette Ball, in 1824, while visiting at the Ball home
in Loudoun County, Va.

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In addition to the gift already referred to, Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Custer, widow of Gen. George A. Custer, lent the following inter-
esting objects, namely, the small oval-top wooden table on which
Gen. Grant wrote the terms for the surrender of the Confederate
States Army of northern Virginia in the McLean house, Appo-
mattox, Va., April 9, 1865, which was presented to Mrs. Custer by
Gen. Philip H. Sheridan soon after the surrender, and a letter from
Gen. Sheridan to Mrs. Custer when sending her the table; a part
of the white linen towel used as a flag of truce by Maj. R. M. Sims,
Confederate States Army, at Appomattox on April 9, 1865; a Vir-
ginia State flag captured by Gen. Custer in 1861, and a service sword
and scabbard used by him during the Civil War.

Other noteworthy loans were as follows: Three naval uniform
coats, a service sword, two water-color sketches of the U. S. gunboat
Benton,and a number of miscellaneous objects, which had belonged to
Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote, United States Navy, received from
Mrs. Kate N. Foote, of Washington; a large piece of embroidery of
the colonial period owned by Mrs. Edward Carrington, of Virginia,
prior to the War of the Revolution, and used as a spread on the
bed of the Marquis de Lafayette in Eagle Tavern, Richmond, Va.,
on the occasion of his visit to the United States in 1824, received
from Mrs. John W. Daniel, of Washington; a gold watch and badge
formerly the property of Jean M. D. Lander, wife of Brig. Gen. Fred-
erick W. Lander, United States Volunteers, the watch having been
presented to her in 1838 by citizens of New York in recognition of
her extraordinary talent in acting, the badge, in 1867, by members
of the Fifth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, formerly of Gen. Lander’s
division, in appreciation of her services while in charge of the hos-
pital at Port Royal, S. C., and as a token of their regard for their
former commander, received from Mr. Frederick C. Lander, of New
York; additions to the large collection of memorials of the Bailey-
Myers-Mason families, consisting of a filigree gold-and-enamel fan
with enamel case, a silver match box, a watch with enamel case, an
onyx brooch set with diamonds, and a miniature portrait of Mrs.
Sydney Mason, received from Mrs. Julian James, of Washington;
a mourning brooch set with pearls and jet, formerly belonging to
Henrietta Myers, wife of Peter S. Hoes, nephew of President Mar-
tin Van Buren, received from Miss Fannie Jackson, of Yonkers,
N. Y.; a marble bust of William H. Seward, Secretary of State
from 1861 to 1869, executed by the Italian sculptor Giovanni Maria
Benzoni from sittings given by Mr. Seward while on his trip around
the world in 1870 and 1871, received from Miss Sara Carr Upton,
of Washington; four scholastic hoods received by the distinguished
astronomer Simon Newcomb, when awarded the degree of Doctor of
Science by the University of Dublin in 1892, and the degree of

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Doctor of Laws by the University of Toronto in 1894 and the uni-
versities of Princeton and Glasgow in 1896, and also the manuscript
notes and mathematical calculations prepared by Prof. Newcomb in
connection with one of his first publications, entitled “The Secular
Variations of the Asteroids,” received from Mrs. Newcomb; and an
illuminated copy on parchment of the resolution of Congress ap-
proved March 4, 1911, thanking Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary,
United States Navy (retired), for his arctic explorations and his
discovery of the North Pole, received from Rear Admiral Peary.

The following objects, lent by Mrs. John Cropper, were added
to the extensive loan collection of the National Society of the Colo-
nial Dames of America, namely, a colonial sugar sifter, a coffeepot
of the period of the First Empire, a sugar bowl of American manu-
facture of about 1830, an antique English teapot, and an antique
salt cellar made in Scotland. The society made a special temporary
exhibition in the Museum of 35 pieces of colonial ecclesiastical silver
received as loans from the churches of Virginia and Maryland and
including examples of chalices, patens, flagons, and alms plates,
dating from the early part of the seventeenth century to 1825. Simi-
lar collections from churches of the eastern part of the United States
were also exhibited by the society at the same time in the Metro-
politan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and
the material in all of the exhibitions was made the subject of study
by Mr. E. Alfred Jones, the English expert on silver plate, whose
results will be published under the auspices of the society.

During the year a collection of costumes intended to illustrate
the changes in style of personal attire in America from the colonial
period to the present time was commenced. The material so far
gathered has consisted mainly of apparel actually worn at important
state and social functions, which gives it an historical interest, and
the collection will also very materially supplement that of art tex-
tiles, offering useful suggestion in the field of design. The subject
was taken up on the initiative of Mrs. Julian James, who is giving
it her personal attention, and the contributions, ranging from single
objects to complete parts of costumes, comprised both loans and
gifts. The principal contributors were Miss Marian T. Coffin, of
Muirkirk, Md.; Mrs. John Hay, of Washington; Col. Webb C.
Hayes, of Fremont, Ohio; Mrs. R. R. Hoes and Mrs. Julian James,
of Washington; Miss May S. Kennedy, of Charlestown, W. Va.;
Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, of Washington; Miss Sallie P. MacKenzie, of
Baltimore, Md.; Mrs. Mary Harrison McKee and Mrs. Levi P.
Morton, of New York; Mrs. John Biddle Porter, of Washington;
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, of Oyster Bay, N. Y.; Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris, of New York; Mrs. William H. Taft, of Washington; and
Mrs. W. P. E. Wyse, of Pikesville, Md.

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While the work of the division of history is being efficiently and
zealously carried on, and the valuable collections with which it is
charged are strictly safeguarded, the present personnel is inadequate
to develop a large part of the resources of the division, none of
which is without popular interest. The more prominent objects at
least are promptly catalogued, labeled, and installed, but for the
early classification, registration, and arrangement of such classes of
material as are represented by the large collection of postage stamps,
involving an immense amount of detailed labor, the employment of
additional expert services has become necessary. The public installa-
tion in the west-north range of the older Museum building, which
had been allotted to the division for the extension of its exhibition
series, was provisionally completed during the year. It comprises
15 cases of the Gray pattern containing the collection of Washing-
toniana and many other relics, and 29 upright and slope-top cases
containing historical documents and maps, the Cromwell collection
of postage stamps, the series of Polish coins received during the year,
besides various other objects. The walls of the room, moreover, are
quite fully covered by the historical paintings belonging to the
Museum, the number of which has recently been appreciably in-
creased. The conditions in the north or main hall have been greatly
improved by the relief so afforded, and, while there is still more
crowding than should be allowed, the historical exhibition is to be
regarded as much more satisfactorily displayed than at any time in
the past. Much progress was made during the year in the work of
cataloguing and labeling, and the reserve collections were rendered
more accessible through the assignment of additional storage space.

The assistant curator of the division, Mr. T. T. Belote, prepared
for publication a descriptive catalogue of the Washington relics in
the possession of the Museum, and reported upon many objects
received for identification. |

Work of the preparators.—The principal work of the preparators,
under the supervision of the head curator of the department, con-
sisted in the construction, coloring, and. installation of lay figure
groups of Indians and the coloring of casts of antiquities for the ex-
hibition series, in which connection the services of Mr. H. W. Hend-
ley were chiefly utilized. A number of figures for these groups were
modeled by Mr. U. S. J. Dunbar, sculptor, of Washington, and Mr.
Frank Micka, also a sculptor of Washington, was engaged for a time
under Dr. Hrdlitka in modeling and casting busts of Indians for the
Panama-California Exposition. Certain work in the line of prehis-
toric archeology was also performed for the same exposition by Mr.
J. L. Nusbaum, of Greeley, Colo.

Exhibition. collections—The progress made in the installation of
the exhibition collections, of which accounts have been given in con-

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nection with the several divisions, was entirely satisfactory, and by
the close of the year all of the halls in the new building devoted to
ethnology and historic archeology had been opened to the public,
although many details of arrangement still remained to be carried
out. The work upon the collection of prehistoric archeology was
well advanced and will be completed during the current year.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY.

The additions to the several divisions of this department numbered
over 168,000 specimens, and included much material of exceptional
value and interest. Besides the customary transfers from Govern-
ment bureaus, several important explorations were represented, as de-
tailed in a later connection. The regions in which these were prin-
cipally conducted were British East Africa and Abyssinia, Kashmir
and the region of the Altai Mountains in Asia, British Columbia and
Alberta, New Mexico, the Panama Canal Zone, Peru, and the Bahama
Islands. The collections in the custody of the department were main-
tained in good condition and some important research work was car-
ried on, but most attention was given to the public installations, with
which considerable progress was made.

Mammals—The British East African expedition of Mr. Paul J.
Rainey furnished the principal accession to this division, consisting
of about 3,400 mammals, of which over 700 are large game. Among
the smaller forms were many new to science. Dr. W. L. Abbott, con-
tributed several hundred specimens from Kashmir, and Mr. A. deC.
Sowerby transmitted a small collection from China. The Smithson-
ian expedition which accompanied Dr. A. O. Wheeler on his topo-
graphical survey of the boundary line between British Columbia and
Alberta obtained a good representation of the mammals of that
region. Mr. E. deK. Leffingwell presented a fine series of skins and
skulls of the mountain sheep and the skulls of three polar bears from
Alaska, and Dr. Theodore Lyman, of Harvard University, donated
the skin and skull of a mountain sheep from the State of Washing-
ton, representing a form now probably extinct. Acknowledgments
are due to Mr. George L. Harrison, jr., of Philadelphia, for the gift
to the Institution of $500, to be expended in supplying desiderata in
the mammal collection of the Museum, and during the year 81 speci-
mens, mostly of rare species, were purchased from this fund, among
them being a number of skeletons and skulls of chimpanzees and
gorillas from West Africa. Mr. Harrison also presented several
skulls of Gazella dorcas.

The work of tanning the large skins, begun some time ago, was
brought up to date, with the exception of the material from the
Rainey expedition, which was not received until in June. The col-
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dition and as well arranged as the accommodations permit. A num-
ber of old skins require to be made over, however, and some work
in this:line was done during the year. The cleaning of skulls and
skeletons was continued by the Museum force and by contract, the
number of skulls so treated having exceeded 2,800. The small skulls
and skeletons, stored in the attic, await appropriate cases for their
final disposition. The specimens preserved in alcohol were brought
over from the older building and placed in the new stacks, in which
their systematic arrangement was well advanced. Much progress
was made in the preparation of labels for the smaller skins, and in
cataloguing and labeling the Merriam collection.
Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, jr., curator of the division, continued his
studies of Old World and American mammals, describing a large
number of new species, and Mr. Ned Hollister, assistant curator, re-
ported on the mammals collected by the Smithsonian expedition to
British Columbia and Alberta. The assistants of the Biological
Survey of the Department of Agriculture made frequent use of the
collections, and the division was visited for the examination of
material by Dr. J. A. Allen, of the American Museum of Natural
History; Dr. Glover M. Allen, of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology; and Mr. W. H. Osgood and Mr. Charles B. Cory, of the
Field Museum of Natural History, to all of whom small numbers of
specimens were also lent for use in their investigations. Loans for
the same purpose were likewise made to the University of North
Dakota, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of
California, and the British Museum of Natural History.
Birds—The collection of several hundred birds from the African
expedition of Mr. Rainey, although not yet worked up, is known to
contain two genera and several species not previously represented in
the Museum. A collection of 600 Philippine birds received from
the Minnesota Academy of Sciences through exchange and purchase
also includes a number of species new to the Museum, such as the
pheasant from Palawan (Polyplectron napoleonis), the Samar broad-
bill (Sarcophanops samarensis), and several sunbirds. Of two acces-
sions of birds from China, aggregating over 260 specimens, one was
obtained from Mr. Andrew Allison and Mr. L. I. Moffett by dona-
tion and purchase, the other from the Museum of Comparative
Zoology in exchange. A number of birds and eggs from the
Aleutian Islands, including a skin of Calliope calliope camtschat-
kensis, new to the North American fauna, were added by Mr. A. C,
Bent, as a result of his Alaskan expedition under the auspices of the
Institution, and the type of a new subspecies, Lagopus rupestris san-
fordi, secured by Dr. L. C. Sanford on the same trip, was also
acquired. Specimens of the crow, Corvus kubaryi, from Guam, pre-

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sented by Dr. F. H. Mills, also represents a species new to the collec-
tion. The Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture
added to its collection, preserved in the Museum, many specimens
from the Isthmus of Panama and from Porto Rico.

The rearrangement of the study series of birds, described in pre-
vious reports, was continued and completed for 27 additional cases.
As this work proceeds the species represented are noted in a check list
with the object of ascertaining and recording the desiderata. Of the
mounted birds eliminated from the older exhibition series a large
number were selected for dismounting, which necessitated their
cleaning, tagging, and removal from the stands. The collection of
bird skeletons previously stored in the bases of exhibition cases was
removed to the laboratory, where it is being placed in unit cases in
the adjoining corridor, and some progress was also made in the re-
arrangement of the alcoholic eollection. The accessions of eggs and
nests received during the year were labeled, numbered, and stored
as such, the division not being provided with sufficient assistance to
permit of the systematic distribution of the specimens in the reserve
series. The labeling and cataloguing of specimens was extensively
carried on. The search for type specimens of species in the older
collections, the identity of which had been lost track of because of
the inadequate system of cataloguing and labeling followed in the
early days of the Museum, was continued and a number of such types
were disclosed. The recent discovery of the original field registers
of Mr. John Xantus has made it possible to add much needed infor-
mation to the catalogue of several thousand specimens collected by
him in Lower California and other parts of Mexico some 50 years
ago and entered without the proper data, and also to determine the
exact localities for a number of types, previously unknown.

Part V of Museum Bulletin No. 50, entitled “The Birds of North
and Middle America,” was issued during the year, and the author,
Mr. Robert Ridgway, curator of the division, continued work on part
6, the manuscript of which was well advanced at the close of the year.
Much also was done on the manuscript for succeeding volumes as
materials and opportunities offered. Dr. C. W. Richmond, assistant
curator, whose time was almost wholly occupied with routine work,
prepared descriptions of five new species of birds from the islands of
western Sumatra. Mr. J. H. Riley, aid, who accompanied the Smith-
sonian expedition to British Columbia and Alberta in the summer
of 1911, reported on the birds collected, and a preliminary paper by
him, descriptive of three new forms, was published. Dr. E. A. Mearns,
United States Army (retired), associate in zoology, continued his
studies of African birds until his departure for Abyssinia with Mr.
Childs Frick. Mr. A. C. Bent, of Taunton, Mass., who is at work

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upon the life histories of North American birds, in continuation of
the researches of the late Maj. Bendire, examined the Museum collec-
tion of ptarmigans from the Aleutian Islands.

The collections of the division were often consulted by the staff of
the Biological Survey, and Mr. H. C. Oberholser, outside of official
hours, worked on the specimens from Malaysia contributed to the
Museum by Dr. W. L. Abbott. Among visitors to the division who
spent more or less time in the examination and study of specimens
may be mentioned the members of the committee on nomenclature
of the American Ornithologists’ Union; Mr. F. M. Chapman, of the
American Museum of Natural History; Mr. W. E. Clyde Todd, of
the Carnegie Museum; Dr, Thomas Barbour and Mr. Outram Bangs,
of the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Mr. Witmer Stone, of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; Mr. Anastasio Alfaro,
of the Museo Nacional, and Mr. José-C. Zeledon, both of San José,
Costa Rica; Mr. L. M. Loomis, of the California Academy of
Sciences; Mr. A. B. Howell, of Pasadena, Cal.; Mr. C. W. Beebe, of
the New York Zoological Society ; Mr. Charles Rogers, of New York;
Mr. B. H. Swales, of Grosse Ile, Mich.; and Dr. R. W. Shufeldt,
of Washington. The principal loans of specimens, to aid in investi-
gations, were made to the American Museum of Natural History, the
California Academy of Sciences, and the Carnegie Museum.

Reptiles and batrachians—This division also derived its most
important additions, amounting to over 500 specimens, from the col-
lections of the Rainey African expedition. A number of species,
including several new to science, obtained by the Yale Peruvian
expedition of 1911 under Dr. Hiram Bingham, were received as a
gift; and Mr. Julius Hurter, sr., of St. Louis, presented cotypes of
his Chrysemys treleasei and a lizard from Arabia. Mr. N. R. Wood,
of the Museum staff, while in Florida, collected a large series of the
lizard recently described as Neoseps reynoldsi and mentioned in the
last report; and Dr. Paul Bartsch, while on the Bahaman expedition
of the steamer Anton Dohrn, of the Carnegie Institution, secured 85
reptiles on Andros Island. Many species new to the collection, from
Cuba, South America, and Africa, were received from the Museum
of Comparative Zoology through exchange.

The division remains in charge of Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, the
head curator of the department of biology, and owing to his mani-
fold duties in connection with the latter office and the serious illness
for several months of the aid of the division less progress was made
in the rearrangement of the reptile collections than would otherwise
have been the case. The only important investigation by Dr. Stej-
neger was the study of the small but very interesting collection made
by the Yale Peruvian expedition. Mr. D. D. Streeter, jr., of New
York, a temporary collaborator in zoology, examined the Malaysian

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material in the division preparatory to a trip to Borneo. Among
others who made use of the collections were Dr. Thomas Barbour, of
the Museum of Comparative Zoology; Dr. Alexander G. Ruthven,
head curator of the Museum of the University of Michigan; Mr.
Julius Hurter, sr.; and Dr. O. P. Hay, of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington. The only loan of specimens was one made to Mr.
C. H. Richardson, jr., of Stanford University, Cal., for comparison
with collections from Utah and Idaho.

Fishes—Transfers from the Bureau of Fisheries aggregated over
11,000 specimens of fishes, mainly collected in Japanese waters in
1906 by the steamer Albatross, but also including some material from
the Philippine Islands, collected by Mr. R. C. McGregor, and from
various localities in the United States. A number of species from
the vicinity of Cape Lookout, N. C., were presented by Mr. Russell
J. Coles, and a specimen of Veophrynichthys latus was received as a
eift from Mr. 8. R. Waite, of Canterbury Museum, Christchurch,
New Zealand. .

Good progress was made in the arrangement of material in the
new storage room, and by the end of the year about one-third of the
entire collection had been permanently installed, including the test-
ing and the strengthening or renewal of the alcohol as was required.
Some 25,000 specimens were labeled and catalogued, adding about
4,000 entries to the register, and many old and illegible labels were
replaced. The fish skeletons were transferred from table cases in
the exhibition halls to insect-proof unit cases in the laboratory,
where they have been systematically arranged and provided with
outside labels to facilitate reference.

Mr. Barton A. Bean, assistant curator of the division, in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Alfred C. Weed, aid, completed a report on the fishes
collected in Java in 1909-10 by Mr. Owen Bryant and Mr. William
Palmer, and had two other papers in course of preparation, one on
interesting forms from the coast of North Carolina, the other on
material from Vancouver Island. The study of the fishes obtained
in British East Africa by the Smithsonian African Expedition was
continued and the greater part of the species identified. The col-
lections of the division were utilized by Dr. S. E. Meek, of the Field
Museum of Natural History, and Mr. S. F. Hildebrand, of the Bu-
reau of Fisheries, in connection with the working up of the fishes
gathered by them on the biological survey of the Panama Canal
Zone. Other members of the staff of the Bureau of Fisheries who
consulted the collections were Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Deputy Commis-
sioner of Fisheries, Mr. Lewis Radcliffe, and Dr. W. C. Kendall.
Specimens were lent for study to Dr. C. H. Gilbert and Prof. J. O.
Snyder, of Stanford University; Mr. J. T. Nichols and Mr. L. Hus-
sakof, of the American Museum of Natural History; Dr. H. F. E.

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Jungersen, of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark; and
Dr. J. Schmidt, of the Carlsberg Laboratorium, also at Copenhagen.

Insects—The most extensive and important additions of the year
were received from the Bureau of Entomology of the Department of
Agriculture, and comprised over 10,000 specimens obtained during
field work in connection with the biological survey of the Panama
Canal Zone, besides some 2,000 specimens, including the types of
several new species, from various other localities. Parasitic hymen-
optera were represented in three donations. The first, from Mr. J. P.
Kryger, of Gjentofte, Denmark, contained about 1,800 specimens;
the second, from Mr. L. C. Coleman, of Bangalore, India, about 200
specimens from the Province of Mysore; and the third, from Mr.
F. W. Urich, of Trinidad, West Indies, several hundred specimens
from Mexico. In the latter two collections were a number of types
of new species. Nearly 400 weevils, a part of the collection on which
the Biologia Centrali-Americana is based, were received from Messrs.
Godman and Salvin, of London, England, through Mr. G. C.
Champion; and several hundred Peruvian butterflies were presented
by Mr. C. H. T. Townsend, of Piura, Peru.

The reserve collections have been maintained in excellent preserva-
tion, and, notwithstanding the small number of skilled preparators
employed, considerable progress was made in transferring material
to the new standard cases. The most. satisfactory advance in this
respect has been made with the orders Hymenoptera, Coleoptera,
Odonata, and Hemiptera. The adoption of a new system of in-
stalling the small forms of Hymenoptera greatly facilitates their
transfer and their subsequent handling for the insertion of additional
specimens. Instead of mounting directly in the drawers of standard
size, the specimens are pinned in uniform small cork-lined trays
which are arranged in the drawers and can be separately removed.

No extended researches were conducted by members of the staff
of the division, but a number of short papers were prepared and
published, as noted in the bibliography. Most of the entomologists
who attended the Washington meeting in December, 1911, of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and its affili-
ated societies, the Association of Economic Entomologists and the
Entomological Society of America, visited the division, and the col-
lections were also consulted at various times by several specialists,
including Mr. A. B. Gahan, of College Park, Md.; Mr. J. A. G. Rehn
and Mr. Morgan Hebard, of Philadelphia; Mr. C. W. Johnson, of the
Boston Society of Natural History; and Mr. William T. Davis and
Mr. C. W. Leng, of New Brighton, N. Y. Nearly 7,000 specimens
were lent to 25 specialists for study and identification, the principal
sendings consisting of Homoptera supplied to Prof. C. F. Baker, of
Pomona College, Claremont, Cal.; Coleoptera, to M. Ernest Olivier,

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of Moulins, France, and Mr. H. C. Fall, of Pasadena, Cal.; Hemip-
tera, to Dr. G. v. Horvath, of the Hungarian National Museum, Buda-
pest, Hungary, Dr. J. F. Abbott, of Washington University, St.
Louis, Mo., and Mr. D. L. Crawford, of Stanford University, Cal.;
Orthoptera, to Prof. L. Bruner, of Lincoln, Nebr.; Odonata, to Dr.
Philip P. Calvert, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel-
phia; and Tipulide from tropical America, to Mr. Charles P. Alex-
ander, of Cornell University.

Mollusks—The most interesting acquisition was the collection of
mollusks made by Dr. Paul Bartsch, assistant curator of the divi-
sion, on the expedition of the Carnegie Institution to the Bahama
Islands. Though not containing a very large number of species, it
comprises many thousands of specimens, mainly of land shells, and
furnishes important material for the study of variation. Another
large collection from the same region, but consisting chiefly of small
marine forms assembled by the late Lieut. Madison Rush, United
States Navy, was presented by Mrs. John Biddle Porter, of Washing-
ton. In the collection of the Rainey expedition to British East
Africa were many land and fresh-water shells, of which, it is found,
none of the species duplicates any obtained by the Smithsonian
African expedition, though the regions traversed were not far apart.
A large number of well-preserved specimens of marine mollusks
from New England and an exceptionally fine specimen of the rare
Murex bednalli from Australia, all of which were greatly desired
for the exhibition series, were donated by Mr. John B. Henderson, jr.,
of Washington. Mr. Arthur Haycock, of Whitby, Bailey Bay, con-
tinued to supply desiderata in the Museum collection of Bermuda
shells and also presented a number of types and cotypes of new
species from that locality. Of the land shells obtained by the Yale
Peruvian expedition and studied and described by the curator of the
division, Dr. Wiliam H. Dall, a good representation was received as
a gift. The Department of Agriculture, through the Bureau of
Plant Industry and the Biological Survey, transferred a number of
lots of land shells from Porto Rico and Panama, which included
several new forms from the latter region.

The routine work of the division was greatly advanced through
the temporary assignment of additional clerical help. Over 33,000
lots of specimens were labeled, registered, and made ready for incor-
poration in the reserve series, and a very large quantity of small
material contained in siftings, bottom samples, etc., was roughly
sorted preliminary to its study and classification. The entire collec-
tion of Naiades, the largest in the world, occupying 514 half-unit
trays, was cleaned, revised, and rearranged in accordance with the
Synopsis of Mr. Charles T. Simpson, and the trays were so labeled
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species. The South African marine shells were segregated for rela-
beling, and the Philippine material was rearranged by families to
facilitate its future study.

A synoptical collection illustrating the familes of mollusks and
consisting of attractive specimens was mounted on tablets, labeled,
and added to the exhibition series. The mollusk fauna of the Dis-
trict of Columbia was the subject of another collection prepared for
exhibition.

Studies of the Tertiary fauna of the Panama Canal Zone and of
the Oligocene of central Florida occupied the greater part of the
time of the curator, Dr. Dall, although he also prepared a few short
papers, principal among which was a report on the land shells from
the Yale Peruvian expedition. Dr. Bartsch continued work on the
Pyramidellide of the west coast of America, completing a supple-
ment to his published monograph and a discussion of the faunal dis-
tribution of the family. His report on the South African shells col-
lected by Col. W. H. Turton was practically finished, but its publica-
tion is deferred awaiting the receipt of additional material which
has been sent. He also made some progress in the working up of the
Philippine collection. Mr. John B. Henderson, jr., made constant
use of the collections of the division in connection with his studies
of West Indian and Florida ‘shells, and Miss Mary Breen, collabor-
ator of the division, continued, as time permitted, her researches on
the microscopic structure of mollusks of the District of Columbia.
Miss Julia Gardner, of Johns Hopkins University, spent several
weeks at the Museum conducting investigations to be incorporated in
a doctoral thesis, and Hon. T. H. Aldrich, of Birmingham, Ala.,
Mr. Bryant Walker, of Detroit, Mich., and others consulted the col-
lections from time to time. But few loans of specimens for study
were made, and only in small lots. Among the recipients were Dr.
H. A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ;
Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Boulder, Colo.; Dr. F. Blochmann, of
the Zoological Institute, Tiibingen, Germany; and Mr. J. Wilfrid
Jackson, of the Manchester Museum, Manchester, England.

Marine invertebrates—This division received its most extensive
and valuable additions from the Bureau of Fisheries. They consisted
principally of material collected by the steamer Albatross during
cruises in the Pacific Ocean, including over 25,000 specimens of deca-
pod crustaceans from the Philippine Islands; some 2,000 specimens of
hydromedusx, siphonophores, and ctenophores, identified by Dr.
Henry B. Bigelow; a large series of starfishes from the north Pa-
cific, described by Dr. Walter K. Fisher in Museum Bulletin No. 76;
ascidians from southern California, reported upon by Dr. William E.
Ritter; barnacles from the northwest Pacific, studied by Dr. H. A.
Pilsbry; and hydroids from the eastern Pacific, determined by Dr.

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S.,F. Clarke. The Smithsonian biological survey of the Panama
Canal Zone transferred several hundred specimens of aquatic inver-
tebrates, mostly crustaceans, collected by Dr. S. E. Meek and Mr.
S. F. Hildebrand, and 283 bottles of fresh-water plankton, collected
by Dr. C. Dwight Marsh, of the Department of Agriculture. About
500 specimens, chiefly of crustaceans and echinoderms, dredged by
‘him in the Straits of Florida and among the Bahama Islands in 1911
and 1912, were contributed by Mr. John B. Henderson, jr., of Wash-
ington; and over 1,000 specimens of various groups were received
as the result of collecting work in Casco Bay, Me., by Miss M. J.
Rathbun and Miss Violet Dandridge during August, 1911. The
Indian Museum at Calcutta presented 225 specimens of crinoids rep-
resenting 48 species, and the Australian Museum at Sydney 184 speci-
mens of the same group representing 14 species. From the Royal
Zoological Museum at Berlin 35 specimens, representing 20 species
of crinoids, and several ascidians, including cotypes, were obtained in
exchange.

The work of the year was mainly directed toward improving the
condition of the extensive reserve collections and furthering their
systematic arrangement in the new quarters. It included extensive
cataloguing and labeling, the cleaning of glass and other receptacles,
and the replenishment and strengthening of the alcohol, besides other
purely manual labor. In the small, crowded storage rooms of the
Smithsonian building such a general overhauling had not been
possible for a long time, and a large share of the collections had, in
fact, become practically inaccessible, but in the new building, with its
ample accommodations, difficulties of this kind are not likely soon
to occur. While much of the older material, and especially the
echinoderms, remains to be catalogued, the registering of current
accessions has been kept well in hand. Under a revised system of
cataloguing, red cards are being used for type specimens, blue cards
for those that have been figured, and buff cards for such as are placed
on exhibition, while white cards are employed for all other entries.
The dried specimens hastily stored in the attic the previous year were
systematically arranged, and the drawers and cases labeled. The
corals from the Philippine Islands, filling about 100 shipping boxes,
were unpacked and transferred to unit drawers in the dust-proof
storage room constructed for that class of material.

Miss Mary J. Rathbun, assistant curator of the division, reported
on a small collection of crustaceans obtained in Cuba by Dr. Thomas
Barbour, identified the decapod and stomatopod crustaceans obtained
in the Panama Canal Zone in 1911 by Dr. Meek and Mr. Hildebrand,
and made considerable progress in the study of the Ocypodide, or
fiddler-crabs, collected at the Philippine Islands by the steamer
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family in the Museum is being worked up. Miss Rathbun also de-
scribed for the Geological Survey a small collection of fossil crus-
taceans from the Atlantic coastal plain of the Southern States, and
began the preparation of a report on the fossil decapods collected in
the Panama Canal Zone and in Costa Rica by Mr. D. F. MacDonald,
geologist of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and Dr. T. Wayland
Vaughan, of the Geological Survey.

Mr. Austin H. Clark, also assistant curator, continued his extensive
researches relative to crinoids. Studies finished during the year cov-
ered the material obtained by the Hamburg West Australian expedi-
tion of 1905, including the collection in the Western Australan
Museum and Art Gallery at Perth; the collections of the Royal Zoo-
logical Museum at Berlin and the Hamburg Museum; and the arctic
species belonging to the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. Mr.
Clark also brought nearly to completion the second part of his mono-
graph on recent crinoids, comprising the anatomy other than skeletal,
the development, the comparative study of the young, and allied sub-
jects; and continued work on the crinoids collected by the Danish
steamer /ngolf and the nonarctic crinoids in the Museum at Copen-
hagen. Studies were likewise begun on the crinoid collections made
by the German South Polar expedition in the Gauss; by Prof. Franz
Doflein on his East Asiatic expedition, including the Japanese ma-
terial of Prof. L. Déderlein; and by Capt. Suensson in eastern Asia,
belonging to the Museum in Copenhagen. Mr. Clark furthermore
prepared a preliminary paper on the salinity of the surface water in
the eastern part of the north Pacific Ocean with reference to its bear-
ing on the distribution of the marine life of the region.

Dr. Harriet Richardson, collaborator, worked up for the Museum
of Natural History at Paris, France, the isopods represented in the
collections of several polar expeditions and those obtained during an
expedition to Colombia by Dr. O. Fuhrmann and Dr, Eug. Mayor, of
Neuchatel, Switzerland. She also studied the isopods obtained in
Jamaica by Dr. E. A. Andrews, Dr. C. B. Wilson and Dr. Thomas
Barbour, and identified many species in the collections of the Mu-
seum, besides describing a number of new species.

Among specialists not connected with the Museum who visited the
division in furtherance of their researches were Dr. Robert T. Jack-
son, of Cambridge, Mass., who is working on the anatomy of echi-
noids; Mr. A. A. Doolittle, who is studying fresh-water copepods;
and Miss Julia McMillan, who is conducting investigations on pro-
tozoa.

Many well-known naturalists, as heretofore, have given their
services gratuitously toward the working up of material belong-
ing to this division, and to this generous cooperation is largely
due the excellent progress which is being made in the identification

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and classification of the collections. Reports were completed and
submitted by Dr. W. T. Calman, of the British Museum of Natural
History, on the cumacea; by Prof. E. L. Bouvier, of the Museum
of Natural History, Paris, on the family Atyide of crustaceans;
by Dr. J. H. Gerould, of Dartmouth College, on the North
Atlantic Sipunculoidea; by Dr. A. S. Pearse, of the University of
Wisconsin, on certain amphipods of the Gulf of Mexico; and by Dr.
C. Dwight Marsh, of the Department of Agriculture, on free-swim-
ming copepods from fresh-water plankton. Investigations were be-
ing continued, with reports in various stages of preparation, by Dr.
C. B. Wilson, of the State Normal School, Westfield, Mass., on the
parasitic copepods, of which several new species were described dur-
ing the year; by Dr. J. A. Cushman, of the Boston Society of Natural
History, on the foraminifera of the North Pacific, of which the third
part, treating of the family Lagenide, was nearly ready; by Dr.
H. A. Pilsbry, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, on
the sessile cirripedia; by Dr. H. J. Hansen, of the Zoological Museum,
Copenhagen, Denmark, on the Euphausiacea; by Dr. Th. Mortensen,
of the same museum, on certain echinoids; by Dr. N. Annandale, of
the Indian Museum, Calcutta, on fresh-water sponges; by Dr. H.
Coutiére, of the Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie, Paris, on the Cran-
gonide; by Dr. J. W. Spengel, of Giessen, Germany, on the Echi-
uroidea; by Dr. H. B. Bigelow, of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology of Harvard University, on meduse of the Pacific Ocean; by
Dr. W. K. Fisher, of Stanford University, on the starfishes of the
Pacific Ocean; by Prof. C. C. Nutting, of the State University of
Towa, on hydroids; and by Dr, R. C. Osburn, of Barnard College,
New York, on the bryozoa of the north Atlantic Ocean. Studies
were begun during the year by Dr. R. Koehler, of Lyon, France, on
the ophiurans of the West Indies; by Dr. L. Déderlein, of Strassburg,
Germany, on the astrophytons of the Pacific Ocean; by Dr. W. M.
Tattersall, of the Manchester Museum, England, on the Mysidacea;
by Mr. Joseph Pearson, of Colombo Museum, Ceylon, on the holo-
thurians of the Indo-Pacific Ocean; and by Dr. Walter Faxon, of
the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard University, on
cray fishes,

Plants——The principal accessions of the year were obtained by
transfer from the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of
Agriculture, and consisted of two collections made in connection with
the biological survey of the Panama Canal Zone, one comprising
about 7,000 specimens gathered by Mr. H. Pittier, the other about
6,200 specimens, mostly grasses, assembled by Mr. A. S. Hitchcock.
This material, coming from a region which has been but little ex-
plored, at least in recent years, is sufficiently comprehensive to furnish
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Mr. Paul C. Standley, on detail from the Museum, collected some
2,800 plants, principally in New Mexico, and also presented 550
specimens from southern Missouri. About 200 specimens obtained
on the expedition to the Mount Robson region of western Canada
were deposited by the Smithsonian Institution. Two important col-
lections were acquired by exchange. The first was from the New
York Botanical Garden, and consisted of about 6,000 specimens from
various sources, but principally from South America, the West Indies,
and Panama. The other was from the Arnold Arboretum, of Har-
vard University, and contained about 500 specimens, chiefly from
the United States. About as many Chinese plants were purchased
from the same establishment, and small collections from Santo Do-
mingo, Mexico, Bolivia, and the Philippine Islands were also
purchased.

Over 27,000 plants, comprising practically all of the specimens
received during the year and some remaining from the previous
year, were mounted and added to the herbarium. A beginning was
made toward segregating the types and cotypes, which will hereafter
be arranged apart from the general collection, to permit of their
receiving better attention than was possible before.

Mr. F. V. Coville, curator of the division, continued his studies
on the Vacciniacee. Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator, worked
mainly upon the plants of Mexico and Central America, giving spe-
cial attention, as heretofore, to the Cactaces, and jointly with Mr.
Paul C. Standley, assistant curator, reported upon the collection made
by the expedition of the steamer Albatross to Lower California in
1911. On February 1, 1912, Dr. Rose was granted a furlough to per-
mit him, in conjunction with Dr. N. L. Britton, to undertake for the
Carnegie Institution of Washington an extended investigation of the
Cactaceze, under an arrangement which will make the Museum a
beneficiary in the matter of the material to be collected. Mr. W. R.
Maxon, assistant curator, published several papers on tropical Amer-
ican ferns, and gave some time toward the completion of a manuscript
for the second part of volume 16 of the “ North American Flora,”
to include descriptions of the Pteridophyta. He also began the prep-
aration of a fern flora of Panama, and wrote a popular article on the
tree ferns of North America for the Smithsonian Annual Report for
1911. Mr. Standley, in addition to studies relative to several groups
of Panama plants, had in hand the completion of a manuscript on
the flora of Alaska, and, in collaboration with Prof. E. O. Wooton,
finished a paper on the flora of New Mexico. Mr. E. S. Steele con-
tinued his researches on plants of the genus Laciniarta.

Dr. Edward L. Greene, associate in botany, had in preparation a
second part of his “ Botanical Landmarks.” He published a number
of papers on North American plants, and made many determinations

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of plants for the Department of Agriculture. Capt. John Donnell
Smith, also associate in botany, continued his investigations of Cen-
tral American plants, and in a paper issued during the year was
incorporated a synoptical treatment of the Central American genus
Hauya, prepared by him in collaboration with Dr. Rose.

Besides employees of the Department of Agriculture, by whom the
herbarium was constantly consulted, many botanists not connected
with the Museum spent more or less time in the division, conducting
investigations, as follows: Dr. William Trelease, on Agave and
Phorodendron; Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New York Botan-
ical Garden, on the Cactacee; Mr. KE. L. Morris, acting curator-in-
chief of the Museum of the Brooklyn Institute, on the genus Plan-
tago; Dr. K. M. Wiegand, associate professor of botany at Wellesley
College, on the genus Ameldnchier; Dr. J. M. Greenman, of the Field
Museum of Natural History, on Mexican plants; Prof. J. H. Schaff-
ner, of the Ohio State University, on the lower cryptogams; Prof.
R. F. Griggs, of the same university, on the genus Bihat; Miss Alice
Eastwood, of the California Academy of Sciences, on the genus
Lupinus; and Mr. A. A. Heller, of the University of Nevada, and
Mr. C. H. Boynton, of Biltmore, N. C., on several groups of phanero-
gams. Prof. J. J. Thornber, of the University of Arizona, was en-
gaged during most of the year in the preparation of a flora of Ari-
zona, based largely on the collections of the Museum.

Over 6,700 specimens of plants were lent to 29 different establish-
ments and individuals to assist in investigations in progress. The
principal sendings were as follows: Specimens of Saxifraga, Canna,
and Capnoides, and of the family Hydrophyllacex, to the Royal
Botanical Museum in Berlin, for use in the preparation of matter
for the “ Pflanzenreich ”; representatives of the families Piperacea,
Meliaceze, and Begoniacee, from Panama, to Mr. de Candolle, of
Geneva, Switzerland, whose determinations are of very material
assistance to Mr. H. Pittier in his work on the flora of Panama, as
are also those of specialists at the Berlin Botanical Garden, to whom
much Panama material has been sent; specimens of Agave and
Phorodendron, to Dr. William Trelease, for his monographic studies
of these groups; lichens of the family Graphidacee, to Prof. Bruce
Fink, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, who has an elaborate mono-
graph of this difficult family in preparation; specimens of Apocynum,
to Prof. Augusto Béguinot, of the Regia Universita Degli Studi,
Padua, Italy, for monographic purposes; specimens of Dryopteris, to
Mr. Carl Christensen, of the Botanical Museum at Copenhagen, who,
with material from practically all of the large European herbaria, is
monographing the genus; specimens of various groups to the New
York Botanical Garden, namely, Vacciniacex, mainly from Panama,

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for the use of Mr. C. B. Robinson in the preparation of manuscript
for the “North American Flora”; Vittaria, to assist Mr. R. C.
Benedict, who is making an extended investigation of the ontogeny,
morphology, and taxonomy of the tribe Vittarieae; Hawaiian ferns
for a synoptical review of the Pteridophyta of these islands by Miss
W. J. Robinson; and ferns of the genus Lomaria for a synoptical
treatment of the North American species of the genus by Miss Jean
Broadhurst. Specimens of Viola were also sent to Dr. Ezra Brainerd,
of Middlebury, Vt., to be used in a contribution to the “ North
American Flora.” |

Explorations —Though having only very limited means for ex-
plorations, the Museum profited greatly through a number of im-
portant natural history expeditions in which, by the generosity of
friends, it was given the opportunity to participate, or to share in
the returns. Such of these expeditions as were completed within
the year brought valuable additions to the collections, as recorded
on preceding pages, while from others satisfactory results had been
announced at the time this report was written. Briefly summar-
ized, they and the field work carried on directly by the Museum were
as follows:

Having planned an extended hunting trip to east Africa, prin-
cipally with the object of testing the value of American bearhounds
in stalking lions, Mr. Paul J. Rainey, of New York, offered to
present to the Institution and Museum such natural history speci-
mens as were obtained, provided some one skilled in their preser-
vation could be detailed to accompany him. Mr. Edmund Heller,
who had been one of the naturalists on the Smithsonian African
Expedition, was appointed to this position. The expedition sailed
from New York February 18, 1911, and was absent about a year,
Mr. Heller leaving Nairobi, British East Africa, homeward bound,
about February 15, 1912. The route of travel was somewhat to the
north and east of that taken by the Smithsonian expedition, and
passed through the country lying between the northern part of
British East Africa and southern Abyssinia. Arrived at Mombasa,
the party proceeded toward the north, across the Gabba Plains dis-
trict, along the east side of the Horerti and Koroli deserts, by the
Lorain swamp, and thence along the west side of the desert to
Nairobi. The coast stations of the Uganda Railroad were then
visited by Mr. Heller, and afterwards various localities about Lake
Victoria Nyanza. The collection received at the Museum consists
of about 3,400 mammals, of which over 700 are large game, besides
371 birds and 523 reptiles and batrachians, and as the material came
from regions not covered by the earlier expedition, and to some
extent from remote localities never before visited by naturalists, it
is of exceptional interest and contains many new forms.

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The Museum also took part in another expedition to Africa, which
started from London soon after the beginning of the calendar year
1912, and was expected to remain in the field until the following
autumn. It was organized by Mr. Childs Frick, of New York, with
the view of making as complete a collection as possible of the ani-
mals of certain parts of Abyssinia and the adjacent territory, in-
cluding the northern part of British East Africa, somewhat north
of the region traversed by Col. Theodore Roosevelt in 1909-10, and
the expedition of Mr. Rainey. It was also intended to visit the
neighborhood of Lake Rudolf and to work along the shores of the
lake itself. Mr. Frick, by whom the undertaking was entirely
financed, was accompanied by Dr. E. A. Mearns, United States
Army (retired), associate in zoology of the National Museum, a
member of the Smithsonian African Expedition, and an experienced
field collector, and by Mr. Blick, and a physician. It was arranged
that Dr. Mearns should give special attention to and report upon
the birds obtained, and that half of the collection of this group
should become the property of the National Museum.

Dr. W. L. Abbott, whose explorations in Malaysia, continuing
through a number of years, were so fruitful of results for the
Museum, has been recently in Kashmir, British India, from where
he sent some 600 specimens of mammals during last year. Still
interested, however, in extending our knowledge of the natural his-
tory of Borneo, where he has personally done much collecting, he
generously placed at the disposition of the Institution a sum of
money sufficient to send out and maintain a naturalist in the field
for a considerable period. Mr. H. C. Raven, who was selected to
make the trip, left New York about March 1, 1912. His work will
be mainly along the east coast, which is less known than other
parts of the island, and will have reference more especially to the
vertebrate fauna.

Dr. Theodore Lyman, of Harvard University, left this country in
May, 1912, on a hunting trip to the Altai Mountains, between Siberia
and Mongolia, which was expected to continue until some time in
September. He was accompanied by Mr. N. Hollister, assistant cura-
tor of mammals in the National Museum, whose collecting was to re-
late mainly to mammals and birds, under an arrangement whereby
the National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology will
share mutually in the results. All of the expenses of the expedition
are being paid by Dr. Lyman, to whose generosity the Museum is
greatly indebted.

Through the courtesy of the Canadian Government and of Dr.
A. O. Wheeler, president of the Alpine Club of Canada, the Smith-
sonian Institution was enabled, in the summer of 1911, to send a
small party of naturalists to accompany Dr. Wheeler on his topo-

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graphical survey of the British Columbia and Alberta boundary line
and the Mount Robson region. The expedition, which consisted of
four members, including Mr. N. Hollister, in charge, and Mr. J. H.
Riley, aid in the division of birds, was absent from June until Octo-
ber, and succeeded in obtaining a fairly complete collection of the
mammals and birds of this previously unworked territory, together
with many insects and plants, all of which were turned over to the
National Museum.

Reference was made in the last report to the biological survey of
‘the Panama Canal Zone initiated by the Smithsonian Institution
and carried on with the cooperation of several of the departments of
the Government. The work was continued during the past year and
resulted in important additions to the collections, especially of fishes,
insects, aquatic invertebrates, and plants.

By invitation of Dr. A. G. Mayer, director of the marine biological
station of the Carnegie Institution of Washington at the Dry Tor-
tugas, Fla., Dr. Paul Bartsch, assistant curator of mollusks, was de-
tailed to accompany an expedition to the Bahama Islands in the
steamer Anton Dohrn for the purpose of obtaining a representative
series of marine invertebrates for the exhibition collections of the
Museum. With headquarters at the junction of the South Bight and
Tongue of the Ocean, explorations were carried on in the neighboring
region for about one month, after which a trip was made from
Miami to Key West, Fla., stopping at many points on the way. The
results were entirely satisfactory, color notes were made on the
various marine species collected, and several thousand land shells as
well as many specimens of reptiles and batrachians were also secured.
Mr. John B. Henderson, jr., a regent of the Smithsonian Institution
and long associated with the division of mollusks of the Museum,
to which he has been a liberal contributor, made a dredging cruise
with his yacht Zolis to the Bahama banks and the region off Miami,
Fla., during the spring of 1912. The work extended to a depth of 60
fathoms, and furnished a rich collection of marine invertebrates
which has been generously shared with the Museum.

Mr. P. C. Standley, assistant curator of plants, was engaged dur-
ing two weeks of the summer of 1911 in botanical collecting in New
Mexico, chiefly along the northern boundary of the State and in the
Navajo Reservation. He preserved about 2,800 specimens, many of
which represent species not previously known from New Mexico, and
secured much information relating to the distribution of the species
in that region.

Miss M. J. Rathbun, assistant curator of marine invertebrates, ac-
companied by Miss Violet Dandridge, artist, spent the month of
August at the Marine Biological Station, Harpswell, Me., and the sta-
tion of the Bureau of Fisheries, Woods Hole, Mass., for the purpose

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of obtaining specimens of marine invertebrates for the exhibition
series and of making color notes to be used in reproducing the natural
colors on the prepared material. The objects of the trip were success-
fully accomplished, and extensive general collections were also made.
To the authorities and naturalists at both of these stations acknowl-
edgments are due for many courtesies, including the use of boats and
apparatus whenever needed. Occasional collecting trips in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and to neighboring localities were made during the
year by Mr. B. A. Bean and Mr. A. C. Weed, assistant curator and
aid, respectively, of the division of fishes, Mr. Ernest B. Marshall,
and other members of the Museum staff.

Three young naturalists, chiefly interested in the higher verte-
brates, who offered to engage in collecting work for the Museum
at their own expense, were designated as temporary collaborators,
and left for the field toward the latter part of the year. They are
Mr. D. D. Streeter, jr., of New York, who proceeded to British
Borneo; Mr. George Mixter, of Boston, Mass., who went to the Lake
Baikal region; and Mr. Copley Amory, jr., of Cambridge, Mass.,
who joined the Coast and Geodetic Survey party under Mr. Thomas
Riggs, jr., on the Alaska- Yukon boundary.

On the Yale Peruvian expedition of 1911, under the direction of
Prof. Hiram Bingham, extensive natural history collections were
made by Prof. H. W. Foote, and of these the reptiles and batrachians,
land shells, insects, and crustaceans were submitted to the Museum
for study and report, with the understanding that in return for this
assistance the Museum would receive the first set of specimens in
each group. The shells and the reptiles and batrachians have al-
ready been worked up.

Preparation of specimens.—While the preparation of specimens
for the reserve collections demanded the usual amount of attention,
the work of the preparators related mainly to the several exhibition
series. Including the material for two of the important groups
from British East Africa, the buffalo and the zebra-oryx, the mount-
ing of 12 mammals of medium to large size was completed in the
Museum shops, and that of 4 others was well under way, the work
being done under the direct supervision of the chief taxidermist,
Mr. George B. Turner, and in accordance with his designs. The con-
struction of two additional groups of mammals from specimens ob-
tained by the Smithsonian African Expedition, one representing
Cooke’s hartebeest, the other the white rhinoceros, was arranged for
by contract with Mr. J. L. Clark, of New York. The former was
finished and installed, but the latter required a much longer time
for its completion.

Forty-eight specimens of birds, designed partly for the general
exhibition series and partly for the faunal exhibit of the District of

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Columbia, were mounted by Mr. N. R. Wood, who also renovated
and installed the specimens of poultry and pigeons in the collection
of domestic animals. The moving and arrangement in the new
building of the extensive series of skeletons was attended to by Mr.
J. W. Scollick, osteologist, and during the progress of this work
the collection was thoroughly overhauled and cleaned, and some of
the specimens were remounted. Mr. William Palmer was engaged
almost continuously in the installation of exhibits, especially of
birds, reptiles, fishes, domestic animals, and the local fauna. The
arrangement of the marine invertebrates, under the direction of
Dr. Paul Bartsch, has made good headway, but as the exhibition has
been planned on an entirely new basis which involves many details
of preparation and mounting, its early completion is not to be ex-
pected. An important innovation in connection with this work is
the painting of many of the specimens in imitation of their natural
colors by a method which promises the preservation of these colors
in alcoholic preparations. This is being skillfully done by Miss
Violet Dandridge, who has given much time to the study of the
coloration of these animals in nature.

For the reserve collections of mammals and birds over 3,200 speci-
mens were treated, consisting in the preparation and poisoning of
small to medium skins, the tanning of large skins, and the cleaning
of skulls and skeletons. All tanning work was done by contract.

Exhibition collections —The present plans for the exhibition col-
lections of the department of biology relate only to zoology, a satis-
factory display of plant life presenting difficulties which have not
yet been worked out. The space allotted to zoology in the new build-
ing comprises all of the first and second stories in the west, wing,
the western section of the west range in the first story, and the entire
west range in the second story. While marked progress had been
made with the installations in nearly all branches, only about one-
half of the area indicated had been opened to the public by the close
of the year, and in this, moreover, the arrangements were still mainly
provisional in character. The delays which have occurred have been
due in part to the necessity of awaiting the construction of cases,
but much more to the slow and painstaking processes of preparation
to which a large proportion of zoological specimens must be sub-
jected to render them presentable, and as only the highest class of
workmanship has been encouraged most excellent results are being
reached.

The first story is wholly devoted to the mounted skins of mammals
and birds arranged faunally, the latter group occupying the range
and a portion of the north hall of the wing, both of which, but no
other part of this story, had been made accessible to the public.

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The American mammals, consisting principally of North American
representatives, have been assigned the large skylighted hall, the
African mammals the outer end of the wing, and the Australian and
oriental mammals the south hall, while the palearctic fauna will
share the north hall with the birds. Pending their arrangement a
few large mammals mounted separately on pedestals have been
exhibited in the rotunda.

In the south and outer halls of the second story of the west wing,
which still remain closed, the installation of the marine invertebrates,
and of the reptiles and fishes, respectively, were in progress. The
reptile casts brought from the older building had been placed in
cases, but the addition of a number of alcoholic specimens had yet
to be made. The extensive series of casts of fishes begun many
years ago, which will also continue to be used, were being renovated
and repainted preparatory to their installation in large wall cases
in a much more effective manner than before. <As the older exhibit
of marine invertebrates contained little that could well be utilized,
a practically new collection is being organized, and it will be pre-
sented in a manner not hitherto attempted here except experimentally.
Rectangular jars with polished fronts will be employed for the alco-
holic specimens, and such as require to be fastened will be attached
to glass plates.

In the remaining parts of the second floor, to which the public had
been given access, the disposition of the collections was about as
follows: The north hall of the west wing was devoted to the subjects
of anatomy and the development of the various classes of animals,
illustrated by models and by the extensive series of skeletons. ‘The
western section of the west range contained the systematic series of
animals, which is as yet in only a formative stage and will be added
to as material can be selected or obtained and prepared. In the
northern section of this range are the exhibit of domestic animals and
the faunal exhibit for the District of Columbia, while in several
alcoves the special subjects of albinism, melanism, and hybridism are
represented.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY.

Accessions—The total number of specimens received by the de-
partment was 138,521, distributed among the divisions and sections
as follows: Systematic and applied geology, 1,927; mineralogy and
petrology, 1,486; invertebrate paleontology, 184,681, including about
75,000 specimens deposited by Mr. Frank Springer; vertebrate
paleontology, 299; and paleobotany, 178. The more important
accessions were as follows:

The division of geology obtained from the Lowell Lumber & As-
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feet in size, containing a network of veins of the fibrous chrysotile
or asbestos, showing to admirable advantage the mode of occurrence
of this form of the commercial article. The block, which came
from the company’s quarries at Chrysotile, was accompanied, by 8
samples of the shredded product representing the different grades.
To Mr. Gardner F. Williams, of Washington, formerly manager of
the De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines of South Africa, the
division was indebted for 16 perfect small diamond crystals, an inter-
esting specimen of diamond-bearing rock, showing the imprint left
from the extraction of a large, well-formed diamond crystal, several
specimens of rocks and minerals, and a series of photographs, which
supplement the special exhibit relating to the South African dia-
mond mines presented by Mr. Williams some years ago.

The important collection of building and ornamental stones was
increased by the acquisition of 27 examples of granite and marble in
slabs, some of which measured 32 inches square and others 224 by
264 inches. They were all generously contributed by the repre-
sentatives of the quarries from which they were taken, and are con-
spicuous features in the exhibition hall where they are displayed,
some being used as panels for exhibition bases. The varieties of
stone and the donors were as follows: Ascutney Mountain (Vt.)
green syenite, from the Norcross Brothers Co., Worcester, Mass. ; red
Westerly granite, from the New England Granite Works, Westerly,
R. L.; the so-called “ sea-green ” granite, from the Rockport Granite
Co., Rockport, Mass.; white marble of Gantts Quarry, Ala., from the
Alabama Marble Co.; and marble, from the Arizona Marble Co.,
Bowie, Ariz., and the Evans Marble Co., Knoxville, Tenn. The
Geological Survey transferred 875 hand specimens of granites and
215 specimens of marbles, representing the work done and described
by Mr. T. Nelson Dale on the New England granites and the com-
mercial marbles of western Vermont, respectively.

The addjtions to the meteorite collection comprised an 840-gram
slice of a pallasite from Ahumada, Mexico, obtained by exchange;
two pieces of a meteorite which fell in Behera Province, Egypt, the
gift of the Geological Survey of Egypt; a 6,538-gram mass of me-
teoric iron from Amalia, German Southwest Africa, presented by
Mr. Clarence S. Bement, of Philadelphia, Pa.; a portion of a mete-
oric stone found near Cullison, Kans., contributed by the head
curator; a meteoric iron found near Perryville, Mo., acquired by
purchase; and a 175-gram fragment of the Scott City, Kans., mete-
orite, donated by Mr. John T. Freed, of Scott, Kans. The Cullison
and Perryville meteorites have been made the subject of exhaustive
investigation, and in that from Perryville the rarer elements of
ruthenium, iridium, palladium, and platinum were discovered.

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The division of mineralogy and petrology received by transfer
from the Geological Survey six lots of type specimens of plumbo-
jarosite, ferritungstite, beaverite, hinsdalite, paigeite, and hulsite,
and also two type specimens of crystallized variscite from near Lucin,
Utah. A showy specimen of turquois, unique in representing the first
known occurrence of this mineral in a crystallized condition, and of
special interest as furnishing the type material for a chemical and
crystallographic investigation by Mr. W. T. Schaller, of the Geo- |
logical Survey, was received as a gift from Mr. J. H. Watkins, of
Washington. Specimens of neotantalite, tourmaline, villaumite,
grandidierite, autunite, danburite, spodumene, caesium beryl, all
interesting as representing minerals or localities new to the collec-
tion, were obtained from Mr. Schaller in exchange. The gem collec-
tion was enriched by four beautiful moss agates from near Glendive,
Mont., the gift of Dr. L. T. Chamberlain, and by a few purchases
made in Germany and England by Dr. Pogue. The latter included
a carved turquois charm, a lapis lazuli carving, a Chinese clasp set
with jade and pink tourmaline, an opal carving, a Ceylon moon-
stone, and necklaces of rose quartz, amethyst, and opal.

Collections of petrological interest were received from the Geo-
logical Survey, as follows: Eighty-four specimens illustrating the
geology and ore deposits of the Breckenridge district, Colorado, as
described by Mr. F. L. Ransome in Professional Paper No. 75; 71
rock specimens illustrating the geology of the Taylorsville district,
California, as described by Mr. J. S. Diller in Bulletin 353; and 70
specimens illustrating the rocks and ores of the Tonopah district,
Nevada, as described by Mr. J. E. Spurr in Professional Paper No. 42.

By far the most important accession of the year, and one of the
most noteworthy ever received by the department of geology, con-
sisted of the collection of fossil echinoderms assembled by and still
belonging to Mr. Frank Springer, of East Las Vegas, N. Mex., which
he has deposited in the Museum and has permitted to be made avail-
able for both study and exhibition. Comprising upward of 75,000
specimens, it contains many hundreds of types and constitutes the
most complete series of the fossils of this group in the world. The
collection has been installed for reference and study in one of the
large laboratory rooms in the new building, where Mr. Springer is
continuing his investigations. Mr. Springer also presented to the
Museum about 600 Middle Ordovician fossils from eastern Tennessee,
including many choice specimens of sponges and graptolites.

Most notable of the collections in invertebrate paleontology de-
posited by the Smithsonian Institution was a series of 126 types of
Cambrian fossils illustrating studies by Secretary Walcott on the
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only in that they include no type material were 1,020 slabs and 725
individual specimens of Middle Cambrian fossils from the Burgess
shale near Field, British Columbia, collected by Secretary Walcott.
A third deposit of considerable promise from the Institution, although
not yet worked up, comprises about 43,000 specimens of Cambrian
and Ordovician fossils from Wyoming, Colorado, New York, British
Columbia, and Manitoba, collected by Mr. L. D. Burling during the
summers of 1910 and 1911, under a grant from the Institution.
Twenty-seven type specimens of Silurian fossils from Maine and 69
specimens of fossil crustaceans from the Tertiary of the Atlantic
Coastal Plain were transferred by the Geological Survey.

An important gift from the Carnegie Institution of Washington
consists of 2,275 specimens of fossils collected by Mr. Bailey Willis
and Prof. Eliot Blackwelder in China during the expedition of
1903-44. The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale Uni-
versity presented, through Prof. Charles Schuchert, a valuable series
of Beekmantown fossils, some 2,000 in number, from Fort Hunter,
N. Y.; and as the result of field work by Dr. R. S. Bassler, curator
of the division, about 2,000 specimens of Ordovician and Mississip-
pian fossils from the Mississippi Valley were secured. Important
as representing a little-known region are collections of Tertiary
fossils received from the Isthmian Canal Commission and from Mr.
D. F. MacDonald, of Culebra, Canal Zone. They comprise between
6,000 and 7,000 specimens, and it is believed that their study will
settle some of the contested questions of Panama geology.

The section of vertebrate paleontology obtained, through exchange,
a fragmentary, though fairly complete, skeleton of the small Miocene
rhinoceros, Diceratherium, which will be mounted for exhibition.
Of exceptional scientific value, as type and figured specimens de-
scribed by Prof. E. D. Cope in 1869, are seven fragmental remains
of fossil reptiles deposited by the North Carolina Department of
Agriculture, through Mr. H. H. Brimley, curator of the State
Museum. A contribution from the Smithsonian Institution, con-
sisting of the jaws and teeth of the fossil shark /destus, is of unusual
interest on account of the perfect preservation of the specimen, which
adds greatly to our knowledge of this somewhat problematical form.
It has been described by Dr. O. P. Hay in the Proceedings of the
National Museum.

The accessions in paleobotany were mainly valuable as furnishing
material for exhibition. They include a collection of silicified wood
from the fossil forests near Adamana, Ariz., obtained by the head
curator in June, 1911; and five sections of fossil logs, fragments of
fossil wood, and a large slab showing fossil plant remains, collected
for the Museum by Mr. Guy L. Wait, of Lewistown, Mont.

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General work on the collections—The energies of the department
were mainly directed toward furthering the installation of the ex-
hibition series. In the division of systematic and applied geology
this involved the planning of new cases and fittings and, owing to
the abandonment of the geographic series, the complete overhauling
of the old collections and an entirely new arrangement. Incidental
to this work many duplicates were segregated and used in the prepa-
ration of 100 educational sets for distribution to schools and colleges.
The material was largely of an economic nature, and included both
rocks and minerals. <A considerable quantity of fragmental material
suitable for blowpipe and assay purposes was also put up in packages
for school distribution. A final separation of the technological col-
lections, formerly included with those of applied geology, was
effected, and the specimens, together with the catalogues, were trans-
ferred to the division of mineral technology.

In the exhibition hall devoted to mineralogy, which was opened
to the public on September 18, 1911, the additions consisted of eight
table cases for the gem collection and seven upright cases for the
special series of large and showy specimens, the systematic part of
the mineral collection having been installed the previous year. The
collection of rocks and rock-forming minerals was overhauled and
arranged in new cases. About 2,500 exhibition labels were prepared
and printed. The card catalogue of the minerals on exhibition, as
also that of the type specimens of minerals in the division, were
advanced nearly to completion. The study and duplicate collections
were assembled temporarily in drawers in the corridor adjoining the
laboratory.

Although two of the three exhibition halls assigned to the division
of paleontology were accessible to the public during the greater part
of the year, much additional material was introduced. Among
large special exhibits of invertebrate paleontology installed were a
Cambrian seabeach illustrating ripple marks and animal tracks;
a Cretaceous sea bottom, including a slab of Uintacrinus with asso-
ciated fossils, measuring 74 by 8 feet; examples of near-shore sedi-
mentation, such as sandstone, shale, and limestone, with included
fossils; and a large slab of Cretaceous crinoids. The stratigraphic
series of invertebrate fossils exhibited in the older Museum building
was replaced by a new and more effective series installed in a long
slope-top case extending the entire length of the north wall in the
south aisle, the older specimens being mainly transferred to the
study series. The biologic collection, formerly of limited extent,
was materially increased by the addition of a series of American
and European ammonites, of American gastropods illustrating the
evolution of the group, of pelecypods showing a few characteristic
species of each formation, of corals, of insects, and of crustaceans,

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occupying in the aggregate several cases, some of large size. Many
fine specimens of crinoids from the collection of Mr. Frank Springer
were arranged in two large upright cases, with special reference to
uUlustrating the faunas of the lower Carboniferous rocks of the
Mississippi Valley. The Harris collection was remounted and in-
stalled at the eastern end of the hall.

With respect to the reserve collections and the unworked material,
it may be said that the extensive collection of Cambrian fossils ob-
tained by Secretary Walcott in 1911 was prepared for study, and
some 75 drawers of Ordovician fossils were put in final shape for
reference. The Springer collection of fossil echinoderms, filling two
cars, which arrived during the year, was unpacked and arranged in
cases by the curator of the division, aided by several assistants. This
work required about three months’ time, and the collection quite fully
occupies the large double laboratory which has been allotted for its
storage and study. Seventy-one boxes of unclassified material were
withdrawn from storage, where they had been for some time, and the
specimens were prepared and placed in the study series. The large
collection of early Paleozoic bryozoa from Russia and Sweden, on
which Museum Bulletin No. 77 was based, was conveniently ar-
ranged. The Tertiary collections were gone over and cleaned, the
drawers in the upright cases containing them were labeled, and the
material made readily accessible. A large number of Tertiary fossils
from the coastal plain region were also labeled.

In the section of vertebrate paleontology the work related mainly
to the preparation of specimens for exhibition, which, so far as they
were completed, are referred to in another connection. Mr. Gilmore,
with the assistance of the preparators, spent a large part of the year
in assembling and preparing the Stegosaurus material contained in
the Marsh collection. This work can not be finished for some time,
but is expected to result in two exceptionally fine mounts of this
remarkable reptile. Of the unworked material in the section, filling
several hundred boxes and trays, a very large number of mammalian
and reptilian bones were freed from the matrix and listed and num-
bered.

The entire exhibit of paleobotany, the last of the paleontological
series, was removed from the older to the new building early in the
year, and its reinstallation in the north aisle of the east wing was
proceeded with as rapidly as possible.” The collection was over-
hauled, cleaned, and remounted, and the increased space allotted to
the subject made it possible to introduce many valuable specimens
which had been in storage. Among the conspicuous additions were
a number of sections of silicified logs, a Devonian fossil tree, and
several large and showy Carboniferous plants. ‘The material forming
the basis of Dr. Arthur Hollick’s study of the Cretaceous flora of

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southern New York and New England, received from the Geological
Survey and containing over 200 type and figured specimens, was
numbered and catalogued. The entire reserve collection of fossil
plants, which fills several thousand drawers of standard size, was in-
spected and, in large part, rearranged in the new quarters. Consid-
erable progress was also made in bringing the card catalogue of the
section up to date and in reducing the size of specimens by cutting
away as much of the matrix as possible.

Exhibition collections —The installations in the exhibition halls of
the department of geology were sufficiently advanced to permit the
last of them to be opened to the public by the latter part of December,
1911, although their final arrangement had by no means been com-
pleted by that time. The work continued actively during the re-
mainder of the year, and much still remains to be done in the prepa-
ration and adjustment of individual specimens and in labeling. The
status of the exhibits is briefly as follows:

Systematic geology occupies the eastern section of the east range
on the first floor, in which the collections are mainly grouped to
illustrate severally the materials of the earth’s crust (elements, rock-
forming minerals, and rocks) ; rock weathering; glacial phenomena;
concretions, faults, and other structural forms; calcareous and sili-
ceous sinter; volcanoes and volcanic phenomena; cave phenomena
and other illustrations of cold water depositions; deep-sea dredgings
and minor geological phenomena; meteorites; problematic chalce-
donic deposits; various phases of the phenomenon of the Meteor
Crater in Arizona; and selected and striking forms of cave deposits.
Individual exhibits comprise a siliceous geyser cone; an actual sec-
tion of Marengo Cave, Ind.; a large stalactite and stalagmite in
natural position; and large examples of potholes, meteorites, con-
cretions, basaltic columns, and glaciated phases. The hall also
contains 10 relief maps.

The exhibits in applied geology, which are located on the north
side of the east wing on the second floor, comprise ores and non-
metallic minerals of economic value, displayed in 30 cases, and the
extensive collection of building stones in 18 cases, besides which
there are 13 rectangular pedestals with ornamental stone panels and
tops, and several all-glass cases for large ore and other economic
materials. Wall surfaces have also been used for the installation of
some of the large samples of stone.

The mineral exhibition, installed on the opposite side of the east
wing from applied geology, consists of a systematic series in 14 cases,
many large and showy minerals out of classification in 9 cases and
the gem collection in 8 flat-top cases, besides a collection of elements
and a large cluster of amethystine quartz in 2 small special cases.

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The paleontological collections occupy the entire first floor of the
east wing, of which the large central hall is assigned to vertebrates,
the south aisle to invertebrates, and the north aisle to plants. In
the last report some account was given of the preparations of fossil
vertebrates which had then been completed or renovated, including,
among others, examples of the zeuglodon (Basilosaurus cetordes),
Ceratosaurus nasicornis, Camptosaurus brownt and nanus, a Claio-
saurus, Triceratops prorsus, Trachodon annectens, an oreodon (Jfery-
coidodon gracilis), the large mastodon, and the Irish elk. The addi-
{ions to the hall during last year comprised a skeleton of the short-
limbed rhinoceros, Zeleoceras fossiger; remounts from the older
collection of the cave bear, the toothed diving bird, Hesperornis
regalis, and the cast of Pariasaurus; 65 specimens of mammal and
fish remains; a series of limb bones and skulls illustrating the evolu-
tion of the horse; a number of ceratopsian and trachydon remains;
examples of the more important groups of fossil batrachians, rep-
tiles, and birds; and 20 specimens illustrating the various stages of
growth of the common fossil land tortoise, Stylemys nebrascensis.

The general and principal installations in invertebrate paleon-
tology comprise a series of specimens illustrating the general condi-
tions of sedimentation and fossilization in 1 case; a stratigraphic
series of specimens occupying an adapted form of American case
which extends uninterruptedly along the entire north wall of the
hall and is accompanied by a continuous geological section across
the North American continent on a scale of 2 miles to the inch; a
biological series of fossils in 18 cases distributed through the middle
and south parts of the hall; and the I. H. Harris collection of Cin-
cinnatian fossils in 2 cases. Among special features are examples
of ripple marks and animal tracks from a Cambrian seabeach; a
slab of Uintacrinus with associated fossils, another of Cretaceous
crinoids, and a third illustrating near-shore sedimentation. The
Springer collection of crinoids has been extensively drawn upon for
the exhibits of this section.

The hall devoted to paleobotany was in a much less advanced con-
dition than the others, but contained an extensive series of fossil
plants so arranged in stratigraphic sequence as to represent the im-
portant plant-bearing horizons, besides a number of large mounted
specimens on bases and wall panels. The south wall is used for en-
larged drawings and specimens illustrative of special features.

Speaking of the general arrangement of the exhibition halls, the
head curator explains that every effort has been made to provide an
open installation, giving the impression of roominess and broad
passages. In carrying out this idea, the higher cases have, wherever
possible, been placed along the walls and at right angles to the chief
sources of light, and the lower cases toward the center of the halls.

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In many instances, moreover, sufficiently wide spaces have been left
between the high cases to permit the introduction of large individual
objects on special bases. By this plan the visitor is enabled to compre-
hend the entire layout of any hall almost at a glance, and in passing
down the main aisle to see all of the material in each case, but, of
course, this arrangement has not everywhere been practicable. While
the space occupied by the department is considerably greater than in
the older building, yet the number of specimens displayed is rela-
tively much less, which is an advantage to the public. Another im-
provement affecting the appearance of the halls has been the general
avoidance of the use of diaphragms in the cases, and where their
introduction in the higher cases has been necessary .they have been
carried only to the height of the upper shelf and have been stopped
some 15 inches from the ends, thus doing away with the unsightly
vertical bars and shelf ends so conspicuous under the older method
and permitting the installation to be carried around the ends of the
cases. By placing the general case labels inside the cases instead of
in frames on the outside, a still further improvement in the effect of
the installation is considered to have been made.

Researches.—Owing to the amount of routine work in connection
with the overhauling and arrangement of the collections the scientific
staff of the department had little opportunity for conducting original
researches. ‘The head curator, Dr. George P. Merrill, continued his
investigations relative to the occurrence of the rarer elements in
meteorites under a grant from the National Academy of Sciences.
He published one short paper on a stony meteorite from Scott County,
Kans., and made ready for printing two other papers on meteorites
from Missouri and Kansas. Dr. J. E. Pogue, assistant curator of
mineralogy and petrology, made a crystallographic study of quartz
from Alexander County, N. C., and reports the practical completion
of his treatise on turquois, on which he has been engaged during the
past two years.

Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Institution, completed
and published studies on Middle Cambrian annelids and crustaceans,
on the Cambro-Ordovician boundary in British Columbia with de-
scription of fossils, and on the Sardinian Cambrian genus Olenopsis
in America. He also finished a monograph of the Cambrian Bra-
chiopoda, and continued work on the Upper Cambrian (Saratogan)
fauna of New York, the Cambrian fossils of China, and the trilobite
genus Dicellocephalus.

Dr. R. S. Bassler, curator of paleontology, prepared the chapters
on Ostracoda, Phyllopoda, Bryozoa, and other groups for the new
English edition of Zittel’s Textbook of Paleontology, and completed
a study of the Devonian Ostracoda and Bryozoa of Maryland. He

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also entered into arrangements to describe the Ostracoda and Bryozoa
for two monographs of the Geological Survey, one on the paleontol-
ogy of the Atlantic coastal plain, the other on the geology and pale-
ontology of the Panama Canal Zone. Dr. William H. Dall, associate
curator, reports progress on a monograph of the fossils of the Silex
beds of the Oligocene of Florida. Mr. L. D. Burling, assistant
curator, was mainly occupied in editing and indexing Secretary Wal-
cott’s monograph on the Brachiopoda, but also continued work on a
bibliography of the Cambrian and Ordovician geology and paleon-
tology of the Cordilleran region, the Ordovician fauna of Colorado,
and the Cambrian Brachiopoda represented in the Museum collec-
tions, and on a preliminary manuscript for a report on the Ordovician
section near Glenogle, British Columbia.

Mr. C. W. Gilmore, assistant curator of fossil reptiles, published
on the two skeletons of Camptosaurus, recently mounted under his
direction for the Museum, and a paper descriptive of a new genus
and species of Mosasaur from the Cretaceous of Alabama. He also
finished a report on the fossil batrachian, reptilian, and avian re-
mains of North Carolina, had in preparation an account of a new
fossil gavial from Georgia, and made some progress with his study
of the dinosaurian genera Ceratosaurus and Stegosaurus. Mr. J. W.
Gidley, assistant curator of fossil mammals, brought nearly to com-
pletion three papers on mammalian material under his charge. Dr.
A. ©. Peale, aid in paleobotany, submitted for publication an im-
portant paper on the stratigraphic position and age of the Judith
River formation, based on field work and collections made during the
summer of 1911.

In response to requests from outside sources, 451 lots of geological
specimens were examined and identified, and reports furnished on
their character and value.

Explorations —No field work in geology was undertaken directly
by the Museum. The Middle Cambrian rocks of western Canada
were again the subject of investigation by Secretary Walcott, who
visited the practically unexplored Mount Robson region of Alberta
and the famous fossil’ locality at Burgess Pass, British Columbia.
Under a grant from the Smithsonian Institution, Mr. L. D. Burling
continued explorations in British Columbia, Manitoba, and New
York, returning with large collections of Cambrian and Ordovician
fossils. A study of the Judith River formation in Montana, result-
ing in the collection of many Cretaceous fossils, was made by Dr.
A. CG. Peale at his own expense, aided by a small allowance from the
Museum. While at Burlington, Towa, in the summer of 1911, super-
intending the packing of the Springer collection, Dr. R. S. Bassler
made several collecting trips in that vicinity.

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DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS.

Of duplicate specimens labeled and systematically arranged in sets
_ for teaching purposes two series were available during the year, one
consisting of minerals and ores, the other of fossil invertebrate ani-
mals. The distribution to schools and colleges comprised 72 sets of
the former and 24 sets of the latter, aggregating 7,374 specimens. In
addition, some 2,132 duplicate specimens of animals, plants, rocks,
minerals, and fossils were supplied in response to special requests
for material for educational use or for research. The distribution
of duplicates on account of exchanges amounted to 16,009 specimens,
of which 114 were anthropological, 13,818 biological, and 2,077 geo-
logical. Specialists in this ‘country and abroad received for exami-
nation and study, either on behalf of the Museum or in their own
interests, 10,288 animals and plants and 1,252 geological specimens, a
tetal of 11,540 specimens.

Among establishments in other countries with which exchange re-
lations were had during the year were the British Museum of Natural
History and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, England;
the K6nigl. Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, the Kénigl. Botanischer
Garten, Dahlem, Steglitz bei Berlin, and the Zoologische Sammlung
des Bayerischen Staates, Munich, Germany; the Jardin Botanique
de l’Etat, Brussels, Belgium; the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmu-
seum, Vienna, Austria; the Universitetets Zoologiske Museum, Co-
penhagen. Denmark; the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseum, Stockholm,
Sweden; the Indian Museum and the Royal Botanic Garden, Cal-
eutta, India; the Department of Agriculture of the Union of South
Africa, Pretoria, Transvaal; the Federated Malay States Museums,
Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States; the Western Australian
Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, Western Australia; and the Pro-
vincial Museum, Toronto, Canada.

Exchanges were also conducted with the following individuals
abroad: Mr. John Watson, Cambridge, Dr. Malcolm Burr, Dover,
Miss Madeline Munro, London, and Mr. Arthur Earland, Watford,
England; Dr. J. H. Ashworth, Edinburgh, Scotland; Prof. David
Paul von Hansemann, Berlin, Mr. J. D. Alfken, Bremen, Dr.
EK. Enslin, Fiirth, and Dr. E. Rosenstock, Gotha, Germany; Dr.
J. Perner, Prague, Bohemia; Mr. J. P. Kryger, Gjentofte, Denmark;
Mr. G. Van Roon, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Prof. Luigi Buscalioni,
Catania, and Mr. Alwin Berger, Ventimiglia, Italy; Prof. Sokichi
Ko, Fukuoka, Japan; Mr. Frank M. Littler, Launceston, and Mr.
J. E. Philp, Lindisfarne, Tasmania; Mr. A. J. Shearsby, Yass, New
South Wales, Australia; and Prof José Arechavaleta, Montevideo,
Uruguay.

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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART.

A notable event in the brief history of the Gallery was the exhibi-
tion in one of the great halls of the new building during the spring
of 1912 of a selection of objects from the collection of American and
oriental art presented to the Nation in 1906 by Mr. Charles L. Freer,
of Detroit, Mich., but which, under the conditions of the gift, is to
remain in the custody of the donor during his hfe. Assembled,
as Mr. Freer states, for the purpose of uniting “ modern work with
masterpieces of certain periods of high civilization harmonious in
spiritual and physical suggestion, having the power to broaden
esthetic culture and the grace to elevate the human mind,” yet to the
student of research it has a greatly added value in possessing much
old and rare material, especially from China, in respect to which
country at least the collection is unrivaled. The following estimate
of Mr. Freer’s labors and of the importance of his collection is by
Dr. Berthold Laufer, the distinguished oriental scholar:

“ There are at the present time two living men at least whose minds
are wide-awake to the world-historical importance of oriental art in
its bearing on our cultural development and in its immense fruitful-
ness of our own art life—Dr. Bode, who is planning to found an
Asiatic museum in Berlin, and Mr. Charles L. Freer, who has made
the American people heirs to the finest existing collection of Chinese
art. It is a collection broad and universal in scope, but at the same
time one of harmony and unity of thought, the same leading motive
and personal spirit pervading the magnificent specimens of Egyp-
tian, Mesopotamian, Persian, and far eastern pottery, ancient Egyp-
tian colored glass, Persian and Hindu miniature paintings, and the
painting, bronze, and sculpture of China and Japan. And the genius
of Whistler, a reincarnation of one of the ancient masters of the East,
soars above these emanations of the oriental world as the spiritual
link connecting the Orient and the Occident.

“Mr. Freer occupies an exceptional place among collectors. He
has never been accumulative, but rather selective in his methods;
with a sincere appreciation of all manifestations of art and deliberate
judgment, he has himself visited the East many times, and in full
sympathy with oriental peoples, imbibed a profound understanding of
their artistic sentiments and aspirations. Mr. Freer is the only great
collector in our country who has sought and seized opportunities
in China. He was privileged to enter the sanctum of many Chinese
collectors and connoisseurs of high standing, and he was fortunate
in securing masterpieces of the most indisputable artistic value. It
is in the American national collection that for the first time our eyes
are opened to the choicest specimens of ancient Chinese painting,
and the Nation has every reason to look up with pride to this treasure

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house and to feel grateful to the man who has become a national
benefactor by bringing within the reach of all the message of the
great teachings of eastern art. In their works of the brush the
Chinese have inculcated their finest feelings, and no better means
could be found for an appreciation of the true spirit of China than
a study of her ancient masters. The American national collection
now takes the lead in Chinese art and will form the basis for im-
portant research work to be carried on in this line. Whatever the
future results of such research may be, whether the evidence in favor
of the authenticity of individual pieces will be strengthened or to a
certain extent modified, this will not detract from the intrinsic
value of these precious documents, greater than which no other period
in the history of art can boast. The grand old masters of the T‘ang
and Sung periods are restored to life before our eyes, and speak to
us their suave language of murmuring brooks, splashing cascades,
glistening lakes, and rustling firs and pines. China thus is more
awake for us than ever before, and she is awakened to full life in
the displays of the National Gallery. May the timely event of a
temporary exhibition of selected art works from this unique col-
lection signal ‘The awakening of China’ among our countrymen
and give a new stimulus to our artists and art students.”

The original donation comprised about 2,250 objects, but through
subsequent additions, consisting of materials more recently acquired
and mainly obtained in the course of Mr. Freer’s later travels in the
Orient, the number has been nearly doubled. Included in the gift
is also a sum of money sufficient for the erection of an appropriate
and durable building in which the collection will be housed by itself,
and in which, besides the necessary exhibition halls and storage
rooms, will be ample accommodations for the use of students. The
retention of the collection at Mr. Freer’s home has not prevented the
examination of its treasures by those deserving of this privilege, and
as many of the paintings and other objects have been shown at im-
portant exhibtions the world at large has had opportunity to learn
of the variety and value of its contents.

The temporary exhibition at Washington was rendered possible
through the generosity of Mr. Freer in meeting the expenses of trans-
portation, and although not held under the most favorable conditions
as to space and lighting its success was more than gratifying. The
selection for the purpose, consisting of 175 objects, was made with
reference to illustrating the various branches of the collection, and
comprised both American and oriental paintings, and oriental pot-
tery, bronzes, sculpture, glass, and illuminations. The installation
occupied the large western hall of the new Museum building designed
for displaying large mammals, which measures about 167 feet long by

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50 feet wide and receives its illumination through a ceiling light some
54 feet above the floor. Frink reflectors with electric lamps were
also provisionally introduced for night use. The side walls and one
at the end of the room were utilized for the paintings, except the
scrolls and albums, which, together with most other classes of objects,
were arranged in floor cases specially planned and constructed for the
purpose. The exhibition opened with a special view on the evening
of April 15, at which there was a large attendance, and continued
until June 16. A catalogue of the collection, containing biographical
sketches of the painters represented, was issued for gratuitous distri-
bution in the form of a Museum bulletin.
Following is a list of the objects exhibited :

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AMERICAN PAINTINGS.

James McNeill Whistler. The Isles of Venice (pastel) ; Harmony
in Brown and Gold—Old Chelsea Church; The Summer Sea; Blue
and Gray—Unloading; A Note in Red; An Orange Note—Sweet-
shop; Low Tide; Petite Mephiste; Purple and Gold—Phryne the
Superb, Builder of Temples; A Note in Blue and Opal—The Sun
Cloud; Green and Gold—The Great Sea; Chelsea Shops; Little
Green Cap; Wortley—Note in Green; Venus Astarte (pastel) ; Traf-
algar Square—Chelsea; Blue and Silver—Trouville; Symphony in
Gray—FEarly Morning, Thames; Rose and Red—The Little Pink
Cap (pastel); Jeune Femme, dite l’Americaine—Arrangement in
Black and White No. 1; Portrait of F. R. Leyland; Nocturne, Blue
and Silver—Bognor; Nocturne, Blue and Gold—Valparaiso; Noc-
turne, Blue and Silver—Battersea Reach.

Thomas W. Dewing. Yellow Tulips; The Piano; A Lady Play-
ing the Violoncello; Pastel No. 20; Pastel No. 6.

Dwight W. Tryon. Autumn Day; The Sea—Evening; Autumn—
Morning; Early Night (pastel) ; The Sea—Moonlight (pastel).

Abbott H. Thayer. Monadnock in Winter; Diana; Capri.

Winslow Homer. Waterfall in the Adirondacks (water color).

JAPANESE PAINTINGS.

Yeitoku Kano (1548-1590). Trees in snow.

Honnami Koyetsu (1556-1637). Bamboo; Rabbits and grasses;
Stork; Birds and waves; Flowers.

Tawaraya Sotatsu (flourished 1624-1643). Waves and island;
Waves and islands; Poppies.

Ogata Korin (1640-1716). Garden scene.

Ogata Kenzan (1662-1743). Flowers; Pine branch in snow.

Mori Sosen (1747-1821). Peacock.

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CHINESE PAINTINGS.
Liang dynasty.
Attributed to Chang Séng-yu. Kwan-yin.

Tang dynasty.

Pien Luan. Eagle on rock.

Yen Li-pén. Flowers; Figures, scroll painting.

Artist unknown. School of Wu Tao-tzt. Kwan-yin.

After design by Wu Tao-tzt. Portrait of Chao-lieh, Emperor
of the Shu Han dynasty. |

Ching Hao. Landscape.

Li Chao-tao. Landscape.

Li Sst-hsitin. Landscape, scroll painting.

In style of Wang Wei. Landscape, scroll painting.

Chou Fang. Portrait of Lao-tze, in album of paintings by various
artists.

Han Kan. Three leaves from an album painted by this artist.

The Five dynasties and Sung dynasty.

Hsii Hsi. Two ducks and flowers.
Sung dynasty.

Kuo Hsi. Tall cliffs and waves.

Chao Ch‘ang. Goose and flowering shrub.

Ch‘én So Wung. Dragon.

Ku-su. Peonies and bird, tapestry.

Liang K‘ai. Four figures.

Ma Yiian. Landscape, scroll painting.

Attributed to Ma Yiian. Landscape.

Yen Wén-kuei. Landscape, scroll painting.

Fan K‘uan. Landscape, scroll painting.

I Yiian-chi. Landscape, scroll painting.

Liang Ch‘ieh. Landscape, scroll painting.

Chao Ch‘ien-li. Landscape, scroll painting.

Ch‘ien Shun-chii. Painting in album of paintings by various
artists; painting from an album.

Li Lung-mien. Kwan-yin; Buddhistic, scroll painting.

Artist unknown. Seal and signature of Hsiian-ho, Emperor, A. D.
1119-1125. Monkey on rock, and water plants.

Artist unknown. Lady near pine tree.

Artist unknown. Landscape with tiger.

Artist unknown. Landscape with figure.

Artist unknown. Monkey and trainer.

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Late Sung and early Yuan dynasties.

Ch‘ien Hsiian. Landscape, scroll painting; Buddhistic, scroll
painting.
Yiian dynasty.

Wang Yiian. Flowers, scroll painting.
Wang Méng. Landscape, scroll painting.

Ming dynasty.
Lin Liang. Ho-o birds.

Dynasty not recorded.
Léng Chén-jen. Landscape, scroll painting.
BRONZES.

Seventeen pieces, all Chinese, as follows: A jar of the Shang
dynasty (1766-1122 B. C.); an arrow-vase for the game of pitchpot,
Han dynasty (255 B. C. to 221 A. D.); and 9 statuettes and 6
mirrors of the T‘ang and earlier dynasties.

SCULPTURE.

Kwan-yin and one attendant, and relief tablet, of the Northern
Wei dynasty; relief tablet of the Wei or T'ang dynasty; and Kwan-
yin, of the T’ang dynasty.

POTTERY.

Fourteen specimens of Chinese pottery, 8 of Corean, 7 of Japanese,
13 of Persian, and 10 of Mesopotamian.

ILLUMINATIONS.

Four Persian and Indo-Persian illuminations by various artists.

ANCIENT GLASS.

Seven specimens of ancient Egyptian glass.

.

Mr. William T. Evans, of New York, whose interest in the Gallery
has been so strikingly manifested from the time of his initial contri-
bution in 1907, made 10 important additions to his collection of the
works of contemporary American painters, which, at the end of the
year, numbered 137 pieces by 98 artists. One of the older paintings
was also replaced by a later and better example of the work of the

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same artist. Now occupying the greater part of the space allotted
to the Gallery in the new building, this collection forms a most
notable gift to the Nation and places the public under a debt of last-
ing gratitude to this generous and patriotic benefactor. The canvases
received from Mr. Evans during the year were as follows:

Nymph and Water Babies at Play, by William Baxter Palmer
Closson.

Ariadne, by Wyatt Eaton.

Laguna—New Mexico, by Albert Lorey Groll.

After a Storm, Amagansett, by Arthur Turnbull Hill.

The Spouting Whale, by Wiliam Morris Hunt.

Monhegan Headlands, by William S. Robinson.

Dublin Pond, New Hampshire, by Abbott Handerson Thayer.

The Cup of Death, by Elihu Vedder.

The Blockmaker, by Edgar Melville Ward.

The Knight of the Holy Grail, by Frederick J. Waugh.

Russian Tea, by Irving Ramsay Wiles.

Mr. Evans also added 34 examples to the valuable series of proofs
of American wood engravings mentioned in the report of last year.
They are by Timothy Cole, William Baxter Palmer Closson, Fred
Yuengling, and Victor Bernstrom. This collection, now containing
115 proofs and representing 16 engravers, is exhibited on several
screens placed in the pavilion at the north end of the middle hall
opposite the entrance to the gallery of paintings.

The following paintings from the Evans collection were exhibited
elsewhere during the year: May Flowers, by Mrs. Louise Cox, at the
Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and
Sculpture, held at the Art Institute of Chicago from November 14
to December 27, 1911; and The Visit of Nicodemus to Christ, by John
La Farge, The Spouting Whale, by William Morris Hunt, and High
Cliff, Coast of Maine, by Winslow Homer, at a Comparative Exhibi-
tion of Paintings of the Romantic Movement by artists of the
French, Dutch, English, and American Schools, held at the Lotos
Club, New York, during a part of January and February, 1912.

Three other contributions of valuable paintings which are of spe-
cial historical interest are described in connection with the division of
history. They comprise portraits of the early geographers, Mathias
Ringmann, Martin Waldseemuller, and Vautrin Lud, who originated
the name America; a portrait of John Ericsson, by Arvid Nyholm,
and a painting of the Combat between the Monitor and Merrimac, by
Henry Reuterdahl; and portraits of Commodores Oliver Hazard
Perry and Thomas Macdonough. <A plaster cast of the head of David
by Michelangelo was presented to the Gallery by Mr. L. Amateis, of .
Washington.

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The Gallery has been put under further obligations to Mr. W. A.
Slater for the addition of 10 fine canvases to his original loan of 15
paintings recorded in the report for last year. They are A Gray
Day, by Corot; Island of the Cupids, and Group of Dogs, by Diaz;
The Landing, and Three Oaks, by Dupré; Winter Landscape, by
Raffaélli; Female Figure, by Monticelli; The Quartet, by Gaugen-
gigl; At the Barracks, Constantinople, by A. Pasini; and Madonna
and Child, attributed to the Sienna School. The collection of Mr.
Slater fills one of the two small rooms adjoining the north entrance
to the Gallery, while the other continues to be occupied by the loan
from Mr. Ralph Cross Johnson, made in 1910 and 1911, and com-
prising 11 paintings, also by distinguished European masters. <An-
other important loan, received from Mr. H. C. Perkins, consists of
the following 10 works by British and Dutch artists, namely, Portrait
of the Countess of Clermont, by Sir Joshua Reynolds; Portrait of
the Earl of Mulgrave, by Sir Thomas Lawrence; Portrait of a Boy,
by John Hoppner; Portrait, by Sir William Beechey; Girl, by John
Opie; A Cottage Scene, by Ladbrooke; Landscape, by Meindert
Hobbema; Portrait of a Dutch Lady, by Michael Jansz Mierevelt;
Portrait of a Dutch Lady, by Jan Victoors; and Madonna and Child,
attributed to Van Dyck.

An interesting series of paintings deposited by Mrs. James Lowndes
comprises: Portrait of Mr. James Lowndes, by George B. Butler;
Portrait of Mr. Charles Lowndes; Portrait of Mrs. Charles Lowndes;
Child, by Copley; Portrait of Mrs. Oliver Woicott, wife of the Sec-
retary of the Treasury under Washington; Portrait of Mrs. George
Gibbs, by Lazarus; Portrait of Mrs. Gracie; Portrait of Cardinal
Ventivoglio, attributed to Van Dyck; Portrait of a Young Abbot,
said to be by Mignard; Portrait of N. Menager, Minister to the Con-
egress of Utrecht, by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1714; Portrait of a Youth
in Costume, attributed to Gainsborough; Portrait of George Wash-
ington, copy by Jane Stuart of the original in the Athenzeum, Bos-
ton, painted by her father, Gilbert Stuart; The Good Sister, by
Hugues Merle; Battle Scene, by Eugéne Fromentin; Landscape, by
W. T. Richards; Girl Tying up a Vine, by J. L. Hamon; and two
paintings on glass by Anna Barbara al Esch, 1731.

Other loans of paintings were as follows: From Mrs. W. Murray
Crane: Portrait of Philip TV of Spain, School of Velasquez; Venice,
by Canaletto; Canal Scene, by Guardi; and two landscapes by Rich-
ard Wilson. From Miss Silvie de Grasse Fowler: Portrait of Fran-
cois Paul de Grasse de Rouville, Admiral Comte de Grasse, by Lar-
gillitre; Portrait of Theodosius O. Fowler, by G. P. A. Healy; and
Portrait of St. Bernard Dog, Hero, by Benjamin West. From Mrs.
Steven B. Ayres: One water color, by Addison T. Millar, entitled
Autumn on Long Island, and three oil paintings, by George Traver,

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entitled Autumn, Landscape, and Litchfield Elms. From the Misses
Olivia and Ida Walter, a painting by Costantino Brumidi, entitled
The Five Senses. From the trustees of the estate of E. E. Howell,
an oil painting by Thomas Moran, entitled From Hiawatha.

Of sculptural works four pieces were received by the Gallery on
deposit. Two are reproductions from the famous heroic statue of
Abraham Lincoln by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, which stands in Lin-
coln Park, Chicago, and were graciously tendered by Mrs. Saint-
Gaudens. One is a reduced copy of the entire statue, the other a
copy of the bust, actual size, and both are in bronze. The other
pieces are a life-size bronze statue of Napoleon by Launt Thompson,
lent by Mrs. James W. Pinchot; and a plaster bust of Vittorio
Emanuele III, King of Italy, by Henry Hudson Kitson, lent by the
artist.

The general arrangement of the paintings in the Gallery remained
the same as described in the last report. An important improvement
in the equipment consisted in the introduction of Frink reflectors,
with electric lamps, throughout all of the rooms and corridors,
so as to permit of night opening, advantage of which was first taken
at the function given by the American Institute of Architects on the
evening of December 13, 1911. The reflectors aggregate in total
length about 750 feet, and the lamps are spaced about | foot apart.
The latter are of 25-watt tungsten, with the exception of about 100
lamps of 40 and 60 watt, required in some connections. The best
illuminating effects were found to be secured by placing the lamps
approximately 5 feet from the screens and 12 feet 6 inches above the
floor, but in the narrow corridors it was necessary to reduce the dis-
tance from the screens to 3 feet 8 inches.

ART TEXTILES.

Interest in the collection of art textiles, under the patronage and
direction of Mrs. James W. Pinchot, continued unabated, and many
additions were received. The laces have now become sufliciently well
represented to permit the arrangement of a synoptical series, in
which all of the varieties are shown, and a special exhibit constitut-
ing a résumé of the history of lace making was also installed, the
latter consisting solely of specimens belonging to the Museum. In
this work Mrs. Pinchot had the active assistance of Miss Frances
Morris, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and of Mrs.
S. I’. Emmons and other ladies of Washington.

The acquisitions during the year numbered 68 examples of differ-
ent kinds of handiwork, comprised in 22 accessions, of which 16 were
loans and 6 were gifts. The collection in its entirety was thereby
increased to over 1,050 specimens. The gifts included two pieces of

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lace formerly belonging to Mrs. Richard Rush, wife of one of the
first regents of the Smithsonian Institution, received from Mrs. John
Biddle Porter; six pieces of lace from Mrs. Julian James; an excel-
lent example of Danish needlework from Miss Carrie Harrison; and
four samplers and beaded bags from the Misses Henry.

The more important loans of laces comprised examples of point
d’Alencon, Valenciennes, Binche, Dutch Pottenkant, point de Niege,
Duchesse, old point de France, and other varieties, from Miss Emily
Tuckerman; examples of Chantilly, Honiton, and Flemish laces, from
Mrs. John Biddle Porter; a remarkable cape of Italian lace, orig-
inally worn by a Roman cardinal and forming part of the costume
of Charlotte Cushman in her impersonation of Cardinal Wolsey,
from Mrs. Allerton S. Cushman; a cap of Devonshire sprigged lace,
from Miss Julia H. Chadwick; a piece of Spanish blonde lace, from
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins; and five examples of early embroidery,
filet and point lace, from Mrs. Pinchot.

Of fabrics worked by the loom and needle, Mrs. Julian James
deposited several examples, including Spanish, Italian, French, Rho-
dian, and Bulgarian brocades; Mrs. Wolcott Tuckerman, a number of
embroideries and brocades; Miss Sydney Price, a Swedish sampler
dated 1657 and brought at an early period to Wilmington, Del.; Mrs.
Thomas F. Richardson, a piece of Italian embroidery; and Mr.
George Oakley Totten, jr., a Geordez rug.

For exhibition in the hall with the textiles two elaborately carved
ivories, one a large oval dish overlaid and set with medallions of
classical subjects, the other a great crosier, were lent by Mr. and Mrs.
Christian D. Hemmick; a Chinese filigree fan and a French fan in
peau-de-cygne were deposited by Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards; and a
Chinese carved ivory cardcase was lent by Miss Helen Munroe.

On the afternoon of March 25, 1912, a private view of the collec-
tion, with the object of promoting its interests, was given in the name
of Mrs. Pinchot and was largely attended.

MISCELLANEOUS.
VISITORS.

The total number of visitors admitted to the new Museum build-
ing during the year was 281,887, a daily average of 800; to the
older Museum building, 172,182, a daily average of 550; and to
the Smithsonian building, 148,134, a daily average of 457. On
October 8, 1911, the opening of the Museum to the public on Sundays
was inaugurated as a fixed custom, admission for the present being
limited to the new building and to the hours from 1.80 to 4.30
o’clock in the afternoon. The attendance on the first day reached

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the exceptional figure of 15,467, and, while subsequently it was never
nearly so large, the daily average for the 39 Sundays until the close
of the year amounted to 1,666 as against a week-day average for the
new building of 693, showing that the innovation was fully justified.
The following tables show, respectively, the attendance of visitors
during each month of the past year, and for each year since 1881,
when the older Museum building was first opened to the public:

Number of visitors during the year ending June 30, 1912.

Older New Smithso-
Year and month. | Museum | Museum nian
Building.| Building.} Building.
1911

DULY eo accseas sees. a 17, 159 12,531 13,316
ATIgUSt.2 2225 22----|| (24,025 18, 825 20, 008
September. ......-.- 21, 448 18, 263 17,398
Mctober: so. eee eee 14,7 46, 228 11,855
November.....-...-. 8, 463 24,211 7,076
Wecembere.----- 25: 10, 238 24,749 8, 867

Year and month.

1912.

Older New Smithso-
Museum | Museum nian
Building.| Building.| Building.

7,210} 16,372 5,761
9,290| 19,844 7, 688
9,964 | 23,274 8, 333
20,011] 33,136 17, 606
13,733 | 22,138 11, 425
15,853 | 22,316 13, 801
172,182 | 281,887 | 143, 134

Number of visitors to the Museum and Smithsonian Buildings since 1881,

Older New Smithso- Older New | Smithso-
Year. Museum |} Museum nian Year. Museum } Museum nian
Building.| Building.| Building. Building.| Building.) Building.
IGE Pe ee 150000), |Feaeee ee 100,000 |} 1897-98............. Lit 254) Ae ae 99, 273
ERS esis 22 5 tao, LOT 466 | 2aesee oe 152, 744 || 1898-99............. LOD ATM |e oo steerer 116, 912
S83 nro 2sh ne ae als oy. 2O2 ISS eee oar 104, 823 |} 1899-1900........... 225,440 |... 32-5-54 133, 147
Iss4i(halfiyear)a-.2-|) sO7, GOL e222... AB 560i) (ek G00—leseaa secre so oan 216. SoOileamene cies 151, 563
1884-85 (fiscal year).} 205,026 }.......... 1055993: }F1901=20oeecss 2522 LIBSS88 ian. eee 144,107
ASRS—BG SS sa cae cce 8 BW 2A Reeser S85 960 t902-35 7. aa8 soca. ee ne BIB a0 se ontace 2 oe 181, 174
ESS6-B7 2253s. 5222. 2163 5628|2eees cee 98, 552 || 1903-4.............- y PAVE Wksil aaceepeee 143, 988
SST —88 oe oe cca a oe 2498665) [202 5-655 1025863" ||) 19048—5 25 5202 oo2 an Zon; 92 ba eangsetas- 149, 380
1888-89............- BYE ee i eer be 149, 618 || 1905-6.............. ZLOS S86) Sikhs mcicleet 149, 661
AS8O-O0 PE ease nero DA B2aW ees sacs es 120, 894 || 1906-7.............. PALER TY fall oS aeecagae 153, 591
1890=91S te 2 esos = 286; 426i bes -ecenen ATU G69) 90 7=S22 1-22 woe 2995659) [eee ene 2 237, 182
SON ODE se erejen cee PA SDA Here tee ee ALA SUT MAGOS=Olse, oc cclie cs oe PSN BY fl A Phe tae 198, 054
TaN Ee ee 3195030) | ance L7A1RR E101 OF Ce eee te = 228,804 | 50,403] 179,163
893-04 Sete Ss 2 < 195 S748) oe aan eee LOS; 91 OUP ISLO“ Meee ee sane occas 207,010 151, 112 167, 085
1894-95-22 5... Booey At CURT ees aa 105;:658:|| 1911-12... so. eee ce 5 172,182 | 281,887 148, 1384
IS95 96. sso e. ce SO 35050 Saepeeeee 103, 650 P
1896-97........ lE\ 990) 606 |! 115,709 ‘Rotalieace sas. 7,127,183 | 483,402 | 4,247, Wel
PUBLICATIONS.

The publications of the year consisted of 7 completed volumes and
59 papers printed separately, all of which related to the collections

and activities of the Museum.

The volumes comprised the Annual

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Report for 1911, volumes 39, 40, and 41 of the Proceedings, partly
printed the previous year, and 3 Bulletins, as follows: No. 50, Part V,
“ The Birds of North and Middle America,” by Robert Ridgway, con-
taining 859 pages of text and 33 plates, and descriptive of the tap-
aculos, antbirds, ovenbirds, woodhewers, humming birds, swifts, and
trogons; No. 77, “ The Early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Prov-
inces,” by Ray S. Bassler; and No. 78, “ Catalogue of a Selection of
Art Objects from the Freer Collection exhibited in the new building
of the National Museum April 15 to June 15, 1912.” Of the papers
issued in separate form in a small edition for special and early dis-
tribution, the titles of which will be found in the list of publica-
tions at the end of this report, 26 belonged to volume 41 and 27 to
volume 42 of the Proceedings, and 5 to volumes 13, 14, and 16 of the
Contributions from the United States National Herbarium, while 1
was a revision of Part N of Bulletin No. 39, entitled “ Directions
for Preparing Specimens of Mammals,” by Gerrit S. Miller, jr. The
total number of copies of Museum publications sent out during the
year was about 67,000.

In addition to the above, 31 papers bearing upon the collections of
the Museum were published in the Miscellaneous Collections of the
Smithsonian Institution, volumes 56, 57, and 59. Four by Dr.
Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Institution, on Cambrian geol-
ogy and paleontology, were entitled, “ Middle Cambrian Annelids,”
“Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda, Malacostraca, Trilobita, and
Merostomata,” “ Cambro-Ordovician boundary in British Columbia,
with description of fossils,’ and “ The Sardinian Cambrian genus
Olenopsis in America.” The others were as follows: “A new sub-
species of ptarmigan from the Aleutian Islands” and “ Notes on
birds observed during a brief visit to the Aleutian Islands and
Bering Sea in 1911,” by A. C. Bent; “ Descriptions of new genera
and species of Microlepidoptera from Panama,” by August Busck;
“On Psomiocarpa, a neglected genus of ferns,” by Dr. H. Christ;
“ New species of fossil shells from Panama and Costa Rica collected
by D. F. MacDonald,” and “ Report on landshells collected in Peru in
1911 by the Yale Expedition under Professor Hiram Bingham, with
descriptions of a new subgenus, a new species, and new varieties,”
by William Healey Dall; “A new kingfisher from Panama” and
“ Descriptions of twelve new species and subspecies of mammals from
Panama,” by E. A. Goldman; “ Four new mammals from the Cana-
dian Rockies,” “New mammals from Canada, Alaska, and Kam-
chatka,” and “ Description of a new subspecies of monkey from Brit-
ish East Africa,” by N. Hollister; “ The natives of Kharga Oasis,
Egypt,” by AleS Hrdlitka; “A remarkable new fern from Panama”
and “ Three new club-mosses from Panama,” by William R. Maxon;
“ Descriptions of seven new African grass-warblers of the genus Cis-

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ticola ” and “ Description of a new species of sunbird, Helionympha
raineyi, from British East Africa,” by Edgar A. Mearns; “ The
names of the large wolves of northern and western North America,”
by Gerrit S. Miller, jr.; ‘‘ Description of a new genus and species of
hummingbird from Panama,” “'Two new subspecies of birds from
Panama,” and “ Descriptions of two new species of nun birds from
Panama,” by E. W. Nelson; “New decapod crustaceans from
Panama,” by Mary J. Rathbun; “ Sawflies from Panama, with de-
scriptions of new genera and species,” by S. A. Rohwer; “ Three new
plants from Alberta” and “ A new leather flower from Illinois,”
by Paul C. Standley; ‘“ The genera of fossil whalebone whales allied
to Balenoptera,” by Frederick W. True; “ New genus and species
of Hymenoptera of the family Braconide from Panama,” by H.
L. Viereck; ‘“‘ Observations on the habits of the crustacean Emerita
analoga,” by Frank Walter Weymouth and Charles Howard Rich-
ardson, jr.

The editorial office has charge of the printing cf all miscellaneous
matters as well as of publications, and among these at present labels
form an especially prominent item, owing to the exceptional demand
on account of the installation of the exhibition collections in the new
building.

LIBRARY.

The arrangements which are in progress in the new building for
that part of the Museum library relating to anthropology, biology,
and geology will, it is expected, be completed in time to permit of
its transfer early in the autumn of 1912. The rooms assigned to
this purpose are located in the ground story of the east range and
furnish an aggregate of nearly 4,000 square feet of floor space. The
fittings will be mainly of steel, and the facilities will accord with
those expected of the modern library. Besides the bookstacks sepa-
rate rooms will be provided for reading and reference, and for cata-
loguing and other routine business. The quarters in the older
building heretofore occupied by the library will continue to be used
for the publications bearing upon the arts and industries, the subjects
to which that building is now assigned.

The library contains 42,002 volumes and 69,670 unbound papers,
of which 1,791 volumes, 3,608 pamphlets, and 276 parts of volumes
were added during the year. The number of titles assigned to the
sectional libraries during the year was 4,560.

CONGRESSES AND MEETINGS,

The new building was used during the year for a number of meet-
ings and other functions held under the auspices of the Smithsonian
Institution or of organizations having kindred objects. Besides the

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auditorium in this building, which has a seating capacity for 565
persons, two adjacent rooms have been fitted up for small gatherings
and committee purposes, and on a few occasions several additional
rooms have been made temporarily available to meet special demands.
For receptions the foyer on the ground floor and the exhibition
floors, to the extent desirable, have been utilized. The principal
functions were as follows:

On the evening of December 13, 1911, the American Institute of
Architects, by invitation of the Regents and Secretary of the Insti-
tution, held a reception and meeting, the ethnological exhibition
halls, the National Gallery of Art, and the foyer being used for the
former and the auditorium for the latter purpose. The occasion for
the meeting was the presentation of the gold medal of the Institute
to Mr. George B. Post, of New York. Addresses were made by the
President of the United States, Ambassador Jusserand, Secretary
Walcott, the president of the Institute, and Mr. Post.

From December 27 to 30, 1911, the accommodations required by the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and affiliated
societies, then meeting in Washington, were partly furnished in the
new building, including the use of the auditorium and of five other
rooms. The organizations and sections which held sessions in this
building were the Geological Society and the Paleontological Society
of America, the section of Zoology of the Association, the Entomo-
logical Society of America and the American Association of Eco-
nomic Entomologists, the anthropological branch of Section H. of
the Association, the American Anthropological Association and the
American Folk-Lore Society. The opening and general meeting of
the Association took place in the auditorium on the evening of
December 27, the President of the United States being present and
making an address. In the same connection a number of the exhibi-
tion halls were opened for the inspection of those in attendance.

A well-attended conversazione with an exhibition and demonstra-
tion of the use of new and interesting apparatus from the United
States Government and other scientific laboratories in Washington
was held on the evening of March 28, 1912, under the auspices of
the Washington Academy of Sciences. The foyer and several com-
municating rooms were occupied, and the exhibition was continued
during the next day. Nineteen Government bureaus and other estab-
lishments were represented.

A special view of a selection of objects from the Freer Collection
of American and Oriental Art was given on the evening of April
15, 1912, as described in connection with the National Gallery of
Art.

The auditorium and adjoining committee rooms were used for the
Third Annual Convention of the American Federation of Arts,

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which held morning and afternoon sessions on May 9 and 10 and a
morning session on May 11, 1912. On the evening of May 10 a
memorial meeting was held in commemoration of the life and work
of Francis Davis Millet, late secretary of the federation, and chair-
man of the Smithsonian advisory committee on the National Gallery
of Art. Mr. Cass Gilbert, vice president of the federation, presided,
and eloquent and feeling tributes were paid by Senator Elihu Root,
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Hon. Charles Francis Adams, and Dr.
Charles D. Walcott. Many messages and testimonials from friends
and art associations were also read.

On the evening of May 9, 1912, a reception was given, by invita-
tion of the Regents and Secretary of the Institution, to meet the
foreign delegates to the Ninth International Red Cross Conference,
then in session in Washington, the main exhibition story of the build-
ing being used. Also, by invitation of the Regents and Secretary, a
reception for the visitors in Washington attending the unveiling
ceremonies of the Columbus Memorial on the plaza in front of
Union Station was tendered, on the evening of June 7, 1912, by the
citizens’ joint committee on the Columbus statue unveiling, members
of which composed the receiving party. Most of the exhibition halls
in the first and second stories were opened for the occasion.

Accommodations were furnished the Anthropological Society of
Washington for its regular meetings, which were mostly held in the
afternoon, from October until April. The annual meeting of the
National Academy of Sciences continued during the three days from
April 16 to 18, inclusive, the committee rooms being used for the
business sessions and the auditorium for the public sessions. A meet-
ing of the Women’s Research Club, of Rockville, Md., was held on
February 12, 1912, and a large room was provided for hearings by
the Board of Food and Drug Inspection of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture from July 31 to August 2, 1911.

The auditorium was used for two lectures. The first, on the sub-
ject of heterozygosis in pure lines of beans and barley, was delivered
on the evening of November 14, 1911, by Prof. W. Johannsen, of the

Jniversity of Copenhagen, Denmark, under the auspices of the
Washington Academy of Sciences and the Botanical Society of
Washington. The other, being the third lecture under the Hamilton
Fund of the Smithsonian Institution, was given on the evening of
February 8, 1912, by Dr. Simon Flexner, of the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research, who spoke upon infection and recovery from
infection. On the afternoon of February 9, Mrs. M. R. Campbell
lectured before the members of the Eistophus Science Club, of Wash-
ington, in one of the committee rooms, her subject being the Glacier
National Park.

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The Museum was represented at the Fifteenth International Con-
gress of Orientalists, held in Athens from April 7 to 14, by Dr. Paul
Uaupt, associate in historic archeology, and at the Eighteenth Inter-
national Congress of Americanists, which met in London from May
27 to June 1, by Dr. Ale’ Hrdliéka, curator of physical anthropology.

EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS FOR THE LINCOLN AND PERRY MEMORIALS.

Two special exhibitions of exceptional interest resulted from the
use of accommodations in the new building for the examination of
the competitive designs submitted for these two important memorials
by the respective commissions designated to pass upon them. The
former of these projects was authorized by an act of Congress ap-
proved February 9, 1911, providing for a commission to procure
and determine upon a location, plan, and design for a monument or
memorial in the city of Washington to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln. The competitors were Mr. Henry Bacon and Mr. John
Russell Pope, of New York, whose elaborate models and drawings
were installed in two of the large rooms opening into the foyer in the
ground story during November and December, 1911. Following their
inspection by the Commission of Fine Arts and the Lincoln Memorial
Commission, the rooms were opened to the public from December
26 until the close of the fiscal year.

The second exhibition, in which 54 competitors were represented,
was the outcome of an act of Congress approved March 3, 1911, to
promote the erection of a memorial in conjunction with a Perry’s
victory centennial celebration on Put-in-Bay Island during the year
1913 in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the
Battle of Lake Erie and the northwestern campaign of Gen. William
Henry Harrison in the War of 1812. The designs were all in the
form of drawings, which were hung on the walls and on screens in
one of the long rooms of the east range in the lower story. The in-
stallation was made on January 20, 1912, and after inspection by the
Commission of Fine Arts and the Interstate Board of Commission-
ers it was opened to the public for 10 days, beginning January 31.

ORGANIZATION AND STAFF.

Dr. James M. Flint, medical director, United States Navy (re-
tired), under whose supervision the division of medicine was organ-
ized in 1881, and who had served as its honorary curator during 25
of the 32 years of its existence, tendered his resignation during the
year. The collection, mainly assembled through the energy and
intelligent direction of Dr. Flint, has attained great importance, and
it is deeply regretted that the severance of this connection will de-

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prive the Museum of his active participation in the further develop-
ment of the division.

The title of the division of technology was, on March 1, 1912,
changed to mechanical technology, and Mr. George C. Maynard, who
for nine years has been the assistant curator in charge, was advanced
to curator. On the same date Mr. Frederick L. Lewton was ap-
pointed curator of textiles, but with duties extending to other indus-
trial subjects, and under his direction certain of the extensive col-
lections which have been in storage for many years are being opened
up and reinstalled. Mr. Talbot F. Lane, aid in the division of
physical anthropology, resigned on October 12, 1911, and was suc-
ceeded, on March 2, 1912, by Mr. Riley D. Moore. Mr. Earle W.
Huckel was appointed aid in the division of graphic arts on January
2, 1912.

Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator of the division of plants, was
furloughed for one year beginning January 31, 1912, to enable him
to give his entire time to the study of Mexican plants as a Carnegie
Institution research student, and was designated an honorary asso-
ciate in botany. His duties in the division have been assumed by Mr.
William R. Maxon, assistant curator. The designation of Mr. J. C.
Crawford, of the division of insects, was changed from assistant
curator to associate curator on December 1, 1911. Dr. D. W.
Coquillett, custodian of the diptera, died on July 8, 1911, and on
September 1, 1911, this position was filled by the appointment of Mr.
Frederick Knab, previously custodian of the Culicide. Mr. Clarence
R. Shoemaker was made probational aid in the division of marine
invertebrates on July 1, 1911. The following were designated as
temporary collaborators in zoology, namely, Mr. D. D. Streeter, for
two years, from April 1, 1912, and Mr. Copley Amory, jr., and Mr.
George Mixter, for one year each, from May 1, 1912.

The title of the division of mineralogy was changed to mineralogy
and petrology on July 1, 1911: Mr. James W. Gidley and Mr.
Charles W. Gilmore, custodians in the section of vertebrate paleon-
tology, were on July 20, 1911, promoted to the positions of assistant
curator of fossil mammals and assistant curator of fossil reptiles,
respectively.

Mr. Frank Springer, of East Las Vegas, N. Mex., to whom the
Museum is heavily indebted for extensive gifts and loans of fossils
as well as for many other courtesies, and who is proposing to carry
on his scientific investigations hereafter at the National Museum,
was designated honorary associate in paleontology on December
15, 1911.

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THE MUSEUM STAFF.
[June 30, 1912.]

CHARLES D. Watcort, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Keeper er
Officio.

.RicHarD RaTuHBuN, Assistant Secretary, in charge of the United States National
Museum.

W. pe C. RAVENEL, Administrative Assistant.

SCIENTIFIC STAFF.

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY :
William H. Holmes, Head Curator.
Division of Ethnology: Walter Hough, Curator; Neil M. Judd, Aid; J. W.
Fewkes, Collaborator; Arthur P. Rice, Collaborator.
Division of Prehistoric Archeology: William H. Holmes, Curator; E. P.
Upham, Aid; J. D. McGuire, Collaborator.
Division of Historic Archeology: I. M. Casanowicz, Assistant Curator.
Division of Physical Anthropology: AleS Hrdlitka, Curator; R. D. Moore,
Aid.
Division of Mechanical Technology: George C. Maynard, Curator.
Division of Graphic Arts: Paul Brockett, Custodian; Earle W. Huckel, Aid.
Section of Photography: T. W. Smillie, Custodian.
Division of History: A. Howard Clark, Curator; T. T. Belote, Assistant
Curator.
Associates in Historic Archeology: Paul Haupt, Cyrus Adler.
DEPARTMENT OF BIoLoGy:
Leonhard Stejneger, Head Curator; James E. Benedict, Chief of
Exhibits.
Division of Mammals: Gerrit S. Miller, jr., Curator; Ned Hollister, Assist-
ant Curator.
Division of Birds: Robert Ridgway, Curator; Charles W. Richmond, Assist-
ant Curator; J. H. Riley, Aid.
Division of Reptiles and Batrachians: Leonhard Stejneger, Curator; R. G.
Paine, Aid. ;
Division of Fishes: B. W. Evermann, Curator; Barton A. Bean, Assistant
Curator; Alfred C. Weed, Aid.

Division of Mollusks: William H. Dall, Curator: Paul Bartsch, Assistant
Curator; William B. Marshall, Aid; Mary Breen. Collaborator.
Division of Insects: L. O. Howard, Curator; J. C. Crawford, Associate

Curator; Paul R. Myers, Aid.

Section of Hymenoptera: J. C. Crawford, in charge.

Section of Myriapoda: O. F. Cook, Custodian.

Section of Diptera: Frederick Knab, Custodian.

Section of Coleoptera: E. A. Schwarz, Custodian.

Section of Lepidoptera: Harrison G. Dyar, Custodian.

Section of Orthoptera: A. N. Caudell, Custodian.

Section of Arachnida: Nathan Banks, Custodian.

Section of Hemiptera: Otto Heidemann, Custodian.

Section of Forest Tree Beetles: A. D. Hopkins, Custodian.

Division of Marine Invertebrates: Richard Rathbun, Curator; Mary J.

Rathbun, Assistant Curator; Austin H. Clark, Assistant Curator;
C. R. Shoemaker, Aid; Harriet Richardson, Collaborator.

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DEPARTMENT OF BroLocy—Continued.
Division of Marine Invertebrates—Continued.

Section of Helminthological Collections: C. W. Stiles, Custodian; B. H.
Ransom, Assistant Custodian; P. E. Garrison, United States Navy,
Assistant Custodian.

Division of Plants (National Herbariunv): Frederick V. Coville, Curator;
W. R. Maxon, Assistant Curator; P. C. Standley, Assistant Curator.

Cactacere, Crassulacere, and Miscellaneous Mexican Collections: J. N.
Rose, Custodian. —

Section of Cryptogamic Collections: O. F. Cook, Assistant Curator.

Section of Higher Alge: W. T.. Swingle, Custodian.

Section of Lower Fungi: D. G. Fairchild, Custodian.

Associates in Zoology: Theodore N. Gill, C. Hart Merriam, W. L. Abbott,
Edgar A. Mearns, United States Army (retired).
Associates in Botany: Edward L. Greene, John Donnell Smith, J. N. Rose.
Collaborators in Zoology: D. D. Streeter, Copley Amory, jr., George Mixter.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY :

George P. Merrill, Head Curator.

Division of Physical and Chemical Geology (Systematic and Applied) :
George P. Merrill, Curator; Chester G. Gilbert, Assistant Curator.

Division of Mineralogy and Petrology: F. W. Clarke, Curator; J. E. Pogue,
Assistant Curator.

Division of Paleontology: R. S. Bassler, Curator.

Section of Invertebrate Paleontology: Lancaster D. Burling, Assistant
Curator; T. W. Stanton, Custodian of Mesozoic Collection; William
H. Dall, Associate Curator of Cenozoic Collection; T. Wayland
Vaughan, Custodian of Madreporarian Corals.

Section of Vertebrate Paleontology: James W. Gidley, Assistant Cura-
tor of Fossil Mammals; Charles W. Gilmore, Assistant Curator of
Fossil Reptiles.

Section of Paleobotany: David White, Associate Curator; A. C. Peale,
Aid; F. H. Knowlton, Custodian of Mesozoic Plants.

Associate in Mineralogy: L. T. Chamberlain.
Associate in Paleontology: Frank Springer.
Associate in Paleobotany: Lester IF’. Ward.
DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL TECHNOLOGY :
Charles D. Walcott, Curator.
DIVISION OF TEXTILES:
Frederick L. Lewton, Curator.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART:
William H. Holmes, Curator.

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF.

Chief of Correspondence and Documents, R. I. Geare.
Disbursing Agent, W. I. Adams.

Superintendent of Construction and Labor, J. S. Goldsmith.
Editor, Marcus Benjamin.

Editorial Clerk, E. S. Steele.

Assistant Librarian, N. P. Scudder.

Photographer, T. W. Smillie.

Registrar, S. C. Brown.

Property Clerk, W. A. Knowles.

Engineer, C. R. Denmark.

LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING
THE FISCAL YEAR 1911-1912.

[Except when otherwise indicated, the specimens were presented, or were transferred by
bureaus of the Government in accordance with law.]

Apport, C. G., Smithsonian Institution:
25 plants and some shells collected
in Algeria (58912).

ABBOTT, Dr. WILLIAM L.: About 769
mammals, 17 bird skins, and a few
reptiles, from Kashmir (538042;
53203); skin and skull of a hedge
hog from Guernsey, Channel Islands,
and skin and skull of a mole from
Aachen, Germany (538492).

ApAMs, Mrs. Harrirr CHALMERS,
Washington, D. C.: A hat worn by
Quichua women; a cap and 3 mit-
tens obtained from the Indians of
the Andean highlands (58189).

Apers, Dr. W. M. (See under Mr.
Alexander W. Weddell.)

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF:

Bureau of Animal Industry: Liv-
ing specimen of WNolina, collected
in New Mexico by Marion Imes
(5383827) ; skin of Hquus grevyi (ass-
hybrid) from the experiment farm
at Bethesda, Md. (53812).

Bureau of Biological Survey: 2
skulls’ of birds from California
(52978) ; land shells and plants col-
lected in Panama by E. A. Goldman
(58040 ; 538982; 54134) ; 4 plants, in-
cluding a living specimen of Opuntia,
collected in Montana by C. Birdseye
(53057 ; 58146); 2 skulls of owls
from New Mexico (53069) ; skull of
an owl from Alaska (58078); 125
plants, chiefly from Alabama, col-
lected by A. H. Howell (531038;

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT oF—Contd.

538716; 53772; 538789; 54057); 4 liv-
ing specimens of Opuntia, collected in
Idaho by Vernon Bailey, and a speci-
men of Garrya from California re-
ceived through him (58179; 538526) ;
11 bird eggs, including 3 eggs of
least tern, Sterna antillarum, from
Alabama (58228; 53250); 16 bird
eggs and 2 nests from the Aleutian
Islands, received through A. C. Bent
(58254) ; 112 plants, including 4 liv-
ing specimens of Cactacez, collected
in Wyoming by Merritt Cary (58838;
534384) ; 26 plants collected in Ala-
bama by J. S. Gutsell (53372) ; 142
plants from Alaska, 18 living speci-
mens of Cactacee and some land
shells from Porto Rico, collected by
Alex. Wetmore (53486 ; 53969 ; 54057 ;
54115); land shells from Trujillo
Alto and Fajardo, P. R. (53580);
specimen of Pseudomorpha behrensii,
collected by F. E. L. Beal at Wal-
nut Creek, Cal. (53809); 19 land
shells from El Yunque, P. R. (53856) ;
17 specimens of land shells, repre-
senting 4 species, from Vieques Is-
land, P. R. (58924); a living speci-
men of cactus, Opuntia, collected in
Florida by T. S. Palmer (53982) ;
2 eggs of Catharista wurubu from
Alabama and an egg of Columba
squamosa from Porto Rico (53967) ;
2 living specimens of Opuntia, col-
lected in Alabama by E. G. Holt
(538969) ; specimens of Plewrodonte
and Planorbis from Porto Rico, col-

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AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT oF—Contd.

lected by W. W. Worthington
(54085) ; 7 bird eggs and a nest from
Porto Rico (54120); 5 bird eggs
from Porto Rico and 1 from Wis-
consin (54216); 8 bird eggs from
Alabama (54227); about 100 speci-
mens of crayfish from Muldon, Miss.
(54238). (See under Mr. N. A.
Comeau.)

Bureau of Entomology: 412 speci-
mens of Coleoptera and Hemiptera,
determined by A. L. Montandon
(52988 ; 58148 ; 538299; 58428; 53866;

54018 ; 54081 ; 54176) ; 7 parasitic Hy- }

menoptera, collected by George Com-
pere (538036) ; 14 bird skins, 2 nests,
4 bird eggs, 37 bats, 1 fish, 7 crusta-
eceans, 15 packages of insects, and 4
living plants, collected in Panama
by August Busck (53063; 53355;
53818 ; 538954 ; 53962; 54177; 54249) ;
insects collected by Mr. Busck at
Paraiso, Canal Zone (58858); 3
shrimps and a worm from Paraiso,
Canal Zone, and 2 isopods from Pan-
ama, collected by E. A. Schwarz
(58219 ; 58702) ; 6 isopods, Armadil-
lidium vulgare (58274); 28° speci-
mens of biting flies from Zanzibar,
determined by EH. H. Austen (53315) ;
2 specimens of sowbugs, Porcellio
scaber var. marginata, collected by
Mrs. Daniel Lord, Sosiégo, Law-
rence, N. Y. (533834); 17 parasitic
Hymenoptera from Isle Réunion,
Indian Ocean (538345): 5 parasitic
Hymenoptera (538421); about 100
specimens of Hemiptera collected by
J. A. Hyslop (53462); about 100
specimens of Hymenoptera, mostly
from Kansas, Utah, and California
(53541) ; earthworms, Pheretima cali-
fornica, from Costa Rica (53704) ;
about 70 parasitic Hymenoptera
(type material of 3 new species)
from the Forest Insect Investiga-
tions (58709); 25 bred parasitic
Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea (53737) ;
3 beetles from Sacaton, Ariz., rep-
resenting 1 species, and 12 from
China, representing 6 species
(538796) ; 23 beetles from Arlington,

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT oF—Contd.

Cal, and about 50 from Argentina
collected by A. H. Rosenfeld (53963) ;
2 specimens of Philotermes pennsyl-
vanicus and 2 specimens of Atinus
monilicornis, collected by S. HE.
Crumb, Clarksville, Tenn. (53998) ;
1,551 insects (54080); 15 specimens
of a hymenopteron parasitic on
fishes in France (54123). (See un-
der Mr. V. A. E. Daecke and Mrs.
Ae Paylor)

Office of Experiment Stations: 120
spiders, 7 centipedes, 4 millipedes
and 10 scorpions, a snake, Typhlops
braminus, and 38 mollusks, Veroni-
cella, from Guam (53857).

Forest Service: 3 packages of --:

plants from the western part of the
United States, collected by W. W.
Eggleston (530038).

Bureau of Plant Industry: 4
plants collected in the Dismal
Swamp, Va., by Frederick V. Coville
(52973) ; plants, bats, reptiles, fishes,
insects, crustaceans, and ethnological
objects collected in Panama by H.
Pittier (52974; 538004; 538052; 53055;
538059; 581238; 538220; 53422- 53478:
538599 ; 58682; 58646; 54145); living
specimen of Selenicereus spinulosus
from Mexico (53178); specimen of
Tillandsia recurvata from Texas
(53247); 6 packages of plants, a jar
of plants in alcohol and some land
shells (58808) ; specimen and photo-
graph of Yucca baccata from Colo-
rado (53316); living specimen of
Opuntia collected in Colorado by H.
L. Shantz (53330); 2 living speci-
mens of Acanthocereus collected in
Panama by A. S. Hitcheock; 55
plants collected by him in Alaska
and 47 in Central America (53380;
54116; 538238); 6,214 plants, mainly
grasses, collected in Panama by Mr.
Hitchcock (53860) ; fern collected in
Arizona by T. H. Kearney; also 11
plants collected by him in Arizona
and California (53359; 538238); 9
plants collected in Colorado by G. P.
Rixford (534038); 5 plants received
from V. G. Plymire, Taochow, China

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT oFr—Contd.
(58487); 4 living specimens of
Opuntia collected in California by
O. F. Cook (53553) ; 164 plants, in-
cluding specimens of cacti and ferns,
eollected in California, Arizona, and
Texas ‘by E. O. Wooton (58586;
538718 ; 587385; 538788; 53931; 54027) ;
1,827 plants collected in the western
part of the United States by W. W.
Eggleston (538586; 58770; 54155) ;
41 plants collected in Washington
State by J. B. Flett (53918); 65
plants collected in the western part
of the United States by Ivar Tide-
strom (54027) ; 32 specimens of Jun-
cus from New York (54088); 2
plants and 5 photographs of Rasou-
mofskya and Vaccinium (54086) ; 82
specimens of Juncus from New York
(54195).

DEPARTMENT OF, UNION
(See under Pre-

AGRICULTURE,
oF SourH AFRICA.
toria, Transvaal.)

AGRICULTURE AND TECHNICAL INSTRUC-
TION, DEPARTMENT OF (FISHERIES
BrancH). (See under Dublin, Ire-
land. )

ALABAMA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF, Uni-
versity, Ala.: 14 plants collected in
Alabama by R. M. Harper (53326:
exchange).

ALABAMA MARBLE Co., Gantts Quarry,
Ala.: 15 slabs of marble (58477).

ALDRICH, C. F., MARBLE & GRANITE Co.,
Colorado Springs, Colo.: A 5-ineh
cube of Salida, Colo., granite
(53875).

ALFARO, ANASTASIO, Museo Nacional,
San José, Costa Rica: 3 crustaceans
from Glen Echo, Md. (58016); in-
sects and other invertebrates
(53088) ; about 50 specimens of iso-
pods, Metoponorthus
(58232); batrachians, mollusks and
insects from Costa Rica (58778).

ALFKEN, J. D., Bremen, Germany: 580
specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera
(58722: exchange).

pruinosus '

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ALLISON, ANDREW, Southern Presby-
terian Mission, Kiangyin, China: 60
birds from China (53306: purchase).

ALLISON, ANDREW, and L. I. Morrert,
Southern Presbyterian Mission, Ki-
angyin, China: 136 birds and a mam-
mal skin from China (53307).

AMATEIS, L., Washington, D. C.: A
plaster cast of the head of David,
by Michelangelo (53836).

AMERICAN COLORTYPE Co., New York
City: A pamphlet containing color-
type reproductions (54262).

AMERICAN MUSEUM oF NATURAL HiIs-
tToRY, New York City: 18 specimens
of Orthoptera and Hymenoptera
from Lower California (53361) ;
specimen of fossil turtle, Stylemys
nebrascensis (53626: exchange).

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HIs-
TORY, and MUSEUM OF THE BROOKLYN
INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES,
Brooklyn, N. Y.: Cast of the Gan-
getic dolphin, Platanista (53763).

AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH
Co. (through the Chesapeake &
Potomac Telephone Co., Washington,
D. C.): Specimens of the telephone
cable and conduit used in the con-
struction of the underground line
between Washington and New York,
1912 (54046).

ANDERSON, J. A., Lambertville, N. J.:
Daguerreotype of a little boy
(58078).

ANDERSON, Dr. Luis, San José, Costa
Rica (through Dr. J. Walter
Fewkes) : Tripod earthenware vase
decorated in black and red designs,
with parrot head in relief (54009).

ANDREWS, A. LE Roy, Ithaca, N. Y.: 3
specimens of Sphagnum from New
Jersey (538688: exchange).

ANONYMOUS SOURCE: Shrew, Cryptotis
| parva, from South Carolina (52947).

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APPEL, W. D., Anacostia, D. C.: Sala- |
mander, Hemidactylus scutatus,
from Mount Vernon, Va. (53751).

(See under Mr. Clarence R. Shoe-
maker.)

ARCONATI-VISCONTI, Marquise, Paris,
France: An armchair which for-
merly belonged to Marquis de La-
fayette, and in which he is said to
have sat on the day of his death
(53778).

ARECHAVALETA, Prof. Jost, Director,
Museo Nacional, Montevideo, Uru-
guay: 45 ferns from Uruguay
(54074: exchange).

ARIZONA MARBLE Co., Bowie, Ariz.: 4
slabs of marble (53115).

ARMISTEAD, GEORGE, Baltimore, Md.: A
framed photograph of a painting of
Lieut. Col. George Armistead, U. 8.
Army, commandant, Fort McHenry,
War of 1812 (58447: loan).

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVER-
sity. Jamaica Plain, Mass.: 508
plants chiefly from the United States
(53658 : exchange) ; 490 plants col-
lected in China by KE. H. Wilson
(54221: purchase).

ARRAS, L. P., St. Louis, Mo.: Moths
representing the species Philtrea
elegantaria, Pyrausta oxvyddalis, and
Hesperia tessellata (58848).

ASHWORTH, Dr. J. H., University of
Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland: 4
specimens of Arenicola representing
8 species (54190: exchange).

AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. (See
Sydney, New South Wales.)

under

Ayres, Mrs. Steven B., Washington,
D. C.: Water color painting entitled
“Autumn on Long Island,” by Addi-
son T. Millar; and 38 paintings in

oil, ‘* Landscape,” “ Litchfield Elms,” |

and “Autumn,” by
(52976: loan).

Baer, JOHN L., Delta, Pa.: Quartz
blade from a cache of about 150
specimens plowed up in the valley
near Pen Mar (538509).

George Traver

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

BaiLtey, H. B., Newport News, Va.:
Small mammals from Hog Island,
Va. (538500); S specimens of Pero-
myscus leucopus and a skull of Sciu-
ropterus (58922).

BaiLEy, H. H., Newport News, Va.:
Small mammals, insects, and a
snake, from Warwick County, Va.
(538517).

Baker, Prof. C. F., Pomona College,
Claremont, Cal.: Marine shells from
Laguna Beach, Cal., collected by
Mabel Guernsey (53284) ; 100 moths
(58523 : exchange).

BAKER, CHARLES H., Zellwood, Fla.:
Sponge from Umbrella Key, and an
arrowhead from Orange County, Fla.
(58495 ).

BAKER, Dr. FRED.
ford Expedition. )

(See under Stan-

BAKER, HENrY D., American consul,
Hobart, Tasmania: Skeleton of a
Tasmanian devil, Sarcophilus sa-
tanus, collected by Mrs. Mary G.
Roberts (53261); (through Rey. D.
C. Bates) : 8 bird skins and a lizard,
Tuatara,from New Zealand (58676) ;
skin of emperor penguin, Aptenody-
tes forsteri, from Knox Land, Antarc-
tica (54212).

BaLpus, J. T., Brookland, D. C.: be
bird nests and 8 eggs from the Dis-
trict of Columbia (54215).

BALL, C. R., Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. C.: 98 plants
chiefly from Texas (58280).

BALL, Capt. R. T. M., pay director,
U. S. Navy, Baltimore, Md.: A col-
lection of Washington and Ball
relics (53986: loan).

BarBer, H. 8S. (See under Mr. P. R.
Myers. )

Barpour, Dr. THomas, Museum of
Comparative Zoology, Cambridge,
Mass.: 28 specimens, representing 4
species, of crustaceans from Cuba
(54201).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Barker, Mrs. GEorGE F., Moylan, Pa.:
Framed photograph of Prof. George
Frederic Barker, by Gutekunst
(53008) ; 9 medals presented to Prof.
Barker in recognition of his scien-
tific attainments (538248); 10 di-
plomas and 1 decoration conferred
upon Prof. Barker (58712) ; 2 schol-
astic hoods conferred upon Prof.
Barker by the University of Penn-
sylvania, Philadelphia, and McGill
University, Montreal, Canada, re
spectively ; also a cabinet photograph
and an autograph card of Prof.
Barker (53873).

Barr, Rey. Davin, Washington, D. C.:
A blue print of the city of Manila
and vicinity, made in 1910 (53458).

BARRINGER, D. M., Philadelphia, Pa.:
17 specimens of meteoric irons and
14 specimens of shale balls and shale,
from Meteor Crater, Ariz. (formerly
on deposit as accessions 46958 and
47103) (538588).

Bartiert, H. H., Bureau of Plant In-
dustry, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. C.: 201 plants,
including 113 specimens of Quercus,
from the eastern part of the United
States (53610; 586838). Exchange.

BarRtscH, Prof. Paut, U. S. National
Museum: 2 mammal skins and skulls,
Sciurus carolinensis, collected at
Paris, Va. (58507).

Bastin, Dr. E. S.
Pearl I. Smith.)

Bates, Rev. D. C.
Henry D. Baker.)

(See under Mr.

(See under Mr.

Batres, Senor Don LEoPoLpo, Conser-
vator of Mexican Antiquities, City
of Mexico, Mexico: Skull of a Mexi-
ean Indian (tribe unknown) with
recently engraved designs imitating
ancient work, and a collection of
Tolteec clay ornaments, vessels, and
heads from San Juan Teotihuacan,
Mexico; also 8 skulls of Mexican
aborigines from various prehistoric
ruins (538094),

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BEAN, Barton A., U. S. National
Museum: 5 specimens of young
drumfish, Pogonias chromis (58820).

BEAN, BarTON A., and ERNEST B. Mar-
SHALL: Fishes from a small stream
at Laurel, Md. (54022).

BANS PD rye pL Al bamyay ING, iy.
Type specimens of new species of
fishes from Bermuda (54254). (See
under State of New York Conserva-
tion Commission. )

Brarss, J. T., Kearney Park, Cal.:
12 specimens of cacti and cactus
seeds from Chile (52970).

BeparpD, A. N. (through William
Harrison Bradley, American consul
general, Montreal, Canada): Copy
of a newspaper ‘The Stars and
Stripes,’ published at Bloomfield,

Mo., November 9, 1861, by members
of the Union regiment after they
had gained possession of the town
(585138),

BELL, C. J. (See under Mr. Freder-
ick C. Lander. )

Bett-Scotr Co., Seattle, Wash.: A
54-inch cube of stone from the
Northern Pacific Railroad Co.’s
quarry at Wilkeson, Wash. (538656).

BEMENT, CLARENCE S., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Piece of meteoric iron vreigh-
ing 6,538 grams, from German South-
west Africa (538961).

Benepict, Dr. J. E., U. S. National
Museum: Mole, Scalopus aquaticus
(58974).

Bent, A. C., Taunton, Mass.: 25 bird
skins from Alaska (538185); bird
skin, Calliope calliope camtschatken-
sis, from Alaska, 23 bird eggs and 4
nests from the Aleutian Islands
(53186 ; 538234: collected for the Mu-
seum) ; 18 specimens of Lepidoptera
and 2 specimens of Diptera, collected
at Unalaska by Lieut. Herbert N.
Perham, U.S.R.C. Tahoma (53720).
(See under U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Bureau of Biological
Survey, and Dr. L, ©. Sanford.)

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Bent, Miss KaTir R.
Fannie A. Weeks.)

(See under Miss

BENTLEY, WILLIAM, Boston, Mass.:
6 small mammal skins and 2 skulls
(58396).

BERGER, ALWIN, La Mortola, Ventimig-
lia, Italy: Living specimen of Cereus
setaceus (53547: exchange).

BERLIN (DAHLEM BEI STEGLITZ), GER-
MANY, KOGONIGL. BOTANISCHER GAR-
TEN: Fern from Mexico (58309: ex-
change).

BERLIN, GERMANY, KONniIcL. ZOOLo-
GISCHES MUSEUM: 385 duplicate
specimens of crinoids representing
20 species (538887); 11 specimens
representing 9 species of ascidians
(58446). Exchange.

BERLINER, EMILE, Washington, D. C.:
A collection of original gramophone
apparatus (58852: loan).

BincHAM, Dr. H. (See under Yale
Peruvian Expedition.)

BLuMER, J. C., Luverne, Iowa: 24
plants from Arizona (53673; 53804).

BocKMANN AND SHEPARD, New York
City: 2 small blocks of marble from
Bowie, Ariz. (53806).

Botton, Mrs. H. CARRINGTON, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Bottle of musical
sand, 2 radium negatives, and 5
prints (53977).

Botton, Mrapr, Porto Velho de San
Antonio, Rio Madeira, Brazil: 277
insects, 2 reptiles and 2 batrachians
from South America (54005).

Boon, Otuiver, Farrall, Wyo.: Sala-
mander, Ambystoma tigrinum, from
Wyoming (54208).

Booy br, THEODOOR, Bloomfield, N. J.:
5 pottery fragments from the Caicos,
or southern Bahama Islands (58081).

Bossert, MicHaen, Iloilo, P. I.: 43
specimens of marine shells from the
Philippine Islands (58622).

BouLDER CoUNTY METAL MINING ASSoO-
CIATION, Boulder, Colo. (through
Mr. Frank L. Hess): Sample of fer-
berite from Rogers Tract, Boulder
County, Colo. (53592).

BoOUTWELL, MILNE & VaARNUM CO.,,
Barre, Vt.: A 5-inch cube of granite
(58851).

Boynton, Miss ALIcE M., Nassau, Ba-
hama Islands: Porcupine fish, Dio-
don hystrix, 6 specimens of corals,
and a sponge (58986).

BRADLEY, Dr. J. CHESTER, Cornell Uni-
versity, Ithaca, N. Y.: 2 paratypes
of Hresia texana seminole; 3 para-
types of Dolichotrypes hopkinsi, and
2 specimens of Henicocephalus culi-
cus (538514) ; paratype of Ornepetes
silvicola (53540).

BRADLEY, WILLIAM HARRISON.
* under Mr. A. N. Bedard.)

(See

BRAINERD, Ezra, Middlebury, Vt.: 4
specimens of Solidago bicolor from
Vermont (58288).

BRANDEGEE, T. S., University of Cali-
fornia, Berkeley, Cal.: 498 plants,
including 58 specimens of mosses,
collected by C. A. Purpus in Mexico
(53006 ; 58881: purchase) ; 18 plants,
including 15 ferns, from Mexico
(53200 ; 58483 ; 58690; 54222).

Branson, Miss ANNE J., U. S. National
Museum: 8 glowworms (larve of
Photuris pennsylvanica, Photinus
pyralis, and Pyractomena sp.), from
Chevy Chase, Md. (58296).

Brett, Lieut. Col. L.
(See under Interior,
of.)

Briscor, H. K. (See under Eastern
Bengal and Assam, the Government
of.)

Bristow, JOSEPH Q., Washington, D.
C.: A Russian Berdan breech-loading
rifle (586387: loan).

BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY).
(See under London, England.)

M., U. S. Army.
Department

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

BroaD RIvER GRANITE CORPORATION,
Oglesby, Ga.: 2 5-inch cubes of gran-
ite (54226).

Brockett, Paut, Smithsonian Institu-
tion: Fragment of zoétrope picture,
and a photograph of Brig. Gen.
“ Stonewall” Jackson (52990 ;
53611).

Brockway, WILLIAM, Contreras, D. F.,
Mexico: 2 living specimens of Ma-
millaria from Mexico (53344); 10
living specimens of Cactacee from
Mexico (58544; 53925).

BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND
ScIENCES, MusEUM oF. (See under
American Museum of Natural His-
tory, New York City.)

Brooks, J. G., U. S. National Museum :
Piece of Swiss peasant lace, modern,
after the antique French pattern
(58097).

Brown, ARTHUR, Waldelock,
Specimen of rutile (58774).

Va.:

Brown, E. M., Rock City Falls, N. Y.:
Specimens of Voluta junonia, Pec-
ten nodosus, and Murer marcoénsis
from Florida (53972).

BROWN, HERBERT, Tucson, Ariz.: Rep-
tiles and batrachians from Arizona
(58215).

Brown, J. C., Chambersburg, Pa.:
Moth, Anisota rubicunda (53034).

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, JARDIN BOTANIQUE
DE wWErat: 17 ferns, chiefly from
Java (58672: exchange).

BuLten, G. E., Hertfordshire County
Museum, St. Albans, England: 199
species of polyzoans, zodphytes and
crustaceans (58013: purchase).

BuRDETTE, S. O., U. S. National Mu-
seum: 9 small mammals from Long
Corner, Md. (53527 : collected for the
Museum). (See under Mr. H. E.,
Rieseberg. )

BuURDINE, W. T., Washington, D. C.:
Sora, Porzana carolina, from the Po-
tomac River (54014).

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BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINES, Rolla,
Mo.: 2 specimens of pyrite and 1 of
emarcasite (53272).

BUREAU OF HEALTH FOR THE PHILIP-
PINE ISLANDS. (See under Manila,
Ea)

BUREAU OF SCIENCE,
Milas ves.)

(See under Ma-

Buriine, L. D., Smithsonian Institu-
tion: Specimen of Sciuropterus, 3
specimens of J/ustela and a porcu-
pine skin, from British Columbia
(53096 ; 53160).

Burr, Dr. Matco“tmM, Dover, England:
40 specimens of Forficulide (53490:
exchange).

Burritt, Horace R., General Land
Office, Washington, D. C.: Ice worms,
Mescnchytreus solifugus, from
Slope Glacier, Bering River Coal
Field, Alaska (538852).

BuscaLioni, Prof. Luieai, Catania,
Italy: 88 living specimens of culti-
vated Cactacee from Italy (53181:
exchange).

Busck, Avucust. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Smithsonian Bio-
logical Survey of the Panama Canal
Zone. )

BusH, B. F., Courtney, Mo.: 300 plants
from Missouri (53873838: purchase).
(See under Rev. John Davis.)

CaLcuTTsa, INDIA, INDIAN MUSEUM:
225 specimens representing 48 species
of recent crinoids (53506); 2 speci-
mens of Gelasimus splendidus and 1
specimen of G. marionis (54031:
exchange).

CaLcuTtTa, INDIA, RoyaL BoTaNnic GarR-
DEN: 31 plants from Asia (53128:
exchange).

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, San
Francisco, Cal.: Frog from Korea
(54107). ,

CALVERT, P. P., University of Penn-
sylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.: About 30
insects (58194).

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CAMBRIDGE, MASS., MUSEUM OF COM-
PARATIVE ZooLtocy: 5 specimens of
Echinonéeus cyclostomus from Port
Antonio, Jamaica (538130); 66 bird
skins from China (53305; 538555;
54118: exchange) ; 5 cotypes of Cu-
baris jamaicensis (53390) ; 23 speci-
mens of Orthoptera (53461: ex-
change); reptiles and batrachians
from Cuba and a reptile from Mada-
gascar (53905: exchange); _ ba-
trachians (538978: exchange).

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHING-
TON: Specimen of Tuwmamoca mac-
dougalit from Arizona, through Dr.
D. T. MacDougal, director of the
Desert Laboratory, Tucson, Ariz.
(53177) ; 153 specimens of rocks and
2.275 specimens of fossils collected
by Dr. Bailey Willis and Prof. Eliot
Blackwelder in connection with the
Carnegie Institution Expedition to
China in 1908-4 (58310); 17 speci-
mens of ophiurans and sea-urehins
from Florida Keys, collected by Dr.
T. Wayland Vaughan (53569).

CARNEGIE Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.: A
complete skeleton of Diceratherium
cooki and a east of the hind leg of
Diplodocus (53385: exchange).

CARPENTER, W. D., Sayre, Pa.: 2 skins
of screech owl, Otus asio, from
Maryland (53206); 2 shrews, Sorer
fumeus, and a turtle, Chelopus imn-
sculptus, from Pennsylvania (54119).

Carter, Hue THomas, Washington,
D. C.: Ethnological specimens from
the northern Plains Indians and
from Greenland (52986: loan).

Carter, Ray A., Los Angeles, Cal.: A

_ crab, Pachygrapsus crassipes, and 2
earthworms, Helodrilus caliginosus
(52997).

CHADWICK, Miss Junta H., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Cap of Devonshire
sprigged lace (53828: loan).

Cuarrey, E., Lerdo, Durango, Mexico:
18 living specimens of Cactaceze
from Mexico (53017; 538339; 53546;
53786).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

CHaGnon, W., St. Johns, Quebec: 8
specimens of Lepidoptera (58909).

CHAMBERLAIN, Dr. L. T., New York
City: 4 specimens of moss agate
(53864).

CHAMPION, G. C.
& Salvin.)

(See under Godman

CHANDONNET, Rev. Z. L., Perham,
Minn.: 19 plants, including 15 speci-
mens of JLaciniaria and Solidago,
from Minnesota (58271; 583824;
58687).

CHANTLAND, WILLIAM T., Department
of Justice, Washington, D. C.: Speci-
men of black-crowned night heron,
Nycticorax nycticorax nevius, from
Virginia (53648).

CHESAPEAKE & POTOMAC TELEPHONE
Co. (See under American Telephone
& Telegraph Co.)

CuicaGco, ILL., FIELD MUSEUM oF NAT-
URAL History. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Smithsonian Bio-
logical Survey of the Panama Canal
Zone. )

CHITE, SALVATORE and DOMENICO,
Washington, D. C.: 5 samples of vol-
ecanie materials from Italy (58619).

CHRISMORE, GEORGE E., Cumberland,
Md.: Wooden mortar and _ pestle
(“hominy mortar”) made in Win-
chester, Va., about 100 years ago
(53121).

CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION, Cin-
cinnati, Ohio: Cast of a prehistoric
ceremonial pipe found in a mound
near Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.
(58277 : exchange) ; plaster cast of a
prehistoric stone pipe, frog-shaped
(53480).

CLARK & McCorMAck, St. Paul, Minn.:
A cube of granite from Rockville,
Minn, (53711).

CuaRK, Austin H., U. S. National Mu-
seum: An alcoholic specimen of bat,
Eptesicus (58092).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

CLARK, HERBERT E., Jaffa Gate, Jerusa-
lem, Palestine: An Abyssinian parch-
ment picture book of saints (52953).

CLARK, Dr. JAMES JOHNSON, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Model of a Morse tele-
graph register, known as the “ harp
register”? (538901).

CLEMENTS, E. F., U. S. National Mu-

seum: Specimen of yellow-billed
cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
(53818).

CLinE, ARTHUR W., Philadelphia, Pa.:
Flint and glass implements, mainly
arrowheads, made by the donor, to-
gether with the tools used in making
them (53242).

CLOSSON, WILLIAM BAXTER PALMER,
Magnolia, Mass.: An oil painting by
Mr. Closson, entitled ‘‘ Nymph and
Water Babies at Play” (538208:
loan).

CLOVER, CLARENCE B., Noblesville, Ind. :
Specimen of Tamias striatus
(58742).

CocKERELL, Prof. T. D. A., University
of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. : 18 speci-
mens of the melanistic form of
Drosophila ampelophila (52968) ; mi-
eroscopie slides containing radulas
of mollusks, and a lot of mollusks,
including the type of Oreohelix con-
fluens (58009); 88 insects, chiefly
named bees, also 20 plants from
New Mexico (58641); 22 plants
from Guatemala collected by Mrs.
Cockerell (58808); 18 insects
(58837); 12 fossil ostracoda from
Florissant, Colo. (58881); 71 speci-
mens of Hymenoptera, including one
type, 21 Orthoptera, 8 Lepidoptera,

3 Hemiptera, and 2 ticks, from

Guatemala, collected by Mrs. Cock-

erell; also 2 Hymenoptera from Colo-

rado (58914; 54000); bat, Natalus,
and 3 specimens of Pseudoxiphopho-
rus bimaculatus from Guatemala

(54080; 54186); 46 insects, includ-

ing types and cotypes of 7 species

(54084).

93

CoFFIN, Miss Martan T., Muirkirk,
Md. (through Mrs. Julian James) :
Dress worn by Miss Helen Hovey,
of Boston, Mass., when she danced
with the Prince of Wales upon the
oceasion of his visit to America
(53951: loan).

CoLEMAN, L. C., Bangalore, Mysore,
India: About 200 parasitic Hymen-
optera from India (53363).

CoLEs, RussELL J., Danville, Va.:
Fishes, a leech, and a mollusk from
the coast of North Carolina (53060;
538539).

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY OF THE CITY OF
NEW YorRK. (See under New York

City.)

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. (See under
New York City.)

CoLLETT, Prof. ROBERT,
Museum, Christiania, Norway: 2
skins with skulls and 6 skulls of
the genus Hvotomys from Norway
(53071).

CoLtins, F. S., Malden, Mass.: 50
specimens of North American alge,
comprising fascicle 36 of the Phyco-
theca Boreali-Americana (55717) ;
50 lichens from North America,
Phycotheca Boreali-Americana, fas-
cicle 387 (538933). Purchase.

Zoological

ComEAu, N. A., Godbout, Quebec,
Canada: A sculpin, a small flounder,
a crab, 8 annelids, and 2 starfishes,
received through the Biological Sur-
vey, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture (54011).

COMMERCE AND LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF :
Bureau of Fisheries: The first se-
ries of Hydromedusx, Ctenophores,
and Siphonophores, from the Philip-
pine expedition of the steamer A/-
batross, 1907-1910 (52960); speci-
men of Ross’s gull, Rhodostethia ro-
sea, and one of the arctic tern,
Sterna paradisea, from the Pribilof
Islands (58029) ; 4 plants from Ken-
tucky, collected by H, Walton Clark

94

COMMERCE AND LABOR, DEPARTMENT

or—Continued.
(58087); invertebrates, including
mollusks, and fishes from Woods
Hole, Mass., and vicinity (58182) ;
12 specimens of echinoids (53188) ;
24 lots of ascidians collected by the
steamer Albatross off southern Cali-
fornia in 1904 (531384); 39 plants
collected in Alaska by Walter L.
Hahn (58221); the Albatross Phil-
ippine collection of decapod crusta-
ceans, consisting of about 5,500 jars,
bottles, and vials (53256) ; 2 barrels
and 3 boxes of shore fishes and a
small collection of fishing tackle,
with notes on its use, collected by
the Albatross in Japan in 1906
(53267); 23 specimens of cumacea,
Oxyurostylis smithi (58285); 95
sheets of plants, 23 fossils, 8 sea
urchin tests, 14 mollusks, 8 rocks
bearing bryozoa obtained from the
vicinity of Chignik Lagoon, Alaska,
by Waldo L. Schmitt (583871) ; fishes
from Tennessee (58397) ; 189 lots of
starfishes (489 specimens) and 29
lots of crinoids (about 150 speci-
mens), collected by the steamer Al-
batress in the North Pacific Ocean
from 1902 to 1906 (53399) ; 3 jars of
fresh-water mollusks collected by
Lewis Radcliffe in the District of
Columbia (53488); invertebrates,
chiefly sponges and hydroids, inelud-
ing identified specimens of hydroids
from the Albatross eastern Pacific
expedition of 1904-1905, and reptiles
and batrachians collected by B. W.
Evermann at Waterville, N. H., and
Milford, Pa., in 1906 and 1905, re-
spectively (53528); marine inverte-
brates from the Albatross tropical
Pacific expedition of 1899-1900 and
the Hawaiian expedition of 1902, and
a miscellaneous collection of fishes
(538574) ; 3 specimens of Ascidia cle-
mentea from off the coast of south-
ern California (53628); 2 lots of
spruce cones, black and white, col-
lected by Lee R. Dice, deputy war-
den Alaska Fisheries Service, near
Tanana, Alaska (538714) ; first series

CONGRESS, LIBRARY OF,

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

COMMERCE AND LABOR, DEPARTMENT

or—Continued.
of Meduse collected by the Albatross
in the northwest Pacific in 1906
(538758); fur seal born on St. Paul
Island, Bering Sea (58762); fishes
obtained by the steamer Fish Hawk
on the coast of Florida in 1901, 1902,
and 1903, comprising 463 specimens
(53826) ; 4 fresh specimens of sand-
crab (538827); 90 specimens, repre-
senting 6 species, of parasitic cope-
pods (58960) ; 89 packages of barna-
cles collected by the steamer Alba-
tross in the northwestern part of the
Pacific Ocean in 1906 (54008);
fresh-water shells from Sunapee
Lake, N. H., collected by W. C. Ken-
dall (54070); 2 boxes of Medusa,
Siphonophores, and Ctenophores from
the northwest Pacific. expedition of
the steamer Albatross in 1906
(54071) ; type specimen of Alonopsis
aureolus, from a golden trout caught
in Sunapee Lake, N. H. (54250).
(See under Smithsonian Institution,
Smithsonian Biological Survey of the
Panama Canal Zone.)

Coast and Geodetic Survey: Zenith
telescope No. 1, complete (53077).

ConpiIT, Rev. JaMes H., Fairbanks,

Alaska: Nest and egg of “ camp rob-
ber,’ or Alaskan jay, Perisoreus

canadensis fumifrons (53281).

Washington,
D. C.: A British military uniform
vest of crimson cloth, a silk em-
broidered vest and belt of the
eolonial period, and a brass gorget
bearing the British coat of arms,
worn by Maj. Gen. Adam Stephen,
of the Continental Army, when lieu-
tenant colonel in the British colonial
forces during the French and Indian
War, 1755-1768 (52984).

ConzATTi, Dr. C., Oaxaca, Mexico: 15

living specimens of Cactacese and
Crassulacee from the State of Oax-
aca (58332: exchange); 9 living
specimens of Cactacer from Mexico
(53542 ; 58650; 53930).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Coox, Mrs. H. C., Washington, D. C.:
Parrot, Amazona estiva (531938).

CooLry, Prof. R. A., Montana Agricul-
tural College, Bozeman, Mont.: 2 co-
types (=paratypes) of Pontania
bozemani (53797).

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, UNIVERSITE-
TETS BOTANISKE MUSEUM: 50 plants
from Greenland (53886).

CoPENHAGEN, DENMARK, UNIVERSITE-
TETS ZOOLOGISKE MUSEUM: 6 speci-
-IMens of a recent crinoid, Heliometra
glacialis (58698); 4 species of hy-
droids (53798: exchange) ; 18 mam-
mals (538825).

CORNER, FRANK, The Manor House,
Poplar, London, England: Cast of
cranium (with part of the lower
jaw), known as ‘The Galley Hill
skull” (53126).

Court, Epwarp J., Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of black-crowned night
heron, Nycticorax nycticoraxz nevius,
from Utah (52979).

CowLeEs, HENRy T., Arecibo, P. R.: 133
plants, including specimens of cacti
and ferns, from Porto Rico (53552;
538598 ; 538639; 53760).

CraFt, Dr. C. C., Swansea, S. C.: 10
insects and 4 snakes from Argentina
and a starfish from Orkney Islands
(58862; 54088).

CRANE, Mrs. W. Murray, Washington,
D. C.: 5 oil paintings (54160: loan).

CRANSTON, C. K. (See under Fish
and Game Commission, State of
Oregon. )

CrRocKER, HENRY A. D., East Falls
Church, Va.: Box terrapin from
Fairfax County, Va. (538129).

CROMWELL, Davip W., Piermont, N. Y.:
30 uncanceled U. S. postage stamps
(58805: loan).

CroPPrer, Mrs. JOHN, Washington, D.C.:

Historical objects, consisting of
paintings, engravings, furniture,
glassware, ete. (54020; 541638:
loan); 380 specimens of minerals

95

Croprer, Mrs. JoHN—Continued.
(54198) ; 3 small boxes of sea shells,
and a hinged wooden screen the
panels of which were made from a
beam taken from a house on the
island of Porto Santo, Madeira, in
which Christopher Columbus is said
to have lived (54021).

Crouse, F. C., Shanghai, China: 4
beetles from China, representing the’
species Xylotrupes dichotomus
(58021).

CRYDER, Miss Mary Atsop, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Necklace, 2 brooches and
2 pairs of earrings made of individ-
ual strands of hair twisted into hol-
low globes and mounted in gold,
which were owned during the latter
part of the 18th century by a mem-
ber of the Alsop family of Connec-
ticut (54042).

CuBA COPPER Co., Santiago, Cuba: 7
specimens of ore from El Cobre
Mines, Santiago (54139).

CUNDALL, F., Kingston, Jamaica: 15
wasps from Jamaica (54248).

CUSHMAN, Mrs. ALLERTON S., Wash-
ington, D. C. (through Mrs. James
W. Pinchot) : Cape of Flemish lace,
originally worn by a Roman cardi-
nal, and later by Charlotte Cush-
man in the role of Cardinal Wolsey
(54166: loan).

Custer, Mrs. ELIzABeTH B., Bronxville,
N. Y.: Memorials of Gen. George A.
Custer, U. S. Army, and relics of
the Civil War (54044: loan) ; memo-
rials of Gen. Custer (54045).

CUSTER, NEVIN, Monroe, Mich. (through
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Custer): An em-
broidered muslin cap, worn by Gen.
George A. Custer, U. 8S. Army, when
an infant (54118: loan).

DARCKES. Ve CAlvah Velarrisbure., ea.
(through Bureau of Entomology, U.
S. Department of Agriculture): 46
saw flies and 2 Diptera, types of
ELurosta elsa (58426).

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DAHLEM BeEI STEGLITZ, KONIGL. Bo-
TANISCHER GARTEN. (See under Ber-
lin, Germany.)

DAKAN, ALBERT, Longmont, Colo.
(through U. 8S. Geological Survey) :
Specimens of Oreohelixz strigosa var.
from 10 miles northwest of Long-
mont on the north bank of Little
Thompson Creek (53229).

DANpDRIDGE, Miss VIOLET.
Miss M. J. Rathbun.)

(See under

DANIEL, Mrs. JoHN W., Washington,
D. C.: A piece of embroidery which
was owned by Mrs. Edward Car-
rington before the Revolutionary
War, and was used as a spread on
the bed of the Marquis de Lafayette
in Eagle Tavern, Richmond, Va.,
upon the occasion of his visit to the
United States in 1824 (541382: loan).

Davipson, Dr. A., Los Angeles, Cal.:-

2 specimens of living cacti, Opuntia;
5 specimens of Castilleja, and a
specimen of /’rasera representing a
new species, from California (53065 ;
53325; 53719).

Davis, Frep. P., U. S. National Mu-
seum: Specimen, in alcohol, of the
common red bat, Nycteris borealis,
from Washington, D. C. (52946).

Davis, Rev. JoHN, Hannibal, Mo.: 278
plants from Missouri, received
through Mr. B. F. Bush (58784).

Day, ARTHUR. (See under Harehope
Mining & Quarrying Co. (Ltd.).)

DeEcKeERT, RicHARD, Jacksonville, Fla.:
Batrachians from Florida (53764).

DersucIn, Prof. K. M., Murmansche
Biologische Station, Alexandrovsk,
Archangelsk Gouy., Russia: 4 speci-
mens of recent crinoids representing
the species Heliometra glacialis and
H. quadrata (538154).

Devereux, A., Decatur, Tex.: 3
mens of fossil coniferous
(58746).

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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

DEXTER, HENRY M., Washington, D. C.:
4 cocoons, a skein of silk spun from
cocoons by Prof. Jos. Neumann, with
his self-made loom, and an invita-
tion card of Prof. Neumann to his
exhibit of California silk culture
(538835).

DILLARD, Dr. RicHArpD, Edenton, N. C.:
Larva of a rhinoceros beetle (53686).

DILLe, KF. M., Valentine, Nebr.: Fresh-
water shells from Nelson County,
N. Dak. (54028).

DIsBRow, Dr. WILLIAM S., Newark,
N. J.: 8 specimens of minerals
(538124 : exchange).

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, BOARD OF COoM-
MISSIONERS (through Mr. Cuno H.
Rudolph, president): Gold medal
issued by the municipal government
of Buenos Aires, Argentine Repub-
lic, in commemoration of the 400th
anniversary of the discovery of
America by Columbus (53948: loan).

Dopp, West, Des Moines, Iowa: Small
sapphires (53998).

Doper, C. K., Port Huron, Mich.: 4
specimens of Laciniaria from Michi-
gan (53769).

Dopcr, CLARENCE, U. S. National Mu-
seum: Zodtrope, or ‘ Whirligig of
Life” (52998).

DoNALDSON, W., Little Rock, Ark.: 3
specimens of fresh-water sponges
(53157).

Dorsey, Harry W., Smithsonian Insti-
tution: Specimen of Cooper’s hawk,
Accipiter cooperi, from Hyattsville,
Md. (58051).

Dorsey, Dr. Z. A., Troy, Miss.: Por-
tion of jaws and teeth of Mosasaur
(58084).

DovucLass, WIlLIAM Boone, General
Land Office, Washington, D. C.:
Skull of a mountain ram, Ovis,
found at Frijoles Canyon, near Santa
Fe, N. Mex. (53356).

DoweLt, Dr. Purp, Port Richmond,
N. Y.: 50 ferns from New York
(54077: purchase).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Dow.ine, Mrs. Harriet L., El Paso,
Tex.: Earthenware idol from near
Guatemalan border, stone idol exca-
vated at Tepoxtlan, Mexico, and a
Mexican raincoat (54258).

DrRiNKARD, Mrs. L. R., Washington,
D. C.: Ivy leaf (in frame) from a
funeral wreath of President James
A. Garfield, and a silk badge used at
his funeral (53270).

DROWNE, Dr. FREDERICK P., Warren,
R. I.: Arrowheads and a grooved ax
from near Chilesburg, Va., also natu-
ral history specimens from the same
locality, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island (58979).

DUBLIN, IRELAND, DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE AND ‘TECHNICAL IN-
STRUCTION FOR IRELAND (FISHERIES
BrRANcH) : 2 specimens of Zoroaster
fulgens from the west coast of Ire-
land (54004); 11 specimens of re-
cent crinoids (54230).

DucKet, A. B., Bladensburg, Md.: 4
beetles, Disonycha collata (54146).

DupLey, J. H., Leland, Wash.: Pupa of
the long-horned beetle, Hrgates spi-
culatus (58474).

DUNLAP, PorTER, Dover, Tenn.: Skull
and portion of skeleton of Marmota
monar, with abnormal front teeth,
found in Stewart County, Tenn.
(58480).

Dury, CHARLES, Cincinnati, Ohio: 2
specimens of Spheroderus schaumii,
4 of Cis cornutus, 2 of Thrimolus mi-
nutus, and 1 of Platynus sp. (53244:
exchange); 2 specimens of Sym-
biotes waltont and 2 of Proctacan-
thus duryi (53662).

EARLAND, ARTHUR, Watford, England:
Dredgings made by the _ fishery
cruiser Goldseeker in connection
with the International North Sea
Commission (Scotland) (52977: ex-
change).

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EASTERN BENGAL AND ASSAM, THE Gov-
ERNMENT OF (through Mr. H. K.
Briscoe, I. C. S., Under Secretary to
Government in the Revenue and
General Department): A square sil-
ver coin (1729 A. D.) of Siva Simha
with Pramatheswari, Ahom king of
Assam (53678).

EASTMAN Kopak Co., Rochester, N. Y.:
31 kodak enlargements (54048).

EAStTwoop, Miss Atick, California
Academy of Sciences, San Fran-
cisco, Cal.: Specimen from the type
collection of Lupinus macrostachyus
(538991).

EDMONDSON, Dr. C. H., Washburn Col-
lege, Topeka, Kans.: About 150 in-
sects collected in Tahiti (53475).

EDWARDS, Mrs. CLARENCE R., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 2 carved cinnabar lacquer
Chinese boxes, Chinese filigree fan,
and a French (7?) fan with pearl
sticks (54213: loan).

EGcLeston, W. W., U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 3
specimens of Crategus from South
Dakota, 77 from Indiana, and 12
from Ohio (53342; 53423; 53530) ;
46 plants from the eastern part of
the United States (53724); 6 speci-
mens of Crategus from the United
States (54125).

Ecypt, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF, Cairo,
Egypt: 2 pieces of a meteorite
(53114). i

ELLINGER, JOHN A., Washington, D. C.:
8 ambrotypes and 2 daguerreotypes
(52987).

ELLIOTT, Mrs. MAUDE Howe, Newport,
R. I.: Dress and mantle of embroid-
ered muslin and veil of Brussels
lace, worn by the donor’s mother,
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, at her wed-
ding, April 28, 1848 (52958).

Evitis, Max M., University of Colo-
rado, Boulder, Colo.: Type slide of
Discodrilid, Cambarincola macro-
donta (58794).

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Eson, A. W., & Co., Boston, Mass.: 5 | Farson, Hon. J. M., Faison, N. C.:

carbon prints (54082).

Emory, W. E., Washington, D. C.: 8
watch movements (58268).

ENSLIN, Dr. E., Firth i. B., Germany:
57 sawflies representing 28 species
(538664 : exchange).

ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE

(TropicaAL AFRICA). (See under
London, England.)
Escuericu, Dr. K., Forst Akademy,

Tharandt, Saxony, Germany: An ex-
ample of the fungus raised by
Termes bellicosus, collected by the
donor in Abyssinia (538171).

Evans Maree Co., Knoxville, Tenn. :
5 slabs of marble (53068).

Evans QuarRRIES Co., Hot Springs, 8.
Dak.: A 5-inch cube of sandstone
(538679).

EVANS, WILLIAM T., New York City:
13 paintings in oil, ‘ Depths of the
Woods,” by Lillian Matilde Genth
(538018); ‘Ariadne,’ by Wyatt
Eaton, “The Spouting Whale,” by
William Morris Hunt, and ‘“ Dublin
Pond, New Hampshire,” by Abbott
Handerson Thayer (535207); “‘ Rus-
sian Tea,” by Irving Ramsay Wiles
(53266); ‘Plymouth Hills,” by
John W. Beatty (53524); “The
Blockmaker,” by Edgar Melville
Ward (53648) ; “* Laguna—New Mex-
ico,” by Albert Lorey Groll (58748) ;
“Monhegan Headlands,” by William
S. Robinson (538775); ‘The Cup of
Death,” by Elihu Vedder (53869) ;
“The Knight of the Holy Grail,” by
Frederick J. Waugh (54047) ;
“Nymph and Water Babies at Play,”
by William Baxter Palmer Closson
(54122); “After a Storm, Amagan-
sett,’ by Arthur Turnbull Hill
(54165) ; 34 framed proofs of Ameri-
can wood engravings (53098 ; 58420).

Everett, L. N., Wyandotte, Mich.: 2
snakes from Colchester, Ontario
(53168).

Specimen of barn owl, Aluco pratin-
cola (53348).

Fai, H. C., Riverside, Cal.: Cotype of
Pleocoma australis (53172).

FAUNTLEROY, Miss JULIET, Lynch Sta-
tion, Va.: 4 ferns from Virginia
(53279).

FAuvER, W. F., Gold Roads, Ariz.:
Specimen of praying mantis, Stag-
momantis (58119).

FAWCETT, GEORGE L., Gainesville, Fla. :
Specimen of fungus, Agerita web-
beri, from Largo, Fla. (58089).

FEDERATED MALAy STATES MUSEUMS.
(See under Kuala Lumpur.)

FELIPPONE, Dr. FLORENTINO, Monte-
video, Uruguay: Marine inverte-
brates, mollusks, insects and reptiles
(58538).

Feit, D. E., Chicago, Il.: An 8-column
comptometer made by the donor in
1886 and used for many years by
Joseph S. McCoy, Actuary of the
U. S. Treasury (54244).

FELT & TARRANT MANUFACTURING CoO.,
Chicago, Ill.: -2 calculating ma-
chines—a comptograph and a mod-
ern commercial comptometer (54245).

Feitus, K. B., Leland, Miss.: Speci-
men of dragonfly, MWacromis tenio-
lata (58027).

Yrerry, C. W., Elsberry, Mo.: A large
specimen of the fossil Mecepta-
culites oweni (538680).

Festa, E., Museo Zoologico, Turin,
Italy: Specimen of Dyromys nite-
dula intermedia, from Padola, Ca-
dore, Italy (53587).

Fewkes, Dr. J. WALTER. (See under

Dr. Luis Anderson.)

FIELD, Gro. H., San Diego, Cal.: 32
moths (538883).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

FirtpD MusEUM oF NATURAL HISTORY,
Chicago, Ill.: 8 ferns collected by
Dr. ©. F. Millspaugh (54025: ex-
change). (See under Smithsonian
Institution, Smithsonian Biological
Survey of the Panama Canal Zone.)

FisH AND GAME COMMISSION, STATE OF
OrEeGonN, Portland, Oreg. (through
Mr. C. K. Cranston): Small speci-
men of red fish or blue-back salmon,
Oncorhynchus kennerlyi, from Wal-
lowa Lake, Oreg. (53321).

Fisuer, A. K., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of ‘‘mad tom,” Schilbeodes
insignis, from the Potomac River
at Plummers Island (53189) ; speci-
men of Lepomis cyanellus and a head
of Micropterus salmoides (53816).

FisHer, Gro. L., Nara Visa, N. Mex.:
172 plants from New Mexico and
Texas (53159; 58246; 58876; 53814;
54067).

FisHerR, Ropert J., Washington, D. C.:
4 eggs of the African gray parrot,
Psittacus erythacus (58251).

FLANAGAN, JOHN, New York City: 38
photographic prints of 15 medals and
medallions designed by the donor
(58701).

Frett, W. G., Gwendolen, Oreg.
(through Mr. John P. Hartman,
Seattle, Wash.): A mountain-sheep
horn intended for the handle of a
big ladle, found in one of the cabins
of the Klikitat Indians, Washington
(58276).

Footr, Mrs. Kate N., Washington,
D. C.: 3 oil paintings by a Chinese
artist, and a crayon portrait of Rear
Admiral Andrew H. Foote, U. S.
Navy (53047); objects of historical
interest which belonged to Rear Ad-
miral Foote and to his son, Augustus
R. S. Foote (58049 ; 58122: loan).

Footr MINERAL Co., Philadelphia, Pa. :
840 grams of a meteoric pallasite
from Ahumada, Mexico (54095) ; 102
grams of meteoric stone (McKinney)
(54224). Exchange.

99

Forest, JoHN, Washington, D. C.: Col-
lection of termites (53001).

FoRSMAN, ALFRED. (See under Mr. V.

C. Ward.)

Foster, FRANK E., Fort Yukon, Alaska
(through Mr. A. G. Maddren): 2
fossil plants from Alaska (58681).

Fow er, Miss SILVIE DE GRASSE, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Portraits of Francois
Paul de Grasse de Rouville, Admiral
Comte de Grasse, by Largilliére;
Theodosius O. Fowler, by Healy;
and Hero, a St. Bernard dog, by
Benjamin West (54061; loan).

Fox, Dr. CARROLL, Bureau of Health,
Manila, P. I.: 2 specimens of Pachy-
ura and 1 of Hpimys rattus from the
Philippine Islands (58095). (See
under Manila, P. I., Bureau of
Health. )

Fox, Prof. Hrnry, Ursinus College,
Collegeville, Pa.: 21 specimens of
Orthoptera, including paratypes of
the new species Xiphidium nigro-
pleuroides and X. spartine (538810).

FRANZEN, J. W., Minneapolis, Minn.: 5
moths (580387).

FREED, JOHN T., Scott, Kans.: Frag-
ment of Scott City meteorite weigh-
ing 175 grams (53802).

FRITSCHE, OSKAR, Taucha b. Leipzig,
Germany: Skin and skull of Des-
mana moschata and skin and skull
of Hllobius talpinus (53150: pur-
chase) ; skin and skull of Pyrenean
chamois, Rupicapra pyrenaica
(538337 : purchase) ; skeleton of Cas-
tor fiber from the Elbe River, near
Wittenberge, Prignitz, Germany
(538990: purchased from the Harri-
son Fund).

FUHRMANN, Dr. OrTtTo, Université de
Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland:
25 specimens, representing 6 species,
of isopods (582838).

Gate, Hoyr 8. (See under Mr. Tom

Gillan.)

100

Garrett, J. J.. Truman, Ark.: Moth,
known as the hickory horned devil,
Citheronia regalis (58106).

GARRISON, Mrs. JOHN R., Washington,
D. C.: Model of a Porto Rican native
house and 18 models of household
utensils, furniture, ete., used by the
natives; model of a native stove
(58560).

Geer, Mrs. A. C., Washington, D. C.:
20 mounted birds from _ tropical
America (54087).

GEROULD, Dr. JoHN H., Dartmouth Col-
lege, Hanover, N. H.: Specimen of
young ground dove, Chemepelia pas-
serina terrestris, from Florida
(54126).

Gipson, W. T., Phoenix, Ariz.: Speci-
men of asbestos (chrysotile) (54218).

GILL, De LaNncrEy, Bureau of American
Ethnology: Photograph of Col. Wil-
liam Louis Schley, U. S. Army,
taken in 1862 (52996); a deformed
claw of a blue crab, Callinectes sapi-
dus (583814).

GILL, G. W.,
bird skins from
Del. (53471).

Washington, D. C.: 2
Rehoboth Beach,

Gitt, Dr. THEODORE N., Smithsonian
Institution: 100 casts of Forami-
nifera, made under the direction of
@Orbigny (58136); photograph of
Thomas Barbour (538754).

GILLAN, Tom, Richfield, Utah (through
Mr. Hoyt S. Gale, U. S. Geological
Survey): 3 specimens of alunite
from Marysvale, Utah (54038).

Grven, Dr. FRANK I., Hillsboro, N.
Mex.: Specimen of Tonicella lineata,
found on the mesa south of Hills-
boro (58395).

Gopinec, Dr. Freprric W., American
consul, Montevideo, Uruguay (through
Department of State): Nest and 2
eggs of a hummingbird, from Uru-
fuay (53521).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

GODLOVE; JAMES R., Wardensville,
W. Va.: Skull of a woodchuck, Mar-
mota mondas, with abnormal front
tooth, collected near North Moun-
tain, Hardy County, W. Va. (58481).

GopMAN & Satvin, London, England
(through Mr. G. C. Champion) : 878
weevils of the family Otiorhynchi-
dz, from the collection of the Bio-
logia Centrali-Americana (538451).

GoERLITzZ, GEBRUDER, Idar, Germany:
A specimen of moonstone, a variety
of feldspar showing a bluish opa-
lescence, from Ceylon (58899: pur-
chase).

GOETHALS, Col. Gro. W., U. S. Army.
(See under Isthmian Canal Commis-
sion and Mr. D. F. MacDonald.)

Goop, OrrIN §., Spokane, Wash.: 4
samples of Nez Percé Indian bread,
made by a squaw near Cul de Sac,
Idaho (53561).

GRAENICHER, Dr. 8., Public Museum,
Milwaukee, Wis.: 11 bees, including
7 paratypes of 6 species (54187: ex-
change).

Graves, B. H., Laramie, Wyo.: Speci-
men of Pecten exasperatus from
Beaufort, N. C. (53085).

Green, E. E., Royal Botanic Gardens,
Peradeniya, Ceylon: 22 specimens of
sawflies (53665).

Green, H. A., Tryon, N. C.: 7 shells,
mostly from Florida (53384).

GREENE, Miss ANNA R., Colebrook,
Conn.: Moth, <Amphion nessus
(54206).

GREENE, F. C., Geological Survey of
Missouri, Rolla, Mo.: A carbonifer-
ous log from Missourt (55700).

GREENLEAF, Maj. Henry S., Medical
Corps, U. S. Army, Madison Bar-
racks, N. Y.: 6 pieces of Chinese
porcelain (53568: loan).

Gricas, Prof. R. F., Ohio State Uni-
versity, Columbus, Ohio: Specimen
of a new species of Bihai from Ja-
maica (58882).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

GRIMES, WARREN, U. S. National Mu-
seum: Specimen of brown thrasher,
Toxostoma rufum. (53245).

Gripp, C. W., San Diego, Cal.: Type
specimen of Hupleura grippi, from
off the entrance to San Diego harbor
(53393); 15 specimens of marine
shells, from 15 to 20 fathoms, off San
Diego harbor mouth, outside the
kelp beds (53493).

Grout, Dr. A. J., New Dorp, N. Y.: 25

specimens of Norm American
mosses, Musci pluricarpi (53081:
purchase).

GUTSELL, JAMES S., Ithaca, N. Y.:

Specimens of herring from Cayuga
Lake, N. Y., collected by the donor
and R. S. Gutsell (58854).

EVARERER. Dr. J: V:, Utica, N. ¥.> 261
plants from New York (54059).

Hatirax, Nova Scotia, PROvINCIAL
Museum: Chain of Salpa cordifor-
mis (58799).

Hatt, FrRanK H., Silver Spring, Md.:
A pendant charm, or fetish, of soap-
stone, from an Indian shell mound
at Sausalito, Cal. (54017).

Hatt, Mrs. Newr HAMIL, Washing-
ton, D. C.: A bird-shaped root of the
tea shrub, a religious object, from
China (54124).

HANKINS, Dr. J. L., Century, W. Va.:
Beetle, Dynastes tityus (53105).

Hannay, Capt. J. R. R., U. 8S. Army,
Washington, D. C.: A collection of
weapons, including rifles, shotguns,
small cannon of Spanish make, dag-
gers, knives, swords, ete., collected
in the Philippine Islands by Capt.
Hannay (52962: loan).

HANNIBAL, Haroip, Seattle, Wash.: 3
specimens representing 2 species of
Lyonsia, from California and Wash-
ington (53566).

HANSEMANN, Prof. DAavip PAUL von,
Berlin, Germany: 27 anatomical
specimens (538082; 539389) Hx-
change.

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HAPEMAN, Dr. H., Minden, Nebr.: 9
plants from Hawaii and Mexico
(53956).

HARDENBERGH, Mrs. ELIZABETH, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Decorations of the
Order of the Medjidieh conferred on
Hon. Samuel S. Cox, and of the
Order of the Shefakat conferred on
Mrs. Samuel 8S. Cox by the Sultan
of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, pre-
sented in the name and memory of
Mr. and Mrs. Cox; also a _ silver
memorial vase presented to Mrs. Cox
by the members of the Life-Saving
Service of the United States in rec-
ognition of the successful efforts of
Mr. Cox in establishing and main-
taining that service, presented in the
name of Mrs. Cox (53695).

HAREHOPE MINING & QUARRYING Co.,
Ltd., Frosterley, Weardale, Durham,
England (through Mr. Arthur Day,
representative): The Frosterley
marble exhibit at the St. Louis Ex-
position, in 1904 (53867).

HiarPER, ALBERT, Washington, D. C.: A
printed copy of an alleged letter of
Christ (53144).

HARRIMAN, Mrs. E. H., New York
City: Ethnological material from
Alaska, collected by ex-Gov. John

Green Brady (54171).

Harrineton, J. P., School of American
Archaeology, Santa Fe, N. Mex.: 7
specimens of Pogonomyrmex cali-
fornicus (58602).

Harris, Dr. J. V., Key West, Fla.:
Specimen of Philibretella clausa
from Florida (538056).

Harrison, Miss Carriz, Washington,
D. C.: A doll dressed in a period cos-
tume of 1862 (538241); a piece of
antique Hedebo needlework, from
Copenhagen, Denmark (53941).

Harrison, G. E., Hibbing, Minn..
Upper jaw tooth of a bison (53044).

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Harrison, Georce L., jr., Philadelphia,
Pa.: 8 skulls of Gazella dorcas
(53048) ; also, from a fund of $500
presented by Mr. Harrison to the
Smithsonian Institution, to be used
for the purchase of mammals for
the National Museum, the following
specimens were obtained: 5 tree-
shrews from Sumatra (58292); 45
skins and 55 skulls of mammals
from Ontario (53294); a specimen
of Rupicapra pyrenaica, collected
near the Spanish border of the Pyre-
nees (53467); a specimen of Ovis
musimon from Corsica (538616) ; 12
Trish hares (53935); a skeleton of
a beaver from Germany (53990); a
specimen of Rupicapra from Italy
(54065); 5 specimens of Caucasian
ibex, Capra cylindricornis (54087).

Hart, W. C., Manitou, Colo.: 2 speci-

mens of malachite after azurite,
from Nevada (53888).
HarTMan, Miss EvizaABpeTH. (See

under Miss Fannie A. Weeks.)

HARTMAN, JOHN P.
W. G. Flett.)

(See under Mr.

HIARVARD UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY Muv-
SEUM, Cambridge, Mass.: Polished
slab of pegmatite from Quincy,
Mass. (538759: exchange).

Hassr, Dr. H. E., Sawtelle, Cal.: 2
specimens of cactus, Opuntia, from
California (52971).

Hay, Mrs. Joun, Washington, D. C.
(through Mrs. Julian James) : Dress
and veil worn by Mrs. Hay at the
Court of St. James; cloak worn by
Mr. Hay at the Court of Spain
while secretary of legation at Mad-
rid (53730) ; cut-glass inkstand with
the inscription ‘‘ This inkstand was
used by Abraham Lincoln during his

|
Presidency. John Hay.” on the sil- |
ver top; chair used at the Cabinet

meetings at the White House from
the time of President Grant until
1902; round mahogany table of
Sheraton design; fan of black gauze
embroidered in spangles and gold
thread (54188). Loan.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Haycock, ARTHUR, Whitby, Bailey
Bay, Bermudas: Land and marine
shells, some of which are new to the
Museum collections, from the Ber-
mudas (53278; 53278; 58485; 53855).

Hayes, Col. W. C., Fremont, Ohio
(through Mrs. Julian James): Red
velvet dress worn by Mrs. Ruther-
ford B. Hayes during Mr. Hayes’
administration as President (54264:
loan).

HeatH, Dr. Harowp, Stanford Univer-
sity, Cal.: Isopod, Pseudione giardi,
parasitie in a lithodid crab (58297).

HEFLEBOWER, GEORGE W., Washington,
D. C.: Reptiles, batrachians, crusta-
ceans, insects, and a bat from Ork-
ney Springs, Va. (58050).

Heritin, Hon. J. THoMAS, Lafayette,
Ala.: An oyster growing on a bottle
(53497).

Hewtier, A, A., University of Nevada,
Reno, Nev.: 8 plants from Nevada
(58807).

HemMMIck, Mrs. CHRISTIAN D., Wash-
ington, D. ©.: Ivory dish, ivory
crosier, suit of armor on dummy, In-
dian bow, and camel’s saddle (54259 :
loan).

HENDERSON, JOHN B., jr., Washington,
D. C.: Invertebrates, fishes, and a
devilfish, dredged in the Straits of
Florida (52961); S77 specimens of
mollusks, representing 76 species
(53379); 17 samples of ocean de-
posits from the eastern coast of
North America (58445); a fine
specimen of Murer bednalli from
Port Darwin, Australia (58884) ; 102
specimens of marine invertebrates,
dredged off Florida and the Baha-
mas, and fishes from the same re-
gion (54199).

Henry, THE Misses, Washington,
D. C.: Sampler inscribed “ Alexan-
der,” and sampler book made by the
grandmother of the donors, two
beaded bags of the early 19th cen-
tury, and a piece of a dress which
belonged to the Empress Josephine
(58842).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Herre, Prof. A. W. C. T., Okland, Cal.:
77 lichens from the western part of
the United States (53862; 53926).

Hess, FraAnK L., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: 5 specimens
of tin ores, including one from
Alaska (58953; 54053). (See under
Boulder County Metal Mining Asso-
ciation.)

Hewett, D. F., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: 12 speci-
mens of vanadium minerals from
Peru, 1 specimen of native tellurium
from Gunnison County, Colo., and 5
specimens of analcite from East Ab-
saroka Mountains, Wyo. (58460;
58618).

HILDEBRAND, 8S. F. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Smithsonian Bio-
logical Survey of the Panama Canal
Zone. )

ities Oo aWashinetoniDse.2 2
figurines, taken from a grave in
Guanajuato, Mexico, more than two
hundred years old (53949).

HInNDS, HENRY, Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of sphalerite in cannel coal
(53473).

HiorkAM, Brother, San Juan, P. R.:
157 living and dried plants from
Porto Rico (538088; 58878; 538653;
54040).

Hitcucock, A. 8., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 238
specimens of Cyperaceae, collected
in Maryland (53861).

HITCHENS, Capt. Gro. D., Townsend,
Va.: Specimen of dovekie, Alle alle,
a razor-billed auk, Alca torda, and
19 sand crabs, Ocypode albicans,
from Smith Island, Va. (58559;
53882; 54189).

Hors, Mrs. R. R., Washington, D. C.
(through Mrs. Julian James): Um-
brella given to President Monroe by
the city of Boston during the recep-
tion of Gen. Lafayette in 1824;
duplicate of the umbrella given to
Lafayette (58675); dress worn by

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Hors, Mrs. R. R.—Continued.

Mrs. Winfield Scott, representing Po-
ceahontas at a fancy dress ball in
Paris, 1880; vest, coat, and trousers’
worn by James Monroe, special
envoy at the Court of Napoleon I;
and 2 vests which belonged to Capt.
John Hazard, 1777 (53790). Loan.
(See under Mrs. W. P. E. Wyse.)

HOOFFMEIER BROTHERS, Lancaster, Pa.:
Specimens of immature Psocide, pos-
sibly the young of Pterodela pedi-
cularia (538188).

Hottoway, JAMES M., Washington,
D. C.: Shell, or solid shot, found in
May, 1912, by the donor on the Bull
Run battle field (54170).

Hoitm, Dr. THEODOR, Brookland, D. C.:
A jar of seedlings of Datura (58301).

Houmes, Prof. J. A., Bureau of Mines,
Washington, D. C. (through Mr.
David White) : Specimen of anthra-
cite coal with unusual fracture sur-
face (53916).

HoitMEs, Prof. WiLLIAM H., U. S. Na-
tional Museum: Collection of stone
implements, mostly projectile points,
from the Rappahannock River, Rich-
mond County, Va. (58151).

Hott, Mrs. A. G., St. Paul, Minn.:
Mounted specimen of goshawk, Astur
atricapillus, from Virginia (53196).

Houzincer, J. M., Winona, Minn.: 300

plants from New Mexico (53260:
purchase).
Homan, F. W., Colorado Springs,

Colo.: 9 living specimens of Echi-
nocereus from Colorado (53968).

Hope GARDENS, DEPARTMENT OF AGRI-

CULTURE. (See under Kingston, Ja-
maica.)
Hopxins, Mrs. ARCHIBALD, Washing-

ton, D. C.: Piece of Spanish blonde
lace (54060: loan).

HoRNBLOWER & MARSHALL, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Cast of a Corinthian cap-
ital of the Temple of Jupiter Stator
in Rome. The cast was taken from

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HoRNBLOWER & MARSHALL—Continued.
the molds in the Louvre, and was
used by the architects Messrs. Horn-
blower & Marshall as the model for
the capitals of the portico of the new
building of the National Museum in
Washington (53894).

Hostry, Mrs. GENEVIEVE PAUL, Wash-
ington, D. C.: A sword and belt pre-
sented to Commander Harry Her-
bert Hosley, U. S. Navy, by the
Larchmont Yacht Club, New York,
on his return from towing the dry
dock Dewey to the Philippines; four
official cablegrams; also two medals
which belonged to Commander Hos-
ley, one of the Naval Order of the
United States (badge), and the other
of the U. S. Naval Campaign, West
Indies, 1898, U. S. 8. San Francisco
(538694).

HovucH, Rosr, Mt. Rainier, Md.: Speci-
men of crayfish (53850).

Housr, H. D., Canton, N. C.: 271
plants from North Carolina (52975) ;
200 plants from Oregon (53192).

Howe tt, E. E., Estate of (through the
trustees, Dr. F. A. Lucas, Mr. Ralph
W. Howell, and Mr. HB. P. Schwartz) :
An oil painting by Thomas Moran en-

titled “From Hiawatha” (53378:
loan).

HuckeLt, HARLE WENTWorRTH, U. S.
National Museum: Collection of

half tones, offset prints, and photo-
types (535948).

Hucket, Rey. OLiver, Baltimore, Md.:
A periphanoscop (54098: loan).

Hume, Mrs. W. S., Eastport, Me.: Old
New England cornucopia form made
of tin (53488).

HUMPHREY, Marsuaty E., South St.
Paul, Minn.: Parasitic copepods
from heads of brook trout (52942).

HUNGERFORD, T. H., Washington, D. C.:
43 skins and 55 skulls of mammals
from Ontario, Canada (53294: pur-
chased from the Harrison fund); 8
bird skins from Ontario (58323).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912,

Hunt, JAMES, Washington, D. C.: An
Arabic manuscript of Mohammedan
devotions, in book form (53517).

Huntineton, Prof. Grorer 8. (See
under New York City, College of
Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia
University. )

Hurter, JuLivs, sr., St. Louis, Mo.:
4 reptiles and a fish (54252).

Hussry, Miss Mary HE.
Miss Fannie A. Weeks.)

(See under

HYBENNET, HERBERT, Worcester, Mass. :
47 Persian postage stamps, 18 Per-
sian coins in a small purse of Per-
sian textile, 88 photographs of Per-
sian life and customs, a Persian pipe
bowl, brass inlaid with turquois
and garnets, and a Persian show bill
(538942).

Hystop, J. A., Hagerstown, Md.: 6
specimens of Cyamus scammoni,
from a California gray whale cap-
tured at Ocosta, Wash. (58630); 4
amphipods from Coulee Lake,
Govan, Wash. (53739); about 15
Coleoptera from Washington and
Oregon (54241).

INDIAN MUSEUM. Cal-

cutta, India.)

(See under

InGELS, A. T., Baltimore, Md.: A piece
of knit lace (538431).

INGERSOLL, Mrs. Emma, Olney, IIL:
Mollusks, representing 3. species,
from California, collected by the
late Walter C. Goforth (58482).

INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF: Skins,
skulls, and skeletons of 3 American
bison, received through Lieut. Col.
L. M. Brett, U. S. Army, acting su-
perintendent of the Yellowstone Na-
tional Park, Yellowstone Park, Wyo.
(58470).

General Land Office: 2 copies of
the bronze medal struck to commem-
orate the centennial of the organiza-
tion of the General Land Office,
1812-1912 (54049).

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INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT oF—Continued.

U. S. Geological Survey: 23 fos-
sil plants of the genus Gigantopteris,
from the Wichita formation in
Texas (538011) ; 9 specimens of min-
erals, mostly type material (53061) ;
2 specimens of variscite, 1 of wurt-
zite crystals and 1 of jarosite, from
Utah (53116); 16 boxes of granites
from the New England States, de-
scribed by T. Nelson Dale (53259) ;
recent corals collected in Panama by
T. Wayland Vaughan (53496); a
small lot (about 18 specimens) of
vertebrate fossils collected by Dean
E. Winchester, in Perkins County,
S. Dak. (53498); a series of rock
specimens and ores collected in in-
vestigating the ore deposits of the
northern part of Yuma _ County,
Ariz., and described in Bulletin 451
of the survey (53537) ; 3 specimens
of Cretaceous vertebrates, obtained
by Eugene Stebinger, near the Cana-
dian line, Montana (53591); about
60 specimens of vertebrate fossils
from the White River group and the
Lance formation, Harding County,
S. Dak., obtained by E. M. Parks
(53593) ; 84 specimens illustrating
the geology and ore deposits of the
Breckenridge district, Colo., de-
scribed in Professional Paper 75;
also 135 additional specimens from
the same district (538654); 9 speci-
mens of vertebrate fossils, collected
by C. J. Hares in the Lance forma-
tion and associated beds of Billings
County, N. Dak. (58677); a fossil
creodont bone, collected by G. B.
Richardson in the Colorado Springs
quadrangle, Colo. (53710) ; 20 speci-
mens of Cretaceous and Tertiary
fossil vertebrates obtained by D. F.
Hewett in the Wiley and Meeteetse
quadrangles, Bighorn Basin, Wyo.
(53723); 2 specimens of Vermont
marble (53731); 69 specimens of
fossil crustaceans from the Tertiary
of Virginia, North Carolina, and
South Carolina, obtained with the
cooperation of the State geological
surveys of Virginia and North Caro-

INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT oOF—Continued.

lina (58752); 110 lots of Florida
phosphates, collected by George H.
Hidridge, 1891-1897 (53867); a se-
ries of representative specimens of
Florida phosphates (53868) ; 4 small
lots of fossil reptiles, collected in
the Fort Berthold Indian Reserva-
tion, N. Dak., by Frank A. Herald
(58889); 27 type specimens of
Silurian fossils (58895); 71 rock
specimens from the Taylorsville re-
gion, Cal., used in illustrating Bulle
tin 353 of the survey (54006); 70
specimens of rocks and ores of the
Tonopah district, Nev., illustrating
Professional Paper 42, and a suite of
34 miscellaneous specimens from
various localities (54196); 215
specimens of marbles from Vermont,
collected by T. Nelson Dale (54231) ;
specimen of natural potassium ni-
trate, from Washoe County, Nev.
(54234). (See under Mr. Albert
Dakan.)

ISTHMIAN CANAL CoMMISSION: Corals,

sponges, and mollusks from the vi-
cinity of Gatun, Canal Zone (538459) ;
through Col. Geo. W. Goethals, U. S.
Army, a box of Tertiary fossils illus-
trating section A, Gatun cut, col-
lected by D. F. MacDonald; 19 boxes
containing 60 lots of Tertiary fos-
sils from the Canal Zone, collected
by Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan and
Mr. MacDonald; 18 boxes of Ter-
tiary fossils from various localities
in the Canal Zone, collected by Mr.
MacDonald (53595; 53596; 53597:
collected for the Museum).

JacK, JoHN R., Fort Myers, Fla.: 4

eggs of a gopher snake, from

Florida (58026).

JACKSON, Miss Fannig, Yonkers, N. Y.

(through Mrs. Julian James): A
breastpin of jet, gold, and pearls,
which belonged to Henrietta Myers,
wife of Peter S. Hoes, a nephew of
President Martin Van Buren
(53950) ; pairof earrings and brooch,
of topaz and pearls, which belonged
to Charlotte Bailey, wife of Maj.
Myers (54179), Loan.

106 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

JACKSON, Dr. F. W., Jefferson, Me.:
About 3800 bird eggs, mostly from
Maine (538904).

JACKSON, H. H. T., Biological Survey,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.: Specimen of
brook lamprey, from a small stream
east of Riverdale, Md. (54012).

JAMES, Mrs. JULIAN, Washington,
D. C.: An Italian lamp (lucerna),
and an Etruscan vase (53350) ; 5 ob-
jects relating to the Bailey-Myers-
Mason families (53351: loan); a
piece of Alencon lace, Louis XV,
Travail a Vaiguille, and one of Brus-
sels point de Gaze appliqué, Louis
XVI, a collar and sleeves of point
de Gaze, and a filet handkerchief
(58829); panel of Spanish brocade,
galon edge, 19th century, and a panel
of French brocade, striped, galon
fringe, 19th century (58845: loan) ;
framed photographs of Charles
Frederic Worth, the celebrated
dressmaker of Paris (1825-1895),
and of Auguste Petit, hairdresser to
the Empress Hugenie, and an album
of American ‘period’ costumes
(53984); a lady’s riding hat worn
by Mrs. James in 1871, a plush bon-
net worn by Mrs. James in 1886, and
a sunbonnet and cap worn by Mrs.
Myers in 1899 (58987: loan); 4
chalice covers of old Spanish, old
Italian, Rhodian, and Bulgarian em-
broideries; 2 large brocade scarfs of
the periods of Louis XV and XVI,
used at baptisms; and a table cover
of Genoa velvet (53988: loan) ; bas-
ketry, birch-bark work, and other
ethnological objects from various
parts of the world (54110); terra-
cotta vase and bowl, antique vase, 2
Egyptian and 2 Roman statuettes,
Egyptian scarab, fragment of Egyp-
tian plaque (Faience), 4 Italian
bambinos, tiny Italian bambino in
an egg-shaped case, wooden mosaic
oblong box marked ‘“ Sorrento,” a
piece of flexible sandstone from the
southern part of the United States

JAMES, Mrs. JuLIAN—Continued.

(54186) ; desk of Porto Rico mahog-
any, 2 lamps from the home of the
father of Sidney Mason, at Glouces-
ter, Mass., silver inkwell given to
Sidney Mason by his wife’s father,
Senor Don José Dorado of old Spain,
and a chair, copied from Washing-
ton’s chair, which Theodorus Bailey
Myers gave to his father-in-law, Sid-
ney Mason, and which had been used
by Washington when at the old state
house at Annapolis (54204: loan) ;
brooch of onyx with monogram
"OC. 'G.. M.” in). diamonds; and va
photograph in the back, which be-
longed to Mrs. Sidney Mason, née
Catherine Gartz Robb, of New York
(54228: loan); portfolio of photo-
graphs of Hungarian national cos-
tumes (54260); dress of green gren-
adine worn in 1820 by Marequita
Benito Dorado, who married Sidney
Mason; dress of gray sprigged silk
worn by Mrs. Theodorus Bailey
Myers at a dinner given to Mr. and
Mrs. Myers at the old Van Ness
house on May 9, 1847; dress worn by
Mrs. Theodorus Bailey Myers at a
dinner given at the White House in
1885 by President Chester A. Arthur;
dress worn by Mrs. Julian James at
the British Embassy ball on May 25,
18938, in honor of Queen Victoria’s
birthday (54261: loan). (See under
Miss Marian T. Coffin; Mrs. John
Hay; Col. W. C. Hayes; Mrs. R. R.
Hoes; Miss Fannie Jackson; Miss
May S. Kennedy; Mrs. L. Z. Leiter;
Miss Mackenzie; Mrs. Levi P. Mor-
ton; Miss Sydney Price; Mrs. Theo-
dore Roosevelt; Mrs. Nellie Grant
Sartoris; Mrs. William H. Taft; and
Mrs. Lucy Page Whitehead.)

JARDIN BOTANIQUE DE L’Hrat. (See

under Brussels, Belgium.)

JEANCON, J. A., Colorado Springs, Colo, :

Fragment of basketry-marked pot-
tery (with cast showing the weave),
and a small bone implement, from
New Mexico (538404).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

JENKINS, ©. FRANCIS, Washington,
D. C.: Moving-picture camera with
24 revolving lenses (52963: loan) ;
a vest-button camera (53945).

Jessup, J. M., Smithsonian Institu-
tion: Small collection of mosquitoes
and about 200 beetles from the Por-
cupine River region, Alaska (52944) ;
insects, including beetles and mos-
quitoes, from near New Rampart
House, Yukon Territory (538010;
53211) ; fresh-water shells from Link
River, Oreg., and from a lake in the
northeastern part of Alaska (58283) ;
3 skulls and 1 skin of mammals
from northern Alaska (538289); 2
very young grayling, Thymallus,
and 2 cottids, Cottus, collected in
the South Fork of Old Crow River,
Alaska (53583).

JOHANNSEN, Prof. O. A., University of
Maine, Orono, Me.: About 26 speci-
mens of Diptera, the types of 11 new
species (54152).

JouHNSoN, Mrs. G. O., Margie, Minn.:
Star-nosed mole, Condylura cristata
(589738).

JONES, FRANK Morton, Wilmington,
Del.: About 150 specimens of Hy-
menoptera from the Bermuda Islands
(58859).

Jones, M. E., Oroville, Wash.: Living
specimen of cactus, Opuntia, from
Washington (52948).

JORDAN, Dr. Davin Starr, Leland Stan-
ford Junior University, Stanford
University, Cal.: Type specimen of
Chromis verater (541738).

Jupp & DETWEILER, Washington, D. C.:
6 half-tone portraits of geologists
(589388).

IKAISER, VALENTINE, Laurel, Md.: Skin
and skull of a fox squirrel, Sciurus,
from near Priest Bridge, Patuxent
River, Md. (58201).

KANE, CHARLES, Washington, D. C.: A
Springfield military gun of 1853
(58269: loan).

107

KANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF, Lawrence,
Kans.: 2 specimens of Petrolisthes
cinctipes from Puget Sound (53499) ;
14 specimens of Cirripedia, Chel-
onobia and Octolasmis (58571); 638
specimens of Echinoderms, princi-
pally from Puget Sound (538671).

KARPELES, Dr. S. R., Washington,
D. C.: An anatomical specimen
(54228).

KEEN, Rey. Canon J. H., Metlakatla,
British’ Columbia: 2 young speci-
mens of Synaptomys, in aleohol
(58265).

Kettoce Co., THE ANDREW H., New
York City: 3 half-tone rubber offset
prints ‘‘ Kelloggraphy,” an example
of five-color print rubber offset work.
and one of three-color print rubber
offset work (52988).

KENNAN, GerorGr, Baddeck, Nova
Seotia: Pitcher and cup found by
the donor after the disaster at St.

Pierre, Martinique, in May, 1902
(54050).

Krnnepy, Miss May S., Charlestown,
W. Va. (through Mrs. Julian

James) : Dress, shoes, and lace hand-
kerchief worn by Miss Harriet Lane
at her marriage to Mr. Henry Elliot
Johnston (54256: loan).

Kent, JoHN H., Philadelphia, Pa.: A
tinted ambrotype of two children
(52995); 5 ambrotypes and a da-
guerreotype (58074) ; an ambrotype
of a baby, taken in 1856 or 1857
(58698).

KETTERLINUS LITHOGRAPHIC MANUFAC-
TURING Co., Philadelphia, Pa.: 4
specimens of four-color work and 3
prints, made by the rubber offset
halftone process (52989).

Kew, Lonpon, ENGLAND, Royat Bo-
TANIC GARDENS: A portion of the
type of Polypodium sericeolanatum
from Ecuador (53100: exchange).

Keyser, EB. W., Washington, D. C.: 2
pipes, 2 carved spoons and a chipped
flint knife, collected by Dr. Robert

108

Keyser, E, W.—Continued.

Reyburn from the Hupa Indians
(53075) ; an old Klamath otter-skin
headdress and 2. otter-skin hair
wrappings (538649); flute, hair-
brush, wooden spoon, and a_ batl-
eagle wing from the outfit of an
Oto Indian Medicine Man (53818) ;
Oto headdress, Spanish-American
tapadero, 2 South Sea Island clubs,
and a Persian bow (54128). Ex-
change.

Kincorr, B. W., Raleigh, N. C.: A
block of biotite granite, from near
Raleigh (538614).

Kinpiez, E. M., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: Eskimo
bones from graves on the Kanauguk
River, near York, Alaska (538381).

Kinc, ALFRED, Arlington, N. J.: 15

clay concretions (52959).

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE, HoPprE GARDENS: [Fern
from Jamaica (53531: exchange).

Kinewoop QuaRRIES Co., Kingwood,
W. Va.: Cube of sandstone from the
Kingwood quarries (538840).

Kirk, Mrs. C. A., Washington, D. C.:
About 200 specimens, representing 26
species, of land and fresh-water mol-
lusks from the United States
(58771).

Kirk, H. B., Harrisburg, Pa.: 28 speci-
mens of Hymenoptera (538668).

Kitson, Henry H., New York City:
Plaster bust of the King of Italy,
Vittorio Emanuele III, by Henry H.
Kitson (54168: loan).

Kwy-ScHerrer Co., New York City: 2
skeletons with skulls and 18 sepa-
rate skulls of the chimpanzee; also
1 skeleton with skull,

of the gorilla (538608: purchase).

Ko, Prof. Soxicur, Fukuoka Univer-
sity, Fukuoka, Japan: 15 specimens
of minerals (54002: exchange).

KOnNIcL. BOTANISCHER GARTEN. (See
under Berlin, Dahlem bei Steglitz.)

1 skeleton |
without skull, and 10 separate skulls |

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Rk
SEUM.

NATURHISTORISCHES HoFMU-
(See under Vienna, Austria.)

KONIGL, ZOOLOGISCHES MUSEUM.
under Berlin, Germany.)

(See

KRyYGER, J. P., Gjentofte, Denmark:
About 1,800 specimens of reared
parasitic Hymenoptera (538782: gift
and exchange).

KUALA LUMPUR, FEDERATED MALAY
STATES, FEDERATED MALAY STATES
MuseuMs: 5. skins, with skulls,
of squirrels, Ratufa and Sciurus
(538153: exchange).

KUCHING, SARAWAK, BORNEO, SARAWAK
Museum: 49 specimens of insects
representing 11 species of Cicadide
from Borneo (53800).

KueEster, ARTHUR, Stapleton, N. Y.:
131 living plants, mainly Cactacez
and Crassulacee, from various local-
ities (538557 ; 53929).

Kunzt, Dr. R. E., Phoenix, Ariz.: 2
living specimens of Cactaces, Mamil-
laria nickelie, originally from Mex-
ico (58005); 5 plants, mainly Cac-
taces, from Arizona (538117; 53180).

LaBaw, J. P., Hopewell, N. J.: Speci-
men of brochantite, variety waring-
tonite, on smithsonite (53865).

LACKEY, Gro. R., Sioux Falls, S. Dak.:
Specimen of western hognose snake,
Heterodon nasicus, from South Da-
kota (538817).

La FuescuHe, Francis, Bureau of
American Ethnology: Sacred pack
or bundle of the Omaha Indians
(54008: purchase); a wa-xobe, or
sacred pack, of the Osage Indians
(54109).

Lams, Dr. D. S., Army Medical Mu-
seum, Washington, D. C.: 2 anatomi-
cal specimens (538107; 53878).

LANCASTER, SAMUEL J., U. 8S, National
Museum: Squid from the stomach
of a fish (53581).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

LANDER, FREDERICK C., New York City
(through Mr. C. J. Bell, Washing-
ton, D. C., coexecutor of the estate
of Jean M. D. Lander) : Gold watch
and Grand Army pin which belonged
to the late Jean M. D. Lander
(58624 : loan).

Lang, Dr. M. M., Naylor, Mo.: Male
pupa of the American Hercules bee-
tle, Dynastes tityus (58156).

LANSING, Mrs. ABRAHAM, Albany, N.Y.:
Memorials of Peter Gansevoort, jr.
(1749-1812), Colonel, Continental
Army, Brigadier General, U. S.
Army; of his eldest son, Herman
Gansevoort (1779-1862), Colonel,
Sixty-third Regiment, New York
State Militia; and of his grandson,
Henry 8S. Gansevoort (1835-1871),
Brevet Brigadier General, U. S. Vol-
unteers. The collection includes mil-
itary and civil costumes, swords, a
folding camp cot, a Chinese Lowes-
toft plate, an ivory miniature, en-
gravings, and autograph letters
(58757).

LARAMIE, Wyo., UNIVERSITY OF Wyo-
MING: Fragment of the type of As-
plenium andrewsti (538860: ex-
change).

LatcurorpD, Hon. Justice F. R., To-
ronto, Canada: Fresh-water shells
from various localities in Ontario
(54140).

LaATTIN, C. Irvine, Yonkers, N. Y.:
Specimen of black tourmaline in
granite (53239).

LEE, JOSEPH, Pensacola, Fla.: Speci-
men of deep-water gurnard, Periste-
dion gracile, from Cape St. Blas
(53217); crustaceans representing
the species Cronius ruber, Scyllarus
americanus, and Odontodactylus ha-
vanensis (54093).

LEFFINGWELL, E. pr K., Herschel
Island, Canada: 21 skulls and 20
skins of mountain sheep, Ovis, and 3
skulls of bears, Thalarctes (53749).

109

LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, South Bethlehem,
Pa.: 4 specimens of minerals (53917:
exchange).

Leiter, Mrs. L. Z., Washington, D. C.
(through Mrs. Julian James): Re-
production of a costume of the Em-
press Josephine, which was worn by
Mrs. Leiter at the Durbar costume
ball given by the Viceroy and Lady
Curzon at the Government House,
Calcutta, India, January 26, 1903
(54097 : loan).

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY,
Stanford University, Cal.: Type
specimen of Triglops ommatistius
(54197 : exchange). (See under
Stanford Expedition.)

LrermMonp, N. W., Thomaston, Me:
Specimen of Chrysodomus manda-
rinus from Wanganui, New Zealand
(53394).

Lewis, Lieut. Grorce C., U. S. Army,
Austin, Tex.: 350 specimens of Cre-
taceous fossils from Texas; also 12
stone implements (54091).

Lewis, W. P., Phillipsburg, N. J.: 8
stone implements from New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, and a flaking tool
used by the donor in making arrow
points (58089).

LewtTon, F. L., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 112
plants from Texas (53002).

LIBERTY & Co., Ltp., London, England:
A carved turquois charm, a lapis
lazuli charm, and a Chinese clasp
set with jade and pink tourmaline
(538699 : purchase).

LINCOLN, LEO B., Chicago, Ill.: Foot
bone of an extinct species of elk
(54092).

Lirrter, FRANK M., Launceston, Tas-
mania: 189 specimens of Coleoptera
(53798 : exchange).

Lizzir Cray & Purp Co., Phillipsburg,
N. J.: Rough block of serpentine
(54111).

110

Lopinc, H. P., Mobile, Ala.: 17 beetles,
representing 5 recently described spe-
cies (53165).

LoGAN, OSBORNE, Lagrange, Tex.: 2
fragments of meteoric iron (53890).

LONDON, ENGLAND, BRITISH MUSEUM
(NaturRAL History): 50 specimens
of Ordovician bryozoans from Swe-
den (53410: exchange).

LONDON, ENGLAND, ENTOMOLOGICAL RE-
SEARCH COMMITTEE (TROPICAL AF-
Rica): 12 African parasitic Hymen-
optera, paratypes of 2 new species
(58721).

Lone, The Misses, Washington, D. C.:
Memorials of the Bradford family
of New England, consisting of silver-
ware, glassware, china, and other
miscellaneous objects, formerly
owned by Alice Southworth Dearth,
lineal descendant of Gov. William
Bradford and Lady Alice South-
worth (53365; 538415; 58456; 53563;
58940). Loan.

Los ANGELES, CAL., UNIVERSITY OF
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: 9 lots of an-
nelids and actinians (52965).

LouBatT, Duc peg, Paris, France (through
Department of State) : 2 copies each
of 2 bronze medals, which the donor
had struck in commemoration of his
election as Foreign Associate to the
Institute of France, Academy of In-
scriptions and Belles Lettres (53000).

Lower, Hergert N., Long Beach, Cal.:
18 specimens, representing 3 species,
of land shells from Cedros and San
Geronimo Islands, off the coast of
Lower California (54187); 3 speci-
mens of Grapsus grapsus from Cedros
Island (54036).

LoweLL LumMBer & ASBESTOS CoO.,
Lowell, Vt.: A block of serpentine
with veins of asbestos, and samples
of shredded asbestos (53454).

‘“LowwNpDeEs, Mrs. JAMES, Washington,
D. C.: 18 paintings (54161: loan).

REPORT OF NATIONAL, MUSEUM, 1912,

LUCKETT, WILLIAM, Deanwood Heights,
D. C.: Larva of hickory-horned
devil, Citheronia regalis (58104).

LuDLow, Dr. CLARA SOUTHMAYD, Wash-
ington, D. C.: 25 plants, chiefly from
New York (58548); a hand-woven
bedspread, 18th century; embroid-
ered collar and undersleeves; piece

of Honiton lace; and a _ sewing
“ trick,’ being additions to ‘‘ The
Sutphen - Schenck - Hunt Memorial

Collection” (53657) ; 12 mosquitoes
from the Philippine Islands (58880).

LuEDERS, Harry, Washington, D. C.:
Moth, Samia cecropia (54239).

LUMHOLTz, Cart, New York City: Liv-
ing specimen of J/amillaria senilis,
from Mexico (538175); insects from
Arizona, Sonora, and Chihuahua

(53554).

LYMAN, Dr. THEODORE, Harvard Uni-
versity, Cambridge, Mass.: Skin and
skull of a mountain sheep, from
Washington State (538955).

LyNnaM, Rev. Jos. P., S. J., Punta
Gorda, British Honduras: Specimen
of Aleyonarian coral (58670); 18
shells and 2 specimens of calcareous
deposits, from British Honduras
(54069).

McATEE, W. L., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 180
specimens of Diptera from Washing-
ton and vicinity (53458). (See
under Mr. A. C. Weed.)

McCoy, Dr. G. W., U. S. Public Health
and Marine-Hospital Service, San
Francisco, Cal.: Type specimen of
Ctenophthalnus heiseri (52981).

McDermott, F. Atex., University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.: A reared
specimen of Lucidota atra with lar-
val and pupal skins, from Niagara
Falls (54191).

MacDonaLp, D. F., Culebra, Canal
Zone (through Col. Geo. W. Goethals,
U. S. Army): 2 boxes of Tertiary
fossils from the vicinity of Port
Limon, Costa Rica (53603). (See
under Isthmian Canal Commission. )

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

MacDoucaL, Dr. D. T. (See under
Carnegie Institution of Washing-
ton.)

McELHosE, HeENrRy, Ilion, N. Y.: 12
specimens of Lepidoptera (538364).

McGeHer, BE. A., Fort Worth, Tex.: 8
specimens of Cretaceous inverte-
brates from near Fort Worth (54251),

McGitvray STONE Co., Sites, Cal.: A
cube of sandstone (53661).

McGuire, J. D., Bureau of American
Ethnology: A celt made from a Tri-
dacna shell, obtained about 22 years
ago by Capt. (later Rear Admiral)
H.C. Taylor, in the Caroline Islands,
while in command of the U. S. S.
Alliance (58565).

Mackay, Commander GrorGe, Civil En-
gineer, U. S. Navy (retired), Wash-
ington, D. C.: 144 specimens of shark
teeth from the Coosaw River,
Ss. C.; 1 complete specimen and 3
fragments of mastodon teeth; 3
teeth of 2 distinct species of horses,
and fragments of sirenian and ceta-
cean ribs and vertebrie (53976).

McKer, Mrs. Mary Harrison, New
York City (through Mrs. Julian
James): An evening dress worn by
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison during her
husband’s term as President of the
United States (53981: loan).

MACKENSEN, BERNARD, San Antonio,
Tex.: 4 types and several photo-
graphs of Opuntia (53302) ; 5 living
specimens of EHchinocereus from
Texas (538970).

MacKenzig, Miss SALuirz P., Baltimore,
Md. (through Mrs. Julian James) :
A dress and cap worn by Martha
Washington (54265: loan).

McLacuian, R. W., Montreal, Canada:
Canadian cent, issue of 1911 (53007).

McManon, Dr. CHARLES G., Copperhill,
Tenn.: Beetle, Monohammus titilla-
tor (58046).

Edt

Mappren, A, G., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: Fern from
Canada (58600). (See under Mr.
Frank E. Foster.)

Mania, P. I., BUREAU oF HEALTH FOR
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS (through
Dr. Carroll Fox): 2 specimens of
rats, Epimys querceti (53920); a
small collection of insects from Ma-
nila (538667; 54029).

MANILA, P. I., BUREAU OF SCIENCE: 96
specimens of Philippine plants
(53101: exchange) ; 2 etched pebbles
of obsidian resembling moldavites
(53288); 5 specimens of Cactacee,
including 2 specimens of Cereus lepi-
dotus, from the Philippines (53331;
58375: exchange).

Mann, Dr. AvBert, U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
About 300 slides of diatoms, from
the collections of the Albatross in
1888-1904 (53715).

MANN, Judge Grorcr E., Galveston,
Tex.: Specimen of coral from Gal-
veston Harbor (533803).

MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, Woods
Hole, Mass.: 58 specimens of inver-
tebrates (541483: purchase).

Mar.Lorr, FRED, Oak Station, Pa.: 18
specimens of Lepidoptera (53756).

MarsH, Dr. C. Dwieut. (See under
Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian
Biological Survey of the Panama
Canal Zone.)

MARSHALL, ERNEST B., Laurel, Md.:
Alcoholic specimen of Zapus hud-
sonius, a weasel, 3 specimens of
hooded merganser, Lophodytes cu-
cullatus, and a leech from Laurel
(538072 ; 53833; 53921); 2
specimens of pied-billed grebe, Po-
dilymbus podiceps, a great-crested
flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus, and
a bobolink, Dolychonia# oryzivorus,
from Maryland (58291; 53412;
54064); 3 skins and skulls of Sci-
urus, collected near Bladensburg,
Md. (53416); skull of a deer, Odo-

59713 ;

112

MarRSHALL, ERNEST B.—Continued.
coileus, from Halifax County, N. C.
(53469); specimen of red-bellied
woodpecker, Centurus carolinus
(538612); skull of a raccoon, Pro-
cyon, from near Bowie, Md. (53627) ;
skull of an opossum, from Belts-
ville, Md. (55728); a weasel skull,
Putorius vison, and an opossum
skull, Didelphis virginiana (53765) ;
sparrow hawk, falco’ sparverius
(538846) ; fishes from Crow Branch,
Laurel (58915). (See under Mr.
Barton A. Bean and Mr. Henry R.
Marshall.)

MARSHALL, ERNEST B., and R. BRUCE
OVERINGTON, Laurel, Md.: Fishes
from Crow Branch, Laurel (538142).

MARSHALL, GEORGE, U. S. National Mu-
seum: Specimen of American sole,
collected at Fairy Landing, Va.
(54106).

MARSHALL, HENRY R., Halifax, N. C.:
Coot, Fulica americana, killdeer,
Oxyechus vociferus, and pied-billed
grebe, Podilymbus podiceps, from
Maryland (54013); 6 specimens of
ruby-throated hummingbird, Archi-
lochus colubris, from North Caro-
lina (54209).

MARSHALL, HENRY R. and ERNEST B.:
2 frogs and a snake from Laurel,
Md. (58214).

MARSHALL, Dr. WILLIAM S8., University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: 21
sawflies (538999).

Martin, Prof. H. T., University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.: 18 speci-
mens of fossil wood and a _ fossil
seed (58488).

MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Col-
lege Park, Md.: 18 specimens of
parasitic Hymenoptera, types of 3
species (538463).

Maury, Commander MATTHEW Fon-
TAINE, U. S. Navy, Descendants of
(through Mrs. Mary Maury Werth,
Richmond, Va.) : 6 gold and 18 silver
medals conferred upon the late

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Maury, Commander Matrrurew Fon-
TAINE—Continued.

Matthew Fontaine Maury by foreign

governments in recognition of his

services to science and navigation

(54255).

Maxon, 8S. A., Oneida, N. Y.: Specimen
of Gentiana from Maryland (53386).

MAXxoN, WILLIAM R., U. S. National
Museum: 65 ferns from North Amer-
ica (54149).

MAYNARD, GEORGE C., U. S. National
Museum: A melanotype (52991).

MazyYox, W. G., Charleston, S. C.: 6
specimens of Ancylus peninsule from
Goose Creek, 8S. C. (53414); speci-
men of Vitrea rhoadsi from Berke-

ley, 8S. C., and 9 specimens of Lym-
ned humilis from Charleston
(58484).

MEADow MARBLE Co., Meadow, Tenn.:
Cube of “Meadow Pink” and
“Meadow Gray” marble (58660).

Mearns, Lieut. Col., EH. A., U. S. Army
(retired), U. 8S. National Museum: 2
skins of nuthatch, Stita, from South
Carolina (53169). (See under. Mr.
Arthur T. Wayne.)

Mearns, Louis pr %., Washington,
D. C.: A bird skin, an egg, and the
skull of a mammal, from Argentina
(538388).

Meek, Dr. 8S. EK. (See under Smith-
sonian Institution, Smithsonian Bio-
logical Survey of the Panama Canal
Zone. )

MeRRIAM, Dr. C. Hart. (See under
Mr. G. Frederick Norton.)

MerrILL, Dr. GrorcE P., U. S. National
Museum: 8 © stereoscopic views
(52992) ; fragment and cast of a me-

teoric stone from Cullison, Kans.
(538897).
MERRILL, LEMUEL, Boston, Mass.: 2

oleostatic lamps and a lamp mecha-
nism (533880).

Meyer, Aucust, Richmond, Va.: Speci-
men of rutile (53959).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Mryer, FRANK N., U. S. Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
A geological specimen collected near
Muchi, Chinese Turkestan, and some
recent shells from Tekes Valley,
Thian Shan, Chinese Turkestan
(52957) ; pieces of small copper im-
plements and of antique pottery col-
lected by Mr. Ed. Ryssel, of Piati-
gorsk, Caucasus, from a prehistoric
grave near Terek, and secured by
the donor while traveling in the
Caucasus (58120); 97 copper coins
from old Fortress Termesh, Buchara,
near the Afghanistan frontier; 200
copper coins from an old water-canal
opposite Termesh; and 20 small peb-
bles picked up in the desert near
Khotan, Chinese Turkestan (54052) ;
36 insects (54144) ; collection of for-
eign coins consisting of 29 pieces of
silver, 57 of copper, and 2 of nickel
(54164).

Mie, Mrs. ELiIzaBeTH, Alameda, Cal.:
Glass beads and other objects found
in an Indian mound in Eldorado
County, Cal., by Ernest Miel (53286).

MIERSCHKE, WILHELM, Berlin, Ger-
many: Cast of Homo Awrignacensis
Hauseri (54182: purchase).

MILLER, Dr. Newton, Clark College,
Worcester, Mass.: Fishes and rep-
tiles from Guatemala; also 5 speci-
mens of Catostomus commersonii,
from Coes Pond, Worcester (54192).

Mitts, Lieut. FREDERICK H., Medical
Reserve Corps, U. S. Army, Manila,
P. J.: Skin of black bird, Aplonis
kittlitzi, and 3 skins of crow, Corvus
kubaryi, from Guam (53965 ; 54089).

MILLWARD, WILLIAM. (See under Nan-

king, University of.)

MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES,
Minneapolis, Minn.: 611 bird skins
from the Philippine Islands (53408;
538707 : exchange) ; 6 bird skins from
the Philippine Islands (53800: pur-
chase).

95114°—13——_8

113

Mircuet, CHARLES E., U. S. National
Museum: Skull of a diamond-back
rattlesnake from Florida, and skele-
ton of a woodchuck, Marmota monaz,
from Jericho, N. Y. (53729); skull
of a rattlesnake (53907).

MIssIsquot MARBLE Co. (Ltd.), Mon-
treal, Canada: <A 5-inch cube of
marble (53934).

MISSISSIPPI AGRICULTURAL AND ME-
CHANICAL COLLEGE, Agricultural Col-
lege, Miss.: Fishes, crayfishes, and
mussels from Mississippi (53815).

MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, St. Louis,
Mo.: 6 living specimens of Crassu-
lacee from Mexico (58064: ex-
change); fragment of a fern from
Martinique (53358: exchange).

‘MITCHELL, Hon. J. D., Victoria, Tex. :

Albino specimen of a snake, Haldea
striatula, from Victoria; 2 toads,
Bufo woodhousei and B. compac-
tilis, 2 acorns, and 2 living speci-
mens of Opuntia, from Texas (53025;
53252; 538529; 538927).

MorretT, L. I. (See under Mr. An-

drew Allison.)

MONAGHAN, JOHN, Perryville, Mo.:
Specimen of meteoric iron, from
near Perryville (53651: purchase).

Moopir, Dr. Roy L., University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kans.: 2 shrimps,
Upogebia pugettensis, and a small
bivalve (53253).

Moorr, CLARENCE B., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Human skulls and bones from
along the Red River, Louisiana and
Arkansas (53952); 5 skulls from
ancient graves in Louisiana and
Arkansas (54108).

Moorr, R. B., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
Sample of thorianite, from Ceylon
(58811).

MorcGan, Mrs. FrRANc J., Kenedy, Tex.:
Natural casts of 5 marine fossil
shells from the Glen Rose formation
of the Lower Cretaceous age, from

Guadalupe River, Tex. (53745).

114

Morais, H. L., Museum of the Brook-
lyn Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.: 326
plants from the eastern and north-
eastern part of the United States
(53343; 58505). Exchange.

Morton, Mrs. Levi P., New York City
(through Mrs. Julian James):
Dresses worn by Mrs. Morton at the
Centennial Ball, New York, April 29,
1889, and at the Inaugural Ball of
President Harrison, March 4, 1889
(54266: loan).

Mosses, W. B., & Sons, Washington,
D. C.: Model of a walking-beam en-
gine and of a Pullman car repre-
senting the type in use about 1876
(58947: loan).

Mowpsray, L. L., Director, Boston
Aquarium, Boston, Mass.: Type
specimens of Hmblemaria markii
(54253).

MUNICH, GERMANY, ZOOLOGISCHE
SAMMLUNG DES BAYERISCHEN
STAATES: Specimen of holothurian,
Cucumaria japonica (538125: ex-
change).

Munro, Miss MapeLine, London, Eng-
land: 4 specimens of a fossil bryo-
zoan, Leptophragma (54072: ex-
change).

Muwror, Miss HELEN, Smithsonian In-
stitution: A Chinese card-case, of
carved ivory (538820: loan).

Murray, M. F., Ephraim, Utah: Speci-
men of alunite (53312).

Museo NACIONAL. (See under San

José, Costa Rica.)

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.
(See under Cambridge, Mass.)
y

MUSEUM D’HISTOIRE NATURELLE.
under Paris, France.)

(See

MYERS, P: R., and A. C. WEED, U. S.
National Museum, and H. S. Bar-
BER, U. S. Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. C.: Fishes col-
lected at Plummers Island, Md.
(52999).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

NANKING, UNIVERSITY OF, Nanking,
China (through Mr. William Mill-
ward) : Fern from China (58190).

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Replica of medal com-
memorating the 200th anniversary of
the founding of Yale University,
1901; medal of the Institut de
France commemorating the first ses-
sion, in Paris, 1907, of the Interna-
tional Association of Academies;
medal commemorating the 50th an-
niversary of the founding of the
University of Wisconsin ; medal com-
memorating the 50th anniversary of
the founding of the Academy of
Science of St. Louis (54229: loan).

NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL
DAMES OF AMERICA, Washington,
D. C.: Collection of colonial ecclesi-
astical silver (538226); 5 pieces of
Silverware, lent to the Society by
Mrs. John Cropper (54208). Loan,

NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEUM. (See
under Stockholm, Sweden.)

Navy DEPARTMENT: Oil portrait of
Commodore Oliver H. Perry by J.
W. Jarvis, and of Commodore
Thomas Macdonough, supposedly by
the same artist (53455); 68 relics
recovered from the wreck of the U.
S. 8S. Maine (54033); a series of
medals and badges issued by the De-

partment for various’ services
(54131).
Neat, EH. S., President, Vanadium

Queen Mining Co., Hillsboro, N.
Mex.: Specimen of vanadinite and 8
crystals of endlichite (53162).

NEwcoms, Mrs. SImMon, Washington,
D. C.: Scholastic hoods conferred
upon Prof. Simon Newcomb by the
University of Dublin, 1892 (Se. D.) ;
University of Toronto, 1894 (LL. D.);
University of Princeton, 1896
(LL. D.); and University of Glas-
gow, 1896 (LL. D.) (53290) ; manu-
scripts, with mathematical calcula-
tions, prepared by Prof. Newcomb
in connection with one of his first
published papers on astronomy
(58322). Loan.

.

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

New ENGLAND GRANITE WorKS, Wes-
terly, R. I.: A slab of ‘“‘Red Wes-
terly ” granite (538570).

New Mexico AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Agricultural College, N. Mex.: 200
specimens of fungi from New Mex-
ico (53173: exchange).

NEWTON, CHARLES H., Washington,
D. C.: An incandescent lamp (54236 :
loan).

NEW WESTERLEY GRANITE Co., Milford,
N. H.: Cube of granite (53896).

New YorkK BOTANICAL GARDEN, Bronx
Park, New York City: 700 plants
from the island of Montserrat, Brit-
ish West Indies (53054) ; 15 plants,
including 12 ferns, from Cuba
(58127; 53264); specimen of Hy-
locereus costaricensis, from Costa
Rica (53311); 590 plants, including
2 living specimens of Hylocereus,
from Panama, and a fern from Bo-
livia (53328; 538645); 22 plants, in-
cluding specimens of Cactacee and
Crassulacez, from various localities
(58485; 53550; 53785) ; 1,494 plants
from Cuba and Jamaica (53479) ; 10
ferns from tropical America (53578) ;
2,200 plants of the Otto Kuntze Her-
barium, from various _ localities
(58652); 265 plants collected in
Utah by P. A. Rydberg and A. O.
Garrett (54026). Exchange.

New YorK City, AMERICAN MUSEUM
oF NATURAL HisTory: 18 specimens
of Orthoptera and Hymenoptera
from Lower California (53361) ;
specimen of fossil turtle, Stylemys
nebrascensis (53626: exchange).

New York CITY, COLLEGE OF PHaAR-
MACY OF THE CITY oF NEW YorRK:
Fern from Mexico, received through
Dr. H. H. Rusby (53928: exchange).

New YorK City, CoLLEcE oF PHY-
SICIANS AND SURGEONS, COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY (through Prof. George
S. Huntington): 385 anatomical
specimens (53419: exchange).

115

New York State Museum, Albany,
N. Y.: Copepods from Lake Dela-
ware, N. Y. (54015).

NIEUWLAND, Dr. J. A., University of
Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.: 50
ferns from British India (53504) ;
3 living specimens of Opuntia humi-
fusa from Indiana (53549).

Norcross Bros. Co., Worcester, Mass.:
A slab of Green Ascutney Mountain
(Vt.) syenite (538585).

NortH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE, Raleigh, N. C.: 7 type
specimens: of fossil reptiles (538043:
deposit).

NorTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL AND Eco-
NOMIC SuRVEY, Raleigh, N. C.: 904
specimens of rocks and ores from the
sold Hill mining district, Rowan
County, and 130 specimens from the
Cid mining’ district, Davidson
County (type material) (53028: de-
posit).

Norton, G. FREDERICK, New York
City (through Dr. C. Hart Mer-
riam): A waterproof coat, kamlika,
from Yakutat Bay, Alaska (53819).

NUMISMATIC AND ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
OF PHILADELPHIA, Philadelphia, Pa.:
A bronze copy of the Brinton Medal,
issued by the society (53512).

NutTaLL, Mrs. ZeELi1a, City of Mexico,
Mexico: 391 Mexican spindle whorls
(52951: loan).

O’BerN, JosHUA H., Kittanning, Pa.:
4 species of Unionids, from Penn-
sylvania (58045).

OKLAHOMA ROSE GRANITE COMPANY,
Granite, Okla.: Five-inch cube of
granite (54240).

OLIvE, E. W., Brookings, S. Dak.: 3
specimens of Cirsium arvense from
South Dakota (53263).

Orcutt, C. R., San Diego, Cal.: 171
specimens of ferns from Mexico
(52972: exchange) ; 400 plants from
Mexico (53199: purchase) ; 9 living
specimens of Cactaceew and Crassu-
lacee from Mexico and California
(53341).

116

OVERINGTON, R. BRUCE,
Mr. Ernest B. Marshall.)

Paack, Dr. Fr., Cassel, Germany:
Specimen of metallic iron out of ba-
salt (53440: purchase).

(See under

PaLMER, GROVER H., Rosslyn, Va.:
Specimen of long-eared owl, Asio
wilsonianus, from Rosslyn (53590).

PALMER, JOSEPH, U. 8. National Mu-
seum: Specimen of green heron, Bu-
torides virescens, from Arlington,
Va. (54214).

PALMER, WILLIAM, U. S. National Mu-
seum: Nest and 5 eggs of an oven
bird, Seiuwrus aurocapillus, from
Maryland (54225).

PANAMA CANAL ZONE, BIOLOGICAL SUR-
VEY OF:

The material collected through the
cooperation of the Smithsonian In-
stitution, the Department of Agri-
eulture, the Bureau of Fisheries,
and the Field Museum of Natural
History is accessioned and referred
to in detail under the following
headings:

Agriculture, Department of, Bu-
reau of Biological Survey (53040;
58982; 54134).

Agriculture, Department of, Bu-
reau of Entomology (530638; 53219;
58355; 538702; 53813; 53858; 53954;
58962; 54177; 54249).

Agriculture, Department of, Bu-
reau of Plant Industry (52974;
58004; 58032; 53055; 53059; 58123;
53220; 53330; 53422; 58478; 53599;
58632; 53646; 538860; 54145).

Smithsonian Institution, Biological
Survey of the Panama Canal Zone
(53080 ; 58741; 58919).

PARIS, FRANCE, MUSEUM D’HISTOIRE
NATURELLE: Specimen of isopod,
cotype of Munnopsurus arcticus

(63830).

ParisH, S. B., San Bernardino, Cal.:
Specimen of Oheilanthes parishii,
from California (53525).

Parker, Dr. A. C., Altmar, N. Y.:
Beetle, Desmocerus palliatus (530238).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912,

PARKER, JAMES H., Hl Paso, Tex.: 3
specimens of flake graphite (53795).

PATIENCE, ALEXANDER, Glasgow, Scot-
land: Specimens of young or minute
mollusks, representing 115 species,
and 12 vials of Foraminifera, Ostra-
coda, and worm tubes, from the
Firth of Clyde, Scotland (53708) ;
7 specimens of Gonodactylus de-
mani (58908).

Payn, Extas J., Olympia, Wash.: A
specimen of Primnoa, also a Cross-
section of stalk of an Alcyonarian
from Alaska, taken at a depth of
150 fathoms (53572).

PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, Conn.:
About 2,000 specimens of Beekman-
town fossils from Fort Hunter, N. Y.
(586386).

PEALE, Dr. A. C., U. S. National Mu-
seum: A Navaho blanket of old
bayetta weaving, collected by Dr.
Peale at Pifios Altos, N. Mex., in
1872 (538489: purchase).

Pearse, Dr. A. 8., University of the
Philippines, Manila, P. I.: 7 speci-
mens, representing 4 species, of crabs
from the Philippine Islands (53145).

Prary, Rear Admiral RoBert EDWIN,
U. S. Navy (retired), Washington,
D. C.: An illuminated copy on parch-
ment of the resolution of Congress
thanking Admiral Peary for his
arctic explorations and discovery of
the North Pole, and bearing the
signatures of William H. Taft and
James 8. Sherman (538682: loan).

Prirce, L., New York City: Slab of
sandstone from the Kingwood quar-
ries, Kingwood, W. Va. (53841).

PENNSYLVANIA MARBLE & GRANITE Co.,
West Grove, Pa.: 3 cubes of marble,
white, blue clouded, and gray
(58706).

Pepper, C. W., Providence, R. I.: Land
shells, representing 5 species, from
Mastic Point, Andros Islands, Ba-
hamas (53110).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Pérez, I. Ferrari, Tacubaya, D. F.,
Mexico: 4 specimens (skins and
skulls) of Lepus diazi, collected on

the side of voleano Ixtaccihuatl

(58258).

PERHAM, Lieut. HERBERT N.
der Mr. A. C. Bent.)

(See un-

PERKINS, H. C., Washington, D. C.: 10
oil paintings (54162: loan).

Perner, Dr. J.. Museum des Konig-
reichs Boéhmen, Prague, Bohemia:
24 specimens of minerals (53109: ex-
change).

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, WESTERN
AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM AND ART GAL-
LERY: Specimen of a recent crinoid,
Ptilometra miilleri (53465: ex-
change).

PERU, MINISTERIO DE FOMENTO DEL,
Piura (through Mr. C. H. T. Town-
send): 120 specimens of muscoid
flies, including the type material of
72 species, from South America
(58888).

Petir, Maurice, St. Thomas, Danish
West Indies: Shells from St. Thomas
(58620).

PETRY, WILLIAM, Los Angeles, Cal.:
Specimen of turquois in matrix
(52955); 4 specimens of polished
turquois (52956: purchase).

Pryton, J. B., U. S. National Museum:
Specimen of horned grebe, Colymbus
auritus, from Four Mile Run, Va.
(58417); black duck, Anas tristis,
and a mallard, Anas platyrhynchos,
from Nanjemoy, Md. (58884); a
pair of red-head ducks, Marila amer-
icana (53847); pintail duck, Dajfila
acuta, from the Virginia side of the
Potomac River (53863) ; 2 specimens
of Wilson’s snipe, Gallinago delicata
(53997).

PFIZENMAYER, HE. W., Tiflis, Russia: 3
skins with skulls, 1 scalp with skull,
and 1 skull of Caucasian wild goat,
Capra cylindricornis (54087: pur-
chased from the Harrison fund).

17

PHILLIPS, DoNALD, Heatherwood, Al-
berta, Canada: 8 skulls of Martes
and 9 of Mustela, from the head of
Smoky River, Alberta (53750).

Purp, J. H., Lindisfarne, Tasmania:
Skull of a spotted cat, Dasywrus
maculatus, and of a gray opossum,
Trichosurus fuliginosus, with skele-
ton of the latter (53293) ; skeletons
of a male and female wallaby, skele-
ton of a common bush rat, and skull
of a kangaroo, from northeastern
Tasmania (53681: exchange).

PicToN ISLAND RED GRANITE Co., New
York City: 2 cubes of Picton Island
granite (54135).

Piuspry, Dr. H. A., Academy of Natu-
ral Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.: 4 co-
types of Sagda montegoénsis from
Montego Bay, Jamaica (58835) ; to-
potypes of 2 species of Urocoptis,
from Cuba (54066).

PincHorT, Mrs. JAMES W., Washington,
D. C.: 5 examples of early embroid-
ery, filet and needle-point (53669) ;
bronze statue of Napoleon, by Launt
Thompson (54150). Loan. (See un-
der Mrs. Allerton S. Cushman.)

Piper, C. V., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of Drosera from Ceylon
(58659); 11 specimens of shells
from Lamao, P. L, (53753) ; 2 speci-
mens of Characese from California
(58971) ; 118 plants from Washing-
ton and Oregon (54068). (See un-
der Mr. E. B. Webster.)

PiTtTieR, Prof. H., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 4
plants collected in Salvador by Car-
los Renson (58887).

Pocur, Dr. JOSEPH E., U. S. National
Museum: 6 negatives of views of
Rainbow Natural Bridge, southern
Utah, taken by the donor (54207).

PoLIsH NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THE
UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA,
Chicago, Ill. (through its board of
directors): <A collection of moneys
consisting of 812 pieces, coined by

118

POLISH
UNITED STATES OF NORTH
AMERICA—Continued.

the Kingdom of Poland during the
period of its independence; 2 Polish
medals; and an illuminated docu-
ment presenting the specimens and
entitled “Act of Donation,” the same
being decorated with the seal of the
Polish National Alliance (53227).

PottocK, Mrs. RacHeL E., Washing-

ton, D. C.: Specimen of Canada
warbler, Wilsonia canadensis
(54096).

Pond, Dr. ELEANoR J., Washington,

D. C.: A box of dried plants, mainly
from Colorado and Texas (58099) ;
specimen of a fossil crab, Grapto-
carcinus teranus (5385384).
PoPpENor, E. A., Topeka, Kans.: 7
specimens of amphipods, including
the species Hucrangonyxs mucrona-
tus, 2. gracilis, and Hyalella knick-
erbockeri (53298; 538708;
53870); about 75 specimens of aim-
phipods and isopods (54174).

53727 ;

Porter, Mrs. JOHN BIDDLE (Mrs. Eliza- |

beth Rush Porter), Washington,
D. C.: 2 flounces of Mechlin lace
(1 of them 150 years old), which
belonged to Mrs. Benjamin Rush
and were left to Mrs. Richard Rush,
wife of one of the first regents of
the Smithsonian Institution (58779) ;
cape of white Chantilly lace, cape
and collar of Honiton lace and ber-
tha of Flemish lace (53780: loan) ;
8 framed engravings from Frois-
sart’s Chronicles, and 4 volumes of
““The Scottish Minstrel,” Edinburgh
(53982: loan); a blue satin court
dress and a jacket, worn by Mrs.
Richard Rush in 1817; a baby’s
dress worn by one of the children
of Hon. Richard Rush in 1820; 2
copies of the ‘National Intelli-
gencer,’’ Washington, D. C., 1820;
shells collected in the Bahamas in
1889 by Lieut. Madison Rush, U. S.
Navy (538988) ; black mantilla worn

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THE)

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912,

Porter, Mrs. JOHN BrppLE—Contd.

in 1840 by a member of the Rush
family; baby’s dress worn in 1809
by one of the children of Richard
Rush; dress worn in 1817 by Mrs.
Richard Rush (54062: loan); 3 old
framed engravings of the Duke of
Wellington, Lord Castlereagh, and
the Right Hon. George Canning,
M. P. (54068: loan).

Post OFFICE DEPARTMENT: Collection
consisting principally of postage
Stamps, stamped envelopes, and
postal cards, of the United States
and foreign countries, and a num-
ber of articles connected with the
history of the postal system of the
United States, some of which were
formerly exhibited in the museum of
the Post Office Department (52985).

PoTTEeR, FReDERIC A., Director of the
Aquarium, Honolulu, Hawaii: Type
specimen of Holacanthus potteri
(54172).

POWELL, Haru B., Fort Russell, Wyo.:
14 living specimens of Hchinocacius
simpsoni, from Wyoming (58520).

PRETORIA, TRANSVAAL, DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE, UNION OF SOUTH
Arrica: 380 plants from various lo-
calities (54156: exchange).

PretTz, Harotp W., Allentown, Pa.: 32
specimens of Botrychium, from
Pennsylvania (58744).

Prick, Miss SypNery, Baltimore, Md.
(through Mrs. Julian James): A
sampler, dated 1657, which was
brought from Sweden to this coun-
try by Rev. Petrus Troénberg, rector
of Holy Trinity (Old Swede’s)
Church, Wilmington, Del. (54075:
loan).

Primos MINING & MILLING COMPANY,
Boulder, Colo.: 5 specimens of tung-
sten ore (ferberite) (53910).

PROVINCIAL MUSEUM.
ifax, Nova Scotia.)

(See under Hal-

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

ProvincraL MusrtumM. (See under To-

ronto, Canada.)

Purpus, Dr. C. A., Zacuipam, Vera-
eruz, Mexico: Living specimens of
Beaucarnea, Cactaceze and Crassu-
lacee, from Mexico (538052; 53174;
538340; 58545; 58644; 53787).

QUEBEC, CANADA, DEPARTMENT OF
LANDS AND Forests: 5 specimens of
trout, Salvelinus nitidus, from the
Laurentides National Park (5380380;
538577).

QUEHL, L., Halle (Saale), Germany:
8 living specimens of Mamillaria
(533829 : exchange).

RAINEY, Pavuu J., New York City:
About 300 large and 400 small mam-
mal skins, with skulls, 6 tortoises,
41 reptiles, and 76 birds, collected
in British East Africa by Mr. Ed-
mund Heller (58137); a large and
valuable collection of natural his-
tory material from British East
Africa, embracing about 6,000 speci-
mens of mammals, birds, fishes, rep-
tiles, “insects, erabs, mollusks, and
human skulls (54267).

RAMSDEN, CHARLES T., Guantinamo,
Cuba: 24 bird skins, including Ral-
lus elegans, from Cuba _ (53605;
54200) : 2 fresh-water shells, Pachy-
cheilus violaceus, from Cuba (53607).

RaTHBUN, Mrs. C. S., Redondo Beach,
Cal.: 23 specimens representing 3
species of limpets, from wharf piling
at Redondo Beach (58558).

RAaTHBUN, Miss Mary J., U. S. Na-
tional Museum: 28 specimens of
crabs and shrimps, from the Philip-
pine Islands (53197).

LATHBUN, Miss Mary J., and Miss
VIOLET DANDRIDGE, U. S. National
Museum: Over 1,000 specimens of
invertebrates, including mollusks
and insects, and fishes, from South
Harpswell, Me.,and vicinity (538131).

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RAVENEL, S. F., Green Pond, S. C.:
Skull of Urocyon cinereoargenteus
from Combachee River, near Green
Pond (53743).

Reitty, Lieut. Francis Sr. Crate,
Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army,
Schurz, Nev.: <A scorpion from
Schurz (53788).

REISLER, JESSE, Union Bridge, Md.,
and Barron A, Bran: Fishes and
crayfishes, collected in Maryland
(53141; 538804).

REYNOLDS, A. G., Fruitland Park, Fla.:
Lizard, Neoseps reynoldsi (pur-
chase); lizard, Tantilla coronata
(gift); both from Florida (53589).

REYNOLDS, Bronte A., U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture, Washington,
D. C.: 32 specimens of plants, col-
lected in and near Jerusalem by the
late Chevalier Elmer R. Reynolds
(58066).

Rick, AgTHurR P., Yucatan,
Maya blanket; pair of Yucatan wo-
man’s ball slippers; 23 postal cards,
consisting of views of ancient ruins
and modern buildings in Yucatan;
plan of the modernized city of Me-
rida; and a miniature reproduction
in pottery of the Calendar Stone
(538502).

RicHarps, Lieut. Commander T. W.,
surgeon, U. S. Navy, Washington,
D. C.: 8 bird skins from the Philip-
pine Islands and Australia (53413).

Mexico:

RicHarpDson, Mrs. THomMas F., Wash-
ington, D. C.: A piece of Italian em-
broidery of the 16th or 17th cen-

tury, 7 feet long by 5 feet wide

(53824: loan).

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM D., Richmond,
Va.: 387 beetles, including the spe-
cies Scaphisoma punctulatum and
Platynus placidus (53663; 53964).

RIESEBERG, H. E., and S. O., BURDETTE,
U. S. National Museum: Skins and
skulls of 8 specimens of Peromyscus,
collected near Chain Bridge, D. C.
(538518).

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Riney, J. H., U. S. National Museum:
Skin and skull of Sciurus carolinen-
sis, from Falls Church, Va. (53776) ;
2 bird skins and 4 bird eggs, from
Virginia (54175).

Rinewoop, JoHN, Ashland, Wis.
(through. Hon. Isaac Stephenson,
U. S. Senator): An ax head em-
bedded in a piece of wood (53629).

Rogerts, Barron, U. S. National Mu-
seum: 2 alcoholic specimens of Hp-
tesicus fuscus (538070).

Roserts, Mrs. Mary G., Hobart, Tas-

mania: Skeleton of a wallaby
(53295).
Rogertson, Mrs. A. I., Washington,

D. C.: Rubbings of the following
subjects at Sulgrave, near London,
England: Inscription on a brass tab-
let over the tomb of Laurence
Washington and his wife; the effigy
of Laurence Washington and the
Washington coat of arms, over the
tomb of Laurence Washington; the
Washington coat of arms carved over
the doorway of the Washington
manor house (58683).

Ropinson, T. R., Terra Ceia, Fla.:
Specimen of Cyperus pumilus, from
Florida (53519).

Rock, J. F., Division of Forestry, Hono-
lulu, Hawaii: Part of type material
of Cyperus bryanii, from Laysan
Island (54076).

Rockport GRANITE Co., Rockport,
Mass.: Slab of “sea green” granite
(53118),

Rocers, ALBERT, Washington, D. C.:
Skin of pin-tail duck, Da/jila acuta,
from Virginia (53091).

Rouwer, 8S. A., U. 8S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
About SOO specimens, representing
nearly 500 species and 121 types or
paratypes of Vespoidea; also types
of 3 parasitic Hymenoptera (52943).

Roitte, HERMANN, Berlin, Germany:
About 300 specimens of shells,

mostly land shells, from Tonkin,
Africa, Formosa, Peru, and Guate-
mala (54167: purchase).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

ROOSEVELT, KERMIT, Oyster Bay, N. Y.:
2 skins, with skulls and leg bones,
and a skull of Mexican mountain
sheep, Ovis (53148); skins and
skulls of 9 large mammals from
New Brunswick (53262).

ROOSEVELT, Mrs. THEODORE, Oyster Bay,
N. Y. (through Mrs, Julian James) :
Pair of blue-and-gold brocade slip-
pers worn by Mrs. Roosevelt at the
Inaugural Ball, March 4, 1905
(58674: loan).

Root, Hon. Eviuv, U. 8S. Senator: 150
conch shells, 8 sponges, skin of a
porcupine fish, Diodon hystrix, and
a fetish, from Haiti, West Indies
(53808).

ROSENDAHL, Prof. C. O., University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.: 2380
plants from Vancouver Island, Brit-
ish Columbia (52969: purchase).

RosENQUEST, A. J., jr., Weeks, La.:
Specimen of walking stick, Diapher-
omera, probably femorata (53108).

Rosenstock, Dr. E., Gotha, Germany:
4 ferns from Brazil (53118 : ex-
change).

Rounpy, P. V., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: 200 speci-
mens, representing 40 species, of land
and fresh-water shells from Ohio,
Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia
(58501).

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ROUSSELET, CHARLES F., London, Eng-
land: 48 slides of Rotifera (5th and
Gth installments) (58281; 538975:
purchase).

RoyaL Boranic GARDEN. (See under

Calcutta, India.)

RoyvaL BoTaNic GARDENS. (See under

Kew, England.)

RupoteyH, Cuno H, (See under Dis-
trict of Columbia, Board of Commis-
sioners. )

RuNNALLS, H. B., Puyaliup, Wash.:
A shrimp, Pandalus platyceros, from
Hoods Canal, Wash. (52998).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Russy, Dr. H. H., New York City: 227
plants collected in Bolivia by Buch-
tien (58556; 58871: purchase). (See
under New York City,. College of
Pharmacy of the City of New York.)

RussEtL, Col, A. H., U. S. Army (re-
tired), Plymouth, Mass.: Roumanian
Mannlicher rifle; Lee rifle, fitted
with Russell’s swinging magazine;
and a Lee speed rifle (54210: loan).

RwssELL, B. R., San Saba, Tex.: Speci-
men of stalagmitic calcite and 4
specimens of marble (53442).

RUTHERFORD, W. G., Christchurch, New
Zealand: Samples of native sulphur
and 13 specimens of chalcedony and
agate, from New Zealand (53621).

RuTHVEN, Dr. A. G., University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.: 3 speci-
mens of Ceuthophilus meridionalis
(53879).

SarrorD, W. E., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 62
plants from Guam (54194).

SaInt-D1i-DrEs-VoscEs, FRANCE, MUNIC-
IPALITY OF (through Department of
State) : 3 portraits in oil of Martin
Waldseemuller, Mathias Ringmann,
and Vautrin Lud, editors of “La
Cosmographiae Introductio,”’ in
which publication, printed in Saint-
Dié, April 25, 1507, the name Amer-
ica (in honor of Americ Vespucci)
first appeared to designate the new
continent. The name America sub-
sequently appeared on the chart
edited in Saint-Dié in 1508 and en-
graved by Waldseemuller. Present-
ed to the U. S. Government upon the
oceasion of a celebration commemo-
rative of the naming of America, in
Saint-Dié, France, July 15 and 16,
1911. Also 4 framed photographs
(53946).

SAINT-GAUDENS, Mrs. Aucustus, Wind-
sor, Vt.: A reproduction in bronze
(reduced size) of Saint-Gaudens’
statue of Abraham Lincoln (58448) ;
bronze bust (heroic size) of Lincoln,
by Saint-Gaudens (58567). Loan.

121

SANDERSON, WILLIAM K., Portland,
Me.: 38 specimens of graphite
(53202).

SANForD, Dr. L. C., New Haven, Conn.:
Type of new subspecies of ptarmi-
gan, Lagopus, from Tanaga Island,
Alaska (538184); (through Mr. A.
C. Bent) nest and 4 eggs of the
cackling goose, Branta canadensis
minima, from the Aleutian Islands
(53255). Collected for the Museum.

San Jost, Costa Rica, Musto Na-
CIONAL: Invertebrate fossils (Ter-
tiary), rocks, specimens of clay, and
of amber containing insects, about
30 specimens in all, from various
localities in Costa Rica (53366); 7
living specimens of Cactaceze from
Costa Rica (58548).

SARAWAK Museum. (See under Kuch-
ing, Sarawak, Borneo.)

SarTorRIs, Mrs. NELLIE GRANT, New
York City (through Mrs. Julian

James): A lace cape which belonged
to Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant and was
worn by her at the White House
(53844: loan).

SCHAEFFER, CHARLES, Cabin John, Md.:
Skin and skull of a jumping mouse,
Zapus hudsonius (52964).

SCHAEFFER, CHARLES, Museum, Brook-
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences,
Brooklyn, N. Y.: 6 specimens of
Orthoptera (53187: exchange).

ScHALLER, W. T., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: 10 speci-
mens of minerals (53889: exchange).
(See under Mr. J. H. Watkins.)

ScuHaus, Winit1aM, London, England:
About 186 specimens of insects
(53216).

ScHLey, Mrs. WINFIELD Scott, Capt.
T. FRANKLIN ScHLEY, U. S. Army,
Mrs. R. M. Stuart Wort Ley and Dr.
WINFIELD ScoTrt SCHLEY: Memorials
of the late Rear Admiral Winfield
Scott Schley, U. S. Navy (53287:
loan).

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ScHLUTER, WILHELM, Halle a Saale,
Germany: Skin and skull of Ovis
musimon, from Corsica (58616) ;
skin and skull of Rupicapra, from
Italy (54065). Purchased from the
Harrison fund.

Scumip, Epwarp S., Washington, D. C.:
Snake, Diadophis punctatus, from
the District of Columbia (53224) ;
skin and skull of white Eskimo pup
(58491: exchange); 2 albino grass
paroquets, Jfelopsittacus undulatus
(58516; 58522); canary, Serinus
canarius (58761) ; 2 eggs of African
gray parrot, Psittacus erithacus
(53768) ; 2 ferrets, Putorius (54024) ;
5 eggs of an Anolis (54099) ; speci-
men of zebra finch, Teniopygia
castanotis (native of Australia), and
a young great horned owl, Bubo
virginianus, from Maryland (54127).

ScHNEIDER, GusTAV, Basel, Switzer-
land: 5 tree shrews from Sumatra
(58292: purchased from the Harri-

son fund).

SCHNEIDER, HERMANN, Idar, Germany:
3 necklaces (rose quartz, amethyst,
and opal) and a synthetic ruby
(538892: purchase).

SCHNURMAN, J., Roanoke, Va.: 3 speci-
mens of Hvania urbana (58111).

SCHUCHERT, Prof. CHARLES, Peabody
Museum of Natural History, Yale
University, New Haven, Conn.: 2
sets of paleogeographic maps of
North America (58058).

ScHUMANN, LEON W., Rochester, N. Y.:
Specimen of magnetite sand (53158).

Scuowarz, HE. A., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.:
Specimen of Hrechites from Florida
(538872: collected for the Museum).

ScripmMoreE, Miss Eriza R., Washington,
D. C.: 21 pieces of pottery and porce-
lain, from China, Japan, and Korea
(54051); 26 specimens of bronzes
and brass ware, from India, Tibet,
China, and Japan (54217). Loan.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Scotr, WiLL1AM, Tcronto, Canada: 2
specimens of Linaria vulgaris, from
Ontario (58449).

Seaspra, A, F. pz, Museu Nacional, Lis-
bon, Portugal: 2specimensof shrews,
Crocidura, from Portugal (54055).

SHEARER, Mrs. M. Y., Salinas, Cal.: 20
specimens of plants, algze, from the
Pacific coast (538147).

SHEARSBYy, A. J., Yass, New South
Wales, Australia: 106 specimens of
Silurian and Devonian fossils from
New South Wales (52950: ex-
change).

SHEPHERD Co., THEODOSIA B., Ventura,
Cal.: 8 living specimens of Cactacesz
and Crassulacez (53338).

SHERFF, Hart E., Evanston, Ill.: 60

plants from Illinois (53405).

SHERRIN, T. V., Hampton, England:
Skins and skulls of 12 Irish hares
(58935: purchased from the Harri-
son fund).

SHOEMAKER, CLARENCE R., U. 8S. Na-

tional Museum: Crustaceans and
Meduse from Chesapeake Beach,
Md. (52945).

SHOEMAKER, CLARENCE R., and W. D.
APPEL, Anacostia, D. C.: Inverte-
brates, including mollusks, and fishes
from Island Creek, Talbot County,
Md. (53185); 10 specimens of crus-
taceans from a pond near Difficult
Run, Va. (58464).

SHOEMAKER, D. N., Takoma Park,
D. C.: Specimen of lignite from Ta-
koma (54101).

SHREVE, N. GILMAN, Sterling, Va.:
Specimen of red-tailed hawk, Buteo

borealis, in immature plumage
(58012).

SHUSTER, WILLIAM M., Washington,
D. C.: 12 ceremonial spears, insig-
nia of Chinese Yamun (52949:
Joan).

Srupson, Dr. T. J., Clarksburg, Mo.:
Skull of mink, Mustela (Lutreola)
vison, from Missouri (58191).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

Sister M. CaTuHarine, St. Joseph’s
College, St. Augustine, Fla. (through
Dr. L. W. Stephenson, U. 8S. Geo-
logical Survey): 2 upper molars of
an extinct species of tapir (54184).

SiatTer, W. A., Washington, D. C.: 13
paintings in oil, “The Rabbi.” by
Rembrandt; “The Dunes near Haar-
lem,” by Ruysdael; ‘A Gray Day,”
by Corot; “Island of the Cupids”
and “Group of Dogs,” by Diaz;
“The Landing” and ‘‘ Three Oaks,”
by Dupré; ‘ Winter Landscape,” by
Raffaélli; “ Female Figure,’ by Mon-
ticelli; ‘The Quartet,” by Gaugen-
gigl; “At the Barracks, Constanti-
nople,’ by <A. Pasini; ‘“ Madonna
and Child,’ Sienna School; “ Por-
trait of John F. Slater,” by Her-
komer (54158: loan).

Smiru, Dr. Eucrnr A., University,
Ala.: Specimen of turquois and asso-
ciated graphitic schist, from near
Erin, Clay County, Ala. (532138).

Smiru, Herpert H., University, Ala.:
2 specimens of Trichomanes from
Alabama (53275); 280 plants from
Colombia (5383877: purchase).

SmirH, Dr. Hucu M., Bureau of Fish-
eries, Washington, D. C.: 4 fossil

oysters from Bryans Point, Md.
(53494).
SmitruH, Mituarp H., Candler, N. C.:

Arrow-points and spearheads from
North Carolina (54130).

Situ, Peary I., Crystal Graphite Co.,
Dillon, Mont. (through Dr. E. S.
Bastin, U. S. Geological Survey) :
Specimen of graphite (53726).

SmitH, R. J., Milpitas, Cal.: Bug of
the genus Rasahus (54082).

SmitH, Dr. THoMas C., Washington,
D. C.: Anatomical specimen (53240).

SMITHSONIAN JNSTITUTION :

Plant from Guatemala, presented
by Capt. John Donnell Smith, Balti-
more, Md. (58086) ; copy of a medal
struck on the occasion of the inaugu-
ration of the new building occupied
by the Central Offices and the Fac- !

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Contd.
ulty of Law and Social Sciences of
the University of Montevideo, Uru-
guay (58155); skin and skull of a
mountain goat, collected in British
Columbia by Sidney Walcott
(58818); 14 specimens of Upper
Paleozoic fossils, from the Lewis and
Clark National Forest, Mont., col-
lected by Dr. Charles D. Walcott
(53369) ; specimen consisting of the
jaws and teeth of the fossil shark
Edestus (58409); an engraving of
“Carolus Linnzeus in his Lapland
Dress,” presented by Capt. John
Donnell Smith (538476); 4 plants,
presented by Capt. John Donnell
Smith (538688); 126 type specimens
of Cambrian fossils (538918); a se-
ries of 50 photographs by Lieut.
George M. Wheeler, Corps of Engi-
neers, U. S. Army, in charge of the
geographical explorations and sur-
veys west of the 100th meridian,
1871-1874 (53944) ; 1,020 slabs and
725 individual specimens of Middle
Cambrian fossils from the Burgess
shale, near Field, British Columbia,
collected by Dr. Charles D. Walcott
(54103) ; 176 casts of type and fig-
ured specimens of Cambrian fossils
from India, China, Sweden, and New
York (54104); about 28,000 speci-
mens of Cambrian and Ordovician
fossils from Wyoming and Colorado,
collected by L. D. Burling in 1910;
about 15,000 specimens of Cambrian
and Ordovician fossils from British
Columbia, Manitoba, and New York,
collected by him in 1911 (54105) ; 11
Central American plants, received
from Capt. John Donnell Smith
(54148).

Smithsonian Biological Survey of
the Panama Canal Zone: 29 speci-
mens of bats from Panama, collected
by August Busck, of the U. 8S. De-
partment of Agriculture (53090) ;
684 specimens, representing 79 spe-
cies, of invertebrates from Panama,
collected by Dr. S. E. Meek, of the
Field Museum of Natural History,
and Mr. 8S. F, Hildebrand, of the

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Contd.

Bureau of Fisheries (58741); 2838
bottles of plankton from the fresh
waters of Panama, collected by Dr.
C. Dwight Marsh, of the U. 8S. De-
partment of Agriculture (53919).

Smithsonian EHapedition to the
Canadian Rockies, 1911: Mammals,
birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, insects,
crustaceans, a worm, and plants
(53391).

Bureau of American Hthnology: 2
earthenware pipes from the Catawba
Indians of South Carolina, presented
to the bureau by Haleott Poag, Rock
Hill, 8. C. (538076) ; spearhead, jave-
lin, and arrowhead made in 1911 at
Brandon, England, by one of the
flint-knappers and presented to the
, bureau by Rey. Robert C. Nightin-
gale, Swaffham, England (58210);
22 paper squeezes of inscriptions on
El Morro, or ‘ Inscription Rock,” in
the western part of New Mexico
(53249); daguerreotype of Keokuk,
leader of the Sauk Indians (53368) ;
collection of human skeletons and
objects of stone, bone, and pottery,
etc., from the cemetery of the ruined
pueblo of Kwasteyukwa, west of
Jemez Hot Springs, N. Mex., exca-
vated by the joint expedition of the
Bureau of American Ethnology and
the School of American Archaeology
of the Archaeological Institute of
America during the summer of
1911 (53406); a piece of snakeroot,
decked with down, used by the Chip-
pewa Indians of Minnesota in their
medicine practices, collected by Miss
Frances Densmore (53575); ethno-
logical objects collected by James
Mooney on East Cherokee Reserva-
tion, Swain County, N. C. (54237) ;
pair of ball sticks, ball, breechclout
and belt, and a tiger tail, collected
by John R. Swanton from the Creek
Indians, in Coweta, Okla. (54257).

National Museum, collected by
members of the staff: Bartsch, Paul:
Skull of a porpoise from Santa Maria
Bay, Lower California (53578) ; frog
from Florida (53980); natural his-

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Contd.

tory material from the Bahama Is-
lands, including marine inverte-
brates with color notes from that
locality and Florida Keys (54232).
Bassler, R. S.: About 2,000 speci-
mens of Ordovician and Missis-
sippian fossils from the Mississippi
Valley (53079). Bean, Barton A.:
Fishes collected at Piney Point, Md.
(58188). Bean, Barton A., and Her-
bert K. Bean: A crayfish from the
Susquehanna River, and fishes from
the Susquehanna River and Conoy
Creek, Pa. (53140). Bean, Barton
A., and Jesse Reisler: Fishes and
crayfishes collected in Little Pipe
Creek and Sams Creek, Md. (538141) ;
about 25 specimens of crayfishes
from western Maryland (58304).
Bean, Barton A. : 426 fishes, represent-
ing 28 species, a fresh-water sponge,
mollusks, and insects, from the Po-
tomac River and its tributaries, col-
lected by A. C. Weed, J. B. Peyton,
Ernest Marshall, and B. A. Bean
(54235). Davis, F. P., and H. EH.
Rieseberg: Skins and skulls of four
small mammals from near Chain
Bridge, D. C. (53382). Marshall,
Ernest B.: 2 tadpoles and a frog
from Laurel, Md. (58957; 58994).
Marshall, Ernest B., and Barton A.
Bean: Batrachians from Maryland
(540384). Merrill, George P.: 8
boxes of silicified wood and 7 In-
dian hammers of silicified wood,
from the fossil forests near Adam-
ana, Ariz. (52966). Paine, R. G.:
Batrachians from North Carolina
(53024). Palmer, William: Frog,
Acris gryllus, from Virginia (54056).
Palmer, William, and Alfred C.
Weed: Fishes, insects, crustaceans,
bird eggs and nest, also fossils,’ col-
lected in Maryland (54151). Peale,
A. C.: 250 specimens of Cretaceous
invertebrates from Montana (54090).
Shoemaker, Clarence R.: Inverte-
brates from Maryland and Virginia
(538992; 54023; 540738; 54100).
Standley, Paul C.: 2,800 plants col-
lected chiefly in New Mexico (53164).

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Stejneger, Leonhard: Salamander
from Brookland, D. C. (54247).
Washington, Charles §.: Turtle from
Montgomery County, Md. (53225).
Weed, A. C.: Natural history speci-
mens from Sodus Bay, N. Y., and
vieinity (53195); catfish, Ictalurus
punctatus, and a photograph there-
of (53218). Wood, Nelson R.: Rep-
tiles, batrachians, mollusks, crusta-
ceans, and an insect, from Auburn-
dale, Fla. (58740; 53885); lizards
from Florida (53822); 10 pocket
gophers, Geomys, 3 wood mice,
Peromyscus, and 2 lizards, Neoseps
(83937).

National Museum, made in the An-
thropological Laboratory: Cast of a
soapstone tobacco pipe (53402) ;
plaster busts of 8 North American
Indians (53407) ; casts of 5 stone im-
plements (58623); cast of small
stone tobacco pipe with sculptured
frog (53634); model of the Confed-
erate ram Merrimac (53985) ; 2 plas.
ter busts, namely, of John Grass
(Teton Sioux) and of Charley Wagh-
rigi (Waxrizhi) (Osage) (54112).

National Zoological Park: Blue
jay, Cyanocitta cristata (58035) ;
warlike crested eagle, Spizaétus
bellicosus; Massena quail, Cyrtonyz
massena; Burmeister’s cariama,
Chunga burmeisteri; and a scaled
or blue quail, Callipepla squamata
(58080) ; Chapman’s curassow, Crar
chapmani; and 2 specimens of scaled
or blue quail, Callipepla squamata
(538392) ; brown bear, Ursus arctos;
Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia;
springbuck, Antidorcas euchore;
chamois. Rupicapra rupicapra; Ze-
bra ass (hybrid) Hquus grevyi-asi-
nus; viscachia, Viscaccia viscacia;
hairy armadillo, Dasypus villosus;
bactrian camel, Camelus bactrianus ;
hog deer, Cervus porcinus; water-
buck, Kobus ellipsiprymnus; ma-
caque, Pithecus fascicularis; coypu,
Myocastor coypus; reindeer, Rangi-
fer tarandus; fallow deer, Dama
dama; gray wolf, Canis occidentalis ;

swamp deer, Cervus duvaucell; lion,
Felis leo; harbor seal, Phoca vitu-
lina; northern fur seal, Callorhinus
ursinus (58411) ; Daubenton’s curas-
sow, Crax dauwbentoni; sultana, Por-
phyrio sp.; black cock, Lyrurus te-
triz; weka rail, Ocydromus aus-
tralis; turtle dove, Turtur sp.; par-
rakeet, Psephotus sp.; Amazon par-
rot, Amazona sp. (538486) ; green jay,
Xanthoura luxuosa (53487); ring-
tailed lemur, Lemur catta; 2 speci-
mens of Capuchin monkey, Cebus
hypoleucus; pig-tailed monkey, Pit-
hecus nemestrinus; white-throated
capuchin, Cebus hypoleucus; brush-
tailed rock kangaroo, Petrogale peni-
cillata (58444); hairy armadillo,
Dasypus villosus; yak, Pephagus
grunniens ; black buck, Antilope cer-
vicapra; wolverine, Gulo gulo;
American elk, Cervus canadensis
(538468); magpie, Pica pica hudso-
nia; 2 specimens of white pelican,
Pelecanus erythrorhynchus; whis-
tling swan, Olor columbianus; wood
duck, Aiw sponsa; yellow hammer.
Hmberiza citrinella; Java sparrow,
Munia oryzivora; wood duck, Air
sponsa (53606); silver pheasant,
Genneus nycthemerus; paradise
whydah, Steganura paradisea; man-
darin duck, Aix galericulata; coot,
Fulica americana (58618) ; red deer,
Cervus claphus; black-footed ferret,
Mustela nigripes; monkey, Ateles;
puma, Felis concolor; coypu, Myo-
castor coypus; swift fox, Vulpes ve-
lov; armadillo, Dasypus villosus ;
elephant seal, Macrorhinus angus-
tirostris; 2 fur seals, Callorhinus
ursinus ; marmoset, Hapale jacchus ;
coyote, Canis frustror ; centetes, Cen-
tetes ecauddtus; monkey, Macacus
speciosus ; yak, Pephagus grunniens ;
2 specimens of prong-horn antelope,
Antilocapra americana (58617 ;
53640); skull of an axis deer, Cer-
vus axis (538766); elephant seal,
Macrorhinus dngustirostris; cen-
tetes, Oentetes ecaudatus; gray fox,
Urocyon cinereo-argenteus; 3 speci-

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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Contd.
mens of mink, Putorius vison
(53906) ; Barbary sheep, or aoudad,
Ovis tragelaphus; Alaska peninsula
brown bear, Ursus gyds (?); cham-
ois, Rupicapra rupicapra; kit fox,
Vulpes macrotis; prong-horn ante-
lope, Antilocapra americana; hog
deer, Cervus porcinus (54019) ; west-
ern porcupine; Hrethizon epixanthus
(54039) ; rose-colored pelican, Pele-
canus roseus (54121); Lesson’s eu-
phonia, HLuphonia afinis; Magellan
horned owl, Bubo virginianus magel-
lanicus ; Australian black duck, Anas
superciliosa; redhead duck, Marila
americana; Madagascar weaver,
Foudia madagascariensis; 2 speci-
mens of crimson-eared waxbill, Es-
trilda phenicotis; 2 specimens of
Gambel’s quail, Lophortyxr gambeli;
bob-white, Colinus virginianus $
trumpeter swan, Olor buccinator;
tovi parrakeet, Brotogeris jugularis ;
Pennant’s parrakeet, Platycercus ele-
gans; 3 specimens of chachalaca, Or-
talis vetula; crested screamer,
Chauna cristata; magpie, Pica pica
hudsonia; whistling swan, Olor co-
lumbianus; pintail duck, Da/fila
acuta; mourning dove, Zenaidura
macroura carolinensis; red-tailed
hawk, Buteo borealis; sparrow
hawk, Falco sparverius; mandarin
duck, Dendronessa galericulata; pi-
leated vulture, Neophron pileatus;
blood-breasted pigeon, Phlog@nas lu-
zonica; white stork, Ciconia ciconia
(54183) ; fallow deer; Dama dama;
springbuck, Antidorcas euchore;
Woodhouse’s coyote, Canis frusiror
(54180) ; 6 eggs of emu, Dromiceius
sp. (54220).

SoELNER, G. W. H., Washington, D.C.:
368 specimens of land and fresh-
water shells, representing 55 species,
from the District of Columbia and
vicinity (582387).

SOMMEREKAMP, F. G.
C. H. T. Townsend.)

(See under Mr.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF,
Los Angeles, Cal.: 9 lots of annelids
aud actinians (52965).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

SOUTHWEST TURQUOISE CoMPANY, Los
Angeles, Cal.: 9 polished specimens
and cut stones (52980: purchase).

SOWERBY, ARTHUR DE C., Tai-yuan-fu,
Shan-si, China: 18 mammals and 11
birds, principally from China (54211:
collected for the Museum).

SowerBy and FuLtTon, River Side,
Kew, England: Specimen of Atavus
umbilicaris, from Bolivia (538996).

SPAULDING, Tom, Eureka, Utah: About

100 specimens of Lepidoptera
(58427).
SPRINGER, FRANK, East Las Vegas,

N. Mex.: The Frank Springer col-
lection of fossil echinoderms, con-
sisting of about 75,000 specimens
(53839: deposit); about 600 speci-
mens of Middle Ordovician fossils
from the eastern part of Tennessee
(54094).

STANDLEY, Miss NELLIE, Tulia, Tex.:
10 living eacti, from Texas (58019;
58058; 58182).

PauL C., U. 8S. National
Museum: 550 plants collected in
Greene County, Mo. (53163); 21
plants collected in Maryland
(53204).

STANFORD EXPEDITION, LELAND STAN-
FORD, JR., UNIVERSITY, Stanford Uni-
versity, Cal. (through Dr. Fred.
Baker, San Diego, Cal.): Crusta-
ceans from Brazil, collected in 1911
(53346).

SraTe DEPARTMENT. (See under Dr.
Frederic W. Goding; M. le Due
de Loubat; Saint-Dié-des-Vosges,
France, Municipality of.)

STaTeE oF New YorK CoNSERVATION
Commission, Albany, N. Y. (through
Dr. T. H. Bean): 2 specimens of
whitefish, Argyrosomus tullibee,
from Oneida Lake, at Constantia,
N. Y. (54158).

STEARNS, ELMER, El Paso, Tex.: 317
plants, mostly from Texas and
Mexico (58198; 58236 ; 538358 ; 53536 ;
53551; 54147); packet of seeds of
Jatropha macrorhiza and a_ speci-
men of Selaginella from Mexico
(54058).

STANDLEY,

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

STEELE, E. S., U. S. National Museum:
658 plants from Maryland and Vir-
ginia (53354).

STEFFEN, VERNON, Dike, Iowa: Skin
of head of a pocket gopher from
Towa (54016).

STEPHENSON, Hon. Isaac, U. 8S. Sen-
ator. (See under John Ringwood.)

STEPHENSON, Dr. L. W. (See under

Sister M. Catharine.)

STERNBERG, CHARLES H., Lawrence,
Kans.: Fossil turtle, Testudo lati-
cuneus (53585: purchase).

STERRETT, D. B., U. S. Geological Sur-
vey, Washington, D. C.: Specimen
of californite, from Indian Creek,
Siskiyou County, Cal. (58015).

STEWART, JOHN W., Dona Ana, N.
Mex.: Specimen of tumblebug, Pha-
neus carnifer (53222).

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, NATURHISTOR-
ISKA RIKSMUSEUM: 155 _ plants,
chiefly ferns (53609: exchange) ;

specimens of Acme@a patina and A.
pelta, from Bering Island, Bering

Sea (Vega Expedition collection)
(53642).
Stout, Miss VINNIE R., Claremont,
Cal.: Amphipod, Crangonyxr ala-

bamensis (cotype) (53398).

Stow, S., Fitzhugh, Alberta, Canada:
Lake trout, Cristivomer namaycush,
Rocky Mountain whitefish, Core-
gonus williamsonii, and cut-throat or
Rocky Mountain trout, Salmo clarkii
(58033).

Suter, JESSE L., Washington, D. C.:
Carbonized postage stamps from the
ruins of the Bangor (Me.) post
office, which was destroyed by fire
in 1911 (538457).

SutuHer, H. L., Barium Springs, N. C.:
8 specimens of corundum (53583) ;
an egg-shaped hematite and 7 flint
arrow-points, found near Barium
Springs (538562).

Swates, B. H., Grosse Ile, Mich.: 34
bird skins (58400: exchange).

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SWEDISH AMERICAN REPUBLICAN
LEAGUE OF ILLINOIS, Chicago, Ill.: 2
oil paintings commemorating the
50th anniversary of the battle be-
tween the Monitor and the Merri-
mac, namely, a portrait of John
Ericsson, by Arvid Nyholm, 1912,
and a painting, “The Combat be-
tween the Monitor and the Merri

mac,” by Henry Reuterdahl, 1912
(53989).
SypNEy, New SourH Wates, AUS-

TRALIAN MUSEUM: 184 specimens of
recent crinoids (58166); about 44
specimens, representing 9 species of
crustaceans (538900).

Tart, Mrs. Witt1amM H., The White
House (through Mrs. Julian James) :
Gown worn by Mrs. Taft at the In-
augural Ball of President Taft,
March 4, 1909 (58791: loan).

TALBOTT, HENRY, Interstate Commerce
Commission, Washington, D. C.:
About 25 insects from Lake Tima-
gami, Canada (53188).

TAUBENHAUS, JAcoB J., Agricultural
Experiment Station, Newark, Del.:
Specimen of Glomerella rufomacu-
lans (53691).

Taytor, Mrs. A. P., Thomasville, Ga.
(through Bureau of Entomology,
Washington, D. C.): 44 insects
(54079).

TAYLoR, CHAS. B., Gap, Pa.: 2 skins of

Jamaica parrot, Conurus nanus
(58511).
Tays, H. A. H., San Blas, Sinaloa,

Mexico: Seeds of Cryptostegia and
a specimen of Agiabanpoa, from
Mexico (538928; 54154).

Terry, H. L., Washington, D. C.: Ab-

normal egg of a domestic fowl
(54169).
THOMAS, OLDFIELD, British Museum
(Natural History), London, Eng-

land: Mouse, Alticola (58594).

THompson, Miss AMY GREER, Washing-
ton, D. C.: A eap and pair of shoes,
worn by the late Gilbert Thompson
when a member of the Engineer

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THompson, Miss AMy GREER—Contd.
Corps during the Civil War; also a
pocketbook carried by him during
the same period (58564).

THORNE, A. B., U. S. National Museum:
Double egg of a domestic fowl
(53067).

THRUSTON, R. C. BALLARD, Louisville,
Ky.: 2 photographs of the interior of
a log cabin, and one photograph of
““whipsawing ”’ (52994).

THurRow, F. W., Harvester, Tex.: 13
plants from Texas (535038).

TIDESTROM, Ivar, U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 100
plants from Maryland and Virginia
(53102).

TOMPKINS, J. H., Roanoke, Va.: Speci-
men of Lucanus elaphus (52967).

TORONTO, CANADA, PROVINCIAL Mv-
SEUM: 6 Iroquois-Huron crania and
an extra lower jaw (54035: ex-
change).

TorRE BurNno, J. R. DE La, White
Plains, N. Y.: 3 specimens of Hemip-
tera (53020).

TORRENCE, J. S., San Francisco, Cal.:
Band-tailed pigeon, Columba _ fas-
ciata, from California (538696).

TOTTEN, GEORGE OAKLEY, jr., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Antique Geordez rug, 7
feet by 4 feet (53705: loan).

TOWNSEND, C. H. T., Piura, Peru: 2
snakes from Piura (53228) ; several
hundred butterflies from Peru, col-
lected by the donor assisted by Mr.
F. G. Sommerkamp (53576) ; a small
collection of mollusks, crustaceans,
batrachians, and worms, from Rio
Charape, Province Jaen, Peru
(54288). (See under Peru, Minis-
terio de Fomento del, Piura.)

Tracy, Prof. S. M., Biloxi, Miss.: Liv-
ing specimens of Opuntia pollardi,
from Mississippi (58784).

TREASURY DEPARTMENT: U. S. Public
Health and Marine-Hospital Service,
San Francisco, Cal.: 6 house rats

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912,

TREASURY DEPARTMENT—Continued.
from Fresno, Cal., representing an
albinistie variation (perhaps artifi-
cially bred) of the species Epimys
norvegicus (=Mus decumanus)
(53584).

TrisTAn, Dr. J. F., San José, Costa
Rica: About 50 specimens of isopods,
collected by Mr. C. Picado (53482).

True, Dr. F. W., Smithsonian Institu-
tion: Alcoholic specimen of Sorez,
from Haven, Me. (53170).

TUCKERMAN, Miss Eminy, Washington,
D. C.: 13 specimens of laces, includ-
ing point d’Alencon, Valenciennes,
Binche, Dutch Pottenkant, point de
Niege, and Duchesse (53349); col-
lar of point d’Alencon, 2 cuffs of old
point de France, piece of peasant
lace, Argentina, South America, 2
cuffs and a flounce of Sicilian lace
(538429). Loan.

TUCKERMAN, Mrs. Woxicotr, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Square of point d’Hon-
groise; brocaded church piece, 19th
century, Spanish; shaped panel with
galloon edge and fringe; square of
point d’Hongroise, 19th century,
Italian; brocaded panel, 18th cen-
tury, Spanish (54048: loan).

TURCKHEIM, Baron H. von, Karlsruhe,
Baden, Germany : 400 plants, collect-
ed in Santo Domingo by Father
Fuertes (53450: purchase).

TURRILL, CHARLES B., San Francisco,
Cal.: A human skull, from the edge

of a mound in Sausalito, Cal.
(538874).
TYLER, JOHN G., Fresno, Cal.: 4 bird
skins from California (53510;
587838).

UNITED STATES COLLEGE OF VETERINARY
Surcrons, Washington, D. C.: Skull
of dapple gray percheron gelding

(54078); skull of a bay mare
(54117).
UNIVERSITETETS BOTANISKE MUSEUM.

(See under Copenhagen, Denmark.)

UNIVERSITETETS ZOOLOGISKE MUSEUM.
(See under Copenhagen, Denmark.)

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
(See under Los Angeles, Cal.)

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING.
Laramie, Wyo.)

(See under

UNKNowN: 9 implements of stone and
1 of bone, from an Indian grave in
Russell County, Va. (58282).

Upton, Miss SARA CARR, Washington,
D. C.: Marble bust of William H.
Seward, Secretary of State, by Ben-
zoni, Rome, Italy, 1871 (538248:
loan.)

URBAN, Dr. I., Dahlem bei Steglitz
(Berlin), Germany: 190 plants, col-
lected in Santo Domingo by Baron
H. von Tiirckheim (538532: pur-
chase).

Uricu, F. W., Trinidad, West Indies:
About 545 specimens of insects from
Mexico (53424; 53489).

VAN DvuzeEz, M. C., Buffalo, N. Y.: 12
sawflies (538849); 8 Diptera from
New York (54054).

VANEY, C.
Weber. )

Van Roon, G., Rotterdam, Nether-
lands: 188 beetles (53014; 53347:
exchange).

Vasey, Miss Ftora N., U. S. National
Museum: 2 living specimens of
Opuntia and Yucca, from Kansas
(53176).

VAUGHAN, Dr. T. WAYLAND, U. S. Geo-
logical Survey, Washington, D. C.:
Marine shells from Taboga Island,
Panama Bay (53582).

VENICE MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION,
Venice, Cal.: 2 crabs, Blepharipoda
occidentalis and Emerita analoga
(53319) ; gorgonian, Muricea purpu-
rea (53601).

Verco, Dr. J. C., Adelaide, South Aus-
tralia: 19 specimens, representing 9
species, of mollusks and brachiopods,
mostly cotypes of new species by
Verco and Blochmann (52954).

VictoR TALKING-MACHINE Co., Cam-
den, N. J.: Talking-machine, Victor-
Victrola, Style IX (53088).

(See under Prof. Max

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VIENNA, AustTRiIA, K. K. NATURHIS-
TORISCHES HormMusEUM: 100 speci-
mens of plants, comprising Century
19 of “Kryptogamae Exsiccatae”
(53689 : exchange).

WaeEcH, Rev. C. A., Spring, Tex.:
Larva of Hypoderma, the bot-fly of
the ox (53466).

Walt, Guy L., Lewistown, Mont.: Der-
mal plate of a dinosaur (53161); 5
fossil tree stumps, a_ section of
stump, fragments of fossil wood and
a slab of fossil plants (53401: col-
lected for the Museum).

WaITE, S. R., Canterbury Museum,
Christchurch, New Zealand: Speci-
men of Neophrynichthys latus
(58684).

WatcoTtT, Dr. CHARLES D., Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution: Specimen
of sodalite from Ice River, British
Columbia (53995). (See under
Smithsonian Institution.)

WALKER, BRYANT, Detroit, Mich.: Co-
type of Arkansia wheeleri (53370).

WALKER, JOHN T., Washington, D. C.:
Pierced shell gorget from Tick
Island, Fla.; pottery disk from Ropes
Island, Fla.; and a fragmentary hu-
man jaw from near Deleon Springs,
Fla. (58692).

WALLIS, WILLIAM W., U. S. National
Museum: Catfish from the Potomae
River, at Little Falls (53022) ; liv-
ing crayfish from near the District
line (53902),

WALTER, The Misses OLivi1a and Iba,
Washington, D. ©.: An oil painting
entitled ‘‘ The Five Senses,” by Bru-
midi (54041: loan).

WALTON, W. R., U. S. Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.: 4
specimens, representing 2 species, of
Diptera new to the collection
(58452).

Wark DEPARTMENT:
Office of Chief of Ordnance: A
Krag-Jérgensen (U. S. magazine)
rifle, caliber .80, model of 1898

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Wark DEPARTMENT—Continued.

(53843: deposit); a Colt military
automatic pistol and a Savage mili-
tary automatic pistol, each of .45
ealiber (58893: deposit) ; a Colt au-
tomatic pistol, caliber .45, adopted
March 9, 1911, for use in the U. S.
Army (54114: deposit) ; 45 military
rifles, muskets, and carbines, from
the Rock Island Arsenal (54205).

Office of Chief Signal Officer: The
Wright aeroplane purchased by the
War Department in 1909 and used
by the United States Army in 1909-
10, being the first aeroplane put in
practical service by any government
(53205).

Office of Quartermaster General:
A set of campaign medals, bars, and
ribbons, representing those issued by
the War Department (53876).

Warp, RowLaAND, Lrp., London, Eng-
land: Skin and skull of Rupicapra
pyrenaica, collected near the Spanish
border of the Pyrenees (538467: pur-
chased from the Harrison Fund).

Warp, V. C. (through Mr. Alfred Fors-
man, Green River, Utah): 2 speci-
mens of uranium-vanadium ore, from
the San Rafael Reef, Emery County,
Utah (53441).

WARNER, S. P., American consul, Ba-
hia, Brazil: Butterflies and moths
from Bahia (538666); a coot, Fulica
americana, and a merganser, Mergus
americanus (53767).

WASHINGTON, CHARLES S., U. S. Na-
tional Museum: Terrapin from Ber-
wyn, Md. (58098); a tapeworm
(53357).

WATKINS, J. H., Washington, D. C.
(through Mr. W. T. Schaller) : Type
specimen of turquois (53062).

WATSON, JOHN, Cambridge, England:
20 specimens of building stones
from Palestine (53448: exchange).

WAYNE, ARTHUR T., Mount Pleasant,
S. C.: Egg of oyster-catcher, Hema-
topus palliatus, from South Carolina,
received through Dr. E. A. Mearns
(52952) ; 14 bird skins from South
Carolina (58418; 54178: exchange).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Wess, Capt. JoHN S., Disputanta, Va.:
Skin and skull of a ferret, Mustela,

from Prince George County, Va.
(53257).
Weser, ©. M., Bureau of Science,

Manila, P. I.: 295 plants from the
Philippine Islands (54129: pur-
chase).

Weser, Prof. Max, EHerbeek, Holland
(through Mons. C. Vaney, Univer-
sity of Lyon, Lyon, France) : 3 boxes
of Fast Indian crinoids (52982:
loan).

Wesster, EH. B., Port Angeles, Wash.
(through Mr. C. V. Piper) : 60 plants
from Washington (53725; 54001).

WEDDELL, ALEXANDER W., American -
consul, Zanzibar, Zanzibar: 10 bats
from Zanzibar Island, secured
through the courtesy of Dr. W. M.
Aders, of the Zanzibar Government
(58515: collected for the Museum).

WEED, A. C., U. S. National Museum:
About 25 lampyrid larve, a few
dipterous larve, and a specimen of
Gordius (58167). (See under Mr.
P. R. Myers.)

WEED, A. C., and W. L. McATEE: Fishes
from C. & O. Canal and Rock Run
at Seven Locks, Md., and 2 crayfishes
from Rock Run (58801; 53853); 4
erayfishes and a leech from Rock
Run; and fishes from Rock Run and
Turkey Run, Va. (53908); fishes
from various localities about Wash-
ington, and an Amphipod from
Riverdale, Md. (54010).

WEEKS, Miss FANNIE A. (through her
executrices, Miss Katie R. Bent, Miss
Elizabeth Hartman, and Miss Mary
E. Hussey, Washington, D. C.):
Collection of 45 Indian relics (58792:
bequest).

WEISS, MAXIMILIAN, El Dorado Can-
yon, Nev.: Specimen of “ civet-cat,”
Bassariscus sp. (58697).

WeErRTH, Mrs. Mary Mavry. (See
under Commander Matthew Fon-
taine Maury, Descendants of.)

LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

West TOWNSEND GRANITE SYNDICATE,
West Townsend, Mass.: Six-inch
cube of granite (54185).

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM AND
ART GALLERY. (See under Perth,
Western Australia.)

WHITE, DAvip. (See under Prof. J. A.
Holmes and Mr. Morris Williams.)

WHITE, JOHN JAY, Washington, D. C.:
5 small antelopes from British Hast
Africa (54242).

Wuitr, Miss MABEL LOUISE, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Portrait in oil of Arnold
William Coppenhagen, of Boston, by
J. Harvey Young (53747: loan).

WHITEHEAD, Mrs. Lucy Pact, Wash-
ington, D. C. (through Mrs. Julian
James): Fan presented by Napoleon
III, Emperor of France, to Mrs. Ma-
tilda Willing (Miss Carter, of Vir-
ginia) (58781: loan).

WHITING, Dr. H. C., Mount Pleasant,
Iowa: A robber’s lantern, secured
in a mountain village in Pak Chyuu
County, S. E. Whang Hai Province,
Korea (54188: exchange).

WHITLOocK, J. H., Ephraim, Utah:
Specimen of mineral tar (58152).

WILcox, CARLTON, Washington, D. C.:
Nest of Baltimore oriole, Jcterus
galbula, from New York (533886).

Witcox, Miss F. E., Washington, D. C.:
2 flint implements, a piece of fungus
used by the Alaskans to make green
paint, and some shells (53280); 3
Yuma Indian dolls (54193).

Witcox, Brig. Gen. T. E., U. S: Army
(retired), Washington, D. C.: An
obsidian pebble with moldavite-like
markings, from southern Oregon
(533838) ; Tukuarika (sheep-eaters)
Indian basket and basketry bread
tray (54202); 3 metal casts of a
French medal (54246).

WILD, FRIEDRICH AUGUST, Idar, Ger-
many: Carved lizard of opal on
limonite base (538891: purchase).

WILLIAMS, Col. C. A., U. S. Army (re-
tired), Washington, D. C.: Nest of
one of the “social” wasps, [caria
cagayanensis (538041).

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WILLIAMS, GARDNER F., Washington,
D. C.: Rocks and minerals from the
South African diamond mines, and
a specimen of fossil wood carrying

chloride of silver from Utah
(58898); sample of alluvial gold
from Transvaal, South Africa
(58958); skins and skulls of 2
springbucks, Antedorcas euchore,
from Kimberley, South Africa
(54102).

Wittiams, Mrs. J. Y., Braddock

Heights, Va.: 20 isopods parasitic
on a skate, from Atlantic City, N. J.
(58472).

WILLIAMS, Morris, Philadelphia, Pa.
(through Mr. David White) : Fossil
plant, Sigillaria sp. (58235).

WItiiAMs, R. S., New York Botanical
Garden, New York City: 320 ferns
from Bolivia (537386: purchase).

WILLIAMSON, E. B., Bluffton, Ind.: 52
specimens of North American drag-
onflies, representing 21 species
(58425).

WILMER, Lieut. Col. L. WORTHINGTON,
Lothian House, Ryde, England: 35
fossils from the Oxford clay
(58112); 75 fossils from the Upper
Jurassic rocks of England (53212) ;
recent shells from various locali-
ties, chiefly the Isle of Wight, Eng-
land (53579); Cretaceous fossils
and other miscellaneous material,
consisting of about 125 specimens,
from Sandown, Isle of Wight; also
a recent bryozoan from Ryde
(53604).

WI1son, Dr. CHARLES B., State Normal
School, Westfield, Mass.: 21 speci-
mens, representing 2 species, of par-
asitic copepods (58966).

WILTSHIRE, FRANK, Kentville, Nova
Scotia: Butter fish, Poronotus tria-
canthus, and cunner or chogset,
Tautogolabrus adspersus, from
Halls Harbor, Nova Scotia (58149) ;
specimen of scup, Stenotomus chry-
sops, from Halls Harbor (58685).

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WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS Com-
PANY, New Haven, Conn.: 16 guns,
including rifles, muskets, shotguns, a
breech-loading cannon, ete. (54243).

WING, WILLIAM ARTHUR, New Bed-
ford, Mass.: Photograph of a mar-
riage certificate of the Society of
Friends, Dartmouth, Mass., issued to
John Russell and Rebecca Ricketson
in 1704 (54157).

WINKLER, CHARLES, Washington, D. C.:
Old percussion cap-lock gun found at

the Galapagos Islands in 1909
(53625).
WINNSBORO GRANITE CORPORATION,

Rion, 8S. C.: A 5-inch cube of granite
(53732).

Wise, Miss Heten D., Washington,
D. C.: Skin of Florida gallinule,
Gallinula galeata, from Washington
(53647 ).

WOOLDRIDGE, Engar, Lakeport, Cal.: 50
arrow-points and 3 scrapers, from
Lake County, Cal.; also 2 photo-
graphs of primitive houses of Pomo
Indians (58755).

WOOLLEY, CLAUDE L., Baltimore, Md.:
2 sundials, one ealculated for the
latitude of Santiago, Chile, and one
for the Equator (538635); a sundial,
calculated for the latitude of Mos-
cow, Russia (53777); model of a
sundial caleulated for the latitude
of New Plymouth, New Zealand,
with a time-signaling cannon
(54007 ).

Wooton, Prof. E. O., Agricultural Col-
lege, N. Mex.: Types of 28 new spe-
cies of New Mexican plants (53655).

WorTLEY, Mrs. R. M. Stuart. (See
under Mrs. Winfield Scott Schley.)

WREN, CHRISTOPHER, Plymouth,’ Pa.:
A flaked scraper or chisel of slate
from Beach Haven, Pa., and a pol-
ished tube of gray clay stone from a
grave in Northumberland County,
Pa. (53508).

' REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEMM, 1912.

WricHT, W. S., San Diego, Cal.: 26
specimens of Lepidoptera (58911).

Wynn, Harry, U.S. National Museum:
Specimen of chimney swift, Chetura
pelagica (54141).

WYOMING, UNIVERSITY oF, Laramie,
Wyo.: Fragment of the type of As-
plenium andrewsii (53360: ex-
change).

Wyse, Mrs. W. P. E., Pikesville, Md.
(through Mrs. R. R. Hoes): Dress
worn by Dolly Madison at the White
House (54181: loan).

YALE PERUVIAN EXPEDITION (through
Dr. H. Bingham, New Haven, Conn.) :
Land shells, insects, worms, an am-
phipod, reptiles, and batrachians
from eastern Peru (53874).

YALE UNIVERSITY MusrumM, New Ha-
ven, Conn.: 4 specimens of Tylos
latreilli (54188).

YAMAKOSHI, R., Tokyo, Japan: 8 bird
skins from the Bonin Islands (54142:
purchase).

YELLOW HAWK, WILLIAM, Rosebud
Agency, S. Dak.: Head ornament of
a Teton-Sioux Indian (53209: pur-
chase).

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Yellow-
stone Park, Wyo. (See under In-
terior, Department of.)

Younea, A. L., U. S. National Museum:
Shrew, Blarina brevicauda, from
Alexandria County, Va. (53821); 2
jiving crayfishes from near Long
Bridge, Va. (53877).

ZEESE-WILKINSON Co., New York City:
Collection of half tones showing pro-
cess of engraving (54268).

ZELLER, CONRAD, Washington, D. C.: 2
specimens of European starling,
Sturnus vulgaris, and a specimen of
the rusty blackbird, Huphagus caro-
linus, from the District of Columbia
(58615).

SAMMLUNG DES BAYERI-
(See under Munich,

ZOOLOGISCHE
SCHEN STAATES,
Germany. )

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Smithsonian Institution | United States
National Museum | — | Directions
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Printing Office. | 1911.
Svo., pp. 1-xxiii, 1-859,
pls. 1-33.

Smithsonian Institution | United States
National Museum | Bulletin 77 | — |
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Baltic Provinces | By | Ray S. Bass-
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from the Freer Collection | exhibited

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

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(Seal) | Washington | Government
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8vo., pp. 1-39.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM.

FROM VOLUME 41 OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

No. 1848. Descriptions of recently dis-
covered Cladocera from
New England. By Alfred
A. Doolittle. pp. 161-170,
pls. 18-19.

No. 1853. Notes on some fishes of the
genus Amia, family of
Cheilodipterids, with de-
scriptions of four new spe-
cies from the Philippine

Islands. [Scientific re-
sults of the Philippine
eruise of the Fisheries

steamer ‘Albatross,’ 1907—
1910.—No. 12.] By Lewis
Radcliffe. pp. 245-261, pls.
20-25, figs. 1-3.

Description of a new amphis-
beenoid lizard from Peru.
By Leonhard Stejneger.
pp. 2838, 284.

No. 1856.

No. 1857. Descriptions of three new
batrachians from Costa
Rica and Panama. By
Leonhard Stejneger. pp.
285-288.

No.1858. The west American mol-

lusks of the genus Nodu-
lus. By Paul Bartsch. pp.
289-291, figs. 1-4.

Descriptions of one new ge-
nus and three new species
of ichneumon flies. By
H. L. Viereck. pp. 293-
295.

A new fossil alligator from

No. 1859.

No. 1860.

the Hell Creek beds of
Montana. By Charles W.
Gilmore. pp. 297-802, pls.
2609.2:

No. 1861. New marine mollusks from
Bermuda. By Paul
Bartsch. pp. 803-806, pl.
28.

No. 1862. A revision of the fossil ferns
from the Potomae group
which have been referred
to the genera Cladophlebis
and Thyrsopteris. By Ed-
ward W. Berry. pp. 807-
332.

The recent and fossil mol-
lusks of the genus Alvania
from the west coast of
America. By Paul Bartsch.
pp. 333-862, pls. 29-82.

No. 1868.

. Two new species of parasitic
nematodes. By Brayton
Howard Ransom. pp. 363-
369, figs. 1-6.

No. 1865. The American species of
Sphyradium with an _ in-
quiry as to their generic
relationships. By G. Dal-
las Hanna. pp. 3871-376,

figs. 1-4.

New sawflies in the collec-
tions of the United States
National Museum. By S.

No. 1866.

A. Rohwer. pp. 3877-411,
figs. 1-14.

No. 1867. Crystallized variscite from
Utah. By Waldemar T.

Schaller. pp. 413-480, pl.

33, figs. 1, 2.

No. 1868. Descriptions of fifteen new
fishes of the family Cheilo-
dipteride, from the Phil-
ippine Islands and _ con-
tiguous waters. [Scien-
tific results of the Philip-
pine cruise of the Fisheries
steamer “Albatross,” 1907—
1910.—No. 13.] By Lewis
Radcliffe. pp. 431-446,
pls. 34-88.

No. 1869.

No. 1870.

No. 1871.

No. 1872.

No. 18738.

No, 1874.

No. 1880.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. ¥35

Descriptions of new species
of wasps in the collections
of the United States Na-
tional Museum. By 8S. A.
Rohwer. pp. 447-478, figs.
1-24.

A new mosasauroid reptile
from the Cretaceous of Ala-
bama. By Charles W.
Gilmore. pp. 479-484, pls.
39, 40, figs. 1-3.

The west American mollusks
of the genus Cingula. By
Paul Bartsch. pp. 485-
488, pl. 41.

Description of a new notida-
noid shark from the Phil-
ippine Islands represent-
ing a new family. [Scien-
tific results of the Philip-
pine cruise of the Fish-
eries steamer “Albatross,”
1907-1910.—No. 14.] By
Hugh M. Smith. pp. 489-
491, pl. 42, 1 fig.

The characters of the fossil
plant Gigantopteris Schenk
and its occurrence in
North America. By David
White. pp. 493-516, pls.
4349.

Description of a new sala-
mander from Iowa. By
Alexander G. Ruthven,
pp. 517-519.

No. 1875. A review of the Sparide

and related families of
perch-like fishes found in
the waters of Japan. By
David Starr Jordan and
William Francis Thomp-
son. pp. 521-601, figs. 1-15.

No. 1876. The crustacea of the order

Cumacea in the collection
of the United States Na-
tional Museum. By Wil-
liam T. Calman. pp. 603-
676, figs. 1-112.

No. 1877. The squaloid sharks of the

Philippine Archipelago,
with descriptions of new
genera and species. [Sci-
entific results of the Phil-
ippine cruise of the Fish-
eries steamer “Albatross,”
1907-1910.—-_ No. 15.] By
Hugh M. Smith. pp. 677-
685, pls. 50-64, figs. 1-4.

No. 1878. The mounted skeletons of

Camptosaurus in the United
States National Museum.
By Charles W. Gilmore.
pp. 687-696, pls. 55-61, figs.
1-4.

No. 1879. Preservation of osseous and

horny tissues. By F. L. J.
Boettcher. pp. 697-705.

FROM VOLUME 42 OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

Descriptions of new Hymen-
optera, No. 4. By J. C.
Crawford. pp. 1-10, figs.
2

No. 1881. A revision of the forms of

No. 1882.

the edible-nest swiftlet,
Collocalia fuciphaga (Thun-
berg). By Harry C. Ober-
holser. pp. 11-20.

A small collection of bats
from Panama. By _ Ger-
rit S. Miller, jr. pp.
21-26.

No. 1888. Description of a new species of

isopod of the genus Cleantis
from Japan. By Harriet
Richardson, pp. 27-29, 1 fig.

. On an important specimen of

Edestus; with description
of a new species, Edestus
mirus. By Oliver Perry
Hay. pp. 31-88, pls. 1, 2.

No. 1885. Descriptions of new species

and genera of Lepidoptera,
chiefly from Mexico. By
Harrison G. Dyar. pp.
39-106.

136

No. 1886.

No. 1887.

No. 1888.

No. 1889.

No. 1890.

No. 1891.

No. 1892.

No. 1893.

No.1894.

No. 1895.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Description of a new species
of the isopod genus Cassi-
dinidea from Mexico. By
Harriet Richardson. pp.
107, 108, figs. 1-3.

Censers and incense of Mex-
ico and Central America.

By Walter Hough. pp.
109-187, pls. 3-14, figs.
_ 1-12.

Descriptions of five new
genera and _ twenty-six
new species of ichneumon-
flies. By H. L. Viereck.
pp. 1389-158.

Systematic notes and de-
scriptions of some weevils
of economic or Diological
importance. By W. Dwight
Pierce. pp. 155-170.

Variation in the skull and
horns of the Isabella ga-
zelle. By Gerrit S. Miller,
jm pps Wily Li2s ples:

Description of a new isopod
erustacean belonging’ to
the genus Livoneca from
the Atlantic coast of Pan-
ama. By Harriet Richard-
son. pp. 1738, 174, 1 fig.

A new nematode, Ostertagia
bullosa, parasitic in the
alimentary tract of sheep.
By Brayton Howard Ran-
som and Maurice C. Hall.
pp. 175-179, figs. 1-4.

Instructions for collecting
and fixing rotifers in bulk.
By P. de Beauchamp. pp.
181-185.

Marine and terrestrial iso-
pods from Jamaica. By

Harriet Richardson. pp.
187-194, figs. 1-38.

Naumachocrinus, a new
genus belonging to the
crinoid family Phrynocrin-
ide. By Austin Hobart
Clark. pp. 195-197.

No. 1900.

No. 1901.

No. 1902.

No. 1908.

No. 1896. New pediculate fishes from

the Philippine Islands and
contiguous waters. [Scien-
tific results of the Philip-
pine cruise of the Fisheries
steamer “Albatross,’’? 1907—
1910.—No. 16.] By Lewis
Radcliffe. pp. 199-214, pls.
16-27, figs. 1-3.

No. 1897. Names applied to bees of the

found in
By, aD:
pp. 215-225.

genus Osmia,
North America.
A. Cockerell.

No. 1898. New arenaceous foraminifera

from the Philippine Islands
and contiguous waters.
[Scientific results of the
Philippine cruise of the
Fisheries steamer ‘“Alba-
tross,” 1907-1910.—No. 17.]
By Joseph A. Cushman.
pp. 227-280, pl. 28.

No. 1899. The chimeeroid fishes of the

Philippine Islands, with de-
scription of a new species.
[Scientific results of the
Philippine cruise of the
Fisheries steamer ‘“Alba-
tross,”’ 1907-1910.—No. 18.]
By Hugh M. Smith. pp.
2315 252, plee2o:
Descriptions of new species of
parasitic copepods in the
collections of the United
States National Museum.
By Charles Branch Wilson.
pp. 2338-248, pls. 30-384.
Notes on fresh-water cope-
poda in the United States
National Museum. By C.
Dwight Marsh. pp. 245-
255, figs. 1-14.
Descriptions of certain species
of wasps of the family
Sphecidz. By Henry YT.
Fernald. pp. 257-259.
Additions to the west Amer-
ican pyramidellid mollusk
fauna, with descriptions of

new species. By Paul
Bartsch. pp. 261-289, pls.
35-88.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 7

No. 1904. Diagnoses of new barnacles | No. 1905. A second meteoric find from

from the Philippine Archi- Scott County, Kansas. By
pelago and China _ Sea. George P. Merrill. pp.
[Scientific results of the 295, 296, pl. 39.
Philippine cruise of the | No.1906. A zoogeographic study based
Fisheries steamer ‘“ Alba- on the pyramidellid mol-
tross,” 1907-1910. No. 19.] lusks of the west coast of
By Henry A. Pilsbry. pp. America. By Paul Bartsch.
291-294. pp. 297-3849, pl. 40.

FROM VOLUME 138 OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM.

Part 11. The Allioniaceae of Mexico and Central America. By Paul C. Stand-
ley. pp. i-ix, 377-480, pls. 74-77.

Part 12. New or noteworthy plants from Colombia and Central America—3s.
By Henry Pittier. pp. i-viii, 431-466, pls. 78-96, figs. 57-91.

FROM VOLUME 14 OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM.

Part 3. The grama grasses: Bouteloua and related genera.
fiths. pp. i-xi, 343-428, pls. 67-83, figs. 19-63.

By David Grif-

FROM VOLUME 16 OF CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM.

Part 1. Miscellaneous papers: The relationship of Asplenium andrewsii. By
William R. Maxon. pp. 1-38, pls. 1, 2. Report on a collection of plants from the
Pinacate region of Sonora. By J. N. Rose and Paul C. Standley. pp. 5-20, pls.
3-16, fig. 1. Tumamoca, a new genus of Cucurbitaceae. By J. N. Rose. p. 21,
pl. 17. New or interesting mosses from Panama. By R. 8. Williams. pp. 238, 24.

Part 2. Studies of tropical American ferns—No. 3. By William R. Maxon.
pp. i—viii, 25-62, pls. 18-34.

CLASSIFIED LIST OF PAPERS BASED WHOLLY OR IN PART ON THE
NATIONAL COLLECTIONS.’

MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION.

RATHBUN, RICHARD. Smithsonian In-
stitution | United States National

ending June 30, 1911 | (Seal) |
Washington | Government Printing

Museum | — | Report on the prog- Office | 1912
ress and con- | dition of the U. S. 8vo., pp. 1-147.
National | Museum for the year |
FINE ARTS.
Smithsonian Institution | United of the National Museum | April 15
States National Museum | Bulletin to June 15, 1912 | (Seal) | Washing-
78 | — | The National Gallery of ton | Goverment Printing Office |

Art | Catalogue of | a selection of
art objects | from the Freer Collec-
tion | exhibited in the new building |

1912
8vo., pp. 1-39.

1In a few instances papers which were published prior to this fiscal year are included,

having been inadvertently omitted from previous reports.

138

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ETHNOLOGY, ARCHEOLOGY, PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY.

BaRTSCH, PAUL.
Fewkes. )

(See under J. Walter

BROWNE, HERBERT JANVRIN. The stone
collars and three-pointed stones of

the West Indies.
Amer, Anthropologist
(nas abs NOs US;
July—Sept., 1911, pp.
489-493, pl. 29, figs.
58, 59.

In this paper the theory is
advanced that these objects were
ceremonial in nature and related
to important ceremonies con-
nected with child-birth, and the
evidence tending to establish
this view is presented in some
detail.

CLARK, AUSTIN Hopart. (See under J.

Walter Fewkes. )

DaLL, WiLttrAM H. Ka hana Kapa:
The making of bark cloth in Hawaii.
By W. T. Brigham.

Science (n. s.), 84, No.
883, Dec. 1; 1912, p.
768.
Review of monograph by Dr.
Brigham.

(See also under J. Walter

Fewkes. )

FrEwkeEs, J. WALTER, and others. The
problems of the unity or plurality
and the probable place of origin of
the American aborigines. [Discus-
sion at a joint session of the Ameri-
can Anthropological Association and
Section H of the American Associ-
ation for the Advancement of Sci-
ence held at the U. S. National Mu-

seum, Washington, December 27,
1911.]

Amer. Anthropologist
(n,7(s2);, 24, No: 1,
Jan.—Mar., 1912, pp.
1-59.

The subjects bearing on the
problem presented by members
of the staff of the Smithsonian
Institution were as follows:

Introductory remarks, by J.
Walter Fewkes. pp. 1-4.

Historical notes, and the bear-
jing of physical anthropology on
the problems under considera-
tion, by AleS Hrdlicka. pp.
5-12.

FEwkKEs, J. WALTER—Continued.

On the geological aspects of
the possible human immigration
between Asia and America, by
William H. Dall. pp. 12-18.

Paleontological evidence bear-
ing on the problem of the ori-
gin of the American aborigines,
by James W. Gidley. pp. 18-23.

The distribution of animals
and its bearing on the peopling
of America, by Austin Hobart
Clark. pp. 23-30.

Bearing of archeological evi-
dence on the place of origin
and on the question of the
unity or plurality of the Ameri-
can race, by William H. Holmes,
pp. 380-386.

Some ethnological aspects of
the problem, by Walter Hough.
pp. 39-43.

The bearing of ocean currents
on the problem, by Paul Bartsch.
pp. 49, 50.

GIDLEY, JAMES W.
ter Fewkes. )

(See under J. Wal-

HotMEsS, WILLIAM H. (See under J.

Walter Fewkes.)

HovucH, WALTER. Censers and incense
of Mexico and Central America.

Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1887, Apr.
17, 1912, pp. 109—

137, pls. 3-14, figs.
1-12.

The paper is a study of an-
cient and modern censers and
presents a classification of these
interesting objects into commu-
nal censers, which are station-
ary, and special censers, which
are classed as portable, gesture,
and swinging censers. It also
discusses the use of incense in
worship, the origin of incense
materials, and the customs con-
nected with the use of incense.

(See also under J. Walter
Fewkes. )
HrpiuiéKa, ALES. Human dentition

and teeth from the evolutionary and

racial standpoint.
The Dominion Dental

Journal, 238, No. 9,
Sept. 15, 1911, pp.

403-422,
An address delivered on June
1, 1911, before the Ontario
Dental Association. It shows

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

HrepiiéKa, ALEsS—Continued.
the importance of the changes
in human teeth in the process of
evolution of man; in addition,
it deals with the racial differ-
ences in dentition and in the
teeth, with the anomalies that
are observed in the teeth of
primitive peoples, particularly
the American Indian, and
touches upon dental pathology.

The natives of Kharga Oasis,

Egypt.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 59, No. 1,
1912, pp. 1-118, pls.

1-38, figs. 1-12.
This memoir deals with the
vital statistics and the physio-
logical and physical character-
istics of the highly interesting
native people of the eastern por-

139

HrpriéKa, ALEs—Continued.,
tion, so far as not affected by
negro admixture, while it has
suffered certain local modifica-
tions principally due to habitual

malnutrition, resembles closely
the more pure-blooded Egyp-
tians of the Nile Valley. These
people, like the valley Egyp-

tians, are a composite of closely
related northeastern African and
southwestern Asiatic or ‘ ha-
mitic” and ‘“semitic,” ethnic
elements, and are to be classed
with these as part of the south-
ern extension of the Mediterra-
nean subdivision of the white
stem of people. A bibliography
and detailed measurements are
appended. The plates show men
of different ages, from the barely
adult to advanced senility.

tion of the Great Oasis, Egypt. (See also under J. Walter
It is shown that this popula- Fewkes. )
MAMMALS.

ALLEN, GLovER M. Mammals of the

West Indies.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool.,
54, No. 6, July, 1911,
pp. 175-268.
Specimens from the U. S. Na-
tional Museum were used in the
preparation of this paper.

ANDERSEN, KNup. Notes on twenty-
three specimens of Pteropus hypo-
melanus lepidus.

Journ. Fed. Malay
States Museums, 4,
Nov., 1911, pp. 212-
218.
Several of the specimens men-
tioned belong to the U. 8S. Na-
tional Museum,

Catalogue of the Chiroptera in

the collection of the British Museum.
Second edition, ule
Megachiroptera, Mar.
23, 1912, pp. i-ci, 1—
854, figs. 1-79.

The author examined speci-
mens of all the Megachiroptera
in the U. 8S. National Museum,
except those represented by a
Single type specimen. The speci-
mens seen by him are all men-
tioned by number in footnotes.

BAILEY, VERNON. A new subspecies of
mountain sheep from western Texas
and southeastern New Mexico.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 2005
1912, pp. 109, 110.
Describes Ovis canadensis teax-
ianus.

BoettcHer, F. L. J. Preservation of

osseous and horny tissues.
Proc, U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

41, No. 1879, Jan.
22, 1912, pp. 697—
705.

Cary, MERRITT.
of Colorado.

A biological survey

North Amer. Fauna,
No; Sos Auge * aif,
1911, pp. 1-256, pls.
1-12, figs. 1-39.

All the Colorado material in
the Biological Survey and U. S.
National Museum were. ex-
amined.

GOLDMAN, Epwarp A. Revision of the
spiny pocket mice (genera Hetero-
mys and Liomys).

North Amer. Fauna,
No.) 34, Sept. 7;

1911, pp. 1-70, pls.
1-3, figs. 1-6,

140

GOLDMAN, Hpwarp A.—Continued.
Based mainly on Biological
Survey material, but all speci-
mens of the group in the Na-
tional Museum collection were
examined.

Three new mammals from Cen-

tral and South America.
Proc. Biol, Soc, Wash-
ington, 24, Nov. 28,
1911, pp. 237-240.
The followingspecies are new :
Marmosa ruatanica, Marmosa
geledoni, and Proechimys steeret.

A new weasel from Costa Rica.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Jan. 23,

1912, pp. 9, 10.
Describes Mustela costaricen-

sis.
Descriptions of twelve new
species and subspecies of mammals
from Panama.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 56, No. 36,
Feb. 19, 1912, pp.
1-11.

New species and subspecies:
Marmosa isthmica, Metachirus
nudicaudatus dentaneus, WSci-
urus variegatoides helveolus,
Microscitrus alfari venustulus,
Oryzomys idoneus, O. frontalis,
O. bombycinus, O. gatunensis,
Zygodontomys cherriei ven-
triosus, Heteromys panamensis,
H. zonalis, Hoplomys goethalsi,

— The generic
and Proechimys.
Proc. Biol. Soe. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,
1912, p. 94.
Discusses the status of these
names.

names Cercomys

GRINNELL, J., and H. S. SwartuH.
Myotis orinomus Elliot, a bat new
to California.

Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool.,
10, No. 4, Apr. 18,
1912, pp. 1387-142,
figs; 1; 2:

Ho.wuister, N. The nomenclature of

the cheetahs.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Oct. 31,
1911, pp. 225, 226.
Discusses the nomenclature of
Acinonyx jubatus and A. vena-
ticus.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

HOoLuisterR, N. Four new mammals
from the Canadian Rockies.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 56, No. 26,
Dec. 5, 1919, “pp:
1-4,

Describes Hutamias ludibun-
dus, Callospermophilus lateralis
tescorum, Myotis altifrons, and
M. pernoz.

Description of a new water

mungoose from East Africa.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Jan. 23,
19125. DD. ly 2s
Describes Mungos paludinosus
rubescens from Hast Africa.

A list of the mammals of the
Philippine Islands, exclusive of the
cetacea.

Philippine Journ, Sct.,
7, ‘Sec: Dj, (Nowws
Feb., 1912, pp. 1-64.

A complete list of the mam-
mals of the Philippine Islands.

New mammals from Canada,
Alaska, and Kamchatka.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 56, No. 35,
Feb: 7%, 1912; pp:

1-8, pls. 1-3.

New species: Marmota sibila,
Rangifer fortidens, R. excelsi-
frons, R. phylarchus. Name re-
vived: FR. caribou sylvestris
(Richardson).

Description of a new subspecies
of monkey from British East Africa.
Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 59; Nowe;
Mar. 2, 1912, pp. 1, 2.
Describes Lasiopyga pygery-

thra callida.

—— Two new American pikas.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Apr. 138,
1912, pp. 57, 58.
Describes Ochotona levis and
oO. uinta.

——— The Trinidad opossum on Mar-
tinique.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,
1912, p. 98.
Mentions 3 specimens from
Martinique.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

Hotiister, N. The mona monkey on

the island of St. Kitts.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,
1912, p. 93.
Showing that the mona mon-
key is found on the island of
St. Kitts.

The earliest name for the Cape
ratel.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,
1912; ‘p. 96.
Discusses the proper name for
the Cape ratel, Mellivora capen-
Sis.

Miniter, GERRIT S., jr. Note on the
Mexican bats of the genus Dasyp-
terus.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Oct. 31,
1911, pp: 227, 22

eal, “o20.

The voleano rabbit of Mount

Iztaccihuatl.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Oct. 31,
1911, pp. 228, 229.
Discusses the identity of
Romerolagus diazi.

Three new shrews of the genus
Cryptotis.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.
ington, 24, Oct. 31,

1911, pp. 221-224.
Describes Cryptotis gracilis,
C. frontalis, and C. pergracilis

macer.

A new roe deer from China.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Nov. 28,
1911, pp. 2381, 232.

Describes Capreolus melanotis.

Two new shrews from Kashmir.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Nov. 28,
1911, pp. 241, 242.
Describes Crocidura pullata
and Sorex planiceps.

A new jumping-mouse from
New Mexico.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Dec. 23,
1911, pp. 2538, 254.
Describes Zapus luteus.

141

Mivtiter, Gerrit S., jr. Directions for
preparing specimens of mammals.

Bull. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,

39; pt. Ni, sd ed:

rev., Feb. 9, 1912,

pp. 1-23, figs. 1-6.

A small collection’ of bats from

Panama.
Proc. U. &. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1882, Mar.

6, 1912, pp. 21-26.

Eleven species of bats ob-
tained by August Busck. The
following are new: Loncho-
phylla robusta, Vampyressa

minuta, Chiroderma isthmicum.

Two new murine rodents from
Turkestan.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Apr. 13,
1912, pp. 59, 60.
Describes Alticola ' phasma
and Apodemus microtis.

Variation in the skull and horns

of the Isabella gazelle.
Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1890, Apr.
18, 1912, pp. 171,
172, pl. 15.

Discusses the variation in the
skull and horns of the Isabella
gazelle.

The names of two North Amer-
ican wolves.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-

ington, 25, May 4,
1912, p. 95.
Canis lycaon Schreber, for

the wolf of eastern Canada, and
C. floridanus, new name for the
Florida wolf.

The names of the large wolves
of northern and western North Amer-
ica.

Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 59, No. 15,
June 8, 1912, pp.
1-5.

Discusses the correct names
of the large wolves of north-
ern and western North America,

and applies the new name
Canis tundrarum to the tundra
wolf.

The cranial and dental charac-
ters of Chilophylla.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 29,
POL epee LT.

142

MItter, GeRRIT S., jr.—Continued.
Discusses the previously un-
known skull and teeth of Chilo-

phylla from the Federated
Malay States.
Netson, E. W. ‘Two genera of bats

new to Middle America.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,
1912, p. 93.
Records Dirias minor (Os-
good) and Macrophyllum macro-
phyllum (Wied) from Panama.

A new subspecies of pronghorn
antelope from Lower California.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 29,
1912, pp. 107, 108.
Describes Antilocapra ameri-
cana peninsularis.

A correction of two recent names

for mammals, .
Proc. Biol, Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 29,

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

NELSON, EH. W.—Continued.

Substitutes the name Perogna-
thus penicillatus seri for Perog-
nathus penicillatus goldmani
Townsend, and P. spinatus oc-
cultus for P, s. nelsoni Towns-
end.

SwartTH, H. §.
nell. )

(See under J. Grin-

TAYLOR, WALTER P. The beaver of west
central California.

Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool.,
10, No. 7; May. 2%

1912, pp. 167-169.
Material from the U. 8S. Na-
tional Museum was used in pre-

paring this paper.

TRUE, FREDERICK W. The genera of
fossil whalebone whales allied to
Balenoptera.

Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 59, No. 6, Apr.
3, 191.2. pps.

BIRDS.

1912, p. 116.
Bent, A. C. <A new subspecies of
ptarmigan from the Aleutian Islands.
Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 30,

Jan. 6, 1912, pp. 1, 2.
Lagopus rupestris sanfordi is
described as a new subspecies
from Tanaga Island.
—— Notes on birds observed during
a brief visit to the Aleutian Islands
and Bering Sea in 1911.

Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 82,
Feb. 12, 1912, pp.
1-29.

Notes on habits, distribution,
etc., of about 70 species and
subspecies collected or observed
in the Aleutian Islands and in
Bering Sea. Hypocentor rus-
tica and Calliope calliope are
new to the North American
fauna, and Nettion crecca is
found to be the resident teal of
the Aleutians.

CHAPMAN, FRANK M. Handbook of
Birds | of Eastern North America |
with introductory chapters on | the
study of birds in nature | By | Frank
M. Chapman | [8 lines titles] | with
full-page plates in colors and black
and white | by Louis Agassiz Fuer-
tes | and text-cuts by Tappan Adney

CHAPMAN, FRANK M.—Continued.
and Ernest Thompson Seton | re-
vised edition | New York and Lon-
don | D. Appleton and Company |
1912

12mo., pp. i-xxix, 1-
530, pls. 1-24, figs.
1-136, 1 map, Il

color chart.

A condensed account of the
birds of Eastern North America,
including brief descriptions,
dates of nesting, times of oc-
currence of migratory- species
at several points, and occasional
extended biographies. An
abridged bibliography, grouped
by geographical areas down to
States, completes the work.

GOLDMAN, EK. A. A
from Panama.

new kingfisher

Smithsonian Misc.

Colls., 56, No. 27,

Dec. 1, 1911, pp: W2e

Ceryle americana isthmica is
described as new.

Howe.tyt, ARTHUR H. Birds of Ar-
kansas.
U. 8. Dent. Agric.,
Biol. Surv., Bull. 38,
Oct. 12, 1911, pp. 1-
100, pls. 1-7, figs.
1-4,

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

Howeti, ArtHurR H.—Continued.

Records are given of the com-
parative abundance and period
of occurrence of the 255 species
and subspecies known to in-
habit the State, with notes on
several species of probable oc-
eurrence there. A map (plate
1) showing the life zones of
Arkansas accompanies the
paper.

McGregor, RicHARD C. Record of a
Puffinus new to Philippine waters
and description of a new species of
Micranous.

Philippine Journ. Sci.,

6; (Nos 4, (sec: 1D;
Aug., 1911, pp. 188,
184.

Puffinus chlororhynchus is
recorded from off the coast of
Luzon, and Micranous worces-
teri is described as new.

MEARNS, Encar A. Note on two un:
recognized forms of North American
birds.

Awk, 28, No. 4, Oct.,
1911, pp. 489, 490.
The continental form of
white-winged dove is separated
from that of the West Indies
as Melopelia asiatica trudeaui
(Audubon), and the pale west-
ern subspecies of mourning
dove is recognized as Zenaidura
macroura marginella (Wood-
house).

Description of a new subspecies
of the painted bunting from the in-
terior of Texas.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Oct. 31,
1911, pp. 217, 218.
Passerina ciris pallidior is de-
scribed as new.

On the correct name for the
red-winged blackbird of the north-
eastern United States.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Oct. 31,

1911, pp. 226, 227.
Agelaius phaniceus pheniceus
replaces A. p. floridanus, and
the form of the northeastern
States is recognized as A. p.

predatorius (Wilson).

143

MEARNS, EpcAr A. Descriptions of
seven new African grass-warblers of
the genus Cisticola.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 56, No. 25,
Nov. 23, 1911, pp.
1-6.

Cisticola prinioides kilimen-
sis, O. subruficapilla cquator-
ialis, C. s. borea, C. alleni, C.
strangei kapitensis, C. difficilis,
and C. hypoxantha reichenowi
are described as new.

Description of a new species
of sunbird, Helionympha raineyi,
from British East Africa.

Smithsonian Mise.

Colls., 56, No. 28,

Nove, 283) 1901s) pide

The species here described

is based on material collected in

the Sotik district, by the Rainey
African expedition.

NELSON, E. W. Description of a new
genus and species of hummingbird
from Panama.

Smithsonian Misc.
Oolls., 56, No. 21,
July 8, 1911, pp: 1,
2.
Goldmania violiceps is de-
scribed as a new genus and
species of Trochilide.

Two new subspecies of birds
from Panama.
Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 22,
Sept. 7, 1911, p. 1.
Hylomanes momotula obscurus
and Pachysylvia ochraceiceps
brevipennis are described as
new.

Descriptions of two new species
of nun birds from Panama.

Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 387,
Feb. 16, 1912, pp.
TR

Monasa fidelis and M. similis
are diagnosed as new species.

OBERHOLSER, Harry C. Description

of a new Melospiza from California.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Dec. 28,
TO app s2ol, 2o2
Melospiza melodia fisherella is
a new form of song sparrow.

RICHMOND, CHARLES W.

144

OBERHOLSER, Harry C. A revision of

the forms of the edible-nest swift-
let, Collocalia fuciphaga (Thun-
berg).
Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1881, Mar.
6, 1912, pp. 11-20.
In the present review ten
forms of Collocalia fuciphaga
are recognized, of which the
following are described as new :
OC. f. amechana, C. f. aerophila,
Cc. f. mearnsi, and C. f. tachy-
ptera.

The status of Butorides bru-

nescens (Lembeye).

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Apr. 13,

1912, pp. 53-56.
Butorides brunescens is rec-
ognized as a_ distinct species,
and not as a phase of plumage
of B. virescens. A description

and full synonymy are added.

Descriptions
of five new birds from the west

coast of Sumatra.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 15,

1912, pp. 103-106.
Muscadivores consobrina ba-
biensis, Thriponar javensis
biittikoferi, Diceum — sumatra-
num batuense, Alcedo menin-
ting proxima, and Copsychus
saularis pagiensis are described
as new subspecies from islands
off the west coast of Sumatra.

Ripcway, Ropert. The birds | of |
North and Middle America: | A de-
scriptive catalogue | of the | higher
groups, genera, species, and subspe-
cies of birds | known to occur in
North America, from the | Arctic
lands to the Isthmus of Panama, |
the West Indies and other islands |
of the Caribbean Sea, and the |
Galapagos Archipelago. | By | Rob-
ert Ridgway, | Curator, Division of
Birds. | | Part V. | Family
Pteroptochide—The Tapaculos. |
Family Formicariide—The Ant-
birds. | Family Furnariide—The
Ovenbirds. | Family Dendrocolap-
tids—The Woodhewers. | Family
Trochilide—The Humming Birds. |
Family Micropodide—The Swifts. |
Family Trogonide—The Trogons. |!

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

RmGEwAY, Ropert—Continued.

— | Washington: | Govern-
ment Printing Office. | 1911.
Bull. U. S&S. Nat. Mus.,
50, pt. v, Nov. 29,
1911, pp. i-xxiii,
1-859, pls. 1-83.
This volume includes the re-
mainder of the Mesomyodian
Passeres, and part of the
Coraciiformes, numbering in all
7 families, 121 genera, and 359
species and subspecies. Chryso-
trogon (type, Trogon caligatus
Gould), and Mearnsia (type,
Chetura picina Tweeddale) are
new genera, and the following
Subspecies are diagnosed as
new: Campylorhamphus_ trochi-
lirostris major, Popelairia con-
versti salvini, and Chrysotrogon
ramonianus goeldii.

Descriptions of some new spe-
cies and subspecies of birds from

tropical America.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,

1912, pp. 87-92.
The following species and
subspecies are briefly diagnosed
as new: Capito aurantiiventris,
OC. auratus bolivianus, Aulacor-
hynchus prasinus virescens,
Pteroglossus torquatus erythro-
zonus, Monasa rikeri, M. sclateri,
Momotus lessonii exiguus, Blec-
tron carinatus viridis, Eumo-
mota superciliaris bipartitus,
Antrostomus nelsoni, Nycti-
dromus albicollis nelsoni, N. a.
sumichrasti, Nyctibius griseus
costaricensis, N. g. panamensis,

and N. maculosus.

Diagnoses of some new genera
of American birds.
Proc. Biol. Soe. Wash-
ington, 25, May 4,
1912, pp. 97-102.

Eecchaunornis (type, Buecco
radiatus Sclater), Systellura
(type, Stenopsis ruficervia

Sclater), Antiurus (type, Sten-
opsis maculicaudus Lawrence),
Setopagis (type, Caprimulgus
parvulus Gould), Nyctipolus
(type, Caprimulgus nigrescens
Cabanis), Ptilonycterus (type,
Caprimulgus ocellatus Tschudi),
Micrococcyx (type, Coccyzus
pumilus Strickland), Djopsit-
taca (type, Psittacus nobilis
Linneus), Orthopsittaca (type,
Psittacus manilatus Boddaert),

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

Ripeway, Rorpert—Continued.
Thectocercus (type, Psittacus
acuticaudatus Vieillot), Psilop-
siagon (type, Trichoglossus auri-
frons Wagler), Grammopsittaca
(type, Psittacula lineola Cas-
sin), Nannopsittaca (type, Bro-
togerys panychlorus Salvin and
Godman), and AHapalopsittaca
(type, Psittacus amazoninus
Des Murs) are diagnosed as
new genera.

Ritey, J. H. Descriptions of three

new birds from Canada.

Proc, Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Nov. 28,
1911, pp. 233-236.
Lagopus lagopus ungavus,
Melospiza melodia inexspectata,
and Passerella iliaca altivagans

are described as new.

SHUFELDT, R. W. American ducks and

how to distinguish them.
Outer’s Book, 23, 1912;

Noses) Mar pt. a:
pp. 231—234, figs. 1-3 ;
Now 43) Apri, (pt. 2:
pp. 3867-870, figs.

4-6; No. 5, May, pt.
8, pp. 479-488, figs.

7-10; No. 6, June,
pt. 4, pp. 581-586,
figs. 11-15.

SwartH, Harry S. Report on a col-
lection of birds and mammals from
Vancouver Island.

Univ. Cal. Pub. Zool.,
10, No. 1, Feb. 13,
1912, pp. 1-124, pls.
1-4,

The report on birds (pp.
18-84) includes observations on
habits and _ distribution and
critical notes on 111 species

met with during the expedition

145

SwartH, Harry S.—Continued.
to the southern portion of Van-
couver Island in the spring and
summer of 1910.

Topp, W. EH. Crypre. Descriptions of

seventeen new neotropical birds.
Annals Carnegie Mus.,
8, No. 2, May 20,
1912, pp. 198-214.
Arremonops tocuyensis, Spo-
rophila haplochroma, WSaltator
orenocensis rufescens, Tangara
guttata eusticta, T. g. trinitatis,
Schistochlamys atra aterrima,
Compsothiypis pitiayumi
elegans, Pheugopedius macrurus
annectens, Troglodytes solita-
rius, Craspedoprion intermedius,
Myiobius modestus, Myiochanes
ardosiacus polioptilus, Myiody-
nastes chrysocephalus cineras-
cens, Machetornis rirosa
flavigularis, Euchlornis aurei-
pectus festiva, Piaya_ rutila
panamensis, and Penelope co-
lombiana are described as new,
and critical notes are added on
allied species.

Topp, W. E. CLiypr, and W. W. WortTH-
INGTON. A contribution to the orni-

thology of the Bahama Islands.
Annals Carnegie Mus.,
7, Nos. 3-4, Oct.,
1911, pp. 3888-464,
pl. 84.

This paper is based primarily
upon collections made in 1908—
1909, by Mr. Worthington, but
Babaman material in other
museums has been freely con-
sulted by Mr. Todd in the
preparation of the important
critical notes which extend over
pages 407-442.

WORTHINGTON, W. W.
W. E. Clyde Todd.)

(See under

REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS.

HARTMAN, FRANK A. Description of a
little-known rattlesnake, Crotalus

willardi, from Arizona.
Proc. U. 8. Nat, Mus.,
39, No. 1800, Feb.
15, 1911, pp. 569,
570, figs. 1-4.

A comparatively rare species
described a few years ago by
Dr. S. E. Meek, from a single
specimen collected at Tomb-
stone, Ariz. Described in de-
tail by F. A. Hartman from a

95114°—13——_10

| HARTMAN, FRANK A.—Continued.
second specimen collected in the
region of the Santa Rita Moun-
tain, Ariz., in 1907.

RUTHVEN, ALEXANDER G. Description

of a new salamander from Iowa.
Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus.,

41, No. 1874, Jan.
22; 1912, pps b17—
519.

Ambystoma stejnegeri de-

scribed as a new species.

146

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD. Description ofa
new amphisbenoid lizard from Peru.
Proc. U. S&S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1856, July
15, 819015 pps yess,
284,
Amphisbena townsendi de-
scribed as a new species.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

STEJNEGER, LEONHARD. Descriptions
of three new batrachians from
Costa Rica and Panama.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1857, Aug.
14, 1911, pp. 285-
288.
Spelerpes picadoi and Gas-
trotheca coronata, from Costa

FISHES.

BuRKE, CHARLES Victor. (See under
Charles Henry Gilbert.)

GILBERT, CHARLES HENRY, and CHARLES
Victork BuRKE. Fishes from Bering

Sea and Kamchatka.
Bull. Bur. Fisheries,
380, No. 754, May 6,
1912, pp. 31-96, figs.
1-37.

This paper records a _ very
interesting collection of fishes
made by the U. S. Fisheries
steamer ‘Albatross’? in Bering
Sea and along a portion of the
coast of Kamchatka in 1906.
Forty-three species are described
as new, 8 of which represent
new genera.

JORDAN, DaAvip STARR, and WILLIAM
FRANCIS THOMPSON. A review of
the Sparide and related families of
perch-like fishes found in the waters
of Japan.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1875, Jan.
22, 1912, pp. 521-

601, figs, 1-15.
This paper is based on mate-
rial collected in Japan in 1900
by Profs. Jordan and Snyder
and is a review of species be-
longing to the families Kuhliide,
Priacanthide, MTheraponids,
Banjoside, Hemulide, Sparide,
Kyphoside, and Erythrichthyi-

de.

KENDALL, WM. C., and Lewis Rap-
CLIFFE. Reports on the scientific re-
sults of the expedition to the eastern
tropical Pacific, in charge of Alex-
ander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish
Commission steamer ‘Albatross,’
from October, 1904, to March, 1905,
Lieut. Commander L, M. Garrett,

Rica, and Hyla ceratophrys,
from Panama, described as new
species.
KENDALL, WM. C., and LEWIs Rap-
CLIFFE—Continued.
U. S. Navy, commanding. XXV.
The shore fishes.
Memoirs Mus. Comp.
Zool, (35, —Noswss

Apr., 1912, pp. T7-
171, pls. 1-8.

This paper is based on col-
lections made by the steamer
“Albatross”? on an exploration
extending along the shores of
Mexico, Panama Bay, Galapagos
Islands, and the shores of
Easter Island, Manga Reva, and
from dredge hauls taken along
the coast from southern Cali-
fornia to Peru and in the open
seas en route to the above men-
tioned island groups. Represen-
tatives of 55 families, 227 spe-
cies, are listed, the following
being here described as new
forms: Raja aguja, Kuhlia
nutabunda, Girella nebulosa,
Eques fuscovittatus, Gillelus
rubellulus and Hnneapterygius
corallicola.

RADCLIFFE, LEWIS. Notes on some
fishes of the genus Amia, family of
Cheilodipteride, with descriptions of
four new species from the Philip-
pine Islands. [Scientific results of
the Philippine cruise of the Fish-
eries steamer ‘Albatross,’ 1907-
1910.—No, 12.]

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1853, July
15, 1911, pp. 245-
261, pls. 20-25, figs.
1-3.

This paper is a revision of
the small group of striped
forms comprised in the genus
Amia (family Cheilodipteride),
Amia compressa, A. angustata,
A. robusta, and A, versicolor are
described as new, and extended

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 147

RADCLIFFE, LEw1is—Continued.
notes and descriptions are given
of several other forms.

Descriptions of fifteen new
fishes of the family Cheilodipteride,
from the Philippine Islands and con-
tiguous waters. [Scientific results
of the Philippine cruise of the Fish-
eries steamer “Albatross,” 1907-
1910:—No 13.]

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1868, Jan.
31, 1912, pp. 4381-

446, pls. 34-38.
The following fishes are de-
seribed by Smith and Radcliffe
as new species : Amia diencea, A.
parvula, A. hyalina, A. diversa,
A. nigrocincta, A. uninotata, A.
striata, A. albomarginata, A.
atrogaster, Amioides new sub-
genus, A. (Amioides) grossidens,
Neamia octospina, Cheilodipterus
nigroteniatus, C. zonatus, Syn-
agrops serratospinosa, and

Hynnodus megalops.

New pediculate fishes from the
Philippine Islands and contiguous
waters. [Scientific results of the
Philippine cruise of the Fisheries
steamer “Albatross,” 1907-1910.—
No. 16.]

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1896, Apr.
30, 1912, pp. 199-
214, pls. 16-27, figs.
1-3.

Contains descriptions of a
new genus and 16 new species of
pediculate fishes collected by the
“Albatross ’’ during her .Philip-
pine cruise of 1907-1910. Derma-
tias Smith and Radcliffe, new
genus, and the following new
species are described and
figured: Sladenia vremiger,
Lophiodes olivaceus, L. infra-
brunneus, Antennarius rosaceus,
A. altipinnis, A. subteres, Der-
matis platynogaster, Malthop-
sis ocellata, Halicmetus reticu-
latus, Halieutopsis vermicularis,
Dibranchus stellifer, D. simulus,
Celophrys mollis, C. areca, C.
brevipes, and C. oblonga.

(See also under Wm. ©. Ken-
dall.)

SmitH, HuewH M. Description of a
new notidanoid shark from the
Philippine Islands representing a

SmitH, HueH M.—Continued.

new family. [Scientific results of
the Philippine cruise of the Fisheries
steamer “Albatross,” 1907-1910.—

No. 14.]
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1872, Feb.
8, 1912, pp. 489-
491, pl. 42, 1 fig.

Description of a remarkable
deep-water form from the Min-
danao Sea, consisting of the
type of a new family, Pentan-
chide. Pentanchus Smith and
Radcliffe, new genus, Geno-
type, P. profundicolus,

The squaloid sharks of the
Philippine Archipelago, with descrip-
tions of new genera and _ species.
[Scientific results of the Philippine
cruise of the Fisheries steamer ‘‘Al-

batross,’’ 1907-1910.—No. 15.]
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1877, Feb.
8, 1912, pp. 677-
685, pls. 50-54, figs.
1-4,

In this paper Nasisqualus and
Squaliolus are described as new
genera. Squalus philippinus,
Etmopterus brachyurus, Nasis-
qualus profundorum, and Squal-
iolus laticaudus are described as
new species,

——_— The chimeroid fishes of the

Philippine Islands, with description
of a new species. [Scientific results
of the Philippine cruise of the Fish-
eries steamer ‘ Albatross,’ 1907-
1910.—No. 18.]

Proc. U. &. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1899, Apr.
13; MOLZ; pp. 234)

232, \pl. 29:
According to the writer, this
paper is the first record of
chimeroid fishes from the
Philippine Islands. Of Chim-
era phantasma Jordan and Sny-
der, 5 specimens are listed and
C. deaniti Smith and Radcliffe
is described as a new species.
An egg capsule of a Rhinp-
chimera is recorded from the

Gulf of Boni, Celebes.

THOMPSON, WILLIAM FRANCIS. (See

under David Starr Jordan.)

148

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

MOLLUSKS.

Baker, FRANK Coins. The Lym-
neeidee of North and Middle America,
recent and fossil.

Chicago Acad. Sci., Sp.
Pub. No. 8, Feb. 15,

1911, pp. i-xvi, 1-
539, pls. 1-58, figs.
1-51.

This is a monographiec study
of the North American Lym-
neide, embracing a series of
chapters covering the following
topics: General morphology of
the Lymnzas; ecology of the
Lymneas; distribution in space ;
distribution in time; historical
sketch of previous monographs ;
a new classification of the Lym-
neas; nomenclature; instruc-
tions for collecting and prepar-
ing Lmyneas; systematic dis-
cussion of species.

One species, Galba neopalus-
tris, and 4 subspecies, Plewro-
limnea tenuicosta whiteavesi,
G. bulimoides cassi, G. palustris
alpenensis, and G. catascopium
adamsi, are described as new.

BaucH, Francis N. On a new Labra-
dorean species of Onchidiopsis, a
genus of mollusks new to eastern
North America, with remarks on its
relationships.

Proc. U, 8. Nat. Mus.,
388, No. 1761, Oct.
6, 1910, pp. 469-

484, pls. 21, 22.
In this paper Onchidiopsis
corys is described as new. This
record also lists for the first

time a representative of this
genus for the east coast of
America.

Bartscu, Paunt. Die Diesjiihrige Ex-

pedition des Vereinigten Staaten
Fischerei Dampfers “ Albatross”

nach dem Golf von Californien.
The Technologist, 16,
No. 6, June, 1911,

pp. 106, 107.
An abstract of a lecture on
the above topic.

Abstract of papers on mollusks
published by Dr. Wm. H. Dall and
Paul Bartsch.

Journ, Washington
Acad. Sci., 1, No. 3,
Aug: 195, ods. spp.
95, 96.

BarrscH, Paut. The west American
mollusks of the genus Nodulus.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

41, No. 1858, Aug.
22, 1911, pp. 289-
291, figs. 1-4.

A monograph of the west
American members of the group
in which N. kelseyi and kysken-
sis are described as new.

Abstract of papers on mollusks
by Paul Bartsch.
Journ. Washington
Acad. Sci., 1, No. 4,
Sept. 19, 1911, pp.
135, 136.

Abstract of papers on mollusks
by Paul Bartsch.
Journ, Washington
Acad, Sci., 1, No. 5;
Oct. 4, 1911, p. 163.

New
Bermuda.

mmarine mollusks from

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1861, Oct.
12, 1911, pp. 303-
306, pl. 28.

In this paper the following
species are described as new:
Cerithiopsis hero, cynthia, and
iontha; also Triphoris bermu-
densis.

Die Meeresstrémungen und ihr

Hinfluss auf die Verbreitung der
Marinen Lebenswelt.

The Technologist, 16,

No. 11, ‘Nov., 1911,

pp. 165, 166.

An abstract of a lecture upon

the above topic.

The recent and fossil mollusks
of the genus Alvania from the west
coast of America.

Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

41, No. 1863, Nov.
15, 1911, pp. 333-
862, pls. 29-32.

A monograph of the west
American members of this
genus, the following species be-
ing described as new: A. tra-
chisma, californica, pedroana,
montereyensis, profundicola,
hoodensis, galapagensis, nemo,
rosana, fossilis, iliuliukensis,
cosmia, halia, ima, lara, clarion-
ensis, almo, and oldroyde,

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS,

BartscH, Paunt. The west American

mollusks of the genus Cingula.
: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1871, Feb. 8,
1912, pp. 485-488,
pl. 41.

A monograph of the west
American members of this genus,
in which the following species
are described as new: C. alas-
kana, katherine, and monterey-
ensis,

Additions to the west American
pyramidellid mollusk fauna, with

descriptions of new species.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. iMfus.,
42,.No. 1903, May
17; 19125" pps 261—

289, pls. 35-38.
This paper brings our knowl-
edge of this fauna up to date,
giving all the additions made
since the publication of Bull.
68, U. S. National Museum (A
monograph of west American
pyramidellid mollusks, Dee. 138,
1909), and correcting all errors
which have been discovered in
that work. The following spe-
cies are described and figured
as new: Turbonilla clarinda,
dinora, encella, dracona, bakeri,
cookeana, gloriosa, grippi, calli-
mene, and scammonensis ; Odos-
tomia excolpa, heterocincta, di-
cella, thalia, gloriosa, ezxcisa,
thea, calliope, calearella, calli-
mene, baldridgew, skidegatensis,
palmeri, cassandra, helena, sub-
globosa, grippiana, eldorana,

babylonia, and kelseyi.

A zoogeographic study based on
the pyramidellid mollusks of the

west coast of America.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1906, June
15, 1912, pp. 297—
349, pl. 40.

This paper deals with the
geographic distribution of this
group on the west coast « of
America and points out. the
close relationship which exists
between the ocean currents and
the faunal area. The follow-
ing divisions are recognized:
Arctic Province with the Arctic
s. s. and Aleutic faunal areas
or subdivisions. North Tem-
perate embracing the Orego-
nic and Californic faunal areas.

149

Bartscu, PAvut—Continued.
Tropic, embracing the Mazat-
lanic, Panamic, and Galapaganic
faunal areas. South Temperate
and Antarctic, including the
Magellanic and Antarctic.

Berry, 8. STILLMAN. Preliminary no-
tices of some new Pacific cephalo-
pods.

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

40, No. 1838, May
31, 1911, pp. 589-.
592,

A preliminary report on the
cephalopod mollusks of the
west coast of America, in which
Cirroteuthis macrope, Eledo-
nella heathi, Polypus californi-

cus, P. leioderma, Rossia pa-
cifica, Loligo opalescens, and
Galiteuthis phyllura are de-

scribed as. new.
DALL, WILLIAM Heatry. A new Lep-

tothyra from California.

Nautilus, 25, No. 3,
July, 191d pp.) 25;

26.

Describes Leptothyra grippii
as new, from San Diego, Cali-
fornia. The type is in the
U. §. National Museum.

——— Resultats du voyage du S. Y.
Belgica en 1897, 1898, 1899, sous le
commandement de A. de Gerlache
de Gomery.

Science (n. s.), 34, No.
866, Aug. 4, 1911,
pp. 156, 157.
Review of publications on the
oceanography and natural his-
tory of the voyage of the
“ Belgica’? in Antarctic seas,

A monograph of the Naiades
of Pennsylvania. By A. E. Ort-

mann.

Science (n. s.), 34, No.
868, Aug. 18, 1911,

pp. 214, 215.
Review of Doctor Ortmann’s

memoir.
——— Prof. Josiah Keep.

Science (n. s.), 34,
No. 873, Sept. 22,

akealals Joy Side

Biographical notice of a. cor-
respondent of and contributor
to the U. 8. National Museum.

150

Dati, WILLIAM HERatry. Prof. Josiah

Keep.
Nautilus, 25, No. 6,
Oct., 1911, pp. 61,
62.

The nomenclature of the Ven-
eridee.
Proc. Malacol. Soc.
London, 9, pt. 6,
Sept., 1911, pp. 849-
351.

Reply to criticisms on the
nomenclature of the group
adopted in the Proceedings of
the U. 8. National Museum, No.
1312.

[On the jaw of Sphyradium. ]

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, Oct. 14, 1911, p.

372, footnote.
Confirming the observations
of Dr. V. Sterki on the charac-
ter of the jaw, from observa-
tions made in the National
Museum. (Printed as a foot-
note to a paper by G. Dallas
Hanna on “The American spe-
cies of Sphyradium with an
inquiry as to their generic re-

lationships.”’’)

— Mollusca, shells and shellfish.

Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica. Official Hand-
book, 1911, pp. 83-
86.

Notes on mollusea and where
they may be found, to encour-
age the study of these animals
by the boys.

A new genus of bivalves from

Bermuda.
Nautilus, 25, No. 8,
Dee., 1911, pp. 85,
86,

The new genus Argyrodonaz,
and species A. haycocki are de-
scribed from specimens sent to
the U. S. National Museum by
Mr. Haycock. The genus is
founded on a_ small bivalve
shell believed to belong to the
family Mesodesmatide.

A new brachiopod from Ber-

muda.
Nautilus, 25, No. 8,
Dec., 1911, pp. 86,
87.

Argyrotheca bermudana is
described as new. The types
are in the U. S. National Mu-
seum,

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912,

DaLL, WILLIAM HEALEY. A new Cali-

fornia Eupleura.
Nautilus, 25, No. 8,
Dee}, LOT paSie

Eupleura grippi is described
as new, from the type presented
to the U. 8S. National Museum
by Mr. C. W. Gripp.

The British nudibranchiate mol-
lusca. By Alder and Hancock; sup-
plement by Sir Charles Eliot.

Science (n. s.), 34, No.
885, Dec. 15, 1911,
p. 849.

Review of Sir Charles Hliot’s
memoir.

New Californian mollusca.

Nautilus, 25, No. 11,
Mar., 1912, pp. 127—
1:29,

Aesopus goforthi, from Mon-
terey; the new genus Grippina,
with the new species G. califor-
nica, and fRochefortia grippi,
the latter two from San Diego,
are described as new. The
types are in the U. S. National
Museum.

Note on the genus Panope,
Ménard.

Proc. Matlacol. Soc.
London, 10, pt. 1,
Mar., 1912, pp. 34,
35.

Discussion of the nomencla-
ture of the genus showing that
the original form of the name
which must be adopted is
Panope and not Panopea, as
generally written.

New species of fossil shells
from Panama and Costa Rica col-

lected by D. F. MacDonald.
Smithsonian Mise,
Ootis.;,. DOs wNOu less
Mar. 2, 1912, pp.
1-10.

The following species are de-
scribed as new from the Pleisto-
cene deposits of the Canal Zone,
Panama: Yoldia perprotracta,
Arca (Scapharca) limonica, Pi-
taria subaresta, Corbula mac-
donaldi, Sphenia wallacei, Ha-
minea canalis, Marinula colonia,
Olivella myrmecoon, Cerithium
(Potamides?) milium, Bittium
panamense, Teinostoma (Pseu-
dorotella) goethalsi, and Cadu-
lus vaughani. From the Plio-
cene of Toro Point, Lpitonium
(Sthenorytis) toroénse, and a
possible variety insigne. From

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

Dati, WILLIAM HErALEY—Continued.
the tertiary of Costa Rica,
Marginella macdonaldi, Voluta
alfaroi, Turbo pittieri, Arca
(Noétia) macdonaldi, A. (Sca-
pharca) pittieri and Pecten
(Lyropecten) pittieri. The types
are in the U. §S. National Mu-
seum.

— Report on land shells collected
in Peru in 1911 by the Yale expedi-
tion under Prof. Hiram Bingham,
with descriptions of a new sub-
genus, a new species, and new va-
rieties.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 59, No. 14,
June 8, 1912, pp.

tT ese:
The new subgenus of Bulimu-
lus, Phenacotaxus, is described
with <Ataxus wumbillicatellus
Pilsbry as type, and the new
sectional name Atagellus is pro-
posed for the species Bulimulus
spiculatus Morelet, variety pec-
tinatus Dall. The name Buli-
mulus tyleri is proposed for B.
simplec Hupé, 1857, not of
Jonas, 1842. Happia footei is

151

DaALL, WILLIAM HraLtEy—Continued.
described as new. The follow-
ing new varieties are discrimi-
nated: Drymeus pecilus (Orb.)
var. percandidus and var. santa-
nensis, and 10 color mutations
of the same species; Drymeus
beyerleanus (Hupé) var. mit-
chelli, and Phenacotaxrus spicu-
latus (Morelet) var. pectinatus.
All these are from Urubamba
Valley, Peru, mostly collected
by Prof. H. W. Foote, and the
types are in the U. S. National
Museum.

Hanna, G. Datutas. The American
species of Sphyradium with an in-
quiry as to their generic relation-
ships.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1865, Oct.
14, 1911, pp. 371-
376, figs. 1-4.

The specimens upon which
this paper was based were do-
nated to the National Museum
by the author. Sphyradiwm
hasta from Phillips Co., Kan-
sas, is described as new, and
data given on the anatomy of
other species.

INSECTS.

Buscx, Avueust. A new Microlepi-
dopteron of the genus Epicallima
Dyar from Pennsylvania.

Proc. Fnt. Soc. Wash-

ington, 14, No. 1,

Mar. 13, 1912, p. 44.

On the rearing of a Dermatobia
hominis Linneus.

Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-

ington, 14, No. I,
Mar: 13), 91:2, pp:
9-11.

This paper records observa-
tions on a reared specimen in
the U. S. National Museum.

Microlepidoptera from Laguna
Beach, southern California.
First Ann. Rep. La-
guna Marine Lab.,
1912, pp. 167-169,
In this paper 3 new species
are described.

Descriptions of new genera and
species of Microlepidoptera from

Panama.
Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 59, No. 4,
Mar. 9, 1912, pp.
1-10, 1 pl.

Buscx, Aucust—Continued.

In this paper 5 new genera
and 8 new species are described
from the material of the Smith-
sonian Panama exploration.
The types are in the U. §&.
National Museum.

A new Microlepidopter of the
genus Epicalima Dyar from Penn-
sylvania.

Ent. News, 23, No. 4,
Apr LOL ps dios

New Microlepidoptera from
Mexico.

Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 14, No. 2,
Apr.—June, 1912, pp.
83-87.

This paper describes 1 new
genus and 6 new species.

CAUDELL, A. N. <A new _ proscopiid
grasshopper from Peru.

Psyche; 19; “No; 74;
Heb.) 1912; pp. 12)
te

In this paper 1 new species
is described.

COCKERELL, T. D. A. Names applied to
bees of the genus Osmia, found in

North America.

152

COCKERELL, T, D. A.—Continued.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1897, Apr.
13, 1912, pp. 215—
225.

This paper contains notes on
U. S. National Museum mate-
rial with a list of the types and
of the species of the genus in
the Museum collection.
CRAWForD, J. C. Two new Hymenop-
tera.
Proc. Hnt. Soc. Wash-
ington, 13, No. 4,
Dec. 29, 1911, pp.
23d, 254. NES os
This paper describes 1 new
genus and 2 new species, the
types of which are in the U. S.
National Museum.

Descriptions of new Hymenop-

tera, No. 4.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1880, Mar.
6, 1912, pp. 1-10,
TOS.) Do here

In this paper 12 new species,
the types of which are in the
U. 8S. National Museum, are de-
scribed.
Dyar, Harrison G.
the larve of some

Descriptions of
Mexican Lepi-

doptera.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 138, No. 4,
Dee, 29; 1911; spp:

227-232.

In this paper the larve of a
number of species are described
from specimens in the U. S§S.
National Museum.

Descriptions of new species and
genera of Lepidoptera, chiefly from
Mexico.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1885, Mar.

6, 1912, pp. 89-106.

From U. S. National Museum

material this paper describes 11

new genera, 189 new species, 3

new subspecies, and 2 new di-
morphic forms.

Descriptions of the larve of
some Lepidoptera from Mexico.

Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 14, No. 1,
Mar. 13, 1912, pp.
54-58.

In this paper the larve of a
number of species are described
from specimens in the U. §.
National Museum,

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912,

DyaR, Harrison G.
tera from Mexico.
Pomona Oollege Journ.
Ent., 4, No. 2, May,

1912, pp. 746-748.
In this paper 4 new species,
the types of which are in the
U. §. National Museum, are

described.

Some Lepidop-

Note on Deva ornata Ottolengui.
Proc. Ent. Soe. Wash-
ington, 14, No. 2,
June 19, 1912, p. 61.
Note on the type specimen.

Note on a Stericta from tropical
America.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 14, No. 2,
June 19, 1912, p. 66.
From material in the U. 8.
National Museum a_redescrip-
tion of this species is made.

A note on Coloradia.

Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 14, No. 2,
June 19, ' 1912, p.
105.

In this paper 1 new species
is described.

Three species of Noctuids new

to our lists.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-

ington, 14, No. 2,
June 19, 912. p:
105.

——-— Lepidoptera collected at Laguna
Beach, California.

First Ann. Rep. La-

guna Marine Labd.,

1912, pp. 163-166.

Three new species, the types

of which are in the U. S. Na-

tional Museum, are described in
this paper.

FERNALD, Henry TT. Descriptions of
certain species of wasps of the fam-
ily Sphecide.

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1902, Apr.
25, 1912, pp. 257—
259.

This paper contains notes on
various specimens in the U. 8S.
National Museum collection.

FISKE, W. F.
ard.)

(See under L. O. How-

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

GiRAULT, A, A. Notes on the Hyme-
noptera Chalcidoidea, with descrip-
tions of several new genera and spe-

cies.

Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc.,
195.) No: 4°35 iSept:;

1911, pp. 175-189.
In this paper, which is based
only partly on U. S. National
Museum material, there are de-
scribed 2 new genera and 2 new
species, the types of which are
in the U. 8S. National Museum.

-——— Descriptions of North American
Mymaride, with synonymic and other
notes on described genera and spe-
cies,

Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc.,
Site INO. 3, Oct. 18,

1911, pp. 2538-324.
This paper is based only
partly on U. S. National Mu-
seum material and types. Co-
types or paratypes of 17 species
and 1 variety are in the U. S.

National Museum.

Synonymic and descriptive notes
on the Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea
with descriptions of several new gen-

era and species.

Arch. Naturg., Tith
year, 1, 2nd suppl.,

1911, pp. 119-140.
This paper is based only
partly on U. S. National Mu-
seum material but the types of
4 new genera and 5 new species
are in the U. 8. National Mu-

seum.

HEIDEMANN, O. Some remarks on the
eges of North American species of
Hemiptera-Heteroptera. ,

Proc, Ent, Soc. Wash-
ington, 13, No. 3,
Sept. 30, 1911, pp.
128-140, pls. 9-12,
figs. 1-3.

In this paper are figured eggs
of various species from speci-
mens in the U. S. National Mu-
seum.

A new species of North Ameri-
can Tingitide.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 138, No. 3,
Sept. 30, 1911, pp.
180, 181, fig. 4.

153

Hoop, J. Douatas. New genera and
species of North American Thysan-

optera from the south and west.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Apr. 18,
1912, pp. 61-76, pl.
4, figs. 1-6.

This paper is based on ma-
terial in the private collection
of the author, who has given to
the U.S. National Museum para-
types of 2 of the new species
on which new genera are based.

Howarp, L. O., and W. F. Fiske. The
importation into the United States
of the parasites of the gipsy moth
and the brown-tail moth: A report
of progress, with some consideration
of previous and concurrent efforts of
this kind.

U. S. Dept. Agric., Bur.

Ent., Bull. 91, July

29, 1911, pp. 1-812,

pls. 1-28, figs. 1-74.

In this bulletin references

are made to many parasites,

specimens of which have been

deposited in the U. S. National
Museum,

KNAB, FREDERICK. New Species of
Anisopide (Rhyphide) from tropical
America.

Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, 14, No. 2,
June 19, 1912, pp.
108-110, pl. 3.
This paper contains notes on
various specimens in the U. 8.
National Museum collections.

Blood-sucking and supposedly
blood-sucking Leptid.
Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 29,
1912, pp. 111-114.
In this paper 2 new species
from the U. S. National Mu-
seum collection are described.

MILLER, HARRY McCuure.
Charles Wardell Stiles.)

(See under

PIERCE, W. DwicHTt. Systematic notes
and descriptions of some weevils of

economic or biological importance.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1889, Mar.
19, 1912, pp. 155-
170.

In this paper 2
8 new subgenera,

new genera,
and 9 new

154

Pierce, W. DwiecHtT—Continued.
species are described from ma-
terial in the U. S. National
Museum.

Rouwer, 8. A. Some new hymenopter-
ous insects from the Philippine

Islands.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat: Mus.,
37, No. 1722, Aug:
4, 1910, pp. 657-660.
This paper eontains descrip-
tions of 1 new genus and 5 new
species, with notes on some pre-

viously described species.

New sawflies in the collections

of the United States National Mu-

seum.
Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.;

40 Nos) 866, Oct,
14, 1911, pp. 3877T—
411, figs. 1-14.

This paper describes 4 new
genera, 3 new subgenera, 46
new species, 4 new subspecies,
and 5 new varieties.

A classification of the suborder

Chalastogastra of the Hymenoptera.
Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-

ington, 18, No. 4,
Dee. 29, 1911, pp.
215-226.

This classification was based
mainly on the studies of the
group made by the author from
the U. S. National Museum col-
lections.

Descriptions of new species of
wasps in the collections of the United

States National Museum.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41; No. 2869;) san.
22, 1912, pp. 447-

478, figs. 1-24.
This paper describes 3 new
genera, 36 new species, 6 new
subspecies, and 1 new variety.

A new sawfly from Brazil.
Psyche, 19, No. 2, Apr.,
1912, pp. 62, 63.
This paper describes 1 new
genus and 1 new species.

Sawflies from Panama, with de-

scriptions of new genera and species.
Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 59, No. 12,
May 18, 1912, pp.
1-6.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912. Ks

RouwER, 8S. A.—Continued.

This paper describes 2 new
genera and 6 new species from
the material from the Smith-
sonian Panama Exploration.

STILES, CHARLES WARDELL, ande HARRY
McCuure Miter. The ability of fiy

larve to crawl through sand.
Pub. Health Rep., U. 8.
P. Hand. Me Aas
26, No. 34, Aug. 25,
19d po L2G.

STRICKLAND, E. H. The Pezomachini

of North America,
Annals Ent. Soe.
Aen. 5. iD NOwmees
June, 1912, pp. 113-
140, figs. 1-5.

The types of 14 of the species
described in this paper are in

the U. 8S. National Museum.

Viereck, H. L. The root borer and its
parasite. [In article by H. W.
Davey. | :

Journ. Agric. Victoria,
9; pt. 7, July; Lose
pp. 454, 455.

In this paper, which was
written by Mr. H. W. Davey,
Mr. Viereck described 1 new
species, the type of which is in
the U. S. National Museum.

Descriptions of one new genus
and three new species of ichneumon-

flies.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1859, Aug.
28, 1911, pp. °293-
295.

New genus and _ species of

Hymenoptera of the family Braco-

nide from Panama.
Smithsonian Mise

Colls., 59, No. 5,
Mar. 9, 1912, pp.
alee.

This paper describes 1 new
genus and 1 new species from
material from the Smithsonian
Panama exploration.

Descriptions of five new genera
and twenty-six new species of ich-

neumon-—flies,
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1888, Mar.
19, 1912, pp. 139-
158.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS,

155

CRUSTACEANS.

CALMAN, WILLIAM T. The crustacea
of the order Cumacea in the collec-
tion of the United States National

Museum.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

41, No. 1876, Apr.
6, 1912, pp. 603-676,
figs. 1-112.

In the material examined 49
species are recognized includ-
ing 17 new to science, while
a new genus, Oxyurostylis, is
establisied. The descriptions
of species are prefaced by re-
marks on geographical distri-
bution and classification.

DooLitTLe, ALFRED A. Descriptions of
recently discovered Cladocera from

New England.
Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1848, July
15, 1911, pp. 161-
170, pls. 138-19.

Based on material obtained
while exploring New England
lakes for the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries.

The paper gives detailed de-
Scriptions of 2 species and a
genus which had _ previously
been described as new in the
Proceedings of the Biological
Society of Washington, Vol. 22.

MarsH, ©. DwicHt. Notes on fresh-
water copepoda in the United States

National Museum.
Proc. U. 8, Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1901, Apr.
25, 1912, pp. 245-—
255, figs. 1-14.
Most of the material ex-
amined was collected by mem-
bers of the U. S. Bish Com-
mission. The following States
are represented: Massachusetts,
New York, Florida, Mississippi,
Lonisiana, Texas, Michigan,
Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and
California. <A list is given of
the copepods found in each local-
ity with notes on 4 species and
a detailed description with fig-
ures of Cyclops strenuus, not
before found in America.

PinsBry, Henry A. Diagnoses of new
barnacles from the Philippine Ar-
chipelago and China Sea. [Scien-
tific results of the Philippine cruise

Piusspry, Henry A.—Continued.
of the Fisheries steamer “Albatross,”
1907-1910.—No. 19.]
Proc. U. S. Nat, Mus.,
42, No. 1904, May 29,
1912, pp. 291-294.
Describes 9 new species be-
longing to the genera Alepas,
Smilium, Verruca, Pachylasma,
and Acasta.

RATHBUN, Mary J. The Percy Sladen
Trust Expedition to the Indian
Ocean in 1905. Under the leader-
ship of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner.
Vol. III. No. XI. Mafine Brach-

yura.
Trans. Linn. Soc. Lon-
don, 2nd ser., Zool-
ogy, 14, pt. 2, July,
1911, pp. 191-261,
pls. 15-20, figs. 1, 2.
Two hundred and forty-five
species and subspecies are enu-

merated; 3 genera, 33 species

and 38 subspecies are described
as new. The occurrence is
noted at the Seychelles’ or

Chugos of 4 species previously
known only from the Red Sea
or Persian Gulf. The genus
Callinectes is recorded for the
first time in the Indian Ocean.

New decapod crustaceans from

Panama.
Smithsonian Mise.

Colls., 59, No. 18,
May 20, 1912, pp.
1-3,

Describes Macrobrachtum
acanthurus panamense, Pseudd-
thelphusa masimbari and Lep-
todius taboganus all belonging
to the collection made in 1911
by Dr. S. E. Meek and Mr.
8S. I. Hildebrand under the aus-
pices of the Smithsonian Bio-
logical Survey of the Panama
Canal Zone.

RICHARDSON, CHARLES HOWARD, jr.
(See under Frank Walter Wey-
mouth. )

RICHARDSON, HARRIET. Isopodes du

Sandwich du Sud.
Anal. Mus. Nac. @Hist.
Nat., Buenos Aires,
14, ser. 38a, Aug. 25,
1911, pp. 395-401,
Hesvelae

156

RicHARDSON, Harrier—Continued.
Five species are recorded, of
which 2 belonging to the genus
Serolis, S. polaris and S. laevis,
are described as new.

Les crustacés Isopodes du Tra-

vailleur et du Talisman; formes
nouvelles.
Bull. Mus. @ Hist.
Nat., Paris, 1911,

No. 7, pp. 1—1T.
Fifteen mew species and 3
new genera, Pseudanthura, Uri-
as, and Dactylostylis, are de-
scribed. Cotypes when present
were given to the U. 8S. Na-
tional Museum.

Description of a new species of
isopod of the genus Cleantis from

Japan.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1883, Mar.
6, 1912, pp. 27-29,
fig. 1.

The species described, Clean-
tis japonica, is part of the col-
lection received from the Im-
perial University of Tokyo
through Dr. Edward S. Morse.

Description of a new species of
the isopod genus Cassidinidea from
Mexico.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1886, Mar.
6, 1912, pp. 107,
108, figs. 1-8.

The new species, Cassidinidea
tuberculata, was found in salt-
water oysters at Maron Lagoon,
Madre, Mexico, by Dr. Edward
Palmer.

Description of a new isopod
crustacean belonging to the genus
Livoneca from the Atlantic coast of

Panama.
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1891, Mar.
19, 1912, pp. . 173,
V4, figs. 4.

The species described, Livo-
neca longistylis, forms part of
the collection obtained by Dr.
S. E. Meek and Mr. S. F. Hil-
debrand, in connection with the
Smithsonian Biological Survey
of the Panama Canal Zone in
1911.

RICHARDSON, HARRIET.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Munnopsurus
arcticus (n. g.; n. sp.) Description
dun nouveau genre d’isopode ap-
partenant 4 la famille des Munnop-

sidae, de la Nouvelle Zemble.
Bull. de VInstitut Océ-
anographique, No.
227, Mar. 30, 1912,
pp. 1-7, figs. 1-138.
Based on specimens in the
Museum of Natural History,
Paris, obtained at Nova Zembla
by M. Ivanoff. One of the co-
types’ is in the U. S. National

Museum.

Marine and terrestrial isopods
from Jamaica.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1894, Apr.
5, O12) pps te
194, figs. 1-3.

The marine isopods were ob-
tained by Drs. C. B. Wilson and
E. A. Andrews in Montego Bay
and vicinity. They include a
new species of Hxospheroma.
The terrestrial isopods were col-
lected at Mandeville by Dr.
Thomas Barbour and include a
new species of Cubaris.

——— Terrestrial isopods of Colombia.

[In “Voyage @’Exploration Scien-
tifique en Colombie,” by Dr. O. Fulr-
mann and Dr. Eug. Mayor. ]

Mémoirs Soc. neu-
chateloise, Sci. nat.,
5, 1912, pp. 29-32.
Eight species are enumer-
ated; one of them, Spheronis-
cus frontalis, is described as
new.

WEYMOUTH, FRANK WALTER, and
CHARLES HowarD RICHARDSON, jr.
Observations on the habits of the
crustacean Hmerita analoga.

Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 59, No. 7, May
10, 1912, pp. 1-13,

plo dy figs a
Records certain phases in
the life history of Emerita based
on observations made at Pacific
Grove, California. They relate
particularly to burrowing, feed-

ing, and respiration.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

WILSON, CHARLES BRANOH. Descrip-
tions of new species of parasitic
copepods in the collections of the
United States National Museum.

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1900, Apr.

30, 1912, pp. 233-

248, pls. 30-34.
the species

Two of are

founded on type specimens in |

157

\

WiItson, CHARLES BRANCH—Contd.

the American Museum of Nat-
ural History, cotypes having
been given to the U. S. National
Museum. One new species and
2 old ones are part of the
Javan collection of Dr. Owen
Bryant and Mr. William Palmer.
The occurrence of Achtheinus
dentatus on the coast of Cali-
fornia is recorded.

WORMS.

BEAUCHAMP, P. DE. Instructions for

collecting and fixing rotifers in bulk.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1893, Mar.
19, 1912, pp. 181-
185.
Translated and adapted by
Mre He kK. Harring” from) an
. article in the ‘Archives de
Zoologie Experimentale et Gen-
erale,” ser. 4, vol. 4, 1906.
The hope is expressed that
material preserved in accord-
ance with the instructions be
sent to the U. S. National Mu-
seum.

HALL, Maurice C. Our present knowl-
edge of the distribution and impor-
tance of some parasitic diseases of
sheep and cattle in the United
States.

U. 8. Dept. Agric., 27th
Ann. Rep. Bur. Ani-
mal Industry, 1910
(1912), pp. 419-
463, pls. 85, 36, figs.
45-62.

The parasite fauna of Colorado.
Colorado College Pubd.,
gen. ser. 59, 60, sci.
ser. 12, No. 10, Jan.—
Mar., 1912, pp. 329—

384, 1 map.
(See also under Brayton How-

ard Ransom.)

Miniter, Harry McCiure. (See under

Charles Wardell Stiles. )

Moore, J. Percy. , The polychetous an-
nelids dredged by the U. S. S. “AI-
batross” off the coast of southern
California in 1904: III. Euphrosy-
nidz to Goniadidex.

Moore, J. PErcy—Continued.
Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci.

Phila., 68, Apr.,
1911, pp. 234-318,
pls. 15-21.

This paper is a continuation
of two published in 1909 and
1910. In it 42 species and 3
subspecies are described, 20
species and 38 subspecies being

new.
Pages 234-812 were _ pub-
lished on June 15, 1911; and

pages 313-318 on June 22, 1911.

RANSOM, BRAYTON HowarD. Two new

species of parasitic nematodes.
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,

41, No. 1864, Oct.
31, 1911, pp. 363-
369, figs, 1-6.

The life history of a parasitic
nematode—Habronema muscze.
Science (n= s8:), 34;
No. 881, Nov. 17,
1911, pp, 690-692.

and Maurice C. Hatt. A new
nematode, Ostertagia bullosa, para-

sitic in the alimentary tract of sheep.
Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1892, Feb.
28, 1912, pp. 175-
179, figs. 1-4,

STILES, CHARLES WARDEL?, and Harry
McCture Mitrer. Observations on
the viability of the eggs of hook-
worms (Necator americanus) and of
eelworms (Ascaris lumbricoides) in

feces allowed to decompose in water.
Pub. Health Rep., U. 8.

PH and MH 8-5

26, No. 41, Oct. 13,

1911, pp, 1565-1567.

CLARK, AUSTIN H.

_——— The

158

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

ECHINODERMS,

Notes sur les cri-
noides actuels du Muséum d’histoire

naturelle de Paris.
Bull. Mus. d’Hist. Nat.

Paris, 1911, No. 4,
pp. 248-260, figs.
ay Pf

This paper includes a_ rede-
scription of all the types of the
species in the Paris Museum
originally diagnosed by La-
marek and by Johannes Miiller,
as well as an account of the
unidentified material in the
museum. <A _ set of duplicates
is in the U. 8S. National Museum.

—— Crinoidea.

Die Fauna Siidwest-
Australiens. Ergeb-
nisse der Hamburger
stidwest-australischen
Forschungsreise 1905,
3, No. 18, 1911, ‘pp:
435-467, 2 tables.

This is a detailed account of
the crinoid fauna of west Aus-
tralia, based upon the collec-
tions made by Drs. Michaelsen
and Hartmeyer in 1905. <A set
of duplicates is in the U. §S.
National Museum.

recent crinoids of Aus-
tralia. Scientific results of the
trawling expedition of H. M. C. S.
“Thetis” off the coast of New South
Wales, in February and March, 1898.
‘Part £5.

Memoirs Australian
Mus, 4; Aug. 27,

1911, pp. 705-804.
The crinoids of the coast of
Australia are here discussed in
great detail. A history of the
study of Australian crinoids is
given, and a complete bibliog-
raphy is appended. The paper
is based upon the collection of
the Australian Museum at Syd-

ney, N. S. W. A set of dupli-
eates is in the U. S. National
Museum,

Seventeen new East Indian cri-
noids belonging to the families

Comasteridse and Zygometride.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Mar. 19,

1912, pp. 17-28.
The seventeen new crinoids
herein described form part of
the collection made by the
Dutch steamship ‘Siboga.” A

FISHER, WALTER K.

HARTLAUB, CLEMENS.

CLARK, AUSTIN H.—Continued.

set of duplicates will come to
the U. S. National Museum,

Naumachocrinus, a new genus
belonging to the crinoid family Phry-
nocrinide. 3

Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1895, Mar.
19, 1912, pp. 195-—
alelrg.

The new form herein de-
scribed was dredged by the
“Albatross”? in the Hawaiian
Islands; it is related to the
Japanese genus Phrynocrinus.

Six new East Indian crinoids
belonging to the family Charitome-
tride. :

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, Apr. 18,
1912, pp. 77-84.

The new species here de-
scribed form part of the collec-
tions of the Dutch steamship
““Siboga.”” A set of the dupli-
eates will come to the U. S.
National Museum.

——— Description of eleven new cri-

noids belonging to the families
Calometride and Thalassometrid
discovered by the ‘ Siboga” in the

Dutch Hast Indies.
Zool. Anzeiger, 39, Nos.
11-12, Apr. 23, 1912,
pp. 420-428.

In this paper are included de-
scriptions of the new species of
Calometride and Thalassome-
tride found in the collection of
the ‘*‘ Siboga.’”’ A set of the du-
plicates will come to the U. S.
National Museum.

The genus Blak-
iaster Perrier.

Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo6l.,

54, No. 4, Mar., 1911,

pp. 161-164, pls. 1, 2.

Figures in detail and gives

notes on one of the type speci-

mens of Blakiaster conicus Per-

rier collected by the U. S. Coast

Survey steamer ‘“ Blake” off

Havana in 175 fathoms. The

specimen is in the Museum of
Comparative Zodlogy.

Reports on the
results of dredging. Under the super-
vision of Alexander Agassiz, in the
Gulf of Mexico (1877-78), in the

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

HartTLAus, CLEMENS—Continued.

Caribbean Sea (1878-79), and along
the Atlantic coast of the United
States (1880), by the U. S. Coast
Survey steamer “Blake,” Lieut.
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. 8S. N.,
and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S.
N., commanding. XLV. Die Com-
atuliden.

Memoirs Mus. Comp.
Zo6l., 27, No. 4, Apr.,
1912, pp. 277-491,
pls. 1-18, figs. 1-16.
In this memoir Dr. Hartlaub
presents the results of his
studies upon the unstalked
erinoids collected by the U. 8S.
_North Pacific exploring expe-
dition, and by the U. 8S. Coast
Survey steamers ‘“ Corwin,”
Bekiaisis lie) lot bb, aman a
“Blake.” In addition there
are recorded some _ specimens
from other sources which are
in the collection of the Museum
of Comparative Zodlogy at
Cambridge, Mass. In all 29
species are considered, of which
20 (8 new) are assigned
to the genus Antedon, 7 (2 new)
to the genus Actinometra, 1 to
Atelecrinus, and 1 to Promach-
ocrinus. In addition one of the
species of Antedon is divided
into 18 varieties, all with new
names, and one of the species
of Actinometra into 21 varieties,

also all with new names.

MORTENSEN, THEODOR.

WESTERGREN, A. M.

159

On some West
Indian echinoids.

Bull. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,

74, Oct. 3, 1910, pp.

i-v, 1-31, pls. 1-17.

Gives detailed descriptions of
7 species of Cidaridw, Diadema-
tide, and Echinothuride based
on specimens in the U. S. Na-
tional Museum. Describes 1
new species and 1 new variety.
Gives a revised list of North
American and West Indian
Hechinoidea, with the cerrespond-
ing names in Agassiz’s “ Re-
vision of the ‘Blake’ Echini.”

Reports on the
scientific results of the expedition
to the tropical Pacific, in charge of
Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S.
Fish Commission steamer “Alba-
tross,’ from August, 1899, to March,
1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser,
U.S. N.,commanding. XV. Echini.

Echinonéus and Micropetalon.
Memoirs Mus. Comp.
Zool... 39) Nos 2,
Aug., 1911, pp. 41-

68, pls. 1-31.
The author gives a minutely
detailed account of Hehinonéus
cyclostomus, based upon mate-
rial from both the Pacific and
the Atlantic, and of a single
specimen of Micropetalon pur-
pureum dredged by the “ Alba-
tross’’ in the Hawaiian Islands.

BRYOZOANS.

OsBuRN, RAyMonD ©. The Bryozoa of

the Woods Hole region.
Bull. Bur. Fisheries,
vol. 30, 1910, issued
June 25, 1912, Doc-
ument No. 760, pp.
203-266, pls. 18-31.
The region covered embraces
Vineyard Sound and Buzzards
Bay, besides a few extra-limital

OspurRN, RAYMOND C.—Continued.

localities such as Nantucket and
Chatham, Cape Cod. Twenty-
two families, 37 genera, and 84
species and varieties are enu-
merated, of which 4 species are
described as new. Two new
names also are given to pre-
viously known species.

C@LENTERATES.

BIGELOW, HENRY B. Reports on the

scientific results of the expedition
to the eastern tropical Pacific, in
charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the
U. SS. Fish Commission steamer
“Albatross,” from October, 1904, to
March, 1905, Lieut. Commander
L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., command-
ing. XXIII. The Siphonophore.

BIGELOW, HENRY B.—Continued.

Memoirs Mus. Comp.

Zool., 38, No.2, Dec.,

1911, pp. 173-401,

pls. 1-32, figs. A—D.
Thirty-five genera and 52
species are determined, of which
3 genera, Nectodroma, Archi-
soma, and Dromalia, and 6
species are new. The report also
presents the actual state of our

160

BicELow, Henry B.—Continued.
knowledge of the classification
of the Siphonophore. The anat-

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

BIGELOW, HENRY B.—Continued.

M. Garrett, U. S. N., commanding.

: . XXVI. The Ctenophores.
omy of 3 species of different 2
Bry, ee, ; : Bull, Mus. Comp. Zod6l.
genera is worked out in detail. BA No. AD Apr,
BicELow, Henry B. Reports on the 1912, pp. 369-404,
scientific results of the expedition to pls. ds, 2) figs Ae
the eastern tropical Pacific, in Describes 6 species from
charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the studies made (OD cso bees
: ‘ ire i mens, and discusses the inter-
U. S. Fish Commission steamer relationships of the various de-
“Albatross,” from October, 1904, to scribed species of Hormiphora.
March, 1905, Lieut. Commander L.
PROTOZOANS.
CRAWLEY, Howarp. Trypanosoma | Koromw, CHarLEs AtTwoop, and 4H.

americanum, 2 common blood para-

site of American cattle.
U. SS. Dept. Agric.,
Bur, Animal Indus-
try, Bull. 145, Jan.
17, 1912, pp. 1-39,
figs. 1-15.

CUSHMAN, JosePpH A. New arenaceous
foraminifera from the Philippine
Islands and contiguous waters.
[Scientific results of the Philippine
cruise of the Fisheries steamer “Al-
batross,’’ 1907-1910.—No. 17.]

Proc. U. S&S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1898, Apr.
16, 1912, pp. 227-
230%, ply 28.

A new genus, Ammospheru-
lina, is described, and 6 new
species belonging to aS many
genera.

Koroip, CHARLES ATWoop, and E.

JOSEPHINE RIGDEN. Reports on the
scientific results of the expedition to
the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge
of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. 8.
Fish Commission steamer ‘“‘Alba-
tross,” from October, 1904, to March,

JOSEPHINE RigbDEN—Continued.
rett, U. S. N., commanding. XXIV.
A peculiar form of schizogony in
Gonyaulax.

Bull. Mus. Comp, Zodl.,

54, No. 10, Feb.,

1912, pp. 3385-848,

pls: 1, 2; figs: “AWB:

Describes a type of reproduc-
tion shown in Gonyaulaw which
is unknown elsewhere among
the Dinoflagellates. The spe-
cies is called Gonyaulax series.

RIGDEN, KE. JOSEPHINE. (See under
Charles Atwood Kofoid.)

STILES, CHARLES WARDELL. ‘The pres-
ence of Entamoeba histolytica and
EB. coli in North Carolina.

Pub. Health Rep., U.S.
P. H. and M.A 8,
26, No. 34, Aug. 25,
1911, op. 276:

— The presence of Lamblia duo-

denalis in man in North Carolina

and the recognition of amebe in
feces several days old.

Pub. Health Rep., U.S.

P. H. ond Mo. 8.;

26, No. 86, Sept. 8,

1911, pp. 1347,
1905, Lieut. Commander lL. M. Gar- 1348.
BOTANY.
Britton, N. L., and J. N. Rose. Un- | GREENE, Epwarp L. Miscellaneous spe-

described species of Cuban cacti.
Torreya, 12, No. 1,
Jan., 1912, pp. 13-
16.
Curist, H. On Psomiocarpa, a neg-

lected genus of ferns.
Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 23,
Nov. 21, 1911, pp.
1—4; pl. a, 2 fig.

cific types—IV.
Leaflets,
LOTS pps

2.) SNOVa LS:
153-159.

The genus Saviniona.
Leaflets, 2, Nov. 18,
1911, pp. 159-163.

Accessions to Apocynum.
Leaflets, 2, Nov. 18,
19145 ps 64.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

GREENE, Epwarpd lL. Accessions to
Apocynum (continued).
Jeaflets, 2, Mar. 13,
1912, pp. 165-189,

New species of Trautvetteria.
Leaflets, 2, Mar. 13,
1912, pp. 190-1938.
Some Erigeron segregates.
Leaflets, 2, Mar. 13,
1912, pp. 193-196.
Some Erigeron segregates (con-
tinued).
Leaflets, 2, Apr. 11,
1912, pp. 197-218.

Certain cruciferous types.

‘Beaslets, 25) Apr. il,
1912, pp. 219-221.

New species of Chenactis.
Leaflets; 2; Apr. 11,

1912, pp. 221-225.

Miscellaneous specific types—V.
Leafiets, 2, Apr. 11,
1912, pp. 225-228.

Accessions to Canadian botany.
The Ottawa Natural-
ist, 25, No. 10, Jan.
17, 1912, pp. 145-
147.

GRIFFITHS, Dayip. The grama grasses:

Bouteloua and related genera.
Contr. U. 8. Nat.
Herb., 14, pt. 3,
Feb. 24, 1912, pp.
i-xi, 343-428, pls.
67-83, figs. 19-63.

Maxon, WittiAM R. Notes on Ameri-

ean ferns: VIII.
The Fern Bulletin, 19,
NO: soy aly.) out,
pp. 67-70. (Issued
Jan, L912:)
A remarkable new
Panama.

fern from

Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., 56, No. 24,
Nov. 22, 1911, pp.
1-5, pls. 1-3.
MAXON, WILLIAM R. On the identity
of Cyathea multiflora, type of the
genus Hemitelia R. Br.
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club,
38, Nos 225) Dec:
1911, pp. 545-550,
pl. 35. (Issued Jan.
6, 1912.)
A new name for a Hawaiian
fern.

95114°—13 11

161

Maxon, WILLIAM R.—Continued.
Amer. Fern Journ., 2,
NO, Al ae akin.
pp. 19, 20, 2 figs.
A new fern from Panama.
Amer, Fern. Journ., 2,
NOR ants Lon:
pp. 21, 22. (Issued
Feb. 29, 1912.)
Three new club-mosses from
Panama.

Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 29,
Jan. 6, 1912, pp.
1-4, pls. 1-3.

Notes on the North American
species of Phanerophlebia.
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club,

59, NOL 2.) Jan,
1912, pp. 23-28.
(Issued Feb. 10,
1912.)

—— The relationship of Asplenium
andrewsii.
Contr. U. S8&. Nat.
Hero.5) 1G. spt. as
Feb. 13, 1912, pp.
1-3) pilsi i, 2:

—— Studies of tropical American
ferns—No. 3.
Conir. U. SS. Nat.
Herb; 16; “pt; 2;
June 19, 1912, pp.
i-viii, 25-62, pls.
18-34.

Pirtier, Henry. Exploration in the
southwestern States and west coast

of Mexico.
Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gar-

den, 12, No. 148,
Nov., 1911, pp. 2538-
256.

New or noteworthy plants from

Colombia and Central America—s.
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb.,
BY Molerss Aliens ty
1912, pp. i—viii, 431-—
466, pls. 78-96, figs.
57-91,

Rose, J. N. in Lower

California.

Exploration

Journ, N. Y. Bot. Gar-
den, 12, No. 144,
Dec., 1911, pp. 263-
272, figs. 438-47.

162

Rose, J. N. A new Echeveria from

Mexico.
Journ. Washington
Acad, Sci., 1, No. 9,

Dec. 447) L901) pp:
267-269, 1 fig.
Tumamoca, a new genus of

Cucurbitaceae.
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herbd.,
16S pide Reb. 3,
TOTD sp. 21, ply Ate
——(See also under N. L. Britton.)
and Pau C. STANDLEY. Report
on a collection of plants from the
pinacate region of Sonora.
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herbd.,
165 apts) 15) Webs,
1912, pp. 5-20, pls.
3-16, fig. 1.
SMITH, JOHN, DONNELL. Undescribed
plants from Guatemala and other

Central American _ republics.—
XXXIV.
Bot. Gazette, 52, No. 1,
July, 1911, pp.
45-53.

STANDLEY, Paut C. The Allioniaceae
of Mexico and Central America.

Contr. U. S. Nat. Herd.,
1S ppt: le uly, 2s
1911, pp. i-ix, 377-
430, pls. 74-77.

A list of all the members of
this family known from southern
North America, with keys to
the genera and species. The
new genus VPisoniella is de-
scribed, and 22 new species in
various genera.

The American species of Fa-
gonia,

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 24, Dec. 23,
1911, pp, 243-250.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

STANDLEY, Paut C.—Continued.
A monograph of the species
of the New World, recognizing
12 species of which 4 are de-
scribed as new.

Three new plants from Alberta.
Smithsonian Mise.

Colis., 56, No. 38,
Feb. 7%, 1912, pp.
1-3.

A new leather flower from IIli-

nois.
Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., 56, No. 34,
Feb. 7, 1912, pp.
1 =35 (Dl
Description of a new species
of Viorna from southern Illinois.
——— Wootonella, a new genus of
Carduaceae.

Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, 25, June 29,
1912, pp. 119? 120.

(See also under J. N. Rose and
EH. O. Wooton.)

WILLIAMS, R. S. New or interesting

mosses from Panama.
Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb.,
16;) pt: 1, Websel3)
1912, pp. 23, 24.

Wooton, E. O., and Paut C, STANDLEY.
The grasses and grass-like plants of
New Mexico.

Bull. New Mez. Agric.

Erp. Station, 81,

191955) “pp: 1-175.

(Issued May, 1912.)

A discussion of the grasses

of New Mexico from an economic

standpoint; also includes a list

of the species with keys for
their identification.

GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY.

MERRILL, GEORGE P. A second meteoric
find from Scott County, Kansas.
> Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,

42, No. 1905, June
15, 1912, pp. 295,
296, pl. 39.

Contains a brief petrographi-
eal description of a stone evi-
dently belonging to a fall, a
single individual of which had
been described in a previous pa-
per as belonging possibly to the
Jerome fall. The name Scott
City meteorite was applied.

i Pocus, JosePpH HK. Mineralogische Mit-

teilungen.
Zeitschr. far Krystallo-
graphie und Miner-
alogie, 49, pt. 5,
1911, pp. 455-458,
Dinas

Crystallographic descriptions
of (1) calamine crystals from
Chihuahua, Mexico; (2) a bio-
tite - phlogopite-rutile inter-
growth showing asterism, from
Ottawa, Canada; and (3) pseu-
domorphs of marcasite after

pyrrhotite, from Prussia.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

163

Pocus, JosEPpH E. The great rainbow | ScHALLER, WALDEMAR T. Crystallized

natural bridge of southern Utah.
Nat. Geog. Mag., 22,
No; 24; Nov., 1911,
pp. 1048-1056, 6 il-
lustrations.

A description of a wonderful
natural bridge, discovered Au-
gust 14, 1909, which is located
near the southeast corner of
Utah (lat. 37° 03’ 21’’; long.
110° 56’ 48’’ west of Green-
wich), and measures 309 feet in
height by 278 feet between
abutments. Copies of six nega-
tives illustrating the bridge are
deposited in the U. 8S. National
Museum.

variscite from Utah.

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1867, Jan.
31, 1912, pp. 4138—
430, pl. 33, figs. 1, 2.
Gives a detailed description
of the optical properties, erys-
tallography, and chemical com-
position, with notes on the oc-
currence and gem quality, of
well crystallized variscite from
near Lucin, Utah. The mate-
rial investigated comprises 2
specimens now in the U. §&

National Museum,

PALEONTOLOGY.

Basster, Ray S. The early Paleozoic
Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces.

Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
iss DCCam one Oe.
pp. i-xxi, 1-382, pls.
1-13, figs. 1-226.

Based largely upon a collec-
tion presented to the Museum
by the late Dr. August von
Mickwitz, of Reval, Russia,
upon condition that a detailed
study be made of the numerous
faunas represented in it. This
bulletin presents, so far as pos-
sible, a complete account of all
Russian Ordovician and early
Silurian bryozoa, and is the
first detailed inter-continental
correlation to be published.
The first 53 pages are devoted
to a comparison of the stratig-
raphy and paleontology of Bal-
tic Russia and North America.
Phe study of the bryozoan
faunas indicates that the great-
er part of the Russian Ordovi-
cian section may be directly
correlated with the Black River
group of America, while the
Upper Lyckholm and Borkholm
limestones of Russia are the
equivalents of the American
Richmond group. Sixty-five out
of 161 species of bryozoa are
common to the two areas in
the Middle Ordovician beds,
while in the higher strata the
ratio is still greater.

Berry, EpwarD W. A revision of the
fossil ferns from the Potomac Group
which have been referred to the

Berry, Epwarp W.—Continued.
genera Cladophlebis and Thyrsop-

teris.

Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1862, Oct. 6,

1911, pp. 307-382.
This is the last of a series
of four papers dealing with the
Lower Cretaceous plants of
Maryland and Virginia, based
almost entirely upon specimens
in the U. S. National Museum.

Systematic paleontology, Lower
Cretaceous. (Pteridophyta, Cycado-
phyte, Gymnosperme, Monocotyle-
donz, Dicotyledone. )

Maryland Geol. Sure.,
Lower Cretaceous,
1911, pp. 214-508,

pls. 22-97, figs. 2-15.
Gives descriptions and illus-
trations of all the known fos-
sil plants from the Potomac
Group of Maryland, as well as
numerous species from Virginia
and the District of Columbia.
A large proportion of the speci-
mens illustrated are the prop-
erty of the U. S. National Mu-
seum,

GILMORE, CHARLES W. A new fossil
alligator from the Hell Creek beds
of Montana.

Proc. U. 8. Nat Mus.,
41, No. 1860, Sept.

9. 1914s pp. 297%—
302;,, pls. § 26,27.
fig. 1.

Describes Brachychampsa
montana, a new genus and spe-
cies of the Alligatoride.

164

A new mosa-
the Cretaceous

GILMORE, CHARLES W.
sauroid reptile from
of Alabama.

Proc. U. &. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1870, Jan.
31, 1912, pp. 479-—
484, pls. 39, 40, figs.
1-3.
Describes Globidens alabam-
aensis, a new genus and species
of the Mosasauride.

——— The mounted skeletons of Camp-
tosaurus in the United States Nat-

ional Museum.
Proc, U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1878, Feb.
8, 1912, pp. 687-—
696, pls. 55-61, figs.
1-4.

Description of two mounted
skeletons, Camptosaurus browni
Gilmore, and C. nanus Marsh,
recently placed on exhibition in
the hall of vertebrate paleon-
tology in the U. 8S. National Mu-
seum. The specimens are note-
worthy as being very complete
fossil skeletons,
fact that both are types.

Hay, OLtver Perry. On an important
specimen of Edestus; with descrip-

tion of a new species, Edestus mirus.
Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus.,
42, No. 1884, Apr.
25, 1912, pp. 31-38,

10) (Ha ea
Describes and figures a new
species of an extinct shark of
the lower Carboniferous, founded
on a rare specimen in which
not only the teeth but portions
of the cartilaginous skull and
lower jaws are preserved. Also
reviews the relationships of
Edestus to Helicoprion, Lisso-
prion, and Toxroprion, and dis-
cusses at length the morphology
of the peculiar dental system of
these remarkable extinct sharks.

Phylogeny
revision of

JACKSON, ROBERT TRACY.
of the Echini, with a

paleozoic species.

Memoirs Boston Soc.
Nat. Hist., 7, Jan.,
1912, pp. 1-491, pls.

1-76, figs. 1-256.
Describes and figures a num-
ber of specimens in the U. 8S.

National Museum.

and from the

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1912.

Luit, RicHarp S. Systematic pale-
ontology of the Lower Cretaceous de-

posits of Maryland (Vertebrata).
Maryland Geol. Surv.,
Lower Cretaceous,
1911, pp. 183-211,
pls. 11-20.

Gives a systematic descrip-
tion of all the known reptilian
forms from the Potomac of
Maryland. The following spe-
cies, based wholly or in part
on U. S. National Museum speci-
mens, are described as new:
Creosaurus potens and Gonio-
pholis affinis. The conclusion is
reached that the weight of the
evidence places this fauna be-
yond the Jurassic into the be-
ginning of the Cretaceous.

WaxtcorTt, CHARLES D. Middle Cam-

brian annelids.

Smithsonian Misc.

Colls., 57, No. 5,

Sept. 4, 1911, pp:

109-144, pls. 18-23.

This paper describes 1 new
order, 7 new families, 12 new
genera, and 20 new species of
annelids, all of them being re-
ferred to the classes Chetog-
natha, Chetopoda, and Gephyrea.
In common with the other fos-
sils from the Burgess. shale,
these annelids are remarkable
also in the manner in which
even the minutest of details
are preserved. The _ reference
of Hyolithes, Hyolithellus, and
other tube-like fossils to the
annelids is discussed, and 3 new
species of Orthotheca-like fos-

sils, with the animal project-
ing from the tube, are de-
scribed. A species of Hyolithes

is figured, showing for the first
time the curved supports of the
fins of a pteropod.

— Middle Cambrian Branchiopoda,
Malacostraeca, Trilobita, and Mero-
stomata.

Smithsonian Mise,
Colts: 57, Now6;
Mar. 138, 1912, pp.
145-228, pls. 24-34,
3 figs.

This paper includes all of
the crustaceans of the _ sub-
classes Branchiopoda, Malacos-
tiaca, and Merostomata _ col-
lected in the Burgess shale of

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. 165

Wa.LcorT, CHARLES D.—Continued. WatLcoTT, CHARLES D. The Sardinian

British Columbia during the
field seasons of 1909 and 1910,
together with a discussion of
some new features in the ap-
pendages of the Trilobita. The
mode of occurrence of the fos-
sils is discussed, giving a sec-
tion of the beds included in the
Burgess shale, and the paper
includes a report by E. S. Lar-
sen, jr., on the chemical compo-
sition and microscopic structure
of the shale.

Cambrian genus Olenopsis in America.

Smithsonian Misc.
Colis; bi Nos 485
Mar. 8, 1912, pp.
239-249, pl. 36.

The trilobite genus Olenopsis
has been identified from beds
of uncertain stratigraphic posi-
tion on the island of Sardinia,
but has never before been rec-
ognized in America. This pa-
per describes 3 new _ species
from British Columbia, Mon-
tana, and Pennsylvania, in hori-

—— Cambro- Ordovician boundary
in British Columbia with descrip-
tion of fossils.

zons near the top of the Lower
Cambrian or in the passage beds
to the Middle Cambrian.

Smithsonian Misc.
Oolls., 57, No. 7,
Mar.) (839 19125 spp;
229-237, pl. 35.
This paper treats of the dis-
covery by Mr. J. A. Allan and
Mr. L. D. Burling of fossils
which place the Cambro-Ordo-
viclan boundary above a series
of 4,000 feet of shales and lime-
stones measured by the former
in the Ice River region of Brit-
ish Columbia. It is accom-
panied by one plate illustrating
the 4 species of Ordovician
brachiopods and trilobites which
they collected.

WHITE, Davip. The characters of the
fossil plant Gigantopteris Schenk
and its occurrence in North America.

Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus.,
41, No. 1873, Feb. 8,
1912, pp. 4938-516,
pls. 43-49.

Description of a remarkable
type of Pteridosperm hitherto
known only from China. The.
characters of the genus are dis-
cussed, and the new species
Gigantopteris americana is de-
scribed.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Dati, WILLIAM Heatry. The subant- | DaLt, WiertAM Hearry. Duc d’Or-
arctic islands of New Zealand. leans, Campagne arctique de 1907.

Science (n. s.), 34, No. Par Charles’ Bulens. Bruxelles.
pp. 157, 158. . :
F Review of the reports on Reience (n.8.)5 34, No.

; F 885, Dec. 15, 1911,
these islands made by the scien- pp. 849, 850.

tific societies of New Zealand. Review of report on the arc-

tic explorations of the Duke of
Orleans.

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