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ANNUAL REPORT

OF

THE DIRECTOR

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE
TO THE
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

FOR

1924-1925.

CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.:
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM.
1925.

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MUSEUM. OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

Faculty,

ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, President.

HENRY P. WALCOTT.
GEORGE R. AGASSIZ.

SAMUEL HENSHAW .
SAMUEL GARMAN
OUTRAM BANGS .
HUBERT L. CLARK .
HENRY B. BIGELOW.
ROBERT W. SAYLES .
PERCY E. RAYMOND
THOMAS BARBOUR . .
RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN
JOHN C. PHILLIPS
NATHAN BANKS
GLOVER M. ALLEN .
ARTHUR LOVERIDGE
JAMES L. PETERS .
GEORGE NELSON .

JOHN E. THAYER.
SAMUEL HENSHAW, Director.

Officers.

Director.

. -Curator of Fishes

Curator of Birds.

Curator of Echinoderms.

Research Curator in Zoélogy.

Curator of the Geological Collections.

Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology.

Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians.

Curator of Arachnids, Myriopods, and Worms.
Research Curator of Birds.

Curator of Insects.

Curator of Mammals.

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

Preparator.

GERTRUDE A. THURSTON Secretary.

| BLEANOR K. SWEET.

REGINALD A. DALY

Librarian.

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology.

REPORT.

To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE:—

THROUGH the generosity of an “Anonymous Friend” $50,000
has been added to the invested funds of the Museum in the hands
of the Treasurer of Harvard College. The income of this Fund
“is to be devoted to iicreasing the salaries of such of the Curators
of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy as the Faculty of the
Museum may select.”’

The William and Adelaide Barbour Fund bas been increased
through generous gifts of Mrs. Rosamond P. Barbour ($2,000) and
of Mr. Frederick K. Barbour ($1,000), and monetary gifts of
several subscribers for present use have been applied for curatorial
services upon the research collections of birds and other vertebrates.

These gifts to the funds and for present use are gratefully ac-
knowledged by vote of the Corporation.

The inadequateness of resources as to services and equipment
throughout the Museum has been emphasized with such monoto-
nous frequency during recent years, that the acquisition for the
ornithological department of the large room on the fifth floor,
providing as it does for the immediate needs and growth of the
important collection of birds, is in all respects most satisfactory.

Designed originally, forty-two years ago, for a lecture room, and
so used for the biological courses during many years, it was later
given over for advanced zodlogical research. ‘The size of the room
precluded its economical usage for research; its situation and the
nature of present-day zodlogical studies involved a most undesir-
able hazard as to the safety of the collections and library, and
necessarily limited the general use of the room during all hours,
not infrequently curtailing the opportunities for advanced research.
Its relinquishment to the Museum by the Department of Zodlogy
has involved a number of changes and rearrangements as to rooms
and equipment; with the consent of the Corporation, the Museum

4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

was able to bear a part of the expense of these changes, through its
credit balance.

From the Museum standpoint, the more important of these
readjustments are:— the actual removal of all laboratory work
from the fifth floor, the only exception is the use of one small room
by advanced Radcliffe students; the alteration of the lecture room
on the first floor; and the transfer of the instruction in histology
and anatomy from the fourth to the first floor. Of the three
large lecture rooms on the first floor of the University Museum,
the one in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, the first to
be built, was used, until the completion of the Botanical and
Geological sections of the Museum, for biological and geological
instruction. With more modern facilities, these later-built lecture
rooms have in recent years taken over most of the oral instruction
given in the larger zoological courses, and consequently the original
use of the room has been very limited. The alteration of lecture
room into laboratory will give improved modern facilities for
instruction and a better concentration of students; the utilization
of the central part of the room affords the opportunity for lectures
and demonstration to small groups of students. Professor Ames,
by granting the temporary use of space in the Botanical Museum,
and in other ways, has given his cordial codperation toward the ful-
filment of these improvements.

Dr. H. B. Bigelow has continued in charge of the explorations in
the Gulf of Maine and in Massachusetts Bay, carried on in coéper-
ation with the 1. S. Bureau of Fisheries; the data already gathered
concerning migration, surface drift, serial temperatures, etc., fore-
tell economic results bearing upon the life habits of important food
fishes.

The field-work of Dr. J. C. Phillips in Africa and of Mr. J. L.
Peters in the West Indies (Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Saint
Vincent) added large collections, principally birds and mammals,
to the Museum series. The skeleton of a White Rhinoceros
(Ceratotheriwm simum (Burchell)) is included among the more no-
table specimens secured by Dr. Phillips.

Dr. Thomas Barbour, during a three month’s stay in Central
America and Cuba, neglected no opportunity to increase the size ©

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. +)

and value of the Museum’s collections, limiting his collections, as
always, to no one department.

To secure certain Mexican species, Mr. John E. Thayer very
generously engaged the services of Mr. W. W. Brown, whose success
in ferreting out rare local forms is unequalled. The series of birds
and mammals secured by Mr. Brown has full data and is, as usual,
prepared with his unsurpassed expertness.

Prof. P. E. Raymond had charge of the geological field-work in
the Harvard Summer School during 1924. With Banff as a base
for the School, collections were made in Alberta, British Columbia,
and Manitoba, and many fossils were secured from localities not
previously well represented in the Museum series. Permission to
collect in the Canadian National Parks was most courteously
granted by the Hon. J. B. Harkin, the Commissioner of Parks, and
several of the students of the School very generously added their
most desirable specimens to those secured by Professor Raymond.

Though with a wholly inadequate equipment for a satisfactory
arrangement, Dr. G. M. Allen, working as in recent years on a part-
time basis, maintains the research collection of mammals in correct
sequence, well labeled, and easily accessible at all times for properly
qualified students. His work upon the mammals collected during
the Asiatic expeditions under Mr. R. C. Andrews, in codperation
with the American Museum of Natural History, is making satis-
_ factory progress. From this source more than 300 skins and skulls
of Chinese and Mongolian insectivores and rodents have been
added to the Museum collection. Dr. Allen has also completed
this year the study of and report upon the squirrels, hamsters, and
jerboas collected by the expedition.

For nearly twenty-five years, since October 1900, Mr. Outram
Bangs has cared for the research collection of birds. During this
time, the collection has increased from a position of comparative
unimportance to one that is unsurpassed among university col-
lections, and which ranks among American collections with the
first in size, while unequalled in representatives of world-wide
genera and species. Almost single handed, Mr. Bangs has brought
this immense series of bird skins to such condition that, baring
the inevitable misplacement of a specimen incident to every day

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use, any skin is at once readily accessible. It is only through this
perfectness of arrangement and its maintenance that Mr. Bangs is
able to comply with the ever-increasing number of applications
for the loan of material. Mr. Bangs spent several weeks in Eng-
land and continental Europe, working in museums in Berlin,
Paris, Tring, and London, noting their lacunae and their material
available for exchange.

The card catalogue of the collection of bird skins has been con-
tinued by Mr. James L. Peters. He reports that during the year
he has completed the record of twenty-one (21) families, containing
281 species and 4,710 specimens. The number catalogued to 1
August, 1925 is fifty-seven (57) families, 1,072 species, and 22,310
specimens.

The care, storage, and accessibility of the less specialized verte-
brates involve methods other than those suitable for birds and
mammals. For the most part preserved in alcohol, the Museum’s
collections of reptiles, amphibians, and fishes are stored, as are the
other alcoholic collections, with the exception of those shown in
the exhibition rooms and such as are temporarily removed for
study, in the basement of the northeasterly section of the Museum.
With the exception of the ceiling of one of the rooms, the walls,
floors, and ceilings of all the rooms of this section are of brick, and
the basement is equipped with sprinklers.

Dr. Barbour and Mr. Arthur Loveridge, during the year, have .
thoroughly overhauled and rearranged a very considerable part
of the collection of amphibians and reptiles; the accessions to
these collections through gift, exchange, and purchase, have been
unusually large.

Mr. Garman, in his report upon the year’s work, states that the
collection of fishes has been cared for as in recent years and has
been increased by a number of rarities collected by Dr. Barbour.

Mr. Nelson completed the mount of Moropus elatus Marsh and
has remounted the exhibition series (skins and skeletons) of
marsupials and edentates in the systematic collection.

The Museum is indebted to Miss E. B. Bryant for her work upon
the collection of spiders, and for assistance in many ways to Mr.
Banks.

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The collections of every department benefit each year from Dr.
Barbour’s interest and generosity. His more noteworthy gifts
this year, other than those of reptiles and amphibians, include the
Robert Wilson collection of fossils from the phosphate beds near
Charleston, S. C.; a fine series of Cuban Chrysopidae, with a
number of types; Professor Sushkin’s private collection of bird
skins; large series of bird skins from New Zealand, Norfolk Island,
Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar, South Africa, Argentina,
Cuba, and from many European countries; also series of mam-
malian bones from Porto Rican caves, and very many skins with
skulls selected to fill gaps in the Museum series.

The Museum is also indebted to

Mr. Isidor Morse for a number of skulls of Asiatic game mam-
mals, with antlers or horns of exceptional size.

To Miss A. M. Alexander for specimens of the Hawaiian Rat
(Rattus hawariensis Stone).

To Mr. F. S. Mead for finely prepared skins of Ptarmigan and
Black Game from Scotland.

To the American Museum of Natural History (Dr. L. C. San-
ford) for bird skins from the Whitney South Sea Expedition.

To Mrs. George R. Agassiz for a specimen of Drenanaspis
gemuendenensis Schliter from the Lower Devonian of Bundanback,
Germany.

To Mr. F. C. Bowditch for another large series of Chrysomelidae
(leaf beetles).

To Mr. C. B. Wilson for a named series of copepods.

To Mr. W. F. Clapp for several interesting shells.

To the South African Fisheries Board for a number of Echini,
including paratypes of newly described species.

To the Trustees of the British Museum for a series of Echini,
including genera and species not previously represented in the
Museum Collection.

Mammal skins with skulls from the coast and islands of Lower
California, the Denton series of Moa bones, and many single
specimens or series of insects, birds, and mammals, have been
purchased. The income of the William and Adelaide Barbour
Fund has also aided field-work in the West Indies.

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The library has received as a gift of Prof. M. A. Menzbier a
complete set of the Messager ornithologique, and former Governor
W. C. Forbes has presented an interesting sheet of some corre-
spondence between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louis Agassiz (cf.
Mrs. E. C. Agassiz’s Louis Agassiz, vol. 2, p. 620).

The alcyonarians collected during the ALBATROSS expeditions
of 1891 and 1904-1905, and sent many years ago to the late Prof.
Theophil Studer in Berne, have been returned. Professor Studer
was evidently unable to study the collection; it is, however, in good
condition.

The Library contains 62,955 volumes, and 70,562 pamphlets;
911 volumes and 1,803 pamphlets have been received during the
year.

The publications for the year include one number of the Memoirs,
nine numbers of the Bulletin, and the Annual Report, a total of
710 (76 quarto and 634 octavo) pages, illustrated by 38 (11 quarto
and 27 octavo) plates.

SAMUEL HENSHAW,
| Director.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9

REPORT ON THE MAMMALS.

By Outram BANGS.

About 1,000 specimens have been added to the collection during
the year.

The more noteworthy of these accessions are a series of 300
Asiatic skins and skulls from the American Museum of Natural
History; 200 Mexican skins and skulls collected by Mr. W. W.
Brown, the gift of Col. J. E. Thayer; a number of skulls of Asiatic
game animals, many with antlers or horns of exceptional size,
presented by Mr. Isidor Morse; skins and skulls and heads of
African game animals, the gift of Dr. and Mrs. J. C. Phillips, and
Mr. J. C. Phillips, Jr.; a large number of skins, skulls, alcoholics,
and fossils, given by Dr. Thomas Barbour.

Small series or single specimens have been received from the
Boston Society of Natural History, Peabody Museum of American
Archaeology and Ethnology, Peabody Museum (Salem), Miss
A. M. Alexander, Messrs. A. T. Abernethy, G. M. Allen, Joseph
Bequaert, W. F. Collins, Herbert Friedmann, A. B. Howell, R. W.
Johnson, E. R. Jump, Arthur Loveridge, George Nelson, J. L.
Peters, William Rowan, E. M. Schlaikjer, George Schwab, R. P.
Strong, A. M. Tozzer, C. A. Weare, R. C. Wheeler, and S. B.
Wolbach.

Many exchanges have been made with the American Museum
of Natural History, Dresden Museum, Field Museum of Natural
History, and the U. 8. National Museum.

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REPORT ON THE BIRDS.

By Outram Banas.

During the year 3,621 specimens were received, including
seventy-one genera new to the collection.

Of the more notable additions the following may be mentioned :—
121 specimens taken by Mr. W. W. Brown in San Luis Potosi,
and Tamaulipas, and 399 in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Among the rarities in these collections are good series of the much
desired species Hylorchilus swmichrasti, Spizella wortheni, and
Vermora crissalis. For Mr. Brown’s work in Mexico the Museum
is indebted to the liberality of Col. John E. Thayer.

Due to Dr. Thomas Barbour’s generosity, the Museum acquired
a series of 165 specimens, a part of the private collection of Prof.
P. P. Sushkin, an extremely interesting collection from south-
western New Guinea, and others from Argentina and South
Africa; also smaller series from Cuba, Chile, British Guiana,
Madagascar, New Zealand, Norfolk Island, Australia, Fiji, and
many other localities.

Dr. John C. Phillips, working in the Lake Region of the eastern
Congo and southwestern Uganda, secured 744 specimens, a large
number of which are new to the collection.

Mr. J. L. Peters, aided by the William and Adelaide Barbour
Fund, and the generosity of Dr. Thomas Barbour, collected in St.
Lucia, Martinique, and St. Vincent; he was most successful in
securing a representative series of the birds, including the great
rarities Catharopeza bishopi, Myadestes sibilans, and Myarchus
sclaterv.

A series of eighty-seven specimens collected by the Whitney
South Sea Expedition was received from the American Museum of
Natural History, through the kind interest of Dr. L. C. Sanford,
and the Museum is indebted to Mr. F. S. Mead, Mr. E. H. Litch-

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field, and Lord Lovat for a series of Scotch Ptarmigan and British
Black Grouse.

Single specimens or small series have been given by the American
Museum of Natural History, Boston Society of Natural History,
Colorado Museum, Museu Paulista, Peabody Museum (Salem,
Mass.), and Messrs. Thomas Barbour, E. H. Forbush, F. H.
Kennard, G. v. D. Meer, J. L. Peters, J. C. Phillips, P. P. Sushkin,
G. H. Thayer, J. E. Thayer, and C. W. Townsend.

A few specimens have been secured by purchase, and nearly 500
have been obtained by exchange.

An unusually large number of requests for the loan of material ©
were received.

Professor Sushkin’s coéperation, during his stay of several weeks,
is acknowledged with gratitude.

12 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS.

By Tuomas BArBoour.

I was absent during February, March, and April of this year,
visiting laboratories and plantations, and doing some collecting in
Central America and Cuba.

With the assistance of the United Fruit Company, an intensive
census has been made of the snakes of the district about Tela in
Honduras, where there have been a number of fatalities from snake
poisoning. This has been undertaken to ascertain the relative
numerical abundance of the various poisonous snakes. Several
thousand specimens have been examined.

During the year the Loveridge collection of African amphibians
was received, and Mr. Loveridge prepared a report upon the same.
Mr. Loveridge has continued his careful and painstaking work on
the study series; nearly 4,000 specimens have been labeled and
card indexed, and about 400 trays of study material have been
overhauled, labels rewritten, jars cleaned, and refilled with fresh
alcohol where necessary. An enormous amount of routine
identifying has also been done.

A larger amount of material than usual has been received during
the year, and an unusually large number of exchanges were suc-
cessfully effected.

Material has been purchased from Don Carlos Reed in Chile,
and from a number of other sources.

The following gifts should be especially mentioned: —

A magnificent series of Brazilian snakes from Dr. Afranio do
Amaral; an excellent series of reptiles and amphibians from
southern Siam from Mr. C. J. Aagaard; and some rare south-
western reptiles from Mr. L. M. Klauber, in exchange for living
eastern material.

Thanks are due to the following persons for gifts: — Messrs.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 13.

J. 5S. Alexander, Joseph Bequaert, H. S. Blair, F. N. Blanchard,.
W. S. Brooks, R. V. Chamberlin, Herbert Friedmann, J. P. Jones,
C. R. Kellogg, C. H. Lankester, Arthur Loveridge, George Nelson,,.
T. E. Penard, J. L. Peters, J. C. Phillips, Alipio de Miranda-.
Ribeiro, William Rowan, G. O. Shattuck, J. B. Shropshire, J. E..
Thayer, H. H. Wilder, James Zetek, and the Charleston Museum.

The synopsis appended shows the gain in number of genera and
species as compared with 1923-1924. In comparing the figures.
given with the number of species recognized in Boulenger’s cata-
logue, it should be emphasized that the number of species described
since the publication of the catalogue has, in some of the groups.
been large.

Species

recognized Genera Species a res ;
i = Gainin | Genera | Gain in |Species

1923-4 | 1924-5 | 1923-4 | 1924-5

Boulenger’ S| 1923-4|1924-5| 1923-4 | 1924-5
Catalogues

Rhynchocephalia

Crocodilia

Chelonia

Lacertilia

Ophidia

Amphibia Apoda
” Urodela
” — Salientia

Total

Bufo _- —_ 96 101 — —_— 5
Hyla — — 117 122 — — 5
Rana —_- — 142 159 — — AW

1Error of 100 made previously.

14 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE FISHES.
By SAMUEL GARMAN.

As in former years the collection has been increased by a number
of rarities received from Dr. Barbour.

The greatest amount of work done has been in the care of the
collection, in the renewal of preservatives that have evaporated,
and in the withdrawal of duplicates that have been rendered
valueless from loss of coloration.

In-connection with this work, studies of the records and descrip-
tions in the older literature, and of comparisons with those sup-
posed to have been of later discoveries, were constant.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 15

REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

By NatuHan BANKs.

Additions to the collection were presented by Miss E. B. Bryant,
and Messrs. Thomas Barbour, Joseph Bequaert, S. E. Cassino,
M. L. Fernald, L. G. Gentner, A. B. Hungerford, C. W. Johnson,
Arthur Loveridge, A. P. Morse, George Nelson, C. H. Paige,
George Salt, and J. Steinbach. Notable was the fine series of
Cuban Chrysopidae, including over twenty types, given by Dr.
Barbour. Exchanges were made with Messrs. James McDunnough
and Charles Schaeffer.

Fully half of the year was spent mounting, labeling, and assort-
ing the Panama collection, which amounts to fully 15,000 speci-
mens. ‘Two families of Hymenoptera, the termites, myriopods,
and many spiders of this collection have been named. Mr.
Johnson is studying the Diptera, and Professor Metcalf the
Fulgoridae.

Labels were placed on several thousand specimens, and over
300 types were verified and marked. The Mutillidae, Larridae,
and Sphegidae have been brought together in new Schmitt boxes,
and nearly one half of the Banks Diptera has been united with
the main collection. Dr. Snyder returned the Solomon Island ter-
mites with fourteen types, and Professor Metcalf the miscellaneous
Fulgoridae with seven types.

Seven lots of specimens have been identified for others, the
material retained adding to the collection. Besides numerous
visits from local entomologists, there were six other visitors.

The usual inspections of the collection show that it is in good
condition.

16 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS, ARACHNIDS, AND
WORMS.

By Rarteu V. CHAMBERLIN.

During the first part of the year several collections of chilopods
and diplopods from Central America were studied. Among these
was a fine lot collected in Honduras and British Honduras by
Mr. W. L. Schmidt, and submitted through the courtesy of the
Field Museum of Natural History; and a collection made on Barro
Colorado Island by Mr. W. C. Allee, and on this Island and other
parts of the Canal Zone by Mr. James Zetek. Other collections
studied and reported upon include one from the Hawaiian Islands
received from the Bishop Museum, one from Arizona made by
Mr. H. F. Loomis, another from southern Utah made by the
Curator.

The latter part of the year was devoted largely to clearing up
many small lots of material, especially specimens submitted from
time to time by the U. S. Horticultural Board, the Biological
Survey, and the Bureau of Entomology. ‘The entire collection of
Illinois chilopods and diplopods belonging to the Illinois Natural
History Survey was studied, and nearly all identified and labeled.
Other Illinois collections studied at the same time were made
by Miss Margaret Windsor, Messrs. Irving Blake and A. M..
Holmquist.

During the year some time was also given to the arachnids;
several collections of Central and North American species were
identified and a report upon new forms was prepared. A study
of Coelotes and Coras was made and a paper prepared on the
results.

Additions to the collections were received from the following
sources: — Miss Margaret Windsor, Messrs. W. C. Allee, Gilbert
Archey, W. J. Baerg, C. F. Baker, P. L. Boone, J. C. Chamberlin,

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C. R. Crosby, J. J. Davis, R. V. Ellis, R. P. Erwin, F. Felippone,
T. H. Frison, A. M. Holmquist, F. Johansen, H. F. Loomis, James
McDunnough, R. C. MacGregor, J. P. Moore, R. D. Rands, W. L.
Schmidt, T. E. Snyder, V. M. Tanner, James Zetek, Bernice P.
Bishop Museum (through Mr. E. H. Bryan, Jr.), Field Museum
of Natural History, U.S. Horticultural Board, Bureau of Biological
Survey, and Bureau of Entomology.

18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE ECHINODERMS.

By Huspert Lyman CuaARK.

The first part of the year was spent in the preparation of the
manuscript for a catalogue of the Recent Echini of the British
Museum, a continuation of the work done in London during the
previous three months. After this manuscript was completed, a
report on a collection of sea-stars from South Africa was prepared
for the Fisheries and Marine Biological Survey of the Union of
South Africa. ‘The remainder of the year was spent in arranging,
labeling, and cataloguing the collection of sea-urchins to corre-
spond with the British Museum catalogue. This involved the
rewriting of many labels and catalogue cards. At the same time
all type material was conspicuously designated. It may be noted
that the collection contains type material of 210 of the 480 species
represented in the collection.

The chief accessions of the year were received in roa for the
work done on the British and South African collections above
mentioned. From the British Museum, seventy-six sea-urchins,
representing forty-five much desired species, of which eighteen
were new to the collection, have been received; of these, five belong
to genera not hitherto represented. The South African Fisheries
Board donated forty-six specimens of twenty-one species of sea-
stars, of which eight were new to the collection; of these, four are
paratypes of species hitherto undescribed. For twenty-two other
echinoderms, belonging to a dozen species, thanks are due the
Australian Museum, Messrs. F. C. Adams, Thomas Barbour,
R. T. Jackson, W. H. Longley, G. H. Parker, and D. H. Tennent.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. . 19

REPORT ON THE COELENTERATES.

By Henry B. BIGELow.

The most interesting accessions to the collection are Medusae
from Bering Sea, contributed by Capt. R. A. Bartlett, and a large
series of the fresh-water Medusa Craspedacusta from Gatun Lake,
Panama Canal Zone, presented by Dr. Thomas Barbour.

Thanks are also due Prof. E. L. Mark for Medusae from Ber-
muda, Capt. G. W. Carlson for local Medusae, and the U. S.
National Museum for Medusae.

In connection with the explorations of the Gulf of Maine, the
Fish Hawk carried out an extensive program of towing, with
serial temperatures, in Massachusetts Bay, during the winter and
spring, also setting out drift bottles, a large proportion of which
has been recovered, outlining the dominant drift of the surface
water of the Bay.

The tagging of Cod, Pollock, and Haddock has been continued,
with Mr. W. C. Schroeder of the Bureau, in immediate charge.
About 33,000 fish have been tagged up to date, about 3% of those
tagged in 1923 having been recovered, 5% of those tagged in
1924, and 34% of those tagged in 1925. While it is too early for
a general statement of results, enough data has been gathered to
show that the Cod in different regions differ widely in their
migrations.

At the recommendation of the North American Committee on
Fisheries Investigations, the program of tagging has been expanded
to include the Mackerel, about 5,000 having been tagged at Woods
Hole, Provincetown, and Boothbay, during the past summer,
with about 300 recoveries to date.

The physical study of the waters of the Gulf has also been
continued by a number of serial temperatures taken on the Fishing
Banks, by the Haucyon, those for Nantucket Shoals proving a
valuable addition to knowledge of thermal conditions there.

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Mr. Schroeder has carried on his investigations on the Cod;
Mr. E. F. B. Fries has continued his study of the Sagittae collected
by the International Ice Patrol in the region of the Grand Banks;
and Lieut. Commander E. H. Smith has published, as Bulletin
No. 12, U. 8S. Coast Guard, the report on the oceanographic work
of the Patrol for 1924.

Most of my time has been devoted to the reports on the Gulf of
Maine, (cf. Report M. C. Z., 1923-1924, p. 20-21). The account
of the fishes has been published, (Bull. 40, part 1, U.S. Bur. fish.);
the account of the physical oceanography is nearing completion.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 21

REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY.

By P. E. Raymonp.

The Curator was in charge of the Harvard Summer School course
in field geology in 1924, and in connection with that work was able
to make collections from a region not previously well represented
in the Museum. Several of the students in the course, notably
Mr. Joseph P. Day, Jr., Mr. H. C. Stetson, Mr. D. H. Leavitt, and
Mr. John Yerxa, generously presented to the Museum their most
desirable specimens. Fossils were obtained from the Lower
Cambrian near Lake Louise, Alberta, the Middle Cambrian at
Ross Lake, Mt. Stephen, and Burgess Pass, B. C., the Upper
Cambrian, Devonian, and Triassic near Massive, Alberta, and the
Mississippian and Pennsylvanian at Lake Minnewanka and Banff,
Alberta. Notable among the fossils was a new fish of the genus
Belonorhynchus found by Mr. Day in the Triassic at Massive.
This genus had not previously been reported as. occurring in
America. ‘The Museum is indebted to the Hon. J. B. Harkin,
Commissioner of Parks, for permission to collect fossils in the
Canadian National Parks.

In August a visit was paid to the outcrops of the Edmonton
strata in the Red Deer valley in the vicinity of Drumheller and
Munson, Alberta. A collection of fresh and brackish water
Mollusea of late Cretaceous age was made at these localities.
Later on a week was spent collecting from the Upper Cambrian
and Lower Ordovician in the vicinity of Golden, B. C., and finally,
a visit was paid to the Upper Ordovician outcrops at Stoney
Mountain, near Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Considerable time was devoted this year to the rearrangement
of the collections, with the view of obtaining much needed space
for storage. The Ordovician brachiopods collected in Virginia
and Tennessee in 1917, 1918, and 1921 were studied and labeled,

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and descriptions written of the species from the Athens and Lenoir
formations. This, with the work done on the brachiopods of the
Holston and Ottosee by Dr. Bradford Willard, completes the study
of this group, and the greater part of the palaeontological work of
the Shaler Memorial Expeditions to the Appalachians.

In addition to the collections obtained by the Curator, the
following donations have been received: — from the Smithsonian
Institution, through Dr. Resser, two trilobites; from Mr. J. A.
MacDonell, Upper Pennsylvanian fossils from Oklahoma; from
Dr. Thomas Barbour, Mollusca from the Miocene at Charleston,
South Carolina, and from the Cretaceous at Soledad, Cienfuegos,
Cuba; from Mr. D. H. Leavitt, Pennsylvanian fossils from
opposite South Bend, Nebraska.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 23

REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

By R. W. SAyYLes. —

Additions to the collection include from Prof. Eliot Blackwelder
specimens of tillite of Cambrian or Pre-Cambrian age from Little
_ Mountain in Great Salt Lake, Utah, discovered by Professor
Blackwelder during the summer of 1924; from Prof. W. M. Davis
Huronian tillite and banded slate from Cobalt, Ontario, and a few
fragmentary specimens, (jaws and skulls), of Miocene mammals,
purchased of Mr. E. M. Schlaikjer, and collected by him in South
Dakota.

The Curator has been engaged in working up the results of
investigations on the geology of Bermuda, and preparing a report
for the National Research Council on the progress of the study of
seasonal banding for the year 1924. At the last annual meeting
of the Geological Society of America a paper on Pleistocene Ber-
muda was submitted by the writer and Prof. T. H. Clark.

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REPORT ON THE LIBRARY

During the Museum year from August 1, 1924, to July 31, 1925,
inclusive, 911 volumes, 1,624 parts of volumes, and 1,803 pamphlets
have been added to the Library.

The total number of volumes in the Library is 62,955, the total
number of pamphlets is 70,562.

Three hundred and ninety-four volumes have been bound;
one thousand five hundred pamphlets have been separately bound.

From the Harvard College Library the Museum has received
147 titles; other contributors are W. M. Wheeler (720 titles),
Nathan Banks (161 titles), W. M. Davis (122 titles), Samuel
Henshaw (89 titles), Outram Bangs (59 titles), Thomas Barbour
(54 titles), Carl Attems (83 titles), H. B. Bigelow (82 titles),
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology
(24 titles).

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 20

PUBLICATIONS
FOR THE YEAR 1924-1925.
(1 Aucust, 1924 — 31 Juty, 1925).

MUvSsEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

BULLETIN :—
Vol. LVII.

No. 7. The Ethopolidae of America north of Mexico. By Ralph V.
Chamberlin. 56 pp. 6plates. April, 1925.

No. 8. The genera Lithobius, Neolithobius, Gonibius, and Zinapolys in
America north of Mexico. By Ralph V. Chamberlin. 66 pp. 3 plates.
June, 1925.

Vol. LXVI.

Part 2. The birds of the Lake Umbagog region of Maine. By William

Brewster. 192pp. February, 1925.
Vol. LXVII.

No. 1. Some trilobites of the Lower Middle Ordovician of eastern North
America. By Perey E. Raymond. 180pp. 10plates. April, 1925.

No. 2. The systematic position of Palaeospiza bella Allen, with observa-
tions on other fossil birds. By Alexander Wetmore. 14 pp. 4 plates.
May, 1925.

No. 3. The Henry Bryant types of birds. By Outram Bangs and Thomas
E.Penard. 14pp. June, 1925.

No.4. Diagnoses of new American Arachnida. By Ralph V. Chamberlin.
40 pp. July, 1925.

No. 5. Burmeister’s porpoise (Phocaena spinipinnis). By Glover M.
Allen. 14 pp. 4 plates. July, 1925.

No. 6. Description of a new Psithyrus, with an account of Psithyrus laborio-
sus, and notes on bumblebees. By Joseph Bequaert and Otto E. Plath.
26 pp. July, 1925.

Memoirs :—
Vol. XLVII.
No. 5. Reports on the results of dredging by the U. S. Coast Survey
Steamer “‘Blake.”’” XLVIII. Les macroures marcheurs. Par E. L.
Bouvier. 76 pp. 11 plates. January, 1925.

REPORT :— —
- 1923-1924. 32 pp. December, 1924.

26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

ALLEN, G. M.
The Delphinus occidwus of Leidy. Journ. mammalogy, August,
1924, 5, p. 194-195.
Microtines collected by the Asiatic expeditions. Amer. mus. novi-
tates, 30 September, 1924, no. 133, 13 pp.
The Bridled Dolphin (Prodelphinus froenatus) on the Florida coast.
Journ. mammalogy, February, 1925, 6, p. 59.
Jerboas from Mongolia. Amer. mus. novitates, 31 March, 1925, no.
161, 6 pp.
Squirrels collected by the American museum Asiatic expeditions.
Amer. mus. novitates, 2 April, 1925, no. 163, 16 pp.
Hamsters collected by the American museum Asiatic expeditions.
Amer. mus. novitates, 23 June, 1925, no. 179, 7 pp.
See also p. 25, Bull. 67, no. 5.
BaNnGs, OUTRAM.
A new blue water-thrush from China. [With T. E. Penard]. Occ.
papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 27 February, 1925, 5, p. 147.
The history and characters of Vermivora crissalis (Salvin and God-
man). Auk, April, 1925, 42, p. 251-253.
See also p. 25, Bull. 67, no. 3.
Banks, NATHAN.
Neuroptera from the Williams Galapagos expedition. Zoologica, 8
November, 1924, 5, p. 177-180.
BarzBour, THOMAS. |
A new Gymnophis from Colombia. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington,
7 August, 1924, 37, p. 125-126.
Notes on some Central American snakes. [With Afranio do Amaral].
Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 12 September, 1924, 5,
p. 129-132.
Biology at Harvard. Harvard grad. mag., September, 1924, 33,
p. 94-97.
More about Harvard biology. Harvard alumni bull., 13 November,
1924, 27, p. 211-213.
A Yunnan Gecko. Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 29 December,
1924, 5, p. 133-135.
Tropical research institute at Harvard. Harvard alumni bull.,
1 January, 1925, 27, p. 419-421.
Notes on Grypiscus. Copeia, 26 January, 1925, no. 138, p. 8.

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An ornithological enigma. Auk, January, 1925, 42, p. 132.

A new frog and a new snake from Panama. Occ. papers Boston soc.
nat. hist., 24 June, 1925, 5, p. 155-156.

A new Cuban Anolis. Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 24 June,
1925, 5, p. 167-168.

New neotropical lizards. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 25 July, 1925,
38, p. 101-102.

BicELow, H. B.

Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. [With W. W. Welsh]. Bull. U. S.

bur. fish., 1924, (1925), 40, pt. 1, 567 pp.
CHAMBERLIN, R. V.

Report on the Chilopoda and Diplopoda collected by the Barbados-
Antigua expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Univ.
Iowa studies nat. hist., 1 August, 1924, 10, no. 4, p. 41-44.

A new clubionid spider of the genus Phruronellus from California.
Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 27 January, 1925, 38, p. 7-8.

Notes on chilopods and diplopods from Barro Colorado Id., and
other parts of the Canal Zone, with diagnoses of new species.
Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 12 March, 1925, 38, p. 35-44.

A new lithobiomorphus chilopod from Uruguay. Ent. news, April,
1925, 36, p. 120-121.

See also p. 25, Bull. 57, no. 7, 8, 67, no. 4.

Crank, H. L.

Echinoderms from the South African fisheries and marine biological
survey. Part 1. Sea-urchins (Echinoidea). Fish. and mar.
biol. surv. Union South Africa, 10 September, 1924, Rept. 4, Spec.
pep. 1, p. 1—16, pl. 1-4.

A catalogue of the recent sea-urchins (Echinoidea) in the collection
of the British Museum (Natural history). London, 1925, 28,
250 pp., 12 pls.

LovVERIDGE, ARTHUR.

A new snake of the genus Lampropeltis. Occ. papers Boston soc.
nat. hist., 29 December, 1924, 5, p. 1387-139.

Notes on East African scorpions and Solifugae, collected 1916-1923.
Proc. Zool. soc. London, April, 1925, p. 303-309.

Perers, J. L:

Notes on the taxonymy of Ardea canadensis Linné. Auk, January,

1925, 42, p. 120-122.

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A review of the limpkins (Aramus Vieillot). Occ. papers Boston soc.
nat. hist., 30 January, 1925, 5, p. 141-144.
A new Geositta from western Argentina. Occ. papers Boston soc.
nat. hist., 30 January, 1925, 5, p. 145.
Puituies, J. C.
Harvard men in Africa. Harvard alumni bull., 22 January, 1925, 27,
p. 497-502.
Trained African elephants. Journ. mammalogy, May, 1925, 6,
p. 130-131.
Leonard Baldner, seventeenth century sportsman and naturalist.
Auk, July, 1925, 42, p. 332-341, pl. 17.
A natural history of the ducks. Vol. 3. Boston, etc., 1925, [11],
383 pp., pl. 45-70, map 66-95.
Raymonp, P. E.
The oldest coral reef. 14th Rept. State geol. Vermont, 1923-1924
(1924), p. 72-76, pl. 1.”
New Upper Cambrian and Lower Ordovician trilobites from
Vermont. 14th Rept. State geol. Vermont, 1923-1924 (1924),
p. 137-208, pl. 12-14.
See also p. 25, Bull. 67, no. 1.
SAYLES, R. W.
Pleistocene Bermuda. (Abstract). [With T. H. Clark]. Bull.
Geol. soc. Amer., March, 1925, 36, p. 141-142.
Researches in sedimentation in 1924. Rept. Comm. sedimentation
Nat. research council, 1925, p. 38-43.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 29

INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM.

In THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

mre Cheedeyie rere I PR Oe ee 50; 000.00
een (iSO) 117,469.34
Sturgis Hooper Fund (1865) ET Pee can cen eects, 2g LOSE TOTO
STEM KIS09) 4... oe ee 9,659.35
mea mremornmal Fund (1875)... sta wee se 297;938.10
morn rnyis Hund (1S/o) . 8 8 7,594.01
Virginia Barret Gibbs Fund (1892) . . . onal tbe aol 8,584.08
Willard Peele Hunnewell Memorial Fund (1901) . ag Ui rte Ne 5,666.24
mmmmiminey Found (1907)... 6 6 ee ee ww 7,781.23
Alexander Agassiz Fund (1910) sivas? Puy ore ge ho.) OO OOUSOU
Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund (1910) | Pitch gies. tt ag he OS Ores
George Russell Agassiz Fund (1911) . . . Be ct ae OULU LOO
George Russell Agassiz Fund. Special (1912) Brune nate 2 ie. BO00000
Maria Whitney and James Lyman Cee Fund (1912) . AG 1,069.37
Louis Cabot Fund (1917) eae : To, alte pea kL a a RN AS 6,348.02
Harvard Endowment Fund (1917) eter Se tat gta ee Wren oe ata cy a 1,000.00
William and Adelaide Barbour Fund (1923) .... . . . 18,027.50
meer rewerer Fund (1924) .7 . 1. 302th es COTB4ENS
Anonymous No. 7 Fund (1925) a Oh aac were.) IO OOorak

$1,052,711.97

The payments on account of the Museum are made by the Bursar of Harvard
University, on vouchers approved by the Director. The accounts are annually
examined by a committee of the Overseers. The income of funds which are
restricted is annually charged in an analysis of the accounts, with vouchers,
to the payment of which the incomes are applicable.

The income of the Gray Fund can be applied to the purchase and mainte-
nance of collections, but not for salaries.

The income of the Humboldt Fund (about $500.) can be applied for the
benefit of one or more students of Natural History, either at the Museum, the
United States Fish Commission etabion at Woods Hole, the Stations at Ber-
muda, or the Tortugas.

The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship Fund, of the value
of $400., is assigned annually with the approval of the Faculty of the Museum,
on the recommendation of the Professors of Zodlogy and of Comparative
Anatomy in Harvard University, ‘‘in supporting or assisting to support one
or more students who may have shown decided talents in Zodlogy, and prefer-
ably in the direction of Marine Zodlogy.”’

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

The income of the Whitney Funds can be applied for the care (binding) and
increase of the Whitney Library.

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

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

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

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

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

aber

oe Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer ‘* Alba-
’ Lieutenant Commander Z. L. TANNER, U. S. N., commanding, in “ohares of
'DEF R AGASSIZ, as follows: —

oy apg Sagittae. H. J. HANSEN. The Schizopods.
The Thalassicolae. ——. The Ascidians.

_ The Actinarians, S.J. HICKSON. The Antipathids.
"The Nemerteans. P. SCHIEMENZ. The Pteropods and
x D a pepe The Eyes of Deep- Heteropods.

H.B. WARD. The Sipunculids.
"The Cirtipeds.

JLLER. The Ostracods. G. O. SARS. The Copepods.
1 ay UN: The Crustacea L.STEJNEGER. The Reptiles.
. The Corals, Recent and Fossil.

PUBLICATIONS .

OF THE
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY
AT HARVARD COLLEGE.

There have been published of the BuLLEertn Vols. I. to LIV., LVL,
to LXV.; of the Memorrs, Vols. I. to XLII., and also XLIV. to
REVilie G

Vols. LV., LXVI. and LXVII. of the BuLtetin, and Vols. XLIL.,
XLIX., L. and LI. of the Mremorrs, are now in course of publication.

The BuLLeETIN 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 specialists based upon the Museum Collec-
tions and Explorations.

The following publications are in preparation: —

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

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

Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U.S. Fish Gecetcane .
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, Commander Jefferson F.
Moser, U.S. N., commanding.

Reports on the Sciestiie Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical —

Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish Commission
Steamer “Albatross,” from October, 1904, to April, 1905, Lieut. Com-
mander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., commanding.

These publications are issued in. numbers at irregular mmtervals.
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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