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J . 7 : v . ~ 7 - A ‘ : . f » - ' . 7 : oY > - ; 7 ’ * v ' « bal » @ = ee 7 : _ - - : * - . : - Py - a! ‘ - = é ' - 7 : ; : | “ - 7 : 7 . . . - - - ' a ms : - 7 = - : + ’ . 7 ; ; 0 ‘ - ‘ ‘ g . f rs - 1 . 7 : 7 » . 3 : - = fy ‘4 : a ; | ie é * r i => A cANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE TO THE PROVOST OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY FOR UG bol CAMBRIDGE PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY DECEMBER 1, 1951 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE ee BULLETIN (octavo) 1863— The current volume is Vol. 106. BREVIORA 1952 — No. 2 is current. MEMOIRS (quarto) 1864—1938— Publication was terminated with Vol. 55. JOHNSONIA (quarto) 1941—A publication of the Department of Mollusks. Vol. 2, no. 30 is current. OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOLLUSKS (octavo) 945 ~~ Vol. 1, no. 16 is current. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB (octavo) 1899-1948 — Published in connection with the Museum. Pub- lication terminated with Vol. 24. These publications issued at irregular intervals in numbers which may be purchased separately. Prices and lists may be obtained on application to the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge 38, Massa- chusetts. Museum of Comparative Zoology To THE Provost OF THE UNIVERSITY: Sir, — On February 5, 1951, in the 89th year of his age, died George Russell Agassiz —son of Alexander Agassiz, grandson of Louis Agassiz, third of the Agassiz name to be closely associated with our Museum. Mr. Agassiz was not a worker in the scientific areas cultivated by the Museum; his personal interests lay, in fact, in the field of astronomy. He was, however, devoted to the memory of his father and after the death of Alexander Agassiz in 1910 took an increasingly active interest in the Museum to which the latter had given so great a measure of his life and fortune. Throughout this period of four decades he was a con- stant donor (often anonymously) to the Museum. His financial aid has been of the greatest help to us in the recent difficult years of inflation. He leaves us, at his death, in greatly improved financial condition. The income, now available, from the George R. Agassiz Memorial Fund relieves us of the burden of an annual deficit which the University has carried over a period of years. The additional gift of a half share of his residual estate will, I hope, enable us to improve the Museum’s condition in the coming years, despite the threat of continued inflation. Mr. Agassiz’ interest in the Museum, however, was far more than that of a passive donor. He took an active part in its affairs, became a member of its governing body, the Faculty, in 1923 and even in the failing health of his last years was a constant and welcome visitor to the Museum and a faithful attendant at its Faculty meetings. He was ever desirous that the high standards of achievement set for the Museum by his father be maintained. My ideals were similar. I have valued most highly the support he consequently and consistently gave me in my efforts to advance the work of the Museum, and only regret that I did not know him in his younger and more vigorous years. |) Stag Dr. Bequaert, although an authority of international reputation in various phases of entomology and in the study of land mollusks as well, has been for years so heavily occupied by curatorial routine that his re- search work has been seriously impeded. This situation has been re- solved by his appointment, as of July 1, 1951, to an Alexander Agassiz Professorship, so that the rest of his scientific career may be devoted to 2 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY his many research projects. Dr. Darlington has provisionally accepted the responsibility for the curatorship of entomology. Dr. William L. Brown, Jr., a recent graduate in entomology in the Department of Biology and currently engaged in research in Australia, will become Assistant Curator of Insects in 1952. Mr. Griscom, in addition to his research in ornithology, has for many years rendered valuable services as editor of our publications. For reasons of health it has become advisable for him to curtail his activities to some extent and he has therefore relinquished his editorial post to give his full attention to research on New England birds and bird popu- lations. Dr. Merrill E. Champion carried the load of editorial work during the past winter; we are deeply grateful for this, as we are for many services which he has done the Museum in recent years. Miss Nelda Wright will assume additional responsibilities as Editor of Publications from July 1. Dr. Charles P. Lyman has been advanced from Assistant Curator to Associate Curator. Mr. Robert L. Work, who has served zealously as Museum librarian for the past four years, has left us to re-enter naval service. It is with regret we see him go but it is pleasant to welcome a former member of the library staff, Miss Jessie B. Mackenzie, on her return to us as librarian. As usual teaching duties were undertaken by various staff members. In addition to supervision of the work of graduate students by many members of the staff, Dr. Carpenter gave a course in entomology, Dr. Whittington instructed in stratigraphy, Dr. Iselin in oceanography, Mr. Stetson in sedimentation, and the writer gave courses in paleontology, comparative anatomy and a general education course in evolution, the latter two with the assistance of Dr. Ernest Williams. Dr. Bigelow was honored by the award of the Prix Manley-Bendall (la Médaille Commémorative du Prince Albert Ier de Monaco) by the Institut Océanographique of Paris. Research Dr. Lyman’s work on hibernation continues to produce results of interest. It has been possible to show that certain vital processes, such as respiration and acid-base balance remain essentially normal despite the torpid condition of the hibernator. On the other hand, tissue growth is greatly reduced, even though the stimulus for such growth is known to be present. All work on the process of waking from hibernation points to the autonomic nervous system as the controlling factor; but since the MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 3 hamster brain is little known, it has been necessary to undertake a de- tailed neuro-anatomical study in order to correlate electro-physiological findings with definite neuro-anatomical areas. Work has also continued on the mobilization of liver and muscle glycogen when waking from hibernation and the role of adrenal and thyroid in the hibernating state. During the year volume 7 of Mr. Peters’ Check-list of Birds of the World appeared; volume 8 is in course of preparation by Dr. J. T. Zim- mer of the American Museum of Natural History and Mr. Peters him- self is actively engaged on volume g. Mr. Greenway has furthered his work on extinct birds. Mr. Griscom has continued work on the birds of Cape Cod and of Mexico. Mr. Loveridge has revised a number of African snake genera; a synopsis of part of this work has been published in Belgium. In addition to several shorter papers, a report on reptiles of Nyasaland has been completed. Mr. Shreve has published the description of a new Tropido- dipsas, and is studying our extensive material of Leptodeira. Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Schroeder have completed a first draft of a new work on the Fishes of the Gulf of Maine to replace the book on the same subject published a quarter century ago. Their extensive mono- graph on skates, rays and chimaeras, part of the series of “Fishes of the Western Atlantic,” has been completed and is in the hands of the printers. In the department of mollusks, Mr. Clench has done further work on western Atlantic marine mollusks and completed a report on the Family Epitoniidae. He has further continued joint studies with Dr. Aguayo of the Universidad de la Habana on the Cuban land fauna; three reports on Cuban forms have appeared during the year. Dr. Bequaert’s impor- tant monograph on the land snails of the subfamily Achatininae was completed and published during the year. Miss Turner, in addition to working as co-author with Mr. Clench in his marine studies, has nearly completed work on the western Atlantic Pholadidae. Mr. Foster has continued his determinations of fouling organisms for Dr. L. Hutchins of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The revised Classification of Insects, by Drs. Brues, Melander and Carpenter, is close to completion and will be published in 1952. Dr. Bequaert continued his work on the American Hippoboscidae and Miss Bryant hers on Jamaican spiders. A work on the carabid beetles of New Guinea has been completed by Dr. Darlington, who has further devoted much time to a projected general work on animal geography. Dr. Car- penter has continued studies on the Permian insects of Kansas and 4 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Oklahoma; an eleventh paper in the series on the Kansas fauna is in preparation, a second on the Oklahoma material. He has also written several short papers on Neuroptera and begun a revision of the Coniop- terygidae (Neuroptera) of the Nearctic region. A summer’s trip in 1950 to Amsterdam, Paris and London enabled Dr. Deichmann to complete a report on the Phyllophoridae. She has further written a chapter on holothurians for Dr. Paul Galtsoff’s Hand- book of the Gulf of Mexico. A trip to Bermuda enabled her to study the plexaurid fauna there; as a result she hopes in the coming year to complete a study of this troublesome alcyonarian family. A trip to European museums during the late spring and summer of 1950 enabled Dr. Edinger to accumulate valuable data for her new comprehensive work on paleoneurology —a long term project which will probably take four years or so to complete. Dr. Williams devoted most of his time to a study of West Indian fossil material including a curious monkey specimen as well as chelonian remains. The writer finished his study of the Carnegie Museum collection of Carboniferous and early Permian vertebrates and has resumed work on a monograph on reptilian osteology. Miss Wright and Dr. Edinger have continued work on the never-ending project of a bibliography of non-American vertebrate paleontology. Dr. Whittington completed one section of his research on silicified trilobites from Virginia, and made progress in the preparation of a con- tribution to the section on Trilobita for the forthcoming “Treatise on Invertebrate Palaeontology.” Dr. Shrock has availed himself of our facilities in the writing of a general work on invertebrate paleontology. Mr. Schevill has continued his studies of cephalopods. Mr. Stetson continued his work on marine sediments. Dr. Iselin has given much of his time as a consultant to the government but has never- theless made progress in his studies of the Gulf Stream. During the past winter he organized a multiple ship survey of the Gulf Stream, six ships being employed to give a synoptic picture of its condition during a three-week period. In addition to the researches of Museum officers, our collections and facilities were utilized for the research activities of a large number of graduate students in biology, paleontology and geology working under the direction of staff members. The reports of the various departments record the visits for study of a score or more of scientists from other American and foreign institutions. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 5 Library During the year a number of improvements were made in library procedures. The limited funds available for the library —far below those customary and proper for a collection as large or as actively used as ours — have, however, made it impossible to care adequately for many pressing needs. We are years behind on binding. Numerous gaps still exist in journals whose receipt was interrupted by the war. It is of the highest importance that additional support be given to the library at the earliest possible time so that irreparable harm will not result. Publications In 1949-50 Bulletin publication ran to about 1500 pages, a considerable excess over our normal annual amount. To balance this, for budgetary reasons, publication the past year was reduced to a little over 600 pages. In consequence the time between receipt of manuscripts and their publi- cation is currently rather greater than normal or desirable. It is hoped that we shall catch up with the backlog of papers during the coming year. Earlier volumes of Peters’ “Check-list of Birds of the World” were published by the Harvard University Press. Volume 7 has been pub- lished under Museum auspices, as will be future volumes. We are deeply indebted to Mr. Rodolphe Meyer de Schaunesee, Mrs. Walter W. Naumburg, Mr. Wililam H. Phelps and Mrs. Carll Tucker for their assistance in helping defray the publication costs of Volume 7. The Museum has during the year subsidized, as is customary, a num- ber of papers in Psyche. The department of mollusks has published one number of Johnsonia. Collections All departments report useful and valuable additions to their collec- tions by gift, purchase or exchange. A full list of donors is given at the end of this report. Among the more notable additions may be men- tioned collections of birds from the Philippines and Halmaheira, reptiles from Tanganyika given by C. J. P. Ionides, Esq., and in entomology Australian collections from Dr. W. L. Brown and the Alessandro Fo- carile collections of Italian Carabidae. Advances in curatorial routines are reported by various curators. In the mammal department, use of a dermestid colony has speeded the cleaning of a mass of miscellaneous skeletal material. In the department of fishes, the cataloging of the collection, which has been under way for 6 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY a number of years, approaches completion, thanks to the energetic work of Mrs. Dick. Expeditions and Travel Relatively little field work was undertaken during the year covered by this report. Travel by Drs. Deichmann and Edinger to study foreign collections was noted above. Mr. Stetson took part in a cruise of the Atlantis, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, during which bottom samples and cores were taken at 225 stations; this cruise complements a similar trip in 1947 which cov- ered the western half of the Gulf. During March and April, 1951, the writer and Mrs. Romer prospected, with meagre results, Permian deposits in the southern half of Clay County, Texas. In June Mr. and Mrs. Olsen collected at the Devonian “Scaumenac Bay” fish beds of the Gaspé region. Dr. Whittington spent six weeks in the Glass Mountains of western Texas collecting inverte- brate fossils of Permian and Ordovician age. Several hundred pounds of blocks of limestone containing silicified fossils were obtained, which promise to yield a collection of Permian invertebrates second only to those in the U. S. National Museum. In addition Dr. Whittington col- lected fossils from localities in Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and New York. During the summer of 1950 Dr. Ernest E. Williams took part in an expedition to Jamaica on which valuable recent and fossil material was collected. Acknowledgments As ever, we are indebted to many people and institutions for financial support of the Museum’s work, for services to us and for donation of specimens. Thanks are due for the services of volunteer workers in several de- partments: Mr. Herbert Athearn and Mr. Richard I. Johnson in the department of mollusks; Miss Katherine Gaposchkin in the department of marine invertebrates, and Mr. R. H. N. Bruno in the department of vertebrate paleontology. In addition to gifts mentioned earlier, our thanks are extended to the following for donations of specimens: Birds: O. L. Austin, Jr., Mrs. A. F. Carr, F. S. Marden, A. Morgan, R.S. Palmer. Entomology: Mrs. Dorothy Allen, P. Anduze, R. L. Araujo, H. Ar- MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 7 naud, G. E. Ball, N. Banks, P. Basilewsky, Mrs. Doris Blake, B. S. Bow- dich, W. J. Brown, C. T. Brues, S. C. Bruner, L. deCarvalho, W. J. Clench, H. R. Dodge, R. P. Dow, H. E. Evans, A. G. B. Fairchild, M. Fassati, R. Frey, C. A. Frost, R. E. Gregg, H. Hoogstraal, P. D. Hurd, J. Klapperich, K. Kult, R. Latham, D. J. Lewis, C. J. Louwerens, A. Mead, C. H. Matin, C. T. Parsons, J. W. Rehn, E. Reitter, H. H. Ross, G. Salt, S. L. Straneo, I. B. Tarshis, H. Townes, J. M. Valentine, N. Weber, P. Weber, F. Werner, H. B. Wood, P. Wygodzinsky. Invertebrate Fossils: F. E. Halvorson. Mammals: H. Field, W. C. Forbes, E. E. Williams, J. A. Rivera. Marine Invertebrates: P. Anderson, F. Bayer, A. Fleminger, Mrs. Ar- thur Loveridge, W. L. Nutting, G. H. Penn, W. C. Schroeder, D. Thaanum, F. Werner, S. L. Wallace. Reptiles and Amphibians: P. A. Adams, C. T. Brues, J. L. Chamber- lin, A. Curtiss, H. Field, B. Howe, G. Marcuzzi, C. R. S. Pitman, E. H. Taylor, G. Underwood, F. Werner, E. E. Williams. Respectfully submitted, ALFRED S. Romer, Director 8 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Museum of Comparative Zoology Faculty, 1951-1952 JAMES BRYANT CONANT, PH.D., LL.D., S.D., L.H.D., D.C.L., D.sc. (hon.), pr. (hon.), LITT.D., F.E.1.8., President. | HENRY BRYANT BIGELOW, PH.D., s.D. (hon.), PH.D. (hon.). | ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER, PH.D., s.D. (hon.). GEORGE CHEEVER SHATTUCK, M.D., A.M. (hon.). Staff, 1951-1952 ALFRED SHERWOOD ROMER, PH.D., S.D. (hon.), Director, Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. NATHAN BANKS, A.M., Head Curator of Recent Insects, Emeritus. HENRY BRYANT BIGELOW, PH.D., s.D. (hon.), PH.D. (hon.), Research Oceanographer, Retired. ELIZABETH BANGS BRYANT, Assistant Curator of Insects, Retired. REGINALD ALDWORTH DALY, PH.D., D.sc. (hon. )ss s.D. (hon.), Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus. LOUIS CARYL GRATON, PH.D., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus. PERCY EDWARD RAYMOND, PH.D., Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Emeritus. JOSEPH CHARLES BEQUAERT, DR.PHIL., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Entomology. | FRANCIS BIRCH, S.B., PH.D., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. FRANK MORTON CARPENTER, S.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Cu- rator of Fossil Insects. DAVID MEREDITH SEARS WATSON, M.SC., D.sc. (hon.), LL.p. (hon.), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology (from January 1, 1952). CHARLES THOMAS BRUES, S.M., Honorary Curator of Parasitic Hymenoptera. WILLIAM JAMES CLENCH, S.M., Curator of Mollusks. PHILIP JACKSON DARLINGTON, JR., PH.D., Fall Curator of Coleoptera and Acting Cu- rator of Entomology. ELISABETH DEICHMANN, PH.D., Curator of Marine Invertebrates. TILLY EDINGER, DR.PHIL.NAT., S.D. (hon.), Research Paleontologist. LUDLOW GRISCOM, A.M., Research Ornithologist. COLUMBUS 0’DONNELL ISELIN, II, A.M., s.D. (hon.), Research Oceanographer. ARTHUR LOVERIDGE, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians. KIRTLEY FLETCHER MATHER, PH.D., S.D. (hon.), LITT.D., L.H.D., Curator of the Geologi- cal Museum. JAMES LEE PETERS, A.B., Curator of Birds. HENRY CROSBY STETSON, A.M., Research Oceanographer and Alexander Agassiz Fel- low in Oceanography and Zoology. HARRY BLACKMORE WHITTINGTON, PH.D., D.sc., Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. JAMES COWAN GREENWAY, JR., A.B., Associate Curator of Birds. WILLIAM GEORGE FOWLE HARRIS, Associate Curator of Oology. CHARLES PEIRSON LYMAN, PH.D., Associate Curator of Mammals. BARBARA LAWRENCE SCHEVILL, A.8., Associate and Acting Curator of Mammals. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 9 WILLIAM EDWARD SCHEVILL, A.M., Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. WILLIAM CHARLES SCHROEDER, Associate Curator of Fishes. WILLIAM LOUIS BROWN, JR., PH.D., Assistant Curator of Insects (from January 1, 1952.). ERNEST EDWARD WILLIAMS, PH.D., Research Associate in Vertebrate Paleontology. JAMES WITTENMEYER CHAPMAN, SC.D., Research Fellow. JOSHUA CLIFTON DICKINSON, JR., PH.D., Research Fellow. MERRILL EDWIN CHAMPION, M.D., M.P.H., Research Assistant. BENJAMIN SHREVE, Research Assistant. RUTH DIXON TURNER, M.A., Research Assistant. NELDA EMELYN WRIGHT, M.A., Research Assistant and Editor of Publications. CHARLES FOSTER BATCHELDER, A.B., C.E., Associate in Mammalogy and Ornithology. ARTHUR CLEVELAND BENT, A.B., Associate in Ornithology. HAROLD JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, JR., S.B., Associate in Mammalogy. WILLIAM CAMERON FORBES, A.B., LL.D., Associate to Collect Specimens of Natural History. RICHARD WINSLOW FOSTER, A.B., Associate in Mollusks. RICHARD CRESSON HARLOW, S.M., Associate in Oology. HENRY SETON, A.M., Associate in Vertebrate Paleontology. ROBERT RAKES SHROCK, PH.D., Associate in Invertebrate Paleontology. THEODORE ELMER WHITE, PH.D., Associate in Vertebrate Paleontology. GEORGE NELSON, Preparator in Chief, Retired. FREDERICK RUSSELL OLSEN, A.B., Preparator. STANLEY JOHN OLSEN, Assistant Preparator. MYVANWY MILLAR DICK, Assistant. RUTH CAMERON DUNN, B.S., Assistant. JESSIE HENDERSON SAWYER, Assistant. HAZEL GOLDRICH VAUGHN, Assistant. RUTH WOOD NORTON, A.B., Secretary to the Director. RUTH BYINGTON INMAN, B.S., Secretary to the Bird Department. JO ANNE LEE, Staff Secretary. JESSIE BELL MAC KENZIE, B.A., Librarian. MARY ELIZABETH MARTIN, A.B., B.S. IN L.S., Assistant Librarian. ELINOR TOOP, A.B., B.S. IN L.s., Assistant Librarian. DOLORES ALICE GUNNERSON, A.B., Assistant in Library. MAXWELL LESLIE FRENCH, Staff Assistant. Publications for the year 19 50-1951 The following have been printed under Museum auspices during the year from July 1, 1950 to June 30, 1951. Bulletin Vol. 103 No. 8. Frontal sinus evolution (particularly in the Equidae). By Tilly Ed- inger. 87 pp. g pls. August, 1950. 10 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Vol. 105 No. 1. Studies in the Achatininae, a group of African land snails. By J. C. Bequaert. 216 pp. 81 pls. September, 1950. No. 2. Comparative genital anatomy of some African Achatinidae (Pulmo- nata). By A. R. Mead. 74 pp. 9 pls. Dec., 1950. No. 3. Life-history studies of East African Achatina snails. By F. X. Williams. 26 pp. 5 pls. January, 1951. Vol. 106 No. 1. Amphisbaena fuliginosa (Contributions to the knowledge of the Bra- silian lizards of the family Amphisbaenidae Gray, 1825. 6. On the geo- raphical distribution and differentiation of Amphisbaena fuliginosa Linné). By P. E. Vanzolini. 68 pp. 2 pls. April, 1951. No. 2. Breeding and other notes from Nyasaland and the Lundazi District of Northern Rhodesia. By C. W. Benson. 47 pp. June, 1951. No. 3. Mammals in the highlands of Southern Peru. By Oliver P. Pearson. 59 pp. 8 pls. June, 1951. No. 4. On reptiles and amphibians from Tanganyika Territory collected by C. J. P. Ionides, by A. Loveridge. 29 pp. June, 1951. Johnsonia Vol. 2, no. 29, September, 1950. The Genera Sthenorytis, Cirsotrema, Acirsa, Opalia and Amaea in the West- ern Atlantic. By W. J. Clench and R. D. Turner, pp. 221-246, pls. 96-107. Psyche Vol. 57, no. 2. June, 1950. Notes and Descriptions of Western Chrysopidae (Neuroptera). By N. Banks. Pp. 45-67, 2 pls. Two New Paussid Beetles from the Panama Canal Zone and the Philippines. By P. J. Darlington, Jr. pp. 68—71, 2 figs. Vol. 57, no. 4. December, 1950. A New Leptothorax from Alabama (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). By E. O. Wilson. pp. 128-130. Additions to the Nearctic Meloidae (Coleop.). By F. G. Werner. pp. 131-136, 5 figs. Vol. 58, no. 1. March, 1951. On Some Central and South American Pterostichini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy. By S. L. Straneo. pp. 1-19, 1 pl. Notes on Some New England Phryganeidae (Trichoptera). By N. Banks. pp. 20-23, 1 pl. Notes on Alaskan Collembola. I. A New Genus and Species of the Family Isotomidae. By K. A. Christiansen. pp. 24-31, 1 pl., 1 fig. The Structure and Relationships of Oliarces (Neuroptera). By F. M. Car- penter. pp. 32-41, 1 pl., 3 figs. Descriptions of Some New Callistinae (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from East Africa. By P. Basilewsky. pp. 42-46, 1 fig. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY II Publications by the Museum Staff BANKS, N. Notes and Descriptions of Western Chrysopidae (Neuroptera). Psyche, 57, no. 2, pp. 45-67, 2 pls. June 1950. Notes on Some New England Phryganeidae (Trichoptera). Psyche, 58, no. 1, pp. 20-23. March 1951. BATCHELDER, C. F. A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Charles Johnson Maynard (1845- 1927). Jour. Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, 2, pp. 227— 260. January, I95T. A Bibliography of the Published Writings of William Brewster. Memoirs Nuttall Ornithological Club, no. 70, pp. 1-54. February, 1951. BENT, A. C. Life Histories of North American Wagtails, Shrikes, Vireos, and Their Allies. Bulli. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 197, pp. i-vili + 411, 48 pls. July, 1950. BEQUAERT, J. C. The C. Andresen Hubbard Collection of Fleas of the Pacific Northwest. Psyche, 57, no. 2, p. 44. June, 1950. The Northernmost Extension of Bird Hippoboscidae in the New World. Psyche, 57, no. 3, p. 113. September, 1950. Studies in the Achatininae, a Group of African Land Snails. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 105, no. I, pp. 1-216, 81 pls. September, 1950. A Bibliographic Note on Say’s Two Tracts of March, 1831, and January, 1832. Psyche, 57, no. 4, p. 146. December, 1950. Records and Flower Preferences of Masarid Wasps. Psyche, 57, no. 4, pp. 137- 142, December, 1950. (With K. W. Cooper.) A Nemestrinid Bred from a Grasshopper in the United States. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 45, no. 4, p. 104. October, 1950. Notes on Hippoboscidae. 20. A Revision of the Hippoboscidae of Chile. Agri- cultura Técnica, Santiago de Chile, zo, no. 1 (1950), pp. 5-9, February, 951. Introducao no Brasil de Duas Espécies Africanas de Caramujos Transmissores de Esquistosomose. Revista Brasileira Medicina, 8, no. 3, pp. 167-170. March, 1951. Hippoboscidae Transported by Aircraft. Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 46, no. 2, pp. 49-51. April, 1951. BIGELOW, H. B. A New Genus and Species of Anacanthobatid Skate from the Gulf of Mexico. Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., 47, no. 3, pp. 110-113. March, 1951. (With W. C. Schroeder.) BRUES, C. T. Large Raptorial Birds as Enemies of Cicadas. Psyche, 57, no. 2, pp. 74-75. June, 1950. 12 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Vespid Wasps (Eumenes curvata) Attracted to Smoke. Psyche, 57, no. 3, pp. 114-115, 1 fig. September, 1950. Phoridae. In: Diptera of Connecticut. Bull. Connecticut State Geol. Nat. Hist. Surv., no. 75, part 6, pp. 33-85, 8 figs. 1950. Natural History and the Biological Sciences. American Natural., 85, pp. 207- 208. May-June, 1951. CARPENTER, F. M. The Lower Permian Insects of Kansas. Part 10. The Order Protorthoptera: The Family Liomopteridae and its Relatives. Proc. American Acad. Arts. Sci., 78, no. 4, pp. 185-219; 3 pls., 11 figs. August, 1950. The Structure and Relationships of Oliarces (Neuroptera). Psyche, 58, no. 1, pp. 32-41; 1 pl., 3 figs. March, 1951. Studies on Carboniferous Insects from Commentry, France. Pt. 2. The Megasecoptera. Jour. Paleont., 25, no. 3, pp. 336-355; I pl., 11 figs. May, IQ5I. CLENCH, W. J. A New Genus and Species of Endodontidae from the Solomon Islands. Revista de la Sociedad Malacologica, 7, no. 2, pp. 59-60. July 15, 1950. Nuevos Helicinidos de la Provincia de Oriente, Cuba. Revista de la Sociedad Malacologica, 7, no. 2, pp. 61-66. July 15, 1950. (With C. G. Aguayo.) Edward Chitty with a Bibliography and Catalogue of His Species of Jamaican Land Mollusks. Occasional Papers, Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, no. I, pp. 1-12, 1 pl. August 1, 1950. (With R. D. Turner.) The Genera Sthenorytis, Cirsotrema, Acirsa, Opalia and Amaea in the West- ern Atlantic. Johnsonia, 2, no. 29, pp. 221-246, pls. 96-107. September 30, 1950. (With R. D. Turner.) A Review. Reproduction and Larval Development of Danish Marine Bottom Invertebrates by Gunnar Thorson. Johnsonia, 2, p. 247. September 30, 1950. A Review. Catalogue of Japanese Shells by T. Kuroda and T. Habe. John- sonia, 2, p. 247. September 30, 1950. A New Species of Placostylus from San Cristobal, Solomon Islands. Torreia, Publication Ocasional del Museo Poey, Universidad de Habana, no. 15, pp. 1-4, text fig. Oct., 1950. Land Shells of Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Journal de Conchyliologie, go, pp. 269-276, 1 plate. January 25, 1951. The Cuban Genus Jeanneretia. Revista de la Sociedad Malacologica, 7, no. 3, pp. 81-92, 2 plates. January 15, 1951. (With C. G. Aguayo.) A New Color Form of Liguus from Pinar del Rio, Cuba. Revista de la So- ciedad Malacologica, 7, pp. 93-94, text figures. January 15, 1951. Novedades en el Genero Caracolus en Cuba. Memorias de la Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural, 20, no. 2, pp. 65-69, 2 plates. June 25, 1951. (With C. G. Aguayo.) DARLINGTON, P. J., JR. Paussid Beetles. Trans. American Ent. Soc., 76, pp. 47-142. August, 1950. Two new Paussid Beetles from the Panama Canal Zone and the Philippines. Psyche, 57, pp. 68-71. June (September), 1950. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 13 EDINGER, T. Die Palaeoneurologie am Beginn einer neuen Phase. Experientia, 6, pp. 250- 258. July, 1950. Frontal Sinus Evolution (Particularly in the Equidae). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 703, pp. 411-496. August, 1950. News from Abroad. News Bull. Soc. Vert. Paleont., 30, pp. 22-29. October, 1950. The Brains of the Odontognathae. Evolution, 5, pp. 6-24. March, 1951. GRISCOM, L. The Changing Seasons. Audubon Field Notes, 4, no. 3, pp. 191-192. June, 1950. Winter Season, Northeastern Maritime Region. Audubon Field Notes, 4, NO, 3, pp. 192-193. June, 1950. Distributional Checklist of the Birds of Mexico, Part 1. Pacif. Coast Avif., No. 29, pp. I-202, 2 col. pls. June 30, 1951. (With Friedmann and Moore.) Fernald in the Field. Rhodora, 53, no. 626, pp. 61-65. February, 1951. The Changing Seasons, A Summary of the Fall Migration. Audubon Field Notes, 5, no. I, pp. 3-4. February, 1951. Fall Migration, Northeastern Maritime Region, Audubon Field Notes, 5, no. I, pp. 5-6. February, 1951. Birds of the Proctor Sanctuary. Bull. Mass. Aud. Soc., 35, no. 5, pp. 181-186, 2 figs. May, 1951. LOVERIDGE, A. A New Agamid Lizard (Agama kirkii fitzsimonsi) from Southern Rhodesia. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 63, pp. 127-130. December, 1950. New Frogs of the Genera Cyclorana and Hyla from Southeastern Australia. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 63, pp. 131-135. December, 1950. On Reptiles and Amphibians from Tanganyika Territory collected by C. J. P. Ionides. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 706, no. 4, pp. 177-204, text fig. June, 1951. LYMAN, C. P. Mechanisms of Arousal in the Hibernating Hamster. J. Exp. Zool., 774, pp. 491-516. 1950. (With Paul O. Chatfield.) Circulatory Changes During the Process of Arousal in the Hibernating Ham- ster. Am. Jour. Physiol., 763, pp. 566-574. 1950. (With Paul O. Chatfield.) Effects of Temperature on Spontaneous and Induced Electrical Activity in Cerebral Cortex of Golden Hamster. Am. Jour. Physiol., 163, ABSTRACT. 1950. (With Paul O. Chatfield.) Hibernation. Scientific American, 183, pp. 18-21. 1950. (With Paul O. Chat- field.) The Effects of Temperatures on the Spontaneous and Induced Electrical Ac- tivity in the Cerebral Cortex of the Golden Hamster. EEG Clin, Neuro- physiol., 3, pp. 225-230. 1951. (With Paul O. Chatfield and Dominick P. Purpura. ) 14 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY OLSEN, RUSSELL The Fluorine Content of Some Miocene Horse Bones. Science, 112, No. 2917, pp. 620-621. November 24, 1950. PETERS, J. L. Twenty-fifth Supplement to the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-List of North American Birds. Auk, 67, pp. 368-370. July, 1950. (With others acting as a committee.) Bird names in Linnaeus’ “Catalogue” of Edwards’ Natural History. Auk, 67, Pp. 375-377- July, 1950. A Review. Audubon’s Birds of America . . . with introduction by Ludlow Griscom. Bird-Banding, 27, p. 172. October, 1950. A Review. Distributional Check-List of the Birds of Mexico. Pt. 1. by Her- bert Friedmann, Ludlow Griscom and Robert T. Moore. Auk, 68, p. 120. January, 1951. Check-List of Birds of the World, Vol. 7. Pp. i-x + 318. March, 1951. A Review. The Breeding Biology of the Great and Blue Titmice by John Gibb. Auk, 68, p. 253. April, 1951. ROMER, A. S. The Nature and Relationships of the Paleozoic Microsaurs. Amer. Jour. Sci., 248, no. 9, pp. 628-654. September, 1950. Bison crassicornis in the Late Pleistocene of New England. Jour. Mamm., 32, No. 2, pp. 230-231. May, 1951. SCHROEDER, W. C. A New Genus and Species of Anacanthobatid Skate from the Gulf of Mexico. Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., 41, no. 3, pp. 110-113. March, 1951. (With H. B. Bigelow.) SHREVE, B. A New Snake of the Genus Tropidodipsas from Honduras. Copeia, 1951, no. I, p. 52. March, 1951. TURNER, R. D. Edward Chitty with a Bibliography and Catalogue of His Species of Jamaican Land Mollusks. Occasional Papers, Museum of the Institute of Jamaica, no. I, pp. I-12, 1 plate. August, 1950. (With W. J. Clench.) The Genera Sthenorytis, Cirsotrema, Acirsa, Opalia and Amaea in the West- ern Atlantic. Johnsonia 2, no. 29, pp. 221-246, pls. 96-107. September 30, 1950. (With W. J. Clench.) A Review. Bivalve Larvae of Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island by M. C. Sullivan. Johnsonia, 2, p. 248. September 30, 1950. A Review. The Shell Collectors Handbook by A. H. Verrill. Natural His- tory, 60, p. 199. May, 1951. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY I5 WHITTINGTON, H. B. Sixteen Ordovician Genotype Trilobites. Jour. Paleont., 24, pp. 531-565, pls. 68-75. September, 1950. Swedish Lower Ordovician Harpidae and the Genus Harpides. Geol. Foren. Stockholm Forhandl., Bd. 72, pp. 301-306, pl. r. October, 1950. WILLIAMS, E. E. A New Fossil Rodent from Puerto Rico. Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 1515, pp. 1-9, June, 1951. (With Karl F. Koopman.) Fossil Chiroptera Collected by H. E. Anthony in Jamaica 1919-1920. Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 1519. June, 1951. (With Karl F. Koopman.) ag Posanele M0, 8, ee ee Nm, Vee sree otges a“ nee sume; <3 pio leta ie ater MOT FAQS RH Ore One * ws Sys eon ta BOTY Pe Sate Me Ry HR Me me SAN ares we ee to Nahar UL Os eats Re i Fee or era Corer rane “whom bee Pweg wea we We us Nene eee SO hye Ue oe Srl at Made Tan teh ee sam, © Rens Calta ten eh eaten ee eT ie OPE my Romy ty SE NEOs Oe repens tg kta Ala a ehh bias eee TONTV RR © item whi. eo tonne Nee wee Se Agee ses ~~ Te beet ta a Sand Taree bh bah cthMleedahtak Ja ho oN UU Wer wes, 80m oe SO ee ay tg . Se gy he deh Sect le b tekak ah tae he ee Ae SU es "ity « oe yee mye SON He Ne bg Net Wy een ay