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Rerosrs ON THE SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE EXPEDITION FO THE Ea
ERN l’ROPICAL PACIFIC, IN CHARGE OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, BY THE —
U. S. Fisn Commission STEAMER “ ALBATROSS,” FROM OcrosE k,
1904, ro Marcu, 1905, LigurENANF COMMANDER L. M. Garrert,
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A. AGASSIZ. V.5 General Report on the Ex-

pedition.
A. AGASSIZ. I.1 Three Letters to Geo. M.
Bowers, U. 8. Fish Com. 4

A. AGASSIZ and H. L. CLARK. The Echini.
F. E. BEDDARD. The Earthworms.

H. B. BIGELOW. The Medusie.

R. P. BIGELOW. The Stomatopods.

§. F. CLARKE. The Hydroids.

W. R. COE. The Nemerteans.

L. J. COLE. The Pycnogonida.

W. H. DALL. The Mollusks.

C. R. EASTMAN. VIL? The Sharks’ Teeth.
B. W. EVERMANN. The Fishes.

W..G. FARLOW. The Algae.

S. GARMAN. The Reptiles.

“H. J. HANSEN. The Cirripeds.

H. J. HANSEN. The Schizopods.

S. HENSHAW. The Insects.

W. E. HOYLE. The Cephalopods.

C. A. KOFOID. I11.6 The Protozoa.

Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. XLVLI.,

Bull. M. C. Z.,

41 oOo 8 *» © WB

B. L. ROBINSON.

H.R. SIMROTH. The Pteropods and Het

-TH.STUDER. The Alcyonaria. a

Bull. M. ©. Z., Vol. XLVL, No. 4, April, 1905, 22 pp.

Bull. M. C, Z., Vol. XLVL., No. 6, July, 1905, 4 pp., 1 pL.

No. 9, September, 1905, 5 pp., 1 pl.
Bull. M. ©. Z., Vol. XLVL., No. 13, January, 1906, 22 pp., 3 pls.
Mem. M. C. Z., Vol. XXXIII., January, 1906, 88 pp., 96 pls.
Vol. L., No. 3, August, 1906, 14 pp., 10 pls. _ :
Bull. M. C. Z., Vol. L., No. 4, November, 1906, 26 pp , 4 pls. TE Men oe eee

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H. LUDWIG. The Ophiurans. — Ast
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G.W. MULLER. The Ostracods.
JOHN MURRAY. The Bottom Specimens.
MARY J. RATHBUN. The Crustacea Decapoda, 5
HARRIET RICHARDSON. IL? The Isop ods,
W.E RITTER. IV. TheTunicates.

ALICE ROBERTSON. The Bryozoa. <2 aes
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ANNUAL REPORT

OF

THE CURATOR

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE,

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE

FOR

1905-1906.

CAMBRIDGE, U.S. A.:
UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON.
1906.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.

Faculty,
CHARLES W. ELIOT, President.

HENRY P. WALCOTT. GEORGE L. GOODALE.
SAMUEL HENSHAW, Curator. ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, Secretary.

Committee on the Museum.
HENRY P. WALCOTT. GEORGE L. GOODALE.

Officers.

SAMUEL HENSHAW
WALTER FAXON .

SAMUEL GARMAN
WILLIAM BREWSTER .
W. McM. WOODWORTH
C. R. EASTMAN .
OUTRAM BANGS
HUBERT L. CLARK .
HENRY B. BIGELOW
FRANCES M. SLACK :
MAGNUS WESTERGREN .
GEORGE NELSON .

WILLIAM M. DAVIS
EDWARD L. MARK
GEORGE H. PARKER
ROBERT T. JACKSON
ROBERT DeC. WARD
JAY B. WOODWORTH
WILLIAM E. CASTLE
DOUGLAS W. JOHNSON

Curator.

Assistant in Charge of Crustacea and

Mollusca.

Assistant in Herpetology and Ichthyology.

Assistant in Charge of Birds.
Assistant in Charge of Worms.
Assistant in Vertebrate Palaeontology.
Assistant in Charge of Mammals.
Assistant in Invertebrate Zodlogy.
Assistant in Invertebrate Zoélogy.
Librarian Emerita.

Artist.

Preparator.

Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology.

. Hersey Professor of Anatomy.

Professor of Zodlogy.

. Assistant Professor of Palaeontology.

Assistant Professor of Climatology.
Assistant Professor of Geology.

. Assistant Professor of Zodlogy.

Assistant Professor of Physiography.

3nstructors and Assistants in the iaboratories of
Zoology and Geology.

HERBERT W. RAND.
G. R. MANSFIELD .
A M BANTA . +

E. D. CONGDON .

C. O. ESTERLY

J. W. EGGLESTON .
F, H. SAWYER

F. H. LAHEE

E. J. SAUNDERS .

H. E. MERWIN

Instructor in Zoélogy.

Instructor in Geology.

Austin Teaching Fellow in Zoology.
Austin Teaching Fellow in Zoélogy.
Assistant in Zodlogy.

Assistant in Geology.

Assistant in Geology.

Assistant in Geology.

Assistant in Physiography.
Assistant in Physiography.

REPORT.

To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: —

In the Academic year 1905-06, ten courses in Zodlogy were
given by Professors Mark, Parker, Castle, and Dr. Rand to
two hundred and fifty-one students in Harvard University, and
seven courses were given to thirty-three students of Radcliffe Col-
lege. The assistants in the University courses were Messrs.
A.M. Banta, L. J. Cole, E. D. Congdon, I. A. Field, H. MacCurdy,
A. S. Pearse, and H. E. Walter; in Radcliffe College the assist-
ants were Messrs. M. Copeland, J. A. Long, and H. MacCurdy.
Mr. E. D. Congdon held the Virginia Barret Gibbs scholarship,
and five students connected with the Zodlogical Laboratory re-
ceived aid from the income of the Humboldt Fund.

In the Department of Geology and Geography two courses
were conducted by Professor Davis, the Sturgis-Hooper Professor
of Geology; these courses were given as in former years, save
that an additional amount of laboratory work was required in
the course dealing with the physiography of the United States.
The other courses were given by Professors Shaler, Ward, Wood-
worth, Jaggar, Johnson, and Drs. Smith and Mansfield; the
assistants were Messrs. W. B. Barrows, H. N. Eaton, J. W. Eg-
gleston, EH. J. Saunders, F. H. Sawyer, S. A. Starratt, and E. E.
White. These courses, nineteen in number, were taken by three
hundred and eighty-seven students of Harvard University ; four
courses offered to students of Radcliffe College were taken by
forty-three students. In the Summer School two courses were
given by Dr. Mansfield and Mr. Eggleston to eighteen students.
Mr. H. E. Merwin held the Josiah Dwight Whitney scholarship
for the year.

For an important improvement to the building the Museum is
indebted to the continued liberality of Mr. Agassiz. To facilitate
- the entrance of the public to the Exhibition Rooms Mr. Agassiz
erected in 1886-87 a three-story staircase; to this structure he has

4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

now added two stories. ‘The Museum thus gains a more finished
entrance and a large work-room; the latter will be devoted to
the Research Collections of fossil Echinoderms. The Museum is
also enabled by Mr. Agassiz’s generosity to undertake the renova-
tion of all the entrance and exhibition halls from cellar to roof,
and to rebuild the large central case in the African Room.

For the Exhibition Rooms, new cases have been built in the
Mesozoic Room and in the European Room; one case in the
Indian Room has been enlarged. For the Research Collections
additional cases have been provided for the Ornithological Depart-
ment, the alcoholic reptiles, the Entomological Department, the
lower invertebrates, and for the thalassographic collections.

From Mr. William Barbour of New York the Museum has
received for present use five thousand dollars ($5000.). Mr.
Barbour’s generous gift will provide for the more efficient storage
of our Research Collections, and for some desirable specimens for
both research and exhibition.

Already we have bought from Mr. Barbour’s donation a fine
egg of the Great Auk, Plautus impennis (Plate 2). This egg,
number 65 of Grieve’s List, was originally the property of the Royal
College of Surgeons, London ; later it was acquired by Mr. Robert
Champley of Scarborough, England. The Museum bought it of
Mr. Rowland Ward.

In connection with the egg of the Great Auk attention may be
called to the following extract from the Sixth annual report of
the Museum 1864, (1865). Prof. Louis Agassiz, Director of the
Museum, wrote (p. 16-17): “‘ Among the most valuable accessions
to the Museum, during the past year, I would mention . . . a perfect
specimen of a mummyfied pinguin (Alca impennis), presented
by Sir Alexander Bannermann, late governor of Newfoundland.”

This specimen, so far as I know unique to-day, was secured
on Funk Island, off Newfoundland, in 1868; it is figured on
Plate 3.

Another most gratifying gift was received last June from the
Rev. Henry W. Winkley of Branford, Conn.; it consists of a
large series, some 1,600 species and varieties of land shells from
all parts of the world, except New England. His New England
Collection Mr. Winkley retains for study, but he writes that he
thinks in time it too “will find its way to the Museum.” The
shells received are in excellent condition. Mr. Winkley, as a
member of the Class of 1881, recalls with pleasure his under-

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 5

graduate work in the Museum, and gives the Collection as his
contribution towards the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of
the Class.

It is hoped that Mr. Winkley’s gift will prove an incentive to
other graduates to associate their college work with the interests
of science and the Museum.

For a number of years the late Mr. Roland Hayward was
deeply interested in the Entomological Department of the
Museum; he frequently enriched its collections and gave his
time freely to their study. Mr. Hayward- died April 11, 1906,
and bequeathed the Museum his entire collection of Coleoptera, a
collection especially rich in the Carabidae, with a large number of
types and determined species of Bembidium, Tachys, and Amara.

The thanks of the Museum are due to Prof. J. W. Judd for a
carefully labelled series of Dolomitic rocks from the Tyrol; to
Mr. John E. Thayer for an interesting collection of mammals from
Sonora, Lower California, and contiguous regions; and to Prof.
Roland Thaxter for a large number of insects, principally Cole-
optera, collected during his stay in South America.

The Museum is likewise indebted to Dr. Frank Springer for a
fine series of the crinoid, Talarocrinus patei, from the St. Louis
group, Breckenridge Co., Kentucky, and to Dr. Leon J. Cole for
some interesting invertebrates from the Tortugas.

All departments of the Museum, but especially the Entomolog-
ical and those under the charge of Mr. Garman, have received
many and valuable accessions from the continued interest of Mr.
Thomas Barbour.

By purchase the Museum has acquired 224 specimens of
Ammonites, an invaluable addition to its already rich series of
fossil Cephalopods. These important fossils are from the In-
ferior Oolite of England, many of them from the famous Bradford
Abbas quarry, a locality no longer available. The collection has
been monographed by Mr. S. S. Buckman in supplements to his
Memoir on Inferior Oolite Ammonites of the British Islands
(Palaeontographical Society, London) ; more than three-fourths of
the specimens are types; the Museum thus shares Mr. Buckman’s
types with the Woodwardian Museum (Cambridge, England).

The Museum has also purchased of Mr. A. E. Wight a
considerable collection of Jamaican invertebrates and lower
vertebrates.

To Messrs. Faxon, Brewster, Woodworth, and Bangs the

6 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

Museum is under obligations for the care they have taken of their
several Departments. The special reports of the assistants give
the usual details of the year’s work.

For the Exhibition Collections Mr. Agassiz has given a magnifi-
cent Manchurian Tiger (Felis mongolica), a Bald-headed Chim-
panzee (Anthropopithecus tchego), and three Hartebeests, Coke’s,
Swayne’s, and the Cape (Bubalis cokei, B. swaynei, and B. caama).

The Museum will also receive as a gift from Mr. Agassiz a
male Okapi. Though properly an accession of next year the ex-
ceptional interest attached to the Okapi and the fact that this
specimen is the first of the species to be shown in a museum in
this country seems sufficient reason for its mention here. More-
over, competent authorities consider this the finest example of
the species hitherto mounted in England.

It was mounted by Mr. Rowland Ward, and is well howe in
Plate 1.

The Okapi is related to the Giraffe, having paired hoofs,
large ears, and a fairly long neck; the legs and haunches are
striped instead of being spotted; the male has a pair of single
bony horns covered with skin; it is found in the forests of the
Congo.

Stimulated by Mr. Agassiz’s generous gifts a thorough re-
arrangement of the exhibition rooms devoted to the Europaeo-
Siberian and to the African Faunas has been undertaken ; for the
European Room this rearrangement is practically completed, and
for the African Room it is well under way. The new cases, built
from base to ceiling, with large panes of glass and without the
usual cross-bars, give a much improved appearance to the rooms,
while the simple expedient of placing the brackets on the upright
next the glass allows a far more effective display.

There are two Exhibition Rooms yet to be opened to the public;
these are the room devoted to the Mesozoic Fauna and the one
for Animals under domestication.

It is expected that these rooms will be opened during the year
1906-07. The vertebrates for the Mesozoic Room are already
in place, but the invertebrates are yet to be selected, mounted,
and labelled.

By devoting a room to animals under domestication, the
Museum realizes one of the plans of its founder. During his
early work here, Professor Agassiz personally, and with the aid of
his assistants, accumulated much valuable osteological material

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of domesticated animals; a selection from this material will be
utilized for the new room.

Dr. C. B. Davenport, Mr. E. N. Fischer, Mr. F. P. Lothrop, and
Mr. H. F. Otis have shown their interest in this exhibit by pre-
senting a number of fowls and pigeons ; these have been mounted
by the Museum preparator, Mr. George Nelson.

For exhibition among the special collections Dr. W. E. Castle
has presented a series of fourteen guinea-pigs; this series, which
shows graphically the principle of alternative inheritance, has
been most skilfully mounted by Mr. Nelson.

Mr. Nelson has continued his work on the reptiles for exhibi-
tion ; two of the more noteworthy examples of his handiwork are
the Python and the Cobra in the Indian Room.

There are 42,421 volumes and 36,322 pamphlets in the Library
of the Museum, an increase of 1,264 volumes and 1,289 pamphlets
over the numbers previously reported.

The publications for the year are listed on pages 34-35; these
include a volume and two numbers of the Memoirs, seventeen num-
bers of the Bulletin, and the Annual Report, a total of 893 (731
octavo, 162 quarto) pages and 161 (51 octavo, 110 quarto) plates.
Four of the numbers of the Bulletin and all of the Memoirs are
reports on the scientific results of expeditions fostered by Mr.
Agassiz; seven numbers of the Bulletin are based principally
upon Museum collections, three numbers are Contributions from
the Zodlogical Laboratory, and three numbers, issued in the
Geological series, are similar Contributions from the Geological
Department. The Corporation has continued an appropriation of
$350.00 to assist in the publication of the Contributions from the
Zoological and Geological Laboratories.

SAMUEL HENSHAW.

8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
By E. L. Marx.

THE number of students attending the several courses in Zodl-
ogy during the Academic year 1905-06 is shown, as usual, in the
following table, the numbers printed in italics referring to stu-
dents registered in the Lawrence Scientific School.

Soph. | Fresh.

15+5/|381+7) 32+2 95+ 25=120
10+2/;10+4/ 38+1 7

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384+ 10438+17| 35+4 | 94+ 13

The corresponding information about students of Radcliffe Col-
lege attending courses in Zodlogy is given in the second table.

Jun. | Soph. | Fresh. | Spec.

Assistant Professor R. T. Jackson was on leave of absence dur-
ing the year and the courses in Palaeozodlogy were not given.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9

It is especially gratifying to record the promotion of Assistant

Professor Parker to be Professor of Zodlogy, and the promotion
of Dr. Rand to a seat in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
_ Zodlogy 1 was conducted by Assistant Professor Parker essen-
tially as in the year 1904-05. The chief assistant in Harvard
University was Mr. L. J. Cole; the sub-assistants were Messrs.
EK. D. Congdon, A. S. Pearse, and H. MacCurdy. In Radcliffe
College the assistant was Mr. J. A. Long.

Zodlogy 2 was given by Assistant Professor Castle, substan-
tially asin previous years. Mr. I. A. Field was chief assistant,
and Mr. A. M. Banta, sub-assistant in the Harvard class. Mr.
H. MacCurdy had charge of the laboratory work in Radcliffe
College.

Dr. Rand was in charge of Zodlogy 3, and conducted the course
in the same way as in the previous year, making satisfactory use
of occasional “ quizzes.” The lighting of the laboratory was much
improved. The assistant in Harvard College was Mr. H. HE.
Walter; in Radcliffe, Mr. M. Copeland.

As announced in the Report for 1904—05, several of the courses
(Zodlogy 5, 10, 11, and 13) have been expanded or altered in
scope. The changes there announced as proposed changes have
been carried out so far as they relate to the year 1905-06.

The course in technique (Zodlogy 4) was carried on as usual
by Professor Mark with the aid of Dr. Rand, who had charge of
the laboratory instruction and gave a few lectures on the histology
of Glossiphonia, the animal studied in this course.

Zoblogy 6 (Organogeny of Vertebrates) was given for the first
time ; it is in future to alternate with Zocdlogy 5. The laboratory
work was confined to the study of the development of the more
important organs in the chick up to the fifth day of incubation,
and was in charge of Dr. Rand. The lectures were given by Pro-
fessor Mark ; the subject was treated in a comparative way.

In Zotlogy 11a and 118, given by Assistant Professor Castle,
three of the Graduate students enrolled in the course, attended
the lectures without doing the laboratory work, and were allowed
to count the two half courses without laboratory as the equivalent
of one half course. Several of the investigations, which were
chiefly on questions of heredity, will be presented for publication.

The work by one of the students in these courses, together with
that carried on by students in Courses 10 and 11 in previous years
_ and by the instructor, has been published as one of the Contribu-

10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

tions (No. 177) from this laboratory ; that by another student is
nearly ready for publication, and that of a third is incorporated
with work done in Zodlogy 20 for a doctor’s thesis.

With the expansion of former Zodlogy 13 into two half courses
(13 and 14), given by Assistant Professor Parker, it is planned to
divide the field and to give the new courses in alternate years.
During the past year Zodlogy 13 has been given, the lectures
and laboratory exercises being limited to epithelial and nervous
tissues.

Zodlogy 15, which alternates with 16, was given by Assistant
Professor Parker as in 1903-04, except for the revision of the
lectures. Five graduates besides those enrolled in the course,
attended the lectures. Of the nine topics assigned for investiga-
tion, four have yielded results for publication.

Of the sixteen students enrolled in Zodlogy 20, eleven pens
on their work under the immediate supervision of Professor Mark,
three under Assistant Professor Parker, one under Assistant
Professor Castle, and one under Professor Mark and Assistant
Professor Parker, jointly. Two graduate students in Radcliffe
College also carried on special researches under Professor Mark.

Besides the doctors’ theses presented by five of these, papers
are completed or well advanced by most of the others.

The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred in June, 1906,
on the following students in Zodlogy, the title of the thesis immedi-
ately following the name in each case: Henry Bryant Bigelow:
Studies on the Nuclear Cycle of Gonionemus murbachu Mayer ;
Leon Jacob Cole: An Hzperimental Study of the Image-Forming
Powers of Various Types of Eyes; Arthur Day Howard: The
Visual Cells in Vertebrates, chiefly in Necturus maculosus; John
Hancock McClellan: The Development of the Excretory System of
Amia calva; Hansford MacCurdy: The Influence of Selection on
Color Pattern in Guinea Pigs and Rats; Samuel Ottmar Mast:
Light Reactions in Lower Organisms. I. Stentor coeruleus ; Her-
bert Eugene Walter: Zhe Reactions of Planarians to Light.

During the year Assistant Professor Parker published Contri-
butions Nos. 168, 169, 171, and 173. Assistant Professor Castle
_has published, besides Contributions Nos. 175-177, brief articles
and reviews in Science and in the American Naturalist.

Two numbers of the Contributions from the Bermuda Biologi-
cal Station for Research have been published during the year:

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 11

No. 7. Barsour, THomas. — Notes on Bermudian Fishes. Bull. Mus.
Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., Vol. 46, No. 7, p. 107-134, 4
pls. September, 1905.

No. 8. Biacxman, Mautsspy W.— The Spermatogenesis of the Myria-
pods. IV. Onthe Karyosphere and Nucleolus in the Sperm-
atocytes of Scolopendra subspinipes. Proc. Amer. Acad.
Arts and Sci., Vol. 41, No. 13, p. 331-344, 1 pl. Septem-
ber, 1905.

During the summer of 1906, six students worked at the United
States Fisheries Bureau at Woods Hole, two of them being em-
ployed as assistants in the Bureau. Five students received aid
from the Humboldt Fund during the summer of 1906, amounting
to $137.14; four of them while working at Woods Hole, and one
at Cambridge.

The meetings of the Zodlogical Club were held on the afternoons
of Wednesdays throughout the year, the subjects presented being
usually announced in the Calendar. There were twenty-five
meetings, and fifty-five papers were presented, twenty-five of them
being summaries of original work, the most of which was done in
this Laboratory.

Contributions from the Zoélogical Laboratory from
July 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906.

168. Parker, G. H.— The Reversal of the Effective Stroke of the
Labial Cilia of Sea-Anemones by Organic Substances. Amer.
Journ. of Physiol.,Vol. 14, No. 1, p. 1-6. July, 1905.

169. Parker, G. H.— The Movements of the Swimming-Plates in
Ctenophores, with Reference to the Theories of Ciliary Meta-
chronism. Journ. of Exp. Zodl., Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 407-423.
August, 1905.

170. Brackman, M. W.— The Spermatogenesis of the Myriapods.
III. The Spermatogenesis of Scolopendra heros. Bull. Mus.
Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., Vol. 48, No. 1, p. 1-137, 9 pls.
October, 1905.

171. Parker, G. H. — The Stimulation of the Integumentary Nerves
of Fishes by Light. Amer. Journ. of Physiol., Vol. 14, No. 5,
p. 413-420. November, 1905.

172. Carpenter, F. W.— The Development of the Oculomotor Nerve,
the Ciliary Ganglion, and the Abducent Nerve in the Chick.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., Vol. 48, No. 2, p.
139-229, 7 pls. January, 1906.

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178.

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Parker, G. H.— Double Hens’ Eggs. Amer. Nat., Vol. 40, No.
469, p. 18-25. January, 1906.

. SmitH, G. — The Eyes of Certain Pulmonate Gasteropods, with

special Reference to the Neurofibrillae in Limax maximus.
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard Coll., Vol. 48, No. 3, p.
231-283, 4 pls. April, 1906.

. Castie, W. E., anp Forses, A. — Heredity of Hair-Length in

Guinea-Pigs and its Bearing on the Theory of Pure Gametes.
Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, No. 49, p. 1-14. May,
1906.

CastL4, W. E. —- The Origin of a Polydactylous Race of Guinea-
Pigs. Publ. Carnegie Inst. Washington, No. 49, p. 15-29.
May, 1906.

CastLE, W. E., CARPENTER, F. W., Cuark, A. H., Mast, S. O.,
AND Barrows, W. M.— The Effects of Inbreeding, Cross-
breeding, and Selection upon the Fertility and Variability of
Drosophila. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. 41, No.
33, p. 729-786. May, 1906.

Pearse, A. S.— Reactions of Tubularia crocea (Ag.). Amer.
Nat., Vol. 40, No. 474, p. 401-407. June, 1906.

Mark, E. L., anp CopeLanp, M. — Some Stages in the Sperma-
togenesis of the Honey Bee. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and
Sci., Vol. 42, No. 5, p. 101-112, 1 pl. June, 1906.

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REPORT OF THE STURGIS-HOOPER PROFESSOR
. OF GEOLOGY.

By Wi.uiaM M. Davis.

My return to Cambridge was delayed until after the beginning
of the Academic year on account of the journey around the east
‘coast of Africa with the party of the British Association on their
way home from the meeting in Cape Colony, the Transvaal,
and Rhodesia. I reached Cambridge, November 4. During the
winter a significant share of time was given to the preparation of
articles embodying the results of observations in South Africa.
The chief topics treated were: the Dwyka glacial formation, con-
cerning which reports were made at the meeting of the National
Academy in New Haven (November) and at the meeting of the
Geological Society of America in Ottawa (December) ; the origin
of the Veld, or the interior highland plain of South Africa; and
the topographic development of the east and west Cape Colony
ranges, which present many striking analogies with the Appala-
chians of Pennsylvania. Public lectures on the African excursion
were given on several occasions.

The two courses of instruction remained unchanged from
former years, except that an increasing amount of laboratory
work was added to the course on the physiography of the United
States in the second half-year.

The latter half of the summer of 1906 was spent in Mexico, in
connection with the meeting of the International Geological Con-
gress, Excursions were made to western Mexico, under the
leadership of Sr. Ordojiez, to visit the modern volcano of Jorullo,
famous from its description by Humboldt; to various points on
the central plateau; and to the eastern slope and coast, where a

good understanding was gained of the chief topographic features
there developed.

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Publications. August 1, 1905—July 31, 1906.

Glaciation of the Sawatch Range, Colorado. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl.,
1905, Vol. 49, p. 1-12, 1 pl.

The Wasatch, Canyon, and House Ranges, Utah. Bull. Mus. Comp.
Zool., 1905, Vol. 49, p. 138-56, 3 pls.

The Geographical Cycle in an Arid Climate. Geogr. Journ., 1906,
Vol. 27, p. 70-73.

The Sculpture of Mountains by Glaciers. Scott. Geogr. Mag., 1906,
Vol. 22, p. 76-89.

The British Association in South Africa. The Nation, Nov. 16 and

23, 1905.

An Inductive Study of the Content of Geography. Bull. Amer. Geogr.
Soc., 1906.

Incised Meandering Valleys. Bull. Geogr. Soc., Phila., 1906, Vol. 4,
No. 4, p. 1-11.

A Day in the Cévennes. Appalachia, 1906, Vol. 11, p. 110-114, pl.
16-17.

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REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND
GEOGRAPHY.

Bry Jay B. WoopwoRrtu.

Wirs profound regret I record the death on the 10th of April,
1906, of Professor Shaler, the organizer and long-time senior
professor as well as guiding spirit of this Department. His re-
mains were interred in Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, near
those of him whom he called his Master, Louis Agassiz. The
annual reports of the Museum of Comparative Zoology afford the
most satisfactory though incomplete list of Professor Shaler’s
literary and scientific writings.

The following report is upon the work of the staff of the Geo-
logical Section of the University Museum for the year 1905-06
exclusive of that of the Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology.

The accompanying table shows the number of students attend-
ing the several courses given by the Department. In estimating
the resort to the Museum the number of students taking Courses
10 and 200, given in the Rotch Building, should be deducted, and
students in Mining 28, conducted in the Advanced Geological
Laboratory should be added.

Students of Radcliffe College completed elementary courses in
the laboratories of the Department, as follows: Course A, 7
students ; Course B, 4; Course 5a, equivalent to Geology 4 of old
plan, 23; Course 5d, equivalent to Geology 5, old plan, 9. It has
been arranged to conduct the Radcliffe courses in Geology 4 and 5
upon the same plan as these courses in Harvard University next
year.

During the first half of the year, Professor Shaler gave as usual
his lectures on Dynamical and Structural Geology to the class in
Course 4, and as well his lectures on Palaeontology in Course 14.
He began a course known as Comparative Geology (23 of the
list), which, however, he was unable to complete. In its offering
of courses for 1906-07 the Department decided to withdraw
Courses 23 and 14 in Palaeontology. Professor Shaler was
assisted in Geology 4 by Dr. P. S. Smith; in Course 14 by Mr.

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S. A. Starratt, who resigned early in the year and was replaced
by Mr. W. M. Barrows, Austin Teaching Fellow, also assistant in
Course 23.

Courses Harvard Graduate
1905-06. College. "ae School.

—s

8
5
3
5
4
1
0
2
a

* Given in the Rotch Building.

Dr. P. S. Smith, Instructor in Geology, gave, with the aid of
Mr. E. J. Saunders, the Elementary Course in Physiography (A)
and assisted Professor Shaler in Course 4 during the first half-
year. At the close of this period he resigned in order to engage
in the geological work of the U. S. Geological Survey. Owing
to changes in the personelle of the Department, Dr. D. W. John-
son, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was appointed
an Assistant Professor to give Courses A and 6, and Dr. G. R.
Mansfield was promoted from an assistantship to be Instructor
in charge of Course 22 and Mining 28. Courses 9 and 17 for-
merly given by Dr. Jaggar have been withdrawn.

An elementary summer course in Dynamic and Structural
Geology attended by nine students was given in Cambridge by
Mr. J. W. Eggleston. An elementary course in the Physiography

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. TT

of the Lands was given by Dr. Mansfield to a class of nine
persons.

Professor R. T. Jackson was absent in Europe during the year
and Course 11 was therefore not offered.

Professor Ward reports that a falling off in the attendance of
students upon the courses in Meteorology and Climatology is
directly traceable to the assignment of the elementary lectures to
afternoon hours. A more detailed account will be found in a
report to the President. The meteorological observatory, com-
pleted in June, 1905, was used for the first time by the students
in Course B, during the spring of 1906. A standard shelter has
been erected on the roof, and the ordinary thermometers, thermo-
graph, hydrograph, and rain-gauge are at present in working
order out of doors. A barograph and a mercurial barometer are
installed within. The shelter and platform have been protected,
so “far as possible, against damage by lightning in accordance
with the most approved methods, and the instrument room, in
the attic beneath the platform, has been changed in several re-
spects in order to diminish the risk of fire. This work was done
in 1905-06, under the direction of the Inspector of Grounds and
Buildings,

Geology B has been strengthened by the extension of the
period of laboratory work from two to four hours a week. In
Geology 1, practical work with nephoscopes was introduced. In
Geology 19, laboratory work was substituted for theses, with
excellent results. In Geology 20e, Mr. K. S. Johnson, con-
structed a series of charts of relative humidity for the United
States, and these were shown at the Kimberley meeting of the
South African Association for the Advancement of Science, and
are to be published in the Report of the Association. A paper on
Tornado Insurance, written by Mr. H. E. Simpson, during the
year 1904-05, has been published in The Monthly Weather
Review, December, 1905. Mr. EK. J. Saunders assisted Professor
Ward in Course B.

Professor J. B. Woodworth reports that during the year he
planned and carried out with the assistance of Messrs. J. W.
Eggleston, F. H. Sawyer, and H. N. Eaton, the laboratory and
field work in Geology 4; the lectures and laboratory work in
Geology 5, where again he was assisted by Mr. Eggleston, together
with Messrs. E. E. White and Sawyer. Mr. Woodworth also gave
Course 8 and 16. In Course 20c Mr. E. S. Bryant worked

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on the glacial geology of the Franklin sheet, and Mr. H. N. Eaton
made a map of the Carboniferous strata and enclosed volcanics,
extending east and west of South Attleboro on the Providence
quadrangle which together with a brief report is being prepared
for publication. Instruction was also given by Professor Wood-
worth to students in Radcliffe College. Considerable time was
devoted to installing and arranging collections in the exhibition
room of the Geological Museum. A still larger share of his time
was consumed in his duties as chairman of the Department.

The laboratory materials were increased as follows: stretched
conglomerates from Tiverton and Newport, R. I., collected by
G. R. Mansfield; a collection of Miocene fossils from Yorktown,
Va., made by J. B. Woodworth during the April recess; speci-
mens of Knox dolomite from Newport, Tenn., from H. S. Gale,
U.S. Geol. Surv.

July was devoted by Professor Woodworth to the N. Y. geological
survey, mainly in completing the glacial map of the Schuylerville
quadrangle. On the 23d of August he proceeded by sea to Vera
Cruz in order to attend the International Congress of Geologists
held in Mexico. |

Professor Jaggar conducted the advanced field courses, Geology
22 and Mining 28, as usual, with the assistance of Dr. Mansfield.
Students of Course 22 mapped areas hitherto unexplored by this
class between Lawrence and Topsfield. A voluntary course of
lectures on the Structural Provinces of the United States was
given in the autumn of 1905 to advanced students. In February,
1906, Professor Jaggar gave a course of four public lectures in
the Colonial Theatre, Boston, under the auspices of the Twentieth
Century Club, on The Earth as a Living Organism. In the
spring of 1906 Mr. H. G. Ferguson made experiments on rill
erosion in the laboratory of experimental geology. Mr. Ferguson
spent the summer of 1905 in Iceland and has since published
in the Journal of Geology an account of Miocene glacial de-
posits there. Dr. G. R. Mansfield completed a thesis for the
doctorate of Philosophy entitled Origin and Structure of the
Roxbury Conglomerate. This essay is to be published as a
Bulletin of the Museum. Professor Jaggar finished during the
year his share on the text and maps of the Sturgis-Spearfish Folio
of the Geologic Atlas of the United States, issued by the U.S.
Geological Survey. This production is the outcome of two
seasons’ field work in the northern mining district of the Black

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Hills,-South Dakota. In April, 1906, he went to Naples on
behalf of Mr. Alexander Agassiz, to make notes and collections
at the scene of the recent eruption of Vesuvius. September 1,
1906, Dr. Jaggar resigned his assistant professorship.

The subcommittees of the Department present the following
reports : —

The Committee on The Gardner Collection of Photographs
(Messrs. Ward and Woodworth) report as follows : —

State of the Collection, July 1. Photographs. Slides. Negatives.

Accessions since last report. . . .
Unidentified views

Condemned
“Last accession number
Number now in collection

The accessions include a set of films and lantern slides repre-
senting views in Montana taken by J. B. Woodworth, a series of
photographs from New Zealand brought to the Department by
Professor Davis, lantern slides purchased of the Palestine Explo-
ration Society, and several gifts of isolated photographs. Mr.
Charles M. Farnham was employed at intervals during the year
in renovating the slides. Mr. Farnham made considerable prog-
ress in the numbering of the negatives and films; but owing to
the lack of the necessary assistance the usual cataloguing of new
views was not maintained. The regular duties of the present
teaching staff of the Department preclude giving the necessary
time to this work. A person with the requisite knowledge of
geography and geology to insure the correct description and cata-
loguing of the rich materials annually brought to this collection
is a pressing need of the Department.

The Committee on the Geological Museum (Messrs. Wood-
worth, Wolff, and Jaggar) report that through the generous in-
terest of Mr. R. W. Sayles, the Corporation received the gift
of five thousand dollars, the income of which is “ preferably to
be devoted to the acquisition, preparation, and maintenance, of
collections suitable for a museum of geology and geography.”
It should be stated that the Museum stands in immediate need
of several thousand dollars for the construction of exhibition

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cases. By a transfer of large specimens and certain models
already in the teaching collections of the department, the cases
so far constructed have been temporarily partially filled with
the nucleus of a collection, some of which will naturally be re-
placed by better and newer material as soon as it can be obtained.
The labelling of the exhibits has been begun. A printed card of
the size indicated in the accompanying example (4} x 1} in.)
has been adopted as suitable for recording the leading data con-
cerning the numerous specimens which will enter into the
exhibition.

SMALL DINOSAUR FOOT PRINT on red shale.
Belleville, N. J.

Newark series, Upper Triassic.
Am. Jour. Sci., Vol. 1, p. 481, 1895.
Coll. J. B. W.

The Committee has received the following gifts: — Glaciated
pebbles and tillite from the Carboniferous Dwyka conglomerate
of South Africa, collected in 1905 by Professor W. M. Davis;
sand-blasted parts of trees from the dunes of Ipswich, Mass.,
collected by Mr. Albert P. Morse; ashes from the eruption of Mont
Pelée, Martinique, May 20, 1908, gift of Mrs. N. 8S. Shaler.

The Committee on the Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarship
(Professors Davis, Jaggar, and Woodworth) recommended that a
scholarship of $200 be awarded to Mr. Howard E. Merwin, a
student in the Lawrence Scientific School, for defraying the
expense of ten weeks’ work during the summer of 1906 upon the
ancient Pleistocene shore lines of Vermont, which task Mr. Merwin
has satisfactorily carried out, and a report is now in preparation.

Publications. August 1, 1905-July 31, 1906.
By R. T. Jackson.
A new species of fossil Limulus from the Jurassic of Sweden.
Arkiv for Zoologi, 1906, Vol. 38, No. 11, 7 pp.
By R. DEC. Warp.
The Climatic Zones and their Subdivisions. Bull. Amer. Geogr.
Soc., 1906, Vol. 38, p. 385-396.

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Suggestions concerning a more rational Treatment of Climatology.
Report 8th Internat. Geog. Congress, 1906, p. 277-293.

The Hygiene of the Zones. Bull. Geogr. Soc. Phila., 1906, Vol. 4,
No. 2, p. 29-55.

The Classification of Climates. Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc., 1906,
Vol. 38, p. 401-412, 465-477.

By J. B. Woopworrtu.

Professor Shaler. The Harvard Illustrated Magazine, Vol. 7,
April, 1906, p. 183-136 (with portrait).

Book-review in ‘‘ The Nation.”

Administrative report of work done in New York in 1903. Em-
bodied in Report of the State Geologist, Dr. J. M. Clarke. 57th
Annual Report of the N. Y. State Museum, Albany. 1904.
p. 8-12. Also in 1904. Do. 58th Annual Report. Albany,

1905, p. 18-19. Also in 1905. Do. 59th Annual Report.
“Albany, 1906, p. 20.

By T. A. Jacear, JR., and C. PaLacue.
Description of Bradshaw Mountains Quadrangle. U.S.G.S., Geol.
Atlas, Folio 126, 1905. 38 geological maps.
By G. R. MAnsrFIELp.

Post-Pleistocene Drainage Modifications in the Black Hills and

Bighorn Mountains. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl., 1906, Vol. 49,
p. 57-87, 4 pls.

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REPORT ON THE MAMMALS.
By Outram BANGS.

DourInG the past year the Department of Mammals has received
upwards of three hundred specimens, mostly by gift. Two ex-
changes were made, one with Mr. E. R. Warren for a series of
mammals from Colorado, the second with the West Australian
Museum for a few Australian mammals. A most interesting and
important addition is the specimens collected in Sonora, Chihua-
hua, Lower California, Cerros, and Guadalupe Islands by W. W.
Brown, Jr., and presented by Mr. John E. Thayer.

Specimens have been loaned Knud Andersen of the British
Museum, Walter L. Hahn of the Smithsonian Institution, and H. W.
Henshaw, EK. W. Nelson, and W. H. Osgood of the Biological Sur-
vey, Washington.

I have published during the year: —

In the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy : —

The Mammals and Birds of the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama, in
joint authorship with John E. Thayer. Vol. 46, No. 8, p. 135-160.
September, 1905.

Vertebrata from the Savanna of Panama. Introduction, Mammalia,
(with John E. Thayer, Aves). Vol. 46, No. 12, p. 209-224. Janu-
ary, 1906.

In the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington : —

Breeding Birds of the Sierra de Antonez, North Central Sonora,
in joint authorship with John E. Thayer. Vol. 19, p. 17-22. Feb. 26,
1906.

The names of the Passenger Pigeon and the Mourning Dove. Vol.
19, p. 43-44. Feb. 26, 1906.

Notes on Birds from Costa Rica and Chiriqui, with Descriptions of
New Forms and New Records for Costa Rica. Vol. 19, p. 101-112.
July 30, 1906.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 2a

REPORT ON THE BIRDS.

By WILLIAM BREWSTER.

DurinG the past year the following specimens have been pur-
chased: a South American Condor (Sarcorhamphus gryphus,
female) taken in Patagonia; nine species, including seventeen
specimens of Linnaean topotypes; an albino Towhee (probably
Pipilo maculatus megalonyx) taken at Pyramid Lake, Nevada; a
young albino Bluebird (Stalia stalis) from Sherborn, Massachu-
setts; a pair of Kirtland’s Warblers (Dendroica kirtlandz) with
nest and five eggs, from Big Bend, Michigan; the nest and two
egos of Clarke’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) collected in
British Columbia.

There have been acquired by gift: from Mr. William Barbour,
an egg of the Great Auk (Plautus tmpennis) ; from Messrs. J. W.
Hastings and L. J.de G de Milhau, a series of forty-one eggs with
a few nests of birds from Iceland; from Mr. William A. Jeffries, the
type of the Violet-throated Hummingbird (Trochilus violajugulum)
taken at Santa Barbara, California; from Mr. Thomas Barbour, a
Northern Shrike (Zanius borealis) from Brookline, Massachusetts,
an egg of Leach’s Petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) from Little
Duck Island, Maine, a Bahama Parrot (Amazona bahamensis) from
the Bahamas, and a Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaétos) from Nor-
way; from Dr. John Bryant, a European Wigeon (Anas penelope,
male) taken at Swan Island, South Carolina; from Mr. George
Nelson, an American Robin (Merula migratoria, male) from Ar-
lington Heights, Massachusetts, and a nest of the Golden-winged
Warbler (Helminthophila chrysoptera) taken in Lexington, Massa-
chusetts ; from Mrs. G. H. Robbins, a Passenger Pigeon (Eceto-
pistes migratorius, male) killed in Carlisle, Massachusetts, about
thirty years ago; from Mr. Walter Ela, an immature male Bald
Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) from Wareham, Massachusetts ;
from Mr. Samuel Henshaw, a young Yellow-throated Vireo (Vireo
flavifrons) and a Domestic Pigeon (Columba livia) both from Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts; from Mr. Leon C. Cole, an egg of the

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Noddy (Anous stolidus) from the Tortugas; from Mr. William
Brewster, a male Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) from Cambridge,
Massachusetts ; and from Dr. H. L. Clark, a collection of alcoholic
birds, 85 species, 112 specimens.

The rearrangement of the general collection of skins in the new
cases has been continued ; the families dealt with include, follow-
ing Sharpe’s Hand List, the Chionididae to the Pandionidae. The
alcoholic birds have been overhauled and in part rearranged and
relabelled.

I have published during the year : —

In the Auk: —

Occurrence of the Lapwing ( Vanellus vanellus) and the Turkey Buz-
zard (Cathartes aura) in Newfoundland.

Notes on the breeding of Bachman’s Warbler, Helminthophila bach-
manit (Aud.) near Charleston, South Carolina, with a description of
the first plumage of the species.

In the Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club :
Birds of the Cambridge Region of Massachusetts.

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REPORT ON THE REPTILES, BATRACHIANS,
AND FISHES.

By SamMuEL GARMAN.

CONSIDERABLE additions to the collections in these departments
have been received from Sefior Anastasio Alfaro, Messrs. Outram
Bangs, Thomas Barbour, Owen Bryant, H. L. Clark, George C.
Deane, R. L. Ditmars, Eugene N. Fisher, Charles H. Gilbert,
Harris Kennedy, Trevor Kincaid, F. A. Lucas, Arthur S. Pearse,
Wirt Robinson, F. G. Shaupp, John HE. Thayer, W. McM.
Woodworth, the New York Zodlogical Society, and the U. S.
National Museum.

The specimens from the New York Zodlogical Society, being
fresh, gave opportunity for improving the exhibition series ; other
specimens were secured in the Boston markets. A fine series of
West Indian Reptiles, Batrachians, and Fishes were obtained by
purchase from Mr. Alex. E. Wight, and considerable other very
desirable material was presented by Mr. Thomas Barbour.
Among outgoing shipments were those to Prof. C. H. Kigenmann,
Prof. Theo. Gill, Prof. Chas. H. Gilbert, Dr. J. W. Spengel, and
Dr. B. G. Wilder. Certain types loaned to Professor Gilbert
were returned in good order.

Aside from filling up the new cases, made necessary by increase
of the storage Reptilia, few changes have been made in the
alcoholic series. Loss by leakage, breakage, or evaporation has
been small in amount. The greater portion of the work for the
year has been devoted to preparation of the memoir on the
Plagiostomes.

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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

THE additions to the Entomological Department have been
many and important. The first to be noted is the collection of
Coleoptera of America north of Mexico, bequeathed to the
Museum by the late Roland Hayward of Milton. During his life
Mr. Hayward was at all times a generous contributor to the
Department, and the collection devised by will containing as it
does the results of his well-directed efforts, is most appropriately
placed with the types of earlier authorities which he so faithfully
studied.

From Professor Roland Thaxter’s South American collecting
the Department will benefit largely. Professor Thaxter has
already given a considerable series of insects, principally Col-
eoptera; he intends from time to time to add to this series as the
material is assorted. For other acceptable additions to the col-
lections of the Department acknowledgments are due Miss K. B.
Bryant, Miss Louisa Goldsmith, Messrs. Outram Bangs, Thomas
Barbour, H. B. Bigelow, F. E. Blaisdell, Frederick Blanchard,
William Brewster, Henry Brooks, Owen Bryant, August Busck,
H. L, Clark, J. E. Clarke, T. D. A. Cockerell, Manton Copeland,
B. R. Curtis, Walter Deane, J. H. Emerton, H. C. Fall, B. H.
Hall, J. G. Jack, C. W. Johnson, A. P. Morse, J. G. Needham,
H. A. Purdie, Wirt Robinson, E. B. Williamson, C. C. Willoughby,
J. B. Woodworth, and W. McM. Woodworth.

From A. E. Wight we have purchased a large series of
Jamaican insects of all orders, and from George B. King a col-
lection of Formicidae from all parts of the world ; other purchases
include the specimens collected by the Rev. P. H. Goldsmith in
Mexico and small series of beetles from Adana, Asia Minor, and
another from Western Africa.

The services of Mr. Nathan Banks were engaged for one month
and were devoted to the Arachnida; a large amount of miscella-
neous material was sorted, labelled, and identified and the bulk
of the Araneina is now in good order. The Museum is indebted

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to Prof. W. M. Wheeler of the American Museum of Natural
History for a critical revision of all our recent Formicidae and to
Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell for his study of a number of fossil
Hymenoptera ; the results of Mr. Cockerell’s work are published in
Bulletin, Vol. 50, No. 2, June, 1906.

The rearrangement of the Noctuidae has been continued.

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REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA AND MOLLUSCA.

By WALTER Faxon.

THE most noteworthy addition to the Conchological Depart-
ment during the past year consists of a large and fine collection
of terrestrial shells from all parts of the globe. This collection
was given to the Museum by Henry W. Winkley of the Class of
1881, Harvard College, as his contribution to his class’s twenty-
fifth anniversary donation. Other contributions have come from
Messrs. Thomas Barbour, L. J. Cole, and the Rev. R. K. Smith.
For new material added to the collection of Crustacea the Museum
is indebted to Dr. A. E. Ortmann and Messrs. E. B. Williamson
and KH. A. Andrews.

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REPORT ON THE WORMS.

By W. McM. WoopworrTu.

THE most important collections received during the year are
the worms collected by Mr. Agassiz during the cruise of the
‘“ Albatross” in the Eastern Pacific. Of these the Nemerteans
have been sent to Professor W. R. Coe, who has promised two
Reports, one on the pelagic forms and one on the reef and shore
forms. Gifts have been received from Messrs. T. Barbour and
S. Henshaw.

The Annelids collected by Mr. Agassiz on the “ Blake,’ 1877-
80, which were sent to Professor Ehlers, have been returned.
A Report upon them by Doctor Hermann Augener forms No. 4
of Volume 46, of the Bulletin. Prof. F. W. Gamble has returned
the Arenicolidae loaned to him. To Mr. W. F. Lanchester, Uni-
versity of Dundee, has been sent all gephyrean material from the
Pacific. The Report on the Nemerteans collected by Mr. Agassiz
on the “ Albatross” in 1891, which is almost completed, will
appear under the joint authorship of Professor Coe and myself.

30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

REPORT ON THE LOWER INVERTEBRATES.

By Huspert LyMAN CLARK.

SINCE taking up my duties at the Museum in December, 1905,
my time has been occupied almost exclusively with the collections
of Echinoderms. These collections have been looked over and
arranged systematically, preparatory to labelling and cataloguing,
and are found to contain about thirty-two thousand specimens.
The contents of the large jars and trays of unidentified Echino-
derms have been sorted and placed in their proper places in the
collections. The work of labelling and cataloguing the starfishes
is well under way, but has been delayed by the fact that much of
the material has never been identified, while even when specimens
are labelled it is frequently desirable to verify the identification.
Considerable time has been given to the critical study of the
collection of over fifteen hundred sea-urchins of the Cidaridae, and
to the preparation of a report on the same. There have been
few additions to the collections during the year; the more impor-
tant are my own collection of Echinoderms, 171 species, 1,494
specimens and twenty-eight species of Sponges (U. S. Fish Com-
mission Steamer “ Albatross” 1891 expedition) and seven species
of Corals (U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “ Albatross” 1904-05
expedition) presented by the U. S. National Museum.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 31

REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VERTEBRATE
PALAEONTOLOGY.

By Cuarues R. Eastman.

DEPARTMENTAL work has proceeded about the same as hereto-
fore, chief attention being devoted to fossil fishes. The collection
of fossil mammals, however, received a useful addition in a series
of casts presented by the Peabody Museum (Yale University)
through Prof. Charles Schuchert; these casts, seventy-one in
number, represent specimens described by Dr. Joseph Leidy,
and were made many years ago by Mr. Kaeppler for Prof. O. C.
Marsh. To Prof. Bashford Dean, of the American Museum of
Natural History, the Department also is indebted for excellent
casts of Polypterus, Neoceratodus, Dinomylostoma (dental plates),
and a chimaeroid egg-capsule from the Cretaceous of Laramie,
Wyoming, described by Dr. Theodore Gill in Science, 1905, Vol.
22, p. 601.

A large specimen of Dapedoglossus from the Green River
Eocene of Wyoming was acquired by purchase, and two smaller
specimens were presented by Mr. Thomas Barbour. Several
Miocene fishes from Hazen, Nevada, collected by Mr. N. H.
Darton of the United States Geological Survey, were presented
by Mr. Darton, and a collection of over one hundred fish-bearing
nodules from the Devonian of Boyle Co., Kentucky, were pro-
cured partly by gift, from Mr. Moritz Fischer. A small example
of the very rare Pycnodont occurring at Monte Bolca, Pyenodus
platessus Ag., was bought of Deyrolle, ex. coll. Huguenin et
Homo.

The following publications were issued during the year : —

Fossil Avian Remains from Armissan. Mem. Carnegie Museum,
1905, Vol. 2, p. 181-138, pl. 13-16.

Greek Ideas of Vulcanism. Pop. Sci. Monthly, 1905, Vol. 67, p. 555-
560.

32 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

Les idées grecques sur le volcanisme. Revue Scient., (5) Vol. 4,
p. 609-612.

Anaximander, Earliest Precursor of Darwin. Pop. Sci. Monthly,
1905, Vol. 67, p. 701-706.

Dipnoan Affinities of Arthrodires. Amer. Journ. Sci., 1906, (4)
Vol. 21, p. 1381-143.

Structure and Relations of Mylostoma. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zodl.,
1906, Vol. 50, No. 1, p. 1-29, 5 pls.

Palaeontology. Amer. Nat., 1906, Vol. 40, p. 525-528.

Also several short articles in Science.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 30

REPORT ON THE LIBRARY.

DurineG the year from August 1, 1905, to July 81, 1906, in-
clusive, 1,264 volumes, 1,837 parts of volumes, and 1,289 pam-
phlets have been added to the Library.

The additions noted above include 180 volumes and 67 pam-
phlets purchased from the estate of the late Professor Nathaniel
Southgate Shaler.

The total number of volumes in the Library is 42,421, the
total number of pamphlets is 36,322,

Five hundred and fifty-seven volumes have been bound; one
thousand five hundred and one pamphlets have been separately
bound.

34

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

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PUBLICATIONS

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

FOR THE YEAR 19065-1906.

Bulletin : —
Vol. XLIII.
No. 4. Reports on the Results of Dredging, under the Supervision of Alexan-

der Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and on the East
Coast of the United States, 1877 to 1880, by the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer
“Blake,” Lieut. Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R.
Bartlett, U.S. N., Commanding. XLII. Westindische Polychaeten. Von
HERMANN AUGENER. pp. 108. 8 Tafeln. May, 1906.

Vol. XLVI.
No. 7. Notes on Bermudian Fishes. By THoomas BarBour. pp.28. 4 Plates.

No.

No.

No.

September, 1905.

8. The Mammals and Birds of the Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama. By
Joun E. THayer and Outram Banes. pp. 26. September, 1905.

9. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern
Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Com-
mission Steamer “ Albatross,” from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut.
Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., Commanding. III. Craspedotella, a
New Genus of the Cystoflagellata, an Example of Convergence. By
CHARLES ATwoop Koroip. pp. 5. 1 Plate. September, 1905.

10. Reports on the Results of Dredging, under the Supervision of Alex-
ander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and on the
East Coast of the United States, 1877 to 1880, by the U. S. Coast Survey
Steamer “ Blake,” Lieut. Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Com-
mander J. R. Bartlett, U.S. N., Commanding. XLI. Zur Anatomie von
Pentacrinus decorus Wy. Th. Von Avucust REICHENSPERGER. pp. 34.
3 Plates. December, 1905.

. 11. New Plagiostomia. By Samuexr Garman. pp. 8. January, 1906.
.12. Vertebrata from the Savanna of Panama. By Ourram Banes, THoMAS

BarpBour, SAMUEL GARMAN, and Joun E. THAYER. pp. 22. January, 1906.

. 13. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern

Tropical Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Com-
mission Steamer “ Albatross,” from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut.
Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., Commanding. IV. Octacnemus.
By WiLu1aM E. Ritter. pp. 22. 3 Plates. January, 1906.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 35

No. 14. Certain Scopelids in the Collection of the Museum of Comparative
Zoology. By CuarLes H. GirBert. pp. 11. 3 Plates. April, 1906.

Vol. XLVIII.

No. 1. The Spermatogenesis of Scolopendra heros. By Mauispy W. Buack-
MAN. pp. 138. 9 Plates. October, 1905.

No, 2. The Development of the Oculemotor Nerve, the Ciliary Ganglion, and
the Abducent Nerve in the Chick. By FrepERIcK Watton CARPENTER.
pp. 91. 7 Plates. January, 1906.

No. 3. The Eyes of Certain Pulmonate Gasteropods, with Special Reference to
the Neurofibrillae in Limax maximus. By Grant SmirH. pp. 54. 4 Plates.

Vol. XLIX (Geological Series, Vol. VIII).
No. 1. Glaciation of the Sawatch Range, Colorado. By W.M. Davis. pp. 12.
1 Plate. December, 1905.
No. 2. The Wasatch, Canyon, and House Ranges, Utah. By W. M. Davis.
pp. 44. 3 Plates. December, 1905.
No. 3. Post-Pleistocene Drainage Modifications in the Black Hills and Bighorn
Mountains. By Grorcre Rocrers MANSFIELD. pp. 32. 4 Plates. March,
1906.
Vol. L.
No. 1. Structure and Relations of Mylostoma. By C. R. Eastman. pp. 380.
,» Plates. May, 1906.
No. 2. Fossil Hymenoptera from Florissant, Colorado. By T. D. A. CockeEr-
ELL. pp. 28. June, 1906.

Memoirs : —
Vol. XX VI.

No. 5. Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical
Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, in the U. S. Fish Commission
Steamer “ Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander
Jefferson F. Moser, U.S. N., Commanding. VIII. The Pelagic Tunicata.
By WitiiaM E. Ritrer and Epitu S. ByxBee. pp. 22. 2 Plates. Au-
gust, 1905.

Vol. XXX.

No. 2. Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Central and
South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in Charge of Alexander
Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “ Albatross,” during 1891,
Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., Commanding. XXXI. The
Radiating Organs of the Deep Sea Fishes. By Ropert von LENDENFELD.
With an Appendix on the Structure of the Bud-like Organs of Malthopsis
spinulosa Garman. By Emanuret Trogan. pp. 50. 11 Plates. 1 Chart.
August, 1905.

Vol. XXXIII.

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Eastern Tropical
Pacific, in Charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission
Steamer “ Albatross,” from October, 1904, to March, 1905, Lieut. Comman-
der L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., Commanding. V. General Report of the
Expedition. By ALExAaNDER AGassiz. pp. 14,76. 96 Plates. January,
1906.

Report :—
1904-1905. pp. 38. December, 1905.

36 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE

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INVESTED FUNDS OF THE MUSEUM.

In THE Hanps OF THE TREASURER OF HarvVARD COLLEGE, Sept. 1, 1905.

Sturgis-Hooper Fund’.. ... ss 2) 3 3 LGN Se SOO eee eee
Gray Fund ae wh gee ed CE teks OE. rae PT Ae 50,000.00
Agassiz Memorial Fund « pa NT A FOE eee ll lee en ea, Sen
Teachers and Pupils Fand: . 9. S019 <4" oudenlk Cero 7,594.01
Permanent antl 7 4 foes 6 eked oe esky RA eit ode eae eee
Humboldt Fund. . 5m. Spe ae eh doe.) tetas a ee 7,740.66
Virginia Barret Gibbs Band ae a4 ana ety se ol at als os a eae 5,554.58
Willard Peele Hunnewell Hosea: Fund sey tele th tube ei Ree 5,000.00

$600,012.52

The payments on account of the Museum are made by the Bursar of Harvard
College, on vouchers approved by the Curator. The accounts are annually exam-
ined by a committee of the Overseers. The only funds the income of which is
restricted, the Gray and the Humboldt Funds, are annually charged in an analysis
of the accounts, with vouchers to the payment of which the income is applicable.

The income of the Gray Fund can be applied to the purchase and maintenance
of collections, but not for salaries.

The income of the Virginia Barret Gibbs scholgilie Fund, of the value of $250,
is assigned annually with the approval of the Faculty of the Museum, on the recom-
mendation of the Professors of Zoology and of Comparative Anatomy in Harvard
University, ‘in supporting or assisting to support one or more students who
may have shown decided talents in Zoology, and preferably in the direction of
Marine Zoology.”

The income of the Humboldt Fund (about $300) can be applied for the benefit of
one or more students of Natural History, either at the Museum, the United States
Fish Commission Station at Woods Hole, Bermuda, or the Tortugas.

Applications for the tables reserved for advanced students at the Woods Hole
Station should be made to the Faculty of the Museum before the Ist of May.

Applicants should state their qualifications, and indicate the course of. study they
intend to pursue.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 37

PLATE 1,

OKAPI.

M. C. Z. 11,083 Male. Ituri Forest, Congo Free State. Gift of Alexander Agassiz.

M.C. Z. 1,508.

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GREAT AUK OR GARE-FOWL.

M. C. Z. 5,100. Gift of William Barbour.

PLATE &.
GREAT AUK OR GARE-FOWL.

Funk Island, off Newfoundland. Gift of Sir Alexander Bannermann.

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PUBLICATIONS
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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE Z00L0GY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE.

There have been published of the Borkerin Vols. L to > XLIL,
and also Vols. XLIV. to XLVII. ; of the Memorrs, Vols. I. to
XXIV., and also Vols. XXVIIL, XXIX.. XXXI. to XXXIII. Se,

Vols. XLII, XLVIII., XLIX., and L. of the BuLuetin, and —
Vols. XXV5°XKXVIScRR VE RR ee XXXV., and —

XXXVI. of the Mremorrs, are now in course of publication.

The BuLLetin and Aaiohas are devoted to the publication of |
original work by the Professors and Assistants: of the Museum, — te
of investigations carried on by students and others in the different —
Laboratories of Natural History, and of work by Meee
upon the Museum Collections and Explorations. —

The following publications are in preparation: — ae

Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 to 1880, in Shae of |
Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer “ Blake,” Lieut...
Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U.S. N., and Commenter R. Bartlett, U. ag N.,
Commanding. é-

. Reports on the Results of the Gaelic of 1891 of the U. S. Fish Cornnieinet
Steamer “ Albatross,” Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, U.S. N, , Command-
ing, in charge of Alexander Agassiz.

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedia to the Trapital Pacifie’ in ;
charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer —
“ Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson A
Moser, U.S. N., Commanding. : 3S ee

Reports on the Scientific Results of the Rxpediinn to the Eastern Pacific, in - ;
charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer
“ Albatross,” from October, 1904, to April, 1905, Lieut. Commander L. M
Garrett, U.S. N., Commanding. Ly

Contributions from the Zoological aborster y, Professor E. L. Mark, Director.

Contributions from the Geological Laboratory. tease

These publications are issued in numbers at irregular intervals;
one volume of the Bulletin (8vo) and half a volume of the ieee se
(4to) usually appear annually. Each number of the Bulletin and
of the Memoirs is sold separ ately. A price list of the publications —
-of the Museum will be sent on application to the Librarian Of the,
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.

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