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PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM 1933 | PUBLICATIONS OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE There have been published of the BuLLETIN Vols. I to LXV, LX VII- LXXIV, of the Memorrs Vols. I to LI, LIV. The BuLLETIN 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 Exploration. 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 application to the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ANNUAL REPORT THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE TO THE PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE FOR 1932-1933 CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A:: PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM 1933 ; | | } ’ t a j Ny, vs y i \ * ey i : if, f ‘ . ede i A a F 4 t ) Y thea ‘ * + iy i ce * t 4 | © vf " rah { j ‘ ; \ © n SVN G pine es UIOUMITVOS Cll f GATE Mee ss TABLE OF CONTENTS Report of the Director . . . . . THomas BARBOUR Report on Marine Invertebrates HuBprErt LYMAN CLARK Report on Oceanography . . HENRY Bryant BIGELOW Reporton Entomology . . . . . . NaTHAN Banks Reporton Mammals. . . . GLovEeR Morritit ALLEN Beene birds. . . . . .JAMES LEE PETERS Report on Mollusks . . . . WrtiiaM James CLENCH Report of the Research Curator of Zoélogy LupLow GrRISscoM Report on Reptiles and Amphibians ARTHUR LOVERIDGE Report on Invertebrate Palaeontology Percy Epwarp RAYMOND Report on Vertebrate Palaeontology Henry Crospy STETSON Report on Helminths . . . Jack HENRY SANDGROUND Report on Fishes . . .NicHotas ANDREEVICH BoroDIN Report on Birds’ Eggs and Nests WINTHROP SPRAGUE BROOKS Report on Fossil Echinoderms . Ropertr Tracy JACKSON Report on the Coelenterates. . . ELISABETH DEICHMANN Report on the Library . . . ELeaNor Sweer PETERS Appendix. Report on the Second Part of the Harvard Australian Expedition WILLIAM EDWARD SCHEVILL Publications Invested Funds of the Museum MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Faculty JAMES BRYANT CONANT, President GEORGE RUSSELL AGASSIZ HENRY BRYANT BIGELOW THOMAS BARBOUR, Director Officers THOMAS BARBOUR 07 2. 2°o SAMUEL HENSHAW HUBERT LYMAN CLARK. .... HENRY BRYANT BIGELOW PERCY EDWARD RAYMOND... JOHN CHARLES PHILLIPS INA TEVAIN BANKS a) er eet nae GLOVER MORRILL ALLEN... . WILLIAM JAMES CLENCH ... . JAMES LEE PHTMRS” 330. 2.92 e ARTHUR LOVERIDGE Se aot Re ee LEDLOW A GRISCOM 4: ook). HENRY CROSBY STETSON . .. . ARTHUR CLEVELAND BENT... . FREDERIC HEDGE KENNARD . . KIRTLEY FLETCHER MATHER. . ROBERT TRACY JACKSON ... . WINTHROP SPRAGUE BROOKS. . ELISABETH DEICHMANN JACK HENRY SANDGROUND Director Director Emeritus Curator of Marine Invertebrates Curator of Oceanography Curator of Invertebrate Palaeon- tology Research Curator of Birds Curator of Insects Curator of Mammals Curator of Mollusks Curator of Birds Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians Research Curator of Zoology . Assistant Curator of Palaeontology Associate in Ornithology Associate in Ornithology Acting Curator of Geological Collec- tions Curator of Fossil Echinoderms Custodian of Birds’ Eggs and Nests Alexander Agassiz Fellow in Ocean- ography and Assistant Curator of Marine Invertebrates Curator of Helminthology NICHOLAS ANDREEVICH BORODIN Curator of Fishes HAROLD JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, Jr. Asszstant Curator of Mammals tine ti “a JOSEPH CHARLES BEQUAERT .. Associate Curator of Insects CHARLES THOMAS BRUES ... . Associate Curator of Insects WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER. . Associate Curator of Insects JAMES COWAN GREENWAY, Jr. . Assistant Curator of Birds COLUMBUS O’DONNELL ISELIN, II Asszstant Curator of Oceanography FRANK MORTON CARPENTER. . Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology WILLIAM EDWARD SCHEVILL. . Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology PHILIP JACKSON DARLINGTON . Assistant Curator of Insects CHARLES FOSTER BATCHELDER. Associate in Ornithology ELEANOR SWEET PETERS .... Jnbrarian Geer ELSON ..2 «6. 2... Preparator HELENE MARY ROBINSON... . Secretary to the Director FRANCES MARY WILDER ... . Assistant Secretary to the Director ELIZABETH VINCENT GRUNDY .. Secretary to the Museum Staff VIOLET LORRAINE HAMILTON. Assistant in the Library DORMOTAN HOWES......... Assistant in the Library REGINALD ALDWORTH DALY . . Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology Mo OS BCS 6 ia ee ee a a, a | = oa BN 0 nr sth diawateaty As biti ‘vy "ily oven i Wiese sic tino | ck oll wind t a Ae sal Anan Mera, i \ 7 Os Soe rie te a Day en ee iy on 4c Laer ap oi On - vy ; ce ; UK! ‘ eeig 1 ‘ YB 4 2 4 %. .] 7 . oan 1K) 1) a: Waki ues puree Pt ja eta tae yi he fi at is , ee ee J ' N rn | ‘a Y vs jae © Ad é: J ce A hn 20ers bid H v) y y ee | Q 4 & i] , bal 2G i M: i Ce ( Py ‘4 “ if . s ° \ ‘ Cons st a aa Aye a ; y eee \ i f in \ 4 ot US ‘ i : f iylers 4 1% Ve f : = ~ Pil f- * ; rt we i ob id * * © = a ; 7 a ! i . j f eed § j . 1 i Di * 2 = f : 7} 2: a We teak ae t ch F } bad He hy a :) 1 ne A ae : ot = « j eh . i ‘ f \ ee a ie va Oa wae Fi Se ee ae t) ie NG Sa aN ier al i A eae oes wr , A ' f hy, eur d y Fem S i j ? rN eed vs { 4 4 iB ny} baie Wi a) a ay i ‘ iy } wo ; ek ora Wnt : | ‘be sabe was ie ee % : al | queen ly venti | seal “Mtacloe s meaet Op dee. ty un Hee NS ath iu | tent that nt a ee mee aay x erie ee ae he ak i, oi i ; ‘ REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 1932-1933 To THE PRESIDENT OF HARVARD COLLEGE: Sir:— My first thought in writing this report is of my utterly inade- quate power to express my appreciation of Mr. Lowell’s warm personal friendship during all the years of his presidency. If I may be allowed to reminisce for a moment, I recall that I have been a servant of the University for just twenty-five vears—all the years since taking my Master’s degree. Thus curiously my modest service has been exactly coincident with his uniquely brilliant term of office. Now I miss him every day. During the year the Museum has suffered two great losses. Outram Bangs died after a distinguished service of thirty-two years as Curator, first of Mammals and then of Birds. Bangs was a great naturalist and his qualities have been set forth both by Mr. Peters, his successor, and by me. But a few weeks ago John Eliot Thayer died, another of his name to be a great benefactor of the Museum and a member of its governing board for twenty-three years. His modesty prevented the wide recognition which his ornithological knowledge really merited but those who knew him recognized this and saw its ex- pression in the discrimination with which he gathered the splendid collections which he gave and bequeathed to the Museum. The gift of Audubon’s great painting of Black Game, originally in the possession of Lord Dalhousie, was mentioned in last year’s Annual Report. After the death of Outram Bangs, Thayer sent Audubon’s matchless painting of American Wild Turkeys to be hung on our walls as a memorial to his friend. Both these paintings have been suitably marked, the inscriptions having been drawn by C. Howard Walker, a master. The reports of the several curators bear witness to the extraor- dinary generosity of the Museum’s friends, for even during this § ANNUAL REPORT OF THE difficult year, when we anticipated but few accessions, our collec- tions have grown in a most astonishing way. The anonymous friends who made the Australian expedition possible not only have the warmest thanks from every one of us but must also have a deep feeling of gratitude for the devoted way in which the members of the Staff of the expedition utilized every hour in securing material which gives this institution, in several branches of the animal kingdom at least, collections more complete than may be found in any other museum in the world. I mean this literally but recall that the Museum, in some groups, already had extensive collections as a basis on which to build. The last member of the expedition’s personnel to return was Mr. Herbert Stevens, who came home but a few months ago after a long and arduous period of work in the mountains of northeastern New Guinea. He secured some good birds, a few very rare mammals and a lot of very valuable insects. Details regarding the Australian Expedi- tion, as well as other sources from which specimens have come during the year will be found in the special reports and in the appendix. | Mr. Nelson has continued to devote his time exclusively to mounting important vertebrate fossils. I have pointed out, in earlier reports, that in many cases at least, vertebrate fossils, on account of their importance as aids to teaching and their delicate and fragile nature, make public exhibition the best means of storing such specimens permanently. Even more than specimens in other groups they may suffer considerably from careless handling. Mr. Nelson has now had sufficient practice and experience to have developed great skill in giving a natural and graceful pose to creatures which are in themselves frequently most refractory and dificult to prepare and mount. The Museum’s first Dinosaur, the primitive Plateosaurus, which I secured some years ago in Germany, has been mounted to form perhaps the most striking single exhibit in the whole house and although Mr. Nelson accom- plished this tremendous task single-handed, a number of other ex- cellent specimens, prepared this year, add greatly to the interest of the Palaeontological exhibition halls. Doctor White, who has not only technical skill of a high order but a fine training derived during his years as a student under Professor Case of Ann Arbor, MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 9 has aided greatly in preparing for study some of our fossil reptiles of baffling affinity and imbedded in the most refractory matrix. Asis my custom I was absent from the Museum during February, March and April. Mr. Armour, with his famous yacht Utowana, gave Doctor David Fairchild, Mr. James Greenway of this Mu- seum and myself an opportunity to visit the southern Bahamas, as well as St. Andrews and Old Providence Islands in the southern Caribbean Sea. These places are extremely difficult to reach by any other means than with a yacht. Important collections were secured and the thanks of us all are offered again to Mr. Armour for having aided the Museum in this way. Since the Utowana visited Cristobal for over a week I was able to make my annual inspection and write the annual report of the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory as I have done every year since its foundation. From Cristobal the ship proceeded to Cienfuegos, via Grand Cay- man, and [I left her there for the usual visit to the Laboratory and Garden at Soledad. Lieutenant Colonel don Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan patriot, records in his diary that one autumn day in the year 1784 Doctor Waterhouse escorted him from Boston to Cambridge for a tour of the University. He mentions the College Library, which at that date contained 12,000 volumes, “‘not ill chosen’”’ but adds that “‘the natural history cabinet hardly merits the name, having only a few objects, arranged without any apparent order.”’ This is the earliest reference which I have found of impressions by a visitor to our first University Museum of Natural History. Mi- randa would be indeed surprised if he could return today. I have received a most welcome copy of the translation of his diary by Mr. Herbert Stabler of Caracas, the manuscript being in the Venezuelan State Archives. Mr. Griscom, who as usual has assisted me in matters financial and editorial, makes mention of the very unfortunate financial condition in which the Museum finds itself, owing to the fact that so large a proportion of its funds are restricted. In view of this fact the Corporation authorized a budget showing a deficit of $6000. Sufficient outside funds, however, were made available so that in spite of this authorization and with strict economy the year’s deficit was only $961. To be sure there were certain stocks 10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE of glass ware, chemicals and other supplies on hand when last year began. These are now all gone and the deficit next year will in- evitably be somewhat larger. Among those who contributed generously to Museum funds I wish to thank George R. Agassiz and Henry L. Shattuck. I want to thank especially the many young naturalists who as volunteers or but slightly paid have gone far to make the Museum the productive institution which it is. Respectfully submitted, Tuomas Barsour, Director. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 11 REPORT ON MARINE INVERTEBRATES By Huspert LyMAn CLarkK The opening of the year found the Curator on his way home from Australia, and en route he visited the museums at Colombo, Ceylon and at Madras and Calcutta, India. Since his return his attention and time have been given chiefly to the identification of - the extensive collections of Australian echinoderms which have been assembled at the Museum during the past four years. This preliminary work is now nearing completion and the preparation of the reports based on the collections will be the principal occu- pation of the coming year. Thanks to the provision by the University for student aid, it has been possible through the energetic assistance of Mr. T. L. Ireland to go over all of the alcoholic material in the basement, cleaning trays, jars and bottles and replenishing the alcohol. The invaluable service of Mrs. Karl M. Pattee has been continued one week in each month and as a result of her energy and skill, the collections of crinoids and ophiurans have been catalogued and arranged most satisfactorily and a good start has been made on the echini. The appearance and usefulness of the collections have been greatly enhanced by Mrs. Pattee’s work. Mr. Fenner A. Chace, Jr. has continued with the crustacea. Thanks to his knowledge of the group and of our collection, it has been possible to loan material or give important information in response to an unusually large number of inquiries. Such loans and information concerning echinoderms, worms and sponges, as well as crustacea, have been attended to for the American Museum of Natural History, the Charleston Museum, the United States National Museum, the Copenhagen Museum, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the Southern Methodist Uni- versity and several individuals. A small collection of echinoderms was identified for Dr. Chi Pink, Peiking, China. 12 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE The accessions of the year have been fairly numerous and varied but none of exceptional note has been received. For echinoderms, our thanks are particularly due to Mr. P. de Mesa, Calapan, Mindoro, P. I., but also to Messrs. B. E. Bardwell, W. J. Clench, U.S. Grant, Chi Ping and W. C. Schroeder. Crusta- cea have been received from the Harvard Australian Expedition, the Fan Memorial Institute at Peiping, the collecting vessels Albatross II, Atlantis and Chance, Mrs. J. E. Whitmore, Dr. H. B. Bigelow, Ray Carpenter and Elizabeth Deichmann, and Messrs. Amory Coolidge, Richard Dow, P. de Mesa, G.S. McIn- tire, W. C. Schroeder, R. E. Stadelmann and D. 8. Wees. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 13 REPORT ON OCEANOGRAPHY By Henry B. BIGELOW As in past years, the Oceanographic activities of the Museum were carried on chiefly in codperation with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the United States Bureau of Fisheries, and the International Ice Patrol. During the winter Miss Mary Sears continued her work on the Plankton collected on the continental shelf between Cape Cod and Chesapeake Bay, collected on the periodic cruises of the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross IJ. She has also completed the identification and counting of the Thor Siphonophores, received for study from the late Dr. Johannes Schmidt, and has begun the preparation of a report on the collection, especially the geographic and quantitative aspects. Mr. Iselin’s time during the year has been about equally divided between the Museum and Woods Hole. He has increased the material for his studies of the distribution of temperature and salinity on the North Atlantic by hydrographic sections run by the research ship Atlantis of the Woods Hole Oceanographic In- stitution, between Bermuda and Nassau and along five lines nor- mal to the coast between Florida and Cape Hatteras. His general report on the subject is well advanced. Lt. R. M. Hoyle, Ice Observation Officer of the International Ice Patrol, worked at the Museum during the winter, on his report on the Patrol season of 1932. Mr. John Colman continued his work on the genus Littorina. Mr. Benjamin Leavitt and Mr. Lionel Walford worked, respectively, on Bathypelagic animals collected at one Atlantis station off Woods Hole, and on the dis- tribution of the eggs and larvae of the Haddock in the region of Georges Bank. And Mr. W. C. Schroeder was able to give some time to continuing his studies of the migrations of the Cod. Professor Georges F. Préfontaine, of the University of Montreal, 14 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE spent three weeks in the Museum in December and January identifying shoal water invertebrates and fishes from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The affairs of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution con- tinue to absorb much of my own time. During the autumn, lec- tures were prepared for a new course in oceanic biology (Zodlogy 12), given jointly with Professors Macdonald and Redfield during the first Academic half year. And the first section of the account on the coast waters, Cape Cod to Chesapeake Bay, mentioned in last year’s report, is now ready for printing. In May I attended the meeting of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, in Paris, and paid short visits to various scientific institutions in England. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 15 REPORT ON ENTOMOLOGY By NatHAN BANKS In the amount of material received, the past year will surpass the preceding year; in all fully 125,000 specimens were added to the collection. In the autumn Mr. Darlington returned from Australia with more than 25,000 specimens (exclusive of ants). These, with the more than 15,000 specimens brought by Dr. Wheeler the previous spring, and the 10,000 ants will make a remarkable addi- tion of over 50,000 specimens gathered in one year from one of the most desirable localities. The richest parts of this collection are the ants and the beetles. Mr. Darlington has mounted many thou- sands of the Coleoptera but as yet not half; the comparatively few Lepidoptera are unmounted. Of the remaining Orders the Curator has mounted about 12,000 specimens; a large part of the ants have been mounted. Mr. H. Stevens, under the Harvard Australian Expedition, collected for a year in New Guinea. His entomological material represents about 13,000 specimens, of which 7,500 are Lepidoptera. After the death of Percy Gardner Bolster, a local collector, his widow presented his collection and entomological library to the Museum. It is largely Coleoptera, but with a con- siderable amount of Hymenoptera, especially bees; in all about 50,000. It is particularly rich in northern material, and has para- types of two species of bumble-bees. Mr. R. E. Stadelmann sent two lots from Honduras, over 6,000 specimens, about half of which are Orthoptera. Mr. J. B. Edwards also sent two lots from Honduras, mostly from the central part, in all 1,200 specimens. P. de Mesa sent about 2,500 insects from Mindoro, Philippine Islands, more than half of which are Lepidoptera. As a gift from Dr. Barbour came fully 3,000 insects collected by Mr. V. Jourian in northeastern Sumatra; a most desirable lot of material. 16 - ANNUAL REPORT OF THE To Dr. J. Bequaert, as usual, we are greatly indebted for various gifts; his collection of Tenthredinidae, of Bombyliidae, many Psammocharidae, and various Diptera, in all over 3,000 specimens, most of which are named. From the Allison Armour Utowana West Indian trip the past winter we received 1,000 insects, mostly collected by Mr. J. C. Greenway. Mr. Darlington presented over 2,000 insects collected on his vacation at Brownsville, Texas; nearly 600 Cuban Carabidae, about 200 Costa Rican Carabidae, 60 Neotropical Elateridae named by Mr. Quirsfeld, and seven types of a new genus of Carabidae. On the return trip from Aus- tralia he obtained some Coleoptera in Samoa and Hawaii. Be- sides his large collection of fossils, Mr. F. M. Carpenter brought back from his western trip over 1,000 recent insects. Messrs. M. Bates and G. Fairchild collected over 2,000 Lepidoptera in Cuba, many especially fine species; and Mr. Bates and B. B. Leavitt fully 4,000 insects and Arachnids. Many of these were obtained by a Berlese apparatus, and include small and very interesting forms; Miss Bryant, from this lot, has described several new and re- markable spiders. Mr. Bates also gave 1,000 Lepidoptera from Honduras, and also about 1,000, mostly Hemenoptera and Hemiptera, from Honduras and Florida. | The Curator collected about 1,000 insects in the White Moun- tains. The Curator has also added a large part of the Emerton collection of spiders, fully eight or ten thousand specimens, nearly all named, among them numerous paratypes of several hundred species. For many smaller collections we have to thank Mr. H. P. Loomis for a set of Cuban millipedes; Mr. A. Jacot for fifty slides of Oribatid mites, with some types; Mr. T. H. Hubbell for para- types of five species of Melanoplus; the Boston Society of Natural History for types of eight species of Whitney Tabanidae, and for 35 miscellaneous Coleoptera; Mr. E. L. Bell for paratypes of several Hesperidae; Dr. E. W. Berry for 41 fossil insects from the Miocene beds of Washington; Mr. P. W. Chase for 100 Peruvian butterflies; Mr. E. B. Williamson for ten species (several types) of Odonata; Prof. C. T. Brues for 50 Coleoptera; Dr. W. M. Wheeler for miscellaneous Coleoptera (including a Dinapate wrightt), also MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 17 some Mermithergates and other specimens for the myrmecophilous collection; Mr. W. J. Clench for some miscellaneous Coleoptera; Mr. G. Nelson for spiders from Florida; Mr. A. P. Morse for 100 East European Orthoptera including a few paratypes; Prof. R. Jeannel for several valuable Carabidae; Mr. C. H. Paige for several hundred Florida insects, half of them Odonata; Mrs. Doris Blake for paratypes of several Chrysomelidae; Mr. L. Franzen for a collection of Australian Myrmeleonidae (four new to our collec- tion); Mr. J. J. White for 200 moths from Honduras; and from the Museum of the University of Michigan 100 aquatic Coleoptera from Yucatan. From the estate of the late Roland Thaxter we have received so far several hundred Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. About 200 Corean Lepidoptera, and fully 600 Australian mis- cellaneous insects collected by W. Heron were purchased. By exchange we received from the Deutsches Entomologisches Institut a very serviceable collection of European Trypetidae; from W. J. Gertsch of the American Museum various spiders including paratypes of fourteen species; from M. Banniger and Dr. Stephan Breuning many exotic Carabidae; from R. A. Leussler various Hesperidae; from the National Museum, American Museum, and Philadelphia Academy paratypes of some Trypetidae, and some rare butterflies; and from the Illinois Natural History Survey some paratypes of Neuroptera. Newfoundland moths were identified for us by Mr. F. H. Ben- jamin; Mr. E. L. Bell named various lots of Hesperidae; Dr. Walther Horn named one lot of Cicindelidae, Mr. Gressirt spent two weeks arranging our Oriental Cerambycidae; Mr. E. D. Quirs- feld determined a further lot of Neotropical Elateridae; Prof. H. M. Harris named our native Nabidae; Prof. C. J. Drake our unnamed American Tingidae and Gerridae, describing two new species; Mr. M. E. Mosely of the British Museum our species of Leptonema, describing several as new. Several small loans have been named and cotiteda Mr. M. Hebard returned eleven of the Scudder types of Orthoptera, and Dr. J. Carl returned unnamed the East African Muriopoda. During the year we have had the benefit of students given em- ployment by the University. Four or five have helped and mostly in a very satisfactory manner. They have placed labels on fully 18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 100,000 specimens, spread several thousand butterflies, arranged cards, placed paracide in the boxes, pinned beetles, and examined parts of the alcoholic collection. The Curator has mounted and labeled practically all of the in- coming insects, except Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, mounted over 2,000 Coleoptera obtained in 1908 in Northern Mexico by F. H. Wickham (part of the Bowditch collection), marked over 1,000 types, written over 4,000 cards for the type catalogue, rearranged the U.S. Hemiptera, numbering the boxes and preparing a generic eard index; identified several hundred Neuroptera for the Kansas State College, also Neuroptera for Dr. Walther Horn. The large collection (over 4,000 specimens) of Philippine Psam- mocharidae which had been here for five years was identified, over 70 species described, and a synoptic report prepared together with a new classification of the family. Partly as a biproduct of this in- vestigation the Miscellaneous Nearctic Psammocharidae were identified, describing over twenty species, and a paper prepared on Singapore Psammocharidae. Supplementary Neuroptera from the Selangor Museum have been studied as well as several smaller lots. In incorporating the recent accessions of exotic insects an attempt was made to arrange the material by families as far as space would permit; the species of the larger families are now fairly well grouped, but still mostly unnamed. These satisfactory results have been possible only through the faithful assistance of willing helpers. At the beginning of the year Dr. P. J. Darlington was appointed Assistant Curator and has attended to the Coleoptera. Mr. Darlington has mounted many beetles, attended to the students helping on Coleoptera, rear- ranged many Carabidae, particularly the West Indian, Central American, and Australian, arranged in system many of the boxes, identified many beetles for the University of Texas, studied the Yucatan aquatic Coleoptera, attended to the comparison and cor- respondence in Coleoptera, and prepared several manuscripts. Miss Bryant has worked chiefly on Cuban Araneida, determining and describing numerous species for a report which is almost. finished. Mr. G. Fairchild has made progress in the arrangement of the Nearctic and Oriental Lepidoptera, and has also worked on the Tabanid collection identifying much material and adding EE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 19 some. Mr. M. Bates supervised the mounting of Lepidoptera, arranged the West Indian and Central American Rhopalocera, and the South American Papilionidae, he has worked on the Trypetidae, arranging the collection, describing various new species, and adding others, and he has devised a system to keep the papered duplicates in order. It is a great pleasure to recall that we have had many welcome visitors and they often have helped by naming or presenting speci- mens. Prof. C. R. Crosby, Prof. 5. C. Bishop, Miss H. Zorsch, Miss H. Hayden, Mr. W. J. Gertsch, Mr. Wilton Ivie, and Mr. W. H. Lawlor all came to study our collection of spiders; others were Mr. J. Brennan, Tabanidae; Mrs. D. Blake, Chrysomelidae; Prof. A. L. Melander, Empidae; Prof. R. H. Painter, Bombyliidae; Prof. F. M. Hull, Syrphidae; Dr. F. H. Benjamin, Trypetidae; Dr. H. Spieth, Ephemeridae; Dr. E. C. Van Dyke, Coleoptera; Dr. W. S. Creighton, Formicidae; Mr. A. Nicolay, Cicindelidae; Mr. E. L. Bell, Hesperidae; Mr. W. R. Sweadner, Samia; Prof. C. J. Drake, Hemiptera, and Mr. E. G. Linsley and J. L. Gressirt, Cerambycidae. Local visitors, including many visits from Mr. H. C. Fall of Tyngsboro, continued as usual. Many requests for notes on and comparison with types have been answered, and in some cases we have received paratypes for the service. The collections were inspected and paracide placed in all boxes in the autumn, and again partly in the spring. Many thousand pasteboard trays were purchased for the smaller Lepidoptera, and are gradually being installed. Although it is the policy to limit the series of a species in the main collections, the rapidly increasing size of these main collec- tions during the past two or three years, and the certainty that still other valuable collections will reach us necessitates a consider- able increase in our supply of standard boxes and cabinets, not only for the transfer of the Weeks Lepidoptera and the Johnson Diptera, but also for the arrangement of our exotic material. The progress that has been made continually emphasizes the huge size of our collections. Mr. Darlington, in arranging the Central American Carabidae found that we had fully half of the recorded species; in the Australian Carabidae nearly as large a proportion. 20 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Mr. Bates finds a still larger percentage in the West Indian Macrolepidoptera. Miss Bryant in studying the Cuban spiders more than doubled the number previously known from there and added fifty new species. Before the Curator studied the Baker col- lection of Philippine Psammocharidae we had a dozen unnamed specimens, now we have 130 species from these islands. The richness of our exotic material has been a surprise to many visitors. Outside of the Arachnida, Myriopoda and fossil insects, we now have catalogued the types of 16,200 species of insects, and there are fully 3,000 more (mostly in the Bowditch collection of Chry- somelidae). These enormously valuable collections should be housed in the best possible manner. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY od REPORT ON MAMMALS By Guover M. ALLEN The year just ended has been one of unusual importance for its accessions and accomplishments. Accessions. Not only have the additions to the collection been many, but a far larger per cent than usual has consisted of very de- sirable material in good condition. Most important of all is the beautiful collection made by Dr. Philip J. Darlington in Queens- land, comprising some 230 excellently prepared skins and skulls as well as alcoholics, which, with those previously brought in by the Harvard Australian Expedition in 1932 and the additional skins and a series of kangaroo skulls subsequently brought back by Mr. William E. Schevill, gives the study collection at last a really fine representation of many species of the Australian fauna. Supple- mentary to this is the collection made in New Guinea by Mr. Herbert Stevens, which though disappointingly small, gives us the first-series from that area received since Dr. Barbour’s visit there in 1906. Another important event is the receipt this spring as a gift from Mr. Charles Foster Batchelder, of his entire collection of mammals, numbering over two thousand specimens (2073), chiefly of New England species. This collection is of unusual value and interest, since in bringing it together over a long series of years, especial attention was given to securing records for rarer species at outlying points in their range or from localities where through rapidly changing conditions, they might soon be extirpated. There is, for example, a beautiful series of Bay Lynx from many localities in southern New England, as well as the type series of Sorex dispar from the Adirondacks. The representation of Mexican and Central American mammals has received a most important increment, first of all through the helpful interest of Mr. Frederic Winthrop, Jr., who undertook a 22 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE collecting trip to parts of northern Mexico in the autumn of 1932, at the same time arranging with the U. S. Biological Survey to allow Mr. Vernon Bailey to accompany him, in order to profit by the latter’s skill and experience. The result of the expedition was a beautiful series of skins, which by previous arrangement were shared by the Biological Survey and the Museo Nacional de Mexico, although the major part was most generously presented by Mr. Winthrop to this Museum. It includes a considerable number of species or races that we previously lacked and has the advantage of having been identified by the specialists at the Biological Survey, in comparison with the abundant material at Washington. In addition the Director secured for the department a collection of some three hundred specimens from Honduras and Costa Rica prepared by C. F. Underwood; a smaller collection made in Guerrero, Mexico, by W. W. Brown, Jr., including about eighty specimens, some of them topotypes of species unrepresented in our Museum; as well as collections made in Honduras by Mr. Ray- mond Stadelman, and in various localities, including Coiba Island, in Panama, obtained by Dr. C. Ray Carpenter and Dr. Robert K. Enders. In company with Mr. James C. Greenway, Dr. Barbour also brought back from the Bahama Islands. several of the Plana Keys Geocapromys, a pair of the Nassau raccoon and various species of bats; as well as two fine examples of the rare Jamaican Geocapromys given him by Mr. Frank Cundal of the Institute of Jamaica. ; A magnificent Giant Sable Antelope, the gift of Mr. Prentiss M. Gray, and mounted by James L. Clark Studios, is the finest speci- men in the African room. Mr. Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., paid for the preparation of the animal and to him our thanks are very real. Special mention should be made of the continued interest of Sefior Pedro de Mesa in sending several lots of Philippine bats and a fine skull of the tamarao or native dwarf buffalo.. To Dr. Gouverneur M. Phelps and his son, Mr. G. M. Phelps, Jr., we owe an excellent series of baboon skulls, illustrating various ages and both sexes, secured in Kenya Colony, as well as skulls of other East African mammals, large and small. Other gifts, many of them including specimens of special interest or rarety, have been generously pre- sented by those whose names follow, to all of whom grateful thanks MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 23 are extended: Mr. W. A. Chandler, a peculiar house mouse; Mr. Campbell Church, Jr., a Dall’s porpoise; Dr. E. Deichmann, a star- nosed mole; Dr. Douglas E. Derry, a sand fox; Dr. V. J. Fuchs, mammal bones from a neolithic site in Bohemia; Professor W. H. Gates, Louisiana bats; Donald R. Griffin, several New England mammals; Dr. Maynard 8S. Johnson, pine mice; Miss Barbara Lawrence, mammals collected by her in Wyoming; Alexander Lincoln, Jr., a rare shrew; Professor Warren K. Moorehead; Dr. Earl H. Morris, Indian dogs; James L. Peters; W. Schofield, skulls from Ceylon; W. E. Shedd, hippopotamus skull; Miss Carolyn Sheldon, Nova Scotia mammals; John D. Smith, a Proteles skin; Reverend Elwood Worcester, a Newfoundland wolf hide; Edward Yeomans, Jr., an Ochotona and a marmot from Colorado. Exchanges have been made with the American Museum of Natural History; Professor B. Aoki from Formosan mammals; the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural School, Copenhagen, for the skeleton of a reindeer; Museum of Zodlogy of the University of Michigan; and the Zodlogical Museum of the Academy of Sciences at Leningrad. The last-named sent an especially welcome lot, in- cluding a Baikal seal and a magnificent Giant Panda, long listed among our desiderata. This transaction was in part arranged for by Mr. Coolidge in the course of his visit to Russia two years ago. By purchase were secured several desirable specimens from Madagascar, Ceylon and western China, as well as a large series, chiefly skulls, of river hogs, antelope, leopards, and monkeys, in addition to four skeletons of gorillas from West Africa. Actwities: During the year something over 1,200 specimens have been accessioned. In this the department has been fortunate in having the full-time assistance of Miss Barbara Lawrence for eleven months. In addition to a large amount of cataloguing, she has also aided Mr. Coolidge in the final rearrangement of the tanned skins in their special storeroom, and has prepared and put in place type- written labels for each species so that these specimens are now easily to be found and already nearly fill the space laid out for them. During the year 144 hides have been tanned. The space available for skeletal material having become some- what cramped, a means for relieving the difficulty was found by removing to the first floor all the fossil mammals, to occupy space 24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE lately vacated through the removal of teaching equipment to the new laboratory building. This has made room for the expansion of the recent mammals, sufficient for some time to come. Already a good deal of respacing and shifting has been accomplished, for the time is now at hand when a general rearranging and re-labelling is needed. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Miss Elizabeth C. Allen for her skill in preparing a number of new tray labels. The cleaning, numbering, labelling and filing of large and small skulls is ever a problem, but through the work of the curators, and the skilful assistance of Miss Lawrence, as well as the occasional voluntary aid given by Mrs. Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., and Miss Elizabeth Hone, many hundreds of these have been prepared during the year. In addition, various larger skulls and skeletons have been expertly cleaned by Ward of Rochester. The amount of old material still on hand requiring attention is thus encourag- ingly small. During several months of the year we have had the part-time assistance of two students skilled in typewriting who have devoted their efforts to typing the manuscript card-catalogue of the collec- tion. This is now perhaps half done, but to bring the work quite up to date will be a much longer undertaking. Mr. Coolidge and Miss Lawrence have given considerable time and effort to the preparation and installation of new printed labels for the mammals on exhibition. These include name labels for in- dividual specimens and larger explanatory labels for groups or special types. This work has now been practically completed for the systematic room, the South American and Australian room. The soft blue color of the labels makes them stand out well, with- out being too conspicuous. A great improvement in housing the skulls of larger species is the method of storing them in tight pasteboard boxes with a label on the cover, as begun a year or so ago. Much progress has been made in extending this work. The tight boxes now in general use in other similar collections look neat, keep out dust, and afford vastly more protection than the former open trays. Thanks are due Miss Fern Ingraham for much voluntary aid given in prepar- ing typewritten labels for these. Research: In the time available for special investigations, Mr. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 25 Coolidge has prepared for publication a comparative study of the external characters and skeleton of the dwarf chimpanzee of which only a few specimens are known. He has also in preparation a systematic review of this genus. Miss Lawrence has completed a revision of the Central American howler monkeys based on the material available in the larger museums of North America with interesting results. 26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE BIRDS By James L. PEtTrers By the death of Outram Bangs on September 22, 1932, the Bird Department lost the devoted curator who had been intimately connected with the collection for over thirty years. The memory of his genial spirit will always pervade the “bird room.” The most noteworthy addition to the collection during the year has been the Batchelder Collection of North American birds numbering 7,494 skins, including several types. This collection has been placed in the Thayer room in its original cases. Under the terms of the deed of gift Mr. Batchelder retains control over its arrangement. In December Mr. W. A. Jeffries presented the col- lection of birds amounting to 1,224 skins made many years ago by his brother, the late Dr. J. A. Jeffries. The other accessions for the year amount to 3,447 skins bringing the total up to 12,165. Mr. Herbert Stevens, as a member of the Harvard Australian Expedition, collecting in the Morobé district of New Guinea, sent in a collection of 1,308 birds; this material has been assigned to Mr. Greenway for study and report. With the return of Messrs. Darlington and Schevill the ornithological work in Australia came to a close, 105 specimens in addition to those enumerated in last year’s report were received. During February and March, Mr. Greenway accompanied Dr. Barbour on the Tenth Allison Armour Expedition on the yacht Utowana, as guests of Mr. Armour. The expedition visited the southern Bahamas, Haiti, Jamaica, Old Providence and St. Andrews. Five species new to the collection were obtained including a new race of the Golden Warbler recently described by Mr. Greenway, who has also prepared an account of the more interesting observations made on the expedition. The last installment of birds collected by Dr. Joseph F. Rock in western Yunnan was received in August, this, mostly the larger species and including fine series of Lady Amherst and Blood Pheasants amounted to 112 specimens. A MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY QE selected lot of birds, numbering 435 skins collected in the highlands of Honduras by C. F. Underwood was purchased. A collection of 160 birds made in Angola by Paul Koester was purchased from Professor Oscar Neumann; the types of four new forms already described and three more that Professor Neumann has in manu- script were included. Dr. Barbour has enriched the collection to the extent of 4380 birds, the two largest items being a collection of 152 skins made in the mountains of north-central Honduras by Raymond Stadelman and 141 skins from Portuguese Guinea, the work of Heinrich Ulenhuth secured from Professor Neumann. The rest represent single specimens of rare and desirable species previously unrepre- sented in the Museum. Just before Mr. Amory Coolidge sailed for the western Pacific Ocean in his schooner the Blue Dolphin he generously offered to collect various objects of natural history for the Museum. Among the results were 25 birds from the Cocos Island received in the flesh and several skins from the Galapagos; two of the rare Coccyzus ferrugineus were received and three Haematopus p. galapagoensis. An expedition to northwestern Mexico sponsored by Mr. Frederick Winthrop and undertaken jointly with the Bureau of Biological Survey secured 61 bird skins as the Museum’s share of the ornithological material. A small collection of 55 skins from Spain was purchased and 50 skins from Korea and Quelpart Island were similarly acquired. 578 birds were received in exchange. Single specimens or small lots have been received from Professor Oakes Ames, Dr.O.L. Austin, Jr., Mr. Outram Bangs, Mr. Gerald Boardman, Mr. E. E. Farnham, Mr. J. C. Greenway, Jr., Mr. J. A. Griswold, Jr., Mr. F. H. Kennard, Mr. J. L. Peters, Dr. J. C. Phillips, Sr. G. S. Villalba and Mr. Fred C. Worcester. A set of the duplicates from the Guerrero collection mentioned in last year’s report has been forwarded to the Mexican Govern- ment, and the same was done with the Winthrop material. The surprisingly large total of 1,042 specimens has been sent out on loan; requests having been received from twenty-two museums or individuals from the United States, England, Germany and Sweden. 28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE The total number of birds entered on the card catalogue was 6,796. The collection now contains all but 49 of the genera recog- nized in Sharpe’s Handlist and of the 18,066 “species” listed by the same authority we have 12,021, or exactly two thirds. Assistance has been plentiful. In addition to the regular staff of the bird room, Mr. Greenway and Miss Porter and myself, Mr. J. A. Griswold, Jr., worked constantly as a volunteer from Sep- tember to June and was most helpful in many ways. Under the student employment system inaugurated by the College, one student worked 166 hours and another 460; their work was entirely clerical and enabled the department to bring all of its back cata- loguing up to date. Mr. Griscom has identified the collections made in Guerrero by Brown and in Honduras by Underwood and Stadelman and has both reports in manuscript. The manuscript of my checklist has been sent on to Brooklyn, where Mrs. Bowen, the former secretary to the department has typed it. The completed manuscript for the second volume was sent to the printer the middle of April, but press work had only just begun by August first and no proof was received prior to the period covered by this report. Work on the third volume is under way. An order for new cases was placed with the College Maintenance Department in July and their completion will allow a substantial program of expansion in some of the most seriously overcrowded groups. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 29 REPORT ON THE MOLLUSKS By WILuiaAM J. CLENCH The material obtained from field work and exchange has re- sulted in considerable growth of the collection. The Harvard- Australian Expedition added approximately 800 lots of mollusks from Australia and Lord Howe Island. Most of the material was collected in regions not heretofore represented in our series. The land shells obtained on Lord Howe Island were particularly valu- able, aiding substantially in studies now under way covering the western Pacific. Doctor Barbour, Doctor Fairchild and Mr. Greenway collected a very fine series of Mollusks in the Bahamas while guests of Mr. Allison V. Armour on his yacht, Utowana. Several species were new and a paper describing these new forms Is now in press. The exploration of several islands, not previously known con- chologically, has added much to our knowledge of the Bahaman fauna. Through the courtesy of Mr. Raynal C. Bolling of Greenwich, Connecticut, I made a collecting trip by motor-boat from Tampa to Miami, Florida. This cruise lasted a little over a month. Most of the time was devoted to collecting on the few “high islands”’ be- tween Cape Romano and the southwest point of Cape Sable. My efforts were mainly directed towards the securing of Liguus from this rather inaccessible region, a region that is only accessible by boat. Some attention was given to marine collecting as well and a few days were devoted to dredging off Sanibel Island. The able assistance of two students, I. Walzer and G. Wagner, aided the routine work of the department. Several chores of long standing were completed and much needed space was gained by the reconditioning of portions of the collection. Exchanges were carried on with institutions and individuals in many parts of the world. As in past years our thanks are due es- pecially to Sefior Pedro de Mesa for his continued interest in the Museum. A vast amount of Philippine material has been added to 30) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE our collections by his efforts, not only of mollusks, but mammals, crustaceans, and various groups of insects, especially Lepidoptera. To Doctor C. M. Cooke of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum we are indebted for a series of 227 species of Hawaiian landshells many from the type series and these species are nearly all new to the collection and are mainly those more recently described. To Messrs. Goodrich, Pilsbry and Powell we are indebted for large exchanges of shells obtained by recent expeditions. Mr. John Colman, a Commonwealth Fellow, began his studies on the Littorinidae, a family of Mollusks practically world wide in distribution. These studies will include the establishment of the family on a sound taxonomic basis, the geographical distribution of both species and subgenera and the biology of such species as are available for study during field expeditions. His time this year has been devoted to studying the species occurring in the West Indies and the Atlantic coastal region of North, Central and South America. . Dr. J. Bequaert and I have continued our studies of the African land and freshwater Mollusks. One paper was published in June and two are now in press covering these joint studies. In addition to our African studies we have worked together on the Mollusk fauna of Yucatan. Two papers have been published and a third is now in press relative to this region. We are indebted to Mr. C. Goodrich of the University of Michigan for the privilege of studying and reporting upon a very fine series of freshwater Mollusks recently collected in that State of Mexico. Dr. C. Blake is now spending some time in the department _ studying the land and fresh water Mollusks of New England and the marine forms of the east coast of North America. Thanks are due to Messrs. Gilbert Banks, Bequaert and Blake for much volunteer work in the department. Their efforts have been confined entirely to revising certain groups in the collection and much of the general improvement of the collection is due largely to their efforts. A résumé of the collection follows: Number of accessions for the year ....... 4662 Catalogued entries in the collection . ...... 70733 Number of species in the collection ....... 21684 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY ol REPORT OF THE RESEARCH CURATOR IN ZOOLOGY By LupLow Griscom Due to the continuance of the depression and the further cur- tailment of the University’s funds, a revised budget was called for in August, 1932, with the understanding that there were to be no salary cuts, but that every possible economy was to be practiced. The Museum’s situation was such that the salary scale plus the fixed maintenance and building charges plus a minimum allowance in the way of expenses for running the Museum and caring for the collections amounted to more unrestricted income than the Mu- seum had. It was accordingly impossible to present a balanced budget, and special permission was secured from the Corporation to incur a deficit of $6,000.00. As the result of unremitting vigilance over expenditures by the staff and much outside financial assistance the deficit actually in- curred was only about $960.00. This was not, however, due to errors in judgment as to the costs of operating the museum. In my last report I mentioned that the inevitable decrease in income for 1932-33 had been foreseen, and that economies had been initiated with the object of. having as much of a surplus as possible in those funds the balance of which could be carried forward into a new financial year. It was the existence of the balances in these funds which in some degree made possible the reduction of the Museum’s deficit. All Museum bills other than fixed charges, which could not be paid out of re- stricted funds, were paid out of these special balances, which do not appear in the budget, or were paid in still larger part by anonymous friends of the Institution. The situation at the close of the fiscal year is as follows. The de- partmental credit balance has been entirely eliminated. The dis- bursements under Special Fund B exceeded the reduced receipts by over a thousand dollars. The disbursements under Special Publication Receipts were approximately equal to the year’s 32 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE receipts from the sale of our publications. It will be apparent therefore that the Museum’s deficit for the year beginning July 1, 1933 will inevitably be far greater than the year just ended, be- cause (1) the Museum’s unrestricted income is still further reduced and (2) the balances in the three special funds listed above will be substantially less than before. It should now be clear that the problem of the Museum’s finan- cial operation can be summarized concisely. (a) The Museum’s restricted funds take care of various special purposes and have no bearing on the deficit. (b) The unrestricted income of the Museum is now less than the salary scale plus the fixed charges involved in keeping the building open and running. (c) The expenses of main- taining the collections and library must be defrayed from the balances of the two special funds plus whatever is added in the way of gifts to one and receipts from the sale of publications to the other. The amount of these additions is quite unpredictable eighteen months in advance, when the deficit must be estimated. The deficit actually incurred, however, will be the difference be- tween the Museum’s unrestricted income and the salary and building charges, plus whatever discrepancy there may prove to exist between the costs of maintaining the collections and library and the amounts which prove to be available in the two special funds. The Museum published about the normal number of Bulletin articles, and in addition a handsomely illustrated Memoir on Albatross dinoflagellates. Many of the Bulletin articles printed were a long series of reports on the collections made by Mr. Loveridge on his African expedition the preceding year. It will be recalled that this expedition was made possible by grants from the Carnegie Corporation in New York and the Carnegie Institute of Washington. A glance at these reports should demonstrate what excellent use Mr. Loveridge made of his opportunities. The final numbers are now in press. The depression still further postponed the publication of Woodworth’s Geology of Cape Cod, but a grant last spring from the Geological Society of America should insure its appearance during the coming year. My research work was primarily the determination of Under- wood’s and Stadelman’s collections of birds from Honduras, and MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY oo the preparation of a report on the fine collection made by Brown in the mountains of Guerrero. In addition to these activities I began the rewriting of the systematic part of my report on the birds of Nicaragua for the American Museum of Natural History, originally completed twelve years ago, and now out of date and badly needing revision. This work is about one-third finished. During the summer and early fall Mr. Weatherby and I completed our report on the spring flora of South Carolina, as well as two shorter systematic papers which were by-products of that study. Early in the fall I was asked by the Linnean Society of New York to prepare a memoir on the birds of Dutchess County, New York, a detailed faunal study based on the records collected by my friend, the late M.S. Crosby and by him bequeathed to me. This book was completed by January 1. It will be issued by the Society as a special quarto memorial volume to Mr. Crosby and is now in press. My local field work was even more active than usual. The fall migration of 1932 was without precedent for the abundance and variety of bird-life which streamed south through eastern Massa- chusetts, and the May migration of 1933 was almost equally re- markable. I spent three weeks in early spring in northwestern Florida observing birds and collecting plants and another fruitful botanical week the end of June in the mountains of Virginia and West Virginia with Mr. Francis W. Hunnewell. 34 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS By A. LOvVERIDGE - Now that the collection is satisfactorily housed and arranged, more time has been available for routine identification of the steady stream of material which continues to arrive. Mr. Ben- jamin Shreve has handled the determination of all unidentified New World material received. In addition to these studies, he has rendered valuable help in unpacking and checking collections and loan material, both inward and outgoing. A student aid performed the considerable task of going over the whole snake collection to replenish with alcohol the losses by evaporation. By taking the groups in rotation in this manner, no group goes for more than three years without attention. Another major undertaking was the attaching of tags to 5,300 specimens catalogued during the year. He also repainted a certain number of cabinets which were badly in need of such treatment. In addition to entering the 5,300 accessions in the catalogues and writing their labels, the entries have all been transferred to the card-indices. The past year shows a further increase of species— 127 in all—this figure would have been larger but for the extensive synonymising of older material resulting from the studies of those ~ using the collection. The arrival of the final consignment of material resulting from the Harvard Australian Expedition, enabled me to critically ex- amine and report upon all the Australian amphibia in the museum. The latter possesses 77 of the 88 species or races recognizable; 1 genus and 7 species were described as new. A companion report on the Museum’s collections of Australian reptilia is almost com- pleted. In all 971 reptiles and amphibians from the Australian Expedition were catalogued during the current year. An even larger item, involving 2,038 entries, was a portion (the snakes have yet to come) of the Major Chapman Grant collection from Porto Rico and adjacent islands. This collection, rich in types, was presented by a friend of the institution. From the same MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 30 donor were received 322 items collected by W. W. Brown in Chil- pancingo, Mexico, among them several choice things including examples of an undescribed Leptotyphlops of unparalleled size and the Spencer and Felton collections from Ecuador, another made by Dr. Franz Werner in the Cyclades and 276 items from varlous sources. Exchanges were arranged with twenty institutions, or individuals, and resulted in 515 additions; a slight falling off as compared with the previous year. Thirty-two loans of specimens have been made during the year. This material was borrowed by workers at the Albany Museum, American Museum of Natural History, British Museum, Michigan University Museum of Zodlogy, National Museum; Dr. E. R. Dunn, Mr. L. M. Klauber and others. : Owing to the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists being held at the Museum in May, the number of visitors making use of the collection is too extensive to enumerate. Of outstanding importance must be reckoned the lengthy visits of Dr. and Mrs. E. R. Dunn and C. H. Pope. The former worked over the whole of the Panama- Costa Rica-Nicaragua material, eliminating synonyms and mis- identifications, and revising the taxonomy. The same was done for our Chinese reptiles and amphibians by Mr. Pope and the collec- tions greatly benefitted. The alterations to labels, card-indices, etc., occasioned by these studies occupied fully a month of my time. Other workers who have made considerable use of the col- lections are: Dr. H. L. Babcock (turtles); Mr. H. Hechenbleikner (chameleons); Mr. C. C. Liu (amphibia), and Mr. Clinton V. MacCoy (scelopori). | A census of the collection follows: Gain Gain Genera Species Genera Species Rhynchocephalia . . 1 1 0 0 Pracodilia® * 85. 40% 8 23 0 1 SC ct i 61 201 0 1 acer 3 as kd 278 2,020 0 63 WO GING pa ess 300 1,415 0 2 PIA, sk ws 217 1,487 0 60 Peebaler ta oditetia. ti, 865 5,147 0 127 36 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY By P. E. Raymonp Since the removal of Zoélogy to the Biological Institute, Palaeon- tology has come into possession of the entire ground floor of the Museum, an arrangement of great advantage for both teaching and research. For the first time in twenty years there is adequate and convenient storage space for the collections, even some room for further expansion. Five rooms are devoted to the inverte- brates, one to the fossil mammals, and another is available for fishes, amphibians and reptiles as soon as cases can be procured. The chief work of the year has been directed toward a reorgani- zation of the collections. The rearrangement of the arthropods, which had been started in previous years, was completed. The trilobites now occupy 560 drawers, other crustaceans 140, and the arachnids 40. The stratigraphic collection, which because of transfer of material, numerous accessions, and lack of space for storage, had become disorganized, was thoroughly overhauled. Much material which had only temporary value, or was poorly preserved, or was accompanied by inadequate data, was dis- carded. Only by this means was it possible to obtain space for the rearrangement. This collection now contains 100 drawers of Cenozoic and more recent fossils, 124 drawers of material from the Mesozoic, and 1,180 from the Paleozoic. Mr. Forbes Hutchins spent a considerable amount of time on the corals, rearranging the material in about half of the cases. Mr. W. E. Schevill, in addition to his other duties, has begun work on the cephalopods. He has succeeded in identifying many of the types, but much remains to be done, for it is an exceedingly time-consuming task, involving much consultation of the litera- ture, and search through the collections. Three collections received during the year deserve special men- tion. The fossils, collected by Mr. Schevill in the course of his trip through northern and central Australia are all new to our ae MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY ot Museum. When combined with material from Tasmania and New Zealand already in our possession, they afford a fairly adequate representation of the extinct invertebrates known from that part of the world. The second lot is that collection by Dr. Arthur B. Cleaves and Professor Marland P. Billings from the Silurian and Lower De- vonians in the vicinity of Littleton, New Hampshire. Although fossils have long been known from the metamorphosed strata of that area, this is the first adequate representation of the two faunas. The third collection is that made by Dr. Frank M. Carpenter from the Lower Permian at Elmo, Kansas. He has doubled the number of specimens contained in his earlier collection from the same locality and since the material was obtained from a previ- ously unworked layer, has added many novelties. A grant from the Milton Fund enabled Dr. Carpenter to spend three months in the field, during which time he made collections in Oklahoma and Colorado, as well as Kansas. Since his return he has sorted the insects, and described the representatives of eight of the orders. The resultant manuscript is now in press. He has finished labeling the types of fossil insects in the Scudder collection, a task under- taken last year, and made considerable progress on a catalogue of types of fossil insects in the whole collection. Although not yet completed, the list now includes about three thousand specimens. The following invertebrate fossils have been received during the year: By donation: Mr. F. Chapman of Melbourne, a small lot of in- vertebrates, chiefly from the Silurian of Victoria; Dr. L. Keith Ward of Adelaide, specimens of Archaeocyathinae and Miocene coquinte; Mr. E. Skipper of Richmond, Queensland, a very good specimen of Tropaeum; Mr. D. Gilder of Mt. Isa, Queensland, several Mid Cambrian trilobites; Mr. R. Eather of Hughenden, Queensland, Cretaceous invertebrates; Mr. A. J. Shearsby of Vass, New South Wales, Silurian corals. Dr. A. B. Cleaves, a large col- lection of Ordovician, Silurian, and Devonian fossils from the New Bloomfield district in Pennsylvania. The Palaeontological Institute of Oslo, through Dr. Leif Stoermer, several specimens of Tretaspis; Dr. Hoyt Rodney Gale of Denver, a small collection of Mid Cambrian fossils from Idaho; Dr. Josiah Bridge, casts of 38 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Roemer’s types of Pterocephalus sanctisabae; Dr. John W. Wells of Homer, New York, three specimens of Thysanopeltis; Mr. Ernest E. Halvorsen of Coalinga, California, three bags of Tertiary fossils; Dr. Thomas Barbour, a Lucina from St. Andrews Island, Colombia; Dr. A. B. Klotts, a new species of Palaeocbrysa from Florissant; Dr. A. E. Emerson, Carboniferous insects from Penn- sylvania; Professor T. D. A. Cockerell, numerous Tertiary insects. By collection: William E. Schevill, Harvard Australian Ex- pedition of 1931-32; a large collection, including Lower Cambrian Archaeocyathinae from South Australia; a few fossils from the Cambrian and Ordovicians of the Northern Territory; numerous Mid Cambrian trilobites from northwest Queensland; Silurian fossils from near Vass, New South Wales; Carboniferous from New South Wales and Queensland; and a large series, including some excellent crinoids and ammonities from the Cretaceous of interior Queensland. P. E. Raymond and F. M. Hutchins; one box of Cambrian and Silurian fossils from Levis and Lake Temiscouata, Quebec. Bi By exchange: a further installment of fossils, chiefly Mollusca, from the Boston Society of Natural History. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 39 REPORT ON VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY By H. C. Stetson The past year was a profitable one for this department. The Harvard Australian Expedition through the labors of Mr. W. E. Schevill brought back a great many fossils. Three specimens are of outstanding interest, first a beautiful skull of a Portheus from the Cretaceous of Queensland, second, a large skull of Euo- wenia, a Pleistocene marsupial, and third, a large plesiosaur from the Cretaceous of Queensland, with an estimated length of 40 feet. This specimen has scarcely been touched as yet, for the task of preparation will be so great it was thought best to prepare other more readily available material first. Other material collected by Mr. Schevill is as follows: from the Pleistocene, chiefly extinct marsupials, including Palorchestes and other large macropods, Diprotodon and Nototherium; from the Cretaceous, a few species of fish, chiefly teleosts, and some reptile material (ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs). By exchange with Dr. E. S. Hills of Melbourne we received some ostracoderm and lungfish material from the Devonian of Victoria. We also received as a donation from the Australian Museum, Sydney, a series of Pleistocene marsupial teeth, which supplement specimens given by the Queensland Mu- seum at Brisbane. The Australian Museum also presented a fine series of Jurassic ganoids from New South Wales. We also wish to acknowledge donations from the following gentlemen: Messrs. Joseph Wright and W. Charles of Hughenden, Queensland, and Mr. E. Skipper of Richmond, Queensland. Mr. George Nelson produced the outstanding contribution of the year, from the point of view of exhibition, by completing the mount of Plateosaurus. This was done in time for the Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America held this year in Cambridge, and received much favorable comment with regard to its posture and workmanship. He succeeded, also, in making a fine exhibition specimen of an Australian ichthyodectid. "This skull AO ANNUAL REPORT OF THE was completely encased in a hard limestone concretion, and re- quired many days of very delicate chipping to free it from the matrix. In addition he mounted the Merycoidodon collected by Mr. Tilton and two Niobrara fishes. These specimens, perfect heads of Portheus and Gillicus, are great additions to the exhibition rooms. There is also a good specimen of Anogmius, which is in preparation. They are all gifts of a friend of the Museum. The department was very fortunate in securing the services of Dr. T. E. White, who spent the winter in cleaning up some of our difficult and long deferred problems. First he overhauled a col- lection of Sternberg’s from the Texas Permian, in storage since 1882, and succeeded in extracting a good skull of Captorhinus and four incomplete skulls and jaws of Seymouria, together with other parts of the skeleton. These skulls supplement each other to such an extent that they constitute what is probably the best study material of this animal in any one collection. Dr. White has found many new morphological details and is at present preparing the material for publication. Secondly, the skull of the lost type of Plesiosaurus longirostris, acquired from Tufts College two years ago was found to be in bad shape. There were many misfits and considerable ill considered restoration, probably the work of a dealer. The skull was completely disassociated and a new mount begun. Thirdly, the skull of Euowenia, although fairly complete was badly crushed and shattered and required a large amount of labor to preserve it. Lastly, the Scott and Osborn plesiotype of Teleoceras fossiger was pieced together and placed on exhibition, the two species of Dolichorhinus acquired with the Earl Douglass collection were mounted and a skull of a large Diploclonus collected by Erich Schlaikjer, was prepared and placed on exhibition. The two expeditions of 1932 to Wyoming and Nebraska con- ducted by Erich Schlaikjer and Charles Tilton had a successful season. Mr. Schlaikjer had the good fortune to find a perfect skull and jaws of a new species of Apternodus, as well as a complete skull of Nanotragulus, in addition to much study material from Goshen Hole and the Harvard quarry at Torrington, Wyoming. Mr. Tilton found an associated skeleton of Merycoidodon culbert- sont which, was placed on exhibition as well as the skull of a new species of Miocene pocket mouse. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 4] The exhibit of horses is growing rapidly and with the addition of the hind feet of Merychippus, Hipparion and Plesippus, as well as a skull of Hipparion, the evolutionary series is nearing comple- tion. We also placed on exhibition a skull of Poebrotherium and a Miocene oreodont mounted by Charles Lang. Several improvements of routine nature were also carried out. The fossil mammals were removed from among the recent ones and reassembled in a separate room on the ground floor. The study collections of fossil fishes, badly overcrowded, were reclassified and relabeled, and the fish and reptiles of the Eser collection were sorted out and distributed. The reptiles from the Jurassic of Wurtemberg on exhibition, were found to be crumbling with “‘pyrite disease.” They were all taken from the wall, carefully cleaned and sized and to date the treatment appears to have been effective. With Professor P. E. Raymond the writer made a short trip to the Silurian of Perry Island, Pennsylvania and secured several specimens of Palaeaspis. These together with others donated by Dr. A. B. Cleaves, give us a very respectable collection of these American ostracoderms. The writer’s investigations throughout the year have been largely stratigraphic in nature, dealing with the transportation and distribution of marine sediments. This work is being carried on with aid from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 42 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON HELMINTHS By J. H. SANDGROUND The successful collection of helminths requires experience and has not as vet attracted a large following. Yet when one considers that nearly all species of vertebrates harbor their own special parasites and for some hosts (for example, man, the horse, etc.) the number of species of helminths peculiar to them mounts into the hundreds, the scope of the field and the possibilities of un- covering new forms is enormous. The curator is optimistic enough to hope that he will at least succeed in interesting fishermen and hunters in furthering the subject. To this end a brief pamphlet outlining the procedure to be adopted in collecting worms has been prepared and is available for distribution to anvone who may be interested. The helminthological collection has made some encouraging gains. Our catalogue shows that nearly 450 species of nematodes, over 150 cestodes, and almost 100 species of parasites that are classified under other heads have been identified and accessioned. Much of our trematode and cestode material collected by Mr. Loveridge and myself in Africa was recently worked up with very gratifying results by Dr. J. G. Baer of the University of Neu- chatel, an authority on some of the more difficult groups. During the past year the curator has collected among other things bovine and equine species of Onchocerea which have been so hard to pro- cure that their morphology was very incompletely known. These parasites assume a special importance because of their close re- lationship with the so-called “blinding filaria’”’ of man in the high- lands of Guatemala and Mexico. Now that we know that material is so readily available around Boston it would be highly desirable to start an investigation of their life histories. During the year the collection has been materially enriched by exchanges and gifts from the following gentlemen to whom our MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 43 appreciation is due: Dr. P. D. Harwood, Vanderbilt University , Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. I. P. Vigueras, Havana, Cuba; Prof. R. Hoeppli, Peking Union Medical School, Peking, China; Prof. L. K. Bo6hm, Tierarztliche Hochschule, Vienna; and Mr. Laurence Kilham of Boston. 44 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON FISHES By N. BoropiIn A catalogue with cards typed was mostly completed in 1932. It contains at the present time 1126 cards placed in two cases for reference. During the revision of certain genera it sometimes hap- pens that we find one or more types not labeled as such, but men- tioned in the literature as located in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. It seems now that no considerable addition to the cata- logue of types already found can be hoped for. This catalogue of tvpes has been in constant use already by visiting naturalists and is much appreciated. In the six volumes of inventory catalogues many entries of num- bers remained without the names of fishes having been written in. It has taken a considerable time to insert the names, so that these catalogues are in better shape, but having in view that a consider- able number of fish in the Museum still bear only the metallic tags of numbers and have never been identified, there are still many entry numbers without names. Little by little as the groups of un- identified fishes are identified, the names will be inserted. Just recently was completed the identification of a hundred fishes left aside many years ago. Cleaning bottles and relabeling with names of fishes was con- tinued, but there still remains much to be done. The curator during one month of vacation at Woods Hole and one week in December in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, made experiments on the anabiosis of fishes. This was a continua- tion of special work started in 1931-32 at Woods Hole Oceano- graphic Institution. The results of the experiments were reported in a public lecture at the Biological Institute of Harvard Univer- sity in the month of December and in two papers read at the meet- ings of the American Fisheries Society and of the Society of Ichthy- ologists and Herpetologists. A summary is published in the Trans- actions of the American Fishery Society for 1932. The complete report will be published in the Zodlogische Jahrbiicher. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 45 A considerable collection of fishes collected by W. K. Vanderbilt in his world cruise of 1931-32 was worked on and identified by the curator. Sixty duplicates (including one paratype) of fishes from this collection have been generously presented by Mr. Vanderbilt to the Museum. The whole collection consisted of 491 specimens, mostly from Indo-Australian Archipelago. The list is published in the Bulletin of the Vanderbilt Marine Museum, Vol. 1, Article 3, 1932. Another small collection of Australian fishes, mostly fresh- water ones, was delivered by the Harvard Australian Expedition of 1931-32. Though small (40 specimens) the collection included three very good specimens of Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri (Krefft), two of which, three and six years old, have been reared in an aquarium by Dr. T. L. Bancroft and presented to our Museum. The lungfishes of this age and size are a rarity, and can be found in few museums outside of Australia. There were ten genera not represented in our Museum, and their identification took more time than was expected. The only specimen of marine fish in this collection happened to be a new species, Congrogadus spinifer. Other accessions were: From Mr. O’Malley, U. S. Com- missioner of Fish and Fisheries, 15 specimens of Alaska Blackfish; 1 from W. Schroeder; 1 from Dr. Marini (paratype of a skate) in exchange; 11 Philippine fishes from P. de Mesa; 1 from Mr. F. K. Barbour; 1 from Mr. Greenway; 1 from Mr. Stadelman; 2 from N. A. Borodin; 9 from Galapagos Island from Mr. A. Coolidge. The loan of a large number (112) of flatfishes was made this year to Dr. Norman of the British Museum, who is preparing a mono- graph on this group of fishes, richly represented in our Museum. Small loans repeatedly have been made to Mr. Nichols of the American Museum of Natural History, to Dr. Hubbs of the Zodlogi- cal Museum, University of Michigan, to Mr. Tee-Van, and to some others. Dr. H. B. Bigelow introduced into the department Mr. C. M. Seashore, a graduate student of the University of Minnesota, who wished to get a practical knowledge of ichthyological work. The needed instruction was given him and he had an opportunity dur- ing the months of April and May to make identifications of Silu- roid fishes (fam. Amiuridae). Several persons visited the department, namely, Dr. V. Vladykov of 46 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE the Canadian Biological Board, Toronto University; Dr. Thomas L. Marini from Buenos Aires, Fellow of J. S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, who studied specimens of Rays and Skates; Mr. Y. T. Chu from China, who examined some types of Chinese fishes; Dr. A. E. Parr, who studied types of Chiasmodontidae and Stomia- tidae; Mr. J. T. Nichols, Dr. C. Hubbs, and Dr. G. Myers made some studies of our collections during their stay in Cambridge while at the meeting of the Society of American Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in May, 1933. Lt. Col. W. P. C. Tenison of the British Museum of Natural History visited the Museum at the request of Dr. Norman, for the special purpose of drawing the type specimens of flatfishes. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 47 REPORT ON BIRDS’ EGGS AND NESTS By WInTHROP S. BRooKS Work on the collection during the past year has been confined largely to labelling in order to add to the convenience of finding material with a minimum of handling and chance of breakage. A few desired items, notably Harris’s Sparrow, Stilt Sandpiper, - and Hudsonian Curlew were acquired through purchase. Mr. F. H. Kennard generously donated a considerable number of North American species; some of them greatly desired additions to our series. Mr. A. C. Bent has, as usual, been a great help in answering all manner of questions pertaining to North American birds. For some time an interesting correspondence has been carried on with Major W. M. Congreve of North Wales, a well-known collec- tor in Great Britain. He has kindly given us some beautifully pre- pared, personally taken, specimens from England. Although these specimens are a generous gift to an institution appreciating them, it has been a pleasure to give Major Congreve a few specimens that he can use in a private collection that must be extraordinarily near perfection. 48 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REPORT ON THE FOSSIL ECHINODERMS By Rosert T. JACKSON The curator spent much time in continuing the work of revising the Mesozoic and Tertiary Echini. This work was especially on the regular Echini, the clypeastroids and holectypoids, with some work on the spatangoids. In this collection there is a very large number of casts from the Neuchatel Museum, executed under the direction of L. Agassiz and E. Desor and received with the Louis Agassiz collection in 1859. These casts are very largely of types, or figured specimens, the originals being in various European mu- seums, or private collections. Each cast bears a number, or letter and number, incised, and these are recorded in various publica- tions, as L. Agassiz, Catalogus Ectyporum Echinodermatum, 1840; Agassiz and Desor Catalogue Raissoné, 1846-47; Desor Synopsis des Echinides Fossiles, 1858; and recently in Lambert and Jean- net’s, comprehensive paper Catalogue des Montes d’Echinides fossiles du Musée Neuchatel, 1928. This series of casts from the Agassiz collection is therefore of much historic interest, and while of course not as useful for study as actual specimens, yet they give the appearance and many of the characters of the original speci- mens which here, at least, are not available. Sets of these casts were sentfrom Neuchatel to various European museums and private collectors as recorded by Lambert and Jeannet, but this is ap- parently the only set in America. There was received from the Boston Society of Natural History, as an addition to the large series received from that institution in 1918, a fine set of crinoids and echini, including some types and the originals of figured or described specimens. A few cretaceous echini, from Texas, collected by J. B. Litsey, were received from the curator. ee oe MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AQ REPORT ON COELENTERATES By E. DEICHMANN The re-arrangement of the collections of stony corals has been brought to an end, and the collections are placed in the order which has been adopted by T. W. Vaughan. A great part of the collec- tions have been identified and catalogued; older identifications have been verified and names brought up to date. I spent two weeks during the autumn in Washington, D. C., working in the United States National Museum. During the sum- mer months I was in California, as acting instructor in Zodlogy at Hopkins Marine Station. During this period I was able to collect marine invertebrates in the tidepools, and with the aid of the station to make dredgings in the Bay of Monterey, and also to visit the stations at La Jolla and Corona del Mar, both to collect, and to study the collections of Californian Aleyonarians in the museums in San Diego and Los Angeles. The Museum has received as gifts the following objects: A number of stony corals from the Honorable W. Cameron Forbes, from the Philippines; some from the same region from Mr. P. de Mesa. Mr. Wm. Schroeder, Cambridge, and Dr. G. de Pré- fontaine, Quebec, have sent some seapens from various localities in the Atlantic Ocean. A number of large medusae was collected by the assistant curator during her visit to Solomons Island, Md., last summer. A selected set of stony corals has been presented to the University of Richmond, Va., on the occasion of the opening of the new Science Hall. The collections of Medusae, Siphonophres, Hydroids and Cteno- phores have been entirely rearranged, to allow for future expan- sion, and these groups have been combined with the other Coelen- terates in a single card catalogue. The collection of Plankton samples has also been transferred to the basement. There has as usual been close codperation with the division of Invertebrates in the United States National Museum. Several 50 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Alcyonarions have been identified for the latter institution which also has sent their entire collection of Californian Aleyonarians to the Museum of Comparative Zoology to be worked up. The greater part of the collections of Hydrocorals has been lent to Dr. W. K. Fisher, Hopkins Marine Station, to be used in connec- tion with his revision of the Pacific forms of that group. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY dl REPORT ON THE LIBRARY By EvEeaAnor S. PETERS The expanding of space for the library and the consequent mov- ing of books seems to have been accomplished for the present and the past year has been devoted chiefly to the more usual routine work. The entomological section of the library, moved last year, has been slightly re-arranged and entirely shelf-listed and the stacks labeled. This work was done under the librarian’s super- vision by one of the student workers assigned to the Museum by the College, who spent some two hundred hours on the work. Without this help the work could have been done only bit by bit as the regular staff could find time, and could not have been finished for some months. The one hundred pamphlet boxes purchased two years ago are now nearly all in use and it was therefore necessary to move the pamphlet collection, in these boxes, to the new stack-room where there is ample space for it. We deposited in the Geographical Institute 215 more volumes of “travel books” and also gave the Institute a collection of odd numbers of Nature and of Science, received with the Garman library and too incomplete to be saleable, to cut up for clippings. Mrs. Perey Gardner Bolster gave the Museum a small but very useful collection of entomological books belonging to her late husband. As many of these were duplicates of some of our serials and standard works on general entomology, Hymenoptera, or Coleoptera, we were very glad of the opportunity to keep them for second copies and deposit them in the Entomological Department on the fourth floor. From Mr. Frederic H. Kennard we received an edition of Pan- nant’s “British Zodlogy” which we did not have, an interesting collection of papers by John Bachmann, and several odd numbers of old natural history journals which helped toward the completion of some of our files. We substituted a finely bound set of ‘“‘Genet- On bo ANNUAL REPORT OF THE es,’ given to us by Dr. John C. Phillips, for our unbound set, and added to the library the English “Journal of Genetics” and several biological textbooks also from him. Dr. Herbert Friedmann of Washington gave us Heuglin’s “Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika’s”’ which we have wanted for some time. ‘The Saga of Fridtjof Nansen,” by John Sorensen, which was a gift from Dr. Alfred Red- field, has been in constant demand. As a bequest of Andrew J. Weeks we received several French and Spanish serials on general sciences and one or two on entomology. We are grateful to all of these friends for their gifts, and no less to Dr. Barbour and the other members of the Museum staff who regularly or occasionally give us serials, books, or reprints. Were these gifts from the staff listed separately we would find they constitute a goodly percentage of the year’s accessions. The College Library continues to send us much valuable material, as usual. A valuable piece of work has been done by Professors Wheeler and Barbour, who have edited the six holographic manuscripts by Lamarck which are the property of the Museum library. In a volume of some two hundred pages, published by the Harvard University Press, are given first the originals of the manuscripts, followed by translations of each, with a portrait of Lamarck, and plates showing his handwriting and reproductions of a few of his drawings. A copy of the book is in the library. Owing to the reduced income from library funds we have been obliged to cancel some of our subscriptions to scientific journals, and have purchased almost no textbooks this year. We have checked over our subscription list to make sure that we are not paying for journals which are available at neighboring libraries, or which are seldom needed here. Many of the serials in our library are complete sets which have been published for many decades or even for a century, and it is to be hoped we will not have to dis- continue our subscriptions to such publications as these. By far the most expensive of our serials are the German ones needed by the Department of Biology; practically none of these can be ob- tained by exchange for our Museum Bulletins and Memoirs but must be purchased outright. As was the case last year, we have this year been able to bind only a small number of volumes of serials, 323 in all, but have MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Do bound those which get the hardest use and hope within a year or two to catch up on some of our other unbound publications. There is a steady increase in the use of the library from year to year, with the resulting increase in circulation and reference work, particularly with the students. Total circulation for the year is 7,050, of which museum workers borrowed 1,866 volumes and students and teachers 5,078. Inter-library loans amounted to 106. Some 150 volumes were on reserve at one time during the reading periods. We added to the library 1,138 volumes and 3,263 pamphlets during the year, making our total onAugust 1, 1933, 73,899 volumes and 90,067 pamphlets, or 163,966 titles in all. 54 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE APPENDIX REPORT ON THE SECOND PART OF THE HARVARD AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION 1931-1932 By W. E. ScHEVILL On Tuesday, December 29, 1931, Dr. W. M. Wheeler and Dr. G. M. Allen sailed for home in the Ventura, leaving the following members of the expedition in Sydney: Dr. P. J. Darlington, Jr., Dr. Ira M. Dixson, Mr. Ralph Ellis, and W. E. Schevill. During the next few weeks Dr. Darlington was largely occupied in collecting mammals and birds as well as insects at several localities in the Blue Mountains and in the vicinity of Sydney. He spent most of February in the New England district of New South Wales, partly in the country near Barrington Tops and partly in the Dorrigo. He was particularly successful among the mammals of this region. The collections made during our three months in Western Australia had been very considerably delayed in transit from Perth, and a great deal of time was lost in getting them assembled in Sydney. There were also delays in obtaining the export permits from the Customs. However, I was able to make three brief col- lecting trips during this interval, with the kind cooperation of Dr. Charles Anderson, Mr. W. S. Dun, and Mr. H. O. Fletcher. In early February Mr. Ellis left the expedition; about this time Dr. Dixson also left us, his continued services being no longer practicable, since Dr. Darlington and I planned to collect in rather widely separated regions. About the middle of February, our western collections finally having been sent off, I went on to Brisbane, where Mr. Heber A. Longman, Director of the Queensland Museum, was most friendly and of great assistance, with Under Secretary R. Wilson of the Department of Agriculture and Stock, in getting us the necessary collecting permits for this State. After a fortnight in the Darling MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 5d Downs and Bunya Mountains, where I benefited greatly from the hospitality and helpfulness of Mr. Thomas Jack of Dalby, I joined Dr. Darlington in Brisbane early in March. He enjoyed the companionship of Mr. Henry Hacker while collecting in the McPherson Ranges near the New South Wales border. Dr. Darlington then proceeded to Townsville, where he was granted the facilities of the Health Laboratory while investigating some of the termites. In the meantime I had gone to Mundubbera on the Burnett River, where, with the generous assistance of Messrs. Ernest Widdup, Daniel Callaghan, and others, I collected a small series of fish, including Neoceratodus. From Townsville Dr. Darlington and I went to Cairns and the Atherton Tableland; while I worked briefly only at Lake Barrine, and also along the Bellenden Ker Range, he collected over a con- siderable part of the plateau, as far as Herberton and Ravenshoe. At Millaa-Millaa he was particularly successful, obtaining, among other things, a small series of the tree-climbing kangaroo. While we were in this part of Queensland, we were greatly helped by a number of people, including Mr. Arthur Moran of Cairns, Mr. George Curry of Lake Barrine, and Mr. William Kerns of Cucania. Early in May Dr. Darlington sailed from Cairns to Port Stewart by way of Cooktown. He then travelled inland by motor truck to Coen, which he made his headquarters for the next two months. His work here took him as far out as Rocky Scrub in the MclIlwraith Ranges, travelling with horses and one black boy. His greatest successes were in certain orders of insects and in the mammals, of which he collected about one hundred thirty specimens representing some thirty species. By the middle of July Dr. Darlington was once more in the neighborhood of Cairns. With Mr. George Curry he made an excursion to the northward, as far as Mt. Spurgeon. In August, he returned to Brisbane and Sydney, and after packing and ship- ping his collections, sailed for home in the Monterey on August 27, 1932. Dr. Darlington’s resourceful skill and industry had brought together, from New South Wales and Queensland, not only a large collection of insects, but also over three hundred fifty mammals, representing over sixty species, as well as about fifty species of 56 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE birds; in addition he had about two hundred fifty reptiles and amphibians. After leaving Cairns about the middle of April, I returned to Townsville. From here I made a fortnight’s side trip to Collins- ville and, via Mt. Coolon, to the Sellheim River; the small collec- tion included a large fossil skull, apparently of Euowenia, from the Sellheim. The experiences of this excursion made it clear that a motor car would be indispensable in working the country to the westward, and a light Ford truck was accordingly purchased in Townsville. The Premier of Queensland, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Crowther of the Government Railways in Townsville, very kindly arranged that the expedition pay half rates on freight shipments of specimens. Shortly thereafter, in Hughenden, Major G. W. de Teliga presented himself, and was subsequently taken on as mammal and bird collector, for, once in the fossil fields, 1 found I had very little time left over for the Recent fauna. Major de Teliga collected with me between Hughenden and Alice Springs, and was an unfailingly diligent and tireless worker, unsparing of his own comfort and persevering even under the most discouraging circumstances. We worked a few weeks in the Hughenden district, where we were particularly aided by Mr. W. Charles and Mr. Joseph Wright, as well as by several others. By the middle of June we had gone on to Richmond, in which neighborhood we were occupied for over six weeks. Among the finds here was a fairly complete skeleton of a large plesiosaur, evidently Kronosaurus. Because of the drought, an attempt to obtain some examples of the river crocodile, C. john- sont, led us about two hundred miles further down the Flinders River than we had expected. Major de Teliga’s skill and marks- manship got us the desired specimens, mostly from the lower Saxby River within about a hundred miles of Normanton. We then travelled up the Cloncurry River to Cloncurry, and thence along the railway to its terminus at Mt. Isa. A few days were de- voted to the Cambrian trilobites of the Templeton River a few miles to the west, and we then proceeded via Yelvertoft to Camoo- weal, near the Queensland-Northern Territory border. Leaving Camooweal late in August, we continued westward into the Territory, and struck the Overland Telegraph at Phillips MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 57 Creek, some twenty miles north of Tennants Creek Telegraph Station. From here we followed south along the wire, occasionally prospecting off to the east or west. Towards the end of September we reached Alice Springs, where Mr. David D. Smith, Common- wealth Works Engineer, welcomed us and treated us with great consideration. We stayed for a short while at Hermannsburg Mission, where we enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. H. Hein- rich, and then proceeded to the south, instructions to return home having come from the Museum. After a brief pause in the northern Flinders Ranges in South Australia, we arrived in Adelaide in mid-October. Here Mr. H. M. Hale, the Director, extended the facilities of the South Australian Museum for such storage and packing as we required. From Adelaide I went on through Melbourne and Canberra to Herveys Range in east-central New South Wales, and soon after to Sydney. What time remained before sailing was occupied in submitting the collections for inspection in Brisbane and Sydney, and in getting them ready for shipment. Fossils constituted the bulk of the material, but there were also some reptiles, and a few mammals, birds, and fish. I sailed from Sydney on November 19, 1932, in the Mariposa. Weare particularly indebted to the Australian Museum, Sydney, in the person of Director Charles Anderson, and also Messrs. J. Roy Kinghorn, E. LeG. Troughton, H. O. Fletcher, Henry Grant, and others of the staff; here we were allowed to store our equipment and collections, and were afforded all sorts of kindly assistance. Similar favors were accorded us by the museums of the other States in which we operated: at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, by Director Heber A. Longman and Mr. T. C. Marshall; at the Western Australian Museum, Perth, by Director L. Glauert; at the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, by Director H. M. Hale, Mr. H. H. Finlayson, and the late Mr. A. M. Lea. We would like also to record our gratitude to the following, and to many others, for their friendly assistance to the expedition: Professor G. E. Nicholls, Mr. James MacCallum Smith, Mr. L. J. Newman, and Col. E. A. LeSouef of Perth, Mr. A. G. Paterson of Wiluna, Dr. L. Keith Ward of Adelaide, Messrs. D. J. Mahony, John Clark, E. 8. Hills, F. Chapman, Charles Barrett, R. E. Wilson, G. A. 58 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Gahan, and E. Harding of Melbourne, Sir T. W. Edgeworth David and Messrs. W. 8. Dun, H. J. Carter, F. H. Taylor, W. W. Frog- gatt, and G. A. Waterhouse of Sydney, Dr. F. W. Whitehouse, Mr. L. C. Ball, and Professor W. H. Bryan of Brisbane, Dr. T. L. Bancroft of Wallaville, and Drs. W. G. Woolnough, R. J. Tillyard, J. H. L. Cumpston, A. L. Tonnoir, Sir Colin Mackenzie, and Dr. H. A. Nicholson of Canberra. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 59 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1932-1933 (1 Aueust, 1932—31 Juty, 1933) Museum oF CoMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Publications.—The following articles have been printed during the year. BULLETIN : — Vol. LXXIV No. 3. On Certain Similarities Between Sloths and Slow Lemurs. By Wil- liam L. Straus, Jr., and George B. Wislocki. 11 pp. September, 1932. No. 4. Fossil Types of Fishes, Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds in the Museum of Comparative Zoélogy. By W. E. Schevill. 46 pp. December, 1932. No. 5. Birds from Northwest Yunnan. By James C. Greenway, Jr: 59 pp. February, 1933. No. 6. New and Little Known Spiders from the United States. By Eliza- beth B. Bryant. 22 pp., 4 pls. June, 1933. Vol. LXXV No. 1. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. I. Introduction and Zoégeog- raphy. By Arthur Loveridge. 43 pp., 3 pls. January, 1933. No. 2. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. II. Mammals. By Glover M. Allen and Arthur Loveridge. 93 pp., 1 pl. February, 1933. No. 3. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. III. Birds. By Outram Bangs and Arthur Loveridge. 104 pp., 1 pl. February, 1933. No. 4. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. IV. Oligochaeta. By J. Stephenson, D.Sc., F.R.S. 22 pp. June, 1933. No. 5. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. V. Crabs. By Mary J. Rathbun. 9 pp., 7 pls. June, 1933. MeEmorrs.— Vol. LIV No. 1. The Dinoflagellata: The Family Heterodiniidae of the Peridiniodae. By Charles Atwood Kofoid and Alastair Martin Adamson. 136 pp., 22 pls. 1933s: 60 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Publications by the Museum Staff ALLEN, G. M. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. II. Mammals. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., 75, no. 2, pp. 45-140, 1 pl. February, 1933. (With A. Loveridge.) Geographic Variation in the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus). Canad. Field-Nat., 47, no. 2, pp. 31-32. February, 1933. Two New Bats from Australia. Journ. Mamm., 14, no. 2, pp. 149- 151. May, 1933. Banos, O. Birds of Western China obtained by the Kelley-Roosevelts Expedi- tion. Freld Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zoél. Ser., 18, no. 11, pp. 343- 319. 1982, New or Little Known Birds from Costa Rica. Proc. New Engl. Zoél. Club, 18, pp. 47-53. November 7, 1932. (With L. Griscom.) Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. III. Birds. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., 75, no. 3, pp. Eerie, 1 pl. February, 1933. (With A. Toners) Banks, N. Concerning the Genus Notiobiella (Neuroptera, Hemerobiidae)- Psyche, 39, no. 4, pp. 103-106. December, 1932. New Psammocharidae from the United States. Psyche, 40, no. 1, pp. 1-19. March, 1933. Barpour, T. | A Peculiar Roosting Habit of Bats. Quart. Rev. Biol., 7, no. 3, pp. 307-312. September, 1932. Review of Hendrik Willem Van Loon’s Geography. Atlantic Monthly, 150, no. 4, p. 10. October, 1932. Outram Bangs. Privately printed Harvard Univ. Press. p. 4. October 12, 1932. Concerning Ateles grisescens. Journ. Mamm., 13, no. 4, pp. 267-368. November, 1932. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 61 Wild Beasts Today by Harold J. Shepstone. A Review. Science, 76, no. 1978, pp. 490-491. November 25, 1982. Barro Colorado Island (English, Portuguese, Spanish). Bull. Pan Amer. Union, 67, no. 1, pp. 43-45. January, 1933. A Large Alligator Skull. Copeia, no. 1, p. 32. April 3, 1933. The Lamarck Manuscripts at Harvard. Harvard Univ. Press. 1933 (With W. M. Wheeler.) Check List North American Reptiles and Amphibians, Third Edi- tion. Harvard Univ. Press. May, 1933. (With L. Stejneger.) Notes on Scolecosaurus. Copeia, no. 2, pp. 74-77. July 20, 1933. BEQUAERT, J. C. On the Ornate Nymphs of the Tick Genus Ambloyomma. Zevtschr. f. Parasitenk., 4, no. 4, pp. 776-783. 1932. Aculeata (Vespidae). Genre Ropalidia (Resultats Scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises de L. L. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique). Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Belgique, Hors. Serie, 4, no. 5, pp. 47-51. 1932. The Nemestrinidae in the V. v. Roder Collection. Zoédlog. Anzeiger., 100, pp. 13-33. 1932. A New Subspecies of Trichophthalma from Western Australia. Pan-Pacific Ent., 8, no. 4, pp. 163-166. 1932. Description of a New North American Species of Lasia. Amer. Mus. Nov., 617, pp. 2. 1933. Three New Species of Polybia Observed by Mr. Phil Rau in Panama. In Phil Rau, Jungle Bees and Wasps of Barro, Colorado, pp. 309-318. 1933. The Nesting Habits of Paranysson, an African Genus of Fossorial Wasps. Ent. News, 44, no. 2, pp. 36-39. February, 1933. Contribution to the Entomology of Yucatan. In G. C. Shattuck, The Peninsula of Yucatan. Carnegie Publ., no. 431, pp. 547-574. 1933. Botanical Notes from Yucatan. In G. C. Shattuck, The Peninsula of Yucatan. Carnegie Publ., no. 431, pp. 505-525. 1933. The Non-marine Mollusks of Yucatan. In G. C. Shattuck, The Peninsula of Yucatan. Carnegie Publ., no. 431, pp. 525-545, 68 pls. 1933. (With W. J. Clench.) 62 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Notes on the Tabanidae Described by the late C. P. Whitney. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8, pp. 81-88. July, 1933. Entomological Expedition to Abyssinia 1926-7. Hymenoptera III. Vesyidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (10), 12, no. 67, pp. 112-118. July, 1933. A Propos du Karite au Congo Belge. Bull. Cercle Bot. Congolais, 1,, MOws,p. (S, 1932, Studies of African Land and Fresh-water Mollusks. III. A New Ampullariid Snail from the Lower Belgian Congo. Rev. Zodl. Bot. Afric., 23, no. 2, pp. 71-73, 5 pls. 1933. (With W. J. Clench.) Boropin, N. A. Scientific Results of the Yacht “Alva”? World Cruise, July, 1931, to March, 1932, in Command of William K. Vanderbilt. Fishes. 1, Art. 3, pp. 65-101, 2 pls. 1933. Summary of Experiments on the ‘“Anabiosis’ of Fishes made in 1931-32 at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. Trans. Am. Fisheries Soc., 62, pp. 340-341. 1932. BrugEs, C. T. Charles Willison Johnson, 1863-1932 (Obituary). Entom. News, 44, no. 5, pp. 113-116, 1 pl. May, 1933. The Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Baltic Amber, Part 1. Bernstein Forschungen, 3, pp. 4-178, 13 pls. 1933. BRYANT, ELIZABETH New and Little Known Spiders from the United States. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zo6l., 74, no. 6, pp. 169-193, 4 pls. 1933. CARPENTER, F. M. Jurassic Insects from Solenhofen in the Carnegie Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. Ann. Carnegie Mus., 21, no. 3, pp: 97-129. 19382. . Note on Haplodictyus incertus Navas. Psyche, 39, no. 4, pp. 144. December, 1932. Additional Notes on Nearctic Meocoptera. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 27, no. 3, pp. 149-151. 1932. A New Boreus from British Columbia. Canad. Ent., 65, no. 4, pp. 94-95. April, 1933. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 63 Trichoptera from the Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Psyche, 40, no. 1, pp. 32-47. 19383. CuaRrK, H. L. The Ancestry of the Echini. Science, 76, no. 1982, pp. 591-593. December, 1932. A Handbook of the Littoral Echinoderms of Porto Rico and the other West Indian Islands. Sci. Survey Porto Rico and Virgin Isl., N. Y. Acad. Sci., 16, no. 1, pp. 1-147, 7 pls. 1933. Marine Collecting in Australia. Harvard Alumni Bull., 35, no. 32, pp. 901-906. June 2, 1933. CiENcH, W. J. Land Shells Collected in Southwestern North Carolina. Nautilus, 46, no. 2, pp. 58. October, 1932. (With G. Banks.) Diplomorptia cori (Pease). Nautilus, 46, no. 2, pp. 68-69, 2 pls. October, 1932. Some New Land Mollusks from Borneo and the Philippines. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8, pp. 37-42, 4 pls. November, 1932. (With A. F. Archer.) Two New Land Shells from the Southern Appalachians, Nautilus, 46, no. 3, pp. 86-91, 7 pls. January, 1933. (With A. F. Archer.) A New Liguus from Florida. Nautilus, 46, no. 3, pp. 91-92, 7 pls. Land Mollusks from the Islands of Mindoro and Lubang, Philip- pines. Mich. Acad. Sci. Arts and Letters, 17, pp. 535-552, 57-58 pls. March, 1933. (With A. F. Archer.) Studies of African Land and Fresh-water Mollusks: II. A New Ampullariid Snail from the Lower Belgian Congo. Revue de Zoblogie et de Botanique Africaines, 43, no. 2, pp. 71-73, 5 pls. June, 1933. (With J. Bequaert.) Non-marine Mollusks of Yucatan. The Peninsula of Yucatan: Medical, Biological, Meteorological and Sociological Studies by G. C. Shattuck. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Publ., no. 431, pp. 525-545, 68 pls. June, 1933. (With J. Bequaert.) A New Fossil Cepolis from Cuba. Nautilus, 47, no. 1, pp. 21-22, 3 pls. July, 1933. (With C. G. Aguayo.) ‘wo New Land Snails from the Bismark Archipelago. Nautilus, 47, no. 1, pp. 23-24, 3 pls. July, 1933. 64 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Cootuper; Hi Ji,wR: Activities of the American Committee for International Wild Life Protection during the past Year. Journ. Mamm., 18, no. 4, pp. 388-390. September, 1932. Notes on a Visit to Natural History Museums in the Old World. Museum News, 10, no. 12, pp. 6-7. December 1, 1932. Symmetrical Supernumerary Mammae in a Chimpanzee. Journ. Mamm., 14, no. 1, pp. 66-67, 1 pl. February, 1933. Three Kingdoms of Indo China. T. Y. Crowell Co., 8 vo., 331 pp., illus. March, 1983. (With T. Roosevelt.) Notes on a Family of Breeding Gibbons. Human Biol., 5, no. 2, pp. 288-295, text-figs. May, 1933. Report of the American Committee for International Wild Life Pro- tection. Boone and Crockett Club, pp. 49-53. June, 1933. GREENWAY, J. C., JR. Birds from Northwest Yunnan. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., 74, no. 5, pp. 109-168. 1933. A Name for the Golden Warbler of Old Providence Island. Proce. New Engl. Zoél. Club, 13, pp. bis. 63-64. April 26, 1933. Griscom, L. 3 New or Little Known Birds from Costa Rica. Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 13, pp. 47-53. November 7, 1932. (With O. Bangs.) New Birds from Honduras and Mexico. Proc. New Engl. Zodl. Club, 13, pp. 55-62. November 7, 1932. Notes on Essex County Birds in the Jeffries Collection. Bull. Essex Co. Orn. Club, no. 14, pp. 4-9. December, 1932. Notes on the Collecting Trip of M. Abbott Frazar in Sonora and Chihuahua from William Brewster. Auk, 50, no. 1, pp. 54-58. January, 1933. Southern New Hampshire, a Neglected Botanical Field. Bull. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., no. 67, pp. 3-7. April, 1933. Notes on the Havemeyer Collection of Central American Birds. Auk, 50, no. 3, pp. 297-808. July, 1933. IsELIN, C. O. The Development of Our Conception of the Gulf Stream System. 14th Annual Meeting. Trans. Amer. Geophys., pp. 226-231. 1933. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 65 LAWRENCE, BARBARA A New Pocket Gopher of the Genus Orthogeomys. Proc. New Engl. Zoél. Club, 13, pp. 65-57. May 8, 1933. LovERIDGE, A. A New Worm Snake of the Genus Leptotyphlops from Guerrero, Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 45, pp. 151-152. September 9, 1932. Eight New Toads of the Genus Bufo from East and Central Africa. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8, pp. 43-54. December 30, 1932. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. I. Introduction and Zoégeography. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 75, no. 1, pp. 1-48, 3 pls. January, 1933. Four New Crinine Frogs from Australia. Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8, pp. 55-60. February 3, 1933. Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. II]. Mammals. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 75, no. 2, pp. 45-140, 1 pl. February, 1933. (With G. M. Allen.) Reports on the Scientific Results of an Expedition to the South- western Highlands of Tanganyika Territory. III. Birds. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoél., 75, no. 3, pp. 143-221, 1 pl. February, 1933. (With O. Bangs.) On Bachia intermedia Noble and Bachia barbourt Burt. Copeia, no. 1, p. 42. April 3, 1933. New Agamid Lizards of the Genera Amphibolurus and Physignathus from Australia. Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 13, pp. 69-72. June 28, 1933. Peters, J. L. Outram Bangs. Science, 76, no. 1972, pp. 337-339. October 14, 1932. Two New Genera and a New Subspecies of Rails. Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 13, pp. 63-67. December 19, 1932. Outram Bangs, 1863-1932. Auk, 50, no. 3, pp. 265-274, 1. pl. July, 1933. 66 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE PHILLIPS, J. C. Are the Bighorns Increasing. American Game, 21, pp. 46, 50. 1932. William Herbert Palmer. Journals of Last Year, 1918-1929. With Personal Recollections by John C. Phillips. Topsfield (privately printed), 171 pp. 1933. Raymonp, P. E. Outlines of Historical Geology by C. Schuchert. Amer. Journ. Sci., Ser 5, 21, pp. 544-545. June, 1931. (Omitted previously.) Memorial Tribute to Johan Kiaer. Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., 44, no. 3, pp. 415-419. April 30, 1933. SANDGROUND, J. Certain Helminthic and Protozoan Parasites of Man and Animals in Yucatan. In G. C. Shattuck, The Peninsula of Yucatan. Carnegie Publ., no. 431, pp. 228-248, Two New Helminths from Rhinoceros sondaicus. Journ. Parasitol., 19, no. 3, pp. 192-204. March, 1933. Report on the Nematode Parasites Collected by the Kelley-Roose- velt Expedition to Indo-China with Descriptions of Several New Species. Part 1, Parasites of Birds. Part 2, Parasites of Mam- mals. Zeitschr. Parasitenk., 5, no. 3, 4, pp. 542-584, 33 figs. May, 1933. Descriptions of Two New Parasitic Nematodes from a West African “Hairy Frog’ (Ranidae). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (10), 13, no. 67, pp. 29-33. July, 1933. ScHEVILL, W. E. Fossil Types of Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles and Birds in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., 74, no. 4, pp. 57-105. December, 1932. Stetson, H. C. Scientific Results of the ‘Nautilus’? Expedition, 1931. Part V, The Bottom Deposits. Papers in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology, published by Mass. Inst. of Tech. and Woods Hole Oceanogr. Inst., Vol. II, no. 3, pp. 17-37. June, 1933. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 67 WHEELER, W. M. Ants of the Marquesas Islands. Bull. Bernice P. Bishop Mus., Bull. 98, pp. 155-163. 1932. A New Leptanilla from Australia. ai 39, no. 3, pp. 53-58, 1 fig. September, 1932. How the Primitive Ants of Australia Start their Colonies. Science, 76, no. 1980, pp. 532-533. December 9, 1932. Colony-founding Among Ants, with an Account of Some Primitive Australian Species. Harvard Univ. Press. 1933. The Lamarck Manuscripts at Harvard. Harvard Univ. Press. 1933. (With T. Barbour.) Mermis Parasitism in Some Australian and Tee Ants. Psyche, 40, no. 1, pp. 20-32. March, 1933. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 21, no. 6, pp. 57-64. March 22, 1933. 68 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM In THE HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF HARVARD COLLEGE Gray. Fmd: (859): oc bee na ea ee $55,000.00 Permanent, Fund (1859) ps. 3. co ochee- @ Ao Wee ail 129,216.27 Stureis Hooper Fund (1865)... 2) as) = woe 119,233.60 Humboldt Fund (L869)e oo fs a 12,357.33 Agassiz Memorial Fund (1875)... 2' 2 # >) RE Bee 327,726.41 Teachers.and Pupils Fund (1875) si > ‘eve0)). See 8,353.41 Virginia Barret Gibbs Fume, (0892) >. 50) ke atecee ee eee 10,105.58 Willard Peele Hunnewell Memorial Fund (1901) ...... 7,592.26 Mana Whitney Hund (2907) 5 . .)2. .-., 4) ee 9,707.57 Alexander Agassiz Fund (1010) -". .. . 3. ae. 2 111,678.56 Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund (1910). ........ 123,291.59 George Russell Agassiz Fund (1911). ......2.2.4... 55,000.00 George Russell Agassiz Fund Special (1912) ........ 55,000.00 Maria Whitney and James Lyman Whitney Fund (1912) .. 2,066.97 Louis Cabot{Fundt@oray ©>.4. “oe SS. eee 7,116.62 Harvard Endowment Fund (1917) .°. 0.) 2). 95S 1,100.00 William and Adelaide Barbour Fund (1923) ........ 28,600.40 William Brewster Fumd, (1924) 2: . (0. 2) 4)..0 eee 68,849.09 Anonymous No. 7. Fund (1924). 2. 2 335 Galas 61,294.82 Alexander Agassiz Fellowship in Oceanography Fund . . . . 29,433.42 $1,222,723.90 The payments on account of the Museum are made by the Bursar of Har- vard University, on vouchers approved by the Director or by his delegated authority. The accounts are annually examined by a committee of the Over- seers. 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) is to be applied for the benefit of one or more students of Natural History for special work, out of course, in the Museum. 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 An- atomy in Harvard University, ‘in supporting or assisting to support one or more students who may have shown decided talents in Zodlogy and preferably in the direction of Marine Zodélogy.” MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 69 The income of the Whitney Fund 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 Zodélogy * * * 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 the Alexander Agassiz Fellowship in Oceanography Fund is awarded each year by the Faculty of the Museum to some person, or persons, working at the Museum in the field of Oceanography. 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. Applications for facilities to work either at the Harvard Biological Labora- tory and Botanic Garden at Soledad, Cuba, or at the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory in the Panama Canal Zone may be addressed to the Director. A limited number of Fellowships are available for workers at Soledad. Details concerning the concessions allowed to workers in the Canal Zone may be had upon application to the Director. This laboratory is administered by the Executive Committee of the Institute for Research in Tropical America. Harvard is one of several institutions supporting the institution and the Director of the Museum at present is Chairman of the Committee. Applications for the tables reserved for advanced students at the Woods Hole Station, of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, should be made to the Faculty of the Museum before the first of May. 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