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PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE BULLETIN (octavo) 1863 — The current volume is Vol. 113. BREVIORA (octavo) 1952 — No. 41 is current. MEMOIRS (quarto) 1864-1938 — Publication was terminated with Vol. 55. JOHNSONIA (quarto) 1941 — A. publication of the Department of Mollusks. Vol. 3, no. 34 is current. OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOL- LUSKS (octavo) 1945 — Vol. 1, no. 18 is current. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB (octavo) 1899-1948 — Published in connection with the Museum. Publication terminated with Vol. 24. The continuing publications are 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 Com- parative Zoology, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts. Of the Peters “Check List of Birds of the World,” volumes 1-3 are out of print; volumes 4 and 6 may be obtained from the Harvard University Press; volumes 5 and 7 are sold by the Museum, and future volumes will be published under Museum auspices. [Reprinted from the Report of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments, 1953-54] Museum of Comparative Zoology To the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Sir, —I submit herewith the report of the Museum of Com- parative Zoology for the academic year 1953-1954. As anticipated at the time of our last report, receipt of ad- ditional endowment from the estate of the late George R. Agassiz has made it possible this year to place the current ac- tivities of the Museum on a more stable basis, to support more effectively the work of the present staff and to make substan- tial progress toward raising salaries of staff members to a proper level. This is pleasing indeed. As I have noted in a previous report, however, there still remains the major problem of in- suring future continuity in our work. Our funds are not suf- ficient, in these days of inflation, to allow the appointment, in many departments, of younger men to train as replacements for the present senior curators. During our deficit years expenditures in many areas were necessarily reduced not merely to a reasonable minimum but well below that point; there had developed a massive backlog of badly needed supplies, equipment and building improve- ments, and routine curatorial work had fallen far behind. Back income, of approximately $125,000, on our share of Mr. Agassiz’s estate can be utilized for non-recurrent expenses; spread over a short term of years, this sum will go far toward taking care of these deficiencies. During the past year urgently needed supplies of various types have been purchased, new storage cases have been built for a number of departments, aids on a temporary basis have been employed to take up the slack of routine work on the collections, and supplementary amounts given the library for services and purchases. A major 2 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY improvement made possible by these funds has eased the con- dition of the department of mollusks, long desperate for space despite their efficient use of the four rooms available to them. For a reasonable sum we have been able to floor over the otherwise useless well above the court staircase and make avail- able to the department a new large room adjacent to their present quarters. The year has seen the completion of the new herbarium building, adjoining the Museum and extending to the eastward across the former course of Divinity Avenue. On the second floor are housed the library of the Gray Herbarium and that portion of the library of the Arnold Arboretum appropriate for use in Cambridge; a connecting door leads directly into the M.C.Z. library stacks. As a result, the two major biological research libraries of the University, botanical and zoological, are essentially housed under one roof, and other related bio- logical libraries, in the Biological Laboratories, in the Farlow Library and Herbarium, and in the Botanical Museum, are close by. The time seems favorable for a review of our library holdings and needs in the biological area, and a committee of the Biological Council has been formed to attempt a more efficient coordination of the work of the units concerned. On the geological side of its interests, the Museum has also been active in the improvement of library facilities. Quite in contrast to the situation in most major areas of scholarly and scientific endeavour, the geological holdings in the Harvard University Library system are lamentably weak. This appears to be due to the fact that responsibility for acquisitions in this field has been borne almost entirely by the Museum of Com- parative Zoology and the Mineralogical Museum. Very little support has been given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Further, in earlier years, little coordination was attempted be- tween the two museums as to policies of acquisition. Several years ago, an informal “treaty” was made between the M.C.Z. and the geologists. Under this, the Mineralogical Museum, with such help as could be obtained externally, would attempt — =" oe ee > 5 le ei eat MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 3 to purchase books and journals in the “hard rock” fields, plus such texts and reference works as are needed for immediate student use in the geological section of the museum. The M.C.Z., on its part, would not merely attempt to cover the “soft rock” fields, such as stratigraphy and paleontology, but, as far as its resources permit, would try to improve our hold- ings in the large and important area of publications by the numerous state and foreign geological surveys. During the year under report an additional librarian has been employed with the specific duty of checking our holdings in the field of geological surveys and attempting to fill the numerous gaps by exchange or purchase. Already great improvement has been accomplished in the area of U. S. state surveys and a beginning made on the foreign field. This project will be continued during the coming year, and will be further extended if still needed and financially possible. Quite in contrast to the situation in the arts and social sci- ences, Harvard’s library holdings in the natural sciences would appear to have grown in haphazard fashion, with little fore- thought or overall planning. In the biological and geological areas, at least, the various research institutions have been in great measure forced to supply the library needs of students and staff of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as well as their own institutional members, with a consequent heavy drain on their own resources. During the current year, for example, M.C.Z. library expenditures, together with those for the pub- lication of the Bulletin (on the basis of which exchanges are obtained), amounted to more than a quarter of our entire en- dowment income. It would seem not inappropriate to ask that a general survey of Harvard’s scientific libraries be made at some suitable time to determine proper policies and responsi- bilities for the future. From the estate of the late Elizabeth Bangs Bryant we have received the capital sum of $97,456 to support work in Arach- nology. This will be of great value in maintaining our position in this field, in which Miss Bryant worked with energy and 4 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY success for many years, and will keep green the memory of a valuable and loved member of our staff. Although support for preparation and research in vertebrate paleontology has been available, there have been no funds for curatorial work in this department, of which, among other duties, I am curator. It was therefore an especial pleasure to me to receive, from an anonymous donor, the sum of $25,000 in memory of George R. Agassiz, to be expended over a term of years for badly needed work on the vertebrate fossil col- lections. During the past six years Dr. J. Lawrence Pool has served as chairman of the Visiting Committee. At this time of his re- tirement from the post we wish to express our warm apprecia- tion of his interest in our work and problems and the friendly aid he has given us. STAFF With the retirement of Professor Kirtley F. Mather, Pro- fessor Marland P. Billings has been appointed Curator of the Geological Museum as of September 1, 1954. Dr. William L. Brown, Jr., as of July 1, 1954, is promoted to Associate Curator of Insects and Mr. Donald Baird 1s ap- pointed as Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. Dr. George M. Moore, of the University of New Hamp- shire, who has long been closely associated with our depart- ment of mollusks, has been appointed Associate in Mollusks. We welcome Dr. Edwin A. Chapin, who has retired as Cura- tor in Entomology in the U. S. National Museum, as Associate in Entomology. Dr. Ruth D. Turner and Dr. Raymond A. Paynter, Jr., re- ceived their doctorates in June 1954, the former from Rad- cliffe College and the latter from Yale University. Dr. Ernst Mayr was elected to the National Academy of Sciences last spring. At the ceremonies and conferences attendant on the dedication of the new research building at the Woods Hole MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 5 Oceanographic Institution special tribute was paid to Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, who was in great measure responsible for the founding of the institution and served successively as director, president and chairman of the board. Formal courses given by members of the staff included Mr. Stetson’s course in submarine geology, Dr. Carpenter’s biology of insects, Dr. Kummel’s sedimentary petrology, Dr. Whit- tington’s invertebrate paleontology, and Dr. Romer’s compara- tive anatomy and his General Education course in evolution. Dr. E. E. Williams greatly assisted Dr. Romer in both his courses by supervising the laboratory work in comparative anatomy and the section meetings in evolution, as well as de- livering a considerable number of lectures in hott: Dr? Car penter has continued to serve as chairman of the Department of Biology. Members of the staff from time to time gave lec- tures in a variety of courses, for example, Dr. Mayr in the evo- lution and the invertebrate paleontology courses, and Dr. Clench and Dr. Turner in Dr. Welsh’s invertebrate course. For a number of years an informal seminar has been conducted for staff members and students interested in vertebrate work. This year a comparable seminar was instituted in the fields of invertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy and sedimentation. An evening discussion group, with the dignified title of “The Beer and Culture Society,” has met monthly during the year, in the Museum, to discuss current problems in evolutionary theory and systematics. During the Christmas vacation meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an open house was held in the Museum for members of the Society for the Study of Evolution and the Society of Systematic Zoology. The number of graduate students both in geology and in biology who carry on their research with members of our staff continues to increase. Some 36 students — approximately a quarter of the entire number of graduates in the biology and geology departments combined — took research courses with staff members during the year. 6 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY RESEARCH Miss Lawrence and Mr. Schevill have devoted much of their time to work on cetaceans, with the continued support of the Office of Naval Research and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Dr. Lyman’s work on hibernation was in large measure devoted to studies, with Dr. D. W. Fawcett, of the effect of cold on the composition and deposition of fat. He is also exploring the relationship between obesity and the onset of hibernation. Dr. Mayr has continued work on a forthcoming book on animal species and evolution. He also has underway several studies in the field of comparative systematics, with particular emphasis on invertebrates. A major report on the birds of the Venezuelan highlands (Pantepui), in joint authorship with Mr. William H. Phelps, Jr., is close to completion and several papers on birds of the Australian region are in progress. Mr. Griscom has worked on various local faunal studies in New England and reports further progress on his introduction to Cape Cod bird life. The history, introduction and sys- tematic list of the birds of Martha’s Vineyard have been fin- ished, the list being brought up to date by Mr. Guy Emerson. The introduction and systematic list for the Elizabeth Islands was also completed with the assistance of Mr. W. Cameron Forbes. At the request of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mr. Griscom wrote the ornithological history and systematic list of the birds recorded from Plum Island. Mr. Greenway completed his manuscript on extinct birds and Dr. Paynter his thesis on the avifauna of the Yucatan Pen- insula. At his death Curator James Lee Peters had published seven volumes of his “Check-list of Birds of the World” — some- what under half of the projected total. Mr. Greenway and Dr. Mayr, acting as an editorial committee, decided that the best way of completing this valuable series was to divide the work among a series of specialists, and are happy to report that some MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 7 16 zoologists have agreed to prepare the manuscript for the 54 families of song birds which remain to be covered. As in the case of Volume 7, these future volumes — eight in number — will be published by the Museum. Mr. Loveridge has written reports dealing with four collec- tions: that on the Berner-Carr Nyasaland collections was pub- lished, and the others have been accepted for publication in Natal, Kenya and the Sudan. Mr. Shreve did research on a number of reptilian and amphibian genera. Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Schroeder continued working on new shark material, some of it from recent “Cap’n Bill II” cruises. They are nearing the end of major work with elasmobranchs and hope to devote most of their time in the future to fishes of the northwestern Atlantic slope. Dr. Darlington spent most of his research time on his book on zoogeography, which he hopes to finish within the coming year. Dr. Brown continued his work on a general reclassifica- tion of ants and on revision of the dacetine ants of the world, and prepared a paper on slave-making Formica ants. With Mr. E. O. Wilson he has published a stimulating paper on the sub- species concept in biology. Dr. Chickering spent the summer of 1953 here, working on Central American spiders. Dr. Bequaert finished the manuscript of Part II of his large work on the Hippoboscidae; due to the extent of the manu- script it will be divided into three sections when published in Entomologica Americana. He is also preparing a manuscript on the Hippoboscidae for Dr. E. Lindner’s “Die Fliegen der Palaarktishen Region.” Progress was also made on a revision of the Hippoboscidae of Africa and on several smaller articles dealing with these flies. Dr. Carpenter spent considerable time reading proof of “Classification of Insects” but was able to devote some time to a revisional study of the neuropterous family Coniop- terygidae. The only previous revision of this family was done by the late Nathan Banks some 50 years ago, the minute size of the insects having discouraged most entomologists. He also 8 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY continued studies on fossil insects, completing a paper on the Caloneurodea of the Carboniferous of France, and advanced toward completion papers on Permian insects from Oklahoma and Kansas. A start has been made on the insect section of the “Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology,” which is under the general editorship of Professor Moore. Under Dr. Carpenter’s direction Miss Dunn has continued work on the catalogue of fossil insects. This is now complete for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic species and it is hoped that the catalogue will be finished during the coming year. Dr. Clench completed a catalogue of the genus Cerion and has nearly concluded a report of Great and Little Inagua. With Dr. Turner he continued the work on our Western At- lantic mollusks. Part I of Dr. Turner’s studies on the Pholad- idae was finished and published in Jobnsonia; Part II will prob- ably go to press during the latter part of the summer. Dr. Champion is preparing a dictionary of malacological terms. As a result of the pressure of his hippoboscid work, Dr. Be- quaert was forced to curtail greatly his malacological work. Some identifications were made of African mollusks, particu- larly of those received from the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3 in Egypt. Preliminary work was done also on preparing papers on the mollusks of Yemen, on African Achatinidae and on a critical revision of the West African marine mollusks. As noted below, Dr. Deichmann spent the summer of 1953 in study abroad. Work on the “Discovery” holothurians, be- gun in London, has been continued here following her return. An account of the holothurians from the Bahamas has been fin- ished, and a paper on the gorgonians of that region 1s one of several pieces of work in progress. She also contributed to the forthcoming volume sponsored by the National Research Council on marine ecology and paleoecology. In vertebrate paleontology, the writer completed and sent to the publishers a rather comprehensive monograph on reptile osteology, and made considerable progress on a study of the material of the embolomerous amphibian Archeria (“Cri- MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 9 cotus”). Dr. Edinger has devoted her time to studies of neg- lected areas in the field of paleoneurology, such as the evolu- tion of the whale brain, phylogenetic trends in the cranial exit of the mandibular nerve, and the parietal eye in Recent and fossil reptiles. Dr. Williams has published several papers on European fossil turtles investigated during his tenure of a Gug- genheim Fellowship in 1952-1953. With Garth Underwood he is making a taxonomic study of Jamaican anoles and with Arthur Loveridge a major revision of the turtles of Africa — this with a discussion of the fossil history of the groups con- cerned. For many years Miss Wright, Dr. Edinger and I have been engaged in compiling a comprehensive bibliography of the earlier literature of vertebrate paleontology in continents other than North America. Due to the heavy involvement of Miss Wright and myself in other duties, the work has lagged during the past few years. This year, however, Mr. Richard van Frank has been engaged in full-time work in this field, and with his wide familiarity with the literature, the project has been greatly advanced. Dr. Whittington finished his study of Ordovician trilobites from Baffin Island, and contributed to the Ordovician correla- tion chart of North America. A description of one of a series of beautifully preserved graptolites from Oklahoma was com- pleted, and further material prepared. Some of the fossils col- lected in Britain in the summer of 1953 have been described, further progress made on the study of silicified trilobites from Virginia, and work on the manuscript for the “Treatise on In- vertebrate Paleontology” continued. Dr. Kummel has written his chapter on Triassic ammonites for the Treatise and his con- tribution for the volume on marine ecology and paleoecology sponsored by the National Research Council. A bibliography of paleontological techniques and one of paleontological and stratigraphical bibliographies are near completion. Dr. Kum- mel also prepared illustrations and manuscript for several papers on Triassic ammonites from various parts of the world. ce) MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Mr. Stetson worked on the sediments of the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and, with support from the Office of Naval Research, carried on beach studies of Cape Cod. He also worked on his study of the large sand ripples in Nantucket and Vineyard sounds, primarily on Middleground and Hedgefence shoals. COLLECTIONS In the mammal department, the capable assistance of Miss Frances L. Burnett has considerably lightened the curatorial burden. The bird department is indebted to Mr. Parker C. Reed and Dr. Charles Blake for gifts of New England specimens, and to Dr. W. H. Drury, Jr. for the skin of a Sabine’s Gull taken off Monomoy, a rare find along this coast. The herpetology department received 1,250 specimens dur- ing the year. The largest single item consisted of 566 snakes generously donated by C. J. P. Ionides, Esq. Dr. Fred von Medem gave 93 reptiles and amphibians collected during the course of his expedition to the interior of Colombia. Dr. Henry Field presented 91 specimens from Brazil and Florida. Mr. Shreve, as ever, gave generously of his time to help with curatorial tasks. Mr. Schroeder reports that nearly 500 catalogue entries of new material were made during the year in the fish depart- ment. We now have a good collection of Atlantic slope fishes, thanks to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and to the six cruises of the “Cap’n Bill II” made during the summers of 1952 and 1953. Other notable additions to the collections are a lot of 104 named species from Australia, the gift of E. J. Coulter, a series of elasmobranchs from New South Wales, donated by John K. Howard, and a fine study series of Merluc- cius from Dr. A. M. Ramalho of Lisbon and Dr. F. S. Russell of Plymouth, England. Mrs. Dick has nearly finished cata- loguing the old collection and has also devoted considerable time to the care of recent accessions. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY II In entomology, Dr. Brown, with the help of Mrs. Eisner, has made good progress in mounting, labelling and distributing the tremendous and valuable backlog of unprepared ants. Noteworthy additions to the entomological collections are an excellent collection of trypetid flies, including types and ex- otic material, from Dr. Marston Bates; an important set of Phlebotomus (psychodid) flies, including types, from Dr. A. G. B. Fairchild; a large and select collection of ants and other insects from Cuba and Mexico given by Mr. E. O. Wilson, who also donated many North American ants; further impor- tant material of South African ants, including many cotypes, from Dr. George Arnold; and large collections of ants and other insects from Lebanon and Turkey from Dr. Kenneth Christiansen. The mollusk department received from Mr. D. Thaanum of Honolulu his vast collection of Hawaiian land shells num- bering over 5,000 lots and considerably more than 100,000 specimens. The value of this collection cannot be expressed by any common standards. It was made over a 40-year period by Mr. Thaanum, his brother-in-law, Mr. Dan Langford, and others, and it seems certain that 60% of this collection could not be duplicated today. The Boston Museum of Science has given us their collection of New England mollusks, including about 2,000 lots, much of it of historical value. Dr. Deichmann reports the receipt of a specimen of Thyone glasselli Deich., a gift from Mr. Gil Bane, which 1s the first found since the type was discovered in 1834. The col- lection of sea stars and brittle stars have benefited as a result of the presence here last spring of Miss Ailsa Clark of the British Museum. In vertebrate paleontology Mr. Olsen and Mr. Lewis both devoted considerable time to the preparation of material of Eryops and of vertebrates from the Permian of Colorado; and the former spent some time on material of Pantylus, prepared for a study to be conducted in cooperation with Dr. John A. Wilson of the University of Texas. In invertebrate paleontol- 12 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY ogy the erection of new cases in the hallway allowed the storage of the fossil echinoderms on the first floor and reor- ganization of some of the collection. EXPEDITIONS AND TRAVEL During the summer of 1953 Dr. Mayr attended the Interna- tional Colloquium on Zoological Nomenclature and the Four- teenth International Congress of Zoology, both held at Copen- hagen. He also attended the annual meeting of the German Ornithological Society, a symposium on genetics of popula- tion structure at Paris, and the International Genetics Congress at Bellagio, and, further, visited universities and biological sta- tions in Europe. During July 1953 Mr. Schroeder participated in the fifth and sixth of a series of cruises along the 100- to 730-fathom zone of the New England and Middle Atlantic coast by the dragger “Cap’n Bill II,” chartered by the Woods Hole Oce- anographic Institution. Dr. Carpenter spent most of the summer of 1953 on a field trip to the Southwest; Permian insects were collected in Okla- homa, and Neuroptera (mostly Coniopterygidae) in Nevada, Arizona and Colorado. Dr. Brown carried out field studies in the New Jersey pine barrens and the White Mountains. During the summer of 1953 Dr. and Mrs. Clench and Dr. Turner continued the work of collecting mollusks in the vicin- ity of the Jim Woodruff Dam at Chattahoochee, Florida, in cooperation with the Florida State Museum. The work was done in areas that will shortly be inundated; the “pool” from the dam will extend over 50 miles upstream on the Chatta- hoochee and more than 4o miles up the Flint River, and much of the fauna will be destroyed. Dr. Deichmann spent four months abroad. While there she identified most of the “Discovery” holothurian collection in the British Museum of Natural History and worked on other MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 13 collections in museums in Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Paris and Amsterdam. While in Copenhagen she also attended the Four- teenth International Congress of Zoology. In the late spring and summer of 1953 Preparators Olsen and Lewis searched for vertebrate fossils in the Permian Cutler formation in the San Miguel Canyon of western Colorado, the work being done in collaboration with Dr. G. Edward Lewis of the U. S. Geological Survey. Emulating the native mountain goats in their exploration of the canyon walls, they succeeded in collecting a small but interesting series of speci- mens. This past spring Olsen and Arnold Lewis continued the work in the Cutler, prospecting on this occasion in southeast- ern Utah. They were neither surprised nor pleased to find that the beds were extremely barren, and but a few frag- mentary remains were found. In March, Mr. and Mrs. Olsen worked again at the Thomas Farm locality in Gilchrist County, Florida. The caretaker’s “house” at the site is a dilapidated structure and it is planned that the Museum and the University of Florida will jointly bear the expense of a more substantial if modest building. It is further proposed to erect a Convenience — a miracle of rare device in the Piney Woods. In late March and April a month’s collecting trip was made, as has been the case for a number of years, to the Texas Per- mian. Mrs. Romer, Miss Wright, Arnold Lewis, Richard van Frank and the writer formed the party. We are most espe- cially indebted to Mr. John Robinson of Archer City for his hospitality in generously housing the entire party during our stay. A number of interesting additions were made to our col- lections. Dr. Whittington, with the aid of a grant from the Shaler Memorial Fund, spent three months visiting Britain, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Large collections of Ordovician fossils were obtained. 14 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY LIBRARY Some general library problems and projects were noted above. Miss Mackenzie reports that during the year the library has made steady progress in its various departments, but in particular the stress has been on cataloguing arrears and de- veloping a subject index. Some of the larger collections cata- logued include those from the Boston Society of Natural His- tory, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, W. M. Wheeler, J. A. Allen and P. Bleeker. Current cataloguing was carried on and much more analyzing was done than in former years, but much remains to be done so that many works con- tained in journals will be brought to the attention of our users. Our exchanges continue to grow, as evidenced by the addi- tion of 112 new institutions and 200 publications to our lists, making a total of 1,169 publications received on exchange from 551 institutions. We now receive 60% of our journals by exchange, 21% by gift and 19% by purchase. During 1953-1954 we added 5,378 volumes and 225 pamphlets to our holdings, bringing the total number of holdings to 105,563 volumes and 118,778 pamphlets. Miss Mackenzie in the summer of 1953 traveled in Europe, visiting libraries and booksellers in London, Frankfurt, Venice and Paris. Purchases were made for the library and a number of vexing problems were straightened out by her personal visit. PUBLICATIONS During the year about 2,000 pages of scientific work were published by the Museum under Miss Wright’s editorship. This unusually large volume of publication is due to the com- pletion of printing of the “Classification of Insects” by Brues, Melander and Carpenter, which constitutes volume 108 of the Bulletin. We are indebted to Miss Ruth Dunn for relieving the editor of most of the technically difficult task of seeing the MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 15 work through the press. Glover M. Allen’s “Checklist of African Mammals,” published in 1939 as volume 83 of the Bulletin, had long been out of print but in constant demand; this has been reissued by photolithography. As usual, a num- ber of entomological papers in Psyche were financed by the Museum. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS As in the past several years, almost all departments have been assisted in detailed curatorial tasks by volunteers. With- out the help of these people we would be unable to carry on many of the more time-consuming portions of the work. We are particularly indebted to Herbert Athearn, Arthur Clarke, Richard Johnson, Margaret Kane, and Edward Sosson for their assistance. In addition to gifts mentioned earlier in this report, our thanks are extended to the following individuals for dona- tions of specimens: Fishes: C. L. Biden, W. E. Fahy, F. Mather, III, G. A. Moore, S. Springer, C. Wheeler, L. P. Woods. Entomology: G. Ball, R. S. Beal, Jr., Doris Blake, Father Th. Borgmeier, J. G. Brooks, W. J. Brown, O. L. Cartwright, T’. Cekalovic, H. P. Chandler, E. A. Chapin, J. W. Chapman, A. M. Chickering, A. C. Cole, C. A. Collingwood, W. S. Creighton, H. Demarz, R. R. Dreisbach, H. Field, H. Hoog- straal, H. Howden, A. G. Humes, A. Jedlicka, P. B. Kan- nowski, C. Koch, H. W. Levi, C. H. Lindroth, I. M. Moore, W. Nutting, L. E. Pena, F. Plaumann, L. Quate, J. T. Salmon, M. W. Sanderson, H. W. Smith, M. R. Smith, Mary Talbot, S. Ueno, B. Valentine, F. van Emden, F. G. Werner. Invertebrate Fossils: D. McMichael, P. Oxley, C. Poulsen, F. Rasetti, D. M. Seaman, Margaret Teskey. Mammals: R. L. Edwards, D. J. Osborn. 16 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Marine Invertebrates: J. Carmin, F. Crescitelli, J. Gerould, J. K. Howard, T.S. Jones, H. A. Pilsbury. Reptiles and Amphibians: S. J. Copland, P. Daniel, F. Don- aldson, A. G. Edmund, R. W. Jackson, N. Maria, C. Mayo- don, E. M. McConkey, G. Nelson, J. R. Paulson, O. Sanders, P. P. Vaughn, G. Underwood, E. O. Wilson. ALFRED S. ROMER Director Museum of Comparative Zoology FACULTY, 1954-1955 Natuan Marsu Pusey, Ph.D., LL.D., L.H.D., President. Henry Bryant Bicetow, Ph.D., $.D. (hon.), Ph.D. (hon.). ALFRED SHERWOOD Rome_R, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.). GerorGE CHEEVER SHATTUCK, M.D., A.M. (hon.). GeorcE Bernays Wistock], M.D.,S.D. (hon.). STAFF, 1954-1955 ALFRED SHERWOOD Romer, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Director, Alex- ander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Verte- brate Paleontology. Henry Bryant BicELow, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Ph.D. (hon.), Re- search Oceanographer, Retired. REGINALD ALDworTtTH Daty, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hon.), S.D. (hon.), Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus. Louis Caryt Graton, Ph.D., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geol- ogy, Emeritus. JosepH Cuarves Bequaert, Dr.Phil., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology. Francis Bircu, Ph.D., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. Frank Morton Carpenter, S.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Fossil Insects. Ernst Mayr, Ph.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Professor of Zoology. Mar.anp Pratt Biiiines, Ph.D., Curator of the Geological Mu- seum. CuarLes THomas Brues, S.M., Honorary Curator of Parasitic Hymenoptera. WILLIAM JAMES CLENcH, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Curator of Mol- lusks. Puiuip Jackson Dar.incTon, Jr., Ph.D., Fall Curator of Coleop- tera and Curator of Recent Insects. ELISABETH DEICHMANN, Ph.D., Curator of Marine Invertebrates. 18 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Titty Epineer, Dr.phil.nat., $.D. (hon.), Research Paleontologist. JAMEs CowAn GREENWAY, Jr., A.B., Curator of Birds. LupLow Griscom, A.M., Research Ornithologist. CoLtumBus O’DonnELL ISELIN, II, A.M., S.D. (hon.), Research Oceanographer. ARTHUR LoveripcE, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians. BarBARA LAWRENCE SCHEVILL, A.B., Curator of Mammals. Henry Crospy Stetson, A.M., Research Oceanographer and Alexander Agassiz Fellow in Oceanography. Harry BLAckMoRE WHITTINGTON, Ph.D., D.Sc., Curator of In- vertebrate Paleontology. WILLIAM Louis Brown, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Curator of Insects. WILLIAM GeorcE FowLe Harris, Associate Curator of Oology. BeRNHARD KuUMMEL, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology. CuHaArLEs Perrson LyMAn, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Mammals. WILLIAM Epwarp ScHEvILL, A.M., Associate Curator of Inverte- brate Paleontology. | WILLIAM CHARLES SCHROEDER, Associate Curator of Fishes. ErRNEsT Epwarp WILLIAMS, Ph.D., Research Associate in Verte- brate Paleontology. Dona.p Bairp, M.S., Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontol- ogy. RAYMOND ANDREW PaynTER, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Birds. BENJAMIN SHREVE, Research Assistant. Rutu Drxon Turner, Ph.D., Research Assistant. Netpa EMELYN Wricut, M.A., Research Assistant and Editor of Publications. CuarLEs Foster BaTCHELDER, A.B., C.E., Associate in Mammalogy and Ornithology. ARTHUR CLEVELAND Bent, A.B., Associate in Ornithology. MerriLt Epwin Cuampion, M.D., M.P.H., Associate in Mollusks. Epwarp ALBERT CuHAaPIN, Ph.D., Associate in Entomology. James WITTENMEYER CuHapMaN, Sc.D., Associate in Entomology. ArTHUR MERTON CHICKERING, Ph.D., Associate in Arachnology. Haro_p JEFFERSON Coo ince, Jr., S.B., Associate in Mammalogy. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 19 WILLIAM CAMERON Forses, A.B., LL.D., Associate to Collect Specimens in Natural History. RicHARD WINSsLow Foster, A.B., Associate in Mollusks. RicHARD Cresson Hartow, S.M., Associate in Oology. GeorcE MitcHELt Moore, Ph.D., Associate in Mollusks. Henry Seton, A.M., Associate in Vertebrate Paleontology. Rosert Rakes SHrock, Ph.D., Associate in Invertebrate Paleon- tology. EMERY pienmate Swan, Ph.D., Associate in Marine Inverte- brates. THEODORE ELMER Wuite, Ph.D., Associate in Vertebrate Pale- ontology. GerorcGE NELSON, Preparator in Chief. Retired. STANLEY JOHN OLSEN, Preparator. ARNOLD Davip Lewis, Assistant Preparator. Frances LOWELL Burnett, A.M., Assistant. Myvanwy Mui rar Dick, Assistant. RutH CAMERON Dunn, B.S., Assistant. Mo.LiyAnn Keat Kay, B.A., Assistant. ELEANOR FRANCINE LOWENTHAL, Assistant. EveLYN Corwin RADEMACHER, A.B., Assistant. RICHARD VAN FRANK, A.B., Assistant. Patricia Mary Wasuer, B.S., Artist. RutH Woop Norton, A.B., Secretary to the Director. Joan CaroLe KINSELLA, Staff Secretary. ANNE Patricia Murpny, Secretary to the Bird Department. PHYLLIS JEANNE SEARIGHT, B.S., Secretary to the Insect Depart- ment. Jessie BELL MacKenzie, A.B., Librarian. Exrnor Toop, A.B., B.S. in L.S., Assistant Librarian. Marjorie DonaLp AinsworTH, Assistant in Library. Mivprep Lea Levy, B.A., Assistant in Library. ELIsABETH HoOHENAUER MoncreirFrF, Cataloguer. Marearet SHAW NicopeMvus, Assistant in Library. MAxweELL LESLIE FRENCH, Staff Assistant. 20 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1953-1954 The following have been printed under Museum auspices during the year from July 1, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Breviora No. 18. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part. Il. By William L. Brown, Jr. 8 pp. September 23, 1953- No. 19. Lower Cretaceous nautiloids from Texas. By Bern- hard Kummel. 11 pp., 2 pls. September 23, 1953. No. 20. Lower Triassic Salt Range nautiloids. By Bernhard Kummel. 8 pp., 2 pls. September 23, 1953. No. 21. The ancestry of the family Nautilidae. By Bern- hard Kummel. 7 pp., 1 pl. September 23, 1953. No. 22. Notes on the ant, Leptothorax obliquicanthus Cole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). By Robert E. Gregg. 3 pp. October 13, 1953. No. 23. A new species of Hypognatha from Panama. By Arthur M. Chickering. 8 pp., figs. October 23, 1953. No. 24. A new family, a new genus, and two new species of batoid fishes from the Gulf of Mexico. By Henry B. Bige- low and William C. Schroeder. 16 pp. January 27, 1954. No. 25. A new Miocene species of Pelusios and the evolu- tion of that genus. By Ernest E. Williams. 7 pp., 4 pls. January 28, 1954. No. 26. A preliminary list of the earthworms of northern New Jersey with notes. By H. Davies. 13 pp. February 3, 1954. No. 27. Anterior regeneration in a sexthecal species of lum- bricid earthworm. By G. E. Gates. 5 pp. February 5, 1954. No. 28. Clemmydopsis Boda a valid lineage of emydine tur- tles from the European Tertiary. By Ernest E. Williams. 9 pp. February 8, 1954. No. 29. Absence of mesoplastra in a Pelomedusa (Testudines, Pelomedusidae). By Ernest E. Williams. 4 pp., 2 pls. February 8, 1954. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 21 No. 30. Aestivation in a Permian lungfish. By Alfred S. Romer and Everett C. Olson. 8 pp., pl. February 8, 1954. No. 31. New freshwater gastropod mollusks of the African genus Lanistes. By T. Pain. 4 pp., figs. March 3, 1954. No. 32. Fossils and the distribution of chelyid turtles. 2. Additional reputed chelyid turtles on northern continents: Palaeaspis conybearii (Owen) —a pelomedusid. By Er- nest E. Williams. 6 pp., figs. March 12, 1954. No. 33. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. By William L. Brown, Jr. 11 pp. May 14, 1954. Bulletin Vol. 108. Classification of Insects. By Charles T. Brues, A. L. Melander and Frank M. Carpenter. 917 pp., 1219 figs. March, 1954. Vol. 109. No. 3. New and little known sharks from the Atlantic and from the Gulf of Mexico. By Henry B. Bigelow, William C. Schroeder and Stewart Springer. 67 pp., 10 figs. July, 1953- No. 4. Birds of Japan. By O. L. Austin, Jr. and Nagahisa Kuroda. 364 pp. October, 1953. Vol. 110. No. 3. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. By Arthur Love- ridge. 181 pp., 5 pls. July, 1953. No. 4. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. IV. Amphibians from Nyasaland and Tete. By Arthur Loveridge. 83 pp., 4 pls. July, 1953. No. 5. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. V. Chilopoda (Myriopoda). By R. F. Lawrence. 17 pp., 3 figs. July, 1953. No. 6. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. VI. Decapod Crustacea. By Fenner Chace, Jr. 19 pp. 4 figs. July, 1953. No. 7. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. VII. Itinerary and conclusions. By Arthur Loveridge. 56 pp., 6 pls. October, 1953. 22 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Vol. 111. No. 1, Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Aus- tralia. By William L. Brown, Jr. 35 pp. November, 1953. No. 2. Ticks (Ixodoidea) of the Malagasy faunal region (ex- cepting the Seychelles). By Harry Hoogstraal. 79 pp., 81 figs. December, 1953. No. 3. Random notes on North American Carabidae (Cole- opt.). By Carl H. Lindroth. 46 pp., 14 figs. March, 1954. No. 4. Chirotherium lulli, a pseudosuchian reptile from New Jersey. By Donald Baird. 29 pp., 2 pls., 3 figs. March, 1954- No. 5. The spider genus Mangora (Argiopidae) in Panama. By Arthur M. Chickering. 22 pp., 28 figs. March, pe No. 6. Exotic earthworms of the United States. By G. E. Gates. 41 pp. March, 1954. No. 7. The reproductive system and early embryology of the nudibranch Archidoris montereyensis (Cooper). By John A. McGowan and Ivan Pratt. 17 pp., 2 pls. June, 1954. No. 8. A key and description of the living species of the genus Podocnemis (sensu Boulenger) (Testudines, Pelo- medusidae). By Ernest Williams. 18 pp., 9 figs. June, 1954. Johnsonia Vol. 3. No. 33. The Family Pholadidae in the Western Atlantic and the Eastern Pacific. Part I. Pholadinae. By Ruth D. Tur- ner. 64 pp., 34 pls. May 17, 1954. Psyche Vol. 60. No. 2. Australian carabid beetles. I. Some Clivina from west- ern Australia. By P. J. Darlington, Jr. Pp. 52-61. No. 3. The Indo-Australian species of the ant genus Strumi- genys Fr. Smith: S. wallacei Emery and relatives. By W L. Brown, Jr. Pp. 85-89. Australian carabid beetles II. Some new Pterostichini. By P. J. Darlington, Jr. Pp. go-101. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 23 A new neotropical Chrysops (Diptera, Tabanidae). By L. L. Pechuman. Pp. 115-118, 1 fig. No. 4. Cicindelidae (tiger beetles) collected in eastern New Guinea, with description of a new species. By C. M. C. Brouerius van Nidek. Pp. 155-159, 1 fig., 1 pl. The Indo-Australian species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: Group of doriae Emery. By W. L. Brown, Jr. Pp. 160-166. Vol. 61. No. 1. A new myrmecophilous scarabaeid beetle from the Philippine Islands with a review of Haroldius. By Pe. F. S. Pereira. Pp. 1-8, 1 pl. The Baltic amber Mecoptera. By F. M. Carpenter. Pp. 31- 40, 4 figs. PUBLICATIONS BY THE MUSEUM STAFF Bequaert, J.C. Some peculiarities of the West African terrestrial molluscan fauna. Amer. Mal. Un., Rept. 19th Ann. Meet. (1952), Pp- 9-10, 1953. Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae. Parc National Albert. I. Mission G. F. de Witte, Fasc., 79:89-94, 1953. Hippoboscidae. Res. Norwegian Scient. Exped. Tristan da Cunha, 26:45, 1954. Bigelow, H. B. New and little known sharks from the Atlantic and from the Gulf of Mexico. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 109:213-276, 10 figs., 1953. (With W. C. Schroeder and Stewart Spring- er.) Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildlife Service, 53:1-577. 288 figs., 1953. (With W. C. Schroeder.) A new family, a new genus, and two new species of batoid fishes from the Gulf of Mexico. Breviora, 24:1-15, 4 figs., 1954. (With W. C. Schroeder.) Brown, W.L., Jr. The neotropical species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: group of smithii Forel. Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., 61: 101-110, 1953. 24 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Revisionary studies in the ant tribe Dacetini. Amer. Midl. Nat., 50:1-137, 1953. A review. Insects: their secret ways by Evelyn Cheesman. The Saturday Review, New York, September 26, 1953, Pp 2 The subspecies concept and its taxonomic application. Syst. Zool., 2:97-111, 1953. (With E. O. Wilson.) Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part II. Breviora, 18 :1-8, 1953. An Australian Trapeziopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche, 60:51, 1953. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 111:1-35, 1953. The Indo-Australian species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: S. wallacei Emery and relatives. Psyche, 60: 85-89, 1953- A revision of the ant genus Orectognathus. Mem. Queens- land Mus., 13: 84-104, 1953. Remarks on the internal phylogeny and subfamily classifica- tion of the family Formicidae. Insectes Sociaux, 1: 21-31, 1954. A preliminary report on dacetine ant studies in Australia. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., 46: 465-471, 1954. The neotropical species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: group of elongata Roger. Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc., 61:189—200, 1954. The synonymy of the ant Aphaenogaster lepida Wheeler. Pan-Pacific Ent., 30:10, 1954. The Indo-Australian species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: group of doriae Emery. Psyche, 60:160-166, 1954. Systematic and other notes on some of the smaller species of the ant genus Rhytidoponera Mayr. Breviora, 23:1-11, 1954. Brues, C. T. Classification of Insects. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 108:1-917, 1219 figs. 1954. (With A. L. Melander and F. M. Car- penter.) MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 25 Carpenter, F. M. Additional notes on Brachypanorpa. Psyche, 60:154, 1953. Classification of Insects. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 108:1-917, 1219 figs. 1954. (With C. T. Brues and A. L. Melander.) The Baltic amber Mecoptera. Psyche, 61:31-40, 1954. Chickering, A. M. Two new species of Senoculus (Araneae, Senoculidae) from Panama. Trans. Amer. Micros. Soc., 72:281-287, 1953. A new species of Hypognatha from Panama. Breviora, 23: 1-8, 1953. The spider genus Mangora (Argiopidae) in Panama. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 111:195-215, 1954. Clench, W. J. A note on Thomas Martyn. Minutes no. 133, Conch. Club S. Calif., p. 2, 1953. Paramiella, new name for Paramia. Nautilus, 67:139, 1954. Galeodes, Busycon and Melongena. Nautilus, 67:139, 1954. Darlington, P. J., Jr. Australian carabid beetles. I. Some Clivina from Western Australia. Psyche, 60 :52-61, 1953. West Indian Carabidae (IX). More about the Jamaican species. Occ. Pap. Mus, Inst. Jamaica, 8:1-14, 1953. Australian carabid beetles. II. Some new Pterostichini. Psyche, 60 :90-101, 1953. West Indian Carabidae (Coleoptera). The Bahama species. Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1650 :1-16, 1953. Deichmann, E. The “Texas Longhorn Shells” from the Florida waters. Nau- tilus, 67: 76-80, 7 pls., 4 figs., 1954. Griscom, L. The changing seasons. A summary of the spring migration. Aud. Field Notes, 7 :260-261, 1953. Spring migration. Northeastern maritime region. Aud. Field Notes, 7 :261-262, 1953. The changing seasons. A summary of the nesting season. Aud. Field Notes, 7 :296-297, 1953. Nesting season. Northeastern maritime region. Aud. Field Notes, 7 :297—298, 1953. 26 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY The changing seasons. A summary of the fall migration. Aud. Field Notes, 8 :4—-5, 1954. Special report and proposals regarding conservation activi- ties of the American Ornithologists’ Union. Auk, 71: 109-110, 1954. (With Ira N. Gabrielson and Hoyes Lloyd. The abide of our waterfowl. Aud. Mag., 56:64, 65, 82, 83, pl., 1954. Historical developments of sight recognition. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., 63-65 :16—20, 1954. Report of the American Ornithologists’ Union Advisory Committee on bird protection. Auk, 71:186-190, 1954. (With Ira N. Gabrielson and Hoyes Lloyd.) The changing seasons. A summary of the winter season. Aud. Field Notes, 8:2 36-237, 1954. Thumb nail sketches of our Vice Presidents: S. Gilbert Emilio. Bull. Mass. Aud. Soc., 38:270-271, photo., 1954. Kummel, B. Regional relationships of Triassic formations in eastern Idaho and adjacent areas. Intermountains Association of Petro- leum Geologists, Fourth Annual Field Conference Guide- book, pp. 48-53, 1953. Middle Triassic ammonites from Peary Land. Medd. om Gr¢gnland, 127 :1-21, 1 pl., 4 figs., 1953. Lower Cretaceous nautiloids from Texas. Breviora, 19:1-11, 2 pls., 2 figs., 1953. Lower Triassic Salt Range nautiloids. Breviora, 20:1-8, 2 pls., 3 figs., 1953. The ancestry of the family Nautilidae. Breviora, 21:1-7, 1 pl., 3 figs., 1953. American Triassic coiled nautiloids. U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper, 250:1-104, 19 pls., 43 figs., 1953. The Triassic of South America. Bol. Soc. Geol. Peru, 26: 95-120, 2 figs., 1953. (With R. L. Fuchs.) Jurassic nautiloids from western North America. Jour. Paleo., 28 :320-324, 2 pls., 1954. Triassic stratigraphy of southeastern Idaho and adjacent areas. U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper, 254-H:165-194, 7 pls., 4 figs., 1954. MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 27 Lower Turonian ammonites from Texas and Mexico. Jour. Paleo., 28:310-319, 3 pls. ro figs. 1954. (With J. M. Decker.) Lawrence, B. High-frequency auditory response of a bottlenosed porpoise, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu). Jour. Acoustical Soc. Amer., 25:1016-1017, 1953. (With W. E. Schevill.) Auditory response of a bottlenosed porpoise, Twrsiops trun- catus, to frequencies above 100 kc. Jour. Exper. Zool., 124:147-166, 1953. (With W. E. Schevill.) Tursiops as an experimental subject. Jour. Mamm., 35:225- 232, 1954. (With W. E. Schevill.) Loveridge, A. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. III. Reptiles from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110:141-322, 5 pls., 1953. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. IV. Amphibians from Nyasaland and Tete. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110 :323-407, 4 pls., 1953. Zoological results of a fifth expedition to East Africa. VII. Itinerary and conclusions. With an appendix on the avi- fauna by C. W. Benson. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 110: 444-487, 6 pls., 1953. Harold Lester Babcock 1886-1953. Copeia, no. 3:134- 135, 1953- Herpetological results of the Berner-Carr entomological sur- vey of the Shire Valley, Nyasaland. Quart. Jour. Fla. Acad. Sci., 16:139-150, photo., 1953. Mystery of alleged lizard egg resolved. Copeia, no. 1:64, 1954. (With B. Shreve.) Lyman, C. P. The effect of hibernation on the growth of sarcoma in the hamster. Cancer Research, 14:25-28, 1954. (With D. W. Fawcett.) Effects of temperature on the ventral caudal nerve of the rat. Amer. Jour. Physiol., 177:183-186, 1954. (With P. O. Chatfield. ) 28 MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY Mayr, E. Geographic and individual variation in the Shrike-tit (Fal- cunculus frontatus). Emu, 53:249-252, 1953. Taxonomic notes on Oreoica gutturalis. Emu, 53:252-253, 1953- Comments on evolutionary literature. Evolution, 7:273-281, 1953. Additional notes on the birds of Bimini, Bahamas. Auk, 70: 499-501, 1953. The South-West Australian races of the Spotted Scrub- Wren, Sericornis maculatus. The Western Australian Naturalist, 4:66-70, 1953. (With Robert Wolk.) Notes on Australian Whistlers (Aves, Pachycephala). Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1653:1-22, 1954. La Specie. “La Ricerca Scientifica,” 23:9-59 (Based on the Pavia Lectures, 1951), 1953. Change of genetic environment and evolution. J7 Evolution as a Process, ed. by J. Huxley. George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., London. Pp. 157-180, 1954. Binomial nomenclature and the meaning of generic names. Fla. Nat., 27 :7-8, 1954. Geographic speciation in tropical echinoids. Evolution, 8: I-18, 1954. Birds of Central New Guinea. Results of the American Mu- seum of Natural History Expeditions to New Guinea in 1950 and 1952. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist.. 103:317-374, 22 pls., 1954. (With E. T. Gilliard.) The tail molt of small owls. Auk, 71:172-178, 1954. (With Margaret Mayr.) Notes on nomenclature and classification. Syst. Zool., 3 :86—-89, 1954. Report of the Standing Committee on distribution of terres- trial faunas in the inner Pacific. Fragments of a Papuan ornithogeography. On the origin of bird migration in the Pacific. Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Science Con- gress, 4:5—-11, 11-19, 387-394, 1953. Paynter, R. A., Jr. Autumnal migrants on the Campeche Bank. Auk, 70:338- 349; 1953- MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 29 The beginning of a new era in Mexican ornithology. A re- view. Birds of Mexico by E. R. Blake. Ecology, 34:654, 1953. Three new birds from the Yucatan Peninsula. Postilla, Yale Univ., Peabody Mus. Nat. Hist., 18:1-4, 1954. Two species new to the Mexican avifauna. Auk, 71:204, 1954. Interrelations between clutch size, brood size, prefledgling survival, and weight in Kent Island tree swallows. Part I. Bird Banding, 25 :35-58, 1954. Romer, A. S. Aestivation in a Permian lungfish. Breviora, 30:1-8, 1 pl. 1954. (With Everett C. Olson.) Schevill, W. E. High frequency auditory response of a bottlenosed porpoise, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu). Jour. Acoustical Soc. Amer., 25:1016-1017, 1953. (With B. Lawrence.) Auditory response of a bottlenosed porpoise, Tursiops trun- catus, to frequencies above 100 ke. Jour. Exper. Zool., 124:147-166, 1953. (With B. Lawrence.) Tursiops as an experimental subject. Jour. Mamm., 35:225- 232, 1954. (With B. Lawrence.) Schroeder, W. C. New and little known sharks from the Atlantic and from the Gulf of Mexico. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 109:213- 276, 10 figs., 1953. (With H. B. Bigelow and Stewart Springer.) Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Bull. Fish and Wildlife Ser., 53 :1-577, 288 figs., 1953. (With H. B. Bigelow.) A new family, a new genus, and two new species of batoid fishes from the Gulf of Mexico. Breviora, 24:1-15, 4 figs., 1954. (With H. B. Bigelow.) Shreve, B. Mystery of alleged lizard egg resolved. Copeia, no. 1: 64,1954. (With A. Loveridge.) Stetson, H. C. 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