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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
JOHN C. PHILLIPS
NATHAN BANKS .
GLOVER M. ALLEN

WILLIAM J. CLENCH .

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.
Research Curator of Birds.

Curator of Insects.

Curator of. Mammals.

Curator of Mollusks.

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

Preparator.

GERTRUDE A. THURSTON Secretary.

ELEANOR K. SWEET.

REGINALD A. DALY .

Librarian.

Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology.

REPORT.

To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: —

DvuRInG the year generous additions to the William and Adelaide
Barbour Fund have been made by Thomas Barbour ($2,000), and
William Warren Barbour and Robert Barbour ($1,000 each); and
sundry contributions and subscriptions have provided for addi-
tional material, for expenses incidental to field-work, and for the
salaries of Assistants working upon the collections of mammals,
birds, and reptiles.

Toward the acquisition of the La Touche collection of Chinese
birds there has been received $3,450 (Thomas Barbour, and Theo-
dore Lyman $1,000 each; Gerald D. Boardman and William P.
Wharton $500 each; Francis R. Bangs, I. Tucker Burr, Arthur H.
Milliken, and Gorham G. Peters $100 each; and Winsor M. Tyler
$50).

With Dr. Barbour’s codperation, Mr. F. H. Kennard during
February and March, 1926, collected in Panama. Accompanied
by Mr. J. D. Smith he secured and has presented to the Museum a
beautifully prepared series of bird skins. The region visited, the
lowlands and mountains in the vicinity of Almirante, had been
previously worked but little ornithologically, and the report upon
the collection will furnish geographic data of interest. Mr. H. S.
Blair and other officials of the United Fruit Company were most
hospitable and helpful to Mr. Kennard.

The Museum is also indebted to Dr. Barbour for the field-work of
Messrs. Loveridge, and E. M. and H. C. Schlaikjer. The result of
Mr. Loveridge’s collecting while with the Chrysler-Smithsonian
Expedition to Africa and subsequently, must await his return to
Cambridge. The Schlaikjers working in the Oligocene and Plio-
cene beds of South Dakota secured much valuable material for
research; owing to their skill in developing, some of this material
makes notable additions to the exhibition cases.

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Dr. G. M. Allen left Cambridge in June, and though unable to
remain with Dr. R. P. Strong’s African Expedition for its full time,
will have several months for collecting in Liberia, the mammalian
fauna of which is not represented in the Museum.

Dr. Barbour spent two months in Cuba and Central America,
and Dr. Bigelow’s connection with the scientific work of the U. S.
Bureau of Fisheries necessitates his partaking of some of the cruises
along the Atlantic Coast.

Mr. Banks and Dr. Chamberlin made short collecting trips, the
former in the White Mountains with Randolph as the base, and the
latter in Utah and northern New England; each secured material
for the collections in his care.

Prof. P. E. Raymond was in charge of the Harvard Summer
School of Field Geology during the 1925 session; working at several
localities (new and old), among the Canadian Rockies, many valu-
able fossils were collected from Middle Cambrian formations; from
other formations in Maine, New York, and Pennsylvania, and from
Permian deposits at Elmo, Kansas, similar results were obtained.
Mr. F. M. Carpenter was associated with the collecting at Elmo,
where a small, but representative, series of well-preserved fossil
insects was secured. |

Mr. R. W. Sayles continued his investigations of the fossil soils
of Bermuda, and in the Pleistocene deposits of southern Maine.
In Bermuda new localities were found, and additional soils iden-
tified; in Maine beaches of Post-Wisconsin age and three distinct
tills were discovered. Prof. T. H. Clark collaborated with Mr.
Sayles in Bermuda.

Mr. Arthur C. Bent has deposited his valuable ornithological
collection, stipulating in his letter of 30 December, 1925, that it is
to remain his property during his life time, but at his death is to
become the property of the Museum. Mr. Bent’s conditions as to
the use, exchange, and loan of the specimens are wholly in accord
with those of the Museum. Though well known to ornithologists,
it should be stated that Mr. Bent’s collection is of especial value in
that it excells in skins, showing birds in the downy young, the vari-
ous nuptial, seasonal, and obscure plumages.

The additional facilities described in last year’s Report give ample
room for the convenient storage of Mr. Bent’s collection, and for

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the continuation of his publication on the life-histories of North
American birds.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to contribute toward the
expense of Prof. William Rowan’s expedition to Athabasca, the
Museum secured the skin and skeleton of a fine adult male of the
Woodland Bison, Bison athabascae Rhoads, an accession of 1m-
portance, as the purity of the two forms is endangered by the un-
fortunate introduction of the Plains Bison into the range of the
Woodland Bison.

The Museum has to thank Dr. W. E. Castle for an interesting
addition for exhibition among its special collections. The speci-
mens, rabbits, illustrate the linkage of characters in heredity.
Such characters are apt to persist, from generation to generation
associated with each other. The linked characters in the speci-
mens shown are spotted coat and short hair and unspotted coat and
long hair.

Through Dr. Barbour’s interest and generosity, many hundred
specimens have been added to the research collections of mammals
and birds, all selected as forms new to the Museum series, or de-
sirable to round out a series from a taxonomic or geographic point
of view. Dr. Barbour has also contributed largely toward the
entomological and conchological collections, while the all but
daily additions to the collections under his immediate charge make
the series of reptiles and amphibians representative, and give
ample opportunity for investigation.

The Museum is indebted to Dr. R. T. Jackson for his constant
interest in the palaeontological collections, which benefit each year
from this interest, owing to his intimate knowledge of the Museum’s
lacunae, together with a true valuation of fossils of unusual im-
portance.

Thanks are due to Mr. W.S. Brooks for specimens collected dur-
ing his visits to various parts of Africa and the West Indies. When
in South Africa, Mr. Brooks enlisted the codperation of many
residents, whose sendings have given the herpetological collections
much desirable material.

The Museum is indebted to Dr. John C. Phillips for mammals
and birds from Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, and for African
fishes, including the types of new species; also

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To Mr. John E. Thayer for mammals and birds from New
Zealand, Guatemala, and Mexico.

To Prof. Manton Copeland for mammals from Baffin Land.

To the American Museum of Natural History for a series of
Jerboas from Mongolia.

To Mr. Outram Bangs for 278 birds, mostly sea-birds, from
Treland.

To Mr. W. A. Jeffries for a series, 50 specimens, of the Ipswich
Sparrow.

To Mr. Walter Koelz for birds from Greenland and Labrador.

To Prof. W. M. Wheeler for insects from Morocco.

To Messrs. J. G. Myers and George Salt for insects from New
Zealand and Cuba.

To Mr. L. H. Weld for a collection of Cynipidae, including types
of new species.

To Mrs. E. W. Rorer for Lepidoptera from Ecuador.

To Mr. A. P. Morse for Orthoptera from Nebraska.

To Mrs. Langdon Pearse for a large collection of shells.

To Mr. Cary Croneis for a number of fossil cephalopods, includ-
ing types and figured specimens.

To Mr. H. C. Stetson for Cambrian invertebrates and anaspid
fishes from the Downtonian of Scotland.

The Library contains 63,979 volumes and 72,476 pamphlets, and
is in its field one of the most complete in America, and is so con-
sidered, if the frequent requests for interlibrary loans received and
fulfilled can be taken as a criterion. It should be borne in mind,
however, that the field is primarily zodlogy and secondly geology;
as its resources and present physical limitations are barely ade-
quate to provide the Curators with the purely zodlogical publica-
tions needed for their curatorial work and investigations, it is quite
impossible to add by purchase the text-books, serials, and other
publications required by the University instructors and students in
Biology.

The accessions for the year, 1,024 volumes and 1,914 pamphlets,
are somewhat larger than last year. I would point out, however,
that a mere increase in the number of accessions is not indicative of
progress, satisfactory or otherwise, and that comparison on a
percentage basis between libraries with aims and resources so dis-

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similar as a School of Business Administration and a Zoological
Museum is misleading, as the accession of a single volume of any
one of a number of zodlogical serials, or the report of an exploration,
entails a far greater expense than the acquisition of several hundred
reports of business corporations.

The publications for the year, include one volume of the Memoirs,
eight numbers of the Bulletin, and the Annual Report, a total of
454 (244 quarto and 210 octavo) pages, illustrated by 45 (30 quarto
and 15 octavo) plates.

Within the Museum year (in March, 1925), the final volume of
what undoubtedly will be for many years the Natural History of
Ducks was published. Ina little more than two years Dr. Phillips
has seen through the press four quarto volumes of text, nearly
1,600 pages, illustrated by over 200 plates and maps. ‘The scope
and plan of the work left little room for criticism, and the several
volumes have been most favorably received. Dr. Phillips’s thor-
ough and equitable handling of the literature of his subject (there
are more than 3,300 titles in his bibliography), tends to conceal the
very considerable amount of original matter he has himself con-
tributed, a tendency not diminished by his own modest estimate
of the same.

Dr. R. V. Chamberlin’s resignation took effect 31 December,
1925. He had been in charge of the collections of worms, myrio-
pods, and arachnids since March, 1913, and by his personal field-
work and through his correspondents, had increased the size and
enhanced the scientific value of these collections, the Myriopoda
ranking among the most important extant. An enthusiastic,
rapid worker, his numerous publications contain descriptions of a
large number of new forms, well illustrated by drawings from his
facile pencil.

Though without official connection with the Museum, the late
J. B. Woodworth was much interested in its work and aims;
he made important contributions to its publications and collections,
and was helpful at all times with critical comments and suggestions
as to its library and publications. He died in Cambridge, 5
August, 1925.

. SAMUEL HENSHAW,
Director.

8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE MAMMALS.
By GiLover M. ALLEN.

The number of accessions for the year received by gift or exchange
totals about 335 specimens of recent mammals (50 alcoholics and
288 skins, with skulls or skeletal parts), and about 160 specimens
of fossil species.

Notable among the accessions are:—

About 100 skins, with skulls, from peninsular Alaska and the
Aleutian Islands, the gift of Dr. J. C. Phillips.

A skeleton of the cetacean Orcaella sp., a rare deer from Szechnan,
several forms selected to fill Jacwnae in the research series, and many
Oligocene and Pliocene fossils from South Dakota, collected by
E. M. and H. C. Schlaikjer, presented by Dr. Thomas Barbour.

A fine series of Jerboas from Mongolia, from the American
Museum of Natural History.

Twenty-seven specimens from Baffin Land, collected by the
MacMillan Expedition, a gift of Dr. Manton Copeland.

Small series or single specimens have been received from the
Boston Society of Natural History, Messrs. G. M. Allen, C. A. |
Cutter, C. E. Keeler, F. H. Kennard, Enrique Naranjo, George
Nelson, J. L. Peters, E. M. Schlaikjer, George Schwab, G. C.
Shortridge, and J. E. Thayer.

A number of excellent skins with skulls from South Africa,
western China, and Central America, and desirable series of
Nearctic and Palearctic forms have been added by exchange.

A fine adult bull (skin and skeleton), of the Wood Bison, from
Athabasca, was purchased.

All of the accessions are identified, labeled, and catalogued.

I have aided in the development of the Schlaikjer fossils, have
completed a report on the Wilson and Frost collections of South
Carolina fossils, and have commenced a study of the canid remains

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from the excavations at Pueblo Bonito, conducted under the direc-
tion of Dr. N. M. Judd.
~The greater part of the Frost collection was presented to the
Museum jointly by the Misses Susan P., Mary P., Rebecca M.
Frost, and the Rev. Francis L. Frost, in memory of their brother
- William Pringle Frost, who, during his life, showed a great and in-
telligent interest in the natural history of South Carolina.
The duplicate set of cards prepared at the U. S. National Mu-
seum, recording recent mammalian literature, is a great advantage
to the Department; it is received as a gift of Dr. Thomas Barbour.

10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE BIRDS.
By Outram Bangs.

During the year, 3,242 specimens, including twenty-two (22)
genera and many species new to the collection, have been received;
more than half of these accessions are due to the generosity and
persistency of Dr. Thomas Barbour. Dr. Barbour’s material,
though principally from Africa and the Americas, contains de-
sirable specimens from Cyprus, Sardinia, Siberia, Russia, and
other parts of Europe. — :

Mr. F. H. Kennard, in concert with Dr. Barbour, secured for
the Museum a series of nearly 300 specimens, 135 species and sub-
species, of birds. Mr. Kennard, who was accompanied by Mr.
J. D. Smith, collected during February and March in Panama,
working chiefly among the lowlands, and the mountains up to an
altitude of 4,500 feet. The region covered by Mr. Kennard’s work
has been worked but little ornithologically; a report upon the
collection is in preparation.

Acknowledgements are due to:—

Dr. J. C. Phillips for 154 specimens from Alaska (O. J. Murie,
1925 coll.). :

Col. J. E. Thayer for 132 specimens from New Zealand, Mexico,
and Guatemala, from the collection of W. E. Bryant.

Mr. Walter Koelz for 46 specimens from Greenland and Labra-
dor, collected during the summer of 1925.

Mr. W. A. Jeffries for a series of 50 Ipswich Sparrows (J. A. and
W. A. Jeffries, coll.).

Mr. H. S. Shaw for 21 specimens from Oregon (A. K. Woodcock,
coll.).

Mr. Outram Bangs for 278 specimens, mostly sea-birds, from
Ireland (H. D. Knox, coll.).

Single specimens or short series were received from Mrs. 8. E.

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Gates, Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas Barbour, E. H. Forbush,
the late M. A. Frazar, C. W. Gates, R. B. Harding, F. H. Kennard,
Arthur Loveridge, the late S. J. Mixter, T. E. Penard, J. L. Peters,
J. C. Phillips, C. A. Porter, H. S$. Whitehead, the Boston Society
of Natural History, and the Franklin Park “Zoo.”

The following material has been purchased :—

One hundred and three specimens from the Cameroons, from Mr.
George Schwab.

One hundred and seventy-four specimens from Crete (Paul
Spatz, coll.). This collection contains representatives of all forms
peculiar to the island.

Mr. A. C. Bent has deposited his valuable collection of North
American birds, a collection rich in birds of obscure plumage,
moulting individuals, and downy young of sea-birds, ducks, and
shore-birds. Mr. Bent’s future scientific work will thus be closely
associated with the Museum.

Extensive interchanges have been effected with a few ornitholo-
gists, and with a number of American, European, African, and
Australian Museums, and many mutual loans have been carried out.

Mr. J. L. Peters has continued the card catalogue of bird skins,
which contains the record of seventy-one (71) families, 1,072
species, and 22,310 specimens, fourteen (14) families, 763 species,
and 8,342 specimens having been added during the year.

Dr. Herbert Friedmann spent a large part of the year in the
preparation of a report upon the parasitic birds which he had col-
lected in Texas, Argentine, and eastern and southern Africa. A
considerable series of Dr. Friedmann’s African birds is among this
year’s accessions.

12 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS.
By THomas BArBour.

During the year I spent some time in Cuba and Central America.
In codperation with the United Fruit Company, several thousand
snakes were received from Tela, Honduras, and some from other
points, for use in connection with determining the incidence of
venomous species. A similar census for the Panama Canal Zone
is being made, with aid from the Medical Department of the
Panama Canal. Dr. Afranio do Amaral returned from Brazil,
and has worked most carefully on certain groups of Neotropical
and African genera of snakes, and has also organized a Serum-
therapeutic Institute for the production of antivenines, in con-
nection with the Mulford Laboratories at Glenolden, Peru. Dr.
Amaral will retain his Lectureship in the University, and work in
conjunction with the Museum, and with the Department of Bac-
teriology, so that all material may be useful, and a detailed study
made of the venomous species which are not dangerous to man.

Mr. Loveridge spent nearly half the year collecting in Africa,
with the Chrysler-Smithsonian Expedition. During the year, sev-
eral students taking the research course in herpetology assisted
effectively in routine identifications. In Mr. Loveridge’s absence,
Miss Thelma MacIntyre has assisted with routine cataloguing and
in the preparation of a card catalogue of types; 691 species are repre-
sented by holotypes, cotypes, or paratypes.

The collection has grown satisfactorily during the year, forty-
seven (47) genera, previously unrepresented, having been added.

As a result of Mr. W. S. Brooks’s visit to South Africa, addi-

tional material has been received, and Mr. Loveridge has com-

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pared the collection of the British Museum with the Museum of
Comparative Zodlogy series. His result follows:—

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Lizards ia 7%
Chamaeleons 10 7
Snakes 87 W
Frogs and Toads 52 53
289 267

A number of specimens have been borrowed, notably the series
of Anoles, collected in Guatemala, by Mr. J. R. Slevin, of the
California Academy of Sciences.

The general exchange of duplicate material with the University
of Michigan Museum, etc., without reference to the exact number
of specimens, given or received, has been mutually beneficial, and
has saved much recording. Exchanges, as usual, have been
numerous.

Gifts have been made by the following persons:— Messrs. Allan
Brooks, EH. F. Carpenter, L. Giovannoli, L. U. Harris, F. H.
Kennard, C. H. Lankester, H. P. Loding, Niceforo Maria, L. L.
Mowbray, Robert Schacht, E. M. Schlaikjer, W. R. Singleton,
and several officials of the United Fruit Company, especially Drs.
N. P. Macphail, R. B. Nutter, and Messrs. H. Clark, and L. 5S.

Sisto.

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REPORT ON THE FISHES.

By SAMUEL GARMAN.

Effort has been concentrated upon improving the condition of
the earlier collections, rather than increasing the number of the
later ones. As might be expected, the coolness of the season has
had an effect in lowering the amount of evaporation.

There has been the usual amount of correspondence, with re-
quests for identifications to aid studies.

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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

By NatHan Banks.

The more notable accessions are the Cuban and New Zealand
insects from Messrs. J. G. Myers and George Salt, the Moroccan
insects from Dr. W. M. Wheeler, about 1,000 Nebraskan Orthop-
tera from Mr. A. P. Morse, a collection of Cynipidae, containing
twenty (20) paratypes, from Mr. L. H. Weld, and 350 Ecuadoran
Lepidoptera from Mrs. E. W. Rorer. Other material was received
from Messrs. C. P. Alexander, C. F. Baker, Thomas Barbour,
Joseph Bequaert, W. S. Blatchley, F. M. Brown, P. W. Claassen,
T. D. A. Cockerell, C. W. Dodge, M. L. Fernald, E. Jacobson,
C. W. Johnson, C. H. Paige, and Roland Thaxter.

Exchanges in Neuroptera and Diptera were made with the
Canadian National Museum.

Mrs. D. H. Blake has named various species of Oedionychis,
Mr. F. H. Chittenden the unnamed Phyllotreta, Dr. Joseph
Bequaert the species of Ancistrocerus, and Mr. T. B. Mitchell those
of Megachile.

Neuroptera have been identified for the Kansas Agricultural
College, the University of Illinois, the Nova Scotia Department of
Agriculture, Messrs. C. F. Baker, and F. M. Schott; fossorial
Hymenoptera for the South Dakota State College, and Prof. J. C.
Bradley.

Panamanian Locustidae and Gryllidae were loaned to Mr.
Morgan Hebard, the unnamed Thyreocorinae to Mr. W. L.
McAtee, unnamed Odontaeus to Mr. J. W. Wallis, and unnamed
Oribatidae to Mr. A. Jacot. Mr. H. W. Allen has returned the
Miltogramminae, with several types.

The usual inspections show the collection in good condition.

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Through the kindness of Mr. J. H. Emerton, the Curator spent a
week in the White Mountains, and collected about 1,000 insects
and spiders.

Labeling of the Morse collection was finished, and progress made
on the Bowditch and Jacob Doll collections. Over 400 types have
been verified and marked. Several families of the Diptera have
been rearranged, the Tenthredinidae were put into new Schmitt
boxes, several parts of the Bowditch Chrysomelidae were united,
part of the Agrionidae was rearranged, and most of the unnamed
United States specimens identified. The manuscript of a revision
of the North American Myrmeleonidae was completed, and further
studies made on the classification of the genera of the world.

Besides numerous visits from local entomologists, fifteen persons
have consulted the collections.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 17

REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS, ARACHNIDS,
AND WORMS.

By Rates V. CHAMBERLIN.

Field-work during the early part of the year consisted of some
supplementary collecting of myriopods and spiders in Utah, and of
myriopods in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, all of which
material was later identified. An effort was made to clear up the
numerous smaller sendings which had accumulated. In addition,
various collections, chiefly of immigrant forms, were named for the
U. S. Horticultural Board, and a larger series of arachnids and
myriopods for the Bureau of Biological Survey. Some time was
given to work on a collection of Hawaiian arachnids, and on myrio-
pods from the Hawaiian and other Pacific islands, received from
the Bishop Museum. A beginning was made on a rearrangement
of the chilopod and diplopod collections.

For specimens received, the Museum is indebted to the Misses
Grace Smith and Dixie Young, Messrs. C. F. Baker, S. C. Bishop,
C. R. Crosby, Alexander Petrunkewitch, J. O. Snyder, F. X.
Williams, and the U.S. Horticultural Board.

18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE ECHINODERMS.

By Husert L. Cuark.

The completion of the rearrangement of the dry sea-urchins
occupied the early part of the year, after which, study of the col-
lection of echinoderms (other than holothurians), belonging to the
South Australian Museum, was taken up. A report on this col-
lection, which contains many undescribed species, is approaching
completion. Two months were given to the rearrangement of the
collection of dry sea-stars, to bring it into accord with modern
classification, and in this connection, an outline classification of
echinoderms, including all genera, living and fossil, was prepared.
The latter part of the year was devoted chiefly to the study of a
very large and notable collection of fossil sea-urchins from Jamaica.

The accessions were neither numerous nor notable, about 210
specimens in all. The more noteworthy were a series of sea-stars
from the South African Fisheries Board, and a very desirable lot
of the rare New Zealand sea-urchin, Gontocidaris umbraculum, from
Mr. M. W. Young. For other accessions, thanks are due to the
Australian Museum, Sydney, and the Victoria Memorial Museum,
Ottawa; to Mrs. Langdon Pearse, and to Messrs. B. W. Arnold,
Thomas Barbour, W. A. Hilton, R. T. Jackson, Theodor Morten-
sen, G. H. Parker, and E. F. Ricketts.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19

REPORT ON ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH.

By Henry B. BIGELow.

The Museum has received from Mr. William Beebe for study
the Medusae and Siphonophorae of the Arcturus Expedition to
the Sargasso Sea and the Tropical Pacific. This is one of the most
extensive collections of pelagic coelenterates received in late years,
numbering about 350 lots, and it is especially interesting on account
of the large number of oceanic species, seldom obtained except by
the major deep-sea expeditions.

The Museum is indebted to Mr. P. E. Pieris Deraniyagala for
Medusae from Ceylon.

Oceanographic exploration of the Gulf of Maine and the neigh-
boring Atlantic has been continued, in codperation with the U. S.
Bureau of Fisheries. Serial observations were taken on a north-
south profile of the Gulf of Maine, near the coast, and on Nantucket
shoals.

The study of the circulation of the Gulf, by drift bottles, has been
continued, through the kindness of Messrs. H. C. Stetson and T. E.
Graves, who put out lines of bottles in the Massachusetts Bay
region, and off Cape Nedick, from their yachts. During the past
summer, Mr. C. O. Iselin has carried on research in the coast waters
of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Museum planning the explora-
tion, and providing a part of the apparatus.

Most of my own time has been devoted to the preparation and
delivery of two courses of Lowell lectures, and to the general
report on the Gulf of Maine explorations.

I have also continued to serve as scientific adviser to the Inter-
national Ice Patrol, and as Chairman of the North American Com-
mittee on Fisheries Investigations.

The acquisition, by the Bureau of Fisheries, of ALBaTRoss II.

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to replace the Hatcyon (Science, 1926, 63, p. 500), allowed an
extension of the cod-tagging program to Georges Bank, where about
1,100 cod, pollock, and haddock were tagged on the initial cruise.
The tagging record up to date is as follows :—

Tagged Cod Pollock Haddock Total
TODS) csc nun) Os eke oie eae 7,618 2,215 411 10,244
TO24 sR ee ea eee ae 6,209 916 3,224 10,349
TO eirmod Tans aie eae 10,420 949 3,891 15,260
5023 a pea OPA ean ivi bmp Died Py 36 253 3,016

Total 26,974 4,116 7,779 38,869

About 1,700 returns have now been received, enough to justify
a general report on the movements of the cod of the Nantucket
shoals region, and Mr. W, C. Schroeder is now preparing this report.
The tagging cruise to Georges Bank also gave opportunity for
oceanographic observations and towings, which were interesting,
as they proved the neritic nature of the plankton over shoal water
so far from land, and the constancy of temperature there from
summer to summer.

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REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY. |
By P. E. Raymonp.

The Curator was again in charge of the Harvard Summer School
of Field Geology in 1925, and was able to make further collections
from some of the localities in the Canadian Rockies visited the
previous summer, paying particular attention to the rarer forms.
New localities were visited near Banff, Alberta, and excellent
material obtained from the Middle Cambrian at Ross Lake and
Burgess Pass, B.C. At the latter, one of the students found the
second known specimen of the very interesting isopod-like crus-
tacean, Mollisonia gracilis Walcott. This, and another unusual
specimen, the Curator was able to purchase and present to the
Museum. The Mollisonia has been made the subject of a brief
memoir, now ready for publication. Mr. H. C. Stetson, the
Assistant in the course, very generously presented to the Museum
many valuable specimens which he collected. As last year, the
Museum is again indebted to the Hon. J. B. Harkin, Commissioner
of Parks, for permission to collect fossils in the Canadian National
Parks.

In August, 1925, the Curator spent eight days with Mr. F. M.
Carpenter, at Elmo, Kansas, collecting from the Permian deposits
previously exploited for fossil insects by Sellards and Dunbar.
At this locality, the specimens occur in pockets, which are not
readily found in the soil-covered pasture, but our test pits pro-
duced thirty-three well-preserved wings, two bivalved crustaceans,
and considerable numbers of pelecypods. Some of the wings,
including three new species, have been described by Mr. Carpenter
Pemtl. Wt. ©, Z., 1926, 67, no. 13).

In October, 1925, one day was spent in collecting Silurian grapto-
lites, at Waterville, Maine, and in July, 1926, small collections of

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Oriskany fossils from Glen Eyrie, N. Y., and of Trenton fossils
from Crown Point, N. Y., were made in the course of a brief trip.

Mr. H. C. Stetson visited Scotland in July, 1926, for the purpose
of collecting from the Downtonian. He obtained several anaspids
and other fossil “fishes,’’ which he has given to the Museum, and
arranged for further search in these beds by an enthusiastic local
collector, who has made several collections from them. Thanks
are due to Director MacGregor of the Scottish Geological Survey,
Mr. D. Tait, and Mr. D. S. Stitt, for valuable assistance in this
matter. Mr. Ralph Stewart, of the University of California,
studied the gastropods in the J. D. Whitney collection, and suc-
ceeded in identifying a number of Gabb’s types of Cretaceous and
Tertiary shells. He also had figures prepared of some of the better
preserved specimens, to illustrate a forthcoming memoir. Mr.
Carey Croneis, a graduate student, presented to the Museum the
types and figured specimens of a new genus and three new species
of cephalopods, from the Mississippian of Arkansas (see Bull.
M. C. Z., 1926, 67, no. 10). He has also presented the types of
several other species, to be described elsewhere.

The Curator spent several weeks in the study of a number of
unusually well-preserved trails from the Silurian of central Maine,
in an effort to ascertain the nature of the animals which made
them. Almost identical trails have been found in England, Wales,
Spain, and Germany, and their probable stratigraphic value war-
rants more attention than has previously been paid to them. Much
time was devoted in an attempt to get together the stratigraphic
results of the Shaler Memorial Expeditions of 1917, 1918, and 1921.
The manuscript on the correlation of the Ordovician formations
was brought to an advanced state, and all of the palaeontologic .
evidence assembled.

Besides the accessions already mentioned, a collection of Pleisto-
cene fossils from Montreal, and Ordovician graptolites and sponges
from Quebec, has been received by exchange with the Peter Red-
path Museum, through Prof. T. H. Clark; a small collection of
invertebrate fossils from the Windsor series of Cape Breton, by
donation from Prof. K. F. Mather, and a number of Cretaceous
(Pierre) fossils from Dr. Thomas Barbour.

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REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.

By R. W. SAYLzs.

Two noteworthy additions to the collection have been received,
one a very fine striated boulderet from the Permo-Carboniferous
tillite of Bachus Marsh, southern Australia, the gift of Prof. E. C.
Jeffrey, and the other from the Curator, specimens from the coast
of Maine, illustrating probable seasonal banding, supposed to be of
Carboniferous age.

Prof. T. H. Clark and the Curator continued their study of the
fossil soils of Bermuda. Four new localities, where three distinct
fossil soils were identified, and fifty-seven new fossil soils, were dis-
covered; the total of fossil soils is 116, and of three-soil localities
seven. The oldest soil observed (the so-called sea-level soil), oc-
curred so frequently above a sandstone, a few feet above sea-level,
as to indicate the erosion to this level of most of the islands, except
the Walsingham district, during the Middle Pleistocene; Bermuda
having been built to its present height by dune-formation since this
soil was formed. The Walsingham formation may be older than
this sea-level soil horizon, and if so may represent Nebraskan and
Aftonian stages of the Pleistocene. If this relation holds, the sea-
level soil above the marine sandstone would be of Yarmouth age.
Many fossils were collected by Professor Clark. In July, I worked
on the Pleistocene deposits in southern Maine. Post-Wisconsin
beaches at 160 and 215 feet above present sea-level were found.
Working with Dr. Ernst Antevs, three distinct tills were located
ina gravel pitat Elms. The two lower tills have been folded with
the beds of gravel and sand, and resemble the folds of Cape Cod
and Martha’s Vineyard. It seems evident that glacial stages,
older than the Wisconsin, are represented here.

24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE LIBRARY.

By ELEANor K. Sweet.

During the Museum year from August 1, 1925 to July 31, 1926,
inclusive, 1,024 volumes, 1,683 parts of volumes and 1,914 pam-
phlets have been added to the Library.

The total number of volumes in the Library is 63,979, the total
number of pamphlets is 72,476.

Two hundred and twenty-eight volumes have been bound;
four hundred pamphlets have been separately bound.

Many hours have been required for the checking of the National
Union List of Serials; work on the Checking edition has now been
completed, and work on the Provisional edition is in progress.

From the Harvard College Library the Museum has received
153 titles; other contributors are William M. Wheeler (408 titles),
Nathan Banks (246 titles), Edward A. Boyden (144 titles), Wiliam
M. Davis (130 titles), Morgan Hebard (118 titles), Samuel Henshaw
(117 titles), Outram Bangs (71 titles), Thomas Barbour (47 titles),
Henry B. Bigelow (45 titles), Peabody Museum of American
Archaeology and Ethnology (86 titles), Harry C. Oberholser (29
titles), Reginald A. Daly (20 titles).

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 25

PUBLICATIONS

FOR THE YEAR 1925-1926.
(1 Aueust, 1925 — 31 Jury, 1926).

MusEuUM oF CoMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

BULLETIN : —
Vol. LXVII.

No. 7. New genera of Megapodagrioninae, with notes on the subfamily.
By Clarence H. Kennedy. 24 pp. 1 plate. November, 1925.

No. 8. New species of fossil corals from the Dominican Republic. By
Thomas W. Vaughan and John E. Hoffmeister. 14 pp. 4 plates.
November, 1925.

No. 9. Psammocharidae from Panama. By Nathan Banks. 12 pp.
November, 1925.

No. 10. New cephalopods from the Fayetteville shale. By Carey Croneis.
14 pp. 2 plates. February, 1926.

No. 11. Review of the Engraulidae, with descriptions of new and rare
species. By David 8. Jordan and Alvin Seale. 66 pp. May, 1926.

No. 12. A collection of birds from southwestern New Guinea (Merauke
coast and inland). By Outram Banks and James L. Peters. 16 pp.
July, 1926.

No. 13. Fossil insects from the Lower ein of Kansas. By Frank M.
Carpenter. 10 pp. 3 plates. July, 1926.

No. 14. Fossil mammals from South Carolina. By Glover M. Allen.
24 pp. Splates. July, 1926.

MeEmorrs: —
Vol. XLIX.

Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South
America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz,
by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer ‘“‘ Albatross,”’ during 1891, Lieut.-
Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. 8. N., commanding. XXXIX. Reports
on the scientific results of the expedition to the Eastern Tropical Pacific,
in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer
“ Albatross,” from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L. M.
Garrett, U.S. N., commanding. XXXIV. The pelagicnemerteans. By
Wesley R. Coe. 244 pp. 30 plates. June, 1926.

REPORT: —
1924-1925. 30 pp. December, 1925

26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

ALLEN, G. M.
Ernest Harold Baynes. Journ. mammalogy, August, 1925, 6, p. 203.
Birds and their attributes. Boston, [1925], 13, 338 pp., ills.
Schidler’s ‘Birds of Denmark.’ Auk, April, 1926, 43, p. 218-227.
Rats (genus Rattus) from the Asiatic expeditions. Amer. mus.
novitates, 16 June, 1926, no. 217, 16 pp.
Bats and their habits. Bull. 40, Boston soc. nat. hist., July, 1926,
pl.
See also p. 25, Bull. 67, no. 14.
Banes, OUTRAM.
A new race of Pelzeln’s weaver-finch. [With J. C. Phillips]. Occ.
papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 18 December, 1925, 5, p. 177.
A new Berneria from Madagascar. [With J. L. Peters]. Proc.
N. E. zo6l. club, 21 July, 1926, 9, p. 48-44.
The validity of N¢tsuotdes morelit Pollen. [With J. L. Peters].
Auk, July, 1926, 43, p. 369-370.
See also p. 25, Bull. 67, no. 12.
Banks, NATHAN.
Descriptions of a few new American Diptera. Psyche, April, 1926,
33, p. 42-44.
See also p. 25, Bull. 67, no. 9.
BarsBour, THOMAS.
New Amphibia. Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 30 January, 1926,
__B, p. 191-194, pl. 12-14.
Dr. Samuel Jason Mixter. Mass. Guernsey bull., January, 1926,
1 p., portr.
Remarks concerning Professor Edward S. Morse, sometime Presi-
dent of the Boston Society of Natural History. Bull. 38, Boston
soc. nat. hist., January, 1926, p. 8-9.
Notes from Massachusetts and New Hampshire. [With W. S.
Brooks]. Auk, January, 1926, 43, p. 104.
[Harvard Glee Club]. Harvard alumni bull., 4 February, 1926, 28,
p. 548-549.
A note on Tertiary alligators. Copera, 25 February, 1926, no. 151,
p. 109.
Reptiles and amphibians. Their habits and adaptations. Boston,
etc., 1926, 20, 125 pp., ills.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27

BicEtow, H. B.
Oceanic circulation. Science, 9 October, 1925, 62, p. 317-319.
The Albatross II. Science, 14 May, 1926, 63, p. 500.
CHAMBERLIN, R. V.

New North American spiders. Proc. Cal. acad. sci., 14 August,
1925, ser. 4, 14, p. 105-142.

Expedition of the California academy of sciences to #he Gulf of
California in 1921. The Phalangida. Proc. Cal. acad. sci., 14
August, 1925, ser. 4, 14, p. 171-173.

Notes on some centipeds and millipeds from Utah. Pan-Pacific
ent., October, 1925, 2, p. 55-63.

Notes on North American spiders heretofore referred to Coleotes.
Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 13 November, 1925, 38, p. 119-124.

A new species of the lithobiid genus Nampabius from Tennessee.
Canad. ent., December, 1925, 57, p. 291.

Two new American chilopods. Proc. Biol. soc. Washington, 23
February, 1926, 39, p. 9-10.

freee, H.-L.

Some sea-stars from the Riksmuseum, Stockholm. Arkiv for
zoologz, 16 November, 1925, 18A, no. 8, p. 1-8.

A new Clypeaster from Angola. Ann. S. Afric. mus., December,
1925, 20, p. 317-318, pl. 33.

Echinoderms from the South African fisheries and marine biological
survey. Part 2. Sea-stars (Asteroidea). Rept. 4, Fish. and
mar. biol. surv. Union S. Africa, 1925, 1 May, 1926, p. 1-34,
pl. 1-7.

Echinoderms other than sea-stars [of the Tropical Central Pacific].
Bull. 27, Bernice P. Bishop mus., [July, 1926] p. 89-111, pl. 9-11.

LovERIDGE, ARTHUR.

A mite pocket in the gecko, Gymnodactylus lawderanus Stoliczka.

Proc. Zool. soc. London, January, 1926, 1925, p. 1481.
Peres, J. L.

A new grackle from St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. Occ. papers Boston
soc. nat. hist., 18 December, 1925, 5, p. 175-176.

Two new birds from Argentina. Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist.,
30 January, 1926, 5, p. 195-196.

A new race of the Golden Warbler from the West Indies. Proc.
N. E. zo6l. club, 17 February, 1926, 9, p. 41.

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A review of the races of Elaenia martinica (Linné). Occ. papers
Boston soc. nat. hist., 7 June, 1926, 5, p. 197-202.
Also with Outram Bangs, Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 21 July, 1926, 9,
Auk, July, 1926, 43.
See also p. 25. Bull. 67, no. 12. [With Outram Bangs].
Puiuuies, J. C.
The Pére David deer herd. Journ. mammalogy, November, 1925,
6, p. 283-284.
The 1925 Essex County shooting season. Bull. Essex county ornith.
club, December, 1925, 7, p. 10-13.
Further studies of the Harvard birth-rate—classes 1891-1900. Har-
vard grad. mag., March, 1926, 34, p. 385-394.
A natural history of the ducks. Vol. 4. Boston, etc., 1926, [11],
489 pp., pl. 71-102, map 96-118.
Also with Outram Bangs, Occ. papers Boston soc. nat. hist., 18 Decem-
ber, 1925, 5
Raymonp, P. E.
The Anaspida and the problem of the origin of the vertebrates.
Amer. journ. sct., November, 1925, ser. 5, 10, p. 433-436.
Two new fossil fishes from Alberta. Amer. journ. sct., December,
1925, ser.’5, 10;p. 551-955.
A new oyster from the Cretaceous of Cuba. Oce. papers Boston
soc. nat. hist., 18 December, 1925, 5, p. 183-185, pl. 7.
SayLEs, R. W.
Jay Backus Woodworth. Hewes grad. mag., March, 1926, 34,
p. 395-401, portr.
George Carroll Curtis. Geogr. rerew, April, 1926, 16, p. 3382-333.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 29

INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM.

IN THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE.

Gray Fund (1859) $50,000.00
Permanent Fund (1859) 117,469.34
Sturgis Hooper Fund (1865) . 108,542.92
Humboldt Fund (1869) 9,691.31
Agassiz Memorial Fund (1875) . 297,933.10
Teachers and Pupils Fund (1875) 7,594.01
Virginia Barret Gibbs Fund (1892) a Xe 8,656.20
Willard Peele Hunnewell Memorial Fund (1901) . 5,666.24
Maria Whitney Fund (1907) . 8,027.72
Alexander Agassiz Fund (1910) . ; 99,500.00
Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund (1910) . 106,317.95
George Russell Agassiz Fund (1911) 50,000.00
George Russell Agassiz Fund. Special (1912) . : 50,000.00
Maria Whitney and James Lyman ipa Fund no : 1,187.84
Louis Cabot Fund (1917) . ; ; ; ‘ ‘ 6,401.22
Harvard Endowment Fund (1917) . 1,000.00
William and Adelaide Barbour Fund (1923) 22,071.30
William Brewster Fund (1924) 60,316.68
Anonymous No. 7 Fund (1925) . 50,716.77

$1,061,092.60

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

to the payment of which the incomes are applicable.

The income of the Gray Fund can be applied to the purchase and mainte-

nance of collections, but not for salaries.

The income of the Humboldt Fund (about $500.) can be applied for the

benefit of one or more students of Natural History, either at the Museum, the
United States Fish Commission Station at Woods Hole, the Stations at Ber-
muda, or the Tortugas.

The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship Fund, of the value
of $400., is assigned annually with the approval of the Faculty of the Museum,
on the recommendation of the Professors of Zodlogy and of Comparative
Anatomy in Harvard University, ‘in supporting or assisting to support one

30 ANNUAL REPORT.

or more students who may have shown decided talents in Zodlogy, 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 1st
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.

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There have been nublished of the qe os Vols. L to .
to LXV.; of the paeag ae I. to XUL, and also :
XLVII. a

; XLIX, {ee aa Li of the Monee are NOW in course ene
The BuLtetiIn and Memorrs are devoted to. the p
original work by the Officers of the Museum, of investigatic (
on by students and others i in the different: Laboratories ;
History, and of work by specialists based upon the Mi
tions and Explorations. |

The following publications are in preparation: —

__ Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 1
Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer ge
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. - N., and Commander .
U.S. N., commanding. eae

Reports on. the Results of the Expedition of 1801 of ee U. 8

tne in charge of Mecanaee awe 8. “tig 2
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the | Tropic:
charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish Comm :
“ Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Low and:
: Moser, U. 8. N., commanding. ey
Reports: on the Getic Results of the Expedition to the

Steamer ‘ ‘ Albatross,” Bian siabor 1904, te Apri "us,
mander L. M. Garrett, U.S. N,, ig a if ee

cation to the Dire of the Museum of Comp
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