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Washington, D. C., October 15, 1928. ccomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ended 30, 1928. ___-‘Very respectfully, Oo eapaialll = ALEXANDER WETMORE, ee: Assistant Secretary. _ Dr. Cuartes G. Axgor, or ——- Secretary, Smithsonian Institution. iit wae MaMoutkM PRT: EET } * comyraaad Wamu, A7EP IO woerons tr feet BY wedge wotpiteden a Re: fy nog tetinn Biiwowd ipendisa of sono il? _ com Tare oniceulé GrOEee sorte: Data re row teen ol ois ts eS ARS | ‘ising: Bt sth B Fe all “hana ae ‘ pd i his ith > nowt. 1 oe y assay + eae Stas Ae se Z i} 4 : b. é a es ee 7 eee TY | TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ET NIG BEES, es SRS SO een RE ee Vil Foreword_-_--~- ease Se ae een. es ee ee 1 ene, Men remap Sri ior Set ee, fee ae = Se Tg SE I Sy Ae eR tS 3 0 a ES ee ae eee eee SET Cee 6/a nae ee Se ne ae. 2 ee elioprerariep yeclirn it mG ‘oe ba : ea ig * we s be ° ‘ b > . : * > 2 > 4 . - an t fir i ” ul ay ‘e? ‘a - : - f { wii *h . i Pr “ts! v] : Tae = : y a > . 7 tif j Cre eeee 3 ‘ p : at) ; ; {waiesy Two)t Te ; ‘ . 4 J J Y — * . > REPORT OF THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1928 By ALEXANDER WETMORE Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution FOREWORD The Congress of the United States in the act of August 10, 1846, founding the Smithsonian Institution, recognized that an oppor- tunity was afforded, in carrying out the design of Smithson for the increase and diffusion of knowledge, to provide for the custody of the Museum of the Nation. To this new establishment was, there- fore, intrusted the care and development of the national collections. At first the cost of maintaining this activity was paid from the Smithsonian income; then for a time the Government bore a share; but since 1877 Congress has provided for the expenses of the Museum. The museum idea was fundamental in the organic act establishing the Smithsonian Institution, which was based upon a 12 years’ discussion in Congress and the advice of the most distinguished scientific men, educators, and intellectual leaders -of the Nation during the years 1834 to 1846. It is interesting to note how broad and comprehensive were the views which actuated the Congress in determining the scope of the Museum, a fact especially remarkable when it is recalled that at that date no museum of considerable size existed in the United States, and the museums of England and of the continent of Europe, although containing many rich collec- tions, were still to a large extent without a developed plan. The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as within the scope of the Museum “all objects of art and of foreign and curious research and all objects of natural history, plants, and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the United States,” thus indicating the Museum at the very outset as the Museum of the United States and as one of the widest range in its activities. It was appreciated that additions would be necessary to the collections then in existence, and provision was made for their increase by the exchange of duplicate specimens, by donations, and by others means. The maintenance of the Museum was long ago assumed by Con- gress, the Smithsonian Institution taking upon itself only so much z 2 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 of the necessary responsibility for its administration as is required to coordinate it with its other activities. The Museum as a part of the Smithsonian is an integral part of a broad organization for increase and diffusion of knowledge, for scientific research, for cooperation with departments of the Government, with universities and scientific societies in America, and with all scientific institutions and men abroad who seek interchange of views with men of science in the United States. Since 1846 the only material changes in the scope of the National Museum have been (1) the addition of a department of American history, intended to illustrate, by an appropriate assemblage of ob- jects, important events, the domestic life of the country from the colonial period to the present time, and the lives of distinguished personages, and (2) provision, in 1920, for the separate administra- tion of the National Gallery of Art as a coordinate unit under the Smithsonian Institution. From 1906 to 1920 the gallery was admin- istered as the department of fine arts of the Museum. The development of the Museum has been greatest in those sub- jects which the conditions of the past three-quarters of a century have made most fruitful—the natural history, geology, ethnology, and archeology of the United States, which have been supplemented extensively by collections from other countries of the world. Op- portunities for acquisition in these various directions in the first years of the institution were mainly brought about through the activities of the scientific and economic surveys of the Government, many of which have been the direct outgrowths of earlier explorations stimu- lated or directed by the Smithsonian Institution. Additions from these sources still continue in large volume. As supplemental to them an increasing number of persons interested in science make annual additions to our collections either directly or through financial sup- port of expeditions by. members of the staff. The increment of material from these contributions increases annually and is greatly appreciated. Such outside aid brings material that is of the greatest importance and that often could be obtained in no other way. The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 afforded opportunity for estab- lishing a department of industrial arts, which has received great impetus recently through the cooperation of industrial firms and associations, particularly in the assembling of material illustrative of historical development in various lines. The historical series has been greatly augmented since 1918 by large collections illustrative of the World War, and also by extensive additions to exhibits in aircraft and kindred subjects that have been received during this period. Public interest in the growth and development of the National Museum is reflected by the steady increase of recorded attendance, in correspondents, and in requests for information. OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR APPROPRIATIONS : Provision for the maintenance of the National Museum for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1928, was made in the following regular items of appropriation carried in the executive and independent offices act approved February 11, 1927: NEN OTT a ee ae $478, 510 i TSS pala aii a i a EP PE 26, 500 i lll lillie pil ell nthe Deans alia ie pre 79, 500 I Tse fe FE oe ee ee Pe se 13, 000 SEES: SDD aoe cats aet OB ee RI a eee ere ee eee Ser ee ee ie SPS 1, 500 I ah es tg a eet gh en 450 EES ee ae aes ee ee a ec ee 44, 000 Construction of gallery in National Herbarium______________________ 12, 500 650, 960 The total represents the sum of $41,640 above the appropriation available for the year 1926. The increase of $23,510 under the principal appropriation, that for preservation of collections, pro- vided a one-rate promotion for the staff, in accordance with efficiency attained in the performance of duty as indicated in the annual survey and rating of the efficiency of all employees, the first promo- tion of the kind that has been possible under the salary roll of this appropriation since the classification act was put in effect on July 1, 1924. The total required for these salary increases was $19,070. The result of these additions to salaries has been appreciably appar- ent in the increased morale of the personnel and has reacted most advantageously to the Museum. Of the sum remaining, $2,280 was required for additions to the salary roll through reallocations made by the Personnel Classification Board. The remainder of $2,160 was allotted to the purchase of specimens required for the collections, miscellaneous supplies, and expenditures for freight. The additional amount for the purchase of specimens has been especially important, since it has brought in highly valuable material of great scientific importance that otherwise could not have been secured. Of the increase of $2,770 for furniture and fixtures, $770 was provided for new curtains in the south and west exhibition halls in the Natural History Building, where there is necessity to soften the light during bright days to prevent deterioration in specimens - on exhibition, and where the curtains in use, through age, were 3 a REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 no longer serviceable. The remaining sum of $2,000 was provided for materials used in the storage of the study collections, principally for additional drawers for the insect collections, and for jars, vials, trays, and boxes for general use. The sum of $1,360 added to the appropriation for heating and lighting was provided by Congress for a one-rate increase to the employees on this salary roll, a well- merited promotion, and, as in the previous case mentioned, the first that has come to this group. Of $1,000 under the amount provided for building repairs, $60 came for a minor promotion in the case of one employee, and the sum of $940 was provided to cover in part replacement and repair on the concrete roadway on the east side of the Natural History Building, which comes under our care for maintenance. The amount of $500 additional allotted to the provision for printing and binding brought a needed increase to $44,000 in that important matter. A special appropriation of $12,500 was made to cover the con- struction of a gallery over the west end of the great hall housing the collections in the division of plants. Congestion in these col- lections had become extreme as herbarium cases filled the aisles, the cases were badly crowded, and there was an accumulation of over 200,000 plants that could not be placed in their proper folders in the herbarium. Construction of this gallery, which was completed during the year, practically doubled available space for plants and permitted a proper expansion of the collection, besides affording proper working conditions for the specialists who use these halls. This gaHery, next to the provision for increased salaries, is the most important improvement that addition in appropriations has per- mitted for the year. Increases to the salary rolls for promotions under the appropria- tion for the year here under consideration, together with further additions through the appropriation for 1929, and the Welsh Act, which are available as this report is written, have placed the staff of the National Museum generally in greatly improved economic situa- tion, and have thus produced greater efficiency in the work of the Institution. To carry out the intent of the reclassification act there is required arrangement for further general increase which will place those of the staff with proper efficiency rating at the average rate in their respective grades. There are also several groups, particu- larly among the skilled mechanics, where the Personnel Classification Board, recognizing that the persons in question were being paid at lower rates than in other governmental departments has given a veallocation to a higher position. As these persons were at the - average pay in their old grades this reallocation has brought no increase in salary, since the entrance in the new grade is equivalent REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 5 to the average in the old. Definite provision should be made here for promotion. It is earnestly urged that further additions to the appropriations for all salary rolls may be made until the various groups of salaries attain the averages provided by law. Such action is eminently and properly the reward for conscientious performance of duty on the part. of the staff, and will react wholly to the advantage of the Institution. The matter of additional personnel is one of considerable im- portance as there is growing necessity for further workers both on the scientific staff and in the clerical forces. The National Museum through the many years of its growth has developed along broad lines and maintains extensive collections in many branches. There are several groups of. animals where large collections are available with no specialist in charge, a condition that should be remedied promptly. Further, there are a number of divisions where assistants should be provided for older men now in charge who should be in a position to train others in proper methods to carry on when they themselves are gone. Clerical assistance is at a minimum when the volume of work to be covered is considered, and there is need for more employees of this group to relieve scientific workers of routine work in cataloguing and thus permit them to devote their time more fully to important scientific investigations. It is now necessary annually to procure the temporary services of additional cataloguers, typists, and laborers to assist in the work of the divisions. These persons should be on the permanent rolls as the work required is specialized and requires considerable training for proper performance which it is not possible to give in a period of limited employment. Congestion in the present space occupied by the National Museum collections increases annually in spite of directive effort to select for preservation only the objects that must be kept and to eliminate material that is not permanently desired. It is imperative to take important collections when they are available as opportunity to secure them may never offer again. As an asset of the Nation the col- lections of the National Museum should be made as complete as pos- sible while lacking materials are still procurable. In the last 10 years the exhibition halls devoted to arts and industries and to history have become increasingly more crowded until in many instances there has been brought about decided incongruity in association of ex- hibits because of need that has arisen for the acceptance of valuable things that when on hand must be afforded space. Exhibits of ani- mals have been curtailed to make way for historical objects, and space designed for anthropology has been preempted for displays of objects of art. In the entire museum the collection of plants is 6 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 now practically the only research unit that has available a requisite amount of floor space to afford proper handling. In the last 10 years there has been gradual utilization of the halls that serve as passage ways until now cases for the storage of study specimens line the walls and to some extent close these passage lanes. The situation is such that the limit of expansion is practically reached and a number of divisions are already urgently in need of more space for their research collections than is assigned to them. The study collections as a whole will grow annually at a steady rate that will not decrease for a considerable period of years at least. Though to one with casual knowledge it might appear that one or two examples of each kind are sufficient it is actually true that good series are imperative for the investigations of the talented workers to whom we look for increase in knowledge concerning the things about us. It is found on close examination that individual insects, birds, mammals, fossils, plants, mollusks, or in fact any other natural materials or organisms, differ from each other in form, color, dimension, and structure, so that a series of specimens is re- quired to show the characters of a single species. Frequently when specimens supposedly the same from a wide geographic range are compared it is found that two or more forms are represented. Scientists and laymen alike properly look to the National Museum for extensive material to demonstrate all these points, some of which may seem to have no particular importance at the time but all of which inevitably are found eventually to possess some utilitarian value. Our study collections should be the largest and most extensive in the country. From what has been said it will appear that further housing for the National Museum is imperative. The collections in arts and industries are found at present in the old National Museum, a building that when it was completed in 1881 was a model of its kind for the world, but with modern progress is now as much out of date as vehicular transportation or the average manufacturing process of that day when compared with present methods. Further, though carefully constructed originally, at an age of 47 years it is becoming somewhat of a problem to keep it in proper condition, and before long some expensive renovations must be contemplated if it is to be retained. This building should be replaced now by one of modern design that will afford a much greater area of floor space, with halls properly designed in form to meet modern needs. The new building should stand in part on the site occupied by the old one but will need to cover considerably more ground to provide for our need. Modern advances in manufacturing processes are tremendous and so overshadow the modest beginnings of some of our industries that REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 7 they will be completely forgotten by the coming generation. There should be preserved in the National Museum exhibits to show the essential steps in the development in all branches of transportation, engineering, and commerce. These will have inestimable value in affording material studies on which further advances sain: be made and in the education of our modern youth. _ The ultimate construction of a National Gallery of Art to which the art collections will be removed will free a certain amount of space in the Natural History Building, but that area will be automatically absorbed by the natural history exhibits retired to make room for art, and will not afford necessary relief. There should be added to the Natural History Building two wings, one on the east and one on the west, in accordance with the original plan of the architect for thisstructure. These, with the same height as the present building, will give needed space for the tremendously val- uable research collections and will relieve crowded laboratories, which in the division of insects, for example, have become almost in- tolerable because of the increasing number of persons necessarily en- gaged in important researches on these collections, so that in some instances at present four persons depend upon the light from a single window for illumination for work requiring delicate examination, frequently under the microscope. The additional floor space would also afford a more logical arrangement of exhibits, a remodeling of many in more modern form, which can not be attempted at present. and a relief from present crowding, which is often tiring and con- fusing to the visitor. The division of history, one of the greatest importance to every patriotic American, with its wonderful series of memorabilia of those to whom we owe our country and our freedom, its collections of weapons, war materials, historical objects of all kinds, and exten- Sive series of coins and stamps, at present has its exhibits distributed through the Natural History, and the Arts and Industries Buildings. in a manner wholly incongruous to orderly display. There should be provided for it a separate building where its treasures may be ade- quately shown for the admiration and reverence of our people for generations to come. Certainly all these historic objects, not to be duplicated at any price, should be displayed under the best of con- ditions as a monument to those whom they represent and to previous generations in our Nation. Existing appropriations are taken up so largely with necessary routine expenditures that there is little available to be used in ex- ploration and field work. Many interested friends and correspond- ents make great additions to our collections annually, but the Museum should be provided with adequate funds that would enable 15544—28——2 8 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 it to develop various field researches along logical and continuing lines. Further, there come to the Museum frequent reports of valua- ble specimens that may be had if some one competent can go to the spot to obtain them. These are usually of such nature that they can not be collected and sent in by the inexperienced as unless properly handled they are not worth the cost of transportation, though when properly prepared they are highly valuable. At the present time this material is usually lost, though for a comparatively small ex- penditure it might be preserved. Funds that may be used for such purposes and for field work in general are urgently needed. It may be added that in the United States to-day there is an imcreasing part of the population that is definitely interested in science. This is shown in the present demand for authentic scien- tific news on the part of the press, for photographs of interesting scientific objects for publication, and by the general attitude of the public. As our country grows there develops an increasing group of those financially independent who turn to scientific researches and investigations either as recreation or with serious desire to assist in addition to human knowledge, and who find in scientific matters relaxation and inspiration, recreation, and serious endeavor. This group now assists tremendously in the furtherance of scientific development and will be an increasing force in that direction in the future. These persons from their financial situation make large con- tributions toward the Federal income in the form of taxes, where- fore it would seem logical to make a part of this money available for support of their immediate interests in the form of increased appro- priations for the National Museum. COLLECTIONS Additions to the collections during the fiscal year in number are far above those of last year, and constitute a tremendous mass of materials. The increments were covered in 1920 separate accessions which included the enormous total of 832,912 separate objects. The specimens indicated were divided among the various departments as follows: Anthropology, 4,414; biology, 680,350; geology, 112,747; arts and industries, and history 35,401. The total increase for last year came to 402,531, which was considerably above the average for recent years, The large total of additions for the year 1928 has been due prin- cipally to extensive collections that have come to the department of biology, notably the C. F. Baker collection of insects of approxi- mately 300,000 specimens, including one of the finest gatherings ex- tant from the Philippine Islands, received by bequest from Professor Baker; over 50,000 specimens of land shells collected by C. R. Orcutt REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 9 in Jamaica, purchased through the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund; and the C. G. Lloyd mycological collection, comprising 75,000 speci- mens of the larger fungi, transferred to the Smithsonian Institution by the trustees of the Lloyd estate. The single object of greatest popular interest that has come to the National Museum in many years is Colonel Lindbergh’s airplane, the Spirit of St. Louis, which has drawn large crowds since the day of its deposit with the Smithsonian Institution. In anthropology there may be mentioned especially the material secured by Henry B. Collins, jr., and T. Dale Stewart, representing the culture of the Eskimo of Nunivak Island; collections representative of Indian cul- ture in the Dominican Republic, secured by H. W. Krieger under funds provided by Dr. W. L. Abbott; and specimens collected by Dr. ¥F. H. H. Roberts, in work for the Bureau of American Ethnology in the West. The department of geology has obtained valuable ad- ditions to the ore and mineral collections through Dr. W. F. Foshag’s travels in Mexico, and to the mineral collections through purchases from the Roebling fund. There may be mentioned also the gift of the private collection of Dr. August F. Foerste, of Dayton, Ohio, of American paleozoic invertebrates, consisting of material of high im- portance, and especially the Frank Springer collection of Echino- derms, one of the finest known, which was transferred by bequest at the death of Doctor Springer. Complete accounts of these and other specimens received will be found in the reports of the head curators which follow. There were received during the year 1,481 lots of material for ex- amination and report, the larger part being of geological and botan- ical nature, and the aggregate number of specimens included large. Some of this was returned to the senders by request, ‘a part was added to our collections, and a part discarded as not valuable for preservation. During the year 6,267 specimens were sent out as gifts, mainly to schools and other educational institutions. Included in these were 12 sets of mollusks of 149 specimens each, 25 sets to illustrate soil formation through the weathering of rock, each consisting of 16 individual specimens, 4 sets of echinoderms of 6 specimens each, and 4. sets of fishes of 54 specimens, and 2 of 73 specimens each. Ex- changes of duplicate material with other institutions and individuals amounted to 33,724 specimens. There were 25,145 specimens, many of them highly valuable, loaned for study to workers outside of Washington. The handling of this material, both in sending and on return, constitutes a tremendous task requiring much time and attention. 10 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 The following statement of specimens now covered in the Museum catalogues will be of interest: AnthropongLy ee a ee ee 672, 173. Biology 6:2 Se a ee eee IP SUPE. EL Pte Aly 8, 327, 666 Geology a0 be ee eo a 8 beers Sor tins |“ ees ae 2, 003, 002° Avis and (industry ide. bi FF tt SF 105, 889: LSU KG) Se ReMi es ore ar Ree ee AIST ANS ee 385, 548 Potal oi) ies aes eee he Sie Oe es Sa Se ee eee 11, 494, 278 EXPLORATION AND FIELD WORK Researches in the field in various branches of science have con- tinued during the year through funds presented by friends of the Institution, from limited sums provided by appropriations, or from the private income of the Smithsonian, and through a variety of cooperative arrangements. It is highly important that more money be made available for these purposes since many valuable projects may not now be taken up because of lack of funds. Much good may be accomplished with comparatively little outlay. A brief account ‘of activities of the present year follows: In the Alaskan field Henry B. Collins, jr., and T. Dale Stewart, under funds supplied by the American Association for the Advance- ment of Science, the Council of the Learned Societies, and the United States National Museum prosecuted during the summer of 1927 an important piece of exploration on Nunivak Island on the Bering Sea coast of Alaska. Explorations of several ancient village sites were carried on in connection with anthropological measurements of the natives, and observations on their social life. In addition much anthropological material was gathered during the landings along the coast on the journey to the site of the season’s investigations. The material secured includes an excellent series of skeletal remains and numerous valuable objects of material culture. Herbert W. Krieger, through a grant from the National Acad- emy of Sciences, and funds supplied by the Bureau of Ameri- can Ethnology, visited the old site at Bonasila, Alaska, for remains that had attracted Doctor Hrdlitka’s attention the year before. Un- foreseen high water in the Yukon prevented complete examination, but important information and specimens dealing with ancient Eski- mos were obtained. He also collected ethnologica from Eskimo in several villages on the Yukon. During this same season Mr. Krieger continued archeological investigations along the Columbia and Snake Rivers, bringing in many specimens, some of which, from the Snake, appear to represent an outlying site of Pueblo Indian culture. Neil M. Judd, on detached detail, worked for the seventh field season at Pueblo Bonito, in Chaco Canyon, N. Mex., as director of REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 4 the National Geographic Society’s archeological exploration of that ancient pueblo. Through the interest of the society there has been uncovered, and set in order for inspection of the public, one of the largest pueblos of the Great Period as it stood perhaps 1,000 years ago. Mr. Judd was occupied this season principally in obtaining final data for incorporation in his report. The investigations as a whole have given extensive and valuable series of objects dealing with comparatively late Pueblo culture which through the generous gift of the National Geographic Society have greatly enhanced the Museum collections in the Pueblo culture of the southwest. At the close of the fiscal year Mr. Judd was in the field for the Bureau of American Ethnology, examining caves in Russell County, Ky., where textiles and other interesting specimens had been exhumed. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, traveling partly under a grant from the Smith- sonian Institution and partly at personal expense, in the autumn of 1927 was in Europe for seven weeks for the purpose of viewing the latest discoveries in early man. He examined sites of important finds in southern France, and then proceeded to Belgium and later to Germany, where he made special point of visiting the localities in the Neander Valley typical for the race of Neanderthal man. In southern Moravia he investigated the area that had recently given important finds in Aurignacian man, and continued then to Paris for work on the material accumulated there in the Museum of Natural History, and to London for examination of the collections in the College of Physicians and Surgeons. While in London he was the recipient of the Huxley medal of The Royal Society for his extensive investigations and researches in anthropology, and delivered the Huxley lecture on “'The Neanderthal phase of man.” Dr. Walter Hough, for the Bureau of American Ethnology, in the early fall examined a large burial mound at Indian Mound, Tenn., to determine the type of slab-box burial. He also visited near-by village sites, flint quarries, and burial grounds, obtaining a consider- able amount of material. In one of the village sites on the Cumber- land River there were obtained numerous shells of mollusks of a species now extinct in that stream. Hi. B. Collins, jr., during January, 1928, for the Bureau of Ameri- can Ethnology, visited areas near Fort Myers, Fla., where mounds of the Calusa Indian type were reported, and where he obtained skeletal remains of considerable importance with respect to the racial identity of this people who, though they existed within historic times, have become extinct and are comparatively little known. In February, 1928, H. W. Krieger, under funds provided by Dr. W. L. Abbott, proceeded to the Samana Bay region on the north- 12 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 eastern coast of the Dominican Republic and there carried on archeological investigations until April, working with G. S. Miller, jr., whose interest in this matter will be discussed in a later para- graph. Mr. Krieger visited a number of caves in the San Lorenzo Bay section, excavating extensive middens found therein and obtain- ing much information of value. The middens, composed principally of shells and other kitchen refuse, were in places from 4 to 8 feet in thickness, and contained artifacts of various kinds. Follow- ing this two Arawak village sites at Anadel and the mouth of the Rio San Juan on the Samana Peninsula, whose location had been indicated by Doctor Abbott from earlier observations, were excavated carefully with the recovery of many articles of scientific importance. The large variety of objects obtained during this work has made important additions to the Museum collections. Officials of the Dominican Republic cooperated most courteously in furthering this work, which it is expected will be continued in the coming year. The travels of William M. Gabb in the seventies of the last cen- tury brought to Washington a few bones of mammals from the caves of San Lorenzo in the Dominican Republic, to which have been added further specimens obtained within recent years by Dr. W. L. Abbott. In May, 1927, Assistant Secretary Wetmore, in travels in this region, observed extensive midden deposits in these caves still untouched, that gave promise of further material of importance. G. S. Miller, jr., curator of mammals, deeply interested in the ex- tinct mammals of the island, visited this area at his own expense in February and March, 1928, accompanied by Mrs. Miller. As the excavations to be made were also of great archeological interest H. W. Krieger, as already mentioned, was detailed to examine that phase through funds provided by Dr. W. L. Abbott. These joint investigations proved of great importance, as Mr. Miller obtained through them extensive series of bones of mammals long extinct. and is now able to understand more fully their form and structure. The work was continued at the mouth of the Rio San Juan and at Anadel on the Samana Peninsula, resulting in additional osteologi- cal specimens of importance. The material obtained is now under study. Through the further interest of Doctor Abbott, Arthur J. Poole, of the division of mammals, was occupied from December 8, 1927, to March 21, 1928, in a thorough exploration of the well-known caves near San Michel, Haiti, obtaining large and important collections of bones of the extinct animals which occur in these deposits. It was particularly important that these specimens be collected at this time since removal of the earth on the cave floors was in progress for use as fertilizer and in a short time all material of scientific REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 13 value would have been destroyed. As incidental to this work Mr. Poole secured considerable collections of herpetological material and other zoological specimens. Reconnaissance of other caverns may indicate desirability of further work in these deposits from which many bones of mammals and birds have been obtained. This mate- rial is now under study. W. L. Brown, member of the taxidermist staff of the Museum, was detailed to accompany an expedition to the Sudan organized by William N. Beach to secure large mammals. The original party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. Beach, Mr. Marcus Daly, and Mr. Osgood Field. Sailing from Hoboken on January 4 on the S. 8. George Washington, Mr. Brown and Mr. Field proceeded to Cherbourg, France, and from there continued by rail to Marseille, where they joined the rest of the party and took steamer to Port Sudan, continu- ing from there by train to Khartoum. In a chartered boat, the Lord Cromer, they navigated as far as Malakal, about 50 miles up the White Nile, where sudden illness of Mr. Beach made it necessary to return to Khartoum and prevented his continuing with the party. The others proceeded working the territory between Khartoum and Rejaf. During 20 days in the field Mr. Daly, Mr. Field, and Mr. Brown collected many scientific specimens, as well as material for an exhibition group of gazelles, with all necessary accessories of earth, anthills, thorn bushes, and other vegetation. Mr. Brown, who re- turned in April, apart from the specimens added to the Museum col- lections, observed in a wild state over 100 elephants, and many lions, antelopes, hippos, wart hogs, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, several cats,. monkeys, crocodiles, and birds of many varieties, including the shoe- bill stork, experience of great profit to a taxidermist. Mr. Brown sailed from Alexandria, Egypt, on March 25 and arrived in New York April 11, 1928. The collections brought home embraced 49 mammals, 83 bird skins, 103 alcoholic birds and skeletons, and a large number of reptiles and fishes. In November, 1927, following a stay in this country, Dr. Hugh M. Smith, director of fisheries of Siam, and honorary curator in zoology of the National Museum, returned to Bangkok, where he resumed active collecting of zoological materials. Word has already come of large gatherings of specimens. In spite of the political situation in China, A. de C. Sowerby, under the auspices of Col. R. S. Clark, continued his researches and collecting. A large consignment of reptiles, fishes, and marine in- vertebrates, have come from him during the year. Dr. D. C. Graham, who has forwarded such splendid collections. from western Szechuan, China, returned in the late autumn of 1927 to Suifu where he began at once his zoological studies. The first 14 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 fruits of his endeavors have been received and include interesting collections of birds, reptiles, and invertebrates. Dr. J. M. Aldrich, associate curator of insects, who at his own expense was in the field at the end of June, 1927, during the months of July and August continued entomological collecting at various points in the West; eastern Nevada, the higher parts of the Sierra Nevada in California, and the Yellowstone Park, proving localities of greatest interest. While the principal object of his work was the collecting of Diptera, valuable material in other orders of insects was secured. James O. Maloney, aid in the division of marine invertebrates, while on a vaction tour at his own expense, secured many valuable specimens of terrestrial isopods in Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. At the invitation of Mr. Copley Amory, of Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bowman, of George Washington University, and Doc- tor Bartsch, curator of mollusks, proceeded in June, 1927, to Mr. Amory’s summer home on Matamek River on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where Doctor Bartsch initiated plans for a study of the local flora and fauna which were continued by Mr. and Mrs. Bowman until September. Mr. Amory placed a laboratory pro- vided with the needed equipment for research and other facilities at the disposal of the party, and was ever ready to give the benefit of his knowledge of local conditions acquired through many years of residence, as well as personal help. In addition to marine dredg- ing, careful collecting was done along the beaches, in the shallow water lagoons and tide pools, and in the inland pools, lakes, and streams of the region for fresh-water organisms. Collections were secured of the ectoparasites and endoparasites of fishes and careful analyses of the stomach contents of fishes were made. Mr. Bowman devoted time to the plants covering all groups from marine and fresh-water algae to the flowering groups. Serial cores of the peat bogs were taken and the samples shipped to Washington for micro- scopic study. A large amount of material both of animals and plants was secured which is to be worked up later. In continuation of Cerion studies mentioned in previous reports, Doctor Bartsch visited the laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at the Tortugas from August 16 to August 27, 1927. The year had been an unusually dry one at the Tortugas, affecting adversely some of the groups of Cerions under observation. Visits were made to all the colonies of Cerions in the Tortugas and material collected for study in Washington. A series of specimens of Cerion viaregis from the ‘Tortugas and Cerion incanum from Key West and of a hybrid Cerion from Newfound Harbor Key was secured and sent to Prof. Edward pein REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 15 C. Jeffrey, of Harvard University, for a comparative study of their chromosomes. Botanical field work during the year 1927-28 has been conducted in Honduras by Paul C. Standley, associate curator; in the islands of Formosa and Sumatra by Prof. H. H. Bartlett, collaborator; in Texas by the late Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator; in Oregon and Washington by Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, custodian of grasses; and in California by J. R. Swallen, assistant in the grass herbarium. Mr. Standley’s botanical exploration in Honduras was made possible by the generous cooperation of Prof. Oakes Ames of Harvard Uni- versity and the United Fruit Co. Work began in December and was conducted from headquarters at Tela, mainly confined to the low- lands and adjacent low mountains along the north coast. During four months upwards of 9,000 specimens were collected, these repre- senting the largest single botanical collection ever procured in Hon- duras. The material is of unusual interest, since it contains many hew specimens and others not known previously from that region. Professor Bartlett’s field work in Formosa and Sumatra, financed from personal funds, was conducted under the joint auspices of the National Museum and the University of Michigan. The period of exploration in Formosa though short, yielded specimens of many endemic species, chiefly from the higher mountains, which were not previously represented in American herbaria. In Sumatra the field work was continued from December, 1926, to the middle of July,. 1927, and resulted in the accumulation of a large collection consist- ing of about 2,400 numbers, mostly represented by 5 to 10 specimens each. The wide area covered included the ascent of several volcanoes and lesser mountains, and a reconnaissance of the Asahan region. The importance of this collection can scarcely be overestimated in view of the rapid destruction of the Sumatran jungle, its components being still very imperfectly known. In connection with current investigations of native plants as poten- tial sources of rubber, the late Dr. J. N. Rose was detailed to field work in Texas during October and November, 1927, necessary funds being supplied by Thomas A. Edison. From the economic stand- point the results were chiefly negative, but there was obtained a con- siderable collection of herbarium material for use in other current studies, chiefly an investigation of the families Caesalpiniaceae and Mimosaceae. In this work Doctor Rose was accompanied by Paul G. Russell on detail from the Bureau of Plant Industry. Field studies of grasses for the United States Department of Agriculture were conducted in the Pacific coast region of the United States by two honorary members of the staff during the summer of 1927. Dr. A. S. Hitchcock spent about 10 weeks in the mountains of 16 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 Oregon and Washington, in cooperation with the Forest Service, and a similar period was spent in California by J. R. Swallen, assistant in the grass herbarium. In both cases the object sought was to determine the amount and character of variation in the grass species observed with respect to environmental and other factors, and to discover differential characters for the various species. Excellent collections of illustrative material were obtained. At the present time Mr. Swallen is absent on a similar field trip in the southwestern United States. Under an allotment from the Roebling fund, Dr. W. F. Foshag visited several mineral localities in the State of Sonora, Mexico. The chief point of interest was the Chispas mine, near Arispe, to secure a series of the magnificent silver minerals found there. During sev- eral days spent at Bisbee, Ariz., in collecting minerals and examining material offered for sale, some very interesting specimens were added to the collections. In cooperation with the mineralogical museum of Harvard University, and accompanied by a representative of that institution, Doctor Foshag spent three months collecting minerals and examining mineral deposits in the States of Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Durango, and Chihuahua, Mexico. A considerable amount of ex- cellent exhibition and study material was obtained, including groups of large gypsum crystals, a fine series of lead and zinc minerals, and complete sets of ores and rocks from all of the important mining districts visited. These will be used as the basis of a report on these districts. Drs. C. E. Resser and R. 8. Bassler spent two months in the Rocky Mountain region in a reexamination of certain Canadian sections for stratigraphic details necessary for the completion of Doctor Wal- cott’s unfinished manuscript summarizing the knowledge gained in his years of extensive research. The area examined was covered by motor and the party was frequently augmented and the researches greatly facilitated by the cooperation of other geologists familiar with local sections. The territory covered included the Wasatch Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, and the mountains imme- diately north, the area along Newland Creek, Meagher County, Mont., being given detailed attention. Stops were also made in the Littie Belt Mountains. The main objective of the summer’s work, however, was the general region of the Bow Valley, Canadian Rocky Mountains, north and west of Banff, Alberta, and other localities well known from Doctor Walcott’s investigations. In cooperation with the Milwaukee Public Museum, Dr. Erwin Pohl continued a detailed study of the little known but highly im- portant stratigraphy of the Middle Paleozoic of the mid-eastern and central States. The researches of the season covered portions of REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 17 eastern Wisconsin, southern Michigan, northern Ohio, and southern Ontario. Nearly two tons of selected and beautifully preserved fossils resulted from the trip. Dr. Joseph A. Cushman, collaborator in paleontology, spent the greater part of the summer of 1927 in a field trip through various countries of western Europe primarily to secure collections of fossil foraminifera from classic areas. He was highly successful in his work and, as a result, large numbers of types will come to the Museum upon the completion of his studies. Late in the fiscal year Mr. Gilmore was detailed for an expedition in the Two Medicine formation in Montana to search for dinosaur and other vertebrate remains, with George F. Sternberg, who has had long and varied experience in fossil collecting, as his assistant. Incomplete reports to date indicate the finding of valuable material. As the expedition will continue into the next fiscal year, a detailed report will be given later. Exploratory work in the Pleistocene was again taken up by Dr. J. W. Gidley at Melbourne and other localities in Florida. The ex- pedition, which covered a little more than two months, was made possible through the generosity of Childs Frick, who furnished half of the funds necessary for carrying on the work, the remainder coming from the Smithsonian Institution. Doctor Gidley was assisted by C. P. Singleton, of Melbourne. Two principal problems involved in this research included the further search for evidence on —- the contemporaneity of man with an extinct fauna in Florida, a much disputed question, and the collection of additional material for the purpose of fixing more definitely the age of this fauna. The results on both counts are regarded as highly satisfactory. EDUCATIONAL WORK The educational work of the Museum consists in part of its exhibi- tions—objects so labeled that the public may be instructed as by an encyclopedia cut apart and spread out, except that its illustrations are real and material things. With advance in museum methods, the objects on display are being grouped to a greater and greater extent to show relationships, with, whenever possible, some added indica- tion of their source, so that at a glance the visitor may comprehend their true character and significance. Visitors to the exhibition halls of the National Museum reached a higher number during the present fiscal year than ever before in the history of the institution, a certain index to present-day interest in knowledge as included in the scope of the modern museum. As is usually true the greater number of visitors came during the warmer months, and as in other recent years the automobile was an important means of travel. The range of 18 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 States represented by license plates on cars parked before the build- ings included every section of the Union. An incidental educational feature having for its purpose the pro- motion of scientific or technical teaching throughout the country has been the distribution to schools and colleges of duplicate material, properly identified and labeled, while through its publications and correspondence the National Museum has contact with a great group of persons many of whom never come to Washington. During the period of the Scottish Rite convention a group of ladies was shown the lace and ethnological exhibits by the head curator of anthropology, Doctor Hough. Eighty pupils from the Petworth School were given a talk on the exhibitions of Greek classical art. The Baltimore Woman’s Club was shown the collec- tion of lacquers. ‘The Colored Teachers’ Normal School was assisted in the study of Japanese costume. The Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase and Rockville, Md., were aided in preparing a historical pageant, and a number of art school classes used the facilities of the Museum in copying: designs from specimens. H. W. Kreiger, curator of American archeology spoke on archeo- logical explorations before the American Anthropological Associa- tion and the Arizona Archeological Society. The division of physical anthropology prepared a case of exhibits on Alaska for the National Academy of Sciences, these exhibits being kept by the academy for two months. Several talks were given by the curator, Doctor Hrdlicka, to classes of students visiting the divi- sion for that purpose. Dr. J. M. Aldrich, associate curator of insects, gave a lecture on flies injurious to man before the medical class of Howard University. Dr. Paul Bartsch, curator of mollusks, regularly conducted classes of students from George Washington University and Howard Uni- versity through the Museum for study of exhibits. He gave the following popular lectures before various societies and other organi- zations, on “The Smithsonian Institution and its activities,” before the Rotary Club, New York City; on “ School museums,” at a meet- ing of the Parent-Teachers Association of the John Eaton School; on “ Wonders of the deep,” before the Men’s Club of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church and the Takoma Park Baptist Church; on “Our native ferns and orchids,” at a meeting of a branch of the National Plant, Flower, and Fruit Guild at Asheville, N. C.; on “ Oysters,” at the Washington Club; on “The pleasures that birds bring to the home,” to the Chillum Castle Heights Parent-Teachers Association; and on “ Birds about the home,” to the Wesley Heights Community Club. He also addressed the twenty-third annual meet- ing of the American Society of Tropical Medicine on “ Some inter- mediate trematode hosts.” In addition, Doctor Bartsch has served REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 19 as vice president of the district council of the Boy Scouts of America, and as chairman of their camp committee and the court of honor. Mr. William B. Marshall, assistant curator of mollusks, has served as deputy commissioner at large in the same organization. Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, gave seven talks illustrated with lantern slides on various phases of his South American trip as the Walter Rathbone Scholar of the Smithsonian Institution: Two before Boy Scout organizations; two before Men’s Clubs of Washington churches; one before an open meeting of a Takoma Park Mothers’ Club; one to the Vivarium Society of Wash- ington; and a brief one on “ South Shetland Whaling” before the American Society of Mammalogists during its annual meeting at the Museum in April. C. R. Shoemaker, assistant curator in the same division, rendered valuable assistance to the Audubon Society in connection with their bird study classes and field trips during the current year. A special feature of the Nashville meeting of the American Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Science was a symposium on the relation of science to the press, arranged by Austin H. Clark, curator of echinoderms, which occupied the morning and afternoon of Wednesday, December 28, 1927. A report on this symposium, con- sisting of his introductory remarks as chairman and all the addresses in full, has been published in Science. At Nashville, in cooperation with Science Service, he arranged a series of seven radio talks which were given in connection with the meeting of the association. One of these talks on “The sea” was given by him personally from sta- tion WSM on the evening of December 29, 1927. In addition he gave two informal talks during the year, one on the relation between science and the press before the Harvard Club of Washington, and the other introducing a film illustrating evolution, at the Unitarian Church. Educational work by members of the National Herbarium staff has consisted mainly of assistance given in suggesting helpful literature and methods of work and in identifying specimens for individuals and such organizations as the American Nature Association. Much of this help is given informally. In the department of geology the usual assistance has been ren- dered to nature teachers of the public schools. Acting upon a suggestion from a committee from the Geologieal Society of Washington, the regular meeting of the society was held in the National Museum on the evening of February 28. Representa- tives from each division of the department of geology were present to act as guides and explain the exhibits. The meeting was well attended and the members of the society expressed great interest in the collections. 20 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 Doctor Foshag delivered lectures to classes in mineralogy at Rut- gers College and George Washington University. He also addressed the Petrologists Club of Washington on the iron ores of Cerro Mer- cado, Durango, Mexico, and the Pick and Hammer Club on the collecting of minerals in Mexico. Doctor Bassler has given talks to groups of young people brought. here by the Department of Agriculture and to classes in natural science of local and visiting schools. He has also served as guide to the local geology for advanced classes in geology from universities, and has had various occasions to explain the Museum’s activities to: such bodies of students. He continued to serve as examiner in geo- logical subjects for the Girl Scouts and also as director of a project of the National Research Council on oil geology. Mr. Gilmore delivered a lecture on “ Extinct monsters” to an as- sembly of about 800 students at one of the local high schools. He has also on several occasions personally conducted classes from the various schools of Washington through the exhibition halls of his. division. The educational work of the department of arts and industries: and the division of history is mainly visual, as the small personnel precludes extended verbal instruction without neglect of more essen- tial duties relating to the care and preservation of the collections. Visual education of this sort is being appreciated more and more by teachers from the local and near-by schools who in some instances. are making regular visits with their classes for the purpose of study- ing the collections. During the National 4-H Club camp, composed of prize- winning farm boys and girls from all parts of the country and held on the grounds of the Arpatalinnenl Department June 21-26, 1928, the dele- gation of over 200, representing 617,000 members enrolled in about 45,000 clubs, visited the National Museum. They were divided into: four groups, each provided with a special guide, and shown over the Arts and Industries and Aircraft Buildings. Talks on exhibits of particular interest were given by various members of the staff, so that these young people might return to their homes familiar with some of the principal treasures of the national collections. Members of the staff of the divisions of mineral and mechanical technology gave many talks to school children in the course of the year on the mineral industries, and on land, water, and air transporta- tion developments. Popular interest in aviation brought a wide demand for an illus- trated lecture on the history of flight and on construction of modek airplanes. Mr. Garber accordingly prepared such a lecture which was presented eight times during the year: in Memphis, Tenn., at the time of the National Model Airplane Tournament in October, REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 21 1927; at Richmond, Va., under the auspices of the Community Cen- ter, in November, 1927; at three high schools and two churches of Washington; and before one local troop of Boy Scouts. At the invitation of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Alumni Club of Lehigh University, Mr. Mitman gave a talk on the Smithsonian and its activities to the 75 engineer members of the club at the annual meeting, held in April, 1928, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Thirty-two lectures or special talks to educational groups were given during the year by Mr. Lewton, curator of textiles, and the members of the staff under his supervision. Among the more im- portant of these were the following given at the Museum by the curator: “ Some economic aspects of the textile industry,” to a class in economics from the American University; “ Technique of decora- tion of textile fabrics,” to students of the State Teachers’ College, Fredericksburg, Va.; ‘“ Fabric design and ornamentation,” to a class in domestic arts, Central High School; and “ Design and its appli- cation to cloth,” to the art teachers of the local school system to acquaint them with material available for use in their work. These teachers afterwards brought their classes to the Museum and went over the subject covered by the curator. The curator gave a lecture at Silver Spring, Md., on “Coloring and ornamenting textile fabrics,’ to the graduating class of the National Association’s In- stitute of Dyeing and Cleaning. A talk on textile design, based on the Museum’s exhibits, was given by the aid, Mrs. E. W. Rosson, to the major drawing class, Western High School. This class later visited the Museum with their instructor to study and copy nature designs from specimens of silk fabrics. Talks on textiles were also given at various times to sixth-grade pupils from the Amidon, Benning, West, and Takoma graded schools; to five classes from Eastern and Business High Schools; to four classes from Wilson Normal School; and to a class in domestic art from the Abbott Private School. Several classes of student nurses from the Washington and Balti- more hospitals visited the division of medicine to study the collec- tions. On these occasions health films were projected for their benefit. The District of Columbia Parent-Teacher Association con- tinued its interest in the hygiene and sanitation exhibits, and several groups of members had the collections explained to them. The College Woman’s Club visited the division of graphic arts to study the technique of etching, the various methods of which were explained by Mr. Tolman, assistant curator, with the exhibits for illustrations. In this division visual education is furthered not only by the permanent collections on display in the public exhibition halls and by regular series of special loan exhibitions, but also through a 22 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 series of six traveling exhibits which are sent out for display in various other cities and towns. Each of these exhibits consists of a specially selected series of prints, properly labeled and arranged in sequence to illustrate the processes used in the graphic arts. These traveling exhibits were shown fifty-four times during the year in schools, colleges, libraries, and museums, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. At the request of the Quartermaster Department of the United States Army a special collection of uniforms, swords, and firearms was arranged by Capt. Charles Carey, assistant curator of history, and installed at the exhibition for the benefit of the Army Relief Association, which was held at the Washington Barracks September 30 and October 1, 1927. Captain Carey also arranged and installed a special series of firearms at Ohio’s Second Annual Sportmen’s and Outdoor Show held in Cleveland, Ohio, May 17 to 23, 1928, and per- sonally superintended the exhibition. VISITORS The Museum buildings are open to the public free of charge every week day from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. and, in addition, the Natural History Building and the Arts and Industries Building are open on Sunday afternoon from 1.30 to 4.30. During the present year the exhibits in the Smithsonian Building were also opened to the public on Sunday afternoon from January 22 to the close of the year. This year all exhibition halls were closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, following the precedent of 1927. The flags on the buildings were placed at half mast out of respect for Henry White, Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, who died July 16, 1927. The flags on the buildings were also placed at half mast on December 1, 1927, on account of the death of Charles F. Choate, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, and on March 23, 1928, the flags were for a third time placed at half mast out of re- spect for Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris, a Regent of the Smith- sonian Institution, whose death occurred at that time. The visitors to the Museum for the year aggregated 1,413,386 persons, an increase of more than 260,000 over the previous year. Average attendance for week days was 3,901, and for Sundays, 3,761. The number of visitors to the Smithsonian Building during the year was 175,190 and to the Aircraft Building 102,185, a daily average of 478 for the former and 279 for the latter; to the Arts and Indus- tries Building, 448,709 on week days and 68,529 on Sundays, a daily week-day average of 1,442 and a Sunday average of 1,317; and to the Natural History Building, 505,471 on week days and 113,302 on ji ; == J REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 ; ) 23 Sundays, a daily average on week days of 1,625 and on Sundays of 2,178. The following tables show, respectively, the attendance of visitors during each month of the last year and for each year since 1881, when the building now devoted to arts and industries was first opened to the public: Number of visitors during the year ended June 30, 1928 Year and month Tate 1927 a 18, 678 a 29, 967 memtemper_.._____-- 16, 327 ee 8, 620 Piivemiber__..- 5, 647 a 4,155 1928 ae 4,478 SS a 5, 873 Oe ieee 8, 291 a ea 19, 372 ed GE Saale 23, 666 ee 30, 116 | | Museum buildings Arts and Industries 50, 506 71, 303 43, 190 28, 841 17, 500 13, 048 13, 203 15, 777 20, 931 52, 127 78, 075 112, 737 Natural History 88, 510 83, 584 59, 161 40, 004 30, 424 21, 129 23, 020 27,755 38, 738 73, 815 62) 022 70, 611 Aircraft 10, 243 | 16, 568 . 8, 633 5, 354 | 3, 654 3, 892 2,721 2, 879 5, 368 10, 575 14, 947 17, 351 ! Total 167, 937 201, 422 127, 311 82, 819 57, 225 42.224 43, 422 52, 284 73, 328 155, 889 178, 710 | 230, 815 | 175, 190 | 517, 238 Number of visitors to the Smithsonian and Museum Buildings since 1881 Museum buildings Smithsonian Year Building Res 4 Total ne Bee Aircraft | | / ae 180, 000). 150000) bo ne a Peete le. 250, 000 o_o eoecligaebb dale fae tate) 467 aog tt? eee iat LAS | 320, 199 ESR 104,823) ))1202)188 |e iol raceme 307, O11 1884 (half year) _____ 45, 565 SFE NE NR OE MERE RES 143, 226 1884-85 (fiscal year)_| 105, 993 vie ch 2 uy el alli in a capella ef ln 311, 019 See SS ae : eee OF ; ie PR ale r AES 33 Gt ' ie ee, wit ae dhe ma 1 ie emily Sei a a aerated ok aivarra> San Solos tig Patt ag ; EN A leat: Sy hia teh asta “ygotodibats 4 ‘ un 2 ea %, x % By i ‘ ’ | f ; | : ‘ + » 2 ' | “d a ’ ii Mi REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY By LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Head Curator The completion of a steel balcony in the western half of the Herbarium Hall in the Smithsonian Building, and the consequent shifting and rearrangement of the entire phanerogamic collection of plants (except the grasses), is not only the outstanding feature of this year’s development in the division of plants, but is of the utmost importance to the entire Department of Biology because the final accomplishment carries with it the hope that similar relief may be obtained in the not distant future for other divisions equally crowded. Attention has been called from time to time to the fact that specimens in the collections of various divisions are dangerously crowded, and that in some, working room for the handling of ma- terial is uncomfortably cramped. As a consequence, not only are specimens liable to deterioration, but an undue amount of time is re- quired for their care and handling by a personnel which under the best possible conditions is inadequate in numbers for the better in- ierests of the Institution and science at large. Through a series of coincident circumstances, activities in the field, both of members of the staff and of friends and collaborators of the Museum, have been rather under normal. The investigations in Haiti and the Dominican Republic which began a few years ago have been continued by Arthur J. Poole, who, through the generosity of Dr. W. L. Abbott, was enabled to spend over three months in a thorough exploration of the well-known caves near San Michel, Haiti, and G. S. Miller, who at his own expense visited the region of Samana Bay. Dr. J. M. Aldrich, at his own expense, undertook an entomological collecting trip to the West, including the eastern part of Nevada, the higher part of the Sierra Nevada in California, and the Yellowstone Park, with highly satisfactory results. An investigation of the fauna at Matamek River on the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bowman, under the direction of Doctor Bartsch, was made possible by the kind invitation of Copley Amory. Another invitation by William N. Beach and Marcus Daly of New York, for a member of the Museum staff to accompany their expedition to the Sudan, resulted in the detail of William L. Brown to collect for the Museum. Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Dr. D. C. Graham, whose explorations in Siam and Western China, respectively, have enriched the Museum collections 53 54 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 so conspicuously in previous years, have only returned to their fields during the present year. The botanical expeditions to Honduras by Mr. Standley, and to Formosa and Sumatra by Prof. H. H. Bartlett. a collaborator, were notably successful. These and other activities of a similar nature are detailed fully elsewhere in the report of the Assistant Secretary. The head curator at his own expense visited a number of Euro- pean museums for the purpose of examining type specimens and other material in connection with his monograph on the American turtles, and to locate and recover various collections lent to Kuropean scientists before the war. He was official delegate of the United States and the Institution at the International Zoological Congress held in Budapest at the invitation of the Hungarian Government. ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR Judged by the number of specimens accessioned, the year is one of the most prosperous of the department. The total number of accessions was 1,262, or about the average, but the total number of specimens received and cared for reached the unprecedented num- ber of 680,350, or more than half a million specimens above the num- ber for the previous year. The increase is particularly due to the re- ceipt of several large private collections by bequests, and denotes a growing recognition on the part of individuals that the National Museum is the most suitable depository for their valuable treasures, as here they will be cared for and held accessible to future scientific investigators. Two valuable sources for material which have added to the collec- tions are the two funds which in recent years have been bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution for the benefit of this department, namely, the Frances Lea Chamberlain Fund, through which it is pos- sible to acquire desirable material for the Division of Mollusks, and the Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship, which provides means for faunal studies in territory outside the United States, the material collected to come to the National Museum. Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, the last beneficiary of this scholarship, while primarily investigating the carcinological fauna of South America, incidentally gathered a great collection of other marine invertebrates, as well as algae, insects, fishes, batrachians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, which were accessioned during the present year. The private collections that have been received, namely, the C. F. Baker collection of East Indian insects, which came by bequest, the Charles W. Hargitt hydroid collections, and the C. G. Lloyd myco- logical collection, will be treated of specifically under their respective divisions and are of outstanding importance. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 55 Valuable collections gathered by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Director of Fisheries, Bangkok, Siam, an honorary associate curator in zoology, United States National Museum, accessioned during the present year, consist of numerous specimens of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fishes, as well as insects, mollusks, and other invertebrates. The Museum is under continued obligation to Col. R. S. Clark for the valuable Chinese material collected by A. de C. Sowerby from which source came mammals, fishes, and marine invertebrates. The African ex- pedition mentioned above, through the kindness of William N. Beach, Marcus Daly, and Osgood Field, enriched the Museum with numer- ous mammals, birds, and fishes. The explorations of G. S. Miller, jr., and A. J. Poole in Hispaniola resulted in fine collections of reptiles, mollusks, and other invertebrates, in addition to the cave material gathered. Mammals—Siamese and Chinese mammals collected by Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Arthur de C. Sowerby have been already mentioned. As another important addition there is noted a collection of 192 mammals made by C. Boden Kloss on the islands of Sipora and Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra, which the Museum owes to the continued generosity of Dr. W. L. Abbott. Among 49 mammals secured by the Beach African expedition are four gazelles which are to be mounted for the exhibition series. Large collections of bones of extinct mammals from kitchen-middens and caves in Hispaniola secured by G. S. Miller, H. W. Krieger, and A. J. Poole have been previously alluded to. Eight female gorilla skulls were obtained by purchase and form a very important addition because of the scarcity of gorilla skulls of this sex in museums. Another valuable addition was a porpoise skull of a species hitherto unrepresented in the collection from the south shore of Falkland Island. This was collected for the Museum by Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt. Birds.—The series of 489 skins, 13 skeletons, 21 eggs, and 2 nests from Siam secured by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, constituted the largest accession and supplemented in an admirable way previous collec- tions. From B. H. Swales and A. Wetmore there were received 206 skins, 88 skeletons and alcoholics, and 10 eggs from Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The actual field work was performed by Doctor Wetmore last year but the material was received too late for inclusion in that year’s report. Among other desirable speci- mens were representatives of a new species of thrush (Haplocichla swalesi). ‘The endeavors of this division to close the gaps in its series of genera have been very successful during the year as several valuable additions were received in exchange from other institutions. Among the species thus acquired may be mentioned Rhodonessa caryophyllacea, Thammocharis dignissima, Nesoenas mayeri, and 15544—28-——_5 56 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 Amaurospiza concolor. The late B. H. Swales also contributed 4 genera and 26 species new to the Museum, among them a heron, Erythrocnus rufiventris and a swift, Nephoecetes fumigatus. An- other rare species new to the Museum, the dwarf tinamou (7 aonzscus nanus) was donated by Dr. A. de E. Taunay, of Sao Paulo, Brazil. From the Beach Sudan expedition were received skins and skeletons of the open-billed stork (Anastomus lamelligerus) and a number of other desirable species, including an excellent series of birds in alcohol. Over 100 skeletons from Cameroon, West Africa, mostly of birds hitherto unrepresented in that form in the Museum were secured through Jacob Reis. Other additions to the collection of skeletons includes 18 received in exchange from the Bureau of Sci- ence, Manila, among them 2 trunk skeletons of the monkey-eating eagle (Pithecophaga jeffery), and the skeleton of a shoe-bill stork (Balaeniceps rex) transferred by the National Zoological Park. Reptiles and batrachians—The most interesting collections re- ceived were the three from the island of Hispaniola, namely, one made a year ago by Dr. A. Wetmore in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, containing a new genus and two new species, recently de- scribed by Miss Cochran, and two large collections of over 500 speci- mens each from the Samana region, Dominican Republic, and San Michel, Haiti, by G. S. Miller, jr., and A. J. Poole, respectively. Fishes—One of the most valuable accessions of fishes received in recent years consisted of 1,748 specimens collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby during the past three years in Chinese waters contiguous to Shanghai. A collection of 668 specimens from the west coast of South America secured by Dr. W. L. Schmitt during his travels under the auspices of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship is of considerable importance, likewise the 65 specimens collected between Khartoum and Rejaf by the Beach African expedition. Among the specimens received from Dr. W. H. Longley, Goucher College, and collected at the Tortugas, Florida, were the types of one new genus and two new species. Panama fishes to the number of 118 collected by Ford J. Foster were transferred by the Bureau of Fisheries. Insects—The principal collection received, and one of the notable additions in the history of this division, is the C. F. Baker collection of East Indian insects. Professor Baker, after active career as a collector in the New World, went to the Philippines as professor in the College of Agriculture. He subsequently became dean of the college, and died there on July 22, 1927. During the 16 years of his residence in the Philippines he collected insects with great energy, accumulating an immense amount of material. Some years ago he made a will bequeathing to the National Museum this material. When information of his death was received last year arrangements REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 57 were made to send R. A. Cushman, honorary assistant custodian of Hymenoptera, to the Philippines to prepare and ship the collection. This duty Mr. Cushman performed with signal success and the col- lection was received in April of this year in perfect condition. The number of mounted specimens is believed to be about 300,000, the orders of Coleoptera, Homoptera, and Hymenoptera being especially well represented. Second in number of specimens among the accessions of the year, is the George M. Greene collection. Mr. Greene is a Pennsylvania collector whose interest has been chiefly in Coleoptera. His collec- tion comprises nearly 50,000 specimens which are especially well mounted and labeled and represent many years of careful and pains- taking work. The Philippine Bureau of Science, through Dr. R. C. McGregor, has continued to send generous quantities of Philippine insects, those received in the present year numbering about 35,000 specimens. Another large accession covers the continual inflow of specimens from the Bureau of Entomology, including the specimens retained from material sent for identification. For the past year this accession amounts to 28,392 specimens. Prof. A. C. Burrill, Jeffer- son City, Mo., donated his collection of western insects, amounting to about 3,400 specimens. Prof. T. C. Stephens, Sioux City, Lowa, gave nearly 1,000 specimens. Frank Johnson, of New York City, continued his liberal donations of the rare forms of Lepidoptera, amounting in the present year to 1,065 specimens, mostly exotic. B. Preston Clark, of Boston, Mass., continued his generosity, pre- senting 480 rare moths and butterflies from remote parts of the world. Dr. William Schaus,:-honorary assistant curator of the divi- sion of insects, purchased and presented to the Museum 450 specimens of Lepidoptera from Ecuador. Im addition to the preceding, the Museum has received notable support from a considerable number of foreign collectors in many parts of the world. Among these should be mentioned: Dr. H. M. Smith, Bangkok, Siam, who sent 1,800 specimens; Dr. I’. J. Meggitt, Rangoon, Burma, 500 specimens; Dr. M. Nufiez-Tovar, Venezuela, about 2,000 mosquitoes—an especially important contribution in view of the preparation by Doctor Dyar of a large work on the mosquitoes of North and South America; Dr. Walther Horn, of Berlin, donated 500 named insects, mostly from Formosa; Dr. C. P. Alexander, Amherst, Mass., gave a collec- tion of insects from New Zealand, mostly Diptera; Alfred Philpott of Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand, presented a valuable collection of Microlepidoptera; Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, Boulder, Colo., sent 1,396 insects from Russia and Siberia; the Rev. D. C.. Graham, Suifu, China, a collector to whom we are much indebted,, has resumed his work after a period of furlough in the United States, 58 . REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 and has already sent one shipment of insects from western China, of over 500 specimens. Marine invertebrates.—A total of 23,554 specimens were received during the year, an increase of 5,714 over last year. Apart from 2,432 specimens, the final accession from the Bacon Scholarship in South America, the following additions to the collections deserve mention: Dr. Hugh M. Smith’s Siamese and A. de C. Sowerby’s Chinese collections, and that of G. S. Miller from Hispaniola; a col- lection of terrestrial Isopods made by James O. Maloney, of the division of marine invertebrates, during an automobile trip from Washington, D. C., to Mississippi; and a collection of about 100 lots of recent bryozoa secured by Dr. R. S. Bassler in Southern Cali- fornia. Among other accessions, the gift of George T. Hargitt, Syracuse, N. Y., of the Charles W. Hargitt Hydroid collections holds ® preeminent position, inasmuch as it is the lifetime work of this well-known specialist. It consists of 456 microscopic slides and 690 bottles (estimated at more than 2,000 specimens) representing ma- terial upon which publications have been based. The Amory-Bow- man Labrador expedition resulted in an addition of 5,221 specimens, including a very excellent and comprehensive series of amphipods. The Secretaria de Agricultura y Fomento, Direction de Estudios Biologicos, and the Direccion Forestal y de Caza y Pesca, through Dr. A. L. Herrera, Director, Sefor Carlos Stansch, Mexico, D. F., presented over 300 specimens of marine invertebrates, mostly crustacea from the west coast of Mexico and Gulf of California, in part collected by Stansch. The Pacific Biological Laboratories, Pacific Grove, Calif., through E. F. Ricketts, director, donated 679 speciments of marine invertebrates from Monterey Bay, Calif., and vicinity, mostly crustacea and pycnogonids, including some new and hitherto undescribed forms. The Putnam Baffin Island expedition, George P. Putnam, director, resulted in 30 lots (dredge hauls) of marine invertebrates, with approximately 1,800 specimens secured by Capt. R. A. Bartlett, a fine lot of material from the seldom- visited waters of this region. Further accessions were as follows: From Prof. Manuel Valerio, Lyceum of Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica, 64 specimens of marine invertebrates mostly crustacea, including several new records for Costa Rican waters and the type of a new species of crab; from the University of Southern California, Department of Zoology, Los Angeles, Calif., through Dr. A. B. Ulrey, over 738 specimens of marine invertebrates mostly crustacea, of which there is a compre- hensive series from the coast of southern California. Several acces- sions are particularly worthy of special mention because they have brought to the National Collections type specimens or material upon i — REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 59 which publications have been based. Such are a crayfish, the type of Cambarus ayersii Steele from Dr. Howard Ayers, Cincinnati, Ohio; 8 specimens of commensal copepods, including the types of two new species from H. R. Siewell, department of terrestrial magne- tism, Carnegie Institution; 8 miscroscopic slides of two new species of fresh-water copepods, including holotypes and paratypes, from Prof. Stillman Wright, University of Wisconsin; 19 specimens of earthworms, from Prof. Gordon E. Gates, Judson College, Rangoon, Burma, paratypes of new species, descriptions of which are now in press; 1 specimen of isopod from Potter Creek Cave, Shasta County, Calif., type of a new species, from the University of California, De- partment of Zoology, through Dr. C. A. Kofoid. From the Bureau of Fisheries, United States Department of Commerce, came a num- ber of accessions totaling 5,467 specimens, of which the two most important were 4,400 specimens collected in the Philippine Islands during the Albatross expedition of 1907-1909, and 699 specimens of erustacea secured by Harvey C. McMillan on the Pacific coast. A notable accession from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, Calif., through Dr. T. Wayland Vaughan, director, in- eluded 207 slides of Foraminifera, with 13 types. Mollusks——The total number of specimens received this year, namely 77,756, is more than six times that of the previous year. The following accessions are mentioned as of particular value. Over 50,000 specimens in 3,671 lots, of Jamaican land shells, collected by C. R. Orcutt, were purchased from the Frances Lea Chamberlain fund. Dr. Carlos de la Torre, Habana, Cuba, donated 185 lots of mollusks, mostly types of new land shells of the family Annulariidae. Other accessions include about 1,500 mollusks collected by Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt in South America under the auspices of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship; 32 species, 41 specimens, of marine mollusks including 13 types of new species described by Doctor Bartsch, from Prof. K. Derjugin, Leningrad, U. S. S. R.; about 10,000 specimens from western India, from J. C. Bridwell, Bancroft, Va.; about 1,200 mollusks from Siam, from Dr. Hugh M. Smith, Bangkok, Siam; 137 specimens of fresh water and marine shells from Uruguay, from Dr. F. Felippone, Montevideo, Uruguay; 569 specimens of marine mollusks from Panama and Taboga Island, including types of seven new species, from Charles D. Alleman, Canal Zone; over 500 mollusks collected for the Museum by the Amory-Bowman Labrador expedition; 209 specimens of land, fresh water and marine shells from Costa Rica, from Prof. Manuel Valerio, San Jose, Costa Rica; about 3,010 mollusks from the Dominican Republic collected by G. S. Miller. The Conchology Club of Southern California donated 30 specimens of marine mol- 60 REPORT’ UF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 lusks from Ecuador, including types of 16 new species described by Doctor Bartsch. About 750 mollusks from Haiti, collected by Dr. A. Wetmore, came from the collector and the late Bradshaw H. Swales. To Sefor Pedro Bermudez, Habana, Cuba, the Museum is indebted for 27 lots of topotypes of Cuban land shells, and to Dr. Carl C. Engberg, Lincoln, Nebr., for 30 land shells from Nebraska and Yellowstone Park. Echinoderms.—The most important accession of the year was received through the Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling scholarship and consisted of a miscellaneous lot collected by Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt — in South America. Other important additions to the collection were received from Sefior Adolfo Cesar de Noronha, who sent some inter- esting sea stars from Madeira; and some sea urchins and sea stars were received from the Museu Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Planis——The number of accessions was 431 lots, comprising 120,621 specimens. This represents a slight loss over the preceding year in number of lots accessioned, but the number of specimens is more than twice as large and their value is quite as great. The C. G. Lloyd mycological collection, which was received through the Smithsonian Institution from the trustees of the Lloyd Library and Museum, of Cincinnati, Ohio, one of the largest and most important collections of fungi ever brought together, consists of about 75,000 specimens of the larger fungi, besides 10,000 negatives of fungus subjects, hun- dreds of photographic prints, halftone plates of illustrations pub- lished in Mr. Lloyd’s numerous treatises, and voluminous correspond- ence, notebooks, and manuscript records pertaining to the speci- mens. The entire collection will be maintained in steel cases and fire- proof quarters as a separate unit for the use of duly qualified students of mycology. Installation of the collection and the provision of a comprehensive card catalogue relating to all the material -are under way. Other important accessions were as follows: Nine thousand speci- mens collected for the Museum in Honduras by Paul C. Standley; 5,456 specimens received as a transfer from the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, of which 5,265 are from the Bureau of Plant Industry, consisting mainly of grasses and of general collections from Africa, Asia, and Arizona; 2,500 specimens of plants from Haiti and the Dominican Republic purchased from Dr. E. L. Ekman; 2,900 specimens from Formosa and Sumatra, representing a complete set of the material collected by Prof. H. H. Bartlett, collaborator, under the joint auspices of the National Museum and the University of Michigan; 983 specimens received from the School of Forestry, Yale University, chiefly material of trees and shrubs from Panama and Centra] America; 1,167 specimens received as an exchange from REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 61 the British Museum (Natural History), largely from Brazil, Australia, and Africa; 569 specimens received as an exchange from Universitetets Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, mostly con- sisting of Central American and Mexican material collected by Oer- sted and Liebmann; 763 specimens of plants from Venezuela, pre- sented by Prof. H. Pittier, Caracas, Venezuela; 317 specimens re- ceived as an exchange from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey, England, mostly collected in Colombia by Lehmann; 1,153 specimens from western Mexico, presented by Mrs. Ynes Mexia, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.; 852 miscellaneous specimens of woody plants received as an exchange from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; 597 specimens from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, presented by L. A. Kenoyer, Kalamazoo, Mich.; 500 specimens of Chinese plants received as an exchange from the Uni- versity of Nanking, Nanking, China; 477 specimens of Uruguayan plants purchased from Dr. W. Herter, Montevideo, Uruguay; 400 specimens received as an exchange from the Botanical Garden and Museum, Cluj, Rumania; 469 specimens from Ecuador received as a gift from the Brother Gémel Firmin, Quito, Ecuador; 611 specimens, chiefly tropical American ferns, received in exchange from the Muséum d’Historie Naturelle, Botanique, Paris, France; 1,020 specimens from New Mexico received as a gift from Brother G. Arséne, Las Vegas, N. Mex.; 2,026 specimens, chiefly from the west- ern United States received as an exchange from Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.; 598 specimens from Haiti purchased from W. J. Eyerdam, Seattle, Wash.; 331 specimens, mainly from tropical America, received as an exchange from Naturhistoriska Riksmuseets Botaniska Avdelning, Stockholm, Sweden; 336 specimens from Gua- temala received as a gift from the Direccion General de Agricultura, Guatemala City; 398 specimens of native plants received as an ex- change from the University of Minnesota; 451 specimens from Costa Rica, 1,811 miscellaneous specimens received as an exchange from the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.; 709 miscella- neous specimens received as an exchange from the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University; 713 specimens of Canadian plants received as an exchange from the Université de Montréal, Montreal, through Prof. Marie-Victorin; 312 specimens from Colombia received as a gift from Brother Elias, Colegio Biff, Barranquilla, Colombia; 225 specimens from Peru presented by Prof. F. L. Herrera, Cuzco, Peru. INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS No large additions have been made in the exhibition halls during the year, except that a floor case in which mammals of the northern part of the Old World are exhibited which had been in storage was 62 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 reinstalled on the first floor. The case at present contains the Mon: golian tiger, the European brown bear, the Manchurian black bear, and a snow leopard mounted a year ago but only now placed on ex: hibition. The arrangement is as yet temporary awaiting the acquisi- tion of additional material. Two of the African mammal cases were reinstalled during the year. In the one containing the hyenas and jackals, two recently mounted specimens were added, replacing two old ones. On the second floor, in the reptile and fish hall, the alcoholic exhibit of fishes has been thoroughly overhauled and renovated. It was found that the old cement sealing the square exhibition jars had deteriorated to such an extent that rapid evaporation of alcohol greatly affected the appearance of the exhibit. A new sealing sub- stance was tried and found serviceable, with the result that the col- lection now makes satisfactory appearance. By crowding the cases somewhat at the western end of the whale hall it was found possible to make room for two double slope-top table cases containing an exhibit of conspicuous and interesting mollusks prepared by the late Dr. W. H. Dall. A few casts were added to the exhibit of snakes. Doctor Bartsch has continued in charge of the District of Columbia exhibit. Several additions were made, among them 55 birds specially mounted. In addition to one stereomotograph that has been in use for some time, which is kept supplied with slides showing the bird life of the District, another has been loaned by the Wild Flower Preservation Society, in which slides of various local wild flowers are shown. Thirty quarter-unit cases were received in the division of mammals during the year for the storing of skins, skulls, and skeletal material. During the past year, through additional assistance by W. M: Perrygo (half time during the months of July to November inclusive), good progress has been made on the osteological collection in the attic in the labeling and rearranging of certain groups. In order to con- serve space, sets of leg bones of the larger ungulates are being re- moved from the regular storage cases, labeled, packed in wooden boxes, and stored in the mammal range, second floor. The entire available space in the attic is now occupied with cases, but notwith- standing this fact the entire collection stored there is in a crowded condition. Twenty quarter-unit cases have been added to the facili- ties for storing and spreading of the skin collection. The small skulls and skeletons of cetaceans have all been placed in cases and are now in very good arrangement. Most of the larger whale skulls and skeletons are now properly arranged. Forty large mammal skins were tanned on outside contract during the year. A few large skins and quite a number of small ones, including those used for exhibition purposes, were tanned by the taxidermists. During the year con- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 63 siderable work has been done in the alcoholic collection, transferring specimens formerly stored in barrels to proper containers. The taxi- dermists prepared as study specimens about 57 flat skins and 257 made-up skins. Work on cleaning large and medium skulls and skeletons by the Museum force has resulted as follows: Skulls, 500; skeletons, 69; sets of leg bones, 50. Contract work on small and medium-sized skulls and skeletons has resulted in the cleaning of 769 skulls-and 17 skeletons. This work is in a very satisfactory condition, being practically caught up with the cleaning of small skulls and skeletons. In the division of birds, the study series of skins in the families Timaliidae and Pycnonotidae (bulbuls and related birds) was rear- ranged and expanded to occupy ten quarter-unit cases instead of the seven previously used. New case labels were prepared for these families. The contents of three cases of flycatchers (Muscicapidae) were transferred to a new position in consequence of the above change. Four cases of type specimens had become unduly crowded in places and two more cases were assigned to this series. A respacing of the contents was begun but not finished during the year. Four quar- ter-unit storage cases and 40 drawers were received during the year. One of these was for the use of the taxidermist shop, one for the skel- eton series, and two for the study series of skins. Several hundred birds bearing only collectors’ labels were supplied with the standard Museum labels. Considerable attention was given to the improve- ment of the collection of eggs. The North American series was ex- panded to include three additional cases, and 1,910 eggs (the accumu- lations of several years) were labeled and incorporated in their _ proper places. The foreign eggs were rearranged in part, covering 34 families (Struthionidae to Scolopacidae), and this work is still in progress. About 475 cleaned skeletons were numbered, labeled, card- indexed, and some of them were incorporated in the collection. Eighty new case labels were prepared for this part of the collection. The preparators made about 109 bird skins from fresh specimens, remade and improved about 100 skins, dismounted and made into skins two birds, and mounted a number of birds for the local exhibit. They prepared 24 eggs for specimens and cleaned most of the skeletons received during the year, numbering over 400 in all. Two hitherto overlooked types, a woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus angustifrons Baird) and a towhee (Pipilo albigula Baird) were identified in the collection and properly labeled, and a third, pre- viously in doubt, was satisfactorily determined and similarly labeled. In the division of reptiles, Miss Cochran has identified about 2.200 specimens, all of which have been given permanent places in the storage stacks. The card cataloguing of these specimens has been 64 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 done by Mrs. Clapp and is now about half completed. The laborer has been entirely over the collection, washing and refilling bottles. The cleaning of skeletons by the taxidermist has been going steadily on. A little progress has been made in cataloguing skeletal material ; this task, however, is far from being completed as other work has caused its discontinuance from time to time. In the division of fishes the storage rooms have been thoroughly inspected, containers refilled where necessary, the shelving and bottles cleaned, and many illegible labels have been restored. The catalogu- ing of material received is somewhat in arrears. The card index files are complete to the last entries in the register. Much of the material received during the year has been identified and installed in the storage rooms. The present status of the collection of insects is the best in its history as much of the material has now been transferred to trays (with the exception of considerable portions of the Coleoptera and Hymenoptera). Alcoholic material illustrating early stages is well taken care of and the collections are in standard jars and vials. The Baker collection and the George M. Greene collection, received with- in the year, are for the most part still in the original boxes. Ex- cellent progress has been made by L. L. Buchanan during the past year in the work of labeling and arranging the Casey collection. Mr. Buchanan estimates that the work is now about 70 per cent com- pleted; but in this estimate he does not take into account a consider- able quantity of unclassified material which the collection contains. In the various sections work has progressed as follows: In the section of Hymenoptera Mr. Gahan has made progress on the identifi- cation and labeling of Ashmead, Howard, and Girault types, the la- © beling of trays and the breaking up of regional collections and incor- poration of these in the general collection. Mr. Cushman has ar- ranged the Phaeogenini and a large part of the Cryptinae according to the classification of Schmiedeknecht, and the North American Mesostenini by his own unpublished classification. Miss Sandhouse has arranged the nearctic Xylocopa, the Larridae, particularly those of the Philippine Islands, and the nearctic Dasymutilla according to the recent classification by Mickel. She has incorporated several — collections, notably those of Crawford, Greene, and Chittenden and has sorted the parasitic Hymenoptera to superfamilies and turned them over to the specialists in those groups. In the section of Lepidoptera, Mr. Heinrich has transferred the Palearctic Olethreu- tidae to trays and entirely rearranged them according to the last European catalogue, and incorporated the material of the Ham- feldt, Dognin, and Fernald collections. The larval collection has been brought together in one room and rearranged. The card cata- oa t ] : REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 65 logue of the alcoholic collection has been completed and has been arranged both in systematic order and according to food plants. Doctor Schaus has expanded and arranged the neotropical Noto- dontidae and added 50 drawers. In the Amatidae, 50 drawers have been rearranged, Mrs. Locke reindexing all the species. The Old World Noctuinae have been arranged in 130 drawers. Doctor Schaus has also finished arranging the African Zygaeninae. The Old World Sphingidae have been entirely rearranged in 94 drawers owing to large accessions from Mr. Clark. All the figures so far published by Seitz in the Amatidae and Noctuidae have been placed in drawers from extra plates purchased by Doctor Schaus. This is a . great aid in saving time for the incorporation of new species and others new to the collection. In all families—American and exotic— much work has been done in the indexing and placing labels for new species described both here and abroad. Mr. Busck has transferred his collections of Microlepidoptera to the tray system as far as trays and drawers have been available and those transferred have been rearranged up to date with special atten- tion to exotic species. Through gifts and exchange with Dr. A. Philpott, of the Cawthron Institute of New Zealand, a very com- plete collection of authentically determined New Zealand micros has been acquired and arranged; through the gifts and assistance of Mr. Edward Meyrick, of England, a nucleus of about 125 Philip- pine species has been authoritatively determined and a large num- ber of other Eastern, African, and Australian species has been ac- quired, with special efforts to include genotypes and economically important species. In the section of Coleoptera, Doctor Boéving has moved the entire collection (except the European) of coleopterous larvae to his office. The collections of Hopkins, Chittenden, and Dimmock have been relabeled and incorporated. The collection of slides has been considerably enlarged, particularly with slides refer- ring to papers by Doctor Cotton and Doctor Béving’s own recently published papers and unpublished studies. A very valuable addi- tion to the collection consisted of determined larvae of 33 species from the Hawaiian Islands donated by O. H. Swezey. Mr. Fisher has rearranged part of the North American Cerambycidae, subfamily Cerambycinae. Certain genera in various other families were re- arranged whenever this was necessary in making identifications. Mr. Barber has expanded certain minor groups that had become too congested. Doctor Chapin has. transferred from Schmitt boxes enough specimens to fill 34 Museum drawers. In the Orthoptera, Mr. Caudell has continued his specific index to the Orthoptera of the world, has almost completed the arrangement of a synoptic tray collection of Orthoptera and has made some progress on a 66 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 rearrangement of the entire Orthopteroid collection, having com- pleted the United States fauna through the nonsaltatorial forms. The rearrangement and coordination of the Coccid host file, estimated to include well over 40,000 cards, have been practically completed. Doctor Ewing added to the collection of scorpions from the South- west some 80 or more specimens representing about a dozen species taken by himself. During the year the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy of Harvard University returned to the National Museum a large shipment of myriapods which had been sent there some years ago at the request of Dr. R. V. Chamberlain. The entire myriapod collection was moved over to Dr. O. F. Cook’s office in the Department of Agri- - culture. The curator of marine invertebrates is highly gratified to report that the division for the first time in 15 years is about abreast with the “filling” constantly needed in the alcoholic stack, which in- cludes ninety thousand-odd containers of alcoholic specimens. Arrangement of the study collection of mollusks has been somewhat slow, owing to very limited assistance. C. E. Mirguet, preparator, has been pressed to keep abreast of the large mass of material which has been arriving steadily from Jamaica through the efforts of Mr. Orcutt. In addition to this, he has as usual met all the needs in the preparation of material for the collections and assistance to the scientific staff. The collection of helminths has been cared for as heretofore; no change in arrangement has been attempted. In the division of echinoderms the entire alcoholic collection was thoroughly gone over and all the containers refilled, replaced when necessary, and sealed. The collection as a whole is therefore in a better condition than for many years. This result was obtained by the employment of temporary help. Reference has already been made to the relief from the extreme congestion in the main herbarium of the division of plants afforded by the erection of the new balcony whereby the capacity of the range allotted to the phanerogamic collections was nearly doubled. The construction work was nearly completed on January 1, since which time the efforts of the staff have been devoted almost wholly to spreading and reorganizing the phanerogamic herbarium, including the incorporation of nearly 200,000 additional specimens. At the present time, only one large family, the Compositae, awaits rearrange- ment. More than one-third of the old cases were removed to the balcony and about 50 new ones provided. Because of the great bulk of the material to be newly incorporated it was found neces- sary to write many thousands of new genus and species covers in providing an orderly arrangement of the specimens. The work now REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 67 nearly completed brings into a single sequence all the phanerogamic material in the herbarium (with the exception of the grasses) and marks an important advance in greatly increasing the general useful- ness of the collection. During the year a total of 82,804 specimens have been stamped and recorded; these, with the accumulation of several years past (largely plants of the John Donnell Smith Herbar- ium) making up the 200,000 specimens recently incorporated. An unusually good record has been made in mounting during the year, a total of 44,778 plants having been turned out for recording and incorporation in the herbarium. Not more than 10,000 specimens now await mounting. The segregation of type specimens of phanero- gams has been continued by Mr. Killip, 13,192 type specimens of species and varieties of American plants now having been distinc- tively labeled and specially catalogued with essential data. These make up the so-called type herbarium which is kept in special cases apart from the general herbarium. Attention must be called again to the serious existing need of additional curatorial help in caring for the large collections of cryptogams, especially the bryophytes and lichens. These collections are important and should be in charge of specialists or at least one aid whose duty should be to give them general curatorial attention. Reference has already been made to the work of the taxidermists in so far as it relates to the exhibition series. The usual work of the shops has progressed satisfactorily. The regular work of clean- ing skeletons, skulls, and ®ther skeletal parts has also been attended to as usual. George Marshall, in addition to routine work and the mounting of birds for exhibition, made over 200 skins of mammals and birds; Mr. Scollick and Mr. East cleaned 371 complete bird skeletons and 12 incomplete, 20 bird skulls, 41 complete mammal skeletons, 457 skulls, and 50 sets of leg bones, 20 complete reptile skeletons, and 12 partial skeletons, and 49 skulls, besides other work. C. E. Mirguet, besides making several casts from fish and reptile specimens, prepared a large number of turtles and snake skulls. He also attended to a number of whale skulls and skeletons, besides cleaning a number of other large skeletons and skulls, altogether 43 mammal skulls, 28 mammal skeletons, 3 bird skeletons, and 117 reptile skeletons. RESEARCH BY MEMBERS OF THE STAFF Gerrit S. Miller, jr., curator of mammals, during the year finished a study of the collection of bones of extinct mammals made by him in Haiti three years ago. He has also investigated a peculiar condi- tion of the gums in a species of Alaskan porpoise and has concluded several short technical studies. A. B. Howell, collaborator, has 68 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 prepared a report on all the Chinese mammals in the collection and has published descriptions of new forms found during the progress of this work. He has also concluded an account of the musculature of the narwhal which is now going through the press. H. H. Shamel, clerk-stenographer in the division of mammals has, in his own time, completed several short technical studies, including a synopsis of the American bats of the genus 7adarida. Robert Ridgway, curator of birds, reports that work on the final parts of Bulletin 50 (Birds of North and Middle America) has pro- gressed satisfactorily. He has finished the synonymies of the Anseres and is engaged at present on the synonymies of the herons. The work of the associate curator, Dr. C. W. Richmond, has included reading proof on one volume of Bent’s Life Histories and the manuscript of another; reading proof for names of foreign birds in a 10-year index of the Auk. He also worked over various cases submitted by the committee on classification and nomenclature of North American birds of the American Ornithologists’ Union, and attended to many inquiries from correspondents. In odd time he continued to work on old records connected with the collections. Dr. A. Wetmore continued work on the birds of Hispaniola begun with the late B. H. Swales. He also investigated fossil and semifossil material received from several sources. J. H. Riley, aid, finished a paper on the birds of the Mentawi Islands, and identified material from the islands of East Borneo. He also continued work on the birds of West China based on the collections of the Rev. D. C. Graham, with the object of preparing a report upon them. In the division of reptiles, the studies of Chinese reptiles and amphibians by L. Stejneger, the curator, have gone forward although not much new material has been received lately. During several months in Europe in 1927 he was able to examine consider- able type material and other valuable specimens in various European museums for the benefit of his studies of North American turtles. The study by Miss Doris M. Cochran, assistant curator, of Hispa- niolan reptiles has progressed rapidly, as she has settled the status of a number of rather confusing species. She has described five new species and one new genus from Hispaniola and has identified a collection of over 200 specimens belonging to the Museum of Com- parative Zoology. In addition she has completed the report on Dr. Hugh M. Smith’s Siamese collection of reptiles and amphibians, totaling about 900 specimens received to date by the National Mu- seum, to which Doctor Smith is now adding life history data. A paper containing descriptions of eight new species of Siamese rep- tiles and amphibians by Miss Cochran has been published. The report on the Philippine fishes undertaken by H. W. Fowler, assisted by B. A. Bean, assistant curator in the division of fishes, REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 69 progressed satisfactorily, the second volume being in press and the manuscript of the third volume being submitted at the end of the fiscal year. Except for the first two months of the fiscal year which were spent in the field, J. M. Aldrich, the curator of insects, has been occupied with the usual routine of identifying Diptera received and incorporating them in the collection; keeping up a catalogue of the literature of American Diptera, and making a special study of various groups in the muscoid flies. He has also received a ship- ment of about 30 types of American species of Diptera from the Vienna Museum of Natural History, representing for the most part species described from forty to one hundred years ago. On these he has prepared a paper for publication, redescribing them and mak- ing out some synonymy. He has also published some notes on the synonymy of other Diptera. C. T. Greene, assistant curator of Diptera, made investigations on the larvae and pupae of Agro- myzidae and on certain tachinids. He also has in preparation a manuscript on dipterous larvae which will contain a table for the separation of all dipterous larvae known. Dr. A. G. Boving has undertaken investigations of the immature stages of a number of coleopterous larvae, the results of some having been published while others are in the press or still unfinished. W. S. Fisher, has con- tinued his studies on the Cerambycid and Buprestid beetles whenever routine work permitted. Studies were made of the Buprestidae of the Malay Peninsula received from the Selangor Museum. Restudies of the Agriline tribe from the Philippines were started but dis- -ontinued until all of the late Professor Baker’s material could be assembled. The work on the revision of the North American beetles of the genus Agrilus was completed. Dr. EK. A. Chapin has virtually com- pleted a revision of the Coccinellid genus Pantilea, prepared tables of the North American species of a number of Staphylinid genera, and in the Cleridae has revised several of his manuscript keys to include additional species. Some advance has been made with the North American Clerinae and Hydnocerinae. H. S. Barber has intensively investigated local Lampyridae, and has completed a revision of the genus 77ichobaris which contains the stalk weevils of tobacco and the solanaceous plants. The blind cave beetles of the genus Anophthalmus were examined, and a paper published on the group related to A. pusio. He also published a map of the type localities of the species described from Thomas Say’s collecting a century ago, as well as his travels, so as to permit immediate reference in correcting misapplications of his specific names. A. Busck has continued monographic work on the family Tortricidae, in which 70 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 Miss Eleanor Armstrong has rendered important assistance and has made necessary drawings. C. Heinrich has made genitalia studies in the families Limacodidae, Megalopygidae, and Lacosmidae in part, in connection with revisionary work which Doctors Schaus and Dyar are doing for Seitz’s Macrolepidoptera of the world. Dr. W. Schaus has conducted important researches in the Cerudidae (Notodontidae) of which he described 160 new species. A. N. Caudell, custodian of Orthoptera, has prepared and published reports on the orthopteroids taken by Professor Cockerell in Siberia and on those of Fiji and New Zealand collected by the University of Iowa expedition; also description of a new Zootypus from Jamaica. He has also made some progress on a revision of the Malayan Blattidae of the subfamily Epilampirinae. Dr. H. G. Ewing has conducted investigations in the Scorpionidae, the Mallophaga, the Protura, and the Acarina. He completed a paper dealing with the scorpions of the western part of the United States, the first in many years dealing with this important group in our limits. W. L. McAtee and J. R. Malloch have continued work on Hemiptera in connection with a revision of the negro bugs. H. C. Barber has been employed for a temporary period by the Bureau of Entomology and is arranging the collections of the family Reduviidae. S. A. Rohwer, custodian of Hymenoptera, although unable to give much time to systematic work on the collec- tion, has nevertheless completed a number of descriptions of sawflies and has arranged the oriental species of Trigonalidae, describing some new forms. While in London, A. B. Gahan, in cooperation with Dr. James Waterston, gave considerable attention to a study of Harmolitas (joint worms) of grain crops, and uncovered some interesting facts regarding the synonymy of American and European species. R.A. Cushman completed a revision of the North Ameri- can Mesostinini. He also compiled the Ichneumonidae for the “ List of Insects of New York.” Miss Grace Sandhouse continued investi- gations in the group Agapostemon and Angodilova found north of Mexico. Dr. H. G. Dyar, honorary custodian of Lepidoptera, has devoted his time for the most part to the study of mosquitoes. Within the last year the Carnegie Institution has published a sub- stantial volume by him, based on National Museum material and covering the classification, as far as known, of mosquitoes of the whole of America, both in the larval and adult stages. Doctor Dyar has also identified mosquitoes for many workers in the Public Health Service in various parts of America. He regularly identifies the mosquitoes received by the Museum and has within the last year or two taken over the identification of Diptera in the families of Simuliidae and Psychodidae. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 71 In the division of marine invertebrates, Dr. Mary J. Rathbun, associate in zoology, devoted the major part of the year to further study of the crabs of the families Xanthidae, Cancridae, and Por- tunidae in preparation of the third volume of her comprehensive monograph of American crabs. In this connection she determined “more than 3,500 crabs in addition to the review of most of the identi- fied material in the study collections belonging to these three fami- lies. Furthermore, she has rendered the division invaluable assist- ance in classifying the crabs of many miscellaneous collections sent in for identification. As usual, she has given a great deal of time to editing the crustacea for Biological Abstracts, as well as pre- paring numerous abstracts of publications on crustacea. The cura- tor, Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, has spent a considerable part of the year disposing of accumulated examination and report material of which an unusual quantity was received. The preparation of the report on Siamese crustacea collected by Dr. Hugh M. Smith was con- tinued as time permitted, and collections of crustacea of economic ‘mportance have been worked up for the United States Bureau of Fisheries in connection with newly developed and very productive Alaskan shrimp fisheries, and for the Biological Board of Canada Mm connection with studies on the feeding of the haddock. The assistant curator, Clarence R. Shoemaker, aside from numerous rou- tine duties and identifications, has found time to complete his report on the Amphipods collected during the fisheries research project of the Biological Board of Canada in the Gulf of St. Lawrenee during 1917. The identification of the extensive series of Amphipods collected in the Bay of Fundy by A. H. Leim, of the Atlantic Bio- logical Station, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, is nearing completion and a beginning has been made on determinations of Amphipods from haddock stoinachs received from the Biological Board of Canada. J. O. Maloney, aid, completed the manuscript and drawings of “A new species of cavernicolus Isopod from California.” For the Federal Horticultural Board, Mr. Maloney has made numerous identifications of Isopods taken from plant importations. Studies initiated last year on Lower California Isopods have been continued in spare time. Mr. Maloney has also determined the Isopods taken from the stomach contents of haddock for the Biological Board of Canada. H. K. Harring, Custodian of Rotatoria, has industriously continued his rotifer studies. In collaboration with Dr. Frank J. Myers he published part 4 of the Wisconsin Rotifer Fauna, the Dicranophorinae, and began work on part 5, the Genus Luchainis, which will probably take two years to complete. During the past year Mr. Harring has also identified a number of small collections from many sources, and several large collections for the University 15544—28——_6 72 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 of Toronto, the Puget Sound Biological Station, and the University of Michigan. Dr. J. A. Cushman, honorary collaborator in Fora- minifera, continued to work up the Museum collections containing these forms. Part 6 of Bulletin 104 on the Atlantic Foraminifera is complete, except for a brief review of the recent revision of the classification of Foraminifera. Work on part 7 is well under way. Dr. Max Ellis and Prof. Maynard M. Metcalf, collaborators, have continued their studies on discodrilid worms and the opalinid para- sites of frogs, respectively. Dr. Harriet Richardson Searle, collabo- rator, has renewed her interest in the isopod collections, recently con- tinuing examination of the Smithsonian Panama collections and ‘some material from Barro Colorado Island, Gatun Lake. As in past years, Dr. R. S. Bassler, curator of the division of paleontology, furnished routine identifications of bryozoa and continued his review in collaboration with Ferdinand Canu of the study series of these forms. Under their joint authorship the Museum published in the Proceedings for the current year “ Fossil and recent Bryozoa of the Gulf of Mexico region.” In the study collection of the division of mollusks the curator, Dr. Paul Bartsch, has revised the West American species of the family Turritidae, recognizing a number of super-specific groups and many new species. Studies of the West Indian land shells of the family Annulariidae have been continued and a manuscript on that family is practically complete. The report is being held up pending the Cuban survey to be made this summer as study of Doctor de la Torre’s collection last summer yielded almost 200 new forms in this family. Besides several lesser papers the curator has written a report on a collection of shells from Vladivostok, containing 13 new species, which is being published in Russia. The time of William B. Marshall, assistant curator, has been occupied mostly in curatorial work on the collections and in identification of specimens sub- mitted by correspondents. What time could be spared from such work was devoted to investigation and resulted in the completion of a paper describing new fresh water and marine bivalve shells from Brazil and Uruguay. He is at present making a study of several groups of South American pearly mussels of the genera Anodontiles and Diplodon with a view to a classification more in keeping with discoveries of recent years. The research work undertaken by the curator of Echinoderms, Austin H. Clark, during the year consisted mainly in a continuation of work on volume 2 of the monograph of the recent crinoids for United States National Museum Bulletin 82. Of this volume part 3 is, except for the photographic illustrations, completed, part 1 is very nearly completed, and part 2 is about three-quarters done. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 73 Work on the crinoids collected by the Australian Antarctic expedi- tion, 1910-1914, under the leadership of Sir Douglas Mawson, was continued. A report was prepared on the comatulids which have been received at the British Museum since the curator’s last visit to that institution in 1910. This report, containing notices of 55 “species, including descriptions of 9 new forms, is now in course of publication in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Just before the end of the year work was begun on the extraordinarily large collection of comatulids made by Dr. Th. Mortensen at the Kei Islands and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region. In the division of plants, the curator, Dr. Frederick V. Coville, has continued studies upon the breeding and culture of blueberries (Vaccinium) and other acid-soil plants. Dr. J. N. Rose, late asso- ciate curator, continued studies, in collaboration with Dr. N. L. Britton, on the families Caesalpiniaceae and Mimosaceae. At the ‘time of the death of Doctor Rose in May, the first of the four projected parts of the North American Flora covering these groups had been published and manuscript for the second part was well advanced. Dr. W. R. Maxon, associate curator, has continued studies of tropical American ferns, giving special attention to the revision of several groups as represented in Jamaica and Hispaniola. Paul C. Standley, associate curator, has published several papers describ- ing many new species from Mexico and Central America, in addition to the flora of the Panama Canal Zone, which was published as volume 27, Contributions from the United States National Herba- rium, in January last. A projected manuscript enumerating the plants of the Yucatan Peninsula has been practically completed with the cooperation of the Field Museum of Natural History. E. P. Killip, associate curator, has continued his studies of the flora of Colombia and other Andean regions of South America, and has published several papers in this connection. Mr. E. C. Leonard, assistant curator, has continued work on the flora of Hispaniola, giv- ing special attention to the identification of several collections from the Republic of Haiti. RESEARCH OF OUTSIDE INVESTIGATORS AIDED BY MUSEUM MATERIAL The mammal collection has been consulted at different times dur- ing the year by Drs. Adolph H. Schultz, Ernst Huber, and George P. Wislocki, of Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. O. P. Hay, Car- negie Institution of Washington, has made constant use of the osteological collection in connection with his work on fossil mammals. William H. Sherzer, Michigan State Normal College, spent a few days in the mammal division examining the collection of gorilla 74 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 skulls. Dr. J. A. Wainwright, Scranton, Pa., examined certain mam- mals in the collection in connection with a study of mammary glands. Members of the staff of the Biological Survey consulted the collections constantly throughout the year. The more important loans of specimens made to outside investigators in aid of researches — were as follows: To the Johns Hopkins Medical School for study by Doctor Schultz, 20 monkeys and galagos in alcohol; for Doctor Huber, one seal ‘skull, and for Doctor Wislocki, 6 uteri, 1 tamandua, and 1 cyclopes; to the American Museum of Natural History, 9 South American mammals for comparison with type specimens, and 3 skeletons for R. T. Hatt to aid in a study of axial musculature; to Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 39 bat skulls for Clay B. Freu- denberger who is making a study of auditory ossicles; to the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif., 7 skulls; to the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., 9 skins with skulls for study by G. M. Allen; to Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton, Pa., 1 duckbill in alcohol for Doctor Wainwright; to the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pa., 64 domestic cat skulls; to the Charleston Museum, Charleston, S. C., 4 bat skins and skulls; to the Western Reserve Uni- versity School of Medicine, 1 hyena skull for T. W. Todd; to Arthur Svihla, Ann Arbor, Mich., 22 alcoholic specimens of small rodents; to Dr. W. L. Straus, jr., Baltimore, Md., 6 squirrel skeletons for use in study of the mammalian pelvis. In the division of birds, outside investigators made more than the ordinary use of the collections during the year, due in measure to the meeting in the Museum of the American Ornithologists’ Union in November, 1927. Among those who utilized the facilities of the division at that time and at various periods of the year may be mentioned Messrs. Donald R. Dickey and A. J. Van Rossem, Pasa- dena, Calif., who compared Central American birds with especial reference to the birds of Salvador; Gregory M. Mathews, London, England, who examined birds from the East Indies and neighboring regions, in connection with the preparation of part 2 of his Systema Avium Australasianarum; Mrs. Margaret M. Nice, Columbus, Ohio, who examined records and material relating to Oklahoma birds; George Finlay Simmons, Cleveland Museum of Natural History. who studied various African birds to facilitate his identification of material collected on the voyage of the Blossom to the South Atlan- tic; Miles D. Pirnie, Ithaca, N. Y., who spent several days examining plumages of North American ducks; W. E. Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, who spent a week or more working on liter- ature and records relating to birds of the Hudson Bay region; Dr. C. E. Hellmayr, Field Museum, Chicago, who studied various trop- ical American birds, especially the family Cotingidae, and also birds REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 75 of nothern Turkestan; Dr. Herbert Friedmann, Amherst, Mass., who spent a week or more studying African eagles and other large birds, especially of the Frick collection, in connection with a repori on the birds of that series; Dr. Nagamichi Kuroda, Tokyo, Japan, who examined various species of ducks, geese, and extinct species, as _ well as certain types of Japanese birds preserved here; T. H. Shaw, Nanking, China, who studied various Chinese birds; W. W. Bowen, late of the Sudan Government Museum, who spent some time ex- amining birds and literature in the preparation of keys for part 2 of his Catalog of Sudan Birds; Josselyn Van Tyne, Ann Arbor, Mich., who examined Panama birds and various other species. Others included Dr. R. M. Anderson, National Museum of Can- ada, Ottawa, who looked up grouse of the genus Pedioecetes; P. A. Taverner, of the same institution, who examined ptarmigans; Francis Harper, of the Boston Society of Natural History, examined certain European birds; Dr. Stuart T. Danforth, Mayaguez, P. R., examined various species from the island of Haiti; F. H. Kennard, Newton Center, Mass., examined geese of the genus Chen; James L. Peters, of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass., examined various West Indian birds; Drs. Frank M. Chapman, James P. Chapin, Jonathan Dwight, R. C. Murphy, and Messrs. W. de W. Miller and Philip A. du Mont, all of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, studied or compared material from various parts of the world; Dr. Witmer Stone, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, examined South American tanagers; Charles H. Rogers, Princeton University, examined various species; Dr. Edwyn Reed, Valparaiso, Chile, looked over certain South American birds; Messrs. Roland Walker, Oberlin, and Milton B. Trautman, Columbus, Ohio, examined various Ohio species. Among those who examined the collection of eggs may be mentioned A. C. Bent, Taun- ton, Mass., who studied those of North American waders in connec- tion w:th his Life History series; Herbert W. Brandt, Cleveland, Ohio; Edward J. Court, Washington, D. C.; C. W. Crandall, Wood- side, Long Island; and Frank C. Willard, Long Island City, who inspected various North American eggs. Members of the Biological Survey staff who made use of the collections and library included A. H. Howell (on Florida and Georgia birds and records) ; Reming- ton Kellogg (identifying feathers and bones in connection with analyses of stomach contents); Dr. H. C. Oberholser; E. A. Preble and others on various comparisons. Outside investigators who ren- dered service to the Museum in identifying material include Dr. Herbert Friedmann, who determined African specimens, and Dr. C. E. Hellmayr and W. E. C. Todd, who corrected the determinations of tropical American material. 76 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 A total of 1,113 specimens of birds was loaned during the year as follows: Charles D. Bunker, Kansas University Museum, Lawrence Kans., 2 skeletons of osprey (Pandion) for use of L. V. Compton; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, 11 skins including two types for the use of Harry S. Swarth in determining material in that institution; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., 44 skins of ant-wrens, tanagers, crows, and jays for the use of W. E. Clyde Todd in researches at that museum; American Museum of Natural History, New York, 18 petrels for the use of Dr. R. C. Murphy in his studies of this group; Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio, 1 skin of a warbler (Sylvia) for the use of G. F. Simmons in his determination of African birds in that museum; Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 144 bird skins for the use of C. E. Hellmayr in his studies of neotropical and Asiatic birds in the Field Museum; Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass., 81 skins for the use of Outram Bangs in comparison with Mexican and Chinese material in that museum; to the same institution, 601 bird skins for the use of Dr. Herbert Friedmann in preparing a report on the Frick Abyssinian collection; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif., 12 skins for the use of Dr. Joseph Grinnell in his studies of Lower California birds; National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 8 skins of Lagopus, for the use of P. A. Taverner in deter- mining specimens of this group; Natural History Museum, San Diego, Calif., 17 skins of Passerculus for the use of L. M. Huey in determining material in that museum; H. B. Conover, Chicago, IIL, 10 skins of species of Francolinus and Turnzx to aid him in his studies of African forms of these genera; Donald R. Dickey, Pasadena, Calif., 44 skins for use in comparisons on Salvadorean birds; Herbert C. Robinson, British Museum (Natural History), London, England, 32 skins of flycatchers and certain other groups, for use in studies of Malayan and Bornean birds; George M. Sutton, Harrisburg, Pa., 88 skins of purple grackles (Quiscalus) from Pennsylvania and Mary- land for examination. In the division of reptiles, Dr. E. R. Dunn, S. B. Bishop, Dr. Tracy I. Storer, and Dr. A. H. Wright spent some time studying the collec- tions. Remington Kellogg, of the Biological Survey, has been occu- pied for part of each day in the division on a report on the Nelson and Goldman Mexican collections. Specimens for study to the num- ber of 2,032 have been loaned as follows: C. S. Bishop, New York State Museum, Albany, N. Y., 1 salamander; American Museum of Natural History, New York, 4 salamanders and 4 lizards for Clifford ~ Pope, and 16 salamanders for Dr. G. K. Noble; British Museum (Natural History) London, 11 specimens for H. W. Parker; Dr. A. do Amaral, Mulford Biological Laboratories, Glenolden, Pa., 281 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 77 snakes; Dr. Robert Mertens, Senckenberg Museum, Frankford a/M., Germany, 3 lizards; Dr. E. R. Dunn, Smith College, Northampton, Mass., 47 amphibians; Museum of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Mich., 677 lizards for C. E. Burt and 229 snakes for Miss O. G. Stull; Dr. A. H. Wright, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., 235 frogs; and Field Mu- -seum of Natural History, Chicago, 526 reptiles and amphibians from Panama for K. P. Schmidt, to be reported upon. In the division of fishes, Alfred Eide Parr, Norwegian Fisheries Bureau, Bergen, Norway, examined specimens of malacopterygian fishes in connection with a study of deep-sea forms; Carl L. Hubbs, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, examined the families Embiotocidae, Percidae, and Gasterosteidae; Dr. W. H. Longley, Goucher College, Baltimore, examined the Gobioids and Blennioids in comparison with his material from the East Indies and Florida; T. H. Shaw, Tsin Hua College, Peking, China, examined Chinese fishes to familiarize himself with the fauna of his native land; Henry W. Fowler, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, spent considerable time studying material in connection with further work on Philippine fishes; Milton B. Trautman, Ohio State Uni- versity, examined certain fishes of the Ohio fauna. A number of specimens have been sent out for study purposes as follows: H. W. Fowler, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 37 Serranoid fishes in connection with his report on the Philippine AJdatross col- lections; Carlsberg Laboratories, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 specimens of deep-sea fishes for examination; University of Michigan, 79 speci- mens of Notropis hudsonius for study by Carl L. Hubbs. . The division of insects was visited by Dr. David G. Hall, of Fayetteville, Ark., who spent some time studying the collection of the genus Sarcophaga and has undertaken to revise the tropical American material in this group. Prof. A. L. Melander, of the College of the City of New York, spent a few days examining mate- rial in the dipterous family Empididae; M. C. Van Duzee, of Buffalo, N. Y., who has described a large part of the Diptera in the family Dolichopodidae in the Museum collection, visited the division for the purpose of examining new material in the same family. Within the last year he has completed a large paper on this family, describing material collected by C. T. Greene in Panama and by J. M. Aldrich in Guatemala; H. C. Hallock, of the staff of the Bureau of Ento- mology, stationed at Westbury, N. Y., visited the Museum for the purpose of studying a collection of Diptera belonging to the parasitic genus Cryptomeigenia, having undertaken a revision of this genus based principally upon Museum material; Dr. T. Shiraki, of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Formosa, spent several days ex- amining the types of Japanese and other oriental insects; C. H. 78 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 Curran, in charge of Diptera in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, and formerly of the entomological branch at Ottawa, Canada, spent a week in January examining various types of muscoid flies; Dr. William A. Hoffman, instructor in the School of Tropical Medicine, Porto Rico, visited the Museum in January for the purpose of examining some types of the smaller blood-sucking flies; George M. Green, of Harrisburg, Pa., visited the division for the purpose of consulting literature and examining specimens of Coleop- tera; J. C. Crawford, Black Mountain, N. C., spent two weeks in the study of Hymenoptera; J. H. Walter, of the Federal Horticultural Board, worked on Thysanoptera in the evenings for a part of the year; R. J. Sims, of the Japanese-beetle laboratory, spent a week working on beetles of the genus Phyllophaga; S. E. Crumb, Clarks- ville, Tenn., spent a month in the study of lepidopterous larvae; Dr. D. M. DeLong, of the Ohio State University, spent three days in the study of Homoptera; M. T. Simulyan, of the gipsy-moth labora- tory, worked for a month in the collection of Hymenoptera. Prof. Teiso Esaki, of the Entomological Laboratory, Kyushua Imperial University, Fukuoka, Japan, spent a week in the study of Hemiptera; Mr. Bernard Trouvelot, of Versailles, France, spent some time in the study of parasites of the potato beetle; E. Rivnay, Amer- ican Museum of Natural History, New York City, spent a few days in the study of beetles of the family Rhipiphoridae; Theodore H. Hub- bell, of the University of Michigan, spent two days in the study of Orthoptera; H. A. Jaynes and Dr. H. W. Allen, of the Japanese beetle laboratory, spent a day in the study of 7zphza; L. E. Dills, of the University of West Virginia, spent a few days in the study of Hymenoptera; Miss Kathleen Doering, of the University of Kansas, examined types of Cercopidae and other Hemiptera in the collec- tions; Dr. E. D. Bell, of Sanford, made two visits to study Homop- tera; Dr. Herbert Osborn, of the Ohio State University, made com- parison with types of Homoptera; Dr. Carl J. Drake, of lowa State College, compared specimens in the Hemiptera collection; Dr. F. J. Psota spent several days studying material of the beetle genus Moneilema; Dr. W. T. M. Forbes, of Cornell University, spent three weeks identifying material with the aid of the Lepidoptera collec- tions in the Museum; Mr. R. C. Williams, jr., and Ernest Bell worked with Doctor Schaus on the collection of Hesperidae; L Moline, of the Bureau of Entomology staff at Ancon, Canal Zone, spent several days at the Museum in the study of fruit flies of the genus Anastrepha. During the year many entomologists called at the division, some for information with reference to the library and collection, others to see the method of installation. Names of some of these are: Prof. Robert J. Matheson, Cornell University; Alejan- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 79 dro de Mesa, Philippine Islands; Kenneth M. King, Saskatoon Laboratory; Dr. George Salt, Bussey Institution, who was especially interested in Hymenoptera; Prof. James S. Hine, of the Ohio State University, interested chiefly in Diptera; Dr. Ashmed Salem Hassan, from Egypt; W. H. Thorpe, Zoological Laboratory, Cambridge, England; Prof. R. A. Cooley, Boseman, Mont.; R. C. Williams, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia; C. P. Englehart, of the Brooklyn Museum; Demetrio D. de Torres y de Quirds, Madrid, Spain; Stanley Garthside, Sydney, Australia; and Dr. A. Dampf, chief entomologist, Mexico City. Entomological material for study purposes to the extent of 4,400 specimens was loaned to a large number of institutions and investi- gators. Among those to whom large consignments were sent may be mentioned: The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, 158 Orthoptera for Morgan Hebard; J. C. Blattny, Prague, Czechoslo- vakia, 256 beetles; J. H. Frison, Urbana, IIl., 386 bees; David G. Hall, Fayetteville, Ark., 459 flies; M. Hatch, Seattle, Wash., 113 beetles; H. C. Hallock, Westbury, N. Y., 346 flies; R. Jeannel, Paris, France, 460 beetles; T. B. Mitchell, 270 bees; George Salt, Boston, Mass., 370 Hymenoptera; M. C. Van Duzee, Buffalo, N. Y., 436 files. The division of marine invertebrates is under great obligation for the most generous cooperation from a number of specialists in the determination of material. Special acknowledgment is made to the following for help in the groups indicated: Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, Medusae, Ctenophera; Dr. H. Boschma, Rhizocephalids (Crustacea); Dr. Joseph A. Cushman, Foraminifera; M. W. de Laubenfels, Porifera; Prof. G. S. Dodds, Freshwater Entomostraca; Prof. Max Ellis, Discodrilids; Dr. Walter K. Fisher, Sipunculids; Prof. Gordon E. Gates, Earthworms; Dr. W. P. Hay, Crustacea; Dr. A. G. Huntsman, Ascidians; Dr. Chancey Juday, Cladocera (Crustacea); T. Kaburaki, Turbellaria; Dr. C. Dwight Marsh, . Freshwater Copepods; Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf, Salpa, Pyrosoma, Protozoa; Dr. J. Percy Moore, Leeches; Dr. Yo Okada, Phyllopoda; Dr. Raymond C. Osburn, Bryozoa; Dr. A. S. Pearse, Limnadia; Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry, Barnacles; Capt. F. A. Potts, Rhizocephalids (Crustacea); Prof. Frank Smith, Earthworms and Freshwater Sponges; Miss Caroline B. Stringer, Turbellaria; Dr. W. M. Tattersall, Mysidacea (Crustacea); Dr. A. L. Treadwell, Annelids; Dr. C. B. Wilson, parasitic and free-swimming Marine Copepods; and Dr. H. V. Wilson, Porifera. : Fifty-five separate shipments of specimens were made to these specialists during the year, comprising nearly 600 lots of material, containing an aggregate of considerably more than 1,800 specimens. It is interesting to note that Doctor Treadwell has discovered at 80 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 least one new species in the various sendings of annelids; Dr. C. B. Wilson five new species of copepods and Doctor Pilsbry some new records in the distribution of west coast barnacles. Luang Choola of the Siamese Fisheries Department, under the direction of Dr. Hugh M. Smith, spent several months in the division studying Indo- Pacific crustacea. Miss Rowena Radcliffe has availed herself of the facilities of the laboratory at various intervals in connection with studies on fresh water and marine plankton organisms in general, and the fauna of the United States Bureau of Fisheries fish-culture ponds at Lakeland, Md., in particular. Among the visitors and specialists who have availed themselves of collections are the follow- ing: Dr. Florencio Talavera, Bureau of Science, Manila, P. L., Crustacea; M. W. de Laubenfels, Carnegie Institution of Washington, sponges; H. R. Seiwell, biologist and chemist on board the yacht Carnegie, Crustacea; Melbourne Ward, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Aus- tralia, Crustacea; Dr. A. S. Pearse, Duke University, Chapel Hill, N. C., Crustacea; Prof. Gordon E. Gates, Judson College, Rangoon, Burma, earthworms; Clarence Birdseye, General Sea Foods Corpo- ration, Gloucester, Mass., shrimp fisheries; Edwin P. Greaser, Uni- versity of Michigan, Crustacea; Dr. Joseph A. Cushman, Sharon, Mass., Foraminifera; W. H. Bradley, United States Geological Sur- vey, Fossil Arthropods; Dr. C. Dwight Marsh, Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture, Crustacea, copepods; Prof. Sidney I. Kornhauser, University of Louisville, Ky., biology; Capt. J.P. Ault, yacht Carnegie, oceanography; Mr. John Fleming, depart- ment of terrestrial magnetism, Carnegie Institution, oceanography ; Dr. H. B. Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, oceanography ; Miss Esther Carpenter, Bryn Mawr College, earthworms; Miss Isa- bella Gordon, Cambridge, England, coelenterates; Dr. Charles J. Fish, Buffalo Museum of Natural History, plankton; Charles A. Pertsch, Maryland Academy of Science, biology; H. C. McMillin, United States Bureau of Fisheries, crustacea; George T. Ash, Wash- — ington, D. C., sponges; James N. Jacobs, Minneapolis, Minn., sponges; Dr. Clinton G. Abbott, San Diego Museum of Natural History, invertebrate collections. In the division of mollusks Miss Rowena Radcliffe spent con- siderable time working upon a report of the mollusks obtained by the United States Bureau of Fisheries in its exploration of Chesa- peake Bay; Miss Pearl Hicks was occupied for several months in an anatomic and histologic study of Cerion paracuta; Luang Choola, of Siam, spent some weeks studying the collections made by Dr. Hugh M. Smith in Siam; Mrs. Paul Bowman has given considerable time to the collections made by her at Matamek River, Canada. The re- cent collections of mollusks have been consulted by Drs. Wendell C. Mansfield, C. W. Cooke, and Julia Gardner, members of the REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 81 Geological Survey staff who have had constant use of these speci- ments for comparative purposes. The following have spent some time in the division, examining and studying material: William J. Foster, Washington, D. C.; C. A. Perry, Bridgton, Me.; Edwin Burr, Washington, D. C.; H. J. Boekelman, Deland, Fla.; C. D. Alleman, Canal Zone; Prof. Harry Ladd, University of Virginia. Charlottesville; Dr. Louis M. Perry, Asheville, N. C.; Dr. I. F. Moll, Berlin, Germany; Dr. Rollin E. Stevens, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. William A. Hoffman, San Juan, Porto Rico; Dr. Carl Engberg, Lincoln, Nebr.; John Douglass and R. E. L. Collins, students from Johns Hopkins University. Specimens of mollusks were loaned for study as follows: To the Hon. F. R. Latchford, Ontario, Canada, 17 specimens; J. Allen Thomson, Wellington, New Zealand, 2 speci- mens; Lieut. Col. W. H. Turton, Clifton, Bristol, England, 31 speci- mens; Edwin Ashby, Blackwood, South Australia, 15 specimens; Zoological Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 3 specimens; Dr. S. S. Berry, Redlands, Calif., 2 specimens; José Giner Mari, Valencia, Spain, 63 specimens. Two lots of Physa were sent to William J. Clench, Cambridge, Mass., for determination; and 7 vials of mollusks to Prof. Kyosuke Hirasaka, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan, for determination. In the section of helminths, a slide of the parasite Porocephalus gracilis was loaned to Duke University, Durham, N. C., for Fred J. Holl. During the year the following studies have been aided by material belonging to the division of echinoderms: Prof. Walter K. Fisher, of Stanford University, Calif., director of the Hopkins Marine Lab- oratory, has continued work on the starfish collection, studying especially the species inhabiting the North Pacific area; Dr. Th. Mortensen, of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, has continued work on the sea urchins collected by the Albatross among the Philippines and in adjacent waters, and in addition has made an intensive study of our specimens representing the family Cidari- dae; Dr. Hubert Lyman Clark, of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass., continued work on the holothurians of the Albatross Philippine expedition; Prof. Ludwig Déderlein, of Munich, Bavaria, completed studies on the basket-stars of the Albatross Philippine expedition; Miss Elizabeth Deichmann com- pleted studies on the unidentified holothurians of the family Pao- lidae. Three starfishes were sent to Prof. W. K. Fisher, and 24 or more sea urchins to Dr. Th. Mortensen. As in previous years in the division of plants, substantial help has been given many outside students by the loan of specimens from the National Herbarium. Locally, 33 lots of material, aggregating 469 specimens, have been lent to investigators in the United States De- 82 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 partment of Agriculture, chiefly the Bureau of Plant Industry. The revision of a large number of specimens of Compositae and the identification of much new material in this family have been carried out at the herbarbium by Dr. S. F. Blake, of the bureau staff. Out- of-town botanists who have conducted investigations at the herba- rium, and the special subjects of their study, are as follows: Prof. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, N. Y., flora of eastern South America; Prof. H. H. Barlett, University of Michigan, the genus Dianella; Dr. M. A. Howe, New York Botantical Garden, algae; Prof. H. M. Hall, Uni- versity of California, Compositae of the western United States; Prof. Duncan S. Johnson and Dr. Alexander F. Skutch, Johns Hop- kins University, vegetation of Jamaica; Dr. E. D. Merrill, University of California, plants of eastern Asia; Dr. Alfred Rehder, Arnold Arboretum, shrubs of North America; Robert E. Woodson, jr., Gray Herbarium, tropical American Apocynaceae; Miss Alma G. Stokey, Mount Holyoke College, Pteridophyta; Dr. William Trelease, Uni- versity of Illinois, Piperaceae of tropical North America; C. A. Weatherby, Gray Herbarium, Pteridophyta; Prof. Paul Weather- wax, Indiana University, morphology of grasses. The material loaned for study to institutions or to individuals outside of Wash- ington during the past year consisted of 97 lots, aggregating 6,412 specimens. The more important items are as follows: Prof. Paul Aellen, Basel, Switzerland, 1,338 specimens of Chenopodium; Edwin B. Bartram, Bushkill, Pa., 245 mosses; Botanical Museum, Berlin- Dahlem, Germany, 438 specimens; University of California. 244 specimens; Botantical Museum of the University, Copenhagen, Den- mark, 653 ferns; De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind., 346 speci- mens of Cuscuta; Botanical Institute, University of Gottingen, Ger- many, 155 specimens of Connaraceae; Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, 712 specimens; University of Illinois, 275 specimens; Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, 150 specimens; New York Botanical Garden, 711 specimens; Pomona College, Claremont, Calif., 452 specimens; and the Museum of Natural History, Vienna, Austria, 209 specimens of Lobeliaceae. Assistance by members of staff to other Government bureaus and private indwiduals.—It has been stressed in previous reports that assistance rendered the general public, as well as various branches of the Government, by the scientists of the Museum constitutes an im- portant service which requires considerable labor and time. The present year is no exception, as will be seen from the following brief summary. Detailed reports were made by the curator of the division of mammals on a total of 21 lots comprising about 236 specimens. Be- sides attending to the usual miscellaneous inquiries he gave consid- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 83 erable assistance to Dr. C. W. Stiles, Hygienic Laboratory, United States Public Health Service, in his bibliographic work on the Pri- mates. The sectional library of the division of birds is consulted almost daily by officials of the Biological Survey, and necessary assistance and cooperation in bibliographic research rendered. The National Geographic Society was helped in connection with ques- tions on the birds of the Faroe Islands; identifications of birds were furnished the National Zoological Park; considerable time was given to looking up data and specimens for Dr. Joseph Grinnell, of the University of California, who is preparing a report on the birds of Lower California. Doctor Wetmore determined quantities of bones of birds uncovered in archeological excavations at Pecos, N. Mex., for Dr. A. V. Kidder, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and for N. M. Judd from investigations at Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex., under the auspices of the National Geographic Society. Instructions in mak- ing up bird skins were given native collectors of Dr. Joseph I’. Rock, who was about to start for China for the National Geographic So- ciety. Eleven lots of birds, numbering 418 species, were received for identification and return. In the reptile division a number of identifications were furnished to the Federal Horticultural Board, the specimens being accessioned in every instance. Sixteen lots of fishes were received for determi- nation and report, the most important ones being for the Florida State Museum. Assistance was rendered to Dr. David Starr Jordan in his general work on fishes; to Dr. Hugh M. Smith in his work on the fishes of Siam; and to Dr. Carl L. Hubbs in his work on the Embiotocidae of the west coast. Dr. J. M. Aldrich, curator of in- sects, did considerable identifying in Diptera during the past year for the Bureau of Entomdlogy and the Federal Horticultural Board, and was consulted by the Bureau of Animal Industry. Identifica- tions by Doctor Aldrich and Mr. Greene amounted to 1,044 in the year, many of them involving a great deal of work. Doctor Aldrich also identified material at different times for several of the experi- ment stations throughout the country, principally for those in Cali- fornia, Oregon, and Utah; for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Asso. ciation; the Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History; the Entomological Branch, Ottawa, Canada; the California Horticul- tural Commission; Dr. Gerald F. Hill, Australia; Cornell Univer: sity; South Dakota Experiment Station; University of Porto Rico; Dr. H. Schmidt, San Jose, Costa Rica; the Citrus Experiment Sta- tion, California; the School of Tropical Medicine, Johns Hopkins University; the Maine Experiment Station; the experiment station in the Dominican Republic; the Massachusetts Agricultural College; Dr. A. Dampf, chief entomologist, Mexico; the Standard Fruit Co., 84 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 La Ceiba, Honduras; the London School of Tropical Medicine, Argentina; the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Stillwater, Okla.; and the Vienna Natural History Museum, Austria. The number of lots for examination during the year amounted to 192. In the division of marine invertebrates, 201 lots, comprising slightly less than 3,000 specimens, were determined, with more than 1,000 specimens left over from transactions of the previous year. Aside from this work, considerable information was furnished to several eovernment bureaus, as the Federal Horticultural Board, the Bureau of Fisheries, the Biological Survey, the Geological Survey, and the Bureau of Entomology. Identifications of more than 900 specimens were furnished foreign museums and government agencies as follows: Museu Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Provincial Museum, Victoria, British Columbia; Biological Board of Canada; Pacific Biological Station; Geological Survey of Canada; and the Secretaria de Agri- cultura y Fomento,:Mexico. Similar services were rendered to a score of investigators, mostly in this country. These transactions are increasing all the time, those of this year being nearly double those of last in number and extent. In the division of mollusks, specimens of snails and slugs were identified for the Federal Horticultural Board, of importance in de- termining whether these animals, incidentally imported with plants, are injurious to agriculture in this country; 23 lots, comprising 96 specimens, were thus identified during the year. Altogether the division received 107 different sendings of material, comprising 1,860 individual lots, for identification. The assistance rendered by the curator of Echinoderms to outside organizations and individuals, beyond the usual correspondence, consisted in serving as new man- ager for the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the Nashville, Tenn., meeting; serving as secretary of the section of oceanography, American Geographical Union, National Research Council; and serving as a member of the advisory committee on source bed studies of the American Petroleum Institute and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists acting in cooperation with the National Research Council. Sixty lots of material were received for identification during the year. Members of the staff of the division of plants assisted the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Geological Survey, and several bureaus of the Department of Agriculture, and numerous private and public educational and scientific institutions. Many of the requests from private individuals have to do with plant identification work, while others relate to recommendation of helpful descriptive and reference works, methods of botanical study, and the common names and uses of plants. During the year 316 lots of material, totaling 10,670 speci- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 85 mens, have been received for examination and report. Many of these lots were conveyed informally, often in person, by visitors to Wash- ington or by local residents. Of the larger accessions received for identification, there should be mentioned three shipments of historic Central American and Mexican material from the Botanical Museum in Copenhagen, and an extremely interesting collection of flowering plants and ferns from western Mexico sent by Mrs. Ynes Mexia, which contained specimens of great value to the National Herbarium. Visits to other institutions or places on official work.—Toward the end of the year, Dr. A. Wetmore and Dr. C. W. Richmond visited Wingina, Va., for the purpose of packing up over a thousand bird skins presented to the Museum by Col. Wirt Robinson and trans- porting them to Washington. Dr. C. W. Stiles, custodian of the Helminthological collections, took part in the Tenth International Zoological Congress at Budapest as a representative of the Federal Government and the National Museum, and participated in the meetings of the Commission on Zoological Nomenclature of which he is the secretary, from August 20 to September 10, 1927. He visited the scientific institutions there and in the various European cities on the way with a view to the increased efficiency of the section under his care. Austin H. Clark, the curator of Echinoderms, at his own expense, attended the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from December 26-31, 1927, as a delegate from the Smithsonian Institution. Doctor Bartsch, curator of mol- lusks, in September, 1927, visited Dr. Carlos de la Torre at Habana, Cuba, to examine his rich private collection which embraces by far the most magnificent assemblage of Cuban land mollusks in existence. The month spent in reviewing the land shells of the family Annula- riidae in this collection resulted not only in the material expansion of systematic knowledge of the group, but also in the addition of almost 200 unnamed forms. It also revealed that there still remain a number of regions in that large island which have been untouched and which will yield a rich harvest to the collector. During Doctor Bartsch’s stay in Cuba the collections of the Academy of Sciences, Colegio de la Salle, and Colegio de los Escolapios were also examined and interesting information secured. Visits to other institutions by members of the staff of the division of plants include a short period spent by the late Dr. J. N. Rose at the New York Botanical Garden for the study of leguminous plants; six weeks spent at the Field Museum of Natural History, by Paul C. Standley, in the autumn of 1927 for the purpose of preparing a catalogue of Yucatan plants, and two recent short visits to the New York Botanical Garden and the Gray Herbarium by Dr. A. S. Hitchcock, custodian of grasses, in connection with herbarium studies and projected field work. 86 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 The head curator of biology, at his own expense, visited European museums in the fall of 1927 for the purpose of studying museum technique and examining types and other material of reptilian species. He also attended the Tenth International Zoological Con- gress at Budapest, Hungary, from August 20 to September 10 as a delegate of the Federal Government and the National Museum. While there he took part in the deliberations of the permanent com- mittee of the congress and of the Commission on Zoological Nomen- clature, of which he is a member. DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS Duplicates distributed to high schools, colleges, and other similar institutions aggregated 3,105 specimens, of which 1,788 consisted of mollusks in 12 prepared sets and 363 of fishes in 6 sets. Exchanges to the number of 30,414 were sent out, of which 1,693 were zoological specimens. Of the 28,721 plants thus distributed, exchanges comprising lots of 1,000 specimens and over were sent to the Botanical Museum of Berlin-Dahlem, Germany; the Univer- sity of California; the Field Museum of Natural History; and the Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria. There were distributed as giits 865 specimens, mostly living plants, belonging to the fami- lies Crassulaceae and Cactaceae. NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY The number of specimens, including duplicates, as far as has been ascertained by count and estimate, now exceeds 8,300,000. The total number is probably much greater since several collections, such as the corals, have not been included in the estimate, nor does the num- ber of plants given below include unmounted material or the lower cryptogams. Estimated number of specimens Division: earring We te NAR A OF ES EOL SRDS ee ee 83, 352 Birds SKiIng ooo octet Bee ee 233, 912 Ale@oholies.j: 2525 G28 ies Liber aie: Ue ee 8, 126 Skeletons 2. =tt2.
RWC ONrengpr ysis ee ee ee 24, 042 ae. wroliotas korea rite tabi 1 y wredeo twat f ie §.. — 5 ae a) 2, : at ah oes Pike, Sh} we a ater a SI Te La y { a) ‘oly ; of 47. . ore " ( { A ‘ tp) ee Pfs f 5 linc ey Bee at rae gilli 8 aati mA ire oe ee sired ‘ 5 ew wt Oa / Te i ry 4 wy Fatal: ie ' Thy, Die Pde ot alo DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES AND DIVISION OF HISTORY By WILLIAM DE C. RAVENEL, Director of Arts and Industries The year ended June 30, 1928, was marked by a change of interest in objects attractive to the visiting public in this department. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh’s memorable flight from New York City to Paris in May, 1927, started a wave of popular interest and enthu- siasm in aviation which in its ever widening circle has included the Museum. The Museum aircraft collections have been studied as never before, and since Lindbergh’s airplane the Spirit of St. Louis was installed in the north hall of the Arts and Industries Building in May, 1928, every American citizen visiting his capital city has felt the urge to see this epoch-making plane. The appeal of this object seems to be universal. The college professor shows no less interest or enthusiasm than the laborer from the street. The number of visitors to the Arts and Industries Building during June was about three times that of the preceding June and exceeded by 50,000 the number of visitors in the Natural History Building. The past two decades have witnessed in the United States un- dreamed of advances in science, invention, and industry, and a new epoch in the world’s history that has fundamentally affected the daily life of all its citizens. Opportunities for industrial exhibits of economic importance typifying the old and the new eras are constantly presenting themselves, as well as unusual opportunities to obtain historical objects. The Museum, however, now finds itself so greatly cramped by inadequate space that many offers of excep- tionally appropriate donations have to be declined. The time has come when additional housing facilities must be provided if the national collections are not to stagnate. “A finished museum is a dead museum,” as Dr. G. Brown Goode so aptly said, and at present there is absolutely no room for growth in the arts and industries and the historical collections. Valuable gifts have constantly to be declined because of lack of adequate space for their appropriate housing. ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR The department of arts and industries, and the division of history acquired 35,401 specimens during the year. In these branches of the national collections a specimen may mean an airplane or it may be a coin or postage stamp, yet the specimen must remain the logical 101 102 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 unit of measurement. The increment for this year is 150 per cent that of the preceding year. These objects were assigned by subjects as follows: To mechanical technology, 201; mineral technology, 1; textiles, 625; food, 42; organic chemistry, 245; wood technology, 1,914; medicine, 709; graphic arts, including photography, 1,812; Loeb collection of chemical types, 102; and history, 29,750. It is obviously impossible to describe all the specimens received during the year but brief mention follows of such additions as de- serve special attention. Mineral and mechanical technology.—Of the 42 accessions received by these divisions during the year, 41 relate to mechanical and 1 to mineral technology, a 60 per cent increase as compared with the preceding year. The total number of objects in these accessions is 201, or 10 more than were catalogued the preceding year. In addi- tion to these objects, 840 Patent Office models were permanently added to the collections. While this latter increment must be in- cluded in the total number of objects in the division, it was acces- sioned last year and, therefore, is not considered at this time in the comparison. , Foremost of the accessions of the year is the Spit of St. Lowis. The day that Colonel Lindbergh landed at Le Bourget airport, Paris, Secretary Abbot cabled the congratulations of the Smith- sonian Institution and expressed the hope that the Spirit of St. Louis might eventually become a part of the famous collection of historic airplanes in the National Museum. On April 30, 1928, Colonel Lind- bergh made a flight in the Spirit of St. Louis from St. Louis to Washington for the express purpose of depositing the plane in the Museum. After being dismantled at Bolling Field the plane was transported to the Museum on May 11, 1928, installed with the assistance of a corps of men from Bolling Field on May 12, and first viewed by the public in its permanent home on May 13, 1928. Sus- pended in the north or main entrance hall of the Arts and Indus- tries Building and in proximity to other historic airplanes, the Spzrit of St. Louis seems still to be flying, but now in echelon formation with the planes of da Vinci, Stringfellow, Lihenthal, Hargrave, and Langley on its right flank, and on its left, those of Wright, Curtiss, Voisin, the VWC0—4, T-2, the world flyer Chicago, and the Pan Amer- ican amphibian San Francisco. Besides its great historical impor- tance in having made the first nonstop trans-Atlantic flight between the United States and Europe, the Spirit of St. Louis is a valuable addition to the aircraft collection as typifying aeronautical develop- ments of 1927. It was made for Colonel Lindbergh and his St. Louis friends by the Ryan Airlines (Inc.) and is of monoplane construc- tion, with a wing spread of 46 feet, a fuselage length of 27 feet 5 inches, and powered by a 223-horsepower Wright air-cooled, radial, REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 103 9-cylinder engine. The propeller is made of steel and measures 9 feet from tip to tip. To carry sufficient oil and gasoline for the 3,610-mile flight three tanks were installed in the fuselage between the engine on the nose and the cabin aft. The first of these, imme- diately back of the engine, carried 28 gallons of oil, the next one 89 gallons of gasoline, and the last 209 gallons of gasoline. In addi- tion, three gasoline tanks were built into the wing section imme- diately over the fuselage, holding a total of 153 gallons of gasoline. A second important addition to the aircraft collections is the Pan American good-will flyer San Francisco, transferred to the Museum from the War Department. The good-will flight was started in the latter days of 1926 and was made by five Loening amphibian airplanes, which are capable of landing or taking off from either land or water. Under the command of Maj. Herbert A. Dargue, United States Army, the airplanes left San Antonio, Tex., and flew through Mexico and Central America, down the west and up the east coast of South America, through the West Indies, and up the north Atlantic coast line to Washington, where the flight ended June 2, 1927. The message of good will was carried to 21 American republics. Thereafter the San Francisco made numerous flights in the United States and Canada, so that, before being added to the aircraft col- lections, it had flown over the entire American continent, covering more than 30,000 miles. This plane, of a distinct type heretofore un- represented in the aircraft collections, was designed and built by the Loening Aircraft Corporation. A third important addition to the aircraft collection, presented to the Museum by the Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. (Inc.), is an original Curtiss pusher type airplane of the period 1909-1914, a type made famous by the exploits of Glenn Curtiss and his pupils. screen, and a print from it. The plate, apparently made by the method described in his patent and also published in the Athenaeum, April 30, 1853, is doubtless of about that date, and is one of the early successful photomechanical reproductions made with a screen. The screen received is a photographic one taken from a cross-rules draw- ing, looks very much like a present day half-tone screen, and has about 85 lines to the inch. Other experimental plates were included, with three large finished plates, two on copper and one on steel; also 16 impressions from other plates. This makes very complete the Museum’s collection of the photomechanical work of Henry Fox Talbot, who adapted photography to printing plates. An early camera with a curious focusing device is probably the most valuable of the objects in this accession relating to photography. In the upper corner of the front board is a round hole, about as big as a finger, which contains a plug. Upon the removal of the plug, one can see on the back of the camera the image cast by the lens and by adjusting the lens can bring the image into perfect focus. One of the photographs of Fox Talbot in the section of photography shows this or a Similar camera. One print in the accession is dated 1835, and there are others earlier than 1839, when photography was first announced to the world. The daguerreotype and Talbot’s method were made known during the same year, but their methods and results were entirely different. (Talbot’s method consisted of a negative from which as many positives as desired could be printed, while by Daguerre’s process only one positive was made, and that was reversed.) Several paper negatives are included with fine prints from some of them; also a complete set of five numbers of “The Pencil of Nature,” published in 1844 by Talbot. The whole is an exceedingly valuable historical addition to the Museum’s collection of photography and photomechanical repro- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 115 - ductions, as the specimens go back to the very beginning and are of the utmost authenticity. The largest gift of the year came from I. N. Phelps Stokes and contained 1,361 specimens relating to Muybridge’s work on motion pictures. Those included three of Muybridge’s lectures, Nos. 1, 3, and 4, some 744 mounted blue prints, studies in animal locomotion, and 52 negatives from which positives were printed for projection in the zoopraxinoscope, all new to the Museum. This generous donation places the section of photography in a very strong position in its wealth of Muybridge material. The apparatus used in receiving the first photoradiogram across the Atlantic was the gift of the Radio Corporation of America. The picture of President Coolidge sent from London was received on November 27, 1924, in the office of the company in New York City, where the recording of the picture was observed by a large group of people. The transmitter is in the Science Museum, South Kensing- ton, London, England. Radio vision apparatus was donated by C. Francis Jenkins, con- sisting of a part of the receiving apparatus used June 14, 1925, in a demonstration of radio vision before a distinguished group of people. Miss Aida M. Doyle, of the Museum staff, gave the collection its only portrait on leather, a family portrait made by Fardon over 50 _-years ago, when experiments of this kind were being tried out. Charles C. Jones made a very unusual contribution in the donation of a wet-plate transparency which he made from a formula published in Photographic Mosaics, in 1874, and still used in his work. Of about the same age were three albumen prints of the Wind River Mountains and Mammoth Hot Springs, donated by W. H. Jackson, who made them, in 1872-1878, while official photographer for the Hayden geological survey. J. Schorp gave an interesting collection of carte-de-visite (por- traits), tintypes, and ambrotypes. The carte-de-visite style of portraiture was introduced in the early sixties and became very popular. It was intended to take the place of calling cards; one left his portrait instead of his name. A number of fine old cameras was added to the collection from various sources. Frank V. Chambers sent in three of very early manufacture, and also contributed three stereoscopic transparencies made by Bierstadt Brothers. A box camera, “ Ray-C,” with a novel ‘duplicating device incorporated with the shutter, was the gift of Vincent Harris. A 614 by 814 camera with structural features of design different from any in the collection was presented by Miss Mary E. Trueman, who also made important additions to the magic lantern and lantern slide exhibit. Twelve of the 13 slides given were 116 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 animated and illustrate the clever devices used to introduce motion in projection. Miss Georgia M. Spruill loaned eight colored slides of early manufacture, which were used many years ago in magic- lantern entertainments. To the pictorial photographic series were added two bromoil transfers of exceptional quality made by and the gift of Mrs. Ambrose Ralli, London, England. A very excellent daguerreotype, a gift of Arthur L. Stearns, should be mentioned. Two Brogen lenses, a gift of International Mutoscope Reel Co., through William Rabkin, president, were very much appreciated. History.—To this division came 92 accessions, with an aggregate of 29,750 specimens, a larger number than received during the preceding year. Interesting additions were made to every section of the historical collections but the numismatic section received the most important accessions, in so far as intrinsic value is concerned, and the philatelic collections acquired the greatest number of specimens. Among the acquisitions to the antiquarian collections were two silver candlesticks loaned by Peter A. Jay. These were originally owned by Chief Justice John Jay, of the United States Supreme Court, and they were used for the sealing of the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain at the close of the American Revolution, concluded at Paris, September 3, 1783. The treaty was signed by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and John Jay as the American envoys. Surveying instruments used in 1818 by Surveyor General John Johnson in the establishment of the boundary line between the United States and Canada, were presented by John Johnson Allen. ? The Washington series was increased by a loan from W. Lanier Washington consisting of an oil painting of Mary Ball Washington and an oil painting showing General Washington reviewing troops. Silver sugar tongs owned during the War of the Revolution by Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene, Continental Army, were the gift of Richard W. G. Welling. Additions to the military collections include a silk flag presented by the ladies of Nashville, Tenn., to the Nashville Battalion during — the Creek War in 1813. This flag bears on one side the coat of arms. of the United States, below a group of 18 stars and the legend, “God Armeth the Patriot.” This interesting relic was presented by Mrs. Agnes K. Brent, through the Missouri Historical Society. The flag flown by Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles when in command of the United States Army, 1900 to 1903, wearing apparel worn by him during the Civil War, and military. commissions awarded him from 1861 to. 1901, were received as:a loan from his son, Maj.. Sherman Miles, United States Army. George B. McClellan added a silk REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 117 banner, a gold badge, and two silver badges owned by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, United States Army, to the large series of objects belonging to his father, previously contributed. Miss Genevieve A. Wheeler presented a sword and a uniform worn during the Civil War by Capt. Woodbury Wheeler, Confederate States Army. Swords, uniforms, and service badges owned by - Lieut. Gen. Samuel B. M. Young, United States Army, were donated by his estate. An interesting addition to this portion of the collec- tion was a military uniform worn in 1856 by Capt. Frederick Forsyth, of the Maine Militia. This uniform was donated by Thomas S. Forsyth, who also contributed a diplomatic uniform coat worn by William Pitt Preble when United States minister to the Netherlands in 1828. A flag, album, and bronze medal presented to the President of the United States by the city of Antwerp in recognition of services rendered bythe American Nation to Belgium and Antwerp during the World War, 1914-1918, were transferred to the Museum from the State Department. A German machine gun, captured on June 6, 1918, by the Ninety-sixth Company of the Sixth Regiment of United States Marines at Bouresches, France, was presented by Maj. Gen. George Barnett, United States Marine Corps. The naval collections were increased by a series of interesting relics of Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, United States Navy, given to the Museum by Mrs. Nellie G. Gunther. This collection includes commissions, diplomas, decorations, medals, and badges associated with the naval career of Rear Admiral Sigsbee. Three ormolu brass vases inlaid with malachite, which were presented by the French Government to Admiral David D. Porter, United States Navy, were loaned to the Museum by Mrs. David D. Porter. From the Treasury Department was received a series of 40 United States gold, silver, and bronze coins struck at the Denver, the Phila- delphia, and the San Francisco mints in 1927, including double eagles, quarter eagles, dollars, half dollars, quarter dollars, dimes, nickels, and cents. The Treasury Department also contributed a series of 159 ancient Roman coins, 76 modern European, and 12 Oriental coins. A collection of 1,325 American and European coins and tokens was donated by Isaac M. Weills. This collection includes an interesting series of United States half cents, cents, 2-cent pieces, 3-cent pieces, nickels, dimes, half dimes, quarter dollars, half dollars, and dollars. Among the tokens were “hard times” pieces issued 1837-1841 and a number of Civil War tokens issued 1861-1865. The whole constitutes a welcome maiditaon to the national numismatic collection. | Two decorations of more than usual historical interest were re- ceived during the year. One of them, the Order of St. Stanislaus, 118 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 was awarded in 1857 by Alexander Il, Emperor of Russia, to Dr. Charles A. Leas in recognition of services rendered during the Crimean War, 1853-1856, and was presented to the Museum by Miss Fannie B. Frush. The other, an example of the bronze medal pre- sented by the town of Langres, France, to the personnel of United States Base Hospital No. 53 in recognition of services rendered dur- ing the World War, was donated by Col. W. Lee Hart, Medical Corps, United States Army, who commanded the hospital during that period. The commemorative medals added to the numismatic collection during the year include a number of special interest. From the general committee on Army and Navy chaplains through Rey. W. S. Abernethy, chairman, was received a bronze medal of the type awarded by the committee to chaplains of Protestant faith who served in the United States Army or Navy during the World War. From the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists was received a bronze medal commemorating the eightieth birthday of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, October 18, 1924. The Vermont Historical Society gave a bronze specimen of the George F. Edmunds medal awarded by that society “to encourage young Vermonters to study the history and problems of their State and to honor the memory of George Franklin Edmunds.” Of more than usual interest was a set of 16 medals designed by the English inventor, Sir Edward Thomason, and bearing inscriptions relating to astronomy, chemistry, crystallography, galvanism, geology, hydrostatics, mechanics, metallurgy, mineralogy, optics, phrenology, Newcomer’s steam engine, Savery’s steam engine, Watt’s single-action steam engine, and Watt’s double-action steam engine. These medals, mounted in book form in a suitable case, were presented to the Museum by J. Earle Miller. Mention should also be made of the acquisition of bronze medals commemorating the completion of the Delaware River Bridge, 1926, and the New York to Paris airplane flight of Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, 1927. The philatelic collection was increased by 27,351 specimens, of which 4,441 were transferred from the Post Office Department. The latter included in triplicate recent regular and commemorative issues of all the countries belonging to the Universal Postal Union Among the United States commemorative issues were a 10-cent air mail stamp bearing a view of the Spirit of St. Louis and celebrating Lindbergh’s successful nonstop airplane flight from New York to Paris and stamps commemorating the sesquicentennials of the Battles of Fort Stanwix, Oriskany, Bennington, and Saratoga and the ses- quicentennial of the independence of Vermont. Commemoratives were issued also by the following countries: Canada, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 119 France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Haiti, Italy and colonies, Japan, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, , Philippine Islands, Poland, Portugal and colonies, Rumania, Russia, San Marino, Spain and colonies, and Turkey. Mr. Weills, in addition to his gift of coins already mentioned, donated a very large series of postage stamps, aggregating some 10,000 specimens. A series of 41 varieties of Haitian stamps issued for use during the United States Marine occupation was presented by Chauncey Hackett. Walter L. Gates continued his cooperation in building up the pre- cancel stamp series by contributing his specialized collection of 2,770 specimens of Iowa precancels, the most complete series of that State in existence. The Precancel Stamp Society, through Mr. Gates as trustee, presented 10,076 precanceled stamps, the outstanding feature of which was complete panes of 100 postage due stamps of seven de- nominations precancelled Dayton, Ohio. An item of unusual interest to the philatelic collection was the addi- tion of two United States 5-cent stamps which were found caught in one of the seam folds of the mail bag carried by Commander Byrd on the flight in which his airplane America, after leaving New York June 29, 1927, landed in the sea off Ver-Sur-Mer, France, on the night of July 1, 1927. The pictorial series was augmented by an oil portrait of J. P. Les- ley, geologist, painted by Mrs. M. Lesley Bush-Brown, to whom the Museum is indebted for the gift. Loeb collection of chemical types—During the year 102 specimens were added to the lists in the Loeb collection, which now includes 1,092 specimens. Assurances of cooperation continue to be received, and several large university chemical departments have adopted the plan of having the research workers set aside portions of all new substances for the Loeb collection as they are prepared. INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS The collections in the department of arts and industries and the division of history by their varied character require widely diversified treatment for their preservation and upkeep. The classification, recording, and installation of new accessions, the rearrangement of individual exhibits, the revision of old and the preparation of new descriptive labels and the general maintenance of all collections, including the operative exhibits, occupied much of the time and attention of the force in all the various divisions during the year. 15544289 120 | REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 The seriousness of the shortage in exhibition space available to the divisions of mineral and mechanical technology had reached a condition by the end of the previous fiscal year requiring drastic measures. Accordingly, a detailed investigation and study were made of the materials long stored in the southwest range gallery, with a view to possibly eliminating much of this material so that the gallery could be made available for exhibition purposes. By the concentrated efforts of the staff of the divisions and the construction force of the Museum, the gallery was made ready early in the spring for exhibition material and the installation was at once started. The sections of horology, weights and measures, calculating machines, typewriters, and scientific instruments used in metrology and sur- veying were transferred from the main floor of the Museum and installed in this new gallery space. With ample light from skylights, these valuable collections are here exhibited to far better advantage. The change, too, has permitted the bringing out of storage many objects. pertaining to these subjects for which there was previously no space. This change practically emptied the east south range on the main floor of the Arts and Industries Building, where it is proposed to ‘build an exhibit of steam power plant engineering developments. As yet very few of the desired objects for this proposed exhibit have been received, and the space is, therefore, being used temporarily for the growing machine-tool section, as well as the telephone, telegraph, and talking-machine collections. Twenty-five installations of new exhibits or rearrangements of exhibits which were already on view were made in the textile halls during the year. The most important of these were an entire re- arrangement of the large steel case on the east side of the south hall containing textile machinery and appliances, a condensation and rearrangement of wool and wool spinning processes, and the new exhibits of silk, rayon, worsteds, and mixed fabrics. In the section of foods the small observation beehive and the exhibit of corn products were set up during the year Twenty-two new or rearranged installations were made during the year in the division of medicine, the most important being the heart, and insect exhibits, the model of a sanitary milk house, the model illustrating the care of the feet, the automatic delineascope, and the exhibit of surgical instruments. The history of medicine collection had become so congested that the entire series had to be rearranged. In addition, it was deemed advisable to make a separate alcove of the cases devoted to the history of homeopathy, eclectic medicine, and osteopathy, and provide separate cases for the previously scattered surgical instruments. These changes made necessary a concentra-_ tion of the exhibition series of materia medica specimens. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 121 In the wood court 15 installations of exhibition material were made dur-ng the year. The derived wood products, the camp-fire model, and tree-planting exhibits were rearranged; the hardwood distilla- tion series and animated forest fire model were reinstalled and the for- est protection exhibit of posters was partly new and partly rearranged. More than a thousand woods which came prior to this year were cut to suitable size and placed in the study collection. In addition, 980 hand samples of woods were prepared for this collection and 1,640 for distribution and exchange. The care of the live exhibits of honeybees and silkworms, and of the mechanical models and exhibits, has also taken up much of the time of the assistant preparator. > The cataloging of all the textile specimens received during the year and the preparation of the technical descriptions and labels for them were done by the aid, Mrs. E. W. Rosson. She also planned the exhibits of new fabrics arranged to show types of decoration. In the division of graphic arts, 16 special loan exhibitions were held during the year, not counting the Cleveland Photographic Society’s exhibit held over from the preceding year. The exhibits held in the Smithsonian Building were as follows: August 2 to 27, 1927: Fifty Prints of the Year, through the courtesy of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. October 3 to 29: Thirty-five contemporary English lithographs, lent by the Print Makers Society of California. October 31 to November 26: A series of etchings, 23 by Richard E. Bishop, 15 by Roland Clark, and 18 by Bric G. Scott. November 28, 1927, to January 2, 1928: Fifty-four wood-block prints in black ~ and white and in color, 44 by Harold Haven Brown and 10 by Mrs. Florence Baldwin Brown. January 3 to 28: Thirty-five wood-block prints in color by Frances H. Gearhart and 15 color etchings by May Gearhart. January 30 to February 26: Forty-six etchings and dry points by Armin Hansen. February 27 to March 26: Fifty etchings and dry points by Charles W. Dahlgren. March 26 to April 22: Fifty wood-block prints in color by Walter J. Phillips. April 23 to May 20: Fifty dry-point etchings by Diana Thorne. June 13 to 30: Fifty Books of the Year and Printing for Commerce, under the auspices of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The special loan exhibitions of pictorial photographs held in the Arts and Industries Building were as follows: October and November, 1927: Fifty carbon prints by Charles dU0,. 8. ee bs Ses Richmond, Surrey, England. December: Two hundred and twenty pictorial photographs from the seventy- second annual exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, London, England. January, 1928: Forty-one bromoil transfers by Herbert Bairstow, F. R. P. §S., Halifax, England. 122 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 February and March: Five bromoil transfers by Mrs. Ambrose Ralli, London, England. March: Forty-three pictorial photographs by James M’Kissack, F. R. P. 38., Glasgow, Scotland. , April and May: Thirty-five pictorial prints by J. M. Whitehead, Alva, Scotland. These special exhibitions mean much labor but are doing much in the diffusion of knowledge. Besides the installation of the special loan exhibitions, new cases provided this year permitted the re- arrangement and increase of the permanent collections. The mono- type exhibit of artistic picture printing was again placed on exhibi- tion. The work “ Primitive Papermaking,” by Dard Hunter, was so installed that several pages are to be seen. The Ben Day Rapid Shading Medium was renewed and remodeled. The new process of Pantone was installed. Part of the Ferris collection was on exhibi- tion all year. Four of the traveling exhibits were renovated and additional specimens added. One of the exhibits, No. 2, was entirely rematted and the specimens covered with celluloid. The catalogue of the traveling exhibit, written some time ago by R. C. Smith, was re- vised, and was published by the Senior High School Print Shop, Johnstown, Pa. In the section of photography the historical motion-picture ma- terial was installed on the new shelving on the north side of the gallery. Some rearrangement of the permanent collection of pic- torial photographs was also made. | In the division of history comparatively few changes were made in the arrangement of the exhibition series. That of greatest im- portance was the installation of the collection of American and foreign swords in 16 standard slope-top cases in the northwest court of the Arts and Industries Building. These cases display a very complete series of American and foreign military and naval swords, many of which were formerly in storage. The status of the historical collection continues to be far from satisfactory. The division of these collections into widely separated units and the installation in halls partly occupied by materials of a totally different character render it impossible for the public to appreciate either the magnitude of these collections or their real historical significance. Especially is this true of the military collec- tions. These collections were received for the most part from the War Department, and that department has for some time been im- pressed with the importance of adopting some method of improving the present conditions of the installation of this important series. With this aim in view, the Secretary of War, in May, 1928, desig- nated Maj. Louis A. O’Donnell, United States Army, as the special REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 123 representative of the War Department for the purpose of making a detailed study of the situation and devising, if possible, some method of improving the present arrangement. INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH _ Research by members of the staff—The curator of mineral and mechanical technology, Carl W. Mitman, continued his horological studies as opportunity, offered and prepared and published an article on watchmakers and inventors. The Handbook of the National Aircraft Collection, by Paul E. Garber, assistant curator, came from the press early in the year. The assistant curator’s studies resulted also in the preparation of a memoir on building and flying model aircraft, which was likewise published privately. The study of the genus Gossypium and other genera related to the cotton plant, begun some time ago by Frederick L. Lewton, curator of textiles, was continued during the year and a paper describing a new genus of African shrubs was published by him. Much time was also given by the curator to the study of certain large groups of patent models transferred from the Patent Office, including those relating to the history and development of the sewing machine, fundamental loom motions, and early types of shoemaking ma- chinery, primarily to determine which should be permanently re- tained in the Museum as representing epoch-making inventions. Data for a bulletin on the development of the sewing machine were assembled. Dr. Charles Whitebread, assistant curator of medicine, completed a handbook descriptive of the hygiene and sanitation exhibits, which was published during the year. He also gave considerable study to the subject of electrotherapy and a paper outlining the results was presented for publication; and he began the preparation of a paper relative to the development of diagnostic methods. The assistant curator of wood technology, William N. Watkins, identified and classified the material in two collections of woods, one of Philippine species and the other from Mexico, and determined the identity of many other scattered species. He carried on experi- ments to determine to what extent the fluorescence of extracts of woods to the genera Hysenhardtia and Pterocarpus could be relied upon in determining their identity. Ruel P. Tolman, assistant curator of graphic arts, devoted much attention to searching out and verifying miniatures painted by Edward Greene Malbone, preparatory to a memorial exhibition of this artist’s work which it is proposed to hold next winter in the National Gallery of Art. He prepared and published an article on bookbinding at the National Museum and revised the catalogue of the Graphic Arts Exhibit, for use with the traveling exhibits. 124 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 T. T. Belote, curator of history, completed a memoir on the mili- tary and naval swords in the National Museum collection, on which he has been engaged for some time. A short paper on the philatelic collection of the Museum was prepared by Mrs. C. L. Manning, philatelist, and published early in the year. Research of outside investigators aided by museum material—The first steam locomotive built in the United States for actual service on a railroad was the “ Best Friend,” made in 1830 at the West Point Foundry in New York for the Charleston & Hamburg Railroad Co., now a part of the Southern Railway system. The most complete assemblage of data on this historic locomotive is probably that con- tained in the study files of the divisions of mineral and mechanical technology and in the locomotive exhibit. These data were used during the year by the Southern Railway Co. with a view to con- structing a replica of the “Best Friend.” For this purpose a draughtsman of the company was detailed to the Museum for two weeks, during which time scale drawings were made from the material here. During the first two months of the fiscal year two artists from the Bureau of Roads, Department of Agriculture, were detailed to the Museum for the purpose of making copies of many of the photo- graphs and drawings of land vehicles in the study collections. The information thus obtained is to be used in a proposed series of travel- ing exhibits at the various county fairs throughout the United States, to visualize improvements in land transportation. Experts from the United States Tariff Commission made a hale of the collections of laces and machine embroideries in the division of textiles for use in a forthcoming bulletin. Henry C. Dexter, president of the Old Slater Mill Association at Pawtucket, R. I., and an expert of the firm of Fales & Jenks Machine Co., of that city, made drawings and measurements of the Samuel Slater spinning frame exhibited in the textile hall, for the purpose of building a replica of the old machine to be placed in the Old Slater Mill, where this famous piece of cotton machinery was in operation from 1790 to * about 1835. Prof. Charles C. Adams, director of the New York State Museum, studied the collection of colonial weaving and other household imple- ments for the purpose of describing and exhibiting a large lot of similar material in his museum. A large series of samples of wool dress fabrics were loaned to Terhune, Yereance & Wolff (Inc.), for a study of the designs prevalent many years ago. Specimens of vegetable ivory buttons in process of manufacture were loaned to O. F. Cook of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agri- culture, for use in illustrating a scientific paper. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 125 Some 1,400 specimens of wools were transferred to the division of animal husbandry, Bureau of Animal Industry, Department of Agriculture, for the use of Dr. J. I. Hardy in his study of changes in stored wools. The greater part of this collection represented the large series of wools examined by the technical jury at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893, and reported upon by Dr. William McMurtie. Specimens of velvets were furnished the chief examiner of the textile division of the Patent Office for use in deciding patent applications. Forty-seven original patent models of beehives and apiary supplies were transferred to the bee culture lab- oratory of the Department of Agriculture, Somerset, Md., for study. From the large collection of tropical woods received from the Yale School of Forestry last year, 648 duplicate specimens were cut and transferred from the Museum’s collections to the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wis., maintained by the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture. Dr. Howard Dittrick, of the Cleveland Medical Library Associa- tion, Cleveland, Ohio, spent several days studying the history of medicine exhibits, making notes to assist in the duplication of some of the exhibits for the Cleveland Museum. Specimens of woods for research were furnished to the Saxon Geological Survey, Leipzig, Germany; the Phoenix Products Co., Milwaukee, Wis.; Marlin Williams, Culver City, Calif.; and to the School of Forestry, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Assistance by members of the staff to Government bureaus and individuals—Probably the most unique and comprehensive educa- tional exposition on transportation ever presented in the United States was the “ Fair of the Iron Horse,” held during September and October, 1927, at Halethorpe, Md., near Baltimore, in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. In the preparation of this exposition the curator of mineral and mechanical technology, Carl W. Mitman, was in con- stant communication and conference with Edward Hungerford, di- rector of the centenary, and members of his staff, for three months prior to the opening of the exposition. Historic accuracy of early land-transportation developments was particularly desired, and it was as technical adviser in such matters that the services of the curator were sought and given in his official capacity. Popular interest in aviation led the National Playground and Recreation Association, New York, to incorporate courses in model airplane construction and model airplane flying competitions in its program of playground activities. The services of Mr. Garber were procured by the association as technical adviser in this new model 126 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 airplane activity. During the year he contributed liberally of his time in developing the work. Constant use is made of the collections and library by private indi- viduals in the determination of early patented improvements of com- mercial products. Investigations of this nature during the year in- cluded the study of the interchangeability of wheels on land vehicles, made by J. H. Boyden, a representative of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, New York. With the assistance of members of the staff, all wheel vehicles in the collections, including wagons, bicycles, and automobiles, were thoroughly examined. Another in- vestigation in this field was that on improvements in carburetors, made by a patent attorney of the Tilson Co., Toledo, Ohio, for which the rather meager collection of carburetors and the technical library were consulted. ‘The Spencer Lens Co., of Buffalo, N. Y., contem- plating improvements in the modern microscope stage, was aided in its investigations by the loan from the optical-instrument series of a microscope possessing a number of movable stage features. In addition, help was given others having hobbies of various sorts, such as the construction of locomotive, boat, and airplane models, and even full-size boats. Numerous visitors in search of special information suggested by _ the exhibits made particular use of the technical books in the sec- tional libraries on textiles, woods, and drugs. The curator and assistant curators in these subjects furnished special information on industrial raw materials and the identification of specimens to several bureaus of the Government, and to numerous individuals. Aid in planning displays, making suggestions for models, and the identifica- tion of specimens of fibers and fabrics, gums, resins, seeds, and woods for individuals both in and out of the Government service continued to be a part of the regular work. Mr. Lewton, as heretofore, fur- nished the identification of cottons and cottonseeds introduced by the office of foreign plant introduction, United States Department of Agriculture, and to him were referred letters requesting information on silk and rayon received by various Federal departments. He furnished information on the taxonomy and geographic distribu- tion of cottons of the Western Hemisphere to the cotton research station, Trinidad, British West Indies. The assistant curator of graphic arts, Ruel P. Tolman, suppled information regarding prints and paintings in response to a number of inquiries. ) Several requests were received for assistance in locating the source of chemicals. In each instance these materials were not in the Loeb collection of chemical types, but the curator, Maj. O. E. Roberts, jr., was able to locate their source for the inquirers. oT —— a 7? REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 127 Six lots of specimens were received for identification and report by the curator of textiles and the members of the staff under his super- vision, and 47 lots of material were received for identification by the division of history. NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT The total number of specimens in the department of arts and industries and the division of history on June 30, 1928, was 481,437 assigned as follows: ET a i lca, SR ana A te 4,189 Eg TE cea Mt a SE Nt a 7, 584 LL asa etualllnel TN § Ags hibernate Mindi skola eR See 11, 232 OED a SA PA ee Sear eee enn nee eee 7, 588 ES Sig ge eS Se Se ae aa ee ere ee 17, 907 ae SA aa ae RR aR EE a 1, 150 eee al Ll ee ES Sa a a 14, 711 Graphic arts, including photography___--_-_-_-_-______-___-- 30, 436 Loeb collection of chemical types___________________-_____ 1, 092 I ee a 385, 548 481, 437 fPranpot perk ‘iptier ae ws ; . ey aie pohly Rite ok I a x ie odd YP ASE: sents «alt a aster R . hi sings : ou af (By be Securit’ sca Rate iy ei. ail rh serie “hy 754 Bd 3 sree aegis ie Tid Feb -pavey Ses rts si 0 41934 sh to ‘aominib | aa . Eee: | : en mbordodt dd MEL 8 , Py cee Gea rn TR WTUAMREE RE exauesior bres t . +? ¥" a 5 ‘ 5 aS bey om 9 at BH ye? hers ". exwtonadan leate ) Mh es ie: ae ~ oe H ers . yo % f aA ose ft ) M rf ia Satelite PAM 4 - : amt Fee - j tnt soe Vi et ee PY oh er " ae anes es ae 5 m ee iL ik z ki vy { a he ite sf : f : Tee at pate * paren Spee e ye. F Mi OUT. . le ts ot Ao Loa daareetestie 2 ast atte i, Sa Oe , ay : wee ‘¥3 Tae i 7 a P - : ; r at » = ‘i oat z a. od ~* - , 7 : i i a 2 } ul LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1927-28 [EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE INDICATED, THE SPECIMENS WERE PRESENTED OR WERE TRANSFERRED BY BUREAUS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW] ABBOTT, Dr. WixLiAM L., Northeast, Md.: 188 mammals collected on the islands of Sipora and Siberut, off the west coast of Sumatra, by Mr. C. B. Kloss, Raffles Museum, Singa- pore (97934) ; 62 recent bats and a large collection of bones from caves; reptiles, fishes, crustaceans, inverte- brates, sea-urchins, mollusks, birds, and insects, collected in Haiti by A. J. Poole (99480) ; approximately 1,400 ethnological and archeological specimens; a lot of human skeletal material, including teeth and skull parts ; a lot of animal, bird, and fish bones, and a collection of land and marine shells collected in the vicinity of Samana Bay, Dominican Repub- lic, during the spring of 1928 by Mr. Herbert W. Krieger (101590). ABERNETHY, Rev. W.S. (See under General Committee on Army and Navy Chaplains.) ABRAMS, Prof. LeRoy. Stanford University. ) ABREU, Sefior MiavuEt, Constanza, Do- minican Republic (through Dr. A. (See under Wetmore): Specimen of plant (96970). ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, Philadelphia, Pa.: 1,555 plants (97674, exchange) (through Dr. Francis W. Pennell) ; 256 speci- mens of plants collected in Peru and Chile by Doctor Pennell (99290) (through Morgan MHebard); 100 specimens of insects (Orthoptera) (101091, exchange). ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Zoological Museum, Leningrad, U. S. S. R.: 3 - skeletons and 21 alcoholic specimens of birds (98232, exchange). ADAMS, Marcus. M. Talbot.) ADAMSON, Jack, Portland, Oreg.: Burrows made by a boring clam (99109). AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANI- CAL COLLEGE, Stillwater, Okla. (through George F. King: 2 flies and their puparia (101372). AGRICUTURAL EXPERIMENT STA- TION, Department van Landbouw, Paramaribo, Surinam: 10 plants from Surinam (99564, exchange). AGRICULTURE, DEPARTMENT OF: Burewmu of Agricultural Economics: Practical forms of the Official Wool and Wool Top Standards— Set No. 253 Official Wool Stand- ards, Partial, 7 grades for grad- ing wool in the fleece; Set No. 141 Official Wool Standards, Complete, 12 grades; Set No. 142 Official Wool Top Standards, Complete, 12 grades (94299). Bureau of Animal Industry: 30 specimens of snails from Oregon (98704, 98743). Bureau of Biological Survey: Seeds of the wild poppy from Alaska; 72 plants collected in Alaska by O. J. Murie; 101 plants, chiefly from Alaska; also 12 specimens of insects (96545; 97149; 101138); 17 bird skele- (See Under Miss tons (97622); 2 amphipods from Sanford, Fla., collected by F. M. Uhler; bones of a goshawk from Florida; 19 plants from Florida, collected by W. L. McAtee (98444 ; 100210; 100739) ; skeleton of a white pelican from Nevada (98536) ; 129 130 LIST OF ACCESSIONS AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Contd. ; AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Contd. Bureau of Biological Survey—Con. Bureau of Entomology—Contd. 2 crayfishes from Brownsville, Miss., and 1 from Winnesheik Slough, Lynxville, Wis., col- lected by F. M. Uhler (98857) ; 15 eggs of 3 specimens of water birds from Oregon, and 10 toads from Klamath Falls, Oreg. (99025; 99301) ; skin of a tana- ger from Panama _ (99769); (through James Silver) 4 amphi- pods from a well in Ohio (99915) ; 53 reptiles and 58 am- phibians (100194); 5 specimens of crustaceans from Louisiana and Oregon (100195) ; 3 birds of paradise (100216); 3 insects (100754); 2 skeletons of the prairie falcon (101530); 1,046 mammals transferred by the Biological Survey between July 1, 1927, and June 30, 1928 (101988). Bureeu of Dairying: A model il- lustrating how clean milk is produced (101568). Bureau of Entomology: (Through Bee-Culture Laboratory, Somer- ‘set, Md.) a small colony of 3- banded bees (974383, loan); (through A. B. Gahan) 10 speci- mens of cladocera and a leech from Kansas (97472), isopod from Florida (99926) ; (through W. A. Baker, Arlington, Mass.) 8 flies (100328); (through H. C. Hallock, Westbury, Long Is- land, NW. Y.) fly (100958) ; (through W. S. Fisher) 612 specimens of Diptera, compris- ing 598 undetermined forms and 14 paratypes of 4 species (101043) ; (through S. A. Roh- wer) 10 isopods from Oregon, collected by Harry Sargent (101131) ; (through A. F. Bur- gess, Gypsy Moth Laboratory, Melrose Highlands, Mass.) 2 flies, paratypes (101143) ; 27,769 miscellaneous insects, out of the material received by the various specialists during the fiscal year 1927-28 (102012). (See also under’ Richard Messer. ) Federal Horticultural Board: Hermit crab from Jamacia (94093) ; snail and 2 isopods; 18 isopods and a crab; 9 iso- pods; 2 isopods and 2 snail shells; approximately 10 bar- nacles attached to a piece of bamboo, an isopod and a shell (96982; 98217; 99786; 100004; 100788; 101098; 101334); nem- atode from Baltimore, and 2 Slugs from Jamaica (97131) ; 8 specimens, 3 species, of land and marine mollusks from Ber-: muda, Jamaica, and Maryland (97376) ; 4 specimens, 2 species, of mollusks from the Azores, and 4 isopods (97608); 4 iso- pods from England and Cuba, and 3 specimens of land and fresh-water shells from Europe (97682) ; 11 isopods from China, Scotland, and Colombia; also 6 specimens, 3 species, of mol- lusks from Colombia and Scot- land (97908); 2 isopods, one from France and the other from Italy, and a number of shells from Ireland (97926); isopod from Japan (98068); 8 speci- mens, 2 species, of slugs from Holland, Belgium, and Canada, and 3 specimens of isopods taken from plant importations (98698) ; 3 specimens, 2 species, of mollusks from Germany and Jamaica, and 8 isopods from Germany and Holland (98876) ; 6 isopods and 5 snails and slugs from Holland and Japan (99088); 3 slugs and 2 shells from England and Ireland; 3 isopods from Switzerland and Holland, and 4 amphipods from British Honduras (99491); 10 isopods, 3 species, and 10 land snails from Honduras (99596) ; 2 slugs from England and Cuba, and 3 isopods from Chile and China (100225); 5 specimens, a eee. ee REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 131 AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Contd. | AGRICULTURE, DEPT. OF—Contd. Federal Horticultural Board—Con. 4 species, of land mollusks from England and Germany (100489) ; cone and seeds of the southern European stone pine (100608) ; land shell from Porto Rico 100724); slug from Holland (100857) ; 2 land shells from England and an isopod from Austria (101579) ; 14 isopods, 3 species; also 15 land shells from Germany and Japan (101124) ; 4 specimens, 2 spe cies, of slugs from Scotland (101310) ; 12 specimens, 5 spe- cies, of land and fresh-water shells from Holland and Jugo- slavia (101519); tarantula and a crab from Cuba (101596). Forest Service: (Through W. A. Dayton) type specimen of a plant (98031) ; photograph of a plant from Colorado (99289) ; 2 photographs of plants (99476) ; plant (cotype) from Colorado (100335) ; (through H. R. Kylie) lighted model entitled ‘“ Fires destroy trees and soil” (101341, loan); (through Dr. F. V. Co- ville) 2 plants from the western United States (101603). Bureau of Plant Industry: (Through Dr. T. H. Kearney) 1346 plants (97352, 99288, 99326, 99334, 99563, 99781, 100020, 1013847, 101545, 101556, 101557, 101864, 101865) ; (through H. C. Skeels) 189 plants collected in Manchuria by P. H. Dorsett (974138); 4 plants from California (97994) ; 6 plants from Colorado (98282) ; (through Dr. F. V. Coville) plant from Kansas (98269), 12 plants from western United States (98472), 4 plants from the southeastern United States (98481), 80 plafits from Maine collected by J.C. Parlin (98509), plant from Massachusetts (98860), 18 photographs of type specimens of plants (99295), 5 Bureau of Plant Industry—Contd. plants from New York (99357), seeds and photographs of a plant from California (99358), 48 packets of seeds (98471); (through Dr. C. L. Shear) 9 plants from Mexico and 3 from Maryland (98988, 99296) ; (through Prof. A. S. Hitchcock) 2,043 mounted specimens of grasses (99147, 101133) and 7 plants from China (100019) ; (through J. A. Stevenson) 20 plants, 6 Specimens of mosses, 3 plants from Brazil (99562, 99794, 100166); through Wal- ter T. Swingle) 1389 plants from Arizona and California (101881). (See also under Miss Enid R. Heine.) AHERN, Maj. GrEorcE P., United States Army (retired), Washington, D. C.: A floor mat in the form of a map of the Philippine Archipelago woven from the dyed strips of pandanus leaves by Tagalog natives (100055). AILES, A. S., Chicago, Ill.: Slab of travertine from near Salida, Colo. (99174). ALASKA AGRICUTURAL COLLEGE AND SCHOOL OF MINES, THR, College, Alaska (through Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, President): Skeleton of a child (99598). ALASKA GAME COMMISSION, Juneau, Alaska (through Dr. W. H. Chase): Specimen of cottoid fish, and mandibulary bone of a whale (98039). ALDRICH, Dr. J. M., Washington, D. C.: 4,500 specimens of Diptera (flies) from the western United States, collected by the donor in the summer of 1927 (100321). ALEXANDER, Dr. C. P., Amherst, Mass.: 89 flies from New Zealand ; 257 from Chile, 3 paratypes of 2 species of flies, 6 moths and a cicada (99105) ; 55 specimens of flies including a paratype, collected by Pirion and Jaffuel in Chile (99342) ; miscellaneous insects from New Zea- 132 ALEXANDER, Dr. C. P.—Continued. land and the Philippines, including 7 vials of immature stages of crane- flies (100307). ALFARO, Don ANASTASIO, San José, Costa Rica: 21 specimens of fishes from Costa Rica, and fragments of gold and copper ornaments, copper beads and shell beads also from Costa Rica (101081, 101527). ALLEGANY SCHOOL OF NATURAL HISTORY, Quaker bridge, N. Y. (through Dr. R. E. Coker): Small eollection of myriapods collected in the Allegany State Park during the summer of 1927 (97788). ALLEMAN, CHARLEs D., Canal Zone: 49 marine shells, 97 specimens of land and marine shells, 52 specimens, chiefly marine shells, and 371 speci- mens, 37 species, of marine shells from Taboga Island, Panama, includ- ing the types of 7 new species, all the material from Panama (96969, 98048, 99584, 100361). ALLEN, Appison W., Oshkosh, Wis.: Model of an ice boat incorporating features of modern types (100066). ALLEN, Dr. CHARLES FRANCIS HITcH- cock, Medford Hillside, Mass.: 17 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (97567). ALLEN, Dr. Horace N., Toledo, Ohio: 116 Korean ethnological specimens formerly on deposit (101058). ALLEN, JoHN JOHNSON, Burlington, Vt.: Surveying instruments used by Surveyor General John Johnson in the establishment of a preliminary boundary line between the United States and Canada in 1818 (95588). ALLEN, Mrs. Laura M., Watertown, N. Y.: Wool rolls, hand-spun and twisted cotton yarn, hand-weavings, a “Weaver’s Guide” followed in weaving a “fancy stripe” carpet, and a booklet made up of 12 photo- graphs of hand-woven coverlets, in- tended to illustrate the evolution of domestic manufactures, collected by the donor from various weavers (97993) ; a miscellaneous collection of 116 hand-woven baskets, fans, 'AMANI LIST OF ACCESSIONS ALLEN, Mrs. Laura M.—Continued. and other objects, and a_ hand- woven “tufted” weave counterpane (101017). ALLEN, Mrs. T. R. Lewis Grant.) RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Tanga, Tanganyika Territory, Af- rica: 3 specimens of insects, para- (See under Adele Sitic on a rat in East Africa (100490). AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS, INC., New York City: Film “ Medical progress ” for use in the automatic delineascope to supplement the exhibits in the “Hall of Health” (98438). AMERICAN HAIR FELT CO., Newark, N. J. (through Tanners’ Council of America, Inc., New York City): Specimens of hair felt for installation, polishing, padding, and wadding, and a shot-gun shell show- ing the use of felt wads (100960). AMBHRICAN HEART ASSOCIATION (INC.), New York City: An exhibit consisting of 4 scenes, X-ray pic- tures and pathological drawings, il- lustrating 4 types of heart disease; also comparative Statistical models showing the incidence of this disease in the United States (99529). AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GRAPHIC ARTS, THE, New York City: “Fifty Prints of the Year” for special exhibition during the month of August, 1927 (96100) ; “Fifty Books of the Year” (81 in all) ; and 50 examples of “ Printing for Commerce” for special exhibition during the month of June, 1928 (101743). Loan. AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, New York City: 3 bird skins representing 3 genera new to the Museum; bird skin, new to the Museum collections; 2 bird skins from Africa, representing genera new to the Museum; 18 bird skins, representing 15 genera new to the Museum collections; 5 bird skins from Ecuador, representing 4 genera new to the Museum (98656; 99774; REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY—Continued. 100306; 100708; 101745, exchange) ; (through Barnum Brown) casts of 6 chipped blades found in associa- tion with extinct mammal remains (101059). - AMERICAN SOCIAL HYGIENE AS- SOCIATION, THE, New York City: 4 films, “ The Gift of Life,” parts 1, 2, 3, and 4, for use in the automatic delineascope (98271). AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELE- GRAPH CoO., New York City: Bell System hand telephone set of 1928, consisting of a transmitter and re ceiver in one piece and a stand for holding same equipped with dial for automatic calls (101533). AMIDON, Dr. C. S., Cincinnati, Ohio (through Dr. John Uri Lloyd): A laryngoscope, including case and ac- cessories, used by Dr. John King, a pioneer in the Eclectic School of Medicine (100039). AMORY-BOWMAN LABRADOR EX- PEDITION, THE, Washington, D. C.: Approximately 500 mollusks, 30 fishes, 7 birds, 2 mammals, 1 reptile, 4 batrachians, 676 echi- noderms, 262 insects, approximately 5,217 marine invertebrates, and 1 fungus collected from the north side of Matamek River, Province of Quebec, Canada, collected for the National Museum (95992). ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON, Washington, D. C.: Collection of approximately 523 specimens of bone and stone imple- ments, and teeth, from Castel Merle, near Sergeac, Dordogne, France, se- cured in 1927 by the American School of Prehistoric Research, through Dr. George Grant Mac- Curdy, Director (98484, deposit). ARMITAGE, H.M. (See under Horti- cultural Commissioner, Los Angeles, Calif. ) ARNDT, Dr. C. H., Port au Prince, Haiti: Specimens of fresh coffee berries, preserved in formalin, dried coffee berries, and washed coffee in 133 ARNDT, Dr. C. H.—Continued. parchment skin (96589); 2 plants from Haiti (99377). ARSENE, Rev. Brother G., Las Vegas, N. Mex.: 1,020 plants from New Mexico (99031). ASSOCIATION OF OFFICIAL AGRI- CULTURAL CHEMISTS, Washing- ton, D. C.: Bronze medal commemo- rating the eightieth birthday of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, October 18, 1924 (100524). ATWELL, H. C. (See under Oregon State Board of Horticulture. ) AUVILLE, Baxter, Montrose, W. Va.: 17 specimens of Devonian fossils from West Virginia (99161). AVERY, Epwarp A. (See under Smithsonian Institution, National Museum, collected by members of the staff, William N. Watkins.) AYRES, Dr. Howarp, Cincinnati, Ohio. Crayfish (type specimen) and a pen and ink drawing of the same 100359). BACHARACH, Dr. Grorex, Fordham, N. Y.: 3 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (99078). BAILHY, Dr. L.. H., Ithaca, N.- Y.: 4 plants and 2 photographs of cacti 98193, 99540) ; plant from California (101380). BAILEY, VERNON, Washinggton, D. C.: Photograph of a plant (100043). BAIRSTOW, Herpert, F. R. P. S., Summercroft, Halifax, England: 41 bromoil transfers for special exhibi- tion during the month of January, 1928 (99605, loan). BAKER, C. F., Los Banos, P. I.: A collection of miscellaneous insects, chiefly Malayan, approximately 300,- 000 specimens, and 8 slides of a species of amphipod (101048, be- quest). BAKER, CuHartes L., Houston, Tex.: Small crab from Brazos County, Tex. (97417). (See also under John Vick.) BAKER, CLEMENT W., Waynesboro, Ohio: Butterfly (97670). 134 BAKER, Dr. F. H., Richmond, Vic- toria, Australia: 11 specimens, 6 species, of marine shells; also 9 in- sects all from Australia (98524; 99367, 100196, 101280). BAKER, Tuomas E., Fredericksburg, Va.: Stone ax, 4 arrowheads, and a quartzite reject found on the prop- erty of the donor (101876). BAKER, W. A. (See under Agricul- ture, Department of, Bureau of En- tomology, Arlington, Mass.). BALL, T. R., Baltimore, Md.: Moth (97769). BALL, WILLIAM Howarp, Washington, D. C.: Towhee bunting, skin of a eatbird, and a gadwall and coot, all from Virginia (98728, 99371, 99573) ; 4 birds from North Carolina and 2 from the District of Columbia (98856) ; red-winged blackbird from the District of Columbia (99385) : red-backed sandpiper from Hains Point, D. C. (99121); cardinal (101357); red-backed Sandpiper (101587). BARNES, L. D., Fitzwilliam, N. H.: Deformed jaw of a domestic calf (100228). BARNES, R. M., Lacon, Ill.; Moth (100182). BARNES, Dr. Wim.1am, Decatur, Iil. (through F. H. Benjamin) : 9 speci- mens of Lepidoptera, paratypes of 7 species (97774). BARNETT, Maj. Gen. Grorep, U. S. M. C. (retired), Washington, D. C.: German machine gun captured by the Ninety-sixth Company of the Sixth Regiment of United States Marines at Bouresches, France, June 6, 1918 (101518). BARTLETT, Prof. H. H., Ann Arbor, Mich.: Collection of plants from For- mosa and Sumatra, collected for the National Museum (92945); a small billet from a rough-barked mutant of Hevea wood (100573). ’ BARTLETT, Capt. Rosperr A. (See under Putnam Baffin Island Expe- dition, New York City.) LIST OF ACCESSIONS BARTON, H. S., Owensboro, Ky.: Ap- proximately 70 specimens of fresh- water jelly fish from Indian Lake, Owensboro, Ky., collected by the donor (98054). BARTRAM, Epwin B., Buskhill, Pa.: 2 plants from Arizina and 18 plants from New Zealand (100948, 102016). (See also under Prof. Manuel Valerio.) BARTSCH, Dr. Pavr, Washington, D. C.: 2 eggs of the Arctic tern from, Quebee (97373) ; 7 crustaceans col- lected by the donor (97695). BASSLER, Dr. R. S., Washington, D. C.: 100 lots of recent bryzoa col- lected in southern California (98463). (See also under Smith- sonian Institution, National Mu- geum, obtained by members of the staff, Charles E. Resser.) BATES, Rev. J. M., Red Cloud, Nebr. : Type specimen of fungus from Ne- braska (100773). BAYERISCHES STAATSSAMMLUNG FUR PALAENTOLOGIE UND HISTORISCHES GEOLOGIE, Munich, Germany: 173 lots of Ter- tiary invertebrates from the Eocene of Bavaria (95846, exchange). BAYERISCHES STAATS - HERBA- RIUM, Botanisches Institute, Mu- nich, Germany (through Dr. Karl von Schoenau): 146 specimens of ferns from Brazil (100612, ex- change). BAYLEY, Ivan A., North Sydney, Nova Scotia (through O. Gaylord Marsh, American Consul, Snydey, N. S.): 3 specimens of parasitic copepods from a sunfish, together with a piece of the skin, collected by the donor (100809). BEACH AFRICAN EXPEDITION (through Mr. William N. Beach, New York City): Collection com- prising 49 mammals, 212 birds and 21 nests, 20 reptiles, 65 fishes, 70 in- sects, 201 mollusks, and a small col- lection of woods, collected by Messrs. Marcus Daly, Osgood Field, and W.L. Brown in Sudan (100386). REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 BEACH, WiLitIAM N. (See under Beach African Expedition. ) BEAL, Prof. J. M., Agricultural and Mechanical College, Miss.: 3 plants from Mississippi (101749). BEAN, B. A., Washington, D. C.: Pierce-Arrow bicycle representative of the period 1900 (100045). BEAUREGARD, Mrs. N. H. (See under Mrs. Agnes Kennett Brent.) BECKMAN, CHARLES, Arlington, Oreg.: Small collection of archeologi- cal specimens from Oregon (100067). BECKWITH, Frank, Delta, Utah: 1,000 specimens of Middle Cambrian trilobites from Antelope Springs, Utah, and 40 slabs containing Cam- brian and Ordovician fossils from Utah (97418); 200 specimens of Cambrian trilobites and 2 slabs of Ordovician fossils from Nevada (99528) ; 150 specimens of Ordovi- cian fossils from Utah (101987). BEDFORD, G. A. H., Pretoria, Union of South Africa: 22 specimens of early stages of flies, including some new to the Museum _ collections (98560, exchange). BEGIEN, Mrs. R. N., Richmond, Va.: Broken skull, 2 lower jaws, and parts of a human skeleton from a site about 20 miles from Columbus, Ohio (97697). BELEW, Mrs. G. B., Harmon, Plant (98028). BELL, E. L., Flushing, N. Y.: Butter- fly, paratype of a new species, from Texas (97350). BENEDICT, C. B., Fort Lupton, Colo. : Beetle (97684). BENEDICT, Mrs. FrRANcEs B., Silver Spring, Md.: Sea catfish taken on hook and line 2 miles north of Piney Point, Md. (98052). BENEDICT, Dr. J. E., Washington, D. C.: Female specimen of scarlet tanager from Maryland (101558). BENEDICT, J. E.; Jr., Linden, Md.: 16 mollusks from North Carolina, 110 insects and a Small collection of Salamanders (97381) ; crayfish from Smoky Mountain, near Indian Gap, N. C. (97620); 53 fishes, approxi- 15544—28——_10 Okla.: eee 135 BENEDICT, J. E., Jz.—Continued. mately 20 amphipods, and 178 speci- mens of marine invertebrates col- lected by the donor in the vicinity of Piney Point, Md. (97992, 99123, 100796) ; 35 specimens of mosses from Ohio (98720); 10 fresh-water isopods collected by the donor from a pool on Stone Mountain, Ga. (101335) ; 5 lizards, 9 salamanders, and 1 frog from the southern United States (101359) ; shrew (101884). BENEDICT, N. D., Hastings, Fla.: Approximately 61 specimens of ma- rine invertebrates comprising about 50 amphipods, 2 crabs, 2 leeches, and 7 oligochaets from Florida (98286). BENJAMIN, F. H. (See under Dr. William Barnes.) BENN, JAMES, Washington, D. C.: 6 fishes from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and Oxon Run, D.C. (98264) ; brook trout from the upper reaches of Little Difficult Run, Va. (101894). BENNETT, J. C., Victoria, British Co- lumbia, Canada: 6 plants (98871). BENNETT, Mrs. Louis, New York City: 2 bronze British Victory Medal oak leaves, and the bronze Cross of Service of the United Daughters of the Confederacy awarded to Lieut. Louis Bennett, jr., Royal Air Service (100443). BENT, A. C., Taunton, Mass.: 6 pieces of Eskimo costume (97146). BERGER, ALwIn, Stuttgart, Constatt, Germany: Photograph of a plant (97922, exchange). BERKELEY, Miss A.Lrrepa, Toronto, Canada: 5 specimens of mysids (98514). BERKELEY, Francis L., jr., Red Hill, Va. (through D. I. Bushnell) : Cache of 21 quartzite blades found on the Berkeley farm at Red Hill, Va. (99369). BERLINER, Emite, Washington, D. C.: Framed photograph of micro- phonie air gap produced in the labo- ratory with equipment incorporating the principle of the Berliner loose eontact telephone’ transmitter (97370) ; microphone (toy drum); a 136 LIST OF ACCESSIONS BERLINER, Emite—Continued. reproduction made and used by the donor on October 31, 1879, of a microphone first used by him March 4, 1877 (99361). BERMUDEZ, Pepro, Habana, Cuba: 27 lots of topotypes of Cuban land shells (98491). BERRY, Dr. Epwarp W., Baltimore, Md.: 2 specimens of ferns from Peru (99177). BERRY, Dr. S. S., Redlands, Calif.: 11 specimens, 3 species, of land shells (including 5 paratypes of 2 _ species) from Montana (101467, exchange). BETTS, Amos A., Phoenix, Ariz.: Fragment of Francesco de Pinedo’s airplane, consisting of a piece of Silvered cloth 3% by 8% inches (97371). BIALYNICKI-BIRULA, A., Leningrad, U. S. S. R.: 54 specimens of deter- -mined Vespidae from Russia, repre- senting 16 species (100205, ex- change). BISHOP, RicHarp E., Philadelphia, Pa.: 23 etchings for special exhibi- tion from October 31 to November 26, 1927 (98978, loan). BISHOP, S. C., Albany, N. Y.: 2 types of new species of salamanders and 1 larval Salamander (101560). BLACKISTON, A. H., Los Angeles, Calif.: Babylonian cuneiform tablet (99169, loan). BLACKISTON, Miss HELEN, Monte- vallo, Ala.: Larva of a moth from Alabama (100451). BLAKE, Mrs. D. H. Martin.) BLAKE, Dr. 8. F., Washington, D. C.: Fern from California (97380). (See also under Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Il.) BLAND, Hon. Oscar E., and Hon. Frep. E. DYER, Washington, D. C.: 2 Algonkian skulls from Indiana (99746). BLOCK, RupotepH, New York City: Collection of the woods of the world turned in the form of 1,400 walking sticks mounted and finished (101564, (See under J. O. BLOCK, RupotpH—Continued. loan) ; a small billet of “ pink Ivory ” wood from Zululand (101570). BLOGG, P. T., Baltimore, Md.: Speci- men of Prothonotary warbler from Maryland (97357). BLUMENTHAL & CO. (INC.), Sz- NEY, New York City: 5 samples of rayon pile fabrics “La Loie Silvel” in plain and printed’ patterns (100332). BOALO, D. C., Washington, D. C.: Skein of raw silk produced at Sovere, Provencia di Bergano, Italy, by Amerigo Boalo, brother of the donor (101766). BOGUSCH, E. R., Austin, Tex.: 3 plants from Texas (100301). (See also under Texas, University of, De- partment of Botany.) BOSTWICK, La Pracw, Miami, Fla.: Valve of a pearly fresh-water mus- Sel (100602). BOSWELL, J. 8S. C., North Braddock, Alexandria, Va., and C. S. East, Washington, D. C.: Loggerhead tur- tle from Greater Hunting Creek, Alexandria, Va. (98042). BOTANIC GARDENS, _ Singapore, Straits Settlements: 58 specimens of ferns from the Malay Peninsula; (through Dr. R. E. Holttum, di- rector): 190 specimens of mosses, chiefly from the Malay Peninsula (99155, 101349). Exchange. BOTANIC GARDENS, Sydney, Aus- tralia: 300 plants from Australia (97400, 97996). Exchange. BOTANICAL GARDEN AND MU- SEUM, University of Cluj, Cluj, Rumania: 400 plants from Ru- mania, centuries 2, 4, 5, 6, Flora Romaniae Exsiccata (99559, ex- change). BOTANISCHER GARTEN UND MUSEUM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany (through Dr. I. Urban): 6 photo- graphs of plants (97672, 97692, 97780) ; (through Prof. H. Harms) 5 photographs and 2 plants (99172, 100171), plant (100172); 2 plants and 2 photographs of plants REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 BOTANISCHER' GARTEN UND MUSEUM—Continued. (101121); 2 plants from Peru (102015). Exchange. BOTANISCHES INSTITUT, Halle, Germany: Fragmentary specimen of plant (100574, exchange). ' BOWEN, N. L., Washington, D. C.: Specimen of mullite-bearing rock from the Island of Mull (98725). BOX, Harorp E., Tucuman, Argen- tina; 5 flies from Argentina (101325, exchange). BRABHAM, Oris, Allendale, S. C.: Part of a tree root in the form of the letter “A” for use in the magic medicine exhibit (99303). BRADY, Maurice K., Washington, D. C.: 62 salamanders from George Washington Spring, one-half mile south of Mount Vernon grounds, Va.; 11 toads from Hog Island, Va. ; and an axolotl from Mexico City, Mexico (99759). BRALY, N. B., Pasadena, Calif.: Specimen of vanadinite from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chi- huahua, Mexico (99175). BRANDRETH, Courtenay, Ossining, N. Y. (through Dr. A. K. Fisher): Apparatus formerly used in captur- ing passenger pigeons (100939). BRANDT, Lieut. Commander G. E., U. S. Navy, New York City: 2 crabs (100499) . BRANNON, C. H. (See under North Carolina College of Agriculture. ) BRAY SCREEN PRODUCTS (INC.), New York City: 13 strip films on health subjects for use in the auto- “matic delineascope, to supplement exhibits of the “Hall of Health” (100226). BRENNAN, W. Irvin. (See under Times-Mirror Printing and Binding House.) BRENT, Mrs. AGNES KENNETT, Fergu- son, Mo. (through the Missouri His- torical Society, St. Louis, Mo., by Mrs. N. H. Beauregard): Silk flag presented by ladies of Nashville to the Nashville Battalion during the Creek War, 1813 (100522). 137 BREUNING, Dr. 8., Vienna, Austria: 2 beetles, cotypes of species; 28 beetles (96687; 99541). Exchange. BREWINGTON, Dr. Marcarer C., Al- buquerque, N. Mex. (through Dr. Riley D. Moore, Washington, D. C.) : 6 specimens and 5 photographs con- cerning the early history of oste- opathy, for addition to the osteo- pathie exhibit (99082). BREYER, Messrs. ADOLPHO and AL- BERTO, Buenos Aires, Argentina (through Raymond C. Shannon): 114 reptiles, 6 amphibians, 5 fishes, 2 mammals, 1 spider, a grasshopper, and a leech from Argentina (99332). BRIDWELL, J. C., Barcroft, Va.: Col- lection of miscellaneous insects, ap- proximately 243 specimens of ma- rine invertebrates, about 10,000 specimens of mollusks and a fetish or charm, collected by the donor in India (98064). BRIGNOLES BOTANIC STATION, Brignoles, France (through Dr. R. Salgues, director): 7 packets of seeds (100453, exchange). BRIMLEY, C. S., Raleigh, N. C.: 2 type specimens of salamanders (100298, exchange). BRINKMAN, A. H., Craigmyle, Al- berta, Canada: 153 plants from Can- ada (98429, 99379). BRITISH GOVERNMENT: British Museum (Natural His- tory), London, England: 1,167 plants and a snake from Siam (98000, 100555, exchange) ; (through Dr. James Waterston); 30 speci- mens of determined sawflies repre- senting 7 species of 2 genera (100010, exchange); skin of a thrush from Inaccessible Island 100467). (See also under Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell.) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sur- rey, England: 9 fragments of type specimens of plants (94586); 305 specimens of South American plants collected by F. C. Lehmann (100610) ; 3 fragmentary specimens of plants (101071). Exchange. 138 BRITTON, Mrs. ALEXANDER, New York City: 2 gilt coat buttons owned by Henry Clay (87097). BROGAN, Puiu F., Bend, Oreg.: Skull. lower jaws, and other fragmentary remains of extinct ruminants from the Oligocene of Crook County, Oreg. (97112) ; lower jaw with teeth of an extinct ruminant from the John Day beds of Oregon (99472). BROHARD, Jerome I., Bridgeport, W. Va. (through Dr. N. A. Cobb): 4 isopods taken from a well at Bridgeport, W. Va. (100756). BROWER, A. E., Willard, Mo.: But- terfly (99741). BROWN, Barnum. (See under Amer- ican Museum of Natural History, New York City.) BROWN, Beprorp, Washington, D. C.. Pair of gold and jeweled earrings owned by Rebecca Madison, niece of President James Madison (99766, loan). BROWN, D. A., Moffetts, Wash.: Cop- tic rosary (100207) ; an Abyssinian rosary (100441). BROWN, Mrs. FLorENcE BRADSHAW, Provincetown, Mass. (See under Harold H. Brown.) BROWN, GLENN MApIson, Washing- ton, D. C.: Silver spoon and silver fork made in France and owned by President James Madison (99767, loan). BROWN, Harold H., Provincetown, Mass.: 54 wood-block prints in black and white and in color, 44 by Harold H. Brown and 10 by Mrs. Florence Bradshaw Brown, for special exhibi- tion from November 28, 1927, to Jan- uary 2, 1928 (99275, loan). BROWN, Capt. Harry, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Skin of rhi- noceros iguana (101361). BROWN, Miss Mary J., Norman, Okla.: 4 specimens of fly larvae (99535). BROWN UNIVERSITY, Providence, R. I.: Small collection of Carbonif- erous plants from Rhode Island (100569, exchange). LIST OF ACCESSIONS BROWN, W. L., Washington, D. C.: Skull of a young black bear from Maine (97997). (See also under Beach African Expedition. ) BROWNE, Dr. Owens HAnp, Balti- more, Md.: 19 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (101989). BRUES, Prof. C. T., Boston, Mass.: 7 beetles, all paratypes of a new spe- cies described by P. J. Darlington (100576). BRYANT, Owen, Banff, Alberta, Can- ada: 29 salamanders, 2 frogs, and 2 young toads from Banff (99771). BRYANT, R. W., Kingston, Jamaica: 7,000 specimens of mollusks, being part of the duplicates of the Ven- dryes Collection (97965). BUCHER, WittiaAm F., Washington, D. C.: Photograph of an Andaman redwood tree (98851); Brazilian rosewood panel and frame made by the donor (100438); panel and frame of Macassar ebony (101342). BULLOCK, Prof. D. S., Angol, Chile: 50 moths and butterflies from Chile (98294). BUNKER, C. D. (See under Dix Teachenor, and Kansas, University of. ) BUNNELL, Dr. CHARLES E. (See under Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.) BURDETT, Mrs. J. S., Silver Spring, Md.: Bird—yellow-headed amazon (98702). BURGESS, A. F. (See under Agri- culture, Department of, Bureau of Entomology.) BURKE, C. W., Washington, D. C.: Beetle from Clarendon, Va. (100606). BURKENROAD, Martin, New Or- leans, La.: 2 insects (98495). BURRILL,. Prof. A. C., Jefferson City, Mo.: 3403 insects, principally Or- thoptera (97895). . BURT, CuHarLes B., Ann Arbor, Mich. : 16 amphibians and 25 reptiles (98433). REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 BUSH-BROWN, Mrs. H. K., Washing- ton, D. C.: Portrait of J. P. Lesley, geologist, painted by M. Lesley Bush- Brown (97616). BUSHNELL, D. I., Washington, D. C.: Ancient stone mortar from Browns Cove, about 15 miles west of Char- lottesville, Va. (97690) ; lard-oil burn- ing pressure lamp of tin (98738). (See also under Francis L. Berk- eley.) BUTLER, Capt. C. S. (M. C.), U. S. Navy. (See under Navy Depart- ment, U. S. Naval Medical School.) BUTLER, D. C., Chefoo, China: One éach of the 1, 4, and 10 cent stamps recently put on the market in the provinces of Shantung, Chihli, and the Three Eastern Provinces of Man- churia to commemorate the assump- tion of the post of Generalissimo in Peking by Chang Tso-Lin (101503). CALDERON, Dr. SaALvapor. (See under Salvador, Government of, Direccion General de Agricultura.) CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, San Francisco, Calif. (through Miss Alice Eastwood): 4 plants (Cacti); fossil crab (para- type); 2 beetles, paratypes of a species (98451, 98504, 99549); 118 plants from the Tres Marias Islands, Mexico; 140 plants from Lower Cali- fornia (98914, 99144, exchange). CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF, Berkeley, Calif. (through Prof. E. O. Hssig) : 11 specimens of Hymenop- tera, a fly, small collection of bee- tles, and 7 insects (95543, 98203, 100500, 101551) ; (through Dr. C. A. Kofoid) : isopod and fragments of another from Potter Creek Cave, Shasta County, Calif. (99062); 43 specimens of Cambrian fossils from southern California, 24 of which are types (100899); 9 flies from Cali- fornia (1013884). College of Agriculture, Riverside, Calif.: 3 flies (99337). CANADIAN GOVERNMENT: Department of Agriculture, Ento- mological Branch, Ottawa, Can- ada (through C. H. Curran): 2 139 CANADIAN GOVERNMENT—Contd. Department of Agriculture—Con. species of flies; 2 flies (para- types); 8 specimens of Micro- lepidoptera (all paratypes) (96882, 99340, 99486). Department of Mines, Geological Survey: 3 mineral specimens— lyndochite, ellsworthite, and thucholite (94643, exchange) ; (through Frits Johansen) 11 specimens of crustaceans from Canada (100731). CAREY, Capt. CHaRLEeS, Washington, D. C.: Uniform of Captain, Ord- nance Department, worn during the period of the World War, and gilt and enamel collar insignia of vari- ous units of the United States Army (27 specimens) (99550). CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECH- NOLOGY, The Laboratory Press, Pittsburgh, Pa.: 17 examples of fine letterpress printing done during the year 1926-27 at the Laboratory Press (97603); an example of fine’ book making, entitled “A Docu- mentary account of the beginnings of the Laboratory Press,” by Porter Garnett, 1927 (98858) ; 11 examples of fine letterpress printing (101887). CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF WASHINGTON, Washington, D. C. (through Dr. David White): 2 specimens of fossil insect wings col- lected by Doctor White in Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. (98174) ; 12 colored plates from Dr. H. L. Conard’s book entitled “The Waterlilies ” (100493). CARNEGIE MUSEUM, Pittsburgh, Pa.: 4 bird skins, representing 2 species of a genus new to the Mu- seum collections (98309) ; an Aplo- mado falcon (100231, exchange). CARR, Epwtn, Shanghai, China: Chi- nese silver dollar issued in 1927 (99022). CASANOWICZ, ESTATE OF DR. I. M.: 3 bronze commemorative med- als (99920) (through Munsey Trust Co., executors) ; 2 Chinese religious carvings in soapstone (100945). 140 CASCADDEN, Earte §&., Lapel, Ind.: 6 specimens of moth larve collected in Indiana (101853). CASEY, Miss SopHi® P., Washington, D. C.: an enamel cup commemorat- ing the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, 1897 (100215). CASSINO, S. E., Salem, Mass.: 45 moths and butterflies from Honduras and Cameroons (100575); (through Dr. H. G. Dyar) 235 moths col- lected by O. C. Poling in the White Mountains, Ariz. (101118). CATE, CHARLES T., Charlottesville, Va.: 250 specimens of fossil inver- tebrates from the Cambrian and Middle Devonian of southwestern Virginia (97402). CAUM, Epwarp L., Honolulu, Hawaii: 2 chicks and 16 eggs of the Laysan rail (101567). CAYEUX, Prof. L., Paris, France: 32 specimens illustrating the iron ores of Lorraine, France (98250). CHAMBERLAIN, Prof. CHartres J., Chicago, Ill.: 2 specimens of ferns (96607); fern from _ Australia (101985). CHAMBERLAIN, E. B. (See under Charleston Museum, The.) CHAMBERLAIN FUND, FRANCES LEA, Smithsonian Institution : Beads of rhodonite and a carved pendant of amber (98855) ; 5 carved objects of rose quartz, agate, mala- chite, aventurine quartz, and rho- donite (99036) ; 7 specimens of gem minerals (99328); 100 small cut sapphires from Montana, a string of malachite beads, and a string of jasper beads (1000638); cut stone of Mexican opal (100064); blue-green tourmaline, weighing 20.85 carats, from Madagascar (100580) ; 24 cut gems of spinel (100581) ; brown dia- mond weighing 1.4 carats (100777) ; a cut gem of citrine quartz weighing 264.75 carats (101296) ; a cut gem of alexandrite from Ceylon weighing 65.7 carats (101298); 3,671 lots of specimens of Jamaican land shells collected by C. R. Orcutt (101546). LIST OF ACCESSIONS CHAMBERS, B. L., Washington, D.C.: Pair of otoliths from the head of a small-mouth black bass (101552). CHAMBERS, Frank V., Philadelphia, Pa.: 3 cameras of very early manu- facture, 2 lenses, and a printing frame (97119) ; 3 Stereoscopic trans- parencies (98859). (See also under Vincent Harris and Miss Mary BE. Truman.) CHAMBERS, Miss Maupe B., Harp- ers Ferry, W. Va.: Screech owt from West Virginia (100600). CHAMBERS, Max, Preston, Md.: Pair of colonial ice skates, and an old English sextant made by Spencer Browning & Co., England (101128). CHANDA, R. (See under Indian Mu- seum, Calcutta, India.) CHAPIN, Dr. E. A. (See under A. B. Wolcott. ) CHAPMAN, Rev. JoHN W., Anvik, Alaska: 6 ethnological specimens from Anvik, Alaska, and vicinity; also 2 dictaphone records of numer- ous Tinne Indian ceremonial songs (99724). CHAPMAN, Mrs. JoHN W., Anvik, Alaska: Decorated birch bark basket (99725). CHARLESTON MUSEUM, THH, Charleston, S. C. (through E. B. Chamberlain) : 10 salamanders from South Carolina (99315). CHASE, Dr. W. H. (See under Alaska Game Commission. ) CHASE, Dr. Witt, Cordova, Alaska: 2 Eskimo skulls from Alaska (99552). CHELF, S. D., Follett, Tex.: Larva of a moth (98877). CHELLSON, H. C., Schenectady, N. Y.: Small collection of silver ores from mine at Sabinal, Chihuahua, Mexico (101122). CHILCOT, E. F., Woodward, Okla. (through Dr. O. P. Hay) : Lower left molar with attached portion of jaw of a fossil elephant (100336). CHURCHILL, J... R.,. Dorchester, Mass.: 155 plants (97461). REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 CLARK, B. Preston, Boston, Mass.: 57 moths from Hast Africa (97669) ; 3 butterflies (99935) ; 210 specimens of Sphingidae (hawk-moths), al- most all of which are new to the Museum collection; also 30 moths belonging to the family Sphingidae (100435 ; 101584) ; 37 butterflies and moths (100774); 143 hawk-moths, mostly new to the Museum collec- tions (101145). CLARK, Rovert Srertinc, New York > City: Large collection of animals collected by Arthur deC. Sowerby during the past 3 years in various _ parts of China, comprising 329 ma- rine invertebrates, collection of rep- tiles, amphibians, fishes, and other aquatic vertebrates, and a collection of mammal skins and skulls (97063). CLARK, RoiAnp, Peconic, N. Y.: 15 etchings and dry points, the work of the lender, for special exhibition from October 31 to November 26, 1927 (98703, loan). CLAUDE, JoserH, Rev. Broruer, Temuco, Chile: 63 plants from Chile (100041). CLAYTON, Dr. CHartes F., Balkan, Ky.: Scorpion (97087). CLEMENS, BrorHer. (See under Colegio de la Salle, La Paz, Bolivia.) CLEMENT, JoHN W., Washington, D. C.: Panel made by the silk stencil method of printing, printed in 2 colors, the work of Adler-Jones Co. (97604). ’ CLEMENT, Rev. Brorurr, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba: 46 specimens of ferns from Cuba (98544, 101114). CLEMENTS, J. Morgan, Papeete, Ta- hiti, Society Islands: Collection of miscellaneous insects from the So- ciety Islands (97799). CLINTON, H. G., Manhattan, Nev.: Specimen of the mineral benjaminite from the Outlaw Mine, Manhattan, Nev. (99029) ; 2 specimens of varis- cite and francolite, also from Man- hattan (100175). CLOKEY, Ira W., South Pasadena, Calif.: 4 specimens of ferns from Colorado (97367). 141 CLORHE, James W., Mount Ida, Va.: Double-barreled shotgun made by Joseph Golcher about 1860 (99743). COBB, Dr. N. A. (See under Jerome I. Brohard.) COCHRAN, Miss Doris M., Washing- ton, D. C.: 10 specimens of fishes (97776, 98265) ; 2 common toads and 6 firetoads from Germany, snake, tree-lizard, and rhinoceros iguana from Haiti (98880); specimen of paradise fish (101553). COCKERELL, Prof. T. D. A., Boulder, Colo.: 105 specimens of miscellane- ous Siberian insects, including 18 determined specimens represented by 15 species of the Orders Hymenop- tera, Heteroptera, Coleoptera, and Orthoptera (98985) ; 29 amphipods, a fish, and 2 leeches, all from Lake Baikal (99134); (through British Museum (Natural History), London, England) : 22 specimens of fragmen- tary fossil remains from Siberia (100347) ; 1,291 undetermined mis- cellaneous insects collected in Rus- ‘sia (from Irkutsk to Tashkent), and in Siberia (Lake Baikal region) (100807) ; approximately 60 plants from Siam (101060). (See also un- der Prof. Nassonov.) COKER, Dr. R. E. (See under Alle- gany School of Natural History.) COKER, Prof. W. C. (See under North Carolina, University of.) COLE, Miss Grace M., Sacramento, Calif.: Plant from southern Cali- fornia (101346). COLEGIO BIFFI, Barranquilla, Co- lombia (through Rev. Brother Elias): 132 plants from Colombia (97414, 97898, 98001). COLEGIO be La Satip, La Paz, Bo- livia (through Brother Clemens) : 113 specimens of insects from Bo- livia (100312). COLEGIO PRESBITERIANO, Sancti Spiritus, Cuba: Small collection of fossil echinoids from “Arroyo Blanco”? Municipal District of Jati- bonico, Camaguey Province, Cuba (100013, exchange). 142 COLIZZA, Dr. Corrapo, Agraria, Portici, Italy: 4 specimens of in- sects (96762). COLLECTORS CLUB, City Hall Sta- tion, New York City: Bronze replica of the Collectors Club medal (100254). COLLOM, Mrs. W. B., Payson, Ariz. : Plant (97600); 5 plants from Ari- zona (98278, 101304, 101852); 7 plants from Arizona (97911, ex- change). COLORADO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Denver, Colo.: 5 speci- mens of fossil bird bones from the Oligocene of Weld County, Colo., described by Dr. 1891 (101758). (See also under Russell Will- cox. ) National Committee on Wood Uti- lization (through Mr. A. H. Ox- holm) : 95 specimens and 6 pho- tographs showing recent wood utilization methods (1013638, loan). CONCHOLOGY CLUB OF SOUTH- ' ERN CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, Calif.: 25 specimens, 16 species of marine shells, and 5 specimens of mollusks, all from Ecuador (100052, 100436). REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 CONDIT, D. Date, Chevy Chase, D. C. (through Dr. C. Wythe Cooke) : Fos- sil tooth and a collection of nummu- lites from Portuguese East Africa (101381). CONYERS, Tom, Fort Myers, Fila. (through George Hyatt): Gold disk found in a dirt mound at Fort Simon Drum, about 16 miles east of Im- mokalee, Fla., on the property of the donor (101163). COOK, Prof. E. Futterton, and Prof. Cuartes H. LA WALL, Philadelphia. Pa.: Copy of the seventh edition of Remington’s Practice of Pharmacy. by the donors, for inclusion in the historical pharmaceutical collection (99351). COOK, Rosert A. Crandall.) COOKE, Dr. C. WYTHE. D. Dale Condit.) COOPER, Lieut. Commander LowEZt. United States Navy. Washington. D. C.: Feather robe made by the Macris of New Zealand (99475). CORN PRODUCTS REFINING CO.. New York City: 36 specimens of foods and industrial products derived from crdinary yellow field corn, in- cluding oils, starches, sugars, and gums (101746). CORNWALL, 1. E., Victoria, B. C.. Canada: Fossil barnacle from the Oligocene of Vancouver Island. British Columbia (99477). COUGHTRY, W. J. (See under Dela- ware & Hudson Co.) COVILLE, Dr. Frepvertck V., Wash- ington, D. C.: 15 plants from New York and i from the District of Co- lumbia (98826, 99561). (See under ) - ' CRAWFORD, Wuttam P., Bisbee, (See under E. L. | (See also | under Agriculture, Department of, | Forest Service, and Bureau of Plant | Industry, Leslie N. Gooding G. L. Snider.) COWDON, Harry F., Saltdale, Calif. : Adult male human skeleton from a mound near Petrified Forest (98187). COWLES, Dr. R. P., Baltimore, Md.: Specimen of Muhlenberg turtle taken at Priests Bridge, on the Patuxent River, Md. (101588). and 143 COYOCUTENA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Comayaugua, Honduras (through C. R. Mahaffey): Fossil shell, ring of Mexican jade, and a handle from a clay dish found near Jamalteca, Department of Comayau- gua, Honduras (98814). CRAMPTON, Dr. G. C., Amherst, Mass.: Parasitic copepod, probably from Woods Hole, Mass., collected by the donor (100747). CRANDALL, E. L., Washington, D. C., and Robert A. Cook, Washington, D. C.: 2 lizards, a frog, and a scor- pion from Yucatan (97386). CRAWFORD. J. C.. Black Mountain, N. C.: 4 plants from North Carolina (101854). (See also under North Carolina Department of Agriculture.) Ariz.: Examples of the type speci- men of the mineral weissite (100553). CROCKER, Henry, Chester, Vt.: Ap proximately 20 Tertiary shells and 5 recent marine shells from Auburn, Ala.; also 3 specimens of actinolite from Chester, Vt. (99996. 100865). Exchange. CROMPTON, GrorcE and RANDOLPH, Worcester, Mass.: Model of the first open-shed loom manufactured ex- tensively in America, United States Patent No. 20044, issued April 27, 1858, to George Crompton, father of the donors (101586). CROMPTON & KNOWLES LOOM WORKS, Worcester, Mass.: Auto- matic 6-color gingham loom No. 11857 (99341). CROSBY, Oscar T., Washington, D.C.: 40 ethnological specimens from southwest Africa (99721). CUNNINGHAM, Mrs. ANDREW W., At- lantic City, N. J.: Piece of wood from the carriage owned by Presi- dent Abraham Lincoln during the period of the Civil War ($8870). CURRAN, C. H. (See under Canadian Government, Department of Agri- culture, entomological branch.) 144 CURRY, Dr. D. P., Ancon; Canal Zone (through Dr. H. G. Dyar): 3 specimens of grass from the Canal Zone (101320). CURTISS AEROPLANE & MOTOR CO., INC., Garden City, N. Y.: Cur- tiss pusher aeroplane of the type used in 1909-1914, equipped with the engine which won the Gordon-Ben- nett trophy at Rheims, France, in 1909 (99471). CUSHMAN, Dr. Josrru A., Sharon, Mass.: Collection of washings with micro-fossils from classic localities in Europe (98829). CZERNY, Father LrsaNnprerR, Krems- munster, Upper Austria: 13 speci- mens of flies (99124, exchange). DAHLGREN, CHARLES W., Oak Park, Tll.: 50 etchings and dry points for ‘special exhibition from February 27 to March 25, 1928 (100179, loan) ; dry-point etching, with aquatint in sky, entitled ‘“ Down to the Valley,” by the donor (100815). DALY, Marcus. (See under Beach African Expedition.) DANFORTH, Prof. Sruarr T. (See under Porto Rico, University of.) DARBY, Rev. W. L. eral Council of the Churches of Christ in America.) DAVIS, ArtHurR G., London, England: Washings, rich in mollusks and micro-organisms, from the Eocene, Barton Cliffs, England (98510) ; ap- proximately 100 specimens of Eng- lish Cretaceous bryozoans and sponges (98990, exchange). DAVIS, Harry T., Raleigh, N. C.: Examples of pyrophyllite from Staley, Randolph County, N. C. (98543). DAVY, Dr. J. Burtr. (See under Ox- ford, University of, Imperial For- estry Institute. ) DAYTON, W. A. (See under Agricul- ture, Department of, Forest, Service.) DEAM, CuHartes C., Bluffton, Ind.: Plant (97356); 33 plants from In- diana (98041, 99138). DEANE, RutTHVEN, Chicago, Ill.: Col- lection of photographs of scientists (100036). (See under Fed-. LIST OF ACCESSIONS DELAWARE & HUDSON CoO., THE, New York City (through W. J. Coughtry): Photographic enlarge- ment of locomotive No. 1401, “ John B. Jervis,” a freight locomotive de- signed in 1927 by the Delaware & Hudson Co., the outstanding feature of which is a water-tube firebox boiler to carry 400 pounds steam pressure (99569). DELON, Rev. Pump J., 8S. J., Holy Cross, Alaska: 3 Eskimo skulls found at Kashunak village, Alaska (99599). DENLEY, C. F., Rockville, Md.: Speci- men of hondo copper pheasant, white peacock, and 4 eggs of Arau- canian fowl (99756, 101064, 100177). DENNISON MANUFACTURING CO., Framingham, Mass.: 4 “Crystal Trees,’ decorative objects for house- hold ornamentation made of colored sealing wax to represent a coral tree, wild rose tree, red pepper tree, and a wisteria vine (100952). DERJUGIN, Prof. Dr. K., Leningrad, U. S. S. R.: 41 specimens, 32 species, including 13 types of new species of marine mollusks from the Gulf of Peter the Great, described by Doctor Bartsch (98243). DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES MUSEUM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany (through Dr. Walther Horn): 15 Orthoptera, all cotypes except one specimen (97318) ; 500 specimens of miscellaneous insects, representing 250 species, including 45 paratypes (99765). Exchange. DICKEY, Donatp R., Pasadena, Calif. : . 19 frogs from Salvador (98029). DICKINS, Mrs. F. W., Washington, D. C.: China compote used in the White House during the administra- tion of President Abraham Lincoln (99343); 7 specimens of Lincoln china (100578). Loan. DIETZ, GouLp, Omaha, Nebr.: Curtiss aircraft engine of 1908, used in the Baldwin dirigible (99400). DINWIDDIE, Mrs. Howarp, Balti- more, Md.: Blowgun and 3 bundles of poisoned darts from the Nape REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 DINWIDDIBE, Mrs. Howarp—Contd. River region of South America (98539). DIRECCION DE PASEOS' PUB- LICOS, Montevideo, Uruguay: 2 drawings of South American Cacti (100021) ; plant (101120). ' DIXON, H. N., Northampton, Eng- land: 78 specimens of mosses from India (100496, exchange). DODGE, ELizAserH. (See under Mary Danforth Dodge.) DODGH, Dr. Henry N. (See under Mary Danforth Dodge.) DODGE, MAry DANForTH, and ELiza- BETH Dopee, Morristown, N. J. (through Dr. Henry N. Dodge): 24 engravings by Moseley Isaac Dan- forth (1800-1862), and an engraving of Lafayette by Leroux, 1824 (97421). DODGE & OLCOTT CO., Bayonne, N. J.: 32 specimens of essential oils used in medicine (99325). DONALDSON, C. S., Avon Park, Fla.: 4 specimens of living cacti (102014). DOUBLEDAY, ArNotp, Chicago, Ill: Tapir skull from Honduras (102019). DOWNER, The Misses, Lakewood, N. J.: Model of a Sicilian donkey cart (101299). DOYLE, Miss A. M., Washington, D. C.: Portrait on leather (101536). DRAKE PROCESS (INC.), THH, Cleveland, Ohio: 28 wood pulp and 4 German peat moss _ articles made by the Drake process (98170) : 3 single-service milk bottles with sections cut away to show deposition of wood pulp of which they are made (100439). DUBOST, JEAN, Vaux (Rhone), France: 8 specimens of minerals from the mountains of the Cevennes, France (98119). DUNAGAN, ALicE, Ammas, N. Mex.: Beetle collected in New Mexico (99323). DUNBAR, Mrs. U. S. J., Washington, D. C.: 3 plaster busts of famous Indians and 3 items of Indian ethnologica (99748). 145 DUNHAM, H. F., New York City: Small billet of beefwood from Flor- ida (99112). DUNN, E. B., Ottawa, Kans.: 3 speci- mens of labradorite from Newfound- land (98746, exchange). DU PONT RAYON CO. (INC.), Buf- falo, N. Y.: 6 specimens illustrating stages in the manufacture of viscose rayon (101164). DU PONT VISCOLOID CO. (INC.), Arlington, N. J.: 125 specimens of small finished articles made of pyralin (or viscoloid), and 3 sheets of the same material, such as are furnished by the company for fur- ther manufacture by outside firms (99948). DUTTON, D. Lewis, Brandon, Vt.: 56 plants (99779). DUTTON, E. P., & Co., New York City: Volume 4 of “ Modes and Man- ners of the Nineteenth Century,” by Dr. Oskar Fischel and Max Von Boehn, specially bound (101747). DUVAL, HuecH H., Bastrop, Tex.: Specimen of grass, and a living specimen of plant, both from Texas (99278, 101548). © DYAR, Dr. H. G. (See under S. E. Cassino, Dr. D. P. Curry, and Dr. M. Nunez-Tovar.) DYAR, WALLACE, Washington, D. C.: 3 European starlings (99571). DYER, Hon. Frep E. (See under Hon. Oscar E. Bland.) DYER, Henry E., East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y.: Brittle star fish (99317). EARLE, CuHartes T., Bradenton, Fla.: Marine annelid, head of a water snake, and a water snake, all from Florida (96352, 97797, 98009). HAST, C. S. (See under J. S. C. Boswell. ) EASTWOOD, Miss Atice. (See under California Academy of Sciences.) EDDYSTONE CEMENT CO., New York City (through E. R. Wilmer) : Section of original Roman aqueduct built in 80 A. D. between Biffel and Cologne, Germany (98767). 146 EDDY TREE-BREEDING STATION, THE, Placerville, Calif.: Plant from California (98412). EDRINGTON, Emuy H. (through Benjamin S. Minor, Executor, Wash- ington, D. C.): Oil painting on can- vas of “The Abbess” by Camp- huysen (98032, bequest). ELIAS, Rev. BrorHer, Barranquilla, Colombia: 180 plants from Colombia (100345, 101488). (See also under Colegio Biffi, Bar- ranquilla, Colombia. ) ENGBERG, Dr. Cart C., Lincoln, Nebr.: 30 specimens, 2 species, of land shells from Nebraska and Yel- lowstone Park (100743). ENGLISH, GEORGE L. Louis Oppenheimer. ) ERIE CITY IRON WORKS, Erie, Pa.: Model of a modern water-tube boiler using pulverized coal; high-pressure type, 511 horsepower (99816). ESSIG, Prof. E. O., Berkeley, Calif.: Approximately 10 specimens of branchipus from California (98256). (See also under California, Uni- versity of.) EVANS, Victor J., Washington, D. C.: 2 specimens of upland goose and 2 trunk skeletons (97404); 6 birds (98285, 99603, 101159). EWING, Dr. H. E., Washington, D. C.: 5 specimens of crustacea collected by the donor at Great Falls, Va. (92823). EWING, SPENCER, Bloomington, II.: One copy of a moving-picture film (25 feet) of an exceptionally large lobster taken at Noank, Conn., July, 1927 (98220). EYERDAM, WaAttTzr J.,_ Seattle, Wash.: 9 insects, miscellaneous col- lection of echinoderms, marine in- vertebrates, and fragments of a box fish (98837); fossil shell from the Miocene horizon (100968). FABIAN, Dominick, Portland, Oreg.: Air mail circular transported over the principal air mail routes in the United States from the Pacific to the Atlantic coast and bearing 17 canceled 10-cent air mail stamps (101748). (See under LIST OF ACCESSIONS FAIRBANKS, Dovetas, Los Angeles, Calif.: One glossy and one white en- larged photograph of the “magic carpet’ as portrayed in “ The Thief of Bagdag” (101007). FARLOW HERBARIUM, Cambridge, Mass. (through Prof. Roland Thax- ter): 23 specimens of algae from Trinidad and Tobago (99024, ex- change). FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN AMERICA, Washington, D. C. (through Rev. W. L. Darby, secre- tary): “Miss Japan,” one of the 58 dolls sent to the United States from Japan in 1927 as a token of good will, with various accessories (100437, loan). FEJERVARY, Baron G. J. pg. under Hungarian National seum. ) FELIPPONE, Dr. FLoRENTINO, Mon- tevideo, Uraguay: 38 specimens, 2 species, of shells from Argentina; 5 insects, a frog, 5 lizards, 2 snakes, 1 caiman, and 53. specimens of marine invertebrates from Uruguay (97378) ; 46 land, fresh water, and marine shells from Uruguay, Argen- tina, and Cape Colony (97382); 33 specimens, 9 species, of land and marine shells from Uruguay and Ar- gentina (99178) ; 7 specimens, 5 spe- cies, of marine and fresh-water shells from Uruguay, also a crayfish collected by the donor (99763); 23 specimens, 13 species, of land, fresh water, and marine shells from Uru- guay; also 3 crustaceans, 39 insects, and 2 lizards (100504) ; 9 specimens, 5 species, of land, fresh water, and marine shells from Uruguay; 7 birds, 3 snakes, 1 bat, 7 insects, and a star- fish (100816) ; 17 birds and 5 insects from Uruguay (101572). FELT & TARRANT MANUFACTUR- ING CO., Chicago, Ill.: A compto- meter, Model J, and a glass sec- tioned model of the same incorpo- rating modern improvements in this type of device (98776). (See Mu- REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 FERGUSON, W..C., Hempstead, Long | FLEGAL, H. F., Morrisdale, Island, N. Y.: 4 plants from New York (99023). FERRIS, J. L. G., Philadelphia, Pa.: Approximately 40 items of costumes from Spain, Morocco, Turkey, and other localities (100692). FERRISS, J. F., Kansas City, Mo.: English china platter of the early part of the 19th century (97155). FESSENDEN, Miss L. L., Washing- ton, D. C.: Specimen of Tovi para- keet (99949). FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, Chicago, Ill.: 2 speci- mens of ferns from Bolivia; 5 frag- mentary specimens of cacti from Peru, A. Weberbauer, collector; 3 skins of a genus of pigeons new to the Museum collections; 26 plants from Peru; (through Dr. S. F. Blake): 10 plants from South Amer- ica (86977; 97545; 101856; 101514; 101896) ; skin of a bird representing a genus new to the Museum collec- tions (99469). Exchange. FIELD, Oscoop. (See under Beach African expedition. ) : FILINGER, Gerorcre A. (See under Ohio Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion, Department of Entomology.) FIRESTONE, Dr. CHARLES, Kana- kanak, Alaska: Brain of an Eskimo man; brain of an adult Tlingit In- dian; brain of a full-blooded Haida Indian; brain of a 10-year-old Tlin- git Indian boy (97883; 100070; 100785 ; 101839). FIRMIN, Rey. Brother GemMeEL, Quito, Ecuador: 469 plants from Ecuador (96583, 98253, 99761, 100454, 101769). FISCHER, Pu., Buffalo, N. Y.: A pe- culiar moth, new to the Museum col- lections, from Buffalo, N. Y. (97882). FISHER, Dr. A. K. (See Courtenay Brandreth.) FISHER, Gerorce L., Houston, Tex.: 95 plants from Texas (98276). FISHER, W. S. (See under Agricul- ture Department of, Bureau of Pn- tomology.) under 147 Pa. (through Thomas G. McCausland) : Specimen of a fossil plant from Cu- nard Slope Mine No. 1, near Morris- dale (98299). FLORIDA STATE MUSEUM, Gaines- ville, Fla. (through T. Van Hyning, Director) : 126 fishes from Florida (95465, 97798). FLORIDA, UNIVERSITY OF, Agri- cultural Experiment Station, Gaines- ville, Fla. (through J. R. Watson) : 13 slides containing 36 specimens of thrips, 8 (slides) of which are para- types (100062). . FOERSTE, Dr. A. F., Dayton, Ohio: Portion of the donor’s private col- lection of American Paleozoic in- vertebrate fossils (98493). FOLGER, L. M. (See under Mrs. Martha Morrison Sinks.) FORBES LITHOGRAPH MANUFAC- TURING CO., Boston, Mass.: 4 photo-mechanical lithographs in color, namely, ‘‘G. Washington” “Franklin,” ‘Th. Jefferson,’ and “A. Hamilton” (101868). FORMOSA, JAPAN, Department of Forestry, Government Research In- stitute: 154 plants from Formosa (100032, exchange). FORRESTER, Mrs. FLoRENcE CAMP- BELL, Washington, D. C.: Examples of native gold and silver (98530). FORSYTH, Tuomas S., Washington, D. C.: Diplomatic uniform worn in 1828 by William Pitt Preble and military uniform worn in 1856 by Capt. Frederick Forsyth, Maine Mi- litia (8 specimens) (96111). FRANKHE, A., Arnstadt, Germany (through Dr. E. O. Ulrich) : 40 speci- mens of Silurian drift bowlders con- taining ostracods (97401). FREEMAN, E. B., jr., Atlanta, Ga.: A Waterbury Watch Co. movement of about 1885, made after patents of D. A. Buck, and the first cheap watch ealled “ Waterbury”; also a New England Watch Co. movement, 1888, the successor of the original Water- bury (100322). 148 FREEMAN, O. M. Jennie Jones. ) FRESNO STATE COLLEGE, Fresno, Calif. (through G. E. Macginitie) : 2 specimens of beetle larvze from California (101752). FRIC, A. V., Prague-Smichov 148, Czechoslovakia : 2 plants from South America (97653, exchange). FROST, Dr. S. W., Arendtsville, Pa.: 4 flies (99263). FRUEHAN, Dr. Anceus GrorGE, Madi- son, Wis.: 2 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (101888). FRUSH, Miss FAnnieE B., Glyndon, Md.: Decoration and diploma of the Order of St. Stanislaus awarded in 1857 by Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, to Dr. Charles A. Leas in recognition of services rendered dur- ing the Crimean War, 1853-1856 (99983). FUKIEN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Department of Biology, Foochow, China: 57 specimens of Chinese plants, mostly ferns (97689, ex- change) ; 59 specimens of Chinese ferns (99777). FULLER BRUSH CO., Hartford, Conn.: 28 bristle brushes for re- placement of obsolete specimens in the collection of brushes presented by the American Brush Association in 1924 (101840). FULLER, Mrs. Nettie, Breedsville, Mich.: 8 specimens of insects (96881) ; 3 specimens of encysted planarians (flat worms) and 19 specimens of insects (99128) ; 50 in- sects (100185). FURNESS, Mrs. H. H.,*jr., Ardmore, Pa.: A set of double harness, brass mounted with crest, from the estate of the late William Davis Winsor, of Philadelphia, father of the donor (96824). GABLE, Tuomas J., and O. E. MOR- RELL, Grandy, Minn.: 2 small lots of potsherds from Minnesota (100942). GABRIEL, CHartes J., Abbotsford, Victoria, Australia: 18 specimens, 8 species, of land and marine shells from Australia (99035). (See under Miss LIST OF ACCESSIONS GAHAN, A. B. (See under Agricul- ture, Department of, Bureau of Entomology.) } GAIGEH, Prof. F. M. (See under Mich- igan, University of.) GALE, Hoyt Ropnery, Stanford Uni- versity, Calif.: 7 specimens of bryozoans from the Tertiary rocks of the Nipomo quadrangle, Califor- nia (100582). GALE, Mrs. Marearset M., Glendale, Calif.: Photograph of male members of 9 generations of the Morris fam- ily and their wives, 1672-1912 (98745). GANDER, Frank F., San Diego, Calif.: 17 amphipods, 2 barnacles, and 1 leech from Balboa Park, Calif., collected by the donor (96620) ; approximately 54 speci- mens of crustaceans, 15 amphipods and a erayfish from California (96966, 98520, 100178); approxi- mately 30 amphipods collected by the donor on the Silver Strand Beach south of Coronada, Calif., July, 1927 (97900). GARBER, PAut E., Washington, D. C.: Bronze statuette of the Greek god Hermes (Roman god Mercury) god of commerce and messenger of Olympus (101123). GARDNER, Dr. JoHN Hati, Morgan- town, W. Va.: 2 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (97849). GARRETT, A. O., Salt Lake City, Utah: 3 plants from Utah (98172). GATES, Prof. Gorpon E., Rangoon, Burma: 19 specimens of earth- worms, collected by the donor (98069). GATES, Rev. SEBASTIAN, Grenada, British West Indies: 4 ticks, 1 bee tle and an isopod; shovel-nosed shrimp and a sea urchin; bat from Grenada and one locust from Port- of-Spain; insect, an immature cock- roach (97645, 98512, 100863, 101581). GATES, WattTer L., Teaticket, Mass. : Specialized collection of Iowa pre- canceled postage stamps (2,770 specimens) (983802). REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 GATES, Wa.tter L.—Continued. (See also under Precancel Stamp Society. ) GEARHART, The Misses FrAnces H. and May, Pasadena, Calif.: 35 block prints by Frances H. Gearhart, and 15 color etchings by May Gearhart, for special exhibition from January 5 to 28, 1928 (99575, loan). GEDULY, Prof. OLivEr, Budapest, Hungary: 3 lizards (99372). GENERAL COMMITTEE ON ARMY AND NAVY CHAPLAINS (through Rey. W. S. Abernethy, Chairman, Washington, D. C.) : Bronze medal of the type awarded by the General Committee on Army and Navy Chap- lains to chaplains of Protestant faith who served in the United States Army or Navy during the World War (98212). GEST, Guy M., New York City: Nine enlarged (and one original) photo- graphs relating to the first successful commercial electrical railroad, which began operation in Baltimore, Md., in 1885; presented in memory of Thomas C. Robbins, general manager of the Baltimore Union Passenger Railway Co. (99479). GIBBONS, Danret, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Copy of the Philadelphia Herald of January 31, 1889, containing a half tone which was printed from a stereotype on a web perfecting press ; photograph of Louis Edward Levy, by Goldensky ; photograph of Daniel Gibbons and a half tone of Max Levy, with descriptions of their achievements (98387). GIFFORD, E. W., San Francisco, Calif.: Plant (100029). GILKEY, Prof. HELEN M. (See under Oregon State Agricultural College. ) GILLESPIE, J. G., Bethpage, Tenn.: Young mole with nest (96459). GILLHAM, Bert A., Burlington, Iowa: Approximately 250 specimens of land and fresh-water shells from Iowa (99586). GILMAN, M. Frencu, Banning, Calif. : 2 plants from Arizona (101158) ; 15 specimens of ferns from California and Arizona (101168). 149 GLASCOCK, Atrrep E., Washington, D. C.: Fossiliferous boulders from the vicinity of Washington, D. C. (98739) ; potsherds, rejectage from blade manufacture, etc., collected by the donor at Molly Boat Cove, on the Anacostia River, D. C. (101880). GLATTFORD, Dr. JoHN WuLLIAM EpwarkpD, Chicago, Ill.: A specimen for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (101889). GLEASON, Dr. H. A., New York City: 6 plants from British Guiana (100227). GLOYD, Prof. Howarp K., Manhattan, Kans.: 2 narrow-mouthed toads from Bourbon County, Kans. (99514). GOODING, LESLIE N., Corvallis, Oreg. (through Dr. Frederick V. Coville) : Plant from Washington (101147). GOODLOE, A. E., jr., Chattanooga, Tenn.: 8 insects, including 2 adults, 3 larvae, and 3 pupae (100804). GORDON, Mrs. CAaRroLInE M., Takoma Park, Md.: Linen sheet spun and woven in 1823 at Freeport, Me., by Nancy Soule, mother of the donor; 2 yokes of infant dresses, showing hand embroidery, worn by the donor in 1848 at Freeport, Me. (99106). GOSHAW, GerorcE R., Shishmaref, Se- ward Peninsula, Alaska: 8 Eskimo skulls and a lower jaw, 4 ivory pro- jectile points, 1 slate projectile point, a wooden spoon, ivory comb, and a bone “ repair” for sled (96836). GOTEBORGS BOTANISKA TRAD- GARD, Goteborg, Sweden: 10 photo- graphs of ferns from Juan Fernan- ‘dez (100762, exchange). GOURDON, Maurice, Nantes, France: Collection of fossil invertebrates from the upper Lutetian, Bois Gouet (Seine Inferieure) (98061); 2 field mice (100187). GOWDEY, C. C. (See under Jamai- can Department of Agriculture.) GRABHAM, Dr. M., Kingston, Ja- maica : 3 insects from Jamaica (mos- - quito and 2 spiders) (95407). GRADLE, Dr. Harry S., Chicago, IIl.: Photographs of Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlotta of Mexico, 150 GRADLE, Dr. Harry S.—Continued. and photographs showing scenes in the life of the Emperor (93048). GRAGG, Mrs. HaAzzarp, San Luis Obispo, Calif.: Specimen of fern from California (98171). GRAHAM, Rev. Davin C., Suifu, Szechuan, China: 9 snakes, 1 lizard, 4 mammals, 21 bird skins and 4 bird skeletons from China (100183); 10 specimens of mammals, 22 bird skins and 3 bird skeletons, 528 insects, 1 snake, 6 frogs, 2 lizards, 25 shrimps, 38 crabs, 1 earthworm, and 11 fishes from Suifu, Szechuan, China (101539). GRAHAM, T. H., Washington, D. C.: Small cluster of pharyngeal teeth obtained at Catalina Island, Calif. (101543). GRANT, Dr. ApEeLe Lewis (through Mrs. T. R. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y.): 16 plants from the eastern United States (100005). GRAY, A. Y., Washington, D. C.: Photograph of a portrait of John Hanson from the original in Inde- pendence Hall, Philadeiphia (97918). GRAY, James B., Williams, Ariz.: Specimen of fossil gastropod from | near Williams, Ariz. (88164). GREEN, Morris M., Ardmore, Pa.: Skin and skull of a field mouse (100148). GREENE, FRANK C., Tulsa, Okla.: 3 plants from Oklahoma and Texas (100330). GREENE, GrorcE M., Harrisburg, Pa.: 48,871 specimens of miscellaneous insects, mostly beetles (99021). GREENFIELD, Ray, Takoma Park, D. C.: 48 specimens of crustaceans, comprising 39 isopods and 9 amphi- pods, taken from a swamp near Hyattsville, Md. (100440); shrew (101062). GREENMAN, Dr. M. J. (See under The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, Philadelphia, Pa.) GRINNELL, Dr. JosEpH. (See under Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif.) LIST OF ACCESSIONS GUATEMALA, GOVERNMENT OF. Direccién General de Agricultura, Guatemala, Central America: 336 plants from Guatemala (99005, 100308, 101481). GUNTHER, Mrs. NE.Luiz G., New York City: Collection of relics of Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee, United States Navy (105 specimens) (84594). GUTSELL, JAmMEs §., Beaufort, N. C.: 7 spider crabs, 30 amphipods, and 10 copepods (98981). HACKETT, CHaAuNncEY, Washington, D. C.: 41 unused postage stamps from Haiti (101497). HAFFERMANN, JOHN, and JOHN HUDGINS, Washington, D. C.; Specimen of dried puffer-fish found near wharf at the foot of Eleventh street (101554). HALL, Davin G., Fayetteville, Ark.: 7 specimens of flies, some of them of especial value to the collections (2 being paratypes) ; 15 flies, 5 species, all types; 3 flies (98480; 100615; 101576). HALL, Frenv H., Austin, specimens of cacti (974386). HALLOCK, H. C. (See under Agri- culture, Department of, Bureau of Entomology, Westbury, Long Island, N.Y,) HALLOCK, Rey. H. G. C., Shanghai, China: Color print of Pan-Ku, in Chinese mythology the first man and creator of the world, from Shanghai. China (99747). HALSEY, Witiam §S., Walpole, N. H.: Miniature portrait of José de San Martin (1776-1850) and a miniature Hawaiian flag, with a fragment of the halyard from which it was flown ; also a mollusk (97699). HAMMOND, Arispep, Sonora, Mexico: Crystal of polybasite (98991).- HANSEN, ARMIN, Monterey, Calif. : 46 etchings and drypoints for spe- cial exhibition from January 30 to February 26, 1928 (99942, loan). Tex, 2/435 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 HARDER, E. C., Philadelphia, Pa.: Small polished stone celt from South America (98268). (See also under A. L. Moore.) HARDISTY, ArrHvur H., Shelburne, Vt.: 4 bird skeletons from Florida (101358). - HARGITT, Prof. Grorce T., Syracuse, N. Y.: The Charles W. Hargitt Hy- droid Collection, comprising 456 slides and 690 bottles, estimated to contain approximately 2,000 speci- mens (97540). HARLAN, Mrs. James S., Washing- ton, D. C.: 14 pieces of costume, watches, cases, and other articles, of the 14th-17th centuries, and a golden vase (97397). HARLTON, Bruce, Tulsa, Okla.: Type specimens of foraminifera from the Carboniferous of Texas and Okla- homa (99311); 22 specimens, repre- senting the types of 16 species of ostracods from the Pennsylvanian rocks of Oklahoma and “Texas (100730); types of 14 species of Pennsylvanian ostracods from Okla- homa (101096). HARMS, Prof. H. (See under Botan- ischer Garten und Museum, Berlin- Dahlem, Germany.) HARNED, Prof. R. W. (See under State Plant Board of Mississippi.) HARPER, Lawrence, Fort Jackson, N. Y.: Fossil brachiopods from the foothills of the Adirondacks near the St. Lawrence Valley, N. Y. (97470). HARPER, Dr. R. M., Tallahassee, Fla.: 41 plants chiefly from Ala- bama; 8 plants from Florida (98972, 101078). HARPER, W. G., Washington, D, C.: Anterior half of the plastron of a large fossil land turtle from Mari- copa County, Ariz. (99939). HARRASSOWITZ, Prof. Dr., Giessen, Germany: 5 specimens of bauxite from various regions of Europe (95850, exchange). HARRINGTON, A. M., Philadelphia, Pa.: A speedometer made by the R. H. Smith Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Mass., and used about 1905 (99804). 15544—28——-11 15] HARRINGTON, Capt. J. H., United States Army, Concord, N. H.: Regi- mental insignia of the One hundred and ninety-seventh Coast Artillery, Antiaircraft National Guard of New Hampshire (100033). HARRIS, Lieut. Bryce W., Pittsburgh, Pa. (through Capt. James C. Pryor) : Specimen of devil shrimp taken by the donor while cruising off the Nicaraguan coast (97621). HARRIS, Dr. ELwin ELmMer, Grand Forks, N. Dak.: 8 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (95788). ‘ HARRIS, Mrs. Eugene A., San An- tonio, Tex.: 6 plants (101289, ex- change). HARRIS, VINCENT, Philadelphia, Pa. (through Frank V. Chambers): “Ray-C”’ box camera, without lens, and a plate holder (101535). HART, Col. W. Les, United States Army, Chicago, Ill.: Bronze medal of the Reconnaissance Langroise and bronze seal commemorating the meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati at Exeter, N. H., June 17, 1920 (97395). HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. (through Dr. Ajfred Rehder) : 852 plants (99952, ex- change). Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass.: 22 fragmentary plants; 14 photographs of type speci- mens of plants; 6 photographs of plants; 489 plants; 227 mis- cellaneous plants (97116, 99153, 99274, 101094, 100495, 101768, exchange); fragmentary speci- men of plant from Mexico (98306). Department of Mineralogy, Cam- bridge, Mass.: 5 polished speci- mens of minerals (97453) ; specimen of calcium-larsenite with a cavity containing clinch- hedrite and larsenite needles, from Franklin, N. J. (101507). Exchange. : 152 HARVARD UNIVERSITY—Contd. Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, Cambridge, Mass.: 38 specimens, 5 species, of amphibians; sea snake from Bangnara, Gulf of Siam; 8 birds representing 8 genera, new to the National Museum (97677, 98819, 100593, exchange) ; cast of the anterior end of a ramus of a toothed cetacean; 10 original copper plates of Wilson’s American Ornithology (97834, 99604). (See also under Smithsonian Institution, National Mu- seum,:- collected by members of the staff.) HAUGHT, Oscar, Negritos via Talara, Peru: 51 plants from Peru (98452, 98699, 98989, 100617). HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS’ ASSOCIATION EXPERIMENT STATION, Honolulu, Hawaii (through F. X. Williams): 12 speci- mens of cacti, 6 species, including types of 3 (100061). HAWKINS, A. C., New Brunswick, N. J.: Specimen of calcite pseudo- morphous after glauberite and 1 of barite from New Jersey (99478). HAWTHORNE, Eric, Whigham, Ga.: Plant from the northern United States (97680). HAY, F. M., Pleasant Hill, Mo. (through Dr. O. P. Hay): Chipped celt from Missouri (98045). HAY, Dr. O. P. (See under E. F. Chilcot and F. M. Hay.) HAYCOCK, FRANK, Panguitch, Utah: Examples of the minerals tscher- migite, jarosite, and other minerals from Utah (97444). HAYES, Wiru1aAm MoKim, Baltimore, Md.: Miscellaneous teeth and bones from the Miocene near Chesapeake Beach, Md. (99380). HEBARD, Morgan. (See under Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- delphia, Pa.) HEIGHWAY, A. E., Jenkins, Ky.: Specimen of quartz, with inclusions, from Chula, Amelia County, Va. (99567). LIST OF ACCESSIONS HEIMERL, Dr. A., Vienna, Austria: Plant from Paraguay (100761, ex- change). HEINE, Miss Eni R., Sarasota, Fla. (through Agriculture, Department of, Bureau of Plant Industry, Wash- ington, D. C.): Parasitie copepod from goldfish from Wisconsin (99270). HENDERSON, CuHar_es F., Berkeley, Calif.: 32 plants from Argentina (100026). HENRY, CuHaArtes S. B., McGowan, Wash.: Small collection of fossils from Pacific County, Wash. (99041). HERCULES POWDER CO. (INC.), Wilmington, Del.: 21 specimens and 68 photographs representative of the softwood steam-distillation process (98450). HERRERA, Prof. F. L., Cuzco, Peru: 225 plants from Peru (98305, 98447, 101132). HERRICK, Prof. GLENN W., Ithaca, N. Y.: 4 cotype specimens of thrips, representing 2 species (99548). HERTER, Dr. W., Montevideo, Uru- guay: 23 plants (97363). HESS, Frank L., Washington, D. C.: Examples of jarosite and scheelite from wolframite deposits of Home-- stake Mining Co., Lead, S. Dak. (98830). (See also under B. S. Wilson.) HEBWETT, D. F., Washington, D. C.: 5 specimens of minerals from Joach- imsthal, Czechoslovakia (100937). HIBBARD, Raymond R., Buffalo, N. Y.: Specimen of Devonian fish (100011, exchange). HICKEY, Ropert F., Apalachin, N. Y.: Specimen of a rare Devonian glass sponge from near Apalachin, Tioga County, N. Y. (101079). HIDDEN, Mrs. W. H., jr., Green- wood, Va.: A French linen napkin, part of wedding outfit of Mlle. Marie Gomais, who was married in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1799 (101344). HIGGINS, Miss Lena, Long Beach, Calif.: Crab from Anaheim Slough, Calif. (100562). REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 HILDEBRAND, 'S. F. (See under Commerce, Department of, Bureau of Fisheries.) HILL, Geratp F., East Melbourne, Australia: Specimen of a very rare heteropteran new to the Museum eollections (98049); 7 specimens of flies from Australia (99039, ex- change). HINKLE, J. F., Roswell, N. Mex.: Specimens of the mineral aragonite from 60 miles north of Roswell, N. Mex. (99503). HITCHCOCK, Prof. A. S. (See under Agriculture, Department of, Bureau of Plant Industry.) HITCHCOCK, Leirx F., Uvalde, Tex.: Specimen of living cactus (101569). HOES, Mrs. R. G. (See under Miss ‘Julia Ten Eyck McBlair.) HOFFMAN, Dr. Wuiuiam A., San Juan, Porto Rico: 3 beetles from Porto Rico (99485). HOLL, Frep J., Durham, N. C.: 6 slides of a fluke from the intestine of a reptile (100759). HOLT LUMBER CO., Oconto, Wis.: 6 specimens of hardwood lumber (95770). HOLTTUM, Dr. R. E. (See under Botanic Gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements). HOLZINGER, Prof. JoHN M., Winona, Minn.: Skin and skull of a banana opossum (97114): tooth of a mam- moth from near Winona (97439). HOMBERSLEY, Archdeacon ArTHuR, Trinidad, British West Indies: 78 Specimens of ferns from Trinidad (98229, 100030, 100224, 101077, 101510). HOOD, Prof. J. D. (See under Roch- ester, University of, Department of Biology. ) HOPPIN, C. A. Washington. ) HORN, Dr. WatrHer. (See under Deutsches Entomologisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.) HORSFALL, Bruce, Washington, D. C.: A painting, by the donor, of the extinct bird “The Great Auk” (101295, loan). (See under W. Lanier 153 HORTICULTURAL COMMISSIONER, Los Angeles, Calif. (through H. M. Armitage, Deputy Commissioner) : 13 specimens of flies reared from husks of green walnuts (99086); 6 flies from California . (101364); 2 flies and their puparia reared from English walnuts in . California (101858). : HOUGH, GeorcE J., Washington, D. C.: Examples of the new mineral cocinerite and of an unknown min- eral from the Cocinera mine of the Mexican Copper Co., Ramos, San Luis Potosi, Mexico (98270). HOUGH, Dr. and Mrs. WaAtrer, Wash- ington, D. C.: Candlestick of glass made at Albert Gallatin’s factory at New Geneva, .-Pa., about 1812 (99723). HOWARD, JAmMeEs T., Washington, D. C.: French singleshot Gras rifle of 1874 and a German Mauser rifle of 1915 (97910). . HOWARD, Dr. L. O.,. Washington, D. C.: Rattle anklet from Natal, consisting of cocoons of a saturnid moth. sewed on a leather band (100154). HOWELL, A. B., Washington, D. C.: 7 specimens, 3 species, of shells from Europe and the District of Columbia (97689) ; skeleton of a meadow mouse (99150); western red-tailed hawk (101063); 2 Asiatic fishes (101619); 2 small rodents from India (101844). (See also under The Los Angeles Examiner. ) HOWELL, A. B., and E. D. RBID. Washington, D. O.: Worm, and meta- eercariae of a trematode (99793). HRDLICKA, Dr. A. Washington, D. C.: 150 photographs of the arts and industries of Ozechoslovakia and 110 photographs of individuals (101498). HUBBS, Cart L. (See under Michi- gan, University of.) HUBEL, J. J., Arion Park, Fia.: Specimen of insect (99140). HUCKEL, Eartr W., Walpole, Mass. : 54 specimens consisting of drawings, engravings, lithographs, books, paint 154 HUCKEL, Earte W.—Continued. brushes of Thomas Sully and Jobn Neagle, and the flute of Thomas Sully (99933). HUCKETT, Dr. H. C., Riverhead, N. Y.: 29 specimens of flies, includ- ing types, allotypes, and paratypes (995138, 100054). HUDGINS, Joun. Haffermann. ) HUDSON RIVER DAY LINE, THE, New York City: 2 models of Hudson river steamboats, namely, Hendrick Hudson, 1906, and Clermont, 1807 (100518, loan). HUMBERT, Prof. H., University of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria (through Dr. Walter T. Swingle, Washington, D. C.): 30 plants from Madagascar (97369). HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, Budapest, Hungary (through Baron G. J. de Fejérvary) : 3 lizards from Asia, collected by Dr. E. Csiki (99906) ; 100 specimens of plants (Century VIII) from Hungary (100813, exchange). HUNTER, Dagp, Chillicothe, Ohio: Book entitled “Primitive Paper Making,” by Dard Hunter (99500, exchange). HYATT, GEORGE. Conyers. ) HYDE, Epwarp, Talcahuano, Chile, South America: 95 crayfishes from South America (98477). HYLAND, Jacx, Pazna, Bolivia: 9 specimens of the mineral teallite from Monserrat Mine, Pazna, Bo- livia (101382) ; specimen of the min- eral aramayoite from _ Bolivia (101763). ILLINGWORTH, Dr. J. F., Honolulu Hawaii: 7 insects and 9 flies, includ- ing the type of a new species (92268, 98202). IMBRIE, Mrs. Ropert WHITNEY, Washington, D. C.: Rattle, chief’s ceremonial staff, and a paddle, all from the Congo, Africa (98532). INDIA, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF, Calcutta, India: 2 specimens of min- erals, magnesioblythite and spandite (101986, exchange). (See under John (See under Tom LIST OF ACCESSIONS INDIAN CAMP CURIO STORE, Owensville, Ark.: Specimen com- posed of aegyrite, feldspar, and other minerals from Magnet Cove. Ark. (101791). INDIAN MUSEUM Calcutta, India (through R. Chanda, superintend- ent): 94 prehistoric stone imple- ments from India (88427, ex- change). INGLES, L. G., Claremont, Calif.: 2 beetles (100972). INSLEY, Mrs. H. R., Pittsburgh, Pa.: Three pairs of shoes from the Philip- pine Islands and a pair of straw sandals from Japan (99093). INSTITUT FUR MEERESKUNDE, Berlin, Germany: 2 lots of ship- worms (99091). INSTITUT FUR SCHIFFS- UND TROPENKRANKHEITEN SOWIE ARZTLICHE BEAUFSICHTIGUNG DER HAFEN, Hamburg, Germany (through Dr. E. Martini): 9 mos- quitoes (99287). INTERIOR, DEPARTMENT OF: National Park Service, Zion Na- tional Park, Utah (through A. M. Woodbury): 93 plants chiefly from Zion National Park (98443). United States Geological Survey: Collection of Upper Cambrian trilobites collected by T. S. Loy- ering near Fairplay, Colo. (96983); collection of fossil plants from the Esmeralda formation of Nevada, described by BE. W. Berry (97487) ; collec- tion of Triassic fossil plants from the Shinarump conglomer- ate of southern Utah, described by E. W. Berry (97488) ; types and figured specimens of fossil plants from the Cretaceous of Alaska, to be described in a Pro- fessional Paper of the United States Geological Survey by Arthur Hollick and George C. Martin (98284); collection of quicksilver ores, illustrating Bulletin 795-E by W. F. Foshag (99120); 3 specimens of the mineral kernite from the borax REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 INTERIOR, DEPT. OF—Continued. United States Geol. Survey—Con. mine of the Pacific Coast Co., Kern County, and 1 specimen of pegmatite dike from the San Diego mine, Mesa Grande, Calif. (99149) ; 52 specimens of plants collected in northern Alaska by J. B. Mertie, jr. (99565) ; 127 valves of marine pelecypods, 27 marine gastropods, and 101 specimens of land and fresh- water gastropods from Florida, collected by Drs. G. Wythe Cooke and W. C. Mansfield (101278) ; potash cores from Government test wells in New Mexico and Texas (1013878) ;: types and figured specimens of Middle and Upper Triassic in- vertebrate faunas of North America described by James Perrin Smith in Professional Papers 83 and 141 of the United States Geological Survey (101605); types and figured specimens of fossil plants from the Denver and associated for- mations of Colorado, described by F. H. Knowlton in Profes- sional Paper 155, United States Geological Survey (101606). (See also under Dr. J.. B. Scrivenor. ) INTERNATIONAL MUTOSCOPE REEL CO., New York City, through Wiliam Rabkin): 2 Brogan lenses (98195). JACKSON, W. H., Washington, D. C.: 3 albumen prints made in the period 1872-1878 (101097). JACOBSEN, Epwarp, The Hague, Netherlands: 100 specimens of named insects (101761). JACOT, ArtTHuR P., Tsinan, Sung, China: 7 skins with skulls and 2 odd skulls of mammals from Weih- sien, Shantung (101757). (See also under Shantung Chris- tian University.) JACQUES, Mrs. Bertua E. der Erie G. Scott.) (See un- 155. C., Riverside, from Nevada JAEGER, EpMUND Calif.: 48 plants (98011, 98411). JAMAICAN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, Government Labo- ratory, Kingston, Jamaica (through Cc. ©. Gowdey): Snail shell from Jamaica (97158). JANNEY, Miss NANNIE HAMILTON, Alexandria, Va.: 3 models of Jan- ney railroad car _ couplers, viz, wooden model, hand whittled by the pioneer inventor, Maj. Eli H. Jan- ney ; one wood and metal demonstra- tion model; one demonstration model of Robert E. Janney’s im- proved coupler (100780). JARDIN BONTANIQUE DE L’ETAT, Brussels, Belgium: Fragment of type specimen of a fern (99600, ex- change). JAUME, Micuet, Vedado, Habana, Cuba: Approximately 250 specimens of mollusks (98492). JAY, Perer A., Washington, D. C.: Pair of silver candlesticks of the period of the Revolution, owned by Chief Justice John Jay (101765). JENKINS, C. Francis, Washington, D. C.: Part of a radio vision receiv- ing set, and a frame of news clip- pings, dated June 14, 1925 (98222). JEWETT, StTantey G., Portland, Oreg.: Bone of a short-tailed alba- tross from an Indian mound in Ore- gon (99582); skeleton of a prairie falcon from Oregon (100587). JOB, CHARLES, Richmond, England: 50 carbon prints for special exhibition during October and November, 1927 (98221, loan). JOHANSEN, Frits, Ottawa, Canada: 28 specimens of crustaceans from Nova Scotia and Canada (94239) ; amphipod from the Gulf of St. Law- rence, taken from the stomach of a cod (100357) ; pycnogonid from Can- ada (1011385); 90 specimens of erustaceans (101520). (See also under Canadian Goy- ernment, Department of Mines, Geological Survey.) 156 JOHNSON, Frank, New York City: 30 insects, Oriental and African Lep- idoptera (97451) ; 65 butterflies and moths, a_ most valuable addition to the Museum collections (99104) ; 250 butterflies and moths, including Some fine new species (99921); 170 moths (100212); 50 exotic Lepidop- tera and 500 Lepidoptera from Texas (101144). JONES, CuHartes C., Washington, D. C.: A wet plate transparency (100058). JONES, Miss Jenniz, Richmond, Va. (through O. M. Freeman): Plant from Virginia (98825). JONES, Ricuarp A., Austin and Junc- tion, Tex.: 8 specimens of marine shells from Texas and 2 seeds; 47 specimens of fossils from the Upper Cambrian of Blanco County, Tex. (98708, 100572). JONES, Stockton W., Washington, D. C.: Blue and white Staffordshire pottery vessel; lady’s embossed leather handbag, which has been in the family of the donor between 75 and 100 years; sealskin chatelaine bag used 60 years ago by the mother ‘of the donor; oak cane made from one of the rafters of Independence Hall, Philadelphia (98977, 99117, ‘99170, 99344). ; JONES, Wa.po, Washington, D. C.: Specimen of beryl from Amelia, Va. - (98550). JORDAN, Dr. Kart, Tring, Herts, Hngland: Specimen of a rare moth (101482). JUDD, C. S., Honolulu, Hawaii: A nearly complete skeleton of a Ha- waiian goose (100586). JUNGH, Cart, Concepcion, Chile: 3 skeletons of ‘birds from Chile (97974). KANSAS, MUSEUM OF THE UNI- VERSITY OF, Lawrence, ‘Kans. (through C. D. Bunker): 4 skele- tons of Cassin’s sparrow from Kan- sas (97423) ; 2 bat skins with skulls from Karisas (98063) ; skeletons of a mammal and a bird (100584). Exchange. LIST OF ACCESSIONS B KARLING, Dr. Joun S., New York City: 150 plants from British Hon- duras (100191). KEARNEY, Dr. T. H. (See under Agriculture, Department of, Bureau of Plant Industry.) KELEHER, T. A., Washington, D. C.: 300 living silkworms (101767). KELLOGG, Dr. C. R., Foochow, China: 5 crabs, together with a col- lection of snails and myriapods (97619). KELLY, Miss Marcarer P., Sacra- mento, Calif.: Package of plant seeds (100040). KENDALL, Dr. Epwarp C., Rochester, Minn.: 15 specimens for the Loeb Collection of Chemical Types (97548). KENEASTER, Miss Etsiz, Washing- ton, D. C.: Tape-lace collar made about 1899 by Mrs. McChensey and worn by the donor’s mother, Mrs. Lillian M. Keneaster (99597)... KENNEDY, E. F. (See under South- ern Railway System.) KENNEDY, WitiiaAm M., jr., Wash- ington, D. C.: Small collection of Indian material, comprising doll cradles, moccasins, pouches, bow and arrows, and other articles (101044). KENOYER, L. A., Kalamazoo, Mich.: Specimen of tree fern and 596 plants from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone (98192; 98214). KENYON, A. S., Melbourne, Australia: Archeological material from various parts of Australia, comprising 54 specimens (97955, exchange). KIDDER, Dr. A. V., Andover, Mass. : Woodchuck tooth and 20 lots (19 species) of bird bones (98505). KIDDER, Mrs. ANNA W., Berkeley, Calif.: 2 plants (97618, exchange). KILBOURNE, Col. C. E., United States Army, Washington, D. C.: Shoulder patch insignia of the Highty-ninth Division (97412). KILLIP, EttswortrH P., Washington, D. C.: 31 plants from the United States (98878.. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 KILPATRICK, ESTATE OF LUISA V veE (through Mrs. Julia K. Raf- ferty and Mrs. Laura E. Morgan, executrices) : Documents relating to the career of Gen. Hugh Judson Kil- patrick, United States Army (6 specimens) (97903). “KIMZEY, A. H., Farmersville, Tex.: Fossil remains of a turtle from the Taylor marl near Farmersville, Tex. (100223). ‘KING, Greorce F. (See under Agricul- tural and Mechanical College, Still- water, Okla.) KINGSHORNE, WurutamM, Washing- ton, D. C.: Early American drug- gists’ bottle (99551). KINSER, GerorcE H., Anchorage, Ky.: Hairworm (97610). ‘KIRK, Dr. E. C., Philadelphia, Pa.: Harly type of microscope made by Silberrad of London (100023) ; skull of a mammal. (101101). KIRN, ALBERT J., Somerset, Tex.: 235 specimens of land and fresh-water shells from Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma (100560). KNOWLTON, GeorcE F. (See under Utah Agricultural College.) TKKNULL, J. N., Harrisburg, Pa.: 61 specimens of undetermined Hymen- optera (99145). KOFOID, Dr. C. A. (See under Cali- fornia, University of.) KRAUSS, M. B., Salem, Ohio: Speci- men of worm (97125). KRUHM, F. W., Spencerville, Md.: Great horned owl from Maryland (98238). KUMM, Dr. H. K. W., Pacific Beach, Calif.: Plant from California (99347) ; seven plants from Califor- nia (100792, 101585, exchange). KYLIE, H. R. (See under Agricul- ture, Department of, Forest Service. ) LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF: Children’s Bureau: 3 films, “‘ The Healthy Baby,’ “Trails that Lead to Mothers and Babies,” and “ Rickets,” for use in the automatic delineascope to sup- plement exhibits in the “ Hall of Health” (98449). 157 LABOR, DEPARTMENT OF—Contd. Women’s Bureau: 3 films for use in the automatic delineascope (98719). LAIRE, M., Marne, France: Collec- tion of fossil shells from the Ter- tiary of France (93875). LAMBERT, R. R., Washington, D. C.: Searlet tanager (97374). LANCASTER, S. J., Washington, D. C.: Old English pair-case watch made in 1815 by M. Harvey, London, England (98462). LANKESTER, C. H., Cartago, Costa Rica, Central America: 15 plants from Costa Rica (97693, 99148, 99171). LANE, M. C., Toppenish, Wash.: 31. specimens of beetles, including para- types of 3 species (100577). - LA PLATA MUSEUM, La Plata, Ar- gentina: 11 specimens of fossil crus- taceans and a bryozoan from Argen- tina (97488). LARSEN, E. S., Cambridge, Mass.: An analyzed and described specimen of aegrite from Libby, Mont. (99802). LATCHFORD, Hon. F. R., Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 20 fresh-water shells from the Province of Ontario, Canada (98050); 55 specimens of fresh-water shells from Canada (98274). LATHAM, Roy, Orient, Long Island, N. Y.: 24 moths and 8 dragonflies (97168) ; 2 bird lice (100320) ; ma- rine shell from Long Island, N. Y. (100488) ; 103 moths (100745); 6 isopods taken from the Peconic River, near Orient, Long Island (100752) ; 24 specimens, 4 species, of land and fresh-water shells from Long Island and the Bahama Islands (100753) ; approximately 75 specimens of land and marine shells from Long Island, N. Y. (101583). LA WALL, Prof. CHartes H. (See under Prof. E, Fullerton Cook.) LAWRENCE & CO. (See under Pa- cific Mills.) LAWSON, CuHartes F., Waltham, Mass.: Photographic copy from a daguerreotype of the locomotive 158 LAWSON, CHaARLEs F.—Continued. “Charles Phelps,” built for - the Providence & Stonington Railroad by Matfield Locomotive Works, Mat- field, R. L., about 1856 (98528). LEA, Miss Nina (through Arthur H. Lea, executor, Philadelphia, Pa.) : 16 cut gems of sphene to be added to the Isaac Lea collection (101073). LEE, ArNnotp, Washington, D. C.: A large fossil oyster shell from Vir- ginia Beach, Va. (100776). LEE, O. Ivan, Irvington, N. J.: 8 specimens of radioactive hafnifer- ous cyrtolite from Bedford, N. Y. (101166), exchange). LEE, Miss Sarau, Washington, D. C.: Uniform coat worn during the Civil War by Capt. Charles C. Lee, United States Army (99498). LE GOULLON, G. T., Bonito Springs, Fla.: 2 human skulls from a shell heap at Bonito Springs, Fla. (100492). LEICESTER MUSEUM, CITY OF, Leicester, England: 19 specimens of rocks illustrating the Charnian pre- Cambrian rocks and associated igne- ous rocks (994387). LENGERKE, J. von, Orange, N. J.: 34 hawks from New Jersey (98552, 98701, 98727, 99122); (through Col. Wirt Robinson) : 5 hawks, 4 species, from New Jersey (99026). LEON, Rev. Brother, Vedado, Habana, Cuba: Plant from Cuba (98483). LEONARD, E. C., Washington, D. C.: 8 specimens of land shells from Ohio (99499). LICEO DE COSTA RICA, San Jose, Costa Rica, Central America: (through Prof. J. Fidele Tristan, di- rector) : 121 plants from Costa Rica (98067). LILLY & Co., Ex, Indianapolis, Ind. : 14 specimens of official medicines containing iron and _ potassium (98498). LINCOLN, Epwin H., Pittsfield, Mass. (through Dr. Edgar T. Wherry): Orchid (97784). LINCOLN, F. C., Takoma Park, Md.: 8 ducks, 3 species, from South Caro- LIST OF ACCESSIONS LINCOLN, F. C.—Continued. lina (100355) ; nest and 4 eggs of a prothonotary warbler from Dyke, Va. (101846. ) LINDBERGH, Col. CHartes A., St. Louis, Mo.: The Spirit of St. Louis, which made the first nonstop flight between the United States and Eu- rope (101830, loan). LINTON, Prof. Epwin, Philadelphia, — Pa.: 49 slides of parasites of birds, representing 34 species, 9 of which are types (99130) ; 36 slides of para- sites of birds, representing 22 species, 9 of which are types (99131). LITTLE, ArtHur D. (Inc.), Cam- bridge, Mass.: 2 copies of Industrial Bulletin No. 16, April, 1928, of Ar- thur D. Little (Inc.), the first com- plete publication sent by telephoto and reproduced at the receiving end ’ by zine cuts, together with 1 master copy of the publication, 10 positive sending films, 10 received negatives, 10 positive prints from received neg- atives, and 4 zine etchings from which the publication was printed (37 specimens in all) (101306). LLOYD MYCOLOGICAL COLLEC- TION, THE C. G. (See under Smithsonian Institution.) LLOYD, Dr. JoHN Ukr, Cincinnati, Ohio: The original experimental ex- tractor and concentrator, known as “Lloyd’s Cold Still,’ and 4 Ebert prize medals awarded to the donor by the American Pharmaceutical Association for scientific papers (99916). (See also under Dr. C. S. Amidon.) LLOYD PAPER CoO., E. E., Chicago, 7 Ill.: Water-marked framed picture of Col. 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Volume 68. 8vo.. pp. i-xvii, 1-758, arts. 1-25, pls. 1-63, 56 figs. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Volume 69. 8vo., pp. i-xii, 1-659, arts. 1-23, pls. 1-59, 36 figs., 3 tables. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Volume 70. 8vo., pp. i-xiii 1-717, arts. 1-23, pls. 1-45, 24 figs. BULLETINS No. 100, vol. 7. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent re- gions. The fishes of the fam- ilies Pomacentridae, Labri- dae, and Callyodontidae, collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, chiefly in Philippine seas and ad- jacent waters. By Henry W. Fowler and Barton A. Bean. 8vo., pp. i—viii, 1-525, pls. 1-49. No. 141. Collection of heating and lighting utensils in the United States National Mu- suem. By Walter Hough. 8vo., pp. i—viii, 1-99. 1-113, pls. | No, 142. Life histories of North Ameri- can shore birds. Order Limicolae (part 1). By Arthur Cleveland Bent. 8vo., pp. i-ix, 1-420, pls. 1-55. No. 143. Biological and taxonomic in- vestigations on the Mutillid wasps. By Clarence E. Mickel. Svo., pp. i-ix, 1-351, pls. 1-5, 28 figs. No. 144. The American bats of the gen- era Myotis and Pizonyx. By Gerrit S. Miller, jr., and Glover M. Allen. 8vo., pp. i-viii, 1-218, pl, 1, 1 fig., 13 maps. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HERBARIUM Vol. 27. Flora of the Panama Canal Zone. By Paul C. Standley. * 8vo., pp. ix, 1-416, frontispiece, pls. 1-66, 7 figs. 187 188 From No. 76. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent waters. Forcipulata (part). By Walter Kenrick Fisher. Part 1: The Cidaridae. No. 2685 No. 2686. No. 2687. No. 2688. No. 2689. No. 2690. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SEPARATE FORM FROM THE BULLETINS Part 2. Ry. 8vo., pp. i-iii, 1-245, pls, 1-81, 3 figs, From No. 100. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Volume 6, part 4: Report on the Echinoidea collected by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross during the Philippine expedition, 1907-1910. 48-80, figs. 1-22. By Theodor Mortensen. 8vo., pp. i-iii, 243-312, pls. FROM VOLUME 71 OF THE PROCEEDINGS . A revision of the Cottoid fishes of the genus Ar- tediellus. By Peter Schmidt. - Art. 13, pp. 1-10. new type of caddis case from the Lower Eocene of | Tennessee. By Edward W. Berry. Art. 14, pp. 144, pl. 1. On fossil turtles from the Pleistocene of Florida. By Charles W. Gilmore. Art. 15, pp. 1-10, pls. 1-5, figs. 1-4. Some peculiar fossil forms from Maryland. By Wen- dell C. Mansfield. Art. 16, pp. 1-9, pls. 1-5. The Maskell species of scale insects of the subfamily Asterolecaniinae. By Harold Morrison and Emily Morrison. Art. 17, pp. 1-67, pls. 1-29. The geology, petrography, and mineralogy of the vicinity of Italian Moun- tain, Gunnison County, Colorado. By Whitman Cross and Karl V. Shan-. non. Art. 18, pp. 1-42, pls. | 1, 2, figs. 1-17. No. 2691. The American moths of the” genus Diatraea and allies. By Harrison G. Dyar and Carl Heinrich. Art. 19, pp. 1-48, pls. 1-20. 2692. Pyenodesma, a new mollus- can genus from the Silur- ian of Alaska. By Edwin Kirk. Art. 20, pp. 1-9, pis. 1,2. A recently found iron meteo- rite from Oakley, Idaho. By George P. Merrill. Art. 21, pp. 1-8, pls. 1, 2. new nematode, Nemato- dirus antilocaprae, from the prong-horn antelope, with a key to the species of Nematodirus. By Em- mett W. Price. Art. 22, pp. 1-4, pl. 1. fossil insect from the Lower Permian of the Grand Canyon, By Frank M. Carpenter. Art. 23, pp. 14, pl. 1. 2696. Catalogue of human crania in the United States Na- tional Museum collections. Australians, Tasmanians, South African Bushmen, Hottentots, and Negro. By Ales Hrdlicka. Art. 24. pp. 1-140. No. No. 2693. . 2694. No, 2695. A No. No. No. 2708. No. 2704. . 2697. . 2698. . 2699. . 2701, . 2702. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 189 FROM VOLUME 72 OF THE PROCEEDINGS Description of Ancylostoma pluridentatum, a hook- worm of Carnivores, and a review of the genus Ancylostoma. By Benja- min Schwartz, Art. 1, pp. 1-9, figs. 1-6. Undescribed crane flies from the Holarctic region in the United States National Museum. By Charles P. Alexander. Art. 2, pp. 1-17, pl. 1. New species of mollusks of the genus Corbicula from Uruguay and Brazil. By William B. Marshall. Art. 3, pp. 1-7, pl. 1. . Heretofore undescribed me- teorie irons from (1) Bo- livia, South America, (2) Western Arkansas, and (3) Seneca ‘Township, Michigan. By George P. Merrill. Art. 4, pp. 1-4, pis. 2, 2. A bibliography of the cono- donts with descriptions of early Mississippian spe- cies. By Grace B. Holmes. Art. 5, pp. 1-38, pls. 1-11. Insects of the subclass Ap- terygota from Central America and the West In- dies. By J. W. Folsom. Art. 6, pp. 1-16, pls. 1-8. Redescription of types of American muscoid flies in the collection of the Vi- enna Natural History Museum, with incidental notes. By J. M. Aldrich. Art. 7, pp. 1-35, figs. 1-3. New parasitic Hymenoptera of the subfamily An- teoninae from the Amer- icas. By F. A. Fenton. Art. 8, pp. 1—16, pls. 1, 2. No. 2705. New species of two-winged No. 2706. No. 2707. No. 2708. No. 2709. No. 2710. No. 2711. No. 2712. No. 2713. flies of the family Cyr- tidae, with a new genus from the Philippines. By J. M. Aldrich. Art. 9, pp. 14, figs. 1, 2. Additions to the Upper Cre- taceous invertebrate fau- nas of the Carolinas. By Lloyd W. Stephenson. Art. 10, pp. 1-25, pls, 1, 9. Rossite and Metarossite; two new vanadates from Colorado. By William F. Foshag and Frank L. Hess.» Art. 11, pp. 1-12, fag tee: , Crystalline carnotite from Utah. By Frank L. Hess and William F. Foshag. Art. 12, pp. 1-6. Miscellaneous notes and de Seriptions of Ichneumon flies. By R. A. Cushman. Art. 13, pp. 1-22; figs. sey 2 Fossil and recent bryozoa of the Gulf of Mexico re- gion. By Ferdinand Canu and Ray S. Bassler. Art. 14, pp. 1-199, pls. 1-34, figs. 1-35. The Australian land shell, Thersites bipartita and its allies. By William B. Marshall. Art. 15, pp. 1-16, pls. 1-3. The rodents of the genus Plagiodontia. By Gerrit S. Miller, jr. Art. 16, pp. 1-8, pl. 1. On some terrestrial isopods in the United States Na- tional Museum. By Hans Lohmander. Art. 17, pp. 1-18, figs. 1-6. 190 No, 2714. No. 2715. No. 2716. No. 2717. No. 2722. No. 2723. No. 2724. No. 2725. No. 2726. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Millipeds of the order Colo- bognatha, with descrip- tions of six new genera and type species, from Arizona and California. By O. F. Cook and H. F. Loomis. Art. 18, pp. 1-26, pls. 1, 2, figs. 1-6. The Green Pit Viper, Trim- eresurus gramineus, in China. By Leonhard Stej- neger. Art. 19, pp. 1-10, figs. 1, 2. Foraminifera of the genus Siphonina and _ related genera. By Joseph A. Cushman. Art. 20, pp. 1-15, pls. 1-4. The oxidation of meteoric irons with comparative descriptions of two new examples of magnetic iron oxides from _ terrestrial sources. By Earl V. Shan- non. Art. 21, pp. 1-15. No. 2718. On newly discovered mete- oriec irons from the Wal- lapai (Hualapai) Indian Reservation, Arizona. By George P. Merrill. Art. 22, pp. 1-4, pls. 1-3. No. 2719. The flora of the Esmeralda formation in western Ne- vada. By Edward W. Berry. Art. 23, pp. 1-15, Dis. 1, c. ; No. 2720. Description of a new species of gecko from Tanganyika Territory, Africa. By Arthur Loveridge. Art. 24, DD...1, 2,0 No. 2721. Synopsis of Pentatomid bugs of the subfamilies Me- garidinae and Canopinae. By W. L. McAtee and J. R. Malloch. Art. 25, pp. 1-21, pls. 1, 2. FROM VOLUME 73 OF THE PROCEEDINGS Notes on trematode para- sites of birds. By Edwin Linton. Art. 1, pp. 1-36, pls. 1-11. Two new nematodes of the family Strongylidae, parasitic in the _ intes- tines of mammals. By Benjamin Schwartz. Art. 2, pp. 1-5, pls. 1, 2. Further consideration of the shell of Chelys and of the constitution of the armor of turtles in general. By Oliver P. Hay. Art. 3, pp. 1-12, pls. 1, 2. New Helminth parasites from Central American mammals. By Emmett W. Price, Art. 4, pp. 1-7, - pls. 1, 2. Two common species of para- sitic ecrustacea (Saccu- linidae) of the West Indies. By H. Boschma. Art. 5, pp. 1-10, figs. 1-6. No. 2727. Two new crabs from the Eocene of Texas. By Mary J. Rathbun. Art. 6, pp. 1-6, pls. 1-3. No. 2728. A new fossil reptile from the Triassic of New Jersey. By Charles W. Gilmore. Art. 7, pp. 1-8, pls. 1-3, figs. 1-3. No. 2729. A revision of the American parasitic flies belonging to the genus Belvosia. By J. M. Aldrich. Art. 8, pp. 1-45. No. 2730. The scorpions of the western part of the United States, with notes on those occur- ring in northern Mexico. By H. E. Ewing. Art. 9, pp. 1-24, pls. 1, 2, fig. 1. No. 2731. New Vicksburg (Oligocene) mollusks from Mexico. By C. Wythe Cooke. Art. 10, pp. 1-11, pls. 1, 2. No. 2782. A prehistoric pit house vil- lage site on the Columbia REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 No. 2732—Continued. River at Wahluke, Grant County, Washington. By Herbert W. Krieger. Art. 11, pp. 1-29, pls. 1-7. No, 2734. Fossil nutlets of the genus Lithospermum. By Ed- ward W. Berry. Art. 13, pp. 1-3, pl. 1. No. 2735. Fire-making apparatus in the United States National Museum. By Walter Hough. Art. 14, pp. 1-72, pls. 1-11, figs. 1-56. No. 2737. Zeolites from Ritter Hot Spring, Grant County, Oregon. By D. F. Heweit, Earl VY. Shannon, and Forest A. Gonyer. Art. 16, pp. 1-18, pls. 1, 2, fig. 1. No. 2738. Field notes on ‘vertebrates collected by the Smithson- ian-Chrysler East African expedition of 1926. By Arthur Loveridge. Art. 17. pp. 1-69, pls. 1-4. 191 No. 2739. Two new species of commen- sal copepods from the Woods Hole region. By H. R. Seiwell. Art. 18, pp. 1-5, pls. 1, 2. No. 2740. New moths of the family Ceruridae (Notodonti- dae) in the United States National Museum, By William Schaus. Art. 19, pp. 1-90. No. 2742. Concerning the origin of the metal in meteorites. By George P. Merrill. Art. 21, pp. 1-7, pls. 1-3. No. 2744. Notes on American two- winged flies of the family Sapromyzidae. By J. R. Malloch. Art. 23, pp. 1-18, figs. 1-5. No. 2745. A new Pterosaurian reptile from the Marine Creta- ceous of Oregon. By Charles W. Gilmore. Art. 24, pp. 1-5, figs. 1, 2. a “NA pokwey: 9h ~ BF py ‘ aaiaarto Yo, at are: oa abi vila? ostt de worn: wa¥.. OFS 0% | ‘aobeto) .: asbigariat: aoteiB tettatt aus Sih (Arash wi) aoa Lagoa), Of th ..vedoe amity \ On mt ey. ad? Jo. (tito: edb palin’) Sh7S 6h gil vatitosteee, at, Salou 73 jin if a hoy if aa aed OM aa FS ow shite in masov! LTE avi eae vhd De eH wean ivy: Ht vit ashlee est Blo ot aaa! we iiiety ‘ ta Aye Ue ! wy ; mere pi Mia) Syrret # : 2 (ie dete yt Z Pi 4200s ma oy xt i eae es UD? eee) \y bs vs f- tol ap ee ’ . ea : a - iv Vee se ee A. Git ov | -seattine pm hats a ei re wR, ee pi is, - 5 A ee inns — -s sosin ye: ut LTE ee ee ee rs aE ee TO). sean ae Wan | tae pit ower FF or as le Has {i ontied?) iti | ed Sem Ces STae a aes 2 alg aE vet andes oy" i’ afore di ee seopiar Je pe5t vl ager nih nes sebhieva! ; atid bf at RE 0 0 aa pid nee iy: te ait ‘ake ky ee ry? i LIST OF PAPERS BASED WHOLLY OR IN PART ON THE COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM AND ELSE- WHERE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1927-28 Aldrich, J. M. “- The dipterous parasites of the migratory locust of Tropical America, Schisto- cerca paranensis Burm.: Journ. Econ. Ent., vol. 20, no. 4, Aug., 1927, pp. 588-593. New species of two-winged flies of the family Cyrtidae, with a new genus from the Philippines: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 9, no. 2705, Oct. 13, 1927, pp. 1-4, figs. 1, 2. Redescription of types of American muscoid flies in the collection of the Vienna Natural History Museum, with incidental notes: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 7, no. 2703, Dec. 31, 1927, pp. 1-35, figs. 1-3. The flies of the western mountains: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 67-72, figs. 66-73. Synonymic notes on Diptera: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 3, March, 1928, pp. 41—45. Note on Prosena sibirita Fabr. and related forms (Dipt.): Ent. Mitteil., vol. 17, no. 2, March 8, 1928, pp. 130, 131. A revision of the American parasitic flies belonging to the genus Belvosia: Proce. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 8, no. 2729, May 17, 1928, pp. 1-45. Alexander, Charles P. Fauna sumatrensis. Superfamily Tipuloidea (Dipt.) I: Suppl. Ent., vol. 15, no. 15, Apr., 1927, pp. 90—102, figs. 1-7. Undescribed crane flies from the Holarctic region in the United States National Museum: Proce. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 2, no. 2698, Nov. 2, 1927, pp. 1-17, pl. 1. . Allen, Glover M. (See under Gerrit S. Miller, jr.) Amaral, Afranio do. Studies of Nearctie Ophidia. I. Crotalus goldmani Schmidt, 1922, a synonym of C. mitchelli Cope, 1861: Bull. Antiven. Inst. Amer., vol. 1, no. 2, July, 1927, pp. 47, 48. Bailey, Alfred M. Notes on the birds of southeastern Alaska: Auk, vol. 44, no. 3, July, 1927, pp. 351-367. Ball, E. D. The genus Draeculacephala and its allies in North America (Rhynchota Homoptera) : The Florida Ent., vol. 11, no. 3, Nov., 1927, pp. 33-40. Barber, H. G. A new genus and species of Coreidae from the Western States (Hemiptera- Heteroptera) : Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 36, no. 1, Mar., 1928, pn 25-28. 193 194 | LIST OF PUBLICATIONS - Barber, H. S. A supposedly new baridiid weevil from Peruvian sugar cane: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 7, Oct., 1927, pp. 149, 150, fig. 1. Two hew cave-beetles related to Anophthalmus pusio Horn: Journ. Washing- ton Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 7, Apr. 4, 1928, pp. 194-196. Bartsch, Paul. New species shipworms from Siam: Journ. Siam Soc., Nat Hist. Suppl., vol 7, no. 1, June, 1927, pp. 59-63, pl. 6. Report on the Cerion breeding experiments at the Tortugas: Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Year Book No. 26, 1926-27, pp. 215, 216. New marine mollusks from Ecuador: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 3, Feb. 4, 1928, pp. 66-75, 1 pl. Natural history studies on the Florida keys and the West Indies: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonion Inst. 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 51-62, figs. 52-63. The natural history of the north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence: Bxpl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst. 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 63-66, figs. 64, 65. Alvania in South Africa; a correction: Nautilus, vol. 41, no. 4, Apr., 1928, p. 141. Bassler, Ray S. A new early Ordovician sponge fauna: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 15, Sept. 19, 1927, pp. 390-394. —_—~— (See also under Ferdinand Canu.) Bean, Barton A. (See under Henry W. Fowler. ) Bell, E. L. Description of a new Amblyscirtes from Texas (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera, Hesperiidae) : Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 22, no. 4, Oct., 1927, pp. 203, 204. 4 Bent, Arthur Cleveland. Life histories of North American shore birds, order Limicolae (Part 1): Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 142, Dec. 31, 1927, pp. i-ix, 1420, pls. 1-55. Berry, Edward W. A new type of caddis case from the Lower Eocene of Tennesse: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 14, no. 2686, July 1, 1927, pp. 1-4, pl. 1. The flora of the Esmeralda formation in western Nevada: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 23, no. 2719, Dec. 19, 1927, pp. 1-15, pls. 1, 2. Stones of Celtis in the Tertiary of the western United States: Amer. Mus. Novitates, no. 298, Feb. 3, 1928, pp. 1-5, figs. 1-6. A caddis case of leaf pieces from the Miocene of Washington: Journ. Wash- ington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 3, Feb. 4, 1928, pp. 60, 61, fig. 1. Fossil nutlets of the genus Ltihospermum: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 13, no. 2734, May 1, 1928, pp. 1-3, pl. 1. Blaisdell, Frank E. A blind beetle excavated from an Egyptian city’s ruins dating between 117 and 235 A. D.: Proce. Ent. Soc., Washington, vol. 29, no. 5, May, 1927, pp. 121-125, pl. 6. | Blake, Doris H. Notes on some West Indian Chrysomelidae: Bull, Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 23, no. 2, Apr., 1928, pp. 93-98, figs. 1-3. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 195 Blake, S. F. Review of the genus Diplostephium: Amer. Journ. Bot., vol. 15, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 43-64. Twelve new American Asteraceae: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 2, Jan. 19, 1928, pp. 25-37. Note on the Peruvian mahogany: Tropical Woods, no. 14, June 1, 1928, p. 33. Boschma, H. Bermerkungen iiber Rhizocephalet: des Golfes von Neapel: Pubbl. Staz. Zool. Napoli, vol. 8, fase. 2, July 30, 1927, pp. 261-272, figs. 1-5. Two common species of parasitic crustacea’ (Sacculinidae) of the West In- dies: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 5, no. 2726, May 19, 1928, pp. 1-10, figs. 1-6. Boving, Adam G., On the classification of the Mylabridae-larvae (Coleoptera: Mylabridae) : Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington, vol. 29, no. 6, June, 1927, pp. 133-142, pl. 8, fig. 1. Immature stages of Eumycterus (?) saccharidis Barber, with comments on the classification of the tribe Barini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 7, Oct., 1927, pp. 151-158, fig. 2, pl. 9. Descriptions of larvae of the genera Diabrotica and Phyllobrotica, with a dis- eussion of the taxonomic validity of the subfamilies Galerucinae and’ Hal- ticinae (Coloeptera: Chrysomelidae) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 9, Dec., 1927, pp. 193-205, pl. 11. Bowen, W. Wedgewood. Remarks on the classification of the Pteroclididae: Amer. Mus. Novitates, no. 273, Sept. 6, 1927, pp. 1-12. Brimley, C .S.- Two new species of Diptera from North Carolina (Tachinidae, Conopidae) : Ent. News, vol. 38, no. 8, Oct., 1927, pp. 2385, 236. Britton, Nathaniel Lord, and Joseph Nelson Rose. Mimosaceae: North Amer. Flora, vol. 23, part 1, Feb. 11, 1928, pp. 1-76. Burnett, E. K. Smithsonian Exhibit: Journ. Nat. Assoc. Chiropodists, vol. 17, no. 11, Nov., 1927, pp. 20-23, 1 fig. Cameron, John. Correlations between cranial capacity and cranial length, breadth, and height, as studied in the Greenland Eskimo crania, United States National Museum. Craniometric studies, No. 9: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 2, Jan.—Mar., 1928, pp. 259-268. Correlations between cranial capacity and cranial length, breadth, and height, as studied in the St. Lawrence Island Eskimo crania, United States Na- tional Museum. Craniometric studies, No. 10: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 2, Jan—Mar., 1928, pp. 269—279. Correlations between cranial capacity and cranial length, breadth, and height, as studied in the Mongol crania, United States National Museum. Craniometric studies, No. 11: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop. vol. 11, no. 2, Jan.—Mar., 1928, pp. 280-289. Correlations between cranial capacity and cranial length, breadth, and height. as studied in the Alaska Indian crania, United States National Museum. Craniometric studies, No. 12: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 2, Jan.—Mar., 1928, pp. 290-299. 196 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Canu, Ferdinand, and Ray S. Bassler. Bryozoaires des Iles Hawai: Bull. de la Soc. des Sci. de Seine-et-Oise, fase. 7, suppl. 1927 et fasc. 7, suppl. 1928, 1927, pp. 1-46, pls. 1-11. Fossil and recent Bryozoa of the Gulf of Mexico region: Proc. U. 8S. Nat Mus., vol. 72, art. 14, no. 2710, Mar. 9, 1928, pp. 1-199, pls. 1-34, figs. 1-35. Carpenter, Frank M. A fossil insect from the Lower Permian of the Grand Canyon: Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 71, art. 23, no. 2695, July 1, 1927, pp. 1-4, pl. 1. Caudell, A. N. Zorotypus longicercatus, a new species of Zoraptera from Jamaica: Proc. Ent., Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 6, June, 1927, pp. 144, 145, figs 1, 2. Report on the orthopteroid insects collected by the Fiji-New Zealand Ex- pedition from the University of Iowa: Univ. of Iowa Studies, vol. 12, no. 3, new series, no. 133, June 15, 1927, pp. 1-22, figs. 1, 2. Chapin, Edward A. The North American species Ptilodactyla (Coleoptera: Helodidae): Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 53, no. 3, Sept., 1927, pp. 241-248, pl. 23. Notes on North American Tillinae, with description of a new Cymatodera (Col.: Cleridae): Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Dee. 2, 1927, pp. 143-145. The North American species of Holotrochus Erichson (Coleoptera: Staphy- linidae) with descriptions of two new species: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing- ton, vol. 30, no. 4, Apr., 1928, pp. 65-67. A new Orthrius from Siam (Col: Cleridae): Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington. vol. 41, June 29, 1928, pp. 125, 126. Chase, Agnes. The case of the grass genus Dilepyrum: unas vol. 29, no. 344, Aug., 1927, pp. 158-160. Eastern Brazil through an agrostologist’s spectacles: Rep. Smithsonian Inst. for 1926 publ. no. 2898, Sept. 16, 1927, pp. 383-403, pls. 1-9. Native ornamental grasses: Nat. Hort. Mag., Jan., 1928, pp. 9-11, figs. 1-2. (See also under Arthur W. Sampson.) Chittenden, F. H. Description of a new species ‘of Lixus from the Pacific region of the United States (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 5, May, 1928, pp. 90, 91. Christensen, Carl. On a small collection of pteridophytes from the Province of Kansu, China: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 19, Noy. 19, 1927, pp. 497-501. Clark, Austin H. Geography and Zoology: Annals Assoc. Amer. Geographers, vol. 17, no. 3, Sept., 1927, pp. 101-145. Fragrant Butterflies: Rep. Smithsonian Inst. for 1926, Sept. 16, 1927, pp. 421-446; pls. 1-13. The Smithsonian Institution: Nat. Republic, Jan. 1928, pp. 18, 19, 38, 39. Claudy, C. H. [Exhibit of The Cleveland Photographic Society at the Smithsonian Institu- tion, Washington, D. C.] The Camera, vol. 35, no. 2, Aug. 1927, 20 illustrations. (No text.) The Charles Job Exhibit at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.: The Camera, vol. 35, no. 6, Dec. 1927, pp. 355-357, 17 illustrations. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 197 - Claudy, C. H.—Continued. [Exhibit by Joseph Petrocelli at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.] The Camera, vol. 35, no. 3, Sept. 1927, 20 illustrations. (No text.) The Royal Dxhibijtion at the Smithsonian Institution: The Camera, vol. 36, no. 2, Feb. 1928, pp. 99-101, 16 illustrations. [Exhibit by Herbert Bairstow at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.] The Camera, vol. 36, no. 4, Apr. 1928, 12 illustrations. (No text.) [Exhibit by James McKissack at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.] The Camera, vol. 36, no. 5, May, 1928, 17 illustrations. (No text.) Clausen, Curtis P. The manner of oviposition and the planidium of Schizaspidia manipurensis n. sp. (Hymen., Eucharidae) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 5, May, 1928, pp. 80-86, fig. 1. Clinton, H. G. (See under W. F. Foshag.) Cochran, Doris M. New reptiles and batrachians collected by Dr. Hugh M. Smith in Siam: Proce. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Dec. 2, 1927, pp. 179-191. A new species of Chamaelinorops from Haiti: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, Mar. 16, 1928, pp. 45-47. A new genus and species of lizard Hispaniolus pratensis from the Haitian Republic: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, Mar. 16, 1928, pp. 49-51. The herpetological collections made in Haiti and its adjoining islands by Walter J. Eyerdam: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, Mar. 16, 1928, pp. 53-59. The identity of Werner’s Dromicus w. nigrum: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, June 29, 1928, p. 127. Natural history collecting by Dr. Hugh M. Smith in Siam: ik and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst. 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 41-44, figs. 42, 43. Cockerell, T. D. A. Bees collected by Dr. H. M. Smith on Turtle Island (Koh Tao), Gulf of Siam: Proc. Ent. Soc. Wiasymeten, vol. 29, no. 7, Oct. 1927, pp. 160-162. Collins, Henry B., jr. Potsherds from Choctaw village sites in Mississippi; Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 10, May 19, 1927, pp. 259-263, 1 pl. Frequency and distribution of fossa pharyngea in human crania: Amer. Journ, Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 1, Oct.—Dec., 1927, pp. 101-106. The Eskimo of western Alaska: Expl. and Field-Work of the Smithsonian Inst. 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 149-156, figs. 178-185. Additional anthropometric observations on the Choctaw: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 2, Jan.—Mar., 1928, pp. 353-355. Check-stamped pottery from Alaska: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no 9, May 4, 1928, pp. 254-256, 1 pl. Cook, O. F., and H. F. Loomis. _Millipeds of the order Colobognatha, with descriptions of six new genera and type species, from Arizona and California: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 18, no 2714, Mar. 16, 1928, pp. 1-26, pls. 1, 2, figs. 1-6. Cooke, C. Wythe. New Vicksburg (Oligocene) mollusks from Mexico: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 10, no. 2731, Apr. 24, 1928, pp. 1-11, pls. 1, 2. 198 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Corrington, Julian D. Commensal association of a spider crab and a medusa: Biol. Bull., vol; 53, no. 5, Nov., 1927, pp. 346-350. Coville, Frederick V. The effect of aluminum sulphate on rhododendrons and other acid-soil plants: Rept. Smithsonian Inst. for 1926, pub. no. 2897, Sept. 16, 1927, pp. 369-382, pls. 1-18. Cross, Whitman, and Earl V. Shannon. The geology, petrography, and mineralogy of the vicinity of Italian Mountain, Gunnison County, Colorado: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol 71, art. 18, no. 2690, Sept. 26, 1927, pp. 1-42, pls. 1, 2, figs. 1-17. Curran, C. H. A new Tachinid parasitic on armyworms in Mexico: Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc. vol. 6, no. 3, Oct., 1927, pp. 497, 498. Some new North American Diptera: Can. Bnt., vol. 59, no. 12, Dec., 1927, pp. 290-303, pl. 5. Two new species of Wagneria (Tachinidae, Dipt.) : Can. Ent., vol. 60, no. 2, Feb., 1928, pp. 48, 49. Cushman, Joseph A. The genera Renulina and Vertebralina: Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 3, pt. 3, no. 48, Sept., 1927, pp. 158-160. Foraminfera of the genus Siphonina and related genera: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 20, no. 2716, Dec. 14, 1927, pp. 1-15, pls. 1+. Recent foraminifera from off the west coast of America: Bull. Scripps Inst., Tech. Ser., vol. 1, no. 10, 1927, pp. 119-188, pls. 1-6. Foraminifera their classification and economic use: Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., Apr. 1928, pp. 1-401, pls. 1-59, with text-figs. and diagrams. and Reginald W. Harris. Some notes on the genus Ceratobulimina: Contr. Cushman Lab. Foram. Res., vol. 3, pt. 4, no. 51, Dec., 1927, pp. 171-177, pls. 29, 30. Cushman, R. A. Miscellaneous notes and descriptions of Ichneumon-flies: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., | vol. 72, art. 13, no. 2709, Oct. 29, 1927, pp. 1-22, figs. 1, 2. New Indian Ichneumonidae: Records Indian Mus., vol. 29, pt. 4, Dec., 1927, pp. 241-247. Darlington, P. J., jr. New Coleoptera from Western Hot Springs: Psyche, vol. 35, no. 1, Mar., 1928, pp. 1-6. Davis, William T. New cicadas from the western United States with notes on seven other species: Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 35, no. 4, Dec., 1927, pp. 373-388, pls. 17, 18, 5 figs. Dayton, William A. Callisteris violacea Greene: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 55, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 69-71, pl. 4. A new Gilia from the Montezuma National Forest: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 55, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 73, 74, pl. 5. Denmead, Talbott. The blue goose in Maryland: Auk, vol. 45, no. 2, Apr., 1928, p. 201. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 199 Dickey, Donald. R. Five new mammals of the genus Peromyscus from El Salvador: Proc. Biol. Soe. Washington, vol. 41, Jan. 25, 1928, pp. 1-6. Five new mammals of the rodent genera Sciurus, Orthogeomys, Heteromys, and Rheomys, from El Salvador: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, Feb. 1, 1928, pp. 7-13. A new marsupial from El Salvador: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, Feb. 4, 1928, pp. 15, 16. A new poor-will from the Colorado River Valley: Condor, vol. 30, no. 2, Mar. 15, 1928, pp. 152, 153. and A. J. Van Rossem, A new race of the white-throated swift from Central America: Condor, vol. 30, no. 3, May 15, 1928, p. 193. Further descriptions of new birds from El Salvador: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 41, June 29, 1928, pp. 129-131. Déderlein, Ludwig. Indopacifische Euryalae: Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wis- senschaften, Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Abteilung, vol. 31, pt. 6, 1927, pp. 1-105; pls. 1-10. Dozier, H. L. Two undescribed aphelinid scale parasites from Delaware (Aphelinidae: Hy- menoptera): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 2, Feb., 1928, pp. 35-38, figs. 1, 2. Drake, Carl J. A synopsis of the American species of Acalypta (Hemip.-Tingitidae) : Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 28, no. 1, Feb., 1928, pp. 1-9, figs. 1, 2. Dunn, E. R. A new mountain race of Desmognathus: Copeia, no. 164, July—Sept., 1927, pp. 84-86. Dyar, Harrison G. Ten new Lepidoptera from Mexico: Pan Pacific Ent., vol. 4, no. 1, July, 1927, pp. 7-10. American Psychodidae—I (Diptera) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 7, Oct. 1927, pp. 162-164, figs. 1-6. New species of American Lepidoptera of the families Limacodidae and Dal- ceridae: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 21, Dec. 10, 1927, pp. 544-551. Descriptions of four South American moths: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol, 30, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 9, 10. A new Corethrella from Panama (Diptera: Culicidae) : Ent. News, vol. 39, no. 3, Mar. 1928, pp. 79, 80. American Psychodidae—II (Diptera): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 5, May, 1928, pp. 87, 88, pl. 4. Description of Anopheles (Chagasia) bathanus Dyar (in Curry, D. P. A new anopheline mosquito, Anopheles (Chagasia) bathanus Dyar, discovered in the Canal Zone): Amer. Journ. Trop. Med., vol. 8, no. 3, May, 1928, pp. 244, 245. The mosquitoes of the Americas: Carnegie Inst. of Washington, pub. no. 387, May (June 9) 1928, pp. 1-616, pls. 1-123. 15544—28—__14 200 | LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Dyar, Harrison G., and Carl Heinrich. The American moths of the genus Diatraea and allies: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 19, no. 2691, Aug. 23, 1927, pp. 1-48, pls. 1-20. and M. Nufiez-Tovar. Descriptions of new species of mosquitoes from Venezuela: Amer. Journ. Hyg., vol. 8, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 89-92. Ewing, H. E. Descriptions of three new species of sucking lice, together with a key to some related species of the genus Polyplax: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol.” 29, no. 5, May (issued July 11), 1927, pp. 118-121. The occurrence of Proturans in western North America: Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington, vol. 29, no. 6, June, 1927, pp. 146, 147. The Hippoboscid fly, Ornithomyia avicularia Linnaeus, as a earrier of Mallophaga: Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 20, no. 2, June, 1927, pp. 245-250, fig. 1. The legs and leg-bearing segments of some primitive arthropod groups, with notes on leg-segmentation in the Arachnida: Smithsonian Mise. Colls., vol. 80, no. 11, pub. no. 2962, Apr. 23, 1928, pp. 1-41, pls. 1-12. The scorpions of the western part of the United States, with notes on those occurring in Northern Mexico: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 9, no. 2730, May 24, 1928, pp. 1-24, pls. 1, 2, fig. 1. A preliminary key to the larvae of fifteen species of the mite genus Trom- bicula, with descriptions of four new species: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 5, May, 1928, pp. 77-80. Fawcett, Waldon. Permanent exhibit to represent the rubber industry in National Museum: Rubber Age, vol. 22, no. 4, Noy. 25, 1927, pp. 185, 186, 194, 4 figs. Fenton, F. A. New parasitic Hymenoptera of the subfamily Anteoninae from the Americas: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 8, no. 2704, Oct. 29, 1927, pp. 1-16, pls. 1, 2. Fish, Charles J. Seasonal distribution of the plankton of the Woods Hole region: Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 41, 1925 [1927], Doce. no. 975, pp. 91-179, figs. 1-81. Fisher, Walter Kenrick. Asteroidea of the North Pacific and adjacent Waters. Part 2, Forcipulata (part): Bull., U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 76, June 23, 1928, pp. i—iii, 1-245, pls. 1-81, 3 figs. Fisher, W. S. Fauna sumatrensis. Cerambycidae (Col.): Suppl. Ent., vol. 15, no. 15, Mar., 1927, pp. 80-86. New cactus beetles. Il: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 1-7. Folsom, J. W. Insects of the subclass Apterygota from Central America and the West Indies: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 6, no. 2702, Dec. 10, 1927, p. 1-16, pls. 1-8. Foos, Irvin D. Smithsonian shows new fall textiles: Textile World, vol. 70, no. 3, July 17, 1926, pp. 31, 32, 4 figs. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 201 Foshag, William F. Quicksilver deposits of the Pilot Mountains, Mineral County, Nev.: Bull U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 795—-HE, Oct. 27, 1927, pp. 113—123, pl. 6, figs. 7, 8. The minerals of Mexico: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. 2957, 1928, pp. 21-26, figs. 21-26. and H. G. Clinton. An occurrence of pitticite in Nevada: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12, no. 7, July, 1927, pp. 290-292. and Frank L. Hess, Rossite and Metarossite: two new vanadates from Colorado: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 11, no. 2707, Dec. 31, 1927, pp. 1-12, figs. 1, 2. (See also under Clarence S. Ross.) , Fouts, Robert M. Description of new neartic Serphoidea (Hymenoptera): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 8, Nov., 1927, pp. 165-179, fig. 1. Fowler, Henry W. and Barton A. Bean. The fishes of the families Pomacentridae, Labridae, and Callyodontidae, collected by the United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross, chiefly in Philippine seas and adjacent waters: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 100, vol. 7, Apr. 17, 1928, pp. i-viii; 1-525, pls. 1-49. Fox, Carroll. Some new Siphonaptera: Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 53, no. 3, Sept., 1927, pp. 209-212. Friedmann, Herbert. Notes on Melierax with description of a new form: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash- ington, vol. 41, June 29, 1928, pp. 93—95. Frost, Frederick H. (See under Hildegarde Howard.) Gahan, A. B. Description of a new Eulophid parasitic on Bucculatrix canadensisella Chambers: Psyche, vol. 34, no. 5, Oct., 1927, pp. 171-173. On some chalcidoid scale parasites from Java: Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 18, pt. 2, Dec., 1927, pp. 149-158, figs. 1, 2. Garber, Paul Edward. Handbook of the National Aircraft Collection, exhibited in the United States National Museum under the direction of the Smithsonian Insti- tution, Smithsonial Institution, Washington, D. C., 1927, pp. 1-82, 45 illus. Building and flying model aircraft; Ronald Press, New York, N. Y., 1928, pp. 1-300, 199 illus. Gardner, Julia. New species of mollusks from the Eocene of Texas: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 14, Aug. 19, 1927, pp. 362-383, figs. 1-44. The molluscan fauna of the Alum Bluff group of Florida: Prof. Paper, U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 142-H, June 5, 1928, pp. i-iii, 185-249, pls. 29-36. Gee, N. Gist, Lacy I. Moffett, and G. D. Wilder. A tentative list of Chinese birds. Part II. Passeriformes: Bull. Peking Soc. Nat. Hist., no. 1, parts 2 and 3, 1926-1927, pp. ix—xii, 145-370; errata, pp. 1-8. 202 | LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Gidley, J. W. Continuing the elephant hunt: Expl. and Field-work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 11-16, figs. 11-17. Gilmore, Charles W. Fossil footprints from the Grand Canyon: Second contribution: Smithsonian Mise. Colls., vol. 80, no. 3, July 30, 1927, pp. 1-78, pls. 1-21, figs. 1-37. On fossil turtles from the Pleistocene of Florida: Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 15, no. 2687, Aug. 30, 1927, pp. 1-10, pls. 1-5, figs. 1-4. Note on a second occurrence of the mosasaurian reptile, Globidens: Science, vol. 66, no. 1715, Nov. 11, 1927, p. 452. Fossil footprints from the Grand Canyon: Third contribution: Smithsonian Miscl. Colls., vol. 80, no. 8, Jan. 28, 1928, pp. 1-16, pls. 1-5, figs. 1-7. A new fossil reptile from the Triassic of New Jersey: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 7, no. 2728, March 30, 1928, pp. 1-8, pls, 1-3, figs. 1-3. Fossil footprints in the Grand Canyon of Colorado, Arizona: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 7-10, figs. 8-10. A new pterosaurian reptile from the marine Cretaceous of Oregon: Pripe. | U. S. Nat. 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News., vol. 38, no. 9, Nov., 1927, pp. 263-271, pls. 5-10. Gutsell, James S. The spider crab, Libinia dubia, and the jelly-fish, Stomolophus melagris, found associated at Beaufort, North Carolina: Ecology, vol. 9, no. 3, July, 1928 [June 22, 1928], pp. 358, 359. Hall, Maurice C. Parasitological and other observations in Central America: Cornell Vet., vol. 18, 1928, pp. 1-18. Handel-Mazzetti, H. Systematische monographie der gattung leontopodium: Beihefte Bot. Cen- tralbl., Abt. II, vol. 44, no. 1, July, 1927, pp. 1-177, pls. 1, 2. Piet Toa = —————<— a ei © REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 203 Harring, H. K.,-and F. J. Myers. The rotifer fauna of Wisconsin. IV. The Dicranophorinae: Trans. Wis. Aead. Sci. Arts and Letters, vol. 23, Jan., 1928, pp. 667-808, pls. 23-49. Harris, Harry. Robert Ridgway. With a bibliography of his published writings and fifty illustrations: Condor, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan. 16, 1928, pp. 5-118, figs. 1-50. Harris, Reginald W. (See Joseph A. Cushman.) Hassall, Albert. (See under Stiles, C. W.) Hay, Oliver P. Further consideration of the shell of Chelys and of the constitution of the armor of turtles in general: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 3, no. 2724, March 21, 1928, pp. 1-12, pls. 1, 2. Hebard, Morgan. Studies in the Tettigoniidae of Panama (Orthoptera): Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 53, no. 2 [May 25], 1927, pp. 79-156, pls. 18-21. The group Luzarae of the subfamily Phalangopsinae (Orthoptera, Gryllidae) : Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 54, no. 1 [Apr. 30], 1928, pp. 1-56, pls. 1-13. Heinrich, Carl. New pine moths from Japan: Proc .Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 4, Apr., 1928, pp. 61-63, pl. 3. A new apple moth from Manchuria (Lepidoptera: Olethreutidae): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 5, May, 1928, pp. 91, 92, figs. a. Db. (See also under Harrison G. Dyar.) Herrick, Glenn W. Two new species of Thrips (Thysanoptera) : Ent. News, vol. 38, no. 9, Noy.., 1927, pp. 276—281, figs. 1, 2. Hess, Frank L., and William F. Foshag. Crystalline carnotite from Utah: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.. vol. 72, art. 12, no. 2708, Nov. 29, 1927, pp. 1-6. (See also under William F. Foshag.) Hewett, D. F., Earl V. Shannon, and Forest A. Gonyer. Zeolites from Ritter Hot Spring, Grant County, Oregon: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 16, no. 2737, June 12, 1928, pp. 1-18, pls. 1, 2, fig. 1. Hildebrand, Samuel F., and William C. Schroeder. Fishes of Chesapeake Bay: Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish., vol. 43, 1927, pt. 1, pp. 1, 366, figs. 1-211. Hitchcock, A. S. Conservation of the names of grass genera: Amer. Jour. Bot., vol. 14, no. 9, Noy., 1927, pp. 526-531. The need for training taxonomic botonists: Science, vol. 67, no. 1739, Apr.., 1928, pp. 431, 432. The grasses of Oregon and Washington: Expl. and Field-work of the Smith- sonian Inst., 1927, sp., publ. 2957, 1928, pp. 101-104, figs. 117-122. Charles Vancouver Piper: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., vol. 62, no. 9, May, 1928, pp. 275, 276. Hoke, Gladys. Some undescribed Diaspines from Mississippi. (Homoptera: Coccidae) : Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 20, no. 3, Sept., 1927, pp. 349-356, pls. 18, 19. 204 ; LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Holmes, Grace B. A bibliography of the conodonts with descriptions of early Mississippian species: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 5, no. 2701, pp. 1-38, pls. 1-11. Hood, J. Douglas. Three new Phlaeothripidae (Thysanoptera) from the District of Columbia: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 5, May (issued July 11), 1927. pp. 111-116, pl. 5 Hopping, Ralph. Some notes on examination of types of Coleoptera in the LeConte and Casey Collections: Can. Ent., vol. 60, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 6-8. Hough, Walter. Report of the Department of Anthropology: Annual Report, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1927, Dec. 8, 1927, pp. 41-49. Collection of heating and lighting utensils in the United States National Museum: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no, 141, Feb. 17, 1928, pp. i-viii, 1-113, pls. 1-99. The lead glaze decorated pottery of the Pueblo region: Amer. Anthrop., vol. 30, no. 2, Apr—June, 1928, pp. 2438-249. Fire-making apparatus in the United States National Museum: Proce. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 14, no. 2785, June 22, 1928, pp. 1-72, pls. 1-11, figs. 1-56. Indian village sites and quarries in Tennessee: Expl. and Field-work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 119, 120, fig. 141. Howard, Hildegarde. A review of the fossil bird, Parapavo californicus (Miller), from the Pleisto- cene asphalt beds of Rancho La Brea. With an appendix, statistical identification as applied to Parapavo. By Frederick H. Frost: Univ. California Pubs., Bull. Dept. Geol. Sciences, vol. 17, no. 1, Sept. 30, 1927. pp. 1-62, pls. 1-18. Howe, Marshall A. Notes on some marine algae from Brazil and Barbados: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 7, Apr. 4, 1928, pp. 186-194, figs. 1, 2. Howell, A. Brazier. Revision of the American lemming mice (genus Synaptomys): N. Amer. Fauna, no. 50, June 30 (actual date of publ. Aug. 8), 1927, pp. 1-38, figs. 1-11, and maps, pls. 1, 2. A new white-toothed shrew from Fukien, China: Journ. Mamm., vol. 9, No. 1, Feb., 1928, p. 60. A coyote surviving under difficulties: Journ. Mamm., vol. 9, no. 1, Feb., 1928, pp. 68, 64. New Chinese mammals: Proce. Biol.. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, March 16, 1928, pp. 41-48. The food and habitat preferences of Phenacomys albipes: Journ. Mamm., vol. 9, no. 2, May, 1928, pp. 153, 154. New Asiatic mammals collected by F. R. Wulsin: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- ton, vol. 41, June 29, 1928, pp. 115-119. Howell, Arthur H., and A. J. Van Rossem. A study of the red-winged blackbirds of southeastern United States: Auk, vol. 45, no, 2, Apr., 1928, pp. 155-163. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 205 ‘Hrdlitka, AleS. . Quadruped progression in the human child: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 10, no. 3, July—Sept., 1927, pp. 347-354, figs. 1-5. The Neanderthal phase of man. The Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1927: Journ. Royal Anthrop. Inst. of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 57, July—Dec., 1927, pp. 249-274, pls. 6-9, 5 figs. Children on “all fours.” Additional reports: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 1, Oct—Dec., 1927, pp. 123-126, figs. 1, 2. Children running on all fours: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 11, no. 2, Jan.—Mar., 1928, pp. 149-185, pls. 1-4. Field studies of early man in Burope, 1927: Expl. and Field-work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 121-124, figs. 142-144. Catalogue of human crania in the United States National Museum collec- tions. Australians, Tasmanians, South African Bushmen, Hottentots, and Negro: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 24, no. 2696, March 5, 1928, pp. 1-140. Contributions of anthropology to medicine: Science, vol. 47, no. 1787, Apr. 13, 1928, pp. 385-388. Huckett, H. C. : A new kelp fly from Long Island (Fucellia, Diptera): Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soe., vol. 22, no. 3, June 1927, pp. 163-165, fig. 1. Little known anthomyid flies that commonly occur on the catkins of willow (Muscidae, Diptera): Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 23, no. 2, Apr., 1928, pp. 70-82, pl. 2, fig. 5. : Hungerford, H. B. A report upon the aquatic and semiacquatic Hemiptera of the Mulford Bio- logical Expedition to Bolivia, South America, 1921-22: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 8, Nov., 1927, pp. 187-190, pl. 10. Aquatic Hemiptera from New Mexico and Georgia, including a new species of Corixidae: Ent. News, vol. 39, no. 5, May, 1928, pp. 156, 157. Inukai, Tetsuo. On the Urodelan fauna of Sakhalin: Copeia, no. 164, July—Sept., 1927 pp. 69-71. Jackson, Robert Tracy. Studies of Arbacia punctulata and allies, and of nonpentamerous Echini: Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, no. 4, Dec., 1927, pp. 483-565. Johannsen, O. A. A new midge injurious to pineapples (Diptera, Ceraptopogoninae) ; Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 9, Dec.. 1927, pp. 205-208, pl. 11. Judd, Neil M. The architectural evolution of Pueblo Bonito: Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 13, no. 7, July, 1927, pp. 561-563. Prehistoric Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico: Expl. and Field-work of the Smith- sonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 141-148, figs. 168-177. Keifer, H. H. California Microlepidoptera III: Pan-Pacific Ent., vol. 4, no. 3, Jan., 1928, pp. 129-132. 206 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Kellogg, Remington. Study of the skull of a fossil sperm whale from the Tremblor Miocene of southern California: Carnegie Inst. Washington, publ. 346, Nov. 3, 1927, pp. 1-23, pls. 1-9. Fossil pinnipeds from California : Carnegie Inst. Washington, publ.- 348, Nov. 3, 1927, pp. 25-37, 8 figs. The history of whales—their adaptation to life in the water: Quarterly Review Biol., vol. 3, no. 1, March, 1928, pp. 29-76. The history of whales—their adaptation to life in the water (concluded) : Quarterly Review Biol., vol. 3, no. 2, June, 1928, pp. 174-208. An apparently new Hyla from El Salvador. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, June 29, 1928, pp. 123, 124. Kenoyer, Leslie A. : Fern ecology of Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone: Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 18, no. 1, Jan.—Mar., 1928, pp. 6—14, figs. 1, 2. Killip, Ellsworth P. List of sedges (Cyperaceae) collected in Siam by Dr. Hugh M. Smith: Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, no. 1, June, 1927, pp. 55-57. New species of Cordia and Tournefortia from northwestern South America: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 18, July 19, 1927, pp. 327-335. Report of the Killip-Smith Botanical Expedition to Colombia, 1926-1927; Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard., vol. 28, no. 333, Sept., 1927, pp. 205-220, figs. 1-7. New passion flowers from South America and Mexico: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 16, Oct. 4, 1927, pp. 423-481. New South American Loasaceae: Journ. Washington Acad. Sei., vol. 18, no. 4, Feb. 19, 1928, pp. 89-95. Kirk, Edwin. Pycnodesma, a new molluscan genus from the Silurian of Alaska: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 20, no. 2692, Aug. 4, 1927, pp. 1-9, pls. 1, 2. Knight, Harry H. Megalopsallus, a new genus of Miridae with five new species from North America (Hemiptera): Ann. Ent. Soe. Amer., vol. 20, no. 2; June, 1927, pp. 224-228. New species of mimetic Miridae from North America (Hemiptesahe Ent. News, vol. 38, no. 10, Dee., 1927, pp. 302-307. Dacerla downesi, a new species of Miridae from Oregon Sarat aire Ent. News, vol. 38, no. 10, Dec., 1927, pp. 314, 315. New species of phytocoris from North America (Hemiptera, Miridae) : Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 23, no. 1, Feb., 1928, pp. 28-46. Hesperolabops periscopis, a new periscopic bug from Salvador, with a note on the Texas member of this genus (Hemiptera, Miridae): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 4, Apr., 1928, pp. 67, 68. Knowlton, George F. A new rabbit brush aphid from Utah: Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer., vol. 20, no. 2, June, 1927, pp. 229-231, fig. 1. A few Capitophorus species of Utah with descriptions of two new species (Aphididae) : Can. Ent., vol. 59, no. 10, Oct., 1927, pp. 235-238, figs. 1-3. Knuth, R. Oxalidacearum species novae americanae. III: Report. Sp. Nov., vol. 24, nos. 659-668, Dec. 28, 1927, pp. 51-55. ' REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 207 Kobuski, Clarence E. A new genus of the Acanthaceae: “Ann. Missouri. Bot. Gard.. vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. (actual date Apr. 30), 1928, pp. 1-8, pls, 1,2. ° A monograph of the American species of the genus Dyschoriste: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. (actual date Apr. 30), 1928, pp. 9-90, pls. 3-16, figs. 1-3. Krieger, Herbert W. Tinne Indians of the Lower Yukon River Valley: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 125-132, figs. 145-158. Prehistoric inhabitants of the Columbia River Valley: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 133-140, figs. 159-167. A prehistoric pit house village site on the Columbia River at Wahluke, Grant County, Washington: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 11, no. 2732, May 17, 1928, pp. 1-29, pls. 1-7. Law, J. Eugene. Toxostoma curvirostris: I. Description of a new subspecies from the lower Rio Grande: Condor, vol: 30, no. 2, Mar. 15, 1928, pp. 151, 152. Lawson, Paul B. New species of Acinopterus (Homoptera, Cicadellidae): Ann. Ent. Soe. Amer., vol. 20, no. 2, June, 1927, pp. 232-239, pls. 14, 15. The genus Jassus in America north of Mexico (Cicadellidae Hemip.) : Can. Ent., vol. 59, no. 7, July, 1927, pp. 167-174, pl. 4. Leonard, Emery C. Ruellia tuberosa and a few of its close relatives: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 20, Dec. 4, 1927, pp. 509-520, figs. 1-3. Lewton, Frederick L. Samuel Slater and the oldest cotton machinery in America: Rept. Smithsonian Inst., 1926 (1927), pp. 505-511, pls. 1-3. Shantzia, a new genus of African shrubs related to Gossypium: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 1, Jan. 4, 1928, pp. 10-16, figs. 1, 2. Lincoln, Frederick C. (See under Alexander Wetmore.) Linton, Edwin. : Notes on trematode parasites of birds: Proc, U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 1, no. 2722, Mar. 17, 1928, pp. 1-36, pls. 1-11. Lohmander, Hans. On some terrestrial isopods in the United States National Museum, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 17, no. 2713, Oct. 13, 1927, pp. 1-18, figs. 1-6. Loomis, H. F. (See under O. F. Cook.) Loveridge, Arthur. Description of a new species of gecko from Tanganyika Territory, Africa: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 24, no. 2720, Mar. 14, 1928, pp. 1, 2, pl. 1. Field notes on vertebrates collected by the Smithsonian-Chrysler Bast African Expedition of 1926: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 17, no. 2738, June 20, 1928, pp. 1-69, pls. 1-4. 208 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Malloch, J. R. A new species of Sapromyzidae from the Hawaiian Islands (Diptera) : Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc., vol. 6, no. 3, Oct., 1927, pp. 383, 384. Notes on American two-winged flies of the family Sapromyzidae: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 23, no. 2744, June 23, 1928, pp. 1-18, figs. 1-5. (See also under W. L. McAtee.) Man, J. G. de. ‘ A contribution to the knowledge of twenty-two species and three varieties of the genus Callianassa Leach: Capita Zoologica, vol. 2, afl. 6, 1928, pp. 1-56, pls. 1-12. Manning, Catherine L. The Government collection [of postage stamps] at the United States National Museum: Scott’s Monthly Journ., vol. 8, no. 5, July, 1927, pp. 142-145, 2 illustrations. Mansfield, Wendell C. Some peculiar fossil forms from Maryland: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 16, no. 2688, July 13, 1927, pp. 1-9, pls. 1-5. Notes on Pleistocene faunas from Maryland and Virginia and Pliocene and Pleistocene faunas from North Carolina: Prof. Paper, U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 150-F, Feb. 20, 1928, pp. 129-140, pls. 24, 25. Marshall, William B. New species of mollusks of the genus Corbicula from Uruguay and Brazil: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 3, no. 2699, Sept. 30, 1927, pp. 1-7, pl. 1. The Australian land shell, Thersites bipartita and its allies: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 15, no. 2711, Oct. 25, 1927, pp. 1-16, pls. 1-3. Martin, J. O. A new Helmis (Coleoptera-Helmidae) from the northwest: Pan-Pacific Ent., vol. 4, no. 2, Oct., 1927, p. 68. Mason, Preston W. Fauna sumatrensis, Aphidae: Suppl. Ent., yol. 15, no. 15, Apr., 1927, pp. 86— 90, figs. 1, 2. Mathews, Gregory M. Systema Avium Australasianarum: A systematic list of the birds of the Australasian region: 1927, pp. i-xvii, 1-426. Mathias, Mildred E. Studies in the Umbelliferae. I: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. (actual date April 30), 1928, pp. 91-108, pls. 17-19, fig. 1. Maxon, William R. New tropical American ferns-IV: Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 18, no. 1, 1928, pp. 1-6. A new tree fern from Haiti: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 11, June 4, 1928, pp. 316, 317. McAtee, W. L., and J. R. Malloch. Synopsis of pentatomid bugs of the subfamilies Megaridinae and Canopinae: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 25, no. 2721, Feb. 14, 1928, pp. 1-21, pls. 1, 2. McGregor, E. A. Descriptions of two new species of spinning mites: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing- ton, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 11-14, pls. 1, 2. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 ~ 209 Merriam, John C., and Charles W. Gilmore. An ichthyosaurian reptile from marine Cretaceous of Oregon: Carnegie “Inst. of Washington, pub. no. 393, March 14, 1928, pp. 1-4, fig. 1. Merrill, George P. A recently found iron meteorite from Oakley, Idaho: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 21, no. 2693, Sep. 12, 1927, pp. 1-3, pls. 1, 2. Heretofore undescribed meteoric irons from [1] Bolivia, South America, [2] western Arkansas, and [3] Seneca Township, Michigan. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 4, no. 2700, Sep. 29, 1927, pp. 1-4, pls. 1, 2. Two noted mineral collections: Sci. Monthly, Oct., 1927, pp. 314-320, figs. 1-7. Report on the Department of Geology: Annual Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1927, Dec. 8, 1927, pp. 85-97. On newly discovered meteoric irons from the Wallapai (Hualapai) Indian Reservation, Arizona: Proce. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 22, no. 2718, Dec. 27, 1927, pp. 1-4, pls. 1-3. Biographical memoir George Ferdinand Becker, 1847-1919: Nat. Acad. Sci., vol. 21, 2d memoir, 1927, pp. 1-19, portrait. Concerning the origin of the metal in meteorites: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 21, no. 2742, June 20, 1928, pp. 1-7, pls. 1-3. Mickel, Clarence E. Biological and taxonomic investigation on the Mutiliid wasps: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 143, Apr. 23, 1928, pp. i-ix, 1-351, pls. 1-5, 28 figs. Miller, Frederic W. A new white-tailed deer from Louisana: Journ. Mamm., vol. 9, no. 1, Feb., 1928, pp. 57-59. Miller, Gerrit S., jr. A pollack whale on the cost of Virginia: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Sept. 26, 1927, pp. 111, 112. A new Pedetes from Tanganyika Territory: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Sept. 26, 1927, pp, 1138, 114. The rodents of the genus Plagiodontia: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art 16, no. 2712, Sept. 30, 1927, pp. 1-8, pl. 1. A new bat of the genus Coelops: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, Mar. 16, 1928, pp. 85, 86. and Glover M. Allen. The American bats of the genera Myotis and Pizonyx: Bull. U. S. Nat Mus., no. 144, May 25, 1928, pp. i—viii, 1-218, pl. 1, 1 fig., maps 1-13. Mitman, Carl W. Watchmakers and inventors: Sci. Monthly, vol. 35, July. 1927, New York. N. Y., pp. 58-64, 6 illus. Moffett, Lacy I. (See under N. Gist Gee.) Morrison, Harold, and Emily Morrison. The Maskell species of scale insects of the subfamily Asterolecaniinae: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 17, no. 2689, Aug. 29, 1927, pp. 1-67, pls. 1-29. Mortensen, Theodor. Report on the Echinoidea collected by the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross during the Philippine expedition, 1907-1910. Part 1. The Cidaridae: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 100, vol. 6, pt. 4, Sept. 10, 1927, pp. i-iii, 243-312, pls. 48-80; figs. 1-22. 210 | LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Muesebeck, C. F. W. A new European species of Apanteles parasitic on the gypsy moth: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 8, 9. Munz, Philip A. Studies in Onagraceae I. A revision of the subgenus Chylismia of the genus Oenothera: Amer. Journ. Bot., vol. 15, no. 4, Apr. 1928, pp. 223-240. Studies in Onagraceae II. Revision of North American species of subgenus Sphaerostigma, genus Oenothera: Bot. Gaz., vol, 85, no. 3, May, 1928 ,pp. 233-270. Myers, F. J. (See under H. K. Harring.) Nelson, E. W. Description of a new subspecies of beaver: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Sept. 26, 1927, pp. 125, 126. Nufiez-Tovar, M. (See under Harrison G. Dyar.) Palmer, T. Chalkley. A Chinese Isoetes: Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 17, no. 4, Oct.-Dec. 1927 (issued Feb. 28, 1928), pp. 111-118, pl. 6. Payson, Edwin B. A monograph of the section Oreocarya of Cryptantha: Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., vol. 14, no. 3, Sept. (issued Oct. 8) 1927, pp. 211-358, pls. 25-30. Phillips, W. J. Two new species of Harmolita (Hymenoptera): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 5, May (issued July 11) 1927, pp. 125-129, pl. 6. Pickens, A. L. Amphibians of upper South Carolina: Copeia, no. 165, Dec. 1927, pp. 106-110. Reptiles of upper South Carolina: Copeia, no. 165, Dec. 1927, pp. 110-1138. Pittier, H. Arboles y arbustos nueves de Venezuela (Decades 6-8): Bol. Minist. Rel. Estran. nos. 8, 9, Aug.—Sept., 1927, pp. 75-103. Arboles y arbustos del orden de las Leguminosas. I. Mimosaceas: Bol. Minist. Rel. Estran., nos. 10-12, Oct.—Dec., 1927, p. 1-82. Arboles y arbustos del orden de las Leguminosas. II. Cesalpiniaceas: Bol. Minist. Rel. Estran. nos. 1-3, Jan._March, 1928, pp. 83-148. Studies of Venezuelan Bignoniaceae. I. Ceratophytum, a new genus of vines: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 3, Feb. 4, 1928, pp. 61-66, fig. 1. Studies of Venezuelan Bignoniaceae. II. Species of Amphilophium: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 6, March 19, 1928, pp. 170-172. Some errors and mistakes in taxonomic botany: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 8, Apr. 19, 1928, pp. 206-212. Studies of Venezuelan Bignoniaceae. III. New species of the genus Ar- rabidaea: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 12, June 19, 1928, pp. 333-343. Pohl, Erwin R. ‘ Geological explorations in Michigan: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 27-32, figs. 27-32. Price, Emmett W. A new nematode, Nematodirus antilocaprae, from the prong-horn antelope, with a key to the species of Nematodirus: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 22, no. 2694, July 7, 1927, pp. 1-4, pl. 1. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 211 Price, Emmett W.—Continued. New helminth parasites from Central American mammals: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 4, no. 2725, Mar. 30, 1928, pp. 1-7, pls. 1, 2. Rathbun, Mary J. A new crab from Costa Rica: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, March, 1928, p. 69. Two new crabs from the Eocene of Texas: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 6, no. 2727, Apr. 3, 1928, pp. 1-6, pls. 1-3. Ravenel, William deC. Report on the Department of Arts and Industries and Division of History: Annual Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1927, Dec. 8, 1927, pp. 99-131. Redfield, Robert. Remedial plants of Tepoztlan: A Mexican folk herbal: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 8, Apr. 19, 1928, pp. 216-226. Reeside, John B., jr. The cephalopods of the Eagle sandstone and related formations in the western interior of the United States: Prof. Paper, U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 151, 1927, pp. i-iii, 1-87, pls. 1-45, fig. 1. Cephalopods from the lower part of the Cody shale of Oregon Basin, Wyo.: Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Survey, no. 150-A, Oct. 6, 1927, pp. 1-19, pls. 1-8. The Scaphites, an Upper Cretaceous ammonite group: Prof. Paper, U. S. : Geol. Survey, no. 150—-B, Oct. 8, 1927, pp. 21-40, pls. 9-11. New Cretaceous mollusks from Colorado and Utah: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 18, Nov. 4, 1927, pp. 476-478, fig. 1. New Cretaceous mollusks from Colorado and Utah: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 18, no. 11, June 4, 1928, pp. 306-313, figs. 1-19. Rehn, James A. G. On new and certain previously-known American genera of the Acridinae, with specific comments and descriptions (Orthoptera, Acrididae) : Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 53, no. 3, Sept., 1927, pp. 213-238. Resser, Charles E. Cambrian geology of the Rocky Mountains: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. 2957, 1928, pp. 17-20, figs. 18-20. Riley, J. H. Descriptions of new forms of birds collected by H. C. Raven in northeast Borneo: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Dec. 2, 1927, pp. 139-141. and A. Wetmore. An erroneous record for the Japanese pipit in Alaska: Condor, vol. 30, no. 3, May 15, 1928, p. 193. Robinson, B. L. Records preliminary to a general treatment of the Eupatorieae-VII: Contr. Gray Herb., no. 80, June 26, 1928, pp. 1-42. Robinson, H. C. (Dinopium raveni, a recently described woodpecker from off the northeast coast of Borneo): Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 48, no. 321, Feb. 25, 1928, p. 21, Rose, Joseph Nelson. (See under Nathaniel Lord Britton.) Ross, Clarence S., and William F. Foshag. Anauxite, a mineral species, based on material from Bilin, Czechoslovakia: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 18, no. 4, Apr., 1928, pp. 153-155. ~~ 212 | LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Rydberg, P. A. Notes on Fabaceae—X: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 55, no. 2, Feb., 1928, pp. 119-182. Sampson, Arthur W., and Agnes Chase. Range grasses of California: Univ. Calif. Exp. Sta. Bull. 430, Sept., 1927, pp. 1-94, figs. 1-77. Schaus, William. New species of Heterocera (Lepidoptera) from Central and South America: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 5, May (issued July 11), 1927, pp. 101-111. New species of Heterocera (Lepidoptera) from Central and South America: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 8, Nov., 1927, pp. 185-186. New species of Pyraustinae from the Philippine Islands: Philippine Journ. Sci., vol. 34, no. 3, Nov., 1927, pp. 313-327, pls. 1-3. New species of Lepidoptera in the United States National Museum: Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington, vol. 30, no. 3, March, 1928, pp. 46-58. New moths of the family Ceruridae (Notodontidae) in the United States National Museum: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 73, art. 19, no 2740, June 27, 1928, pp. 1-90. Schmidt, Peter. . A revision of the Cottoid fishes of the genus Artediellus: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 18, no. 2685, July 12, 1927, pp. 1-10. Schmitt, Waldo L. Additional records of the occurrence of the fresh-water jelly-fish: Science, vol. 66, no. 1720, Dec. 16, 1927, pp. 591-593. The crustaceans of South America: Expl. and Field Work of the Smithsonian Inst., 1927, sp. pub. no. 2957, 1928, pp. 45-50, figs. 44-51. Schroeder, William C. (See under Samuel F. Hildebrand.) Schwartz, Benjamin. Description of Ancylostoma pluridentatum, a hookworm of carnivores, and a review of the genus Ancylostoma: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 1, no. 2697, Oct. 27, 1927, pp. 1-9, figs. 1-6. Two new nematodes of the family Strongylidae, parasitic in the intestines of mammals: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 78, art. 2, no. 2723, March 21, 1928, pp. 1-5, pls. 1, 2. Seiwell, H. R. Two new species of commensal copepods from the Woods Hole region: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 78, art. 18, no. 2739, June 4, 1928, pp. 1-5, pls. 1, 2. Shamel, H. Harold. A new bat from Colombia: Proc. Biol. Soe. Washington, vol. 40, Sept. 26, 1927, pp. 129, 130. A new bat from Dominica: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 41, March 16, 1928, pp. 67, 68. Shannon, Earl V. Sericite-lazulite pseudomorphs after orthoclase from Bolivia: Journ. Wash- ington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 15, Sept. 19, 1927, pp. 388-390. Calcite oolites with pentagonal dodecahedral form: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 16, Oct. 4, 1927, pp. 409-417. REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1928 213 Shannon, Earl V.—Continued. The oxidation of meteoric irons with comparative descriptions of two new examples of magnetic iron oxides from terrestrial sources: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 72, art. 21, no. 2717, Oct. 13, 1927, pp. 1-15. “ Blythite ” and the manganese garnet from Amelia, Virginia: Journ. Wasli- ington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 17, Oct. 19, 1927, pp. 444452. Apatite crystals from Wiant’s Quarry, near Pilot, Md.: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12, no. 11, Nov., 1927, pp. 408-410, fig. 1. On the determination of alkalies in rocks and minerals: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12, no. 11, Nov., 1927, pp. 411-413. Ammoniojarosite, a new mineral of the jarosite group from Utah: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12, no. 12, Dec., 1927, pp. 424-426. A lead ore consisting of native lead, leadhillite and lithargite: Econ. Geol., vol. 22, no. 8, Dec., 1927, pp. 826-829. Miargyrite and tetrahedrite from the Flint District, Idaho: Amer. Mineral- ogist, vol. 13, no. 1, Jan., 1928, pp. 18-21, fig. 1. Vermiculite from the Bare Hills near Baltimore, Maryland: Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 15, Jan., 1928, pp. 20-24. and Forest A. Gonyer. Almandite-spessartite garnet from Gwynns Falls, Baltimore: Journ. Wash- ington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 21, Dec. 19, 1927, pp. 534-536. Natrojarosite from Kingman, Arizona: Journ. Washington Acad. 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