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HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
& 
Library of the 
Museum of 


Comparative Zoology 









ANNUAL» REPORT 
THE DIRECTOR 


OF THE 


| MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 


AT HARVARD COLLEGE 


|| | PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE 


FOR 


1913-1914. 


CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A:: 
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM.. 
1914. 





ERN Panes Paginier IN CHARGE OF Oe 
U. S. Fish Commission Sreamer “ALBATROSS,” FRO: v9 Ocrosis, 190 
To Marcu, 1905, LisvTeNaNT CoMMANDER L. M. Garrerr, U.S 
eam gti PUBLISHED OR IN PREPARATION :- man Bae des: 


A. AGASSIZ. V.! General Report && | 


the Expedition. 
A. AGASSIZ. I.1 Three Letters to Geo. 
M. Bowers, U. 8. Fish Com. 
A. AGASSIZ and H. L. CLARK. The 
' Eehini. 


H. B. BIGELOW. XVI.1* The Medusae. © 
H. B. BIGELOW. XXIII. 28'The Sipho- 


nophores. 
H. B. BIGELOW. XXVI. 2% The Cteno- 
phores. 
R. P. BIGELOW. The Stomatopods. 
O. CARLGREN. The Actinaria. 
R. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. 
H.L. CLARK.. The Holothurians. 
1A LOCLARK: '-The Starfishes. 
H. L. CLARK. The Ophiurans. 
S. F. CLARKE. VIII.2 The Hydroids. 
W. R. COE. The Nemerteans, 
L. J. COLE. XIX.'% The Pycnogonida. 
W.H.DALL. XIV.4. The Mollusks. 
CO. R. EASTMAN. VII.7 The Sharks’ 
Teeth. 
S$. GARMAN. XII.!2 The Reptiles. 
H. J. HANSEN. ‘The Cirripeds. 
H. J. HANSEN. XXVII.27 The Schi- 
zopods. 
S. HENSHAW. The Insects. 
W. E. HOYLE. The Cephalopods. 
W.C. KENDALL and L. RADCLIFFE. 


E. ©. STARKS. XID “Atenas (ut Be: 







pete BY 


iy . 


Erich ee. 
©. A. KOFOID and J. R. MICHENER. | 

- XXII. The Protozoa. it i 
C. A. KOFOID and Ed... RIGDEN, 
 XXIV.% The Protozoa. * + AERA bile 
P. KRUMBAOH. The Sagittae. LA ae 
R. VON. LENDENFELD. xx" eee 

Siliceous Sponges. 
G. W. MULLER. The Oseraende® sie bee 


JOHN MURRAY and G. V. “LEE. | oe ees 
XVII." The Bottom Specimens. a iF? 
MARY J.RATHBUN. X10 ‘The Orus- nes 
tacea Decapoda. wie ad 

| HARRIET RICHARDSON. IL* ‘The ee 
Isopods. = oe cay 
W.E. RITTER. IV.4- The ‘Tunicates. Seg 
B. L. ROBINSON. The Plants. ‘ah’ So eas 


G. OQ. SARS. The Copepods. ~ “Sa sae 


F.E. SCHULZE. XI." The Xenophyo-_ oe 
phoras. Cate nce 
HARRIET R. SEARLE. | | XXVOL ate 
‘Isopods. yd 2 
H. R. SIMROTH. Peeropods, Hevero- ce 
pods. : “ Sus as. 


TH. STUDER. The Alcyonaria, = = 
JH. THIELE. XV. Bathyscladium, 5 ee 
T. W. VAUGHAN. VI.s The Corals. 
R. WOLTERECK. XVUL The Am-— rs: 


- 


XXV.% The Fishes. phipods. SAL LERMAN 

1Bull. M. ©. Z., Vol. XLVI., No. 4, April, 1905,22 pp. Bes Persad cee N = 

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

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

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

§Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXIII., January, 1906, 90 pp., 96 pls. ike A: aes i et ia 
éBull. M. C. Z., Vol. L., No. 3,-August, 1906, 14 pp.,10 pls. © =) 

7 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. L., No. 4, November, 1906; 26 pp., 4 pls. YE Seana 

8 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV., No. 1, February, 1907, 20 pp., 15 pls. “ya te 5 a 

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

1 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV, No. 2, August, 1907,56pp.,9DIs. 

1 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LI., No. 6, November, 1907, 22'pps, 1 pk’ as ee em 
#2 Bull. M.:C. Z., Vol.-LI1., No. 1,Jdune, 1908,°14 pp, 1 DI), 9 ee 

1 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIL., No. 2, July, 1908, 8 pp., 5 pls. APN ray 

4 Bull. M. ©. Z., Vol. XLIII., No. 6, October, 1908, 285 pp., 22 pls. 
1% Bull. M. O..Z.,' Vol. LII., No. 5, October; 1908, 11 pp.,.2 Dis. 7) a a 

16. Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXVII., February, 1909, 243 pp., 48 pls). aa 9 

1” Mem. M. ©. Z%., Vol. XXXVIII., No. 1, June, 1909, 172 pp., 5 Dls., 8 maps. se | 

18 Bull. M. COC. Z., Vol. LII., No. 9, June, 1909, 26 pp., 8 pls. : : i sud 
1 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 11, August, 19/ ,, 10 pp., 3 pls. — ee 1a ea 

2% Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LII., No. 13, Septembe”, 1909, 48 pp.,4pls. a 
11 Mem. M. ©. Z., Vol. XLI., August, Sept - 2r, 1910, 323 pp., Sep om 1 a 

2 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. 7, Augus 1911, 38 pp. — ‘Fn aa a 

Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXVIII., No. 2 December, 1911, 232 pp., 32 pis. 11: One Rs 

% Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIV., No. bok F-_oruary, 1912, 16 pp., 2 pls. Ma cco 

2% Mem. M. C, Z., Vol. XXXV., , April, 1912, 98 pp., 8 pls. 5 ee eae ae 

2 Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. LIV, No. Bs Ford 1912, 38 pp., 2pls. ~ a} gO. 3 “age 

77 Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXV., Mo. 4, July, 1912, 124 pp., 12 pls. res. Rpceete tic” 

M Pe ae . | 


23 Bull. 


.C. Z., Vol. LVIII., bo. 8, August, 1914, 14-pp. 





ANNUAL REPORT 


OF 


THE DIRECTOR 


OF THE 


ISEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 


AT HARVARD COLLEGE 


TO THE 





_ PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE 


FOR 


1913-1914. 


CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.: 
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM. 
1914. 


' ‘' r ~ 
Wee PT. ee Fy 


MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 


Faculty. 


ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, President. 


HENRY P. WALCOTT. 


SAMUEL HENSHAW, Director. 


GEORGE L. GOODALE. 
JOHN E. THAYER. 


Committee on the Auseum. 


HENRY P. WALCOTT. 


SAMUEL HENSHAW 
WALTER FAXON 
SAMUEL GARMAN 


WILLIAM BREWSTER. . 
OUTRAM BANGS 


HUBERT L. CLARK f...... 
HENRY B. BIGELOW . . 
ROBERT W. SAYLES .. 
PERCY E. RAYMOND. . 
THOMAS BARBOUR.’ .: .. 


RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN . 


JOHN. ©.) PHILLEPS? 3) 5 
FRANCES M. SLACK 


REGINALD A. DALY ; 
EDWARD L. MARK... 
GEORGE H. PARKER. . 
WILLIAM E. CASTLE. . 
WILLIAM M. WHEELER. 
ROBERT DreC. WARD . . 
ALEXANDER G. McADIE 
WALLACE W. ATWOOD . 
LOUIS C. GRATON®.: 2. 
JAY B. WOODWORTH. . 
HERBERT W. RAND . . 
PERCY E. RAYMOND. . 
CHARLES T. BRUES.. . 


. . Curator 


6 foe 8 vee: 


GEORGE L. GOODALE. 


Officers. 


. Director. 


Curator of Crustacea and Mollusca. 
of Reptiles, Amphibians, 
Fishes. 


and 


. Curator of Birds. 


Curator of Mammals 
Curator of Birds. 


and Associate 


. Curator of Echinoderms. 

. Curator of Coelenterates. 

. Curator of the Geological Collections. 

. Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology. 

. Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibi- 


ans. 2 
Curator of Arachnids, Myriopods, and Worms. 


. Associate Curator of Birds. 
. . Ltbrarian Emerita. 
GEORGE NELSON. .... 


Preparator. 


. Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. 
. Hersey Professor of Anatomy. 

. Professor of Zoélogy. 

. Professor of Zoélogy. 

. Professor of Economic Entomology. 

. Professor of Climatology. 

. Professor of Meteorology 

. Professor of Physiography. 

. Professor of Mining Geology. 

. Associate Professor of Geology. 

. Assistant Professor of Zoélogy. 

. Assistant Professor of Palaeontology. 
. Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology. 





REPORT. 


To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS oF HARVARD COLLEGE:— 


DurinG the Academic year 1913-1914, many of the courses of 
instruction in Zoédlogy, Geology, and Physical Geography offered 
in Harvard University and in Radcliffe College were given in the 
Laboratories and Lecture Rooms of the Museum. 

In Zodlogy twenty courses or half courses were taken by 453 
students in Harvard University and nine courses or half courses 
by 68 students in Radcliffe College. 

In 1912-1913 these courses and students were: — 

Harvard: — 19 courses, 407 students; 

Radcliffe:— 9 courses, 56 students. 

The eighteen courses or half courses in Geology and Geography 
in Harvard University during 1913-1914 were taken by 367 stu- 
dents and the six half courses in Radcliffe College were taken by 
48 students. 

In 1912-1913 these numbers were: — 

Harvard: — 17 courses, 268 students; 

Radcliffe: — 3 courses, 23 students. 

During the year, a long-hoped for plan of codperation between 
the Boston Society of Natural History and the Museum has been 
effected. This Society, founded in 1830, at once assumed through 
its meetings, publications, library, and museum a position of 
importance. In the latter it accumulated, especially in the period 
of its first fifty years, valuable collections in natural history and 
ethnology. The establishment in 1859 of the Museum of Compar- 
ative Zodlogy, and later, in 1866, of the Peabody Museum, natur- 
ally led to the consideration of the duplication of resources and a 
desirable division of the field of work. In 1867, the Society voted 
to abolish the department of ethnology, and shortly afterwards 
presented their ethnological collections, including the valuable 
collection of the Boston Marine Society, to the Peabody Museum. 
A limitation as to the field to be covered in zodlogy was a matter 


4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


of frequent discussion between the Curators of this Museum and 
of the Boston Society during the eighties and again in 1896, when 
a tentative plan for the transfer of the Lafresnaye collection of 
birds from the Society to the Museum was abandoned, owing to 
financial considerations and to the objections of some of the more 
conservative and influential members of the Society. During 
1913 and 1914, however, the subject was reconsidered and an 
agreement reached by which the Society will in large measure 
limit their activities to the natural history of New England, a field 
great enough to tax their resources for many years. Under this 
agreement, it 1s proposed eventually to transfer to this Museum 
all the so-called research material in zodlogy, other than that 
needed for the study of the New England fauna, and for the exhi- 
bition of a typical series of the principal animal types. In return, 
this Museum will give the Society any New England material it 
may require, with the exception of the types of species and such 
other specimens as are of more scientific value with series covering 
large geographical areas than with series from a limited faunal 
area. The Museum will also, through its collections and staff, 
aid in the increase and preparation of the exhibition series repre- 
senting the animal kingdom throughout the world. Though 
progress in this work must necessarily be slow, it cannot fail to be 
advantageous to both institutions. The Museum has already 
received a large proportion of the Society’s unmounted birds, the 
old Boston Museum collection of birds, some European fossils, 
and a part of the Owen Bryant Javan collections. 

By a similar though less extensive codperative interchange of 
resources, this Museum has received the George Baur Galapagos 
collection belonging to Clark University. This collection con- 
sists chiefly of birds and reptiles, with a smaller series of insects, 
arachnids, and shells, and the unique type of the bat, Atalapha 
brachyotis Allen. In return for this collection, the Museum has 
forwarded to Clark University a complete set of its Memoirs 
and Bulletins and will send future volumes as issued. 

Some interesting field-work has been accomplished during 
1913-1914, though as not infrequently happens, a notice of the 
results must be deferred until the following year. The report of 
an expedition to Arctic waters and of a most successful trip to 
the West Indies, both made possible by the aid of several friends 
of the Museum, will be given in the next Annual Report. 

Dr. John C. Phillips conducted a collecting trip to the Sinai 
Peninsula and Southern Palestine during the spring (22 March- 





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12 May, 1914). He was accompanied by Mr. W. M. Mann and 
has most generously given to the Museum the specimens taken. 
These specimens are chiefly vertebrates, (mammals, birds, and 
reptiles), with smaller series of insects, myriopods, and other 
invertebrates. A partial examination of this material reveals a 
few novelties, but coming from a region entirely unrepresented in 
the Museum, it is especially valuable for comparative purposes. 

On the courteous invitation of Dr. A. G. Mayer of the Carnegie 
Institution, Dr. H. L. Clark was a member of the expedition sent 
by the Institution to Torres Strait. Through Dr. Mayer’s gen- 
erous and considerate assistance, Dr. Clark enjoyed exceptional 
opportunities for collecting, not only in the region of Torres Strait, 
but at several points during the voyage. His time and interest 
were almost entirely devoted to the study and collection of echino- 
derms, of which he got together a large and valuable series, num- 
bering about 2,700 specimens of 200 species; in addition, he 
collected a number of reptiles and some insects, mollusks, and 
other invertebrates. Dr. Clark also examined collections of 
echinoderms at several museums in New Zealand, Australia, and 
Hawaii. 

Dr. H. B. Bigelow was again enabled, through the kindness of the 
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, to enjoy the facilities of the U. S. F. S. 
GRAMPUS in working out some of the problems of interest, incident 
to a survey of the coastal waters between Marthas Vineyard and 
_ Halifax. Though unable to carry out his entire plan of operations 
in the north, Dr. Bigelow obtained full data as to temperatures, 
water samples, and ocean currents, at fifty-two stations, and made 
a large number of tows and hauls. As in his earlier GRaMPUS 
work, Dr. Bigelow has received much assistance in the determina- 
tion of the plankton collections, and for this service thanks are 
due Drs. H. J. Hansen, C. O. Esterly, C. McL. Fraser, and Mr. 

E. L. Michael. 
- Dr. R. V. Chamberlin’s field-work covered areas in Maine, 
New Hampshire, Minnesota, and among the Wasatch Mountains 
of Utah. His collections, chiefly myriopods and arachnids, em- 
brace many novelties, as well as specimens from type localities 
necessary for the determination of the species of earlier authorities. 

Prof. P. E. Raymond gave four months of the Museum year to 
an investigation of some of the Palaeozoic strata of Russia, 
Sweden, and Norway. He studied the stratigraphy and collected 
large series of fossils from deposits of Cambrian, Ordovician, and 
Silurian age. Professor Raymond also studied some of the Ordo- 


6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


vician fossils in several museums in England, France, Germany, 
Russia, Sweden, and Norway. 

The Museum is indebted to Messrs. Bangs, Barbour, Bigelow, 
Brewster, Faxon, and Sayles for the care they have taken of the 
collections under their charge. Their reports and those of the 
other Curators give the usual details of the work accomplished : 
and of the more important accessions received during the year. 

The Museum is likewise indebted to Dr. L. E. Griffin for assist- 
ance in the determination and arrangement of its large series of 
stony corals, and also to Miss E. B. Bryant, who, by her own 

efforts and through exchanges, has added much material to the 
collection of Araneina. Miss Bryant has, as in recent years, 
given her time freely to the care and identification of this collection 
which is in a most satisfactory condition. 

Dr. G. M. Allen has identified, catalogued, and labeled the 
mammalian accessions received during the year, has effected some 
important exchanges, and attended to the loan of material to 
specialists. He has completed the rearrangement of the fossil 
Primates, Cetacea, Edentata, and Marsupialia, and has incor- 
porated these with the skeletal remains of recent forms; a similar 
rearrangement of the Ungulata has been begun. Dr. Allen has 
also reviewed the entire collection of recent Primates and has 
sorted over the alcoholic Rodentia, Carnivora, and Insectivora. 

Mr. W. F. Clapp has continued his work upon the Mollusca 
during the whole year; he has revised the entire series of Cephalo- 
poda, Pteropoda, and Heteropoda and made considerable progress 
with many genera of Gasteropoda, while the work on recent 
accessions has been kept well in hand. Mr. Clapp has also 
studied the Salpae, Heteropoda, and Pteropoda collected by the 
GRAMPUS. 

Miss Elvira Wood worked for eight months upon the fossil 
crinoids, and the research series is now in excellent condition for 
study. She has also reviewed the fossil crinoids on exhibition in 
the Systematic Room. 

Mr. J. D. Sornborger has worked throughout the year upon the 
rough mammalian skeletons and has made many ligamentous 
skeletons of birds from fresh material received from the Boston~ 
Park Commissioners. = 

The work of a Museum Preparator is subject to so many inter- 
ruptions and changes that progress toward any special end is 
oftentimes disappointingly slow. The more notable results of 
Mr. George Nelson’s ‘work for the exhibition collections consist — 


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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. t 


of a fine pair of Elk (Cervus canadensis), obtained in Montana by 
Mr. William Dirrett, and a male Virginia Deer (Odocoileus wr- 
gintanus borealis), taken in the Adirondacks, the gift of Mr. W. 
W. Barbour. Mr. Nelson has also revised a part of the Primates, 
both mounts and skeletons, on exhibition in the Systematic col- 
lection; these have been rearranged in three new cases. 

Ill health during the year greatly curtailed the work of Mr. 
Walter R. Zappey, who died in Cambridge on the 20th of Febru- 
ary, 1914. In his death, the Museum lost the services of an 
efficient and most conscientious Preparator. Owing to an early 
interest in birds, Mr. Zappey became a professional taxidermist. 
One result of his field-work, which had attracted the notice of Mr. 
Outram Bangs, was a paper on the birds of the Isle of Pines, 
published under their joint authorship.. This paper was based 
on the material and notes made by Mr. Zappey during two visits 
to the island. Through the ever-ready generosity of Col. John E. 
Thayer, Mr. Zappey was associated with the Arnold Arboretum 
Expedition to Western China, in charge of Mr. E. H. Wilson, 
working during a part of the years 1907-1909 wholly in the inter- 
ests of this Museum. The large and valuable series of vertebrates 
resulting from this expedition, (see Mem. M. C. Z., 40, no. 4), is 
evidence of Mr. Zappey’s industry and ability. From December, 
1909, until March, 1910, Mr. Zappey was in British East Africa 
with Mr. Childs Frick, and through Mr. Frick’s kindness, the 
birds, small mammals, and a few of the large ungulates taken, 
were added to the collections of the Museum. From August, 
1910, until his death, Mr. Zappey worked as Museum Preparator 
upon the research and exhibition collections of birds and mam- 
mals. His skill and faithfulness were as willingly given to the 
most tiresome drudgery incident to his position as to the mount 
of a rare mammal shot by himself in Asia or Africa. For Mr. 
Zappey’s services as Preparator, the Museum is indebted to the 
generosity of Dr. John C. Phillips. 

The constant generosity of Col. John E. Thayer has enriched 
the library and collections of the Museum. ‘To the latter, he has 
given many mammals and insects, while his contributions to the 
ornithological department include specimens from the Antarctic 
and Arctic, as well as from tropical and temperate North America. 
Among Col. Thayer’s gifts to the library are manuscripts and 
publications of great interest and value. The manuscripts in- 
clude two autograph journals and sixty-eight letters of John J. 
Audubon, together with many letters of Mrs. Audubon and her 


8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


son Victor G. Audubon. The journals cover dates during 1820- 
1821 and 1840-1842; the earlier one is illustrated by a drawing 
showing the nomenclature of the external parts of a bird. The 
letters dating from 1829-1839 are addressed to the Havells, the 
engravers of the plates of Audubon’s works. Of later date are a 
series of more than 150 plates, with colored illustrations of the 
eggs of North American birds, drawn from nature by William S. 
Morgan, for a proposed work of the late Dr. T. M. Brewer. A 
third item of interest among Mr. Thayer’s gifts to the library 
consists of a copy of J. K. Townsend’s Ornithology of North 
America, (Philadelphia. 1839), one of the scarcest publications on 
this subject. 

Dr. J. C. Phillips’s collections from Sinai and Palestine have been 
mentioned; his other contributions include many gallinaceous 
birds, as well as ducks and geese, selected to fill gaps in the Mu- 
seum series; both of these groups are well represented owing very 
largely to Dr. Phillips’s previous gifts. 

From the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, the Museum has received 
a second series of Philippine birds mostly taken by himself during 
his stay as Governor General of the Islands. ‘These two dona- 
tions give the Museum an excellent representation of Philippine 
birds. Mr. Forbes was also good enough to collect for the Mu- 
seum a considerable series of birds during a trip to Cuba, Jamaica, 
and Guatemala. 

To Mr. L. W. Swett the Museum is indebted for a large collec- 
tion of North American Geometridae, a family of moths, to which 
he has paid especial attention during recent years. Mr. Swett’s 
gift of a valuable series of types was recorded in the Report for 
1912-1913; the collection presented this year numbers about 
7,000 specimens and represents more than three fourths of the 
described North American species. Mr. Swett has also begun a 
complete rearrangement of the collection of Geometridae, incor- 
porating his own series with those previously in the Museum, 
verifying the identifications, and revising the nomenclature. 

By the kind thoughtfulness of the officials of the Department 
of Parks of the City of Boston, the Museum has received from’ 
time to time such mammals and birds as have died at the Frank- 
lin Park Zoo. A few of these were not previously in the collection, 
and all have furnished, either as skins or skeletons, specimens of 
scientific value. 

Of the other gifts received from many donors the following 
deserve separate mention: — 





MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 8) 


From Miss L. S. Brewer, a number of ornithological books and 
pamphlets, including two volumes of colored drawings of eggs of 
North American birds; though unsigned, this series of drawings 
was evidently designed for the same work as the series given by 
Mr. Thayer. 

From the heirs of Thaddeus William Harris, a number of 
scarce pamphlets. 

From Dr. C. R. Eastman, several volumes of the reports of 
geological surveys and a collection of invertebrate fossils. 

From Mr. C. T. Ramsden, many vertebrates and invertebrates 
from Cuba. | 

From the University of Michigan, through Dr. A. G. Ruthven, 
specimens of Onychophora and Myriopoda from Colombia. 

From the Rev. John T. Gulick, a valuable collection of Hawaiian 
land shells. _ 

From Prof. H. W. Foote, the Arachnida collected during a 
Yale Peruvian expedition. 

From Mr. J. H. Emerton, Arachnida, including types of many 
new species. 

From Prof. C. H. Eigenmann, a collection of Myriopoda brought 
together and studied by the late Prof. C. H. Bollman, at the time 
of his death the principal American authority on the group. 

From Mr. F. C. Bowditch, a very large series of Chrysomelidae, 
a family of beetles, the special study of Mr. Bowditch. 

From Mr. E. D. Harris, a series of tiger beetles belonging to the 
genera Omus and Tetracha. 

From Mr. B. P. Clark, a number of Sphingidae (hawk moths) 
new to the collection. 

From the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 
Committee on the Zodlogy of the Sandwich Islands, a large and 
especially valuable collection of insects, a part of the material 
used in the preparation of the Fauna Hawaiiensis. 

From the Rev. George Schwab, a number of West African birds 
new to the collection. 

From Col. John Caswell, mounted heads of several species of 
African big game (Ungulata). 

From Mr. Copley Amory, apparatus for oceanographic work. 

The principal additions by purchase are the George Schwab 
West African collection, (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, 
and invertebrates); the Mexican lower vertebrates and several 
groups of invertebrates collected by Mr. W. M. Mann, and the 
Brazilian Myriopoda also collected by Mr. Mann in 1911; a 


10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


small collection of insects from British Guiana; a series of Coleop- 
tera and Lepidoptera (Geometridae) taken in the Black Moun- 
tains of North Carolina by Mr. William Beutenmiiller, and 
additional series of Rotifera prepared by Mr. C. F. Rousselet. 

The disastrous fire at Wellesley College in March 1914 destroyed 
the collection of Bryozoa obtained during the cruise of the ALBA- 
TROSS in the Eastern Pacific during the years 1904-1905. Miss 
Alice Robertson, who was engaged in the study of this material, 
lost her private library, together with all her notes and drawings, 
covering the work of many years. Regrettable as this loss must 
always be, it is not irreparable, as the results were unpublished, 
and new explorations, with renewed energies, will in time replace 
both collections and results. 

A second loss of material which can only be termed irreparable 
must also be recorded, namely, a very large part of the Comatulae 
obtained chiefly by the U. S. C. S. S. Biaxe during the several 
cruises of the years from 1877 to 1880. This valuable material, 
which was originally entrusted to Dr. P. H. Carpenter for study 
and report, was, owing to his death in 1891, sent by Mr. Agassiz 
to Dr. Cl. Hartlaub. Because of other duties, Dr. Hartlaub’s 
study of these specimens was subject to many interruptions, so that 
his results were not published until April, 1912, (Mem. M. C. Z. 
27, no. 4), though several of the plates had been prepared and 
printed many years earlier. After the issuance of Dr. Hartlaub’s 
Memoir, he was asked in September, 1912, to return the collections 
on which his report was based, and later, in November, 1912, the 
specimens of Actinometra echinoptera, listed on p. 416-417, 440- 
443 of his Memoir, were, with few exceptions, received. Several 
later appeals for the return of the balance of the collection have 
proved ineffective, Dr. Hartlaub stating that his return included 
all that he had any knowledge of, though he is wholly unable to 
offer any very satisfactory reason for this unfortunate state of 
affairs. It is especially to be regretted that Dr. Hartlaub, when 
forwarding his manuscript for publication, did not make known 
that the material entrusted to him and upon which his report was 
based was not in his possession. Had he done so, the description 
of his many new species would have been withheld, and future 
investigators would have been spared the annoyance and uncer- 
tainty that will arise from the loss of the types of his new species. 
The types of three of the five species of Antedon, described by 
Pourtalés and referred to by Hartlaub in his Memoir, are also 
unfortunately missing from the collection of the Museum, a loss 
without doubt due to Dr. Hartlaub’s neglect. 


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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 11 


The echinoderms collected by the ALBAaTRoss during the ex- 
peditions of 1899-1900 and 1904-1905, and sent to the late Dr. 
Hubert Ludwig of Bonn for report, have been returned to the 
Museum; the collection is in good order. 

The Library consists of 51,499 volumes and 47,716 pamphlets; 
1,203 volumes and 1,148 pamphlets have been added during the 
year. 

The publications of the year include one volume and five 
numbers of the Memoirs, thirteen numbers of the Bulletin and the 
Annual Report, a total of 1,622 (885 quarto, 737 octavo) pages, 
and 158 (117 quarto, 41 octavo) plates. 

One number of the Bulletin was issued in the Geological series, 
eleven numbers of the Bulletin contain reports on collections of the 
Museum, and one number of the Bulletin and one number of the 
Memoirs represent field-work of two members of the Museum 
staff; of the other Memoirs, one number and Mr. Garman’s vol- 
ume on the Plagiostomia were issued under the provisions of Mr. 
Agassiz’s Expedition Fund. 

The Corporation granted the sum of $300.— to assist in the 
publication of contributions from the Zodlogical and Geological 
Laboratories. 

SAMUEL HENSHAW, 
Director. 





12 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


REPORT ON THE ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 


By E. L. Marx. 


Again the Department has profited by the system of exchange 
of professors with other institutions. In the present instance 
Prof. H. W. Norris of Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, was in resi- 
dence here during the greater part of the year. . 

Tables follow, giving the numbers attending each course, both 
in Harvard (Table 1) and in Radcliffe (Table 2), grouped according 
to the classes to which the students belonged. 


TABLE I. 


Courses for Graduates 
1913-1914 A. & §. | Ap. Sei. 





Out of 
Jun. | Soph. | Fresh. ateae: Spec. |} Unel.| Total 





























Zoélogy 1 |} 1 1 16. | 40 |. 55 | 58 4 | 11 | 186 
ng iat a | 26 | 44 | 40 17 1 9 | 138 
2: 3 2+2 | 2 14 10 6 2 2} 38+2 
* Ao ee 3 1 5 1 Liris 
a SRN S 1 2 3 1 f 1 12 
Oe ee ee eer: 
x 1@.\<2 2+1 2 3 1 10+1 
‘3 ds | 2 2 3 I 9 
% 7c 2 Z 1 5 
“ 7d: 3 3 
sd 1 PD 1 2 uf F 
nf 12 | 1+3 1+3 
m 14a | 6 2 2 1 1 12 
Sf 17 1+2 1+2 
= 200 1b i 
20b | 1 1 
a 20c | 3 1 4 
i 20d 3 3 
os 20f 6 6 
« 2909 | 1 1 
Sums 30+11|29+1| 53 | 115 | 106] 81 4 9 | 26 |453-+-12 








Note: Numbers in italics indicate students who attended the lectures, but were 
not enrolled in the course. To make numbers directly comparable with | 
those of previous years, these are not incorporated with the enrolled 
students. 





MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 13 


























TABLE II. 

Courses 1913-1914 Gr. Sen. Jun. Soph. | Fresh. Spec. Unel. Total 
Zodlogy 1 Z 4 8 20 4 1 39 
“cc 3 1 2 3 

i 4 1 3 1 1 6 

5b 1 4 1 6 

oa 6 1 1 

“8 14a 1 1 3 1 6 

re 17 i, 1 a 

he 20c 1 1 1 3 

= 209 1 1 / 2 
Sums 3 aa |: oy age i Fe) gg 








The increase in the number of students in Zodlogy I, given by 
Professor Parker, taxed the laboratory facilities, even with an 
increase in the number of sections, almost to their limit. The chief 
assistants in the Harvard courses were Messrs. L. B. Arey and 
H. D. Fish; the subassistants Messrs. A. M. Eisenberg, H. R. 
Hunt, and F. X. Williams. The assistants in Radcliffe were 
Messrs. D. H. Wenrich and P. W. Whiting. As the tables show, 
the classes most largely represented were the Freshman and Sopho- 
more. 

Zoélogy 2, by Professor Castle, was given without laboratory 
work, and to Harvard students only. More students from the 
Junior and Sophomore classes were enrolled than from the other 
classes. 

In Zodlogy 3, by Assistant Professor Rand, the laboratory work 
was limited, as in the preceding year, to the dissection of a fish, 
an amphibian, and a mammal. The assistant in the Harvard 
course was Dr. B. M. Patten; but during April and May his place 
was taken for a part of the time by Mr. W. J. Crozier, and for the 
remainder of the time by Mr. S. F. Haines. The Radcliffe assis- 
tant was Mr. L. B. Arey. Zodlogy 4 was also given, as usual, by 
Assistant Professor Rand, and to Radcliffe students as well as to 
Harvard students. The assistant in the Harvard course was Dr. 
B. M. Patten. 

Zoélogy 5b and Zodlogy 12 were given by Professor Mark, the 
assistant in both courses being Mr. A. C. Redfield. 

The course in Advanced Anatomy of Vertebrates, with Special 
Reference to the Segmentation of the Head, (Zodlogy 6) by Pro- 


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fessor Norris, was given with laboratory work to students in both 
Harvard and Radcliffe. The lectures were attended by four 
Harvard Graduate students not enrolled in the course. 

The courses in Entomology — Zoélogy 7a to 7d — were given 
as usual by Professor Wheeler and Assistant Professor Brues, 
partly in Cambridge and partly at the Bussey Institution. 

As in previous years, the zoédlogical half of Zodlogy and Botany 
11 was given by Professor Castle, and the botanical half by Pro- 
fessor East. 

Zodlogy 14a was opened by Professor Parker to students in 
Radcliffe College, as Zodlogy 14b had been in the preceding year. 
Eight of those taking this course chose it as a thesis course. Six 
of those who took it as a laboratory course worked on the same 
subject that they took in Zodlogy 20e. 

Zodlogy 17, by Assistant Professor Rand, was likewise conducted 
jointly for Harvard and Radcliffe. 

On Saturday afternoons during the first half-year, Professor 
Parker gave at the Zoological Laboratory a course on zodlogy to 
twenty teachers in the Teachers’ School of Science. The assistant 
in the laboratory was Mr. W. J. Crozier. 

During the year, sixteen Harvard students were engaged in 
research. Of these there were enrolled one each in Zodlogy 20a 
and Zodlogy 20b under Professor Mark, four in Zodlogy 20c under ~ 
Professor Parker, three in Zodlogy 20d under Professor Castle, 
six in Zodlogy 20f under Professor Wheeler, and one in Zodlogy 20g 
under Professor Rand. In Radcliffe there were five research 
students, of whom three were enrolled in Zodlogy 20c under 
Professor Parker and two in Zoélogy 20g under Professor Rand. 

On Mr. Bradley Merrill Patten the degree of Ph. D. was con- 
ferred in February, 1914. His thesis was entitled A Quantitative 
Determination of the Orienting Reaction of the Blowfly Larva 
(Calliphora erythrocephala Meigen). 

The Bermuda Biological Station for Research was opened June 
12 and closed August 10. Five persons were enrolled, of whom 
three were from Harvard University. Two Harvard students at 
the Bermuda Station received aid from the Humboldt Fund to the 
amount of $205.76. 

The Harvard Table at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 
Hole, was occupied by a Graduate student from July 5 to August 
10. The Radcliffe Table was occupied by a member of the Class of 
1914 and a Special student of Radcliffe. 

A Graduate student of Harvard working at the Scientific Labora- 





MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 15 


tory at the United States Bureau of Fisheries in Woods Hole re- 
ceived $30. from the Humboldt Fund. 

In November, 1913, Professor Parker gave on invitation one of 
the Harvey lectures before the New York Academy of Medicine. 
His subject was The Origin and Evolution of the Nervous System. 
He also gave one of the four addresses on The Scope of Biological 
Teaching in Relation to New Fields of Discovery delivered before 
the American Society of Naturalists at its meeting in Philadelphia 
‘in December, 1913. Professor Parker was appointed William 
Brewster Lecturer at Amherst College for 1913, where he delivered 
during April, 1914, four lectures on Biology and Social Problems. 

The Zodlogical Club held twenty-two meetings. Twenty-one 
original papers were presented, and about a dozen reviews. The 
average attendance was seventeen. 


16 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


REPORT OF THE STURGIS HOOPER PROFESSOR OF 
GEOLOGY. 


By Recinautp A. DaAty. 


During the year, the writer continued to act as chairman of the 
Department of Geology and to give instruction in Geology 4 
(completed by 137 students), Geology 9 (completed by 3 graduate 
students), and Geology 20c (completed by 4 graduate students). 
He served also as convener of the Geological Conference. 

The first half-year was largely occupied with the proof-reading 
of a book on Igneous Rocks and their Origin which had been 
completed in the preceding year; it was published in February, 
1914. 

The second half-year was chiefly devoted to the writing of a 
detailed report to the director of the Geological Survey of Canada 
on the geology of the Selkirk and Purcell mountain ranges at the 
Canadian Pacific Railway. The completed report was sent to the 
director in May; it is to be published as a memoir of the Canadian 
Survey. 

On June 2nd I sailed for Europe, returning on September 30th. 
Field-studies and collections were made:—in the English Lake 
district; in Ayrshire, Fifeshire, the Northwest Highlands and 
other districts of Scotland; in southern Sweden; and in Lappland. 
The principal field work was performed on the genetic problem of 
the famous iron ores at Kiruna in Swedish Lappland. The rock 
collections made in Great Britain and Sweden will have value for 
advanced students in petrology. The usefulness of the Gardner 
Fund to the Department was again shown as it enabled the writer 
to secure a superb series of lantern slides and large photographic 
prints illustrating the geology of Scotland. This purchase was 
possible through the courtesy of Dr. J. S. Flett, the Director of the 
Geological Survey of Scotland, who permitted an unlimited selec- 
tion from the thousands of fine official negatives belonging to that 
Survey. The professional benefit of the season was greatly en- 
hanced by the masterly guidance of Dr. John Horne in the Scot- 
tish Highlands, and by the unexcelled kindness of the general 
manager of the mining company at Kiruna, Dr. Hjalmar Lund- 
bohm, who by his interest and foresight expedited the investiga- 
tions in that field. 





MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. tf 


REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND 
GEOGRAPHY. 


By Recrnatp A. Daty. — 


In the past year no permanent changes were made in the per- 
sonnel of this Department, which, however, then first felt the vitaliz- 
ing benefit of the several additions to its staff which were described 
in the last report to the Director. The serious illness of Professor 
Woodworth in the autumn made it necessary to supply his place 
as instructor in Geology 8, an important course in general geology; 
the Department was fortunate in securing the services of Prof. 
A. C. Lane of Tufts College, who conducted that course until 
Professor Woodworth had recovered. The assistants appointed 
for the year were:— Messrs. W. P. Haynes, E. Wigglesworth, and 
Y.S. Bonillas (in Geology 4); and Messrs. C. F. Brooks and A. 
Wandtke (in Geology A, now Geology 1). Mr. Haynes acted also 
as assistant in Geology 5, as instructor in the summer course S15, 
and instructed in geology at Radcliffe College. 

The reopening of the geographical courses was largely responsible 
for a notable increase in the amount of instruction given by the 
Department. In the winter session of the University the total 
number of takings was 367 (completed courses or half-courses of 
study); these were distributed through 18 courses and half-courses. 
In the preceding year the takings were 232, distributed through 
15 courses and half-courses. ‘The summer field-course in Montana 
was continued by Professor Woodworth (7 students), and a new 
summer course operating in Quebec and New Brunswick was con- 
ducted by Dr. Haynes (8 students) in 1914. Professor Woodworth 
supervised the work of one student in the research summer course, 
S20c. Owing to the continuous, intensive nature of all these sum- 
mer courses, they are among the most valuable of those offered by 
this Department. Six half courses in Radcliffe College were com- 
pleted by 48 students, as against 3 half-courses with 24 students in 
the preceding year. 

Messrs. D. C. Barton, C. F. Brooks, and W. P. Haynes were suc- 
cessful in winning the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field 
of Geology and Geography. 

Coéperation with the geological department of the Massachu- 
_ setts Institute of Technology has been continued. For some years 


18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


the advanced courses of each institution have been open to gradu- 
ate students in the other. During the past year a number of 
Institute students took advantage of this arrangement, which has 
again proved its value and practicality. The sessions of the Geo- 
logical Conference in each institution have distinctly benefitted 
by the attendance of instructors and advanced students from the 
other institution. It is to be hoped that this codperation may be 
still further systematized and strengthened; the hope is based on 
the cordial relations existing between the two departments con- 
cerned. 

Mr. Robert W. Sayles continued to give his valued services as 
Curator of Exhibition Collections and has again showed his deep 
interest in the University by generously presenting needed material 
and considerable sums of money for the running expenses of the 
Geological Section of the Museum, as well as financially aiding the 
teaching work of the Department in a very substantial way. 
The Department is also indebted to Prof. Roland B. Dixon, acting 
for the Department of Anthropology, for the generous gift of many 
geological books, which form a useful addition to the small working 
library of the Division of Geology. Other gifts are noted in the 
sequel. 

The Department is still very seriously handicapped by the lack 
of a thoroughly equipped departmental library. At present the 
Department has neither a librarian nor a secretary. The waste 
of time and energy on the part of the professors, as they are com- 
pelled to do much purely clerical work, is obvious. The most 
pressing need of the Department is doubtless that for an officer ap- 
pointed by the Corporation to act as Librarian-secretary. That 
notable financial saving could thus be effected is already proved 
by geological departments in other institutions, as, for example, 
that at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Mr. Edward Wigglesworth, Curator of the Gardner Collection 
of photographs, reports in tabular form on the state of the collec- 
tion on July 1, 1914:— 


Photographs Slides Negatives 


Accessions since last report 73 519 
Unidentified views 150 
Duplicates 116 
Broken 0 
Last accession number 7,415 
Number now in collection 7,304 
Card catalogued 0 








MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19 


By a vote of the Corporation, passed at the request of Mr. 
Gardner, the income of the fund may now be expended for process 
reproductions and enlargements; and any unexpended balance 
may be used for purchase of geological maps. 

The more important additions to the collection during the year 
were as follows:— 800 lantern slides purchased by Professor 
Atwood for use in his courses (in process of being catalogued) ; 
78 lantern slides and photographs purchased from Dr. F. H. 
Lahee, illustrating details of local geology; 95 photographs of the 
southern Pacific Islands, from Prof. W. M. Davis. A large series 
of panoramic photographs of the Hawaiian volcanoes, taken by 
Mr. G. C. Curtis, has been received, for scientific use, from Mr. 
Sayles and placed in storage uncatalogued. 

As a result of the recent vote of the Corporation allowing a wider 
use of the income of the fund, the following were purchased: 
Joubin’s Map of the coral reefs of the world; Stille’s Geologische 
_ Charakterbilder; Schuchert’s Paleogeographic maps, complete 
(enlargements). 

About 300 lantern slides have been loaned temporarily to 
Wellesley College to replace the collection which was destroyed 
in the recent fire at that college. Professor Barton has continued 
to use the collection in his course in the Teachers’ School of Science. 

During the year, three field investigations, supported by the 
accumulated income of the Shaler Memorial Fund, were begun. 
A grant was made to Prof. W. M. Davis, who, early in 1914, left 
Cambridge to study the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean and has 
not yet (October 10, 1914) returned. A second grant was made 
to Professors Raymond and Twenhofel to cover their expenses in an 
extensive stratigraphic study of the Silurian system in Russia and 
Sweden. The third grant was made to Professor Atwood for an 
investigation of physiographic development in relation to the 
natural concentration of ores in the Butte district, Montana. The 
range of these problems and the standing of the investigators 
Indicate the rich and steady harvest which may be expected from 

the employment of this permanent fund. 

_ This year the Josiah Dwight Whitney scholarship, to the full 
value of its annual income, was granted to Mr. Alfred Wandtke, 
who spent the summer working on the geology of special localities 
in Montana and other western states. 

Professors Wolff and Palache, of the Department of Mineralogy 
and Petrography, have continued to give their indispensable 
services freely to our own Department; not the least of their 
courtesies is that of giving hospitality to geological students who 


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have desired to use the Mineralogical library. These gentlemen 
at very considerable financial and personal sacrifice have built up 
and steadily cared for this excellent though small library, as a 
matter of absolute departmental necessity, yet with very little aid 
from the University corporation. Seeing the equally great need 
of the Department of Geology and Geography they have generously 
opened their library to its students, thereby seriously adding to the 
personal work and responsibility of the two professors, who still 
are doing the clerical work of the library. 

Professor McAdie reports that for the Blue Hill Meteoroleaaal 
Observatory the year has been one of progress. ‘The Observatory 
is back again in its old place of leadership in meteorological work 
in this country. The Mount Weather Observatory on which 
something like $400,000 of public money had been expended has 
been abandoned by the Government at a time when advanced 
aerological work in this country was most needed. It is true the 
output has been incommensurate with the amount expended but 
none the less we regret the closing of an institution equipped to 
carry on certain work inaugurated at Blue Hill. 

One course of instruction was offered at the Observatory for 
graduate students, namely Meteorology 20. One graduate stu- 
dent, preparing himself for work in a foreign Weather Service 
took the course. Also one candidate for Doctor’s degree served as 
one of the Observatory staff. ‘The Director gave three illustrated 
public lectures in Boston during the year. 

Several undergraduates visited the Observatory and some 
familiarized themselves with the routine of the Observatory, the 
care of instruments and preparation of meteorological forms. 

Gifts to the Observatory included the following: — from Mrs. A. 
Lawrence Rotch, the generous sum of $1,574.53 for running ex- 
penses; from Professor E. C. Pickering (one-half cost of printing 
Annals, estimated) $400.00; Mr. Livingston Davis, fire extin- 
guishers; the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund for experiments 
in connection with frost, $150.00. 

One of the professors of the Department has suggested ite advis- 
ability of installing a modern seismograph in the Observatory. 
A space of 400 or even more square feet is available and there are 
certain excellent scientific reasons why a high grade seismological 
station should be maintained at this point in connection with the 
aerological records. It would add to the strength of the Depart- 
ment if such action could be taken. The study of earth waves 
should be correlated with the studies of air waves and ocean waves. 





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A few years ago Professor McAdie was able to show that a marked 
and peculiar disturbance recorded on the mareograph (self-re- 
cording tide gage) of the U. S. Coast Survey in San Francisco Bay, 
and thought to be due to a submarine earthquake, was in fact due 
to atmospheric causes. With a good mareograph in Boston harbor 
(and assistance of the Coast Survey could be depended upon) 
and a seismograph at Blue Hill in addition to the existing equip- 
ment, it would be possible to follow closely and correlate the larger 
vibrations which are transmitted through earth, water, and air 
at certain times, due to volcanic or tectonic disturbances. 

Prof. H. L. Smyth gave his new, advanced course on the geology 
of iron ores to six students. 

Professor Ward reports:— The courses’ in Meteorology and Cli- 
matology, hitherto designated Geology 1, 2, etc., have been given 
the designation of Meteorology 1, 2, ete. This change was de- 
sirable in view of the increase in the number of these courses, and 
because of the confusion which has frequently arisen on account 
of the use of the term Geology in connection with courses in 
Meteorology and Climatology. A new half-course on the Clima- 
tology of South America, given for the first time in 1913-1914, was 
elected by 9 students. ‘This course replaces that on the Geography 
of South America, which has been withdrawn. The most impor- 
tant addition to the laboratory equipment was an Assmann Aspira- 
tion Psychrometer, purchased during the year. The large model 
of the United States showing mean annual isotherms and isohyetal 
lines was removed from the Geological Museum Exhibition Rooms 
and placed on the wall of Professor Ward’s small lecture room, 
where it is more accessible to students of Climatology. Mr. 
Charles F. Brooks, Assistant in Meteorology, completed a thesis 
on the Snowfall of the Eastern United States, as a part of the work 
for his Ph.D. degree. Owing to the completion of the new ex- 
tension of the Peabody Museum, it was desirable to move the win- 
dow shelter in Room 43 from the east to a south window. During 
the winter, Professor Ward devoted much time to the preparation 
of a discussion of the weather element in American climates. 
This paper will shortly be published. In the summer of 1914, he 
prepared a series of lectures on the Climatology of the: Eastern 
_ Hemisphere, for a new half-course in that subject. 

_ Geology 8 was conducted by Professor A. C. Lane and Geology 

12 by Mr. Haynes until about Dec. 1, when Professor Woodworth 
resumed his duties. Courses 4, 5, 8, and 16 were also given to 
_ students in Radcliffe College. In July-August, 1914, Professor 


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Woodworth conducted the Rocky Mountain Summer Course 
on the Sayles foundation. He also continued the work of the 
Harvard Seismographic Station in connection with the Interna- 
tional Seismological Commission. Mr. G. M. Flint performed 
most of the usual routine work of the instrument room, fixing the 
records etc., except for Sundays and holidays when Professor 
Woodworth did the work. During July and August, 1914, in the 
absence of Mr. Flint the seismograph was kept running by Mr. 
Sydney Holmes, the janitor of the Geological Museum. Reports 
are in preparation by Professor Woodworth, on geological field- 
work done in connection with the N. Y. Geological Survey, and 
on hours at which earthquakes occur. At the close of the Summer 
School in Montana in August, 1914, Professor Woodworth went 
in the interests of the School to Butte and thence southward to 
Salt Lake City to look over the ground for a possibly better field 
for the instruction in aquamic and structural geology. He re- 
turned with the conviction that the present route of the travelling 
Summer School from Bozeman out and back — via the West 
Gallatin Cafion to Squaw Creek (cafion), thence by Spanish Creek 
to Cherry Creek and so by Pole Creek to the Madison River, 
through Norris to Eunis, thence to Virginia City and the Ruby 
Dredges; returning via the Axolotl Lakes and Old Baldy Mt. to 
Varney on the Madison River, with a side trip to the Ruby River, 
Bear Creek and the Sphynx Mt. overthrust, returning thence to 
Eunis,— affords the greatest opportunity for study of geological 
structure and rock types with the most suitable environment for 
a course composed of graduate and undergraduate students. The 
University is indebted to Mr. Peter Marek of Ruby Creek, Mon- 
tana, for a large section of prismatic limestone donated to the 
Museum. A collection of Cambrian trilobites from Pole Creek 
was also acquired. 

During the second term Professor Atwood gave the following 
courses in Physiography:— Geology A, an introductory course 
completed by 67 students; Geology 6, Physiography of the 
United States, with a class of 16 students. During the year, he 
continued his study of the San Juan Mountains which is being 
conducted under the auspices of the U. S. Geological Survey. He 
was especially fortunate while in the field in discovering evidence 
of glaciation during the Eocene period in the San Juan Mountains 
of Colorado. This is the first definite evidence of a glacial period 
in that epoch of the Earth’s history. Professor Atwood presented 
a report of the discovery before the Geological Society of America, 





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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 23 


and has a descriptive paper in process of publication. He also 
presented a paper before the joint meeting of the American Geo- 
graphical Society and the Association of American Geographers 
on the Physiography of the San Juan Mountains. Professor 
Atwood has taken a supervisional charge for the University over 
the college work in Geography which is being offered at the Boston 
Normal College, and, with Mr. Sayles, has become associated with 
the establishment of the Children’s Museum of Boston. 

Several hundred new topographic maps have been added to the 
equipment, and about 30 small selected groups of such maps have 
been mounted together for laboratory work. 

In the development of physiographic and geographic geology 
in the University it is highly desirable that a great deal of field 
work be done. The study of the local region is being worked more 
and more into the courses of instruction, but it is evident that a 
field school of geology and geography, conducted throughout the 
summer months, should be established and conducted on such a 
scale that the men could receive at least two months’ instruction 
in the field, and could there be trained for practical or professional 
work in these subjects. This field school should be to this Depart- 
ment what the engineering camp is to the department of engineer- 
ing. Such a school needs an endowment and certain scholarships 
to help deserving students to defray the necessarily heavy travel- 
ling expenses. 

‘Professor Atwood believes: that the engagement of graduate 
students, or, as it sometimes must be, undergraduate students as 
assistants in the courses of instruction is not altogether satisfac- 
tory. A young man well trained in the work of the department 
and appointed to a position as assistant or instructor for a term 
_ of two or three years would prove much more satisfactory, and 
_ would raise the efficiency in the instruction at very little increase 
_ in expense. 

Professor Graton gave the following courses:— Geology 10, on 
ore deposits (15 students); Geology 20b, research on ore deposits 
_ (3 students, recorded as 8 full courses); Geology 18, on fuels, 
- fluxes, etc., (assigned part of instruction, 4 students). He contin- 
ued to act as secretary and manager of the Copper Producers’ 
_ Association of New York, as director of the investigation on the 
_ secondary enrichment of ores (described in the last report), and 
as administrator of a research allotment from the funds of the 
_ Carnegie Institution of Washington. His field-work was carried on 
between August 1 and September 4, 1913, at Butte, Montana, and 


24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


Bingham and Park City, Utah; between January 5 and February 
5, 1914, at Globe and Miami, Arizona. His personal researches 
were devoted to the microscopic character of ores, the secondary 
enrichment of sulphide ores, and the copper deposits of Shasta 
county, California. Professor Graton reports that no direct gifts 
to the section of mining geology have been made during the year, 
but notes certain advantages enjoyed at no expense to the Uni- 
versity. Nearly half of the charge for labor connected with the 
great task of labeling and arranging the collections of the section 
was borne by Mr. Sayles, in exchange for numerous specimens 
transferred to the Museum. From the Secondary Enrichment 
Investigation fund the sum of $17,750 was expended during the 
year, in addition to $6,300 expended last year. This very extensive 
Harvard research places to the credit of this Department an enter- 
prise of greater scope than anything of similar nature previously 
undertaken in this country, outside of government auspices. 

Professor Graton specially feels the need of a department library. 

Professor Raymond gave Palaeontology 1 (8 students), Palaeon- 
tology 2 (4 students), and Palaeontology 20 (8 students). In 
the research course Mr. Winthrop P. Haynes wrote his thesis, 
accepted in June for the Doctor’s degree, and Mr. Richard M. 
Field did certain work on the photography of fossils by the use 
of the Roentgen rays, the results of which are being prepared for 
publication. 

Through a grant from the income of the Shaler Memorial fund, 
Professor Raymond, accompanied by Associate Professor W. H. 
Twenhofel of the University of Kansas, was able to study the 
stratigraphy of the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian formations 
of the Governments of St. Petersburg and Esthonia in Russia, 
and in the southern parts of Sweden and Norway. About four 
months were spent on this expedition, during which a great deal 
was learned about the relations of the various strata in the regions 
studied, and the correlation of those strata with the Ordovician 
and Silurian rocks of America. A report on the results of the trip 
is now in preparation. 

The student palaeontological collection has received the follow- 
ing accessions; — a specimen of silicified wood and invertebrate 
fossils from France and Germany, from Dr. Donald C. Barton; 
a fossil fish and silicified wood from Italy through Professor 
Palache; a series of fossils and shells from the Holden collection 
through Professor Wolff, and a set of brachiopods from the Car- 
boniferous of Ireland by purchase. 





MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 25 


Mr. W. P. Haynes continued his efficient assistance in courses 
4 and 5 in both Harvard and Radcliffe and acted as instructor in 
the summer course S15, as above noted. He completed his 
doctorate thesis on A Contribution to the Geology of the Region 
about Three Forks, Montana, which will be published. 

Mr. D. C. Barton completed his doctorate thesis on Arkose, 
which he had studied in the field, with the aid of a grant from 
the Sheldon Fund. 

Through the generosity of Mr. Sayles, the Division preparator, 
Mr. G. M. Flint, was employed for two months in the collection of 
material for the Geological Museum. Materials were obtained 
illustrating the following localities and subjects:— Berea, Ohio — 
grindstone industry; Fourche Mt., Magnet Cove, and Hot Springs, 
Arkansas — syenites, bauxite, novaculites, graptolitic shales; 
Oklahoma City and Arbuckle Mts., Okla. — economic materials; 
El Paso, Texas — economic materials, Cretaceous fossils; Bisbee, 
Arizona — unique cavern deposits, copper minerals; Tucson, Ariz., 
San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Cal., Salt Lake City, 
Utah, Minneapolis, Minn.— economic materials; Tintic district, 
Utah— ores; Cobalt, Ontario — ore, tillite, fossils. About 800 
specimens were collected during this long trip. Mr. Flint con- 
tinued his invaluable services as the officer responsible for the care 
of equipment. | 


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REPORT OF THE MAMMALS. 


By Ovurram BANGS. 


As in recent years the most generous contributor to the collec- 
tion is Col. J. E. Thayer. His gifts include 300 skins and skulls 
from along the Kolyma River, Siberia, collected by Johan Koren; 
125 from Kerr Co., and Chisos Mountains, Texas, collected by 
F. B. Armstrong, and 125 from Pinte Mountains, Cal., collected 
by W. W. Brown, Jr. | 

Single specimens or small series of specimens have been received 
from Mrs. J. B. Rorer, Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, 
J. T. Benson, H. B. Bigelow, C. T. Brues, T. M. Carnegie, W. E. 
Castle, John Caswell, H. L. Clark, L. H. Heilbroner, C. C. Little, 
J. L. Peters, J. B. Rorer, H. W. Smith, J. D. Sornborger, Roland 
Thaxter, and E. H. Wilson; the City of Boston (Department of 
Parks), the Boston Society of Natural History, Bussey Institu- 
tion, and the Peabody: Museum of American Archaeology and 
Ethnology. 

Exchanges have been made with the American Museum of 
Natural History, the British Museum, the Muséum d’Histoire 
Naturelle (Paris) and with Mr. Chester Stock. 

Two hundred specimens from Kamerun have been purchased of 
the Rev. George Schwab. 





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REPORT ON THE BIRDS. 


By WILLIAM BREWSTER. 


Within the year the Museum has acquired about sixteen hundred 
bird skins, mostly by gift. Hon. W. Cameron Forbes has given 
five hundred and thirty-five collected by him personally in the 
Philippine Islands, representing one hundred and_ninety-four 
species or subspecies of which no less than seventy-one are new to 
the collection, besides one hundred and twenty more which he 
obtained in Cuba, Jamaica and Guatemala, during the spring of 
1914. Among the latter are two Bahaman Swallows taken in 
northeastern Cuba — an interesting and novel instance of occur- 
rence for the species. 

Col. John E. Thayer has contributed four hundred and sixty-one 
specimens, of which one hundred were collected in Siberia by 
Johan Koren and three hundred near Colima, Mexico, by Gustav 
Gliickert; the others coming chiefly from Alaska, Texas, and New 
Mexico. Thirty of the Mexican and several of the Siberian 
species were hitherto unrepresented in the collection. 

Dr. John C. Phillips has presented one hundred and ninety 
skins, mostly of House Sparrows (one hundred and eighty-six 
in number) from various parts of Europe and America, which 
were obtained for the purpose of ascertaining to what extent — 
if any — the birds introduced into this country have since varied 
from Old World forms. 

Rey. George Schwab has given ninety-seven birds collected in 
Kamerun and representing forty-seven species of which only 
seventeen were possessed by the Museum. 

The Officials of the Boston Zodlogical Garden at Franklin 
Park have kindly sent, from time to time, various interesting birds 
which have died in captivity. 

The Museum is indebted for gifts of small series of bird skins 
or for single specimens to Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, 
Charles Bullard, R. T. Fisher, E. L. Mark, George Nelson, G. K. 
Noble, Harold St. John, R. W. Sayles, G. W. Stevens, F.S. Sturgis, 
W. M. Tyler, J. B. Woodworth, and the late W. R. Zappey. 


28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


Forty bird skins selected from duplicate series have been pre- 
sented to the U. S. National Museum, eleven to Col. John E. 
Thayer and one to Dr. P. P. Suschkin of Charkow. 

In exchange, twenty-nine bird skins have been sent to the 
American Museum and ten to the British Museum while four have 
been received from the American Museum, one hundred and fifty — 
representing one hundred and twenty-three species of African 
birds — from the Berlin Museum and eighteen from Mr. H. K. 
Coale. 

For purposes of study two hundred and ten skins vee been 
loaned to Messrs. Frank M. Chapman, J. T. Nichols, W. E. Clyde 
Todd, C. W. Richmond and H. C. Oberholser. 

Thanks to the untiring zeal and excellent judgment with ane 
Mr. Bangs has worked during the past six years, the entire collec- 
tion of bird skins has been put in the best possible condition in 
every respect. For this devoted and efficient service Mr. Bangs 
is entitled to the very highest praise. 





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REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 


By THomaAs BARBOUR. 


The work this year has been principally identifying specimens 
from the older collections and arranging the study series, for 
convenience, according to Boulenger’s Catalogue of the reptiles 
in the British Museum. This work has been completed so far as 
the identified lizards and snakes is concerned. A card catalogue 
arranged systematically has been finished for these groups. ‘This 
shows that 23 families of lizards are represented in the collection 
by 836 species and approximately 9,000 specimens; there are 
110 types. 

This enumeration does not include material on exhibition or in 
the storage tanks, and of this there is a large quantity. There 
are still some additional types which have not been located. Sev- 
eral recent exchanges and collections are as yet unentered. 

A larger proportion of snakes than lizards is at present unidenti- 
fied and uncatalogued. 

Of the former there are 604 species, 61 types and about 4,400 
specimens. It is the practice to number individually twenty-five 
specimens of a series and consider the rest duplicates. Until 
1912 the material was numbered by lots, all individuals of one 
species from the same place bearing the same number. The Che- 
lonia and Amphibia have not been rearranged, but considerable 
identification has been done in the groups. 

Dr. A. G. Ruthven has examined material from Central and 
South America, and valuable specimens collected upon his recent 
expeditions have been received in exchange. Dr. L. Stejneger has 
also borrowed material for examination. By gift the Museum has 
received from Dr. J. C. Phillips a splendid collection from Sinai 
and Palestine containing several new species and others hitherto 
unrepresented in the collection; many varieties including the types 
of some new species from Mr. C. T. Ramsden, of San Carlos, 
Guantanamo; Bornean reptiles and amphibians from the Sara- 
wak Museum through Dr. J. C. Moulton; Mexican reptiles from 
Colima, from Col. J. E. Thayer; reptiles and amphibians from 


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Bocas del Toro, Panama, from Mr. J. B. Rorer; many interesting 
species from Prof. F. W. Putnam. The N. Y. Zodlogical Society, 
and Messrs. Thomas Barbour, E. W. Forbes and R. G. Fuller have 
also presented specimens. Other specimens were collected by Dr. 
H. L. Clark in the islands in Torres Strait. 

Valuable exchanges have been received from Mr. Julius Hurter, 
Sr., the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; American 
Museum of Natural History; California Academy of Sciences; 
Zodlogical Museum, University of Michigan; U. S. National 
Museum; Museum of Natural History, Basle, Switzerland; 
British Museum of Natural History; the Zodlogical Museum of 
Amsterdam; Clark University of Worcester. The purchase of the 
Schwab collection from Kamerun and Mr. W. M. Mann’s from 
the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, gave many additional species to 
the Department. 


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REPORT ON THE FISHES. 





By SamMvuEL GARMAN. 





Additions to the department have been secured through the 
efforts of Messrs. G. M. Allen, Thomas Barbour, W. A. Brown, 
H. L. Clark, Samuel Garman, C. L. Hay, W. M. Mann, R. E. 
Merwin, George Nelson, G. H. Parker, J. C. Phillips, J. E. Thayer, 
and by purchases. 

The routine work has been directed toward the improvement of 
the collections, by betterment of their condition, by identification, 
etc.; and the preparation for future publication, in order to make 
the collections more available for the student, whether general or 
special. 


32 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 


Two important accessions to the Department have been received 
by gift during the year; one from Mr. L. W. Swett consists of his 
entire series of North American Geometridae numbering some 7,000 
specimens, the second, due to the kindness of the British Associa- 
tion Committee charged with the investigation of the fauna of the 
Hawaiian Islands, is a series of Hawaiian insects of various orders. 

Other gifts have been received from Mr. F. C. Bowditch, (a large 
lot of Coleoptera, principally Chrysomelidae); Mr. B. P. Clark, 
(several rare Sphingidae); Walter Faxon, R. S. Fuller, J. W. Fol- 
som, (types of Collembola); E. D. Harris, (Cicindelidae); C. W. 
Johnson, (Bermuda Diptera); Harold St. John, E. A. Schwarz, 
J. E. Thayer, (Mexican insects of several orders); W.M. Wheeler, 
(Ants); and Mr. L. H. Weld. 

Accessions other than gifts, consist of some Mexican insects 
collected by Mr. W. M. Mann; Coleoptera and Lepidoptera from 
the Black Mountains of North Carolina and a series of North 
American Sphingidae (Denton mounts) for exhibition. 

Some revisional work of arrangement has been done among the 
Coleoptera and considerable progress made in locating and labeling 
the types of Hymenoptera, Diptera, and Coleoptera. 


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REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS, ARACHNIDS, AND 
WORMS. 





By Rateu V. CHAMBERLIN. 





During the year, the collections of chilopods and diplopods have 
been much increased by contributions from the following sources :— 
Dr. C. C. Adams, duplicates of a second valuable collection made 
by himself in the Flathead Lake region of Montana; Mr. G. F. 
Sutherland, material from Douglas Lake, Michigan; Miss E. B. 
Bryant and Mr. W. F. Clapp, specimens from New England; 
Mr. J. H. Emerton, specimens from New Jersey; Professor Welch, 
specimens from Kansas, and Dr. Thomas and Mr. F. K. Barbour, 
material from St. Lawrence Co., New York. Dr. C. G. Hewitt, 
several small lots from Canada; Mr. E. O. Essig, additions from 
the fauna of California; Profs. Roland Thaxter and C. T. Brues, 
material collected on Grenada and Trinidad; Dr. C. F. Baker and 
Mr. Nathan Banks, several lots from the Philippines; Prof. P. P. 
Calvert, specimens from Costa Rica; Mr. C. T. Ramsden, speci- 
mens from Cuba; and Dr. H. L. Clark, a small but valuable series 
from Australia. The material collected by the University of 
Michigan Expedition to Colombia in 1913 has been sent for iden- 
tification. 

The Mexican material purchased of Mr. W. M. Mann has proved 


especially interesting. 


A notable addition to the collection of Arachnida was that of 
the entire lot of very important material secured by the Yale 
Peruvian Expedition of 1911. For this gift the Museum is in- 
debted to Prof. H. W. Foote, the principal collector. Specimens 
have also been received from Miss E. B. Bryant from the New 
England fauna; from Mr. C. T. Ramsden, Cuba; Dr. Thomas and 
Mr. F. K. Barbour, New York; Mr. S. C. Chamberlin, Utah; and 
Dr. H. L. Clark, the Australian region. 

Specimens of worms have been added by Drs. H. B. Bigelow and 
Thomas Barbour, and by Mr. W. F. Clapp. 

During the year, my time was devoted largely to the continua- 
tion and essential completion of the work upon the North American 


34 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


Lithobiomorpha. Several papers presenting results of revisions 
of sections of this group were prepared; and the rearranging and 
relabeling of the specimens was completed. In addition a study 
was made of the chilopod fauna of the West Indies and of part of 
that of Mexico and a report was prepared presenting some results 
of this investigation. Routine work involved the study of a 
considerable number of collections of myriopods sent in for identi- 
fication. 

About ten days of August were spent in field work in New Hamp- 
shire and Maine, attention being given primarily to the chilopods 
and diplopods. A week in March was given to collecting in 
Minnesota, chiefly in the neighborhood of Winona, the purpose 
being to clear up the identity of several species that had been 
described from that locality. For several weeks in June and 
July I was in the field, chiefly in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, 
where the arachnids were made the special object of study, much 
valuable material in this group being secured. The arthropod 
fauna of several caves in these mountains was investigated. 





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REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA. 


By WAtrTrerR Faxon. 


The list of accessions to the Department of Crustacea during 
the past year is a short one, yet it embraces many items of singular 
interest. Of the new material received by gift, the donors are 
Messrs. Outram Bangs, W. F. Clapp, M. E. Ellis, O. F. Nylander, 
R. C. Rush, J. E. Thayer (specimens from Colima, Mexico), 
Roland Thaxter (specimens from Trinidad, Grenada, and Tobago), 
and the United States National Museum (11 species, 79 specimens, 
of Isopoda from the ALBATROSS collections). 

By purchase from J. Gabriel there has been added a mixed lot 
from Westernport, Victoria, and from W. M. Mann a crayfish 
from San Miguel, Mexico. 


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REPORT ON THE ECHINODERMS. 
By Hupert Lyman Cuark. 


The first five months of the Museum year were spent as a mem- 
ber of the party sent by the Carnegie Institution of Washington to 
Torres Strait. On the outward voyage, I had opportunities to 
collect echinoderms at Tahiti; Sydney, N. S. W.; and Green 
Island near Cairns, North Queensland. In Torres Strait, our head- 
quarters were at Mer, the largest of the Murray Islands, but col- 
lections were also made at Thursday, Prince of Wales, Mulgrave, 
and Darnley Islands. On the homeward voyage, ten days were 
spent at the Hawaiian Islands, and successful collecting was done 
at Pearl Harbor and at Hilo. I was also able to visit the Museums 
and examine collections at Wellington, Sydney, Brisbane, Mel- 
bourne, Auckland, and Honolulu. The tangible results of the 
journey consist of nearly 2,700 echinoderms, including more than 
600 crinoids, and representing two hundred different species. Of 
these at least seventy-five were new to the collections of the 
Museum and nearly fifty seem to be new to science. Small col- 
lections of reptiles, spiders, insects, mollusks, and Algae were also 
brought back. For the necessarily extended leave of absence, 
which made the trip possible, my thanks are sincerely offered to 
the Museum authorities. It is also a pleasure to thank Dr. A. G. 
Mayer, leader of the party, and R. Etheridge Esq., Curator of the 
Australian Museum, Sydney, for constant and oftentimes. unusual 
courtesies and assistance. | 

Since January first, my time has been given to the identifying, 
labeling, and cataloguing, not only of the Australian material, 
but of the extensive additions to the collections from other sources. 
The total increase for the year consists of about 3,400 specimens, 
representing more than 300 species, of which 108 were new to the 
collections, including examples of 10 genera previously unrepre- 
sented. The principal additions are as follows:— In return for 
assistance in identification of material; from the United States 
National Museum, 159 specimens of 16 species of clypeastroids; 
from the Colombo Museum, Ceylon, 66 specimens of 30 species; 


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from the Irish Fisheries Board, Dublin, 70 specimens of 13 species; 

from Mt. Holyoke College, 7 specimens of 6 species. As gifts: 
from Mr. J. Gabriel, Melbourne, 57 specimens of 16 species; Mr. 
Alvin Seale, Manila, 89 specimens of 32 species; Mr. H. Farquhar, 
Wellington, N. Z., 19 specimens of 7 species; Mr. D. Thaanum, 
Hilo, Hawaii, 35 specimens of 15 species; Mr. John W. Mills, 
Miami, Fla., 48 specimens of 15 species; Mr. W. A. Brown, Darwin, 
South Australia, 3 holothurians. The incorporation of the new 
_ material into the collections necessitated an extensive rearrange- 
ment of the crinoids, starfishes, and brittle-stars. 





38 | ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


REPORT ON THE COELENTERATES. 


By Henry B. BIcGELow. 


The most important accession received during the past year is 
the duplicate set of Medusae and hydroids collected by the Gram- 
pus during the summer of 1912. A series of the genus Stomolophus 
from San Diego, California, presented by Dr. C. A. Kofoid, may 
also be mentioned. 

During October, the stony corals were rearranged, with the 
expert assistance of Prof. L. E. Griffin, to whom thanks are due 
for his voluntary labors. Specimens have been loaned him for 
study. 

The winter was spent on the report on the plankton and ocean- 
ography of the GRAMPUS cruise of 1913, of which a summary was 
given in my last report. Oceanographic stations were occupied 
in Massachusetts Bay at irregular intervals on the steamer BLUE 
Wine, through the courtesy of the United States Bureau of 
Fisheries. 

From July 15 to August 29, I was in charge of the U.S. Fisheries 
Schooner GRAMPUS on an oceanographic survey of the coastal 
waters between Marthas Vineyard and Halifax, accompanied, as 
in previous years, by Mr. W. W. Welsh as assistant. As in the 
past, the main efforts were directed to obtaining serial tempera- 
tures, serial water samples, measurements of ocean currents, and 
to the collection of plankton with qualitative and quantitative 
nets. The first field was George’s Bank, across which two sections 
were drawn, one at the west, one at the eastern end, extending 
from the basin of the Gulf of Maine on the north to the continen- 
tal slope on the south. We then ran a section across the eastern 
channel, between George’s and Brown’s Banks, interesting oceano- 
graphically, because it is the sole connection between the basin 
of the Gulf below the 100 fathom level on the one hand, and the 
deeps of the Atlantic on the other; and then via Brown’s Bank, 
the Northern channel, and the coast bank to Shelburne, Nova 
Scotia. Off that port, on July 27, ocean currents were measured 








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hourly for twelve hours, thus covering an entire tide, both ebb 
and flood. We ran a section across the coastal shelf normal to the 
coast opposite Shelburne, and another partial one opposite Halifax, 
with special attention to the enclosed sinks which characterize 
this region. 

The European war prevented a continuation of the work east 
of Halifax; and the time remaining was devoted to the Gulf of 
Maine, where the stations of the preceding years were repeated; 
and also to a section from Marthas Vineyard to the Gulf Stream, 
where two sets of the long trawl were made for tile-fish (Lopho- 
latilus chamaeleonticeps), which proved to be present in its usual 
abundance. 

During the summer, complete oceanographic observations were 
taken at 52 stations; 126 tows made with the horizontal plankton 
nets, and the quantitative net was used at 26 stations. No bot- 
tom trawling or dredging was done. 

The plankton collections, though quantitatively as rich as those 
of 1913, were much more monotonous, as might be expected from 
the fact that most of our work was done in Boreal water. They 
are especially rich in copepods, amphipods, and Sagittae. 


40 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY. 


By Percy E. RaymMonp. 


As last year, most of my time in the Museum was devoted to 
the arrangement of the collection of trilobites. The specimens 
belonging to the Paradoxidae and Mesonacidae were studied and 
relabeled, and a paper on the ontogeny of Paradoxides written as a 
result of this study. A paper describing some of the more impor- 
tant of our extensive collection of trilobites from the Silurian of 
southeastern Wisconsin was also prepared, this paper involving 
a review of the classification of the Illaenidae. 

Miss H. 8. Clark aided in the preparation of the catalogue of a 
part of the collection of trilobites. 

About six weeks were devoted to the identification and study of 
two collections made for the Geological Survey of Canada in pre- 
vious years, the Museum receiving a set of duplicates in return 
for the identifications. As a result of this work, three papers were 
prepared which are now in press. 

Having received a grant from the income of the Shaler Memorial 
fund, for an investigation of the Ordovician and Silurian strata 
of the Baltic provinces of Russia and Sweden, I spent the greater 
part of April in preparation for this trip, and sailed for Europe on 
April 28, returning to Cambridge, September 14. On this trip 
I was accompanied for’ a part of the time by Prof. W. H. 
Twenhofel of the University of Kansas. We studied the strati- 
graphy and collected the fossils of the Cambrian, Ordovician, and 
Silurian deposits in the Governments of St. Petersburg and Es- 
thonia, and in the southern parts of Sweden and Norway. ‘This 
work yielded valuable results in regard to the stratigraphy of the 
regions studied, and in relation to the correlation of these with 
similar strata in America. Considerable collections were made, 
most of which have not yet reached Cambridge. I also saw and 
studied in part the Ordovician fossils in the principal museums of 
London, Paris, Frankfort, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, 
Upsala, Lund, and Christiania. 

The following accessions have been received during the year:— 







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1:— two trilobites and two slabs of graptolites from 
ane, and 44 invertebrates from British Columbia, 


se:— 100 specimens of brachiopods from Ireland and 
ollection of invertebrate fossils from Montana. 


42 | ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 


By Rosert W. SAy Les. 


There have been added to the collections devoted to dynamical 
and structural geology, 194 specimens. Special mention may be 
made of 75 specimens of cave deposits, mainly stalactites and 
stalagmites from Bisbee, Arizona, and Hamilton Furnace, Missouri, 
purchased of the Mineralogical Department. This splendid ma- 
terial was collected by the late Dr. John B. Sweet of Boston. 
A case has been devoted to comparative tillites from. widely sepa- 
rated parts of the earth. This is the first exhibition in this country 
of its kind. Prof. W. W. Atwood has kindly given a striated 
pebble from the latest tillite reported, that found by him in the 
Lower Eocene of the San Juan Mountains, Arizona, in 1913. The 
sections of the cases in this room have been numbered to facilitate 
the finding of answers to the questions posted in the bulletin box. 
These questions and answers are for the aid of visitors in the 
understanding of the specimens and of geological processes. It 
is impossible for the visitor unless trained geologically to under- 
stand the meaning of all the exhibitions, without more expla- 
nation than is possible on the small specimen labels. This is 
especially true of geological specimens. 

The room devoted to economic geology has received 860 speci- 
mens. Of these about 500 were given by Prof. H. L. Smyth. 
The kindness of his gift is much appreciated. ‘These specimens 
are mainly examples of the metallic ores and minerals. The 
Mineralogical Department has also kindly given some specimens, 
mainly examples of the non-metallic ores and minerals. A col- 
lection of ornamental stones and marbles was purchased in Flor- 
ence, Italy. By the direction of the Curator, the specimens were 
mounted on heavy plate glass, in order that the coloring, structure, 
and properties of light transmission of each specimen might be 
seen to good advantage. This work, the first of its kind, was very 
successfully done by Giovanni Montelatici, Director of the Arte 
Musiva Fiorentina. The case devoted to building stones and 
road materials is being filled rapidly. Mr. G. M. Flint has given 
much skilful assistance in the preparation of the specimens illus- 
trative of economic geology. 

_ The Curator spent the summer of 1913 in visiting Italy, the 
Austrian Tyrol, and Switzerland. : 


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REPORT ON THE LIBRARY. 


year from August 1, 1913, to July 31, 1914, inclusive, 
2,107 parts of volumes, and 1, 148 pamphlets have 
the Library. 

In ber of volumes in the Tae is 51,499, the total 


44 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


PUBLICATIONS 


FOR THE YEAR 1913-1914. 
(1 Aucust, 1913-31 Juny, 1914). 


MuvskEuM oF CoMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 


BULLETIN : — 


_ Vol. LITT. 

No. 10. A revision of the ants of the genus Formica (Linné) Mayr. By 

William Morton Wheeler. pp. 189. October, 1913. 
Vol. LIV. 

No. 19. Preliminary descriptions of two new forms of Peripatus from Haiti. 
By Charles T. Brues. pp.6. August, 1913. 

No. 20. A revision of the American species of Ceraurus. By Percy E. 
Raymond and Donald C. Barton. pp. 22. 2 Plates. November, 1913. 

No. 21. A new genus of the Cheiruridae, with descriptions of some new 
species. By Donald C. Barton. pp. 12. 1 Plate. November, 1913. 

Vol. LVI. 

No. 2. The Squantum tillite. By Robert W. Sayles. pp.38. 12 Plates. 

January, 1914. | 
Vol. LVIL, - 

No. 2. The lithobiid genera Nampabius, Garibius, Tidabius, and Sigibius. 

By Ralph V. Chamberlin. pp. 68. 5 Plates. November, 1913. 
Vol. LVIII. 

No. 1. Notes on a collection of birds from the Sudan. By John C. 
Phillips. pp. 28. December, 1913. 

No. 2. Explorations in the Gulf of Maine, July and August, 1912, by the 
U. S. Fisheries Schooner Grampus. Oceanography and notes on the 
plankton. By Henry B. Bigelow. pp.120. 9 Plates. February, 1914. 

No. 3. The Stanford expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Director. 
The Chilopoda of Brazil. By Ralph V. Chamberlin. pp. 74. 6 Plates. 
April, 1914. 

No. 4. Notes on the ontogeny of Paradoxides, with the description of a 
new species from Braintree, Mass. By Percy E. Raymond. pp. 22. 
1 Plate. April, 1914. 

No. 5. Notes on the ontogeny of Jsotelus gigas Dekay. By Percy E. 
Raymond. pp. 20. 3 Plates. April, 1914. 

No. 6. Notes on a collection of birds from Yunnan. By Outram Bangs 
and John C. Phillips. pp. 38. April, 1914. 

No. 7. Mammals from the Blue Nile valley. By Glover M. Allen. pp. 
56. July, 1914. 





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Memorrs: — 
Vol. XXXVI. 

The Plagiostomia. (Sharks, skates, and rays). By Samuel Garman. 

pp. 528. 77 Plates. September, 1913. 
Vol. XL. 

No. 6. Brewster’s warbler (Helminthophila leucobronchialis) a hybrid 
between the golden-winged warbler (Helminthophila chrysoptera) and the 
blue-winged warbler (Helminthophila pinus). By Walter Faxon. pp. 8. 
August, 1913. 

No. 7. Anew Mylodon. By Glover M. Allen. pp. 30. 4 Plates. Sep- 
tember, 1913. 

No. 8. Notes on the crayfishes in the United States National Museum and 
the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy with descriptions of new species 
and subspecies to which is appended a catalogue of the known species 
and subspecies. By Walter Faxon. pp. 84. 13 Plates. July, 1914. 

Vol. XLIV. 

No. 2. A contribution to the zodgeography of the West Indies, with 
especial reference to amphibians and reptiles. By Thomas Barbour. 
pp. 155. 1 Plate. March, 1914. 

Vol. XLVI. 

No. 1. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Clypeastridae, Arach- 
noididae, Laganidae, Fibulariidae, and Scutellidae. By Hubert Lyman 
Clark. pp. 80. 22 Plates. June, 1914. 

REPoRT: — 
1912-1913. pp. 44. 2 Plates. December, 1913. 


ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY. 

CoNTRIBUTIONS : — 

238. Parker, G. H., and Strasier, E. M.— On certain distinctions 
between taste and smell. Amer. journ. physiol., August, 
1913, 32, p. 230-240. 

239. Parker, G. H., and BuLtarp, C.— On the size of litters and 
the number of nipplesin swine. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci., 
September, 1913, 49, p. 397-426. 

240. Kurtcuin, H. L.— Studies on the peripheral nervous system 
of Amphioxus. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci., October, 1913, 
49, p. 569-626, 8 pls. 

241. Sparetu, R. A.— The mechanism of the contraction in the 
melanophores of fishes. Anat. anzeiger, 15 September, 1913, 

/ 44, p. 520-524. 

242. Spartu, R. A.— The physiology of the chromatophores of 
fishes. Journ. exper. zodl., November, .1913, 15, p. 527-585, 
4 pls. 

243. Ranp, H. W., and Boypgen, E. A.— Inequality of the two eyes 
in regenerating planarians. Zool. jahrb. Allg. zool. u.-physiol., 
December, 1913, 34, p. 69-80. 


46 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


244. KoRNHAUSER, S. I.— A comparative study of the chromosomes 
in the spermatogenesis of Enchenopa binotata (Say) and 
Enchenopa (Campylenchia Stal) curvata (Fabr.). Arch. f. 
zellforsch., February, 1914, 12, p. 241-298, pl. 18-22. 

245. Parker, G. H.—A note on sex determination. Science, 6 
February, 1914, n. s., 39, p. 215-216. 

246. Parker, G. H. The locomotion of Chiton. Contrib. Ber- 
muda biol. station, April, 1914, no. 31, 2 pp. 

247. Parker, G. H. On the strength and the volume of the water 
currents produced by sponges. Journ. exper. zo6l., April, 
1914, 16, p. 443-446. 

248. Risser, J.— Olfactory reactions in amphibians. Journ. exper. 
z00l., May, 1914, 16, p. 617-652. 

249. SHoui, A. T.— Reactions of earthworms to hydroxyl ions. 
Amer. journ. physiol., July, 1914, 34, p. 384-404. 


BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION FOR RESEARCH. 


CoNTRIBUTIONS: — 

27. CHESTER, W. M.— The structure of the gorgonian coral Pseudo- 
plexaura crassa Wright and Studer. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & 
sct., May, 1918, 48, p. 735-773, 4 pls. 

28. See p. 45, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 240. 

29. Hitton, W. A.— The central nervous system of Tunica nigra. 
Zool. jahrb. Anat., December, 1913, 37, p. 113-130. 

30. Crozier, W. J.— Note on the pigment of a Bermuda nudibranch, 
Chromodoris zebra Heilprin. Journ. physiol., February, 
1914, 47, p. 491-492. | 

31. See supra, Contrib. Zodl. Lab., 246. 

32. See supra, Contrib. Zool. Lab., 247. 


-BLuE Hitt METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY. 


OBSERVATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS: — 


McApiz, ALEXANDER.— Introduction. 3 pp. 
Observations [with summaries for years 1886-1910]. 50 pp. 
McApre, ALEXANDER.—The founder of the Observatory. A review 
of the scientific work of Abbott Lawrence Rotch. 14 pp. 
WELLS, L. A.—Features of the twenty-five years observations. 3 pp. 
Brooks, CHarLtes F.— The ice storms of New England. 8 pp. 
2 pls. 
McAnpizs, ALEXANDER.— Introduction of new units at Blue Hill 
Observatory. 6 pp. 
Annals Astronomical observatory Harvard College, 1914, 73. 


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ALLEN, G. M. 
Anew bat from Tonkin. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 20 December, 
1913, 26, p. 213-214. 
The barren-ground caribou of Labrador. Proc. N. E. zodl. club, 
24 March, 1914, 4, p. 103-107. 
‘Mammals [of the Arctic coast of East Siberia]. Proc. N. E. zo6l. 
club, 9 April, 1914, 5, p. 49-66, pl. 1. 
A new bat from Mexico. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 10 July, 
1914, 27, p. 109-111. 
See also p. 44, 45, Bull. 58, no. 7: Mem. 40, no. 7. 
Banos, OUTRAM. 
An unnamed race of the Carolina paroquet. Proc. N. E. zodl. 
club, 26 November, 1913, 4, p. 93-94. 
The geographic races of the scaled quail. Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 
9 March, 1914, 4, p. 99-100. 
A new magpie-jay from western Costa Rica. Proc. N. E. zodl. 
club, 13 March, 1914, 4, p. 101-102. 
Notes on the birds and mammals of the Arctic coast of East 
Siberia. Introduction. Proc. N. E. Zodél. club, 9 April, 1914, 
5, p. 1-2. 
Birds [of the Arctic coast of East Siberia]. [With J. E. Thayer]. 
Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 9 April, 1914, 5, p. 3-48, pl. 1. 
A new song sparrow from Nova Scotia. [With J. E. Thayer]. 
Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 29 May, 1914, 5, p. 67-68. 
The Bahama swallow in Cuba. Auk, July, 1914, 31, p. 401. 
See also p. 44, Bull. 58, no. 6. 
BARsovr, THOMAS. 
Reptiles collected by the Yale Peruvian expedition of 1912. Proc. 
Acad. nat. sci. Philadelphia, 1913, 65, p. 505-507, pl. 17. 
Some new reptiles. Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 7 February, 1914, 4, 
p-. 95-98. 
See also p. 45, Mem. 44, no. 2. 
BIGELow, HB. 
Oceanographic cruises of the U. S. Fisheries Schooner “ Grampus”’ 
1912-1913. Science, 24 October, 1913, n. s., 38, p. 599-601. 
Fauna of New England. 12. List of the Medusae Craspedotae, 
Siphonophorae, Scyphomedusae, Ctenophorae. Occas. papers 
Boston soc. nat. hist., July, 1914, 7, no. 12, 37 pp. 
See also p. 44, Bull. 58, no. 2. 


48 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 


BREWSTER, WILLIAM. 
[Eggs of Passerculus from Grand Manan]. Ibis, April, 1914, ser. 
10, 2, p. 353-354. 
BruEs, C. T. 
See p. 44, Bull., 54, no. 19. 
CHAMBERLIN, R. V. 
A new leptodesmid from Mentana. Canad. entom., December, 
1913, 45, p. 424-426. . 
A new diplopod from the Galapagos Islands with notes on the 
chilopods. Psyche, June, 1914, 21, p. 85-89. 
On a collection of myriapods from Costa Rica. Trans. Amer. 
entom. soc., 26 June, 1914, 40, p. 185-194, pl. 2. 
See also p. 44, Bull., 57, no. 2; 58, no. 3. 
Ciapp, W. F. 
List of land shells from Swan Island, with descriptions of five new 
species. Nautilus, January, 1914, 27, p. 97-101. 
CrarK) i. 7. 
Asterozoa |[and| Holothurioidea. Zittel’s Textbook of paleontology, 
C. R. Eastman, Editor, 2d. edit., 1913, 1, p. 244-257, 312-3138. 
Carnegie scientists in the Antipodes. Boston transcript, 24 Decem- 
ber, 1913, p. 28. 
A strike in a strikeless country. Boston transcript, 4 February, 
1914, p. 19. | 
Growth-changes in brittle stars. Public. 182, Carnegie inst. Wash- 
ington, March, 1914, p. 91-126, 3 pls. : 
Seven dayson Thursday. Boston transcript, 13 June, 1914, pt. 3, p. 8. 
See also p. 45, Mem. 46, no. 1. 
Daty, R. A. 
Igneous rocks and their origin. New York, 1914, xix, 563 pp., ills. - 
Geology of the Selkirk and Purcell Mountains at the Canadian 
Pacific Railway (main line). Summ. rept. Geol. surv., Dep't. 
mines, Canada, 1912 (1914), p. 156-164. 
Faxon, WALTER. 
See p. 45, Mem. 40, no. 6, 8. 
GARMAN, SAMUEL. 
See p. 45, Mem. 36. 
Graton, L. C. 
Notes on rocks from the Ceppermine river region, Canada. Trans. 
Canad. min. inst., 1913. 
Investigation of copper enrichment. Eng. and min. journ., Novem- 
ber, 1913. 
Haynes, W. P. 
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McApig, A. G. 

New units in aerology. Scient. Amer. suppl., 6 December, 1913. 

President’s address Astronomical society of the Pacific. Publ. 
Astronom. soc. Pacific, January, 1914, 26. 

Award of Bruce medal to Professor Johann Oskar Backlund, 
Director Russian royal observatory at Pulkowa. Publ. As- 
tronom. soc. Pacific, January, 1914, 26. % 

The rainfall of California. Univ. Cal. publ. in geogr., 19 February, 
1914, 1, p. 127-240, pl. 21-28. 

- Standard units in aerology. Science, 13 March, 1914, n. s., 39, 
p. 391-392. 

The storm of March 1, 1914. Scient. Amer., 14 March, 1914. 

New units in aerology. Nature, 19 March, 1914, 93, p. 58. 

Weather forecasts. Nature, 26 March, 1914, 93, p. 83-84. 

Principia atmospherica. Science, 19 June, 1914, n. s. 39, p. 911-912. 

Advances in the study of storms. Science conspectus, 4, no. 13. 

See also p. 46, Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory. 

Mark, E. L. 

Report on the Zodlogical laboratory. Ann. rept. M. C. Z., 1912- 
1913, December, 1913, p. 10-14. 

The Zodlogical laboratory. Rept. President Harv. Coll., 1912-1913, 
1914, p. 215-218. 

Parker, G. H.: | 

A biological forecast. Pop. sci. monthly, September, 1913, 83, p. 
300-306. 

The origin and evolution of the nervous system. Pop. sci. monthly, 
February, 1914, 84, p. 118-127. 

Experimentalism in zodlogy. Scvence, 13 March, 1914, n. s., 39, 
p. 381-385. 

See also p. 45, 46, Contrib. Zobl. Lab., 238, 239, 245, 246, 247. 

Puituirs, J. C. 

A crested Canada goose. Auk, October, 1913, 30, p. 578. 

Reciprocal crosses between Reeves’s pheasant and the common 
ring-neck pheasant producing unlike hybrids. Amer. nat., 
November, 1913, 47, p. 701-704. 

Further experiments on ovarian transplantation in guinea-pigs. 
[With W. E. Castle]. Science, 28 November, 1913, n. s., 38, p. 
783-786. 

A cross involving four pairs of Mendelian characters in mice. |With 
C. C. Little]. Amer. nat., December, 1913, 47, p. 760-762. 

A further study of size inheritance in ducks with observations on 
the sex ratio of hybrid birds. Journ. exper. zoél., January, 1914, 
16, p. 131-148. 


50 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE (: 

Piebald rats and selection. An experimental test of the effectiveness 
of selection and of the theory of gametic purity in Mendelian 
crosses. [With W. E. Castle]. Public. 195 Carnegie inst. Wash- 
ington, 18 February, 1914, 54 pp., 3 pls. 

Among the birds of the eastern Sudan. Auk, April, 1914, 31, p. 
149-158, pl. 13. 

See also p. 44, Bull. 58, no. 1, 6. 

Ranp, H. W. 
See p. 45, Contrib. Zodl. Lab. 243. 
Raymonp, P. E. 

Notes on Cyclocystoides. Bull. 1 Victoria mem. mus., October, 
1913, p. 23-82, pl. 3.1m part. 

Notes on scme new and old trilobites in the Victoria memorial 
museum. Bull. 1 Victoria mem. mus., October, 1913, p. 33-39, 
pl. 3, 4 in part. 

Description of some new Asaphidae. Bull. 1 Victoria mem. mus., 
October, 1913, p. 41-48, pl. 4, 5, 6 in part. 

Two new species of Tetradium. Bull. 1 Victoria mem. mus., p. 
49-50, pl. 6, 7 in part. 

A revision of the species which have been referred to the genus 
Bathyurus. Bull. 1 Victoria mem. mus., p. 51-69, pl. 7 in part. 

Trilobita. Zittel’s Text-book of paleontology, C. R. Eastman, Editor, 
2d. edu., 1913, 1, p. 692-729. 

See also p. 44, Bull. 54, no. 20; 58, no. 4, 5. 

SayLes, R. W. 
See p. 44, Bull. 56, no. 2 
Warp, R. DEC. 

Meteorology and climatology. Amer. year book, 1913, p. 631-632. 

Lorin Blodget’s “Climatology of the United States”: an apprecia- 
tion. Month. weather rev., January, 1914, 42, p. 23-27. 

Notes on meteorology. Journ. geogr., January, 1914, 12, p. 152-153. 

A note on the classification of climates. Bull. Amer. geogr. soc., 
February, 1914, 46, p. 108-116. 

Land and sea breezes. Month. weather rev., May, 1914, 42, p. 274- 
ale 

Notes on climatology and reviews. Bull. Amer. geogr. soc., through- 
out the year. 

Reviews. Journ. geogr. 

WHEELER, W. M. 
See p. 44, Bull. 53, no. 10. 
Woop, Exvira. 

The use of crinoid arms in studies of phylogeny. Ann. N. Y. 

acad. sci., May, 1914, 24, p. 1-17, pl. 1-5. 


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increase of the Whitney Library. 

The Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund was bequeathed by Alexander 
Agassiz for the publication of reports on collections brought together by the 
expeditions with which he was connected. 

The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship Fund, of the value 
of $250., is assigned annually with the approval of the Faculty of the Museum, 
on the recommendation of the Professors of Zodlogy and of Comparative 
Anatomy in Harvard University, “in supporting or assisting to support one 
or more students who may have shown decided talents in Zoélogy, and prefer- 
ably in the direction of Marine Zodélogy.”’ 
| Applications for the tables reserved for advanced students at the Woods 
| Hole Station should be made to the Faculty of the Museum before the Ist 
of May. Applicants should state their qualifications, and indicate the course 
of study they intend to pursue. 


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f. __ The following Publications of the Museum of Comparative Zoology are 
Ea V7, in preparation: — 


LOUIS CABOT. Immature State of the Odonata, Part IV. 


E. L. MARK. On Arachnactis. 


_ K.BRANDT. The Sagittae. 

_K. BRANDT. The Thalassicolae. 

O. CARLGREN. -The Actinarians. 

R. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. 

W. R. COE. The Nemerteans. 

REINHARD DOHRN. The Eyes of 
Deep-Sea Crustacea. 

H. J. HANSEN. The Cirripeds. 

=H. J. HANSEN. The Schizopods. 

HAROLD HEATH. Solenogaster. 


manding, as follows:— 


RR. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. 
' 4H.L. CLARK. The Holothurians. 
 H.L. CLARK. The Ophiurans. 

__ —— The Volcanic Rocks. _ 

= — — The Coralliferous Limestones. 
 §. HENSHAW. The Insects. 

_R. VON LENDENFELD. The Siliceous 
- »  S$Sponges. 

_ G. W. MULLER. The Ostracods. 





A. AGASSIZ and C. O. WHITMAN. Pelagic Fishes. 
-~H.L. CLARK. The ‘‘Albatross’’ Hawaiian Echini. 


E. L. MARK. Studies on Lepidosteus, continued. 


Part II., with 14 Plates. 


Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations in 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880, in charge 
of ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer ‘‘ Blake,’’ as follows :— 


A. MILNE EDWARDS and E. L. BOUVIER. The Crustacea of the ‘‘Blake.”’ 
A. E. VERRILL. The Alcyonaria of the ‘‘Blake.’’ 


Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer 
“Albatross,” Lieutenant Commander Z. L. Tannur, U. S. N., Commanding, in 
charge of ALEXANDER Agassiz, as follows:— 


W. A. HERDMAN. The Ascidians. 

8S. J. HICKSON. The Antipathids. 

E. L. MARK. Branchiocerianthus. 

JOHN MURRAY. The Bottom Speci- 
mens. 

P. SCHIEMENZ. The Pteropods and 
Heteropods. 5 

THEO. STUDER. The Alcyonarians. 

—— The Salpidae and Doliolidae. 

H.B. WARD. The Sipunculids. 


Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of 
ALEXANDER AaGassiz, on the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer ‘‘ Albatross,’’ from 
August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N., Com- 


MARY J. RATHBUN. The Crustacea 
Decapoda. 

G. O. SARS. The Copepods. 

L. STEJNEGER. The Reptiles. 

Cc. H. TOWNSEND. The Mammals, 
Birds, and Fishes. 

T. W. VAUGHAN. The Corals, Recent 
and Fossil. 


PUBLICATIONS 
OF THE 


MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 
AT HARVARD COLLEGE. 


There have been published of the BULLETIN Vols. I. to LIV.; of the 
Memoirs, Vols. I. to XXIV., and also Vols. XXVI. to XXIX., XXXI. 
to XXXIV., XXXVI. to XXXVIIL., XLI., and XLIV. 

Vols. LV. to LVIII. of the BuLuETIn, and Vols. XXV., XXX., 
XXXV., XXXIX., XL., XLII, XLIII., XLV. to XLVIII. of the 
MEwmoIRs, are now in course of publication. 

The BuLueTin and Memorrs are devoted to the publication of 
original work by the Officers of the Museum, of investigations 
carried on by students and others'in the different Laboratories of 
Natural History, and of work by apenas based upon the Museum. 
Coilections and Explorations. 


The following publications are in preparation :—.- 


Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 to 1880, in charge of 
Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer “ Blake,’’ Lieut. 
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. 8. N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, 
U.S. N., Commanding. 

Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U. S. Fish Comino 
Steamer “Albatross,” Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. 8. N., Com- 
manding, in charge of Alexander Agassiz. 

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

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Hastern Tropical 
Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. 8. Fish Commission 
Steamer ‘‘ Albatross,’”’ from October, 1904, to April, 1905, Lieut. Com- 
mander L. M. Garrett, U.S. N., Commanding. . 

Contributions from the Zoélogical Laboratory, Professor E. L. Mark, Director. 

Contributions from the Geological Laboratory, Professor R. A. Daly, in charge. 


These publications are issued in numbers at irregular intervals. 
Each number of the Bulletin and of the Memoirs is sold separately. 
A price list of the publications of the Museum will be sent on appli- 
cation to the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
























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