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ANNUAL REPORT
THE DIRECTOR
OF THE
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY
AT HARVARD COLLEGE
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
FOR
io aor a ee
CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.:
PRINTED FOR THE MUSEUM.
1917.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.
Faculty.
ABBOTT LAWRENCE LOWELL, President.
HENRY P. WALCOTT.
SAMUEL HENSHAW, Director.
GEORGE L. GOODALE.
JOHN E. THAYER.
Committee on the Museum.
HENRY P. WALCOTT.
SAMUEL HENSHAW
WALTER FAXON
SAMUEL GARMAN :
WILLIAM BREWSTER
OUTRAM BANGS
HUBER 1. CrARK (2 <.
HENRY B. BIGELOW . .
ROBERT W. SAYLES
PERCY E. RAYMOND .
THOMAS BARBOUR .. .
RALPH V. CHAMBERLIN .
JON ‘C.c°PHILGIPS. 73 go.
NATHAN BANKS
GEORGE NELSON.....
REGINALD A. DALY
EDWARD L. MARK...
GEORGE H. PARKER. .
WILLIAM E. CASTLE. .
WILLIAM M. WHEELER
ROBERT DeC. WARD ...
LOUIS C. GRATON .
JAY B. WOODWORTH . .
PERCY E. RAYMOND . .
HERBERT W. RAND . .
CHARLES T. BRUES.. .
. Curator of Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes.
. Curator of Birds.
GEORGE L. GOODALE.
Officers.
. Director.
Curator of Crustacea and Mollusca.
Curator of Mammals and Associate eae
of Birds.
. Curator of Echinoderms.
. Curator of Coelenterates.
. Curator of the Geological Collections.
. Curator of Invertebrate Palaeontology.
. Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibi-
ans.
Curator of Arachnids, Myriopods, and Worms.
Associate Curator of Birds.
Curator of Insects.
Preparator.
. Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology.
. Hersey Professor of Anatomy.
. Professor of Zodlogy.
. Professor of Zodlogy.
. Professor of Economic Entomology.
. Professor of Climatology.
ALEXANDER G. McADIE .
WALLACE W. ATWOOD. .
. Professor of Economic Geology.
4 Associate Professor of Geology.
. Associate Professor of Palaeontology.
. Assistant Professor of Zodlogy.
. Assistant Professor of Economic Entomology.
Professor of Meteorology.
Professor of Physiography.
REPORT.
To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE:—
Tue Laboratories and Lecture Rooms of the Museum afforded
the usual facilities for most of the instruction in Zodlogy, Geology,
and Geography offered in Harvard University and in Radcliffe
College during the Academic year 1916-1917.
In Zodlogy the nineteen courses and half courses were taken by
410 students in Harvard University and the ten courses and half
courses were taken by 98 students in Radcliffe College.
In 1915-1916 these courses and students were:—
Harvard:— 20 courses, 377 students.
Radcliffe:— 10 courses, 65 students.
The inadequacy of the accommodations for Laboratory work
necessitated the exclusion of many students from the elementary
course (Zodlogy 1).
In Geology and Geography twenty-eight courses or half courses
were offered in Harvard University and two courses were offered
in Radcliffe College.
The number of students taking these courses was 703 in Har-
vard University and 34 in Radcliffe College.
In 1915-1916 these courses and students were:—
Harvard:— 27 courses, 515 students.
Radcliffe:— 5 courses, 49 students.
In memory of her father, Louis Cabot, Mrs. John W. Bartol
has generously given $5,000. to establish a fund, the income to be
used for the purchase of books on travel, sport, and natural history
for the Museum Library.
Through the generosity of Mrs. William Barbour, Mrs. I. T.
Burr, Mrs. C. G. Weld, Prof. Theodore Lyman, Dr. Thomas
Barbour, and the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, the Museum has
been able to have some of its collections rearranged and their
nomenclature revised, and also to undertake field-work which has
given most interesting results.
Mr. G. K. Noble was appointed Zodlogist of the Expedition to
Peru, under the joint auspices of the School of Tropical Medicine
and the Museum (Dr. W. L. Moss, Chief), by the President and
Fellows. Though the actual time spent in the field was limited
4 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
to three months, Mr. Noble got together a considerable series of
mammals (125 specimens), birds (507 specimens), and reptiles and
amphibians (5,000 + specimens); also a few fishes, and interesting
invertebrates, among the latter a new species of Peripatus (P.
peruvianus Brues).
Field-work in the West Indies was carried on by Messrs. G. M.
Allen (Porto Rico), Thomas Barbour (Cuba), W. 8. Brooks (Cuba
and the Isle of Pines), J. L. Peters (Anegada, Porto Rico, St.
Thomas, Tortola, and the Virgin Islands), and Goodwin Warner
(Cuba and the Isle of Pines). The collections made, though
chiefly recent reptiles and birds, include a quantity of bones of
fossil mammals from the cave deposits of Cuba, the Isle of Pines,
and Porto Rico.
Dr. W. M. Mann, on the conclusion of his stay among the Solo-
mon Islands, collected in Australia. His material from the
Solomons, though not thoroughly assorted, contains large series
of reptiles and land invertebrates, many of which are new to the
Museum collections and to science. This 1s also true of Dr. Mann’s
Fijian collections, a part of which were but recently received.
Dr. H. L. Clark was enabled, through the kindness of Dr. A. G.
Mayer, Director of the Department of Marine Biology of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington, to spend the month of June
at the Laboratory of the Institution at the Tortugas. His col-
lections, chiefly echinoderms, contain a few species new to science,
as well as others of exceptional interest.
Prof. P. E. Raymond continued his field-work in the Middle
Ordovician of New York. In his work he was assisted by Mr.
T. H. Clark, who, later at Martinsburg, made a large collection of
fossils which he has presented to the Museum.
The thanks of the Museum are due Miss Elizabeth B. Bryant
for her work upon the collection of Araneina, to Mr. L. W. Swett
for his work upon the Geometridae, and to Prof. Carlos de la
Torre and to Messrs. J. B. Henderson, Goodwin Warner, and Walter
Wilcox who gave most efficient assistance in the field-work in Cuba
and the Isle of Pines.
The new accessions to the collection of mammals, about 1,500
specimens, have been identified and catalogued by Dr. G. M. Allen,
who has also finished the rearrangement of the rodents and made a
beginning of the perissodactyles. Dr. Allen has also spent consider-
able time in working out from the matrix many hitherto unknown
fossils from Cuba and Porto Rico and in describing the same.
Mr. Outram Bangs’s constant work during recent years has
brought the ornithological collection into thoroughly satisfactory
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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. oa
condition. Arranged according to the Sharpe Hand-list, the entire
collection is readily accessible. Mr. Bangs has had the helpful
codperation of Mr. T. E. Penard in some of his research work.
Dr. Barbour reports the accession of an unusual number of
species of reptiles and amphibians previously unrepresented in the
collection. His field-work and his researches relate chiefly to the
fauna of the West Indies.
Mr. Samuel Garman completed his study of the Galapagos tor-
toises in January and has since identified and rearranged certain
groups of fishes. As a temporary Assistant, Mr. Alvin Seale was
engaged from 17 October, 1916, until the close of the Museum year;
his work consisted of a critical revision including the labeling, cata-
loguing, and rearrangement of the greater part of the apodal and
serranoid fishes, and also a similar work upon a large part of the
clupeoid forms.
The permanent staff of the Museum has been strengthened by
the appointment of Mr. Nathan Banks as Curator of Insects.
During the early years (1863-1867) of the Museum, the entomo-
logical collections were in charge of three Assistants, Samuel H.
Scudder, Alpheus S. Packard, Jr., and Philip R. Uhler, later three
eminent entomologists. In October, 1867, Dr. H. A. Hagen took
charge of the collections, and during his term of service which
lasted until his death, they were placed in the front rank of Uni-
versity collections. During the fifty years since Dr. Hagen’s
appointment, the study of insects has become more and more
specialized, and the Museum is fortunate in its appointment of an
entomologist whose training and interests insure a broad and
equitable consideration of the work of his department. Mr.
Banks has most generously given to the Museum his private col-
lection of insects and arachnids, and also such of his books and
pamphlets which relate to the same as are not already in the
Museum Library; of his pamphlets more than 700 have been
entered and catalogued. His gift constitutes one of the largest
and most valuable entomological collections ever received by the
Museum; it includes most of the typical material described by
him since 1890, and is especially rich in neuropteroid insects and
in the Arachnida.
Dr. R. V. Chamberlin completed his Memoir on the ALBATROSS
Annelida Polychaeta, and his manuscript will go to press when the
eighty plates are printed. This will naturally require considerable
time, but the Alexander Agassiz Expedition Fund enables the work
to proceed as fast as practicable.
Mr. W. F. Clapp finished the rearrangement of the Gastropoda,
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and catalogued all few accessions and about 2,000 lots of specimens
previously received. He estimates that only 1% of the Gastro-
poda are not catalogued. During the year, Mr. Clapp made a
collection of Mollusca and other invertebrates in the ponds and
streams of Plymouth County.
Dr. Clark’s Museum work consisted of the identification and
cataloguing of the new accessions and the preparation of reports
upon several collections. The final part of the Memoir on the
Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini was published in March, and
two reports on collections of ophiurans were completed. The
collection of echinoderms contains 2,318 species and nearly
90,000 (89,998) specimens.
Dr. H. B. Bigelow prepared two reports, one on the Medusae
and siphonophores collected by the BAcHE in the western Atlantic,
and a second on the results of the 1916 cruise of the GRAMPUS.
Professor Raymond continued the rearrangement of the tri-
lobites completing the Agnostidae, Harpedidae, and Goldiidae.
He also finished a memoir dealing with the appendages of tri-
lobites, and made a final revision of a report on some new fossils
from the Trenton, collected by the Geological Survey of Canada.
Professor Raymond assisted the authorities of the Geological
Museum of Middlebury College in the identification of their col-
lection of fossils.
Miss Elvira Wood was employed for eight months and continued’
the revision and arrangement of the study series of Tertiary Gas-
tropoda. | |
Mr. R. W. Sayles reports that during the winter he was engaged
upon a memoir dealing with the relations of the Squantum tillite
and the Connecticut River clays. He states that there have been
but few accessions received during the year, a record to be quali-
fied by noting that his own munificent donation, George Carroll
Curtis’s model of the crater of Kilauea, Hawaii, is the most valu-
able gift ever received by the Geological section of the Museum,
and of the highest value for exhibition and for instruction. Like
the previous work of Mr. Curtis, it gives a trustworthy represen-
tation as to form and color; it is the result of a careful personal
survey, supplemented by accurate photographic data, and sup-
ported for four consecutive years by patient, generous, and enthusi-
astic encouragement. The Museum wishes to join with Mr.
Sayles in thanking Prof. T. A. Jaggar and Dr. H. O. Wood for the
many courtesies shown Mr. Curtis when in Hawaii.
The exceptional skill of Mr. George Nelson in all branches of
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 7
taxidermic work, frequently preserves valuable material seemingly
beyond repair; this, however, delays the continuous work requisite
for the completion of the larger mounts undertaken each year.
His notable work this year includes mounts of gigantic Land Tor-
toises from Aldabra and the Galapagos, an Alligator Snapper and
a number of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Mr.
Nelson also ably assisted Dr. Allen in developing the skeleton of a
Mesohippus and repaired and mounted for exhibition many
skeletons. He has made many excellent photographs to illustrate
the publications of the Museum.
Mr. A. B. Fuller’s time has been wholly employed upon the
study and exhibition collections of birds and mammals.
Col. John E. Thayer, to whose previous generosity the Museum
is indebted for many holographic letters and original drawings of
Alexander Wilson and J. J. Audubon, has given additional Wilson
drawings and also the gun that belonged to Wilson. This gun,
a single-barrelled flintlock, changed to percussion, was subse-
quently the property of John Cassin, W. P. Turnbull, W. P.
Hazard, and J. M. Wade. Free from the danger of fortuitous
ownership, this precious relic, still in an excellent state of pre-
servation, is at last properly housed in the Museum. With the
gun Colonel Thayer gave the letters relating its history. Colonel
Thayer has also given an interesting series of mammal skins from
southeastern California, and the original note-books kept by
Joseph Dixon in 1913-1914, when collecting birds and mammals
for him in the Arctic.
Mr. William Brewster has transferred from his private collec-
tion a number of North American birds of the greatest rarity.
His gift includes specimens of the California Condor, Heath Hen,
and two Labrador Ducks, one. a young male and the second an
adult female. Long extinct, the Labrador Duck is probably the
most valuable of ail North American birds; there are more Great
Auks than Labrador Ducks known; the species was previously
unrepresented in the Museum. |
Mr. Edward Doubleday Harris has given several boxes of his
fine collection of Cicindelidae (Tiger-beetles). For size, condi-
tion of the specimens, neatness and accuracy of the labeling, and
for the careful determination of the species, the Harris Collection
is not. surpassed by any. in America. The Museum is deeply
indebted to Mr. Harris for the gift of his most valuable collection.
For the valuable Moreno collection of skeletal remains of Ground
Sloths from the Pleistocene of Cuba, the Museum is indebted to the
8 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
generosity of Dr. Thomas Barbour, and a similar collection of bones
of Isolobodon from the shell-heaps of Porto Rico is due to the kind
interest of Mr. and Mrs. 8. K. Lothrop. Dr. Barbour has also
given the Museum a fine skeleton of an adult Tomistoma, a rare
crocodilian from Sarawak.
To Mr. Frank Springer, whose early interest and gifts enhanced
the value of the palaeontological collections, the Museum is
indebted for a number of species of rare crinoids, mostly species
new to the collection.
The Museum is also indebted to Dr. W. L. Smith for a young
Bison; to Mr. W. T. Hornaday for several Birds of Paradise; to
Dr. A. G. Ruthven for desirable amphibians and reptiles; to Dr.
Hiram Bingham for a series of Peruvian fishes; to Prof. W. M.
Wheeler for many interesting land invertebrates, especially, named
series of ants; to Messrs. Morgan Hebard and J. A. G. Rehn for
many Orthoptera, including recently described species; to Mr.
E. B. Williamson for types of Odonata; to Dr. J. W. Folsom for
types of Collembola; to Mr. J. H. Emerton for types of spiders;
and to the U. S. National Museum for a series of Philippine
Medusae.
The Library contains 54,427 volumes, and 52,499 pamphlets;
644 volumes and 2,029 pamphlets have been added during the year.
The publications of the year include two numbers of the
Memoirs, completing volume 30 and volume 46, twelve numbers
of the Bulletin, and the Annual Report, a total of 907 (248 quarto
and 659 octavo) pages and 97 (60 quarto and 37 octavo) plates.
One number of the Bulletin was published as a Contribution
from the Zodlogical Laboratory, two numbers as Contributions
from the Bussey Institution, and nine numbers of the Bulletin
contain reports on Museum collections or the results of field-work
undertaken in the interest of the Museum. The two contributions
from the Bussey Institution consist of reports on collections con-
tained in part in the Museum.
One Memoir completes the series of reports on the Hawaiian
and other Pacific Echini (provided for under the Alexander Agassiz
Expedition Fund), and the second describes and illustrates the
gigantic Land Tortoises of the Galapagos and is based on Museum
material. |
The Corporation granted $300. to aid in the publication of
Contributions from the Zoélogical and Geological Laboratories.
SAMUEL HENSHAW,
Director.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 8)
REPORT ON THE ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
By E. L. Mark.
No new courses in Zoédlogy were announced for 1916-1917; but
the designation of the course on Genetics and Eugenics was
changed from Zoélogy 2 to Zoédlogy 8. As much the larger num-
ber of students taking courses in Zodlogy do their work in the first
half-year, the intensive military training and the various war
service activities affected only a relatively small proportion of the
students. The numbers of those in each of the second half-year
courses who took the Zodlogical examinations prepared for the
TABLE I.
Graduates
Courses _ MsFaduates, Med. R.O. | Sh
1915-1916 A. &S.1 Ap. 8. Sen. | Jun. |Soph.|Fresh.| Uncl.| ocC. | Sp. Trop. Total TC.
Zoblogy 1 | 2 1 16 | 33 | 59 | 58
9.1) bo: 10:|-4 >| 198
eres O17! 81141 10}.8] 3-|—} 4} —] 52+3|13| 5
oy 2 | 3-8] 1 (eat 42S S| Se SS ee
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Src |1 1 ee ee ay oe econ eee Drees Pe oo
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est 1117/19) 9) 1) 6} 2} —|—]| 5842} —] —
EE a a aS ee es ee ae ee ee
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emererris | —{—)—)—)—|—}—}—] 442) —] —
A200} 2 Bet AA ese oe | — | —] 2 bie
: 206 | 1 — |}— | — | —} — | —I1—-—!|—!/]—]: 1 —} —
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ESE SE PS OS er ee ead ee (eee ee ee
Sums 38+ 13) 17+-6| 55 | 79 | 88 | 67 | 22] 6 | 15] 4 |3891+19| 22 | 7
Note: Numbers in italics indicate students who attended the lectures, but
were not enrolled in the course.
» 1Zoélogy 8 was designated as Zoédlogy 2 in the year 1915-16.
10 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
TABLE IL.
Courses Trop.
1915-1916 Gr. Sen. Jun. | Soph. | Fresh. | Uncl. | Spec. | Med. | Total
Zoology 1 2 2 6 9 11 5 = 1 36
* 2 = 7 18 11 = 3 = a 39
ie 3 5 cae if 1 1 2 M sae 6
¥ 4 1 t 3 — <== wa — 5 5
. 5a 1 1 2 — — — — — 4
* 14b 1 2 — — = ——# a i mae 3
- 17 aes 1 = eae as as ee a 1
2 20a 1 a aA a ra =e = <= 1
‘ 20c 2 = aa 5 = aa Ss — 2
cs 20g = } = aS = =: —— ira 1
Sums 8 15 30 shi 12 10 1 1 98
Reserve Officers Training Corps, and likewise of those credited
with the courses on a “short year” on-account of war service are
indicated in separate columns of Table I, which, as usual, shows
the number of students from each class, or other division of the
University, enrolled in each of the Harvard courses. ‘Table II
gives like information about the number of students from Radcliffe
College.
The enrollments in Zodlogy 1 and Zodlogy 3 were larger than in
any previous year, and about thirty-five applicants were excluded
from Zodlogy 1 for want of adequate laboratory accommodations.
The assistants in the several courses were:— Zoology 1, Harvard :—
chief-assistants, Messrs. S. Hecht and D. E. Minnich; sub-
assistants, Messrs. J. P. Baumberger, S. W. Chase, A. B. Dawson,
H. Jordan and P. H. Pope; Radcliffe:— chief-assistant, Mr. S. W.
Chase, sub-assistant, Mr. A. B. Dawson. Zodlogy 3, Harvard :—
chief-assistant, Mr. J. M. D. Olmsted; sub-assistants, Messrs.
S. W. Chase and S. Hecht; Radcliffe:— assistant, Mr. A. B.
Dawson. Zodlogy 4, Harvard :— assistant, Mr. J. M. D. Olmsted;
Radcliffe :— assistant, Mr. A. B. Dawson. Zodlogy 5, Harvard
and Radcliffe:— assistant, Mr. A. C. Walton. Zodlogy 8, assist-
ant, Mar.-L. C.- Dunn.
The courses designated as Zodlogy 7a, 7b, 7c, and 10 were given
at the Bussey Institution, the others in Cambridge. Eight of
the students in Zoédlogy 8 took laboratory work, the others were
instead assigned reading with weekly conferences. Of the students
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. jal
in Zoélogy 14b, four in Harvard and one in Radcliffe took the
laboratory work, the others presented theses.
In the University Extension Course in Elementary Zodlogy by
Professor Parker there were twenty-four students. Mr. H. G.
Coar was the assistant.
Work in research, though in several cases interrupted by war
demands, was counted as the equivalent of courses as follows:—
in Harvard, Zodlogy 20a and 20), under Professor Mark, eight
courses; Zodlogy 20c, under Professor Parker, nine and a half
courses; Zodlogy 20d, under Professor Castle, one course; Zodlogy
20e and 20g, under Assistant Professor Rand, seven and a half
courses: Zodlogy 20f, under Professor Wheeler and Assistant
Professor Brues, six courses; in Radcliffe, Zodlogy 20a, under
Professor Mark, one course; Zodlogy 20c, under Professor Parker,
two and a half courses; Zodlogy 20g, under Assistant Professor
Rand, a half course. Courses 20d and 20f were carried on at the
Bussey Institution.
The degree of Ph.D. was conferred in February on Alfred
Clarence Redfield, whose thesis was on “The physiology of the
melanophores of the horned toad,” and in June on Selig Hecht,
whose thesis was entitled “The physiology of Ascidia atra Lesueur’’,
and on Dwight Elmer Minnich, whose thesis was on “The photic
reactions of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. A quantitative
study in circus movements.”
Owing to the demands of the war, only one Harvard student in
addition to the Resident Naturalist was at work at the Bermuda
Biological Station during the summer. Aid from the Humboldt
Fund to the amount of $150 was granted during the year.
The Harvard Table at the Marine Biological Laboratory,
Woods Hole, was occupied by a research student in physiology,
and the Radcliffe table was shared by a Radcliffe Senior, pursu-
- ing physiology, and a Radcliffe Junior, who took the course in
embryology.
At the twenty-seven meetings held at the Zodlogical Club the
average attendance was about 18. Thirty-three original papers
and eleven reviews were presented.
Lists of the Contributions from the Zodlogical Laboratory and
from the Bermuda Biological Station for Research are given on
p. 38-35; other papers by members of the Department are listed
under the authors’ names.
2 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
REPORT OF THE STURGIS HOOPER PROFESSOR OF
GEOLOGY.
By REGINALD A. DALY.
While continuing to act as departmental chairman, instruction
was given in Geology 4, 9, and 20c.
During the year a paper on the geology of Pigeon Point, Minne-
sota, two papers on the coral-reef problem, a fourth on the genetic
classification of underground volatile agents, and a fifth on the
origin of the alkaline rocks, were written and sent to press. The
spring and summer months were partly occupied by the instruc-
tion of the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps in topographic
mapping. The remainder of the field-season was devoted to
special studies in the serpentine area of Quebec and to continued
work on the intrusive masses at Mt. Monadnock, Vermont; at
Pleasant Mountain and Burnt Meadow mountains, Maine; and
near Litchfield, Maine. At the last-mentioned locality the well-
known nephelite syenite, hitherto found only in glacial erratics,
was discovered in place, forming dike-like bodies cutting crystal-
line schists. 3
In April Dr. Harry Clark delivered the deep-sea thermograph
noted in last year’s report, thus completing his contract. To
defray in part the cost of his honorarium and of manufacture, a
second grant of seven hundred dollars was made from the Bache
Fund of the National Academy of Sciences. The rest of the cost
was, with similar generosity, largely met by liberal gifts from
Messrs. Rodolphe L. Agassiz, Livingston Davis, and George B.
Leighton, members of the Visiting Committee of the Department
of Geology and Geography. Endurance and other tests of the
instrument have been satisfactorily made by the writer, though
no opportunity has yet been given for tests in deep water.
——) 2
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 13
REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
AND GEOGRAPHY.
By Recinautp A. DALY.
This year the Department was fortunate in having the collabora-
tion of two visiting professors. During the first half-year, Prof.
W. S. Tower of the University of Chicago conducted course 3,
on the geography of South America, and course 11, on economic
geography. ‘The demand for these new courses and the success
with which they were administered prove the advisability of
securing regular instruction in the same subjects. The payment
for Professor Tower’s services was secured in part from the Latin
American Fund and in part by subscriptions from members of
the Visiting Committee.
During the second half-year, Prof. Raoul Blanchard of the
University of Grenoble, as exchange professor from France gave,
in French, a course (Geography 4) on the geography of the Alps
and of certain French cities. His brilliant instruction and the
sound philosophy underlying it, like the admirable influence of
Professor Tower on our advanced students, made specially vivid
the need of at least one professorship of human geography.
During the first half-year, Professor Smyth was on leave of
absence. The assistants appointed for the year were:— Messrs.
T. H. Clark, J. W. Eggleston, R. M. Field, D. A. Hall, D. H.
McLaughlin, M. Noble, Roderick Peattie, Thorndike Saville,
W. J. R. Taylor, and B. M. Varney. On January Ist, to the
great regret of the Department, Mr. G. M. Flint resigned as pre-
parator, having long served with quite unusual efficiency. The
position is now filled by Mr. R. C. Ray, who has, in turn, won the
full confidence of the staff. Miss D. Upham’s services were of
great value in expediting correspondence and stencilling and in
the care of the Gardner Collection of lantern slides.
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted that under specified
conditions, advanced geological courses, taken at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, may be counted toward the Harvard
degrees of A. M. and Ph. D. This vote advances the codperation
14 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
between the two departments, which this year has been signalized
by the interchange of both professors and graduate students.
During the second half-year and on into the summer months,
five professors of the Department gave instruction in topographic
mapping to the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps.
In April the section of economic geology moved to com-
modious quarters in Pierce Hall.
The numbers of students taking the different Harvard courses
were:
Geology 4 204 Geography 4 11
¢ 5 50 4: 6 22
by 9 6 7 it
3 10 10 7 11 18
“ 12 S “ 1 5 60
“14 2 . 20a 4
_ 16 9 _ Palaeontology 1 9
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At Radcliffe Geology 4 was given to twenty-two students and
Geology 5 to twelve students. The total enrollments at Harvard
were 703 as against 515 in 1915-1916 and 232 five years ago;
at Radcliffe, twenty-four as against forty-nine in 1915-1916. The
number of Harvard courses and half-courses was twenty-eight
as against fifteen in 1912-1913.
Owing to war conditions none of the summer courses was given
this year. In June the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was con-
ferred on Messrs. D. H. McLaughlin, Alfred Wandtke, and Edward
Wigglesworth.
Part of the income of the Wis Fund was granted to Mr.
T. H. Clark, for his stratigraphic investigations in New York
State. The Sheldon Fund committee granted to Mr. J. P..
Connolly $650. for his studies of mining camps in the far west.
The fund given by Dr. W. 8. Bigelow, noted last year, was
again most useful, defraying the travelling expenses of three
visiting lecturers, Professor Scott of Princeton, Professor de
Martonne of Paris, and Professor Barrell of Yale.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. £5
Mr. Wigglesworth reports on the Gardner Collection of photo-
graphs and lantern slides, as follows:
Photographs Slides
——_—
Accessions since last year 1 621
Unidentified views 150 0
Duplicates 116 0
Broken 0 2
Last accession number 7,855 10,060
Number now in collection 7,744 10,060
Card catalogued 0 9,550
The most valuable accession of recent years is a set of 4380
lantern slides of the French Alps and the Pyrenees, the gift of
Professor Raoul Blanchard. Professor McAdie presented a
small set of slides of exceptional merit, illustrating frost forma-
tion. The slides given by the Australian Commonwealth men-
tioned in the last report have been catalogued. |
Owing to other duties, Mr. Wigglesworth resigned the curator-
ship of the Gardner Collection. 'The Department heartily regrets
this and records its gratitude for his unselfish devotion.
Professor Woodworth gave the Harvard courses, Geology
5, 12, 19, and 20e and the Radcliffe courses, Geology 4 and 5.
Owing to his work on the geology of Cape Cod and the islands
along the Massachusetts coast for the U.S. G.S., he was not able to
maintain the monthly issues of the seismographic records; during
the latter half of the year 1916, the records of the Harvard station
were kindly deciphered and published by the U. 8. Weather
Bureau. Room 55 in the Geological Section of the Museum
has been fitted up for laboratory work in Professor Woodworth’s
advanced courses. As a member of the committee on geology
and palaeontology of the National Research Council and as
chairman of the subcommittee on the use of seismographs in war,
Professor Woodworth devoted much time to those services.
Professor Atwood conducted the geographical courses numbered
1, 6, 7, and 20a. In codperation with Mr. Peattie he prepared
papers entitled “Saving the silts of the Mississippi’ and the
“Relation of landslide and glacial deposits to reservoir sites in the
San Juan Mountains”. He continued his work on the more
comprehensive report, covering the physiography of the San
Juan Mountains, Colorado.
16 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Professor Raymond conducted the courses Palaeontology 1,
20, Geology 14; and gave one lecture each week in Geology 5.
Geology 14 was given for the first time.
Through the assistance of Messrs. Robert W. Sayles and Richard
M. Field, the Department was enabled to purchase a modern
microphotographic apparatus for use in stratigraphic geology.
Mr. Field also contributed toward the fitting up of the dark room.
- Having been granted an allotment from the Shaler Memorial
Fund for an investigation of the stratigraphy of the Ordovician
strata of the Appalachians, Professor Raymond spent two months
in the field in Pennsylvania and Virginia. Numerous sections
were studied and much information obtained as to the faunas and
geographic extent of various formations. In this work, Mr.
Richard M. Field of Brown University, Dr. E. W. Shuler of
Southern Methodist University, and Prof. 8. L. Powell of Roanoke
College, codperated. é
Geology 10, conducted chiefly by Professor Graton, included
also lectures on iron ores by Professor Smyth and lectures on
gold and silver by Professor W. Lindgren of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. In reciprocation, Professor Graton gave
a course on ore deposits at the Institute during the second half
year. These arrangements illustrate the progress being made
in the highly desirable codperation between the Harvard and
Technology Departments of Geology. Geology 18 of former
years was divided into two half courses, Geology 18a being given
by Professors Palache and Wolff and Geology 18)b by Professor
Graton, with lectures on coal by Professor Jeffrey of the Depart-
ment of Botany and on petroleum by Mr. W. F. Jones of the Insti-
tute of Technology. Under direction from Professor Graton,
two graduate students devoted the entire summer to field-work.
' As heretofore, the principal subjects of research in Economic
Geology are among those related to the study of secondary enrich-
ment of copper ores. A thesis entitled “Occurrence and signi-
ficance of bornite”’ by Dr. D. H. McLaughlin, accepted for the
doctorate, will be published as a number of separate articles, one
of which has already appeared. Mr. J. P. Connolly began an
investigation on ore occurrence in limestones and Mr. D. A. Hall
continued his study of the ore deposits at Butte, Montana.
Through the interest and generosity of alumni, there was made
available for the work in Economic Geology during the year
the sum of $3,000. which has been devoted to the improvement
and increase of equipment and facilities for instruction. A similar
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sum has been pledged for a number of years to come and should
enable the instruction in this branch to be made very much more
effective than has been possible heretofore.
Professor Ward gave his usual meteorological courses. In
May, at the request of President Maclaurin, he was assigned to
the teaching staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and has since then, under the direction of the War Department,
given regular instruction in meteorology in the United States
Army School of Military Aéronautics at the Institute. By direc-
tion of the Chief Signal Officer, Professor Ward has prepared an
outline of his lectures on meteorology in relation to aviation, to
serve as a text in all the Schools of Military Aéronautics. As
President of the Association of American Geographers, Professor
Ward devoted considerable time to the affairs of that organiza-
tion. He is also a member of the Geography Committee of the
National Research Council. During March, as visiting Lecturer
in the Department of Geography of the University of Wisconsin,
he gave a course on climatological subjects. Special attention has
been paid to the effects of weather conditions upon military opera-
tions in the War, and several papers have been published on this
subject. Professor Ward has also prepared a second edition of
his “Climate” which is now in press.
18 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
REPORT ON THE MAMMALS.
By Outram BAnGs.
During the year, the larger collections received were:— remains
of land mammals from cave deposits and recent mammals from
Cuba, collected by Prof. Carlos de la Torre, Dr. Thomas Barbour,
Messrs. W. S. Brooks and Goodwin Warner, about 250 specimens:
remains of Isolobodon from Porto Rico, collected by Mr. and Mrs.
S. K. Lothrop, about 50 specimens; remains of five other extinct
Porto Rican genera, collected by Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. J. L.
Peters; an important collection of bonés of Cuban ground sloths
from Dr. Barbour, about 220 pieces; 175 skulls and other bones
of seals from Greenland, from the Peabody Museum; 100 alco-
holic bats from Cuba from Professor de la Torre; 90 skins and
skulls from southeastern California, from Col. John E. Thayer;
125 skins and alcoholics from northwestern Peru, collected by
Mr. G. K. Noble, as Zodlogist of the Expedition to Peru.
In exchange there have been received, 17 fossil specimens from
Patagonia and the early Tertiary of North America, from the
Museum of Amherst College; a rare monkey, Preslytis potenzianr;
and two examples of the Porto Rican bat, Erophylla portoricen-
sis, both species new to the collection, from the U. 8. National
Museum.
Specimens have been loaned for study to nine persons.
Single specimens, or small series of specimens have been received
from Messrs. G. M. Allen, Thomas Barbour, William Brewster,
G. C. Deane, J. W. Elliot, T. R. Fisher, A. B. Fuller, R. T.
Jackson, J. E. Law, Theodore Lyman, W. M. Mann, R. M.
Marble, George Nelson, J. L. Peters, J. B. Rorer, J. E. Thayer,
Carlos de la Torre, C. W. Townsend, and J. B. Woodworth; also
from Mrs. A. T. Friend, Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Lothrop, the Florida
Amalgamated Phosphate Company, the Boston Society of Natural
History, the Peabody Museum, and the Shaler Memorial Expedi-
tion.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 19
REPORT ON THE BIRDS.
By WILLIAM BREWSTER.
The total number of bird skins acquired during the year falls
somewhat short of 1,000 — or, to be more precise, is about 940.
Of these, 507 representing 149 species and subspecies, of which
73 are new to the Museum and several equally so to science, were.
obtained in northwestern Peru by Mr. G. K. Noble while associ-
ated with the Expedition to Peru. Early in this same year
Messrs. Barbour, Brooks, and Warner collected, in Cuba and the
Isle of Pines, 164 birds many of which possess exceptional rarity
or interest.
The Curator has transferred to the Museum, by gift from his
private collection, a pair of Labrador Ducks, five California Con-
dors, four Heath Hens and some other North American birds
together with 172 specimens originally given him by the late Dr.
James C. Merrill, U. S. A., who collected them, during years now
long since past, while stationed at various western army posts
including Edinburgh and Fort Brown, Texas, Fort Sherman,
Idaho, and Fort Reno, Indian Territory.
Two House Sparrows, Passer domesticus (Linné), received from
Drs. Walter Faxon and W. M. Tyler deserve especial mention
because of their peculiar coloration. This is very generally bright
vinaceous russet tinged here and there with rosy and shading into
bright terracotta or testaceous on the wing-bars, sides of throat,
and middle of belly. These tints pigment the skins as well as the
plumage. Both birds were members of a large flock of normally
colored Sparrows which frequented a poultry yard at Lexington,
Mass., in March, 1917.
For gifts of bird skins in small series or singly the Museum is
indebted to Miss Mabel P. Cook, to the Massachusetts Commis-
sioner of Fisheries and Game (for a Heath Hen from Martha’s
Vineyard), to the New York Zodlogical Society, and to Messrs.
Outram Bangs, E. N. Fischer, A. B. Fuller, George Nelson, T. E.
Penard, J. L. Peters, J. C. Phillips, W. M. Tyler, and C. C. Wil-
loughby. By exchange we have received from the Brooklyn
20) ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Institute three birds taken at South Georgia Island; from the |
United States National Museum thirty specimens collected in the
Celebes, Philippines, Nicobar, and Simalu Islands, representing
eleven species of which eight are new to us. Twelve bird skins
have been sent in exchange to the National Museum of Ireland;
three to the Brooklyn Institute; and one to the Boston Society
of Natural History.
For scientific study we have loaned 115 bird skins to Dr. W. E.
Clyde Todd, twenty-seven to Mr. C. B. Cory, twenty-five to Dr.
F. M. Chapman, eleven to Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., five to
‘Dr. C. W. Richmond, four to Mr. H. C. Oberholser, three to Mr.
C. K. Coale, two to Mr. C.’R. Murphy, while 32 have been
submitted to Mr. L. A. Fuertes to serve for purposes of illustrations.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. ZA
REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS.
By Tuomas BaARBour.
The year has been a most eventful one for this Department,
and an unusual number of species previously unrepresented in
the collection have been received. Chief among these was the
splendid series secured by Dr. W. M. Mann in the Fiji and Solo-
mon Islands.
Dr. G. M. Allen and Mr. J. L. Peters secured some interest-
ing species in Porto Rico. Mr. Peters subsequently collected
desirable forms on Anegada, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda. He also
visited St. Thomas and some of the smaller islets. The Associate
Curator visited Cuba during January—March, and had the enthusi-
astic and untiring aid of Messrs. W. S. Brooks and Goodwin
Warner. ‘These gentlemen also spent several weeks in the Isle
of Pines, and secured there additional material. Dr. Ruthven
of the University of Michigan has continued his very kind gifts of
paratypes of the new forms which he describes from South America.
Many other valued specimens have been received from him in
exchange.
Through unusual good fortune, a fine skeleton of an adult
Tomistoma from Sarawak was obtained, as also specimens of the
excessively rare Hyla lichenata from Jamaica. Some rare North
American species collected in Arizona were also purchased. But
few exchanges were completed this year, these having been with
the U. S. National Museum, the University of Michigan Museum,
and the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. Each of
these institutions has likewise loaned and borrowed material for
study. Thanks are due to Dr. M.Grabham of Jamaica and Dr.
A. W. Sellards of the Harvard Medical School for welcome gifts.
22 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
REPORT ON THE FISHES.
By SAMUEL GARMAN.
The most important additions were the gifts of South American
fishes by Dr. Hiram Bingham, many of them cotypes from descrip- |
tions by Eigenmann; a fine series of Bermudan fishes donated
by the Bermuda Biological Station for Research; and a very
interesting lot of the species. frequenting the coral reefs of the
Solomon Islands, collected by Dr. W. M. Mann.
The usual amount of attention has been devoted to the care of
the collections, that is, to the regular work demanded by the
Department.
Mr. Alvin Seale has worked over a large part of the eels and
Serranidae.
By exchanges and by purchases the Museum has brought
together one of the best series known of the Giant Tortoises of
the Galapagos Islands; this provided for my memoir, The Gala-
pagos Tortoises (Mem. M. C. Z., 30, no. 4).
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 23
REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
By NatTHan BANKs.
During the eight months the present Curator has been in
_ charge, much of his time has been spent in becoming acquainted
with the collection and its arrangement. The collection has been
examined for pests and fumigated where necessary. A consider-
able amount of material in Hymenoptera and Hemiptera has been
pinned, and most of the unmounted Odonata are now pinned and
spread. The miscellaneous insects collected some years since by
Mr. A. P. Morse in the Southern States and in New England,
have been mounted, and much of Dr. Barbour’s East Indian col-
lection has also been pinned. The Hymenoptera, Diptera, and
Hemiptera in a number of miscellaneous collections have been
assorted and placed in the main collection.
The Psammocharidae, Scoliidae, and Philanthidae have been
studied, and the new species described; the Psammocharidae of
Cornell University have been determined for the desirable dupli-
cates, and the collection of Prof. C. T. Brues in this family, kindly
presented to the Museum, has also been identified.
In the Diptera the Asilidae have been partly studied and the
genera Dasyllis and Dioctria revised and the results published.
In the Neuroptera various species of Myrmeleonidae and Termi-
tidae have been examined.
The accessions have been very large. The Curator’s collections
contain fully 60,000 pinned insects and more than 60,000 Arach-
nida. This, with that already in the Museum, makes the Museum
collections in the Neuroptera and Arachnida more important than
the combined collections of these groups in this country. In the
Neuroptera the Curator’s collection contains nearly 900 types, and
about as many in the Arachnida, with over two hundred addi-
tional types in other orders of insects. This collection materially
increases the Museum collection in Hymenoptera, Diptera, and
Hemiptera. The Curator has collected a thousand or more speci-
mens in the vicinity of Lexington, Mass.
Valuable donations of insects have been received from Messrs.
24 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
C. F. Baker, J. C. Bradley, H. Brauns, C. T. Brues, F. Campos,
J. H. Emerton, F. Grinnell, H. R. Hagan, E. D. Harris, C. Gordon
Hewitt, R. C. Smith, E. W. Thompson, W. M. Wheeler, E. B.
Williamson, and a fine collection of Cuban insects from Dr.
Thomas Barbour.
Specimens in exchange were received from Messrs. R. J. Tillyard
and E. Petersen.
The purchases include several families of the G. Birkmann
collection of Hymenoptera and the collection of Diptera (largely
Tachinidae) of Mr. Harrison E. Smith.
Specimens were loaned for study to Messrs. J. M. Aldrich (An-
thomyidae), C. P. Alexander (Tipulidae), C. T. Brues (Serphi-
dae), E. A. Chapin (Cleridae), G. H. Chapman (Buprestidae), F. C.
Cole (Cyrtidae), J. H. Comstock (Myiodactylus), G. C. Crampton
(Merope and other Neuroptera), C. L. Kennedy (Odonata), J. R.
Malloch (Tiphia), H. M. Parshley (Tingidae and Aradidae),
J. C. Root (Coccinellidae), and H. E. Smith (Tachinidae).
Mr. L. W. Swett has kindly continued his work on Geometridae.
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MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 25
REPORT ON THE MYRIOPODS, ARACHNIDS, AND
WORMS.
By Ratpepu V. CHAMBERLIN.
Accessions of chilopods and diplopods were received during
the year from Messrs. J. W. Bailey, (from Louisiana), H. L. Clark,
R. T. Cotton, C. R. Crosby, W. J. Crozier, Harold Cummins,
(about Nashville, Tenn.), J. H. Emerton, Harold Heath, W. C.
Henderson, W. Hilton, Chas. F. Horan, L. O. Howard, C. A.
Kofoid, W. M. Mann, P. S. Parrott, Phil. Rau, C. B. Williams.
Specimens of arachnids were received from Miss E. B. Bryant,
Messrs. S. C. Chamberlin, H. L. Clark, W. M. Mann, and C. B.
Williams.
Gifts of worms were received from Messrs. H. B. Bigelow,
H. L. Clark, Thurlow C. Nelson, and Max H. Ruhmann.
Aside from routine work on various small collections of myrio-
pods and arachnids received for identification, and some days in
August spent in field-work in the Wahsatch Mts., my time during
the year was almost wholly devoted to the completion of a report
on the annelids of the Albatross expeditions of 1891, 1899-1900,
and 1904-1905.
26 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
REPORT ON THE ECHINODERMS.
By Hupert Lyman Cuark.
The routine work has consisted chiefly of the identification and
cataloguing of the extensive additions received from various
sources. ‘These additions total nearly 3,300 specimens.
Aside from this work, the preparation of reports has occupied
the time. The monograph of Recent Echini. begun by Mr. Agassiz
and myself in 1904 was completed and the final portion, Part 6,
dealing with the spatangoids, was published in March. This
part contains an index to the entire work. Reports were also
completed on the ophiurans collected by the ALBATROSS in 1899-
1900 and in 1904-1905, and on new or notable ophiurans in the
M. C. Z. collection. Progress has also been made on a monograph
on the echinoderms of South Africa.
The month of June was spent at the Tortugas Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution, where more than 800 specimens of 71 species
of echinoderms were collected, half a dozen of which are new, not
only to the M. C. Z. collection, but apparently to science also.
Some very interesting additional species were collected near Key
West, Florida. Besides this material, which has been identified
and catalogued, the chief accessions of the year were the collec-
tion from Tobago (referred to in last year’s report) and series of
spatangoids and of holothurians from the U. 8. National Museum,
in return for the identification of material. Specimens were
received from Messrs. F. N. Balch, W. J. Crozier, W. A. Hilton,
E. G. Humphrey, R. T. Jackson, W. M. Mann, A. G. Mayer,
Alvin Seale, and D. Thaanum. At the end of the year, the collec-
tion of echinoderms was made up as follows:—
No. of Genera No. of Species No. of Specimens
Crinoids 45 164 2,936
Asteroids 122 538 12,973
Ophiurans 144 777 24,351
Kehini 132 467 44,620
Holothurians 59 372 5,118
Totals 502 2318 89,998
five rs as “ago nas an increase of 11% in number of
ww in number of species and 19% in number of
28 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
REPORT ON THE COELENTERATES.
By Henry B. BiGELow.
The most important accession to the collection is a series of
hydroids from British Columbia, from Dr. C. McLean Fraser,
including many species not previously represented in the Museum.
Bermudan Medusae have been presented by Dr. W. J. Crozier, and
specimens from the Gulf of Mexico by Mr. Percy Viasco.
My chief work has been the preparation of a report on the
Medusae and siphonophores collected by the U. S. Coast and
Geodetic steamer BACHE during her cruise in the western Atlantic
in 1914, and the working up of the results of the GRAMPUS cruise
of 1916.
During the winter, in collaboration with the Interdepartmental
Board on International Ice observation and Patrol in the North
Atlantic, a program of oceanographic work was laid out for the
coast guard steamer SENECA, to be carried out during her ice survey
of the Grand Banks. But the outbreak of the war caused its
temporary abandonment.
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REPORT ON INVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY.
By Percy E. RAYMOND.
The rearrangement of the collection of trilobites has been con-
tinued during the year, and the Agnostidae, Harpedidae, and
Goldiidae finished. The study of the Agnostidae brought out
new points in connection with the classification of the trilobites
which were discussed in an article published in the American
Journal of Science. Some time was given to the final revision
of an article describing a number of new species of fossils from the
Trenton, collected by the writer and his assistant while members
of the Geological Survey of Canada. The major research of the
year relates to the appendages of trilobites, the unique material
in the Yale University Museum having been put at my disposal
for the purpose of gathering together for one publication all at
present known concerning the morphology of these organisms.
The results of this study will be published as a memoir by the
Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In September, 1916, I spent a week in collecting fossils from
the middle Ordovician formations of the Mohawk and Black River
valleys in New York, being accompanied by Mr. T. H. Clark, who
remained at Martinsburg for two weeks after my return, and made
a large collection, which he has presented to the Museum.
In June of this year, on the invitation of a former student,
Prof. W. G. Foye, I spent a week in Vermont, devoting a part of
the time to field-work, and a part to the identification of fossils in
the Geological Museum of Middlebury College. In exchange
for my assistance in this work, the Museum received a good assort-
ment of duplicates from their material, including many specimens
new to the collection.
In addition to material collected by the Curator, the Museum
has received during the year three drawers of Ordovician fossils
from Dr. Sidney Powers, one lot of Carboniferous and one lot of
Eocene fossils from Dr. D. C. Barton, and one drawer of Triassic
fossils from Dr. Alfred Wandtke. Prof. S.“L. Powell has also sent
four boxes of Ordovician fossils from Virginia.
30 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL COLLECTION.
By Rospert W. SAYLES.
During the past year there have been few accessions to the col-
lections. In July, a collection of sand-blasted pebbles was made
near Highland Light on Cape Cod. In August, September, and
October, an investigation of the annual layers in the glacial clays
of the Connecticut Valley was undertaken, for a comparison with
the annual layers in the glacial slate at Squantum peninsula.
From Hanover, N. H., northward for about fifty miles, clays were
examined on both sides of the river. Practically all the pheno-
mena observed in the Squantum glacial slate was found also in
these clays of the Connecticut River Valley. During the winter,
almost the entire time was used in writing a memoir, of a com-
parative nature, on the Squantum slate and the Connecticut River
clays. In conjunction with this work in the Connecticut Valley,
many specimens of the annual layers of the clays were taken for
exhibition purposes. Some of these have folds due to glacial
over-riding. A large number of clay concretions of unusual shapes
were collected at Woodsville.
The Museum is indebted to Prof. E. L. Mark for some specimens
of calcareous rock of aeolian origin used for building purposes in
Bermuda, to Dr. Laurence LaForge, for the first striated pebble
found in the tillite at Hyde Park, and to Professors Woodworth and
Palache for other desirable gifts.
In June, the Kilauea model, made by Mr. George C. Curtis, a
gift of the Curator, was formally exhibited at a private view to
members of the University interested in the Geological section of
the Museum.
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. ol
REPORT ON THE LIBRARY.
During the Museum year from August, 1, 1916, to July 31, 1917,
inclusive, 644 volumes, 1,225 parts of volumes, and 2,029 pam-
phlets have been added to the Library.
The total number of volumes in the Library is 54,427, the total
number of pamphlets is 52,499.
Four hundred and twenty-three volumes have been bound;
twelve hundred pamphlets have been separately bound.
ae. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
PUBLICATIONS
FOR THE YEAR 1916-1917
(1 Aueust, 1916-31 Juty, 1917)
MusEuM oF CoMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY.
BULLETIN: —
Vol. LVII.
No. 4. The lithobiid genera Oabius, Kiberbius, Paobius, Arebius, Nothem-
bius, and Tigobius. By Ralph V. Chamberlin. pp. 90. 10 Plates.
October, 1916.
Vol. LX.
No. 10. The resident birds of Guadeloupe. By G. K. Noble. pp. 40.
. August, 1916.
No. 11. The Stanford Expedition to Brazil, 1911, John C. Branner, Direc-
tor. The ants of Brazil. By William M. Mann. pp. 94. 7 Plates.
September, 1916.
No. 12. The fossil Elateridae of Florissant. By H. F. Wickham. pp. 37.
7 Plates. October, 1916.
Vol. LXI.
No. 1. New fossil mammals from Cuba. By G. M. Allen. pp. 12. 1
Plate. January, 1917.
No. 2. The ants of Alaska. By William Morton Wheeler. pp. 10.
March, 1917.
No. 3. New spiders of the family Aviculariidae. By Ralph V. Chamber-
lin. pp. 54. 5 Plates. April, 1917.
No.4. Newspecies of apodal fishes. By Alvin Seale. pp.18. May, 1917.
No. 5. New fossorial Hymenoptera. By Nathan Banks. pp. 22. May,
1917.
No. 6. The introduction of West Indian Anura into Bermuda. By P. H.
Pope. pp. 16. 2 Plates. June, 1917.
No. 7. Notes on some Falkland Island birds. By W. Sprague Brooks.
pp. 28. 3 Plates. June, 1917.
No. 8. Explorations of the coast water between Cape Cod and Halifax
in 1914 and 1915, by the U.S. Fisheries Schooner Grampus. Oceanog-
raphy and plankton. By Henry B. Bigelow. pp. 198. 2 Plates.
July, 1917.
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MeEMoIRs :-—
Vol. XXX.
No. 4. The Galapagos tortoises. By Samuel Garman. pp. 40. 42
Plates. January, 1917.
Vol. XLVI.
No. 2. Hawaiian and other Pacific Echini. The Echinoneidae, Nucleo-
litidae, Urechinidae, Echinocorythidae, Calymnidae, Pourtalesiidae,
Palaeostomatidae, Aeropsidae, Palaeopneustidae, Hemiasteridae, and
Spatangidae. By Hubert Lyman Clark. pp. 203. 18 Plates. March,
1917.
REPORT :—
1915-1916. pp. 40. December, 1916.
ZOOLOGICAL LABORATORY.
CONTRIBUTIONS :—
277. Wewnricu, D. H.— Notes on the reactions of bivalve mollusks
to changes in light intensity: Image formation in Pecten.
Journ. animal behav., July-August, 1916, 6, p. 297-318.
278. Arey, L. B.— The influence of light and temperature upon the
migration of the retinal pigment of Planorbis trivolvis. Journ.
comp. neurol., August, 1916, 26, p. 359-389, 1 pl.
279. Watton, A. C.— Reactions of Paramoecium caudatum to light.
Journ. animal behav., September—October, 1916, 6, p. 335-340.
280. Watton, A. C.— The ‘refractive body’ and the ‘mitochon-
dria’ of Ascaris canis Werner.. Proc. Amer. acad. arts & sci.,
October, 1916, 52, p. 253-266, 2 pls.
281. Parker, G. H. anp Tirus, E. G.— The structure of Metridium
(Actinoloba) marginatum Milne Edwards with special refer-
ence to its neuro-muscular mechanism. Journ. exper. zoil.,
November, 1916, 21, p. 433-459, 1 pl.
282. Parker, G. H.— The effector systems of actinians. Journ.
exper. 206l1., November, 1916, 21, p. 461-484.
283. Watton, A. C.— A case of the occurrence of Ascaris triquetra
Schrank in dogs. Journ. parasitol., September, [November],
1916, 3, p. 39-41.
284. Parker, G. H.— Nervous transmission in the actinians.
Journ. exper. z06l., January, 1917, 22, p. 87-94.
285. Parker, G. H.— The movements of the tentacles in actinians.
Journ. exper. 206l., January, 1917, 22, p. 95-110.
286. Parker, G. H.— Pedal locomotion in actinians. Journ. exper.
z00l., January, 1917; 22, p. 111-124:
287. Parker, G. H.— The responses of hydroids to gravity. Proc.
Nat. acad. sci., February, 1917, 3, p. 72-73.
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r ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
288. Cor, W. H.— The reactions of Drosophila ampelophila Loew
to gravity, centrifugation and air currents. Journ. animal
behav., January—February, 1917, 7, p. 71-80.
289. OtmsteED, J. M. D.— Geotropism in Planaria maculata. Journ.
animal behav., January-February, 1917, 7, p. 81-86.
290. Parker, G. H.— Actinian behavior. Journ. exper. zodl.,
February, 1917, 22, p. 193-229.
291. REDFIELD, E. S. P.— The rhythmic contractions in the mantle
of lamellibranchs. Journ. exper. zodl., February, 1917, 22,
p. 231-239. ;
292. Reprretp, A. C.— The reactions of the melanophores of the
horned toad. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1917, 3, p. 202-
203.
293. Reprretp, A. C.— The codrdination of the melanophore reac-
tions of the horned toad. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1917,
3, p. 204-205.
294. Popr, P. H.— See supra, Bull. 61, no. 6.
BERMUDA BIOLOGICAL STATION FOR RESEARCH.
CONTRIBUTIONS :—
46. Crozier, W. J.— The taste of acids. Journ. comp. neurol.,
August, 1916, 26, p. 453-462.
47. Wenricu, D. H.— See supra, Contrib. Zodl. Rabi 277.
48. Crozier, W. J.—Cell penetration by acids. IL, Further
observations on the blue pigment of Chromodoris zebra.
Journ. biol. chem., September, 1916, 26, p. 217-224.
49. Crozizr, W. J.— Cell penetration by acids. II]. Data on
some additional acids. Journ. biol. chem., September, 1916,
26, p. 225-230.
50. Crozier, W. J.— Ona barnacle, Conchoderma wirgatum, attached
to a fish, Diodon hystrix. Amer. nat., October, 1916, 50
p. 636-639. .
51. Crozier, W. J.— On the immunity coloration of some nudi-
branchs. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., December, 1916, 2, p. 672-675.
52. Arry, L. B.— The sensory potentialities of the nudibranch
‘rhinophore.’ Anat. record, January, 1917, 11, p. 514-516.
53. Crozier, W. J.—Studies on Amphioxus. By E. L. Mark
and W. J. Crozier. JI. The photoreceptors of Amphioxus.
Anat. record, January, 1917, 11, p. 520.
54. Parker, G. H.— See supra, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 285.
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Parker, G. H.— See supra, Contrib. Zoél. Lab., 286.
JORDAN, H.—Rheotropism of Epinephelus striatus Bloch.
Proc. Nat. acad. sci., March, 1917, 3, p. 157-159.
57. Crozier, W. J.— The nature of the conical bodies on the mantle
of certain nudibranchs. Nautilus, January, 1917, 30, p. 103-
106.
58. Watton, A. C.—A case of regeneration in Panulirus argus.
Amer. nat., May, 1917, 51, p. 308-310.
59. Crozier, W. J.— On the periodic shoreward migrations of tropi-
cal nudibranchs. Amer. nat., June, 1917, 51, p. 377-382.
60. WoprEHouse, R. P.— Direct determinations of permeability.
Journ. biol. chem., April, 1917, 29, p. 453-458.
61. Crozier, W. J.— Occurrence of a holothurian new to the fauna
of Bermuda. Ann. mag. nat. hist., May, 1917, 19, p. 405-406.
62. Crozier, W. J.— On the pigmentation of a polyclad. Proc.
Amer. acad. arts & sci., May, 1917, 52, p. 723-730, 1 pl.
63. Porr, P. H— See supra, Bull. 61, no. 6: Contrib. Zoél. Lab.,
294.
64. Crozier, W. J.— Some structural variations in Chromodoris
zebra. Nautilus, April, 1917, 30, p. 140-142.
65. Crozier, W. J— A method of preserving large nudibranchs.
Nautilus, April, 1917, 30, p. 142-144.
66. Crozier, W. J.— Multiplication by fission in holothurians.
Amer. nat., September, 1917, 51, p. 560-566.
67. Jorpan, H.— Rheotropic responses of LEpinephelus striatus
Bloch. Amer. journ. physiol., June, 1917, 43, p. 488-454.
68. Crozier, W. J.— The behavior of holothurians in balanced
illumination. Amer. journ. physiol., July, 1917, 43, p. 510-513.
ALLEN, G. M.
An extinct Cuban Capromys. Proc. N. E. zoél. club, 28 March,
1917, 6, p. 53-56.
See also p. 32. Bull. 61, no. 1.
Atwoop, W. W.
The physiographic conditions of Butte, Montana, and Bingham
canyon, Utah, when the copper ores in these districts were
enriched. Econ. geol., 1916, 11, p. 697-740.
BANKs, NATHAN.
Acarians from Australian and Tasmanian ants and ant-nests.
Trans. Roy. soc. South Australia, 1916, 40, p. 224-240, pl. 23-30.
36 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
New mites mostly economic (Arach., Aran.). Entomol. news,
May, 1917, 28, p. 193-199, pl. 14, 15.
Synopsis of the genus Dasyllis (Asilidae). Bull. Brooklyn entomol.
soc., June, 1917, 12, p. 52-55.
Index to the literature of American economic entomology, January
1, 1905 to December 31, 1914. Melrose Highlands, 1917, 6,
323 pp.
See also p. 32. Bull. 61, no. 5.
Barsour, THOMAS. |
The reptiles and amphibians of Grenada. Grenada handbook for
1916, 1916, p. 236-243. ; : |
Additional notes on West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Proc.
Biol. soc. Washington, 16 December, 1916, 29, p. 215-220.
Amphibians and reptiles from Tobago. Proc. Biol. soc. Washing-
ton, 16 December, 1916, 29, p. 221-224.
Notes on the herpetology of the Virgin Islands. Proc. Biol. soc.
Washington, 23 May, 1917, 30, p. 97-104.
Two new West Indian birds. [With W. S. Brooks]. Proc. N. E.
z06l. club, 13 January, 1917, 6, p. 51-52.
Catalogo de los reptiles y anfibios de la Isla de Cuba. [With C. T.
Ramsden]. Mem. Soc. Cubana hist. nat., 1916, 2, p. 124-143.
BicEtLow, H. B. ‘s
Halimedusa, a new genus of Anthomedusae. Trans. Roy. soc.
Canada, September, 1916, ser. 3, sect. 4, 10, p. 91-95, 1 pl.
Explorations of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Steamer “ Bache,” in the western Atlantic, January—March, 1914
*** Oceanography. Rept. U. S. comm. fisher. for 1915, [May],
1917, Append. 5, 62 pp., 1 chart.
See also p. 32. Bull, 61, no. 8.
CHAMBERLIN, R. V.
See p. 32... Bull, 57, no. 4; 61, no. 3.
CuarK, H: ‘1. |
The miriamites. Scient. month., February, 1917, 4, p. 97-109.
Report on studies at Tobago, British West Indies. Carnegie inst.,
Yearbook no. 15, 15 February, 1917, p. 192-193. -
See also p. 33. Mem. 46, no. 2.
Daty, R. A: | bot ¥
A new test of the subsidence theory of coral reefs. Proc. Nat. acad.
sct., December, 1916, 2, p. 664-670.
The geology of Pigeon Point, Minnesota. Amer. journ. sci., June,
1917, ser. 4, 48, p. 423-448.
Metamorphism and its phases. Bull. Geol. soc. Amer., June, 1917,
28, p. 375-418. 7
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Faxon, WALTER.
Unusual late autumn and winter records for eastern Massachusetts.
Auk, April, 1917, 34, p. 217.
GARMAN, SAMUEL.
See p. 33. Mem. 30, no. 4.
GrRaATON, L. C. }
Ore deposition and enrichment at Engels, California. [With D. H.
McLaughlin]. Economic geol., 1917, 12, p. 1-33.
Mark, E. L.
Report on the Zodlogical laboratory. Ann. rept. M. C. Z., 1915-
1916, December, 1916, p. 10-12.
The Zodlogical laboratory. Rept. President Harv. coll., 1915-1916,
March, 1917, p. 247-249.
ParkKER, G. H.
Locomotion of sea-anemones. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., August, 1916,
2, p. 449-450.
The behavior of sea-anemones. Proc. Nat. acad. sci., August, 1916,
2, p. 450-451.
The sources of nervous activity. Bull. Scripps ist. biol. research,
December, 1916, no. 2, p. 11-18: Science, 22 June, 1917, n. s.,
45, p. 619-626.
The fur-seals of the Pribilof islands. Scient. month., May, 1917, 4,
p. 385-409.
PuHIi.uires, J. C.
A new form of Chloéphaga hybrida. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p.
423-424.
A note on the mottled duck. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p. 432-433.
Early flight of Wilson’s snipe in Massachusetts. Auk, October,
1916, 33, p. 434.
Eskimo curlew in Massachusetts. Auk, October, 1916, 33, p. 434.
The steamer duck. Jbis, January, 1917, ser. 10, 5, p. 116-119.
Raymonp, P. E.
A new Ceraurus from the Chazy. WN. Y. state mus. bull. 189, Sep-
tember, 1916, p. 121-126, pl. 30, fig. 9-12.
Beecher’s classification of trilobites, after twenty years. Amer.
journ. sci., March, 1917, ser. 4, 48, p. 196-210.
Warp, R. DEC.
The weather factor in the great war. Journ. geogr., November,
1916, 15, p. 79-86; April, 1917, p. 245-251.
The prevailing winds of the United States. Ann. Assoc. Amer.
geogr., 1917, 6, p. 99-119.
Immigration after the war. Journ. heredity, April, 1917, 8, p. 147-
B52:
38 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Warp, R. DEC.
The tornadoes of the United States as climatic phenomena. Quart.
journ. Roy. meteorol. soc., July, 1917, 48, p. 317-329. —
Meteorology and climatology. Amer. year book for 1916, 1917, p.
601-603. |
Notes on climatology and reviews. Bull. Amer. geogr. soc., and
Journ. geogr., throughout the year.
WHEELER, W. M.
See p. 32. Bull. 61, no. 2.
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of May. Applicants should state their qualifications, and indicate the course
of study they intend to pursue.
The following Publications of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy are
in preparation: —
LOUIS CABOT. Immature State of the Odonata, Part IV.
E. L. MARK. Studies on Lepidosteus, continued.
E. L. MARK. On Arachnactis.
Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations in 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880, in charge of
ALEXANDER AGassiz, by the U. 8. Coast Survey Steamer “‘ Blake,”’ as follows:—
A. MILNE EDWARDS and E. L. BOUVIER. The Crustacea of the ‘‘Blake.’’
A. E. VERRILL. The Alcyonaria of the “‘Blake.’’
Reports on the Results of the Expedition of 1891 of the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer “* Alba-
tross,”” Lieutenant Commander Z. L. Tanner, U. S. N., Commanding, in charge of
ALEXANDER AGassiz, as follows:—
EK. BRANDT. The Sagittae. W.A. HERDMAN. The Ascidians.
K. BRANDT. The Thalassicolae. S.J. HICKSON. The Antipathids
O. CARLGREN. The Actinarians. E. L.-MARK. Branchiocerianthus.
R. ¥. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. JOHN MURRAY. The Bottom Speci-
W. R. COE. The Nemerteans. mens.
REINHARD DOHRN. The Eyes of Deep- P. SCHIEMENZ. The Pteropods and
' Sea Crustacea. Heteropods.
H. J. HANSEN. The Cirripeds. THEO. STUDER. The Alcyonarians.
H. J. HANSEN. The Schizopods. —— The Salpidae and Doliolidae.
HAROLD HEATH. Solenogaster. H. B. WARD. The Sipunculids.
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Expedition to the Tropical Pacific, in charge of
ALEXANDER AGassiz, on the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer ‘‘ Albatross,” from August,
1899, to March, 1900, Commander Jefferson F. Moser, U. S. N., Commanding, as
follows: —
R. V. CHAMBERLIN. The Annelids. MARY J. RATHBUN. The Crustacea
H. L. CLARK. The Holothurians. Decapoda.
— 5! The Volcanic Rocks. G. O. SARS. The Copepods.
L. STEJNEGER. The Reptiles.
Sear cee. Lamcetones. T. W. VAUGHAN. The Corals, Recent
S. HENSHAW. The Insects. and’ Fossil
G. W. MULLER. The Ostracods A. WETMORE. The Mammals and Birds.
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Viots. LY. LVIL,, LXL ‘adel LXIL. of Ps See
Ka XXXIX., SLT Oey. XLVII. to ‘XLIX. oe the: /
are now in course of publication. ae ae a ae
The BuLietin and Memorrs are devoted to ae uli ati
original work by the Officers of the Museum, ‘of i investi; : ca
on | by students and others in. _ the different Laborat at
_ tions and. Explorations. at ae i ue Pree ih
The folleuatias publications « are in n preparation:—
Reports on the Results of Dredging Operations from 1877 t 0 18
Alexander Agassiz, by the U. 8. Coast. Survey. Steamer “
Commander.C. D. Seaeten U: 8. Ny sn Commander J
Ursa Saas saan. wae Ave
‘ manding, i in charge of ‘Micgidok Ane 4
Reports on the Scientific Results of the Papeditios to t
charge of Alexander Agassiz, on the U. S. Fish’ ‘Con
“‘ Albatross,” from August, 1899, to March, Re = ona
Moser, .U. 8. N., Hd tare a ete
Pacific, in pe of. ‘Alexander ‘Aah on ae U. Ss. ‘Fish C
' Steamer Wee arom ae 1904, to ae 1905, I
Contributions Froth x Geological Jaboratory, Professor R, Be
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