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cANNUAL ‘REPORT

OF THE DIRECTOR
OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE
ZOOLOGY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE
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PROVOST OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY
NOVEMBER 1, 1952

PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE
MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY
AT HARVARD COLLEGE

BULLETIN (octavo) 1863 — The current volume is Vol. 110.
BREVIORA (octavo) 1952 — No. 17 is current.

MEMOIRS (quarto) 1864-1938 — Publication was terminated
with Vol. 55.

JOHNSONIA (quarto) 1941 — A publication of the Department
of Mollusks. Vol. 2, no. 30 is current. .

OCCASIONAL PAPERS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOL- 4

LUSKS (octavo) 1945 — Vol. 1, no. 16 is current.

’ PROCEEDINGS OF THE NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL
CLUB (octavo) 1899-1948 — Published in connection with the
Museum. Publication terminated with Vol. 24.

These publications issued at irregular intervals in numbers which
may be purchased separately. Prices and lists may be obtained on
application to the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts.

Museum of Comparative Zoology

To the Provost of the University:

Sir, — Due to the generosity of the late George R. Agassiz,
the Museum during the past year has been able to operate on a
balanced budget for the first time in two decades. At Mr.
Agassiz’ death there became available to us the substantial in-
come of the George R. Agassiz Memorial Fund. This new
income exactly balances the amount of the annual deficit which
the University authorities had generously allowed us in our
recent years of extreme financial stringency. The University has
thereby been relieved of a considerable financial burden and
those responsible for the Museum of a very considerable burden
of anxiety. There is, of course, no immediate budgetary advan-
tage in this situation, but it is expected that further funds which
will fall to us on the settlement of Mr. Agassiz’ estate will aid in
relieving numerous difficulties caused by the inflation of the past
decade.

The Museum, and particularly the bird department, suffered
a major loss on April rg in the death of James Lee Peters, curator
since 1932 and assistant curator for years previously. During the
forty-odd years he was connected with the Museum his main
efforts were directed to a broad study of the avifauna of the
world, based in great measure on the Museum’s extensive col-
lections. Resulting from this study there began, in 1931, the
publication of the “Check-list of Birds of the World.” At his
death seven volumes — somewhat less than half the projected
total — had been published, and two further volumes were in
preparation. It will be a definite item of Museum policy to see
that this important work, of high value to every scientific stu-
dent of birds, is pushed through to completion.

Percy Edward Raymond, Professor of Paleontology, Emeritus,
and Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology, Emeritus, died on
May 10. Professor Raymond had been an inspiring and well-
loved teacher of courses in paleontology and stratigraphy since
coming to Harvard in 1912, and had directed research on Museum
collections by many students. His best-known works are his

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outstanding contributions to knowledge of trilobite morphology
and classification; toward the end of his career he summarized
his paleontological knowledge in delightful fashion in his book
“Prehistoric Life.”

The death of William Frederick Clapp on December 28 de-
prived the Museum of one of its most active and enthusiastic
Visiting Committee members. Dr. Clapp was from 1911 to 1923
Acting Curator of Mollusks here. In 1923 he left the Museum
and went to the Massachusetts Institute of ‘Technology to work
on the destructive boring mollusks, the Teredinidae, for the
National Research Council. Later he established a laboratory at
Duxbury to continue work on control measures for these de-
structive animals. In 1928 he donated his collection of Teredi-
nidae to the Museum and since that time added a great deal of
new material received from test stations throughout the world.

STAFF

We are fortunate in having with us, as an Alexander Agassiz
Professor of Zoology for the calendar year 1952, Professor D.
M. S. Watson, distinguished English zoologist and paleontologist.
As had been expected, he found in the Museum collections ex-
cellent materials to further his research, and his presence has
been a great stimulus to staff and students.

Dr. Darlington has accepted appointment as Curator of Ento-
mology. Dr. William L. Brown, Jr. returned from Australia in
January to enter energetically into his duties as assistant curator
in this department.

As of July 1, 1952, Miss Barbara Lawrence, who had since Dr.
Allen’s death carried the burden of curatorial care in the depart-
ment of mammals, is advanced to full curatorship.

Dr. J. C. Dickinson, Jr., of the University of Florida, was
enabled by a grant from the General Education Board to spend
the academic year with us as Research Fellow working in orni-
thology and ecology.

Dr. James W. Chapman, who has retired from Siliman Univer-
sity, Dumaguete, The Philippines, spent the greater portion of
the year here working on Philippine ants, as a Research Fellow.

In the preparation department, Mr. Arnold D. Lewis of Vernal,
Utah, joined us in March, 1952. Mr. F. Russell Olsen, after 16

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years of service with the Museum, resigned at the close of the
year.

As has been true for many years, a considerable number of
staff members supervised the work of graduate students and
several offered formal courses of instruction. Dr. Carpenter gave
a course in the Biology of Insects; the writer, assisted by Dr.
Ernest Williams, gave courses in comparative anatomy and in
organic omens Dr. Whittington g cave courses in invertebrate
paleontology died Mr. Stetson in iedinewpacion. For the first
time since the death of Glover Allen in 1942 the Department of
Biology offered a course in mammalogy, given by Dr. Lyman;
judging from the large enrollment it appears that the course will
prove to be a valuable and profitable one. It is gratifying to re-
port that a steadily increasing number of students in the depart-
ments of biology and geology are pursuing advanced work with
Museum staff members, and it is pleasing rather than vexatious to
find that in some areas it is becoming difficult to find working
space for additional students.

At the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences last April
Dr. Bigelow was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (for
1948) for his senior authorship of “Fishes of the Western North
Atlantic, Part [.”’ Last June Amherst College conferred on the
writer an honorary Doctor of Science degree.

RESEARCH

Under the auspices of the Woods Hole Oceanographic In-
stitution and the Office of Naval Research, Mr. Schevill has been
investigating sound production and hearing in both toothed and
baleen whales. When time has permitted, Miss Lawrence has
assisted with this work, going on two field trips, one to study
Megaptera south of Bermuda, the other to study Tursiops at
the Marine Studios in Florida; she has, further, dissected and
studied the nasal passages of Stenella and Delphinus. A report by
Miss Lawrence on Nyasaland mammals is almost completed.

Dr. Lyman has continued his studies of hibernation in col-
laboration with various colleagues, chiefly from the Harvard
Medical School. With Dr. Chatfield he has expanded the work to
include rodents other than the hamster, thus giving comparative
information helpful toward discovering the fundamental phe-

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nomena of hibernation; it is apparent that hibernation, even within
the same order of mammals, is not identical. Dr. Leduc and Dr.
Lyman have completed work on stored carbohydrates in hiber-
nating hamsters. Investigations with Dr. Deane indicate that
animals which hibernate and those which do not hibernate show
a different response of the adrenal and thyroid when exposed to
cold, and that tumor growth is greatly slowed during hibernation.
Through the support of an Air Force contract and a grant from
the American Cancer Society, Dr. Chatfield and Dr. Lyman,

with Dr. Laurence Irving of the Arctic Health Research Center, . |

have been able to show that the nerve in the bare, cold portion
of the legs of seagulls functions at a much lower temperature
than the same nerve in the warm, feathered portion of the leg.
This study of adaptive change is now being extended to mam-
malian nerve.

Mr. Griscom continued work on Part II of the “Distributional
Check-list of the Birds of Mexico.” In spite of the great progress
made with the manuscript this year, it will probably take at
least two more years to bring it into final shape. In addition to
carrying on active field work on New England birds, Mr. Gris-
com has collected virtually all the necessary data for his projected
work on the birds of Cape Cod. Mr. Greenway almost completed
the manuscript of the extinct birds of the world. Dr. Dickinson
completd a study of the birds of British Columbia in the McCabe
collection.

Mr. Loveridge’s major research during the year was the study
of Nyasaland amphibians and the integration of his studies with
those of colleagues on other vertebrates from that area, the whole
to be published as a series in the Bulletin.

Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Schroeder completed the revision of
Fishes of the Gulf of Maine which will be published by the
Government Printing Office, probably in the spring of 1953.

Mr. Clench and Miss Turner have continued their research on
the marine mollusks of the Western Atlantic; a study of the
family Epitoniidae has been completed and published in John-
sonia. In association with Dr. C. G. Aguayo of the Universidad
de la Habana, Mr. Clench published two reports on Cuban
mollusks. He has also continued studies on the land mollusks of
the Bahama Islands and published a report of the land mollusks of
Eleuthera in the Revista de la Sociedad Malacologica. Miss

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Turner’s work on the Teredinidae is going forward and her work
on the Pholadidae will be published in the early part of 1953.
Mr. Foster continued the revision of several of the pelecypod
genera, mainly those that are rich in species from the West
Indian region.

Dr. Bequaert, in addition to research on African fresh-water
mollusks, completed the first part of his monograph of the Hippo-
boscidae (alias louse-flies). Dr. Brown began a reclassification
of the genera of ants, a major project which will take about six
years to complete, and has continued his more detailed revision
of the ant tribe Dacetini. Dr. Darlington devoted much of his
time to his book on zoogeography. Dr. Carpenter, with Dr.
Brues and Dr. Melander, completed the manuscript of the revised
“Classification of Insects,” which will include keys to the extinct
as well as the living orders and families of insects. Dr. Carpenter
also brought to completion a revisional study of the neuropterous
family Coniopterygidae. Miss Bryant worked extensively on
Jamaican and other spiders.

Miss ‘Deichmann’s current studies on echinoderms include
completion of papers on the littoral holothurians of the Bahama
Islands and on long-lost species of Lesson from Peru, and prepara-
tion of a paper on South African holothurians.

In the area of vertebrate paleontology, Professor Watson has
been actively working on our Permian materials and has com-
pleted studies on the problematical reptile Bolosaurus and on the
evolution of the auditory apparatus of mammal-like reptiles. Dr.
Edinger has continued work on her general study of paleoneurol-
ogy; during the year she devoted her main attention to the skull
foramina of mammals in relation to the enclosed cranial nerves.
Dr. Williams completed a series of studies of various fossil and
recent chelonians before leaving for study in Europe on a Gug-
genheim Fellowship. ‘The writer devoted all of his available time
to a general work on the osteology of reptiles, which should be
completed the coming winter.

Dr. Whittington completed a study of trilobites from the
Arctic as well as an account of the trilobite family Bathyuridae
which is to appear in the “Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontol-
ogy.” Dr. Shrock has completed the re-writing of the work on
“Invertebrate Paleontology,” of which the first edition, by
Twenhofel and Shrock, was published in 1935.

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Mr. Stetson has completed his report on surface sediments of
the western part of the Gulf of Mexico; analyses of the eastern
Gulf surface samples are nearly completed.

LIBRARY

One of the Museum’s most valued possessions is its library.
This includes the University’s main collections in zoology and
much of the field of geology. It is, however, almost entirely
supported from the Museum’s funds and hence has been forced
to suffer, equally with other departments, from lack of adequate
support. Despite the resulting handicaps Miss Mackenzie, who
assumed the librarianship in the spring of 1951, has made excel-
lent progress on several useful and necessary projects. Most im-
portant of these was that of exchanges; these were seriously in-
terrupted by the war and in numerous cases contacts had never
been reestablished. Work on these is nearly completed; at the
present writing we are in contact with some 402 institutions
from which 822 publications are received, in contrast with 295
institutions and but 503 journals last autumn. Progress in other
library areas is handicapped by lack of funds and (as one con-
sequence of this) by lack of sufficient personnel. Some 637
volumes were bound during the year, but binding is still far in
arrears. [here are large and valuable collections which are un-
catalogued, including those from the libraries formerly at the
Boston Society of Natural History and the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences as well as a number of large reprint collec-
tions. During the year some 632 volumes and 507 titles were
catalogued, as well as about 1400 pamphlets, bringing the cata-
logued holdings of the library up to 98,723 volumes and 117,615
pamphlets.

PUBLICATIONS

Miss Wright has taken on the work of editor with energy and
efficiency. Owing to a bottleneck at the printers, only 321 pages
of Bulletin material were published during the year. However,
the back-log of manuscripts on hand which was mentioned in
the last report has vanished; as this is written, every article sub-
mitted to date has been treated editorially and sent to the printers.

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A considerable volume of publication is thus expected this au-
tumn and winter, most notably the volume constituting the
“Classification of Insects.” ‘The editor’s care in insuring proper
preparation of manuscripts has resulted in a notable decrease in
our bills for “‘author’s corrections” — items often of considerable
magnitude.

For many years the Proceedings of the New England Zoolog-
ical Club, under the competent editorship of Mr. Batchelder,
furnished an outlet for prompt publication of short papers by the
Museum staff. The termination of that series in 1948 left many
areas of the Museum without any appropriate place of publica-
tion for papers of this type. ‘This gap has been filled by the estab-
lishment of a new Museum publication, Breviora. Papers are
limited to 16 pages; they are separately paged and consecutively
numbered. There will be no formal division into volumes but,
for binding purposes, title and contents pages will be printed for
series of papers of about 500 pages each. Four numbers have
already appeared.

One number of Jobnsonia and two Occasional Papers were
published by the department of mollusks. As customary, the
Museum subsidized a number of entomological papers in Psyche.

COLLECTIONS

The bird department is greatly indebted to Dr. Dickinson for
his gift of 140 beautifully-prepared specimens from the southern
United States and Honduras. Mr. Robert Jasse, during his trip
to Cornwallis Island, collected 46 specimens which he has kindly
presented to the Museum. Besides a most welcome gift of three
New England birds from Mr. Allen H. Morgan, he, together
with Messrs. William H. Drury, Jr. and Richard Stackpole, was
able to secure the first specimen of Bulbulcus ibis ever collected
on this continent. This bird is a native of Africa and southern
Asia which reached South America by some unknown means
and has continued on its errant way into North America.

The fish department was fortunate in receiving from the U. S.
National Museum, through Dr. Leonard P. Schultz, 94 different
paratypes in exchange for a lesser number from our collection.
Among the donations received during the year the most notable
is a collection from Stewart Springer of rare elasmobranchs,

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chimaeras and cyclostomes from the Gulf of Mexico resulting
from the explorations of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife vessel ““Ore-
gon.” A very pleasant arrangement with Mr. Springer and Dr.
Schultz is making it possible for Dr. Bigelow and Mr. Schroeder
to study and describe this material with the understanding that
the Museum will be able to retain a representative series.

The entomology department reports the following note-
worthy accessions: about 1,000 species of ants and smaller num-
bers of other insects from Dr. Brown, collected by him in Aus-
tralia; types and other material of Central American and North
Carolinian spiders from Professor A. M. Chickering; types or
type material of 25 species of scorpion-flies and other fine ma-
terial from eastern Asia from Dr. Fung Ying Cheng; Philippine
and Australian ants, including types of published species, from
Dr. Chapman; the first installment of a fine set of South African
Tenebrionidae, including paratypes, from Dr. C. Koch (by ar-
rangements made through Mr. L. K. Marshall and the Peabody
Museum); about 600 insects of various orders from the north-
eastern United States, including relatively rare species, from
Mr. C. B. Lewis, and a collection, including paratypes, of muscid
flies from Dr. F. M. Snyder.

Mr. Loveridge reports that 106 specimens, mostly North
American amphibia, were presented to the Museum by Mr.
Henry Field and that a large collection of African snakes was
received from Major C. J. P. Ionides.

EXPEDITIONS AND TRAVEL

In June, 1952, Mr. Schroeder made the first of a series of three
projected cruises to the 150—550 fathom zone off the New Eng-
land coast on the dragger Cap’n Bill II, chartered by the Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution. A large amount of interesting
material was preserved from this first cruise, invertebrates as
well as fishes.

Dr. Carpenter made two field trips during the year. One,
during July and August of 1951, was confined chiefly to the
southwestern states and was made to obtain Permian fossils in
Oklahoma and living neuropterous insects, especially Coniop-
terygidae, at as many western localities as possible. ‘The second
trip, in company with graduate student Fung Ying Cheng, dur-

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ing part of May and June, 1952, was to the Black Mountains,
North Carolina, to secure the immature stages of a scorpion fly,
Brachypanorpa carolinensis.

Miss Deichmann, after attending the meetings of the American
Society of Mammalogists at Charleston, spent a few days at
Beaufort, North Carolina, where a series of experiments on
growth of barnacles were in progress.

The Museum’s reference and study collections of Eocene
mammals are quite inadequate; as a start toward remedying this
deficiency Mr. S. J. Olsen, accompanied by graduate students
Peter P. Vaughn and Prentiss Shepherd, Jr., was sent to the
Bighorn and Bridger Basins of Wyoming for July and August,
1951. Mr. Seton, who had not been in the field for a number of
years, joined them for almost the entire season and rendered
valuable assistance. A useful collection was obtained. We wish
to thank Sheriff Ed Shaffer of Basin, Bighorn County, Sheriff
Brown of Lusk, Niobrara County, and Deputy Sheriff Clare
Harvey of Mountain View, Uinta County, for the hospitality
afforded members of the party in edifices under their control.

Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Olsen collected in Florida, mainly at the
Thomas Farm “bone hole” during the latter part of the winter.
Dr. T. E. White, who had conducted the early work at the site,
spent two weeks with them and gave valuable assistance. Mr.
and Mrs. Buddy Vaughn have been granted a lease of the farm,
insuring proper care of the property. After finishing their Flor-
ida work, the Olsens proceeded to Texas, where they were joined
for a month’s work in the Texas redbeds by Mr. L. I. Price and
the writer. Mr. Price, a former member of the Museum staff
and now in charge of vertebrate work for the Brazilian Geolog-
ical Survey, is an old Texas hand with a remarkably keen eye
for a fossil. With his aid, an interesting collection was gathered
despite the generally barren nature of the beds in which much
of the month was spent. We were greatly aided by Mr. Adolph
Witte of Henrietta, who gave us the results of his experiences
in the area and accompanied us on many occasions. As always,
we were greatly aided by local friends in gaining access to pros-
pecting territory —this year especially by Mr. John Kay, of
Wichita Falls, and Mr. Burford Scaling, of Henrietta.

Dr. Whittington spent six weeks in the field in the Cincinnati
region, in southern Montana, and in northern Utah during the

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summer of 1951. In each of these areas large collections of in-
vertebrate fossils of research interest were made.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are deeply indebted to the volunteer workers in the var-
ious departments; notably to Mr. Herbert Athearn, Mr. Richard
I. Johnson and Mr. Arthur Soper in the department of mollusks.

In addition to gifts acknowledged elsewhere in this report we
extend our thanks and appreciation to the following for speci-
mens:

Entomology: G. Ball, M. Banninger, C. S. Bambart, P. F. Bel-
linger, E. B. Britton, J. G. Brook, A. E. Brower, W. J. Brown,
L. F. Byars, S. Camras, M. Cazier, P. J. Christian, W. J. Cloyd,
A. C. Cole, Jr., K. W. Cooper, W. S. Creighton, A. Douglas,
J. G. Edwards, A. G. B. Fairchild, Mrs. H. E. Frizzell, C. A.
Frost, B. B. Given, M. H. Hatch, H. Hoogstraal, W. W. Kempf,
N. L. H. Krauss, K. V. Krombein, N. Kusnezov, H. Levi, D. T.
McCabe, P. S. Nathan, W. L. Nutting, E. Reitter, E. S. Ross,
V. Roth, G. Salt, M. R. Smith, N. A. Weber, L. H. Weld, E. O.
Wilson, F. E. Wilson, T. E. Woodward, P. Wygodzinsky,
K. Yasumatsu, E. C. Zimmerman.

Invertebrate Fossils: T. C. Barr, Jr., W. E. Ham.

Marine Invertebrates: J. Butler, G. E. Gates, H. H. Humm,
Dr. Libbie Hyman, B. Porter, E. L. Puffin, L. Rossi, R. I. Smith.

Reptiles and Amphibians: T. C. Barr, Jr., O. Barton, C. S.
Cansdale, J. L. Chamberlin, P. M. Daniel, E. R. Dunn, C. J. Goin,
N. Hale, J. H. Hoofien, A. Johnston, R. F. Lawrence, P. W.
Longnecker, D. T. McCabe, G. Nelson, J. F. Paulson, T. E.
Pulley, R. Ritland, J. D. Romer, O. Sanders, W. P. Sights, P. W.
Smith, G. Underwood.

Respectfully submitted,
ALFRED S. ROMER
Director

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY II

Museum of Comparative Zoolog y

FACULTY, 1952-1953

James Bryant Conant, Ph.D., LL.D., S.D., L.H.D., D.C.L., D.Sc.
(hon.), Dr. (hon.), Litt.D., President.

Henry Bryant Bigelow, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Ph.D. (hon.).

Alfred Sherwood Romer, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.).

George Cheever Shattuck, M.D., A.M. (hon.).

George Bernays Wislocki, A.B., M.D.

STAFF, 1952-1953

Alfred Sherwood Romer, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Director, Alex-
ander Agassiz Professor of Zoology, and Curator of Ver-
tebrate Paleontology.

Nathan Banks, A.M., Head Curator of Recent Insects, Emeritus.

Henry Bryant Bigelow, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Ph.D. (hon.), Re-
search Oceanographer, Retired.

Elizabeth Bangs Bryant, Assistant Curator of Insects, Retired.

Reginald Aldworth Daly, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hon.), S.D. (hon.),
Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Emeritus.

Louis Caryl Graton, Ph.D., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Ge-
ology, Emeritus.

Joseph Charles Bequaert, Dr.Phil., Alexander Agassiz Professor
of Zoology.

Francis Birch, S.B., Ph.D., Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology.

Frank Morton Carpenter, S.D., Alexander Agassiz Professor of
Zoology and Curator of Fossil Insects.

David Meredith Seares Watson, M.Sc., D.Sc. (hon), LL.D.
(hon.), Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology through
December 31, 1952.

Charles Thomas Brues, S.M., Honorary Curator of Parasitic
Hymenoptera.

William James Clench, $.M., Curator of Mollusks.

Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., Ph.D., Fall Curator of Coleop-
tera and Curator of Entomology.

Elisabeth Deichmann, Ph.D., Curator of Marine Invertebrates
and Alexander Agassiz Fellow in Oceanography and Zo-

ology.

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Tilly Edinger, Dr.Phil.Nat., S.D. (hon.), Research Paleontolo-
ist.

Np seo Griscom, A.M., Research Ornithologist.

Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, H, A.M., S.D. (hon.), Research
Oceanographer.

Arthur Loveridge, Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians.

Kirtley Fletcher Mather, Ph.D., S.D. (hon.), Litt.D., L.H.D.,
Curator of the Geological Museum.

Barbara Lawrence Schevill, A.B., Curator of Mammals.

Henry Crosby Stetson, A.M., Research Oceanographer and
Alexander Agassiz Fellow in Oceanography and Zoology.

Harry Blackmore Whittington, Ph.D., D.Sc., Curator of Inver-
tebrate Paleontology.

James Cowan Greenway, Jr., A.B., Associate Curator of Birds.

William George Fowle Harris, Associate Curator of Oology.

Bernhard Kummel, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Invertebrate
Paleontology.

Charles Peirson Lyman, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Mammals.

William Edward Schevill, A.M., Associate Curator of Inver-
tebrate Paleontology.

William Charles Schroeder, Associate Curator of Fishes.

William Louis Brown, Jr., Ph.D., Assistant Curator of Insects.

Ernest Edward Williams, Ph.D., Research Associate in Verte-
brate Paleontology.

James Wittenmeyer Chapman, Sc.D., Research Fellow.

Benjamin Shreve, Research Assistant.

Ruth Dixon Turner, M.A., Research Assistant.

Nelda Emelyn Wright, M.A., Research Assistant and Editor of
Publications.

Charles Foster Batchelder, A.B., C.E., Associate in Mammalogy
and Ornithology.

Arthur Cleveland Bent, A.B., Associate in Ornithology.

Merrill Edwin Champion, M.D., M.P.H., Associate in Mollusks.

Arthur Merton Chickering, Ph.D., Associate in Arachnology.

Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., S.B., Associate in Mammalogy.

William Cameron Forbes, A.B., LL.D., Associate to Collect
Specimens in Natural History.

Richard Winslow Foster, A.B., Associate in Mollusks.

Richard Cresson Harlow, S.M., Associate in Oology.

Henry Seton, A.M., Associate in Vertebrate Paleontology.

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY I 3

Robert Rakes Shrock, Ph.D., Associate in Invertebrate Paleon-
tology.

“iadare Elmer White, Ph.D., Associate in Vertebrate Paleon-
tology.

George Nelson, Preparator in Chief, Retired.

Stanley John Olsen, Preparator.

Arnold David Lewis, Assistant Preparator.

David Martin Seaman, M.S., Assistant Preparator.

Frances Lowell Burnett, A.M., Assistant.

Myvanwy Millar Dick, Assistant.

Ruth Cameron Dunn, B.S., Assistant.

Barbara Evans, A.B., Assistant.

Jessie Henderson Sawyer, Assistant.

Hazel Goldrich Vaughn, Assistant.

Ruth Wood Norton, A.B., Secretary to the Director.

Ruth Byington Inman, B.S., Secretary to the Bird Department.

Joan Carole Kinsella, Staff Secretary.

Jessie Bell MacKenzie, B.A., Librarian.

Mary Elizabeth Martin, A.B., B.S. in L.S., Assistant Librarian.

Elinor Toop, A.B., B.S. in L.S., Assistant Librarian.

Maxwell Leslie French, Staff Assistant.

PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1951-1952

The following have been printed under Museum auspices
during the year from July 1, 1951 to June 30, 1952.

BREVIORA
No. 1. A New Panamanian tree frog. By Edward H. Taylor.

4 pp. February, 1952.

No. 2. A staurotypine skull from the Oligocene of South Da-
kota. (Testudinata, Chelydridae). By Ernest Williams. 16 pp.
February, 1952.

No. 3. Notes on Siphonophores. 3. Nectopyramis spinosa n.
sp. By Mary Sears. 4 pp. May, 1952.

No. 4. A unique remopleuridid trilobite. By H. B. Whitting-
ton. 11 pp. June, 1952.

BULLETIN

Vol. 106
No. 5. The Oonopidae of Panama. By Arthur M. Chickering.

40 pp. August, 1951.

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No. 6. The Phyllophaga of Hispaniola. (Coleoptera: Scara-
baeidae). By Milton W. Sanderson. 37 pp., 6 pls. August, 1951.

No. 7. A revision of the beetles of the genus Chalcosicya Blake
(Chrysomelidae) from the West Indies. By Doris H. Blake.
28 pp., 3 pls. November, 1951.

No. 8. Foraminifera ecology off Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
By Fred B Phleger. 78 pp. April, 1952.

No. 9. Foraminifera species off Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
By Frances L. Parker. 33 pp., 6 pls. April, 1952.

No. ro. Foraminiferal distribution in the Long Island Sound —
Buzzards Bay area. By Frances L. Parker. 49 pp., 5 pls. May,
1952.

No. 11. Revisionary studies of some South American Teiidae.
By Rodolfo Ruibal. 56 pp. June, 1952.

JOHNSONIA

Vol. 2, no. 30, September 28, 1951.
The genus Epitonium in the Western Atlantic. By W. J. Clench
and R. D. Turner, pp. 249-288, pls. 108-130.

OCCASIONAL PAPERS ON MOLLUSKS

Vol. 1, no. 16, July 11, 1951.
Busycon coarctatum Sowerby. By W. J. Clench. pp. 405-412,
l. 50.
Vol. 1, no. 17, March 27, 1952.
The Scalarinum species complex (Umbonis) in the genus
Cerion. By W. J. Clench and C. G. Aguayo. pp. 413-440,

pls. 51-57.

PSYCHE

Vol. 58, no. 2.
Concerning some Hydrometra from Africa (Hemiptera). By
H. B. Hungerford. pp. 65-72, 1 pl.
Two new species of exotic ants. By R. E. Gregg. pp. 77-84,
2 figs.
Vol. 58, no. 3.
On two North American Philotarsids (Psocoptera). By E. L.
Mockford. pp. 102-107, 2 pls.
Vol. 58, no. 4.
Notes on Alaskan Collembola. II. Three new species of Arctic
Collembola. By K. A. Christiansen. pp. 125-140, 3 pls.

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PUBLICATIONS BY THE MUSEUM STAFF

Bequaert, J. C.

Carnus hemapterus Nitzsch on a screech owl in Arizona (Dip-
tera). Psyche, 58(4):157-158. June 1952.

Hippoboscidae collected in Indonesia by the Sumba expedition.
Verh. Naturf. Ges. Basel, 63(1):218-220. 1952.

Bigelow, H. B.

Three new skates and a new chimaerid fish from the Gulf of
Mexico. Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., 41(12):383-392. December,
1951. (With W. C. Schroeder. )

Brown, W. L., Jr.

On the publication date of Polyhomoa itoi Azuma (Hymenop-
tera, Formicidae). Mushi, 22:93-95. April, 1951. (With
K. Yasumatsu. )

New synonymy of a few genera and species of ants. Bull.
Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 46: 101-106. October, 1951.

Revisional notes on Camponotus herculeanus Linné and close
relatives in Palearctic regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Jour. Fac. Agr. Univ. Kyushu, 10:29-44. October, 1951.
(With K. Yasumatsu.)

Adlerzia froggatti Forel and some new synonymy. Psyche,
58(3):110. April, 1952.

New synonymy in the army ant genus Aenictus Schuckard.
Psyche, 58(3):123. April, 1952.

Synonymous ant names. Psyche, 58(3):124. April, 1952.

Psilobethylus in the New World (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae).
Psyche, 58(4):141-148. June, 1952. (With F. Y. Cheng.)

Brues, C. T.

Insects in Amber. Scientific American, 185(5):56-61, 5 figs.,
1 color pl. November, 1951.

A migrating army of sciarid larvae in the Philippines. Psyche,
58(2):73-76. November, 1951.

Bryant, E. B.

Redescription of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, a recent
spider immigrant from Europe. Psyche, 58(3):120-123.
April, 1952.

Carpenter, F. M. .

Redescription of Parapaolia superba (Scudder) (Protorthop-

tera). Psyche, 58(3): 108-110, 1 fig. April, 1952.
Clench, W. J.

Busycon coarctatum Sowerby. Occasional Papers on Mollusks,
1(16):405-409, 1 pl. July 11, 1951.

The genus Epitonium in the Western Atlantic, Part I. John-

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sonia, 2(30):249-288, 23 pls. September 28, 1951. (With
R. D. Turner.)

Some new cerionids from Cuba. Revista de la Sociedad Mala-
cologica, 8:69-82, 2 pls. November 12, 1951. (With C. G.,
Aguayo.)

Drymaeus multilineatus, form osmenti Clench. Nautilus, 65:69.
October (November), 1951.

Bulimulus diaphanus Pfeiffer. Nautilus, 65:69. October (No-
vember), 1951.

Oxychilus draparnaldi (Beck) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Nautilus, 65:70. October (November), 1951.

Trends in malacology. Bulletin American Union for 1951: 1-2.
January, 1952.

The Scalarinum species complex (Umbonis) in the genus
Cerion. Occasional papers on Mollusks, 1(17):413-440, 7
pls. March 27, 1952. (With C. G. Aguayo.)

Notes on some marine shells from the Gulf of Mexico with a
description of a new species of Conus. Texas Journal of
Science for 1952: 59-61. March 30, 1952. (With T. E.
Pulley.) |

Land and freshwater mollusks of Eleuthera Island, Bahama Is-
lands. Rev. Soc. Malacol., 8: 97-116, 3 pls. April 25, 1952.

Deichmann, E.

The rediscovery of the holothurian Holothuria beruviana Les-
son. Amer, Mus. Novitates, 1553:1-7, figs. 1-15. April 9,
1952.

Dickinson, J. C., Jr.

A nest of Chaetura vauxi richmondi in central Honduras.
Wilson Bull., 63(3):201-202, 1 pl. September, 1951.

A review. Species formation in the Red-eyed Towhees of
Mexico by C. G. Sibley. Wilson Bull., 63(4):349-350. De-
cember, 1951.

The San Geronimo swift in Honduras. Wilson Bull., 63(4):
271-273. December, 1951. (With M. H. Carr.)

Griscom, L.

Northeastern Maritime Region. Spring migration. Audubon
Field Notes, 4(4):233-234. August, 1951.

Changing seasons. Summary of winter bird-life. Audubon
Field Notes, 3(3):171-192. July, 1951.

Northeastern Maritime Region. Winter season. Audubon Field
Notes, 3(3):193-194. July, 1951.

Northeastern Maritime Region. Spring migrations. Audubon
Field Notes, 5(4):244-245. August, 1951.

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Changing seasons. Summary of spring migrations. Audubon
Field Notes, 5(4):243-244. August, 1951.

Changing seasons. Summary of the nesting season. Audubon
Field Notes, 5(5):280-281. October, 1951.

Northeastern Maritime Region. Nesting season. Audubon
Field Notes, 5(5):281-282. October, 1951.

A review. Mexican birds by George M. Sutton. Bull. Mass.
Audubon Soc., 36(2):79. February, 1952.

A review. Stalking birds with color camera by Arthur A. Allen.
Bull. Mass. Audubon Soc., 36(2):79-80. February, 1952.

Changing Seasons. A summary of the fall migration. Audubon
Field Notes, 6(1):4. February, 1952.

Northeastern Maritime Region. Fall migration. Audubon Field
Notes, 6(1):5-6. February, 1952.

Northeastern Maritime Region. Winter. Audubon Field Notes,
6(3):186. June, 1952.

Lawrence, B.

Part I. Mammals found at the Awatovi site. Part II. Post-
Cranial skeletal characters of deer, pronghorn, and sheep-
goat with notes on Bos and Bison. Papers Peabody Mus.
Amer. Arch. Ethnol., Harvard Univ., 35(3): 1-43, 1951.

A review. The elk of North America by O. J. Murie. Bull.
Mass. Audubon Soc., 36(1):43, 1952.

A review. American weasels by E. R. Hall. Scient. Monthly,
74(6):372, 1952.

It can be fun. Winsor Graduate Bull., 19: 15-17, 1952.

Loveridge, A.

Synopsis of the African green snakes (Philothamnus inc. Chlor-
ophis), with the description of a new form. Bull. Inst. Roy.
Sci. Nat. Belgique, 27:1-2. July, 1951.

A new gecko of the genus Gymnodactylus from Serpent Is-
land. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 64:91-92. August, 1951.
Proposed use of the plenary powers to suppress the trivial name
“caesius” Cloquet, 1818 (as published in the binomial com-
bination “Coluber caesius”) (Class Reptilia, Order Squamata).

Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 6:88-89. September, 1951.

Grant No. 914 (1946). Ecological studies on the vanishing
vertebrate fauna of rain forest remnants in tropical East
Africa. (Resumé of results affecting reptiles.) Year Book
Amer. Philos. Soc. for 1951: 161-162. ca. December, 1951.

Mission A. Villiers au Togo et au Dahomey (1950). XII.
Tortoises and lizards. Bull. Inst. franc. Afrique noire, 14:229-

242. January, 1952.

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A startlingly turquoise-blue gecko from Tanganyika. Jour. E.
Africa Nat. Hist. Soc., 20:446. January, 1952.

The saw-scaled viper in Kenya. Jour. E. Africa Nat. Hist.
Soc., 20:461. January, 1952.

Lyman, C. P.

The effect of testosterone on the seminal vesicles of castrated,
hibernating hamsters. Endocrinology, 49:647-651, 1951.
(With Edward W. Dempsey.)

Total COs, plasma pH, and pCO, of hamsters and ground squir-
rels during hibernation. Amer. Jour. Physiol., 167:633-637,
1951. (With A. Baird Hastings.)

Effect of increased CO, on respiration and heart rate of hiber-
nating hamsters and ground squirrels. Amer. Jour. Physiol.,
167:638—643, 1951.

Adaptation to cold of peripheral nerve in the leg of the herring
gull (Larus argentatus). Anat. Rec., 113(4):529-530, 1952.
Abstract. (With Paul O. Chatfield.)

Changes in blood sugar and tissue glycogen in the hamster
during arousal from hibernation. Anat. Rec., 113(4):530-531,
1952. Abstract. (With Elizabeth H. Leduc.)

Olsen, F. R.

Size relations in the limb bones of Buettneria perfecta. Jour.

Paleont., 25(4):520-524. July, 1951.
Peters, J: L.

Twenty-sixth supplement to the American Ornithologists Un-
ion’s check-list of North American birds. Auk, 68: 367-3609.
July, 1951. (With others acting as a committee. )

Reviews. Auk, 68:393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 403, 405,
539» 540, 541, 542, 543, 546, 547, 948, 1951; 69:216, 217, 219,
222-23, 1952.

Schroeder, W. C.

Three new skates and a new chimaerid fish from the Gulf of
Mexico. Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci., 41(12):383-392. December,
1951. (With H. B. Bigelow.)

Turner, R. D.

A review. The sea shore by C. M. Yonge. Occasional Papers
on Mollusks, 1(16):410-q411. July 11, 1951.

A review. Natural history of marine animals by G. E. MacGin-
itie and N. MacGinitie. Occasional Papers on Mollusks,
1(16):411-412. July 11, 1951.

The genus Epitonium in the Western Atlantic, Part I. John-
sonia, 2:249-288, 23 pls. September 28, 1951. (With W. J.
Clench.)

La Recolte des Tarets. Catalogue VIII, Institut Francais d’Af-

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY 19

rique Noire, pp. 130-134, 3 figs. March, 1952. (Translation
into French by Th. Monod of a paper published in 1947 in
the Special Publications no. 19, Limnological Society of
America.)

Some problems in the Pholadidae. Bull. Amer. Malacol. Union
for 1951: 9-10. January, 1952.

Watson, D. M.S.

Is “Macroevolution” reality? ‘Trans. N. Y. Acad. Sci., (2)14(8):

302-303. June, 1952.
Whittington, H. B.

The trilobite family Dionididae. Jour. Paleont., 24:1-11, pls.
I-2. January, 1952.

Proposal to suppress the generic name “Polytomurus” Hawle
and Corda, 1847, and to place the generic name “Dionide”
Barrande, 1847 (Class Trilobita) on the “Official List of
Generic Names in Zoology.” Bull. Zool. Nomenclature,
6:157-158. April, 1952.

A unique remopleuridid trilobite. Breviora, 4:1-9, 1 pl. June,

1952.
Williams, E. E.

A staurotypine skull from the Oligocene of South Dakota
(Testudinata, Chelydridae). Breviora, 2:1-16. February,
1952.

West Indian fossil monkeys. Amer. Mus. Novitates, 1546: 1-16.
March, 1952. (With Karl Koopman.)

The plastron of soft-shelled turtles (Testudinata, Trionychi-
dae): a new interpretation. Jour. Morph., 90:263-280.
March, 1952. (With Samuel McDowell.)

Additional notes on fossil and subfossil bats from Jamaica.
Jour. Mammalogy, 33:171-179. May, 1952.

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