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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

REPORT ON THE PROGRESS AND CON-
DITION OF THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL MUSEUM FOR THE
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1927

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON
1927

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Untrep States Nationa Museum,
Unper DirecTion oF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,
Washington, D. C., October 15, 1927.

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith a report upon the present
condition of the United States National Museum and upon the work
accomplished in its various departments during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1927.

Very respectfully,
ALEXANDER WETMORE,
Assistant Secretary.
Dr. Cartes G. ABzort,
Acting Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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National Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia________-___-____ 15
Special exhibition for the Smithsonian Institution__________________- 16
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Changes in organization and’ Staff... _-_-- 2s ee 38
Wersaved reports’ on. the collections. 22.2.2 4- 22 41
Department of anthropology, by Walter Hough, head curator___- 41
Department of biology, by Leonhard Stejneger, head curator_____- 51
Department of geology, by George P. Merrill, head curator_________~_ 85
Department of arts and industries, and division of history, by
William deC. Ravenel, director of arts and industries_________- 99
PAN UROL ACCESS LOLS noes a eee ee Ceiba SEE ee a Bi ee 133
List of publications issued by the United States National Museum___-__- 189
List of papers based wholly or in part on the national collections_______ 195

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STAFF OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL
MUSEUM

[June 30, 1927]

CHARLES G. Appot, Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, keeper ev
officio.

ALEXANDER WETMORE, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution, in charge
United States National Museum.

WILLIAM DEC. RAVENEL, Administrative Assistant to the Secretary.

SCIENTIFIC STAFF

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY :
Walter Hough, head curator.

Division of Ethnology: Walter Hough, curator; H. W. Krieger, curator ;
H. B. Collins, jr., assistant curator; J. W. Fewkes, collaborator; Arthur
P. Rice, collaborator ; Isobel H. Lenman, collaborator.

Section of Musical Instruments: Hugo Worch, custodian.

Division of American Archeology: Neil M. Judd, curator; R. G. Paine, aid.

Division of Old World Archeology: I. M. Casanowicz, assistant curator.

Division of Physical Anthropology: AleS Hrdlitka, curator; Thomas D.
Stewart, aid.

Collaborator in anthropology: George Grant MacCurdy.

Associate in historic archeology: Cyrus Adler.

DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY :
Leonhard Stejneger, head curator; James E. Benedict, assistant
curator.

Dwwision of Mammals: Gerrit S. Miller, jr., curator; A. Brazier Howell,
collaborator. é;

Division of Birds: Robert Ridgway, curator; Charles W. Richmond, asso-
ciate curator; J. H. Riley, aid; Bradshaw H. Swales, honorary assistant
curator; Alexander Wetmore, custodian of alcoholic and skeleton col-
lections; Edward J. Brown, collaborator; Casey A. Wood, collaborator.

Division of Reptiles and Batrachians: Leonhard Stejneger, curator; Doris
M. Cochran, assistant curator.

Division of Fishes: Barton A. Bean, assistant curator; E. D. Reid, aid.

Division of Insects: L. O. Howard, honorary curator; J. M. Aldrich, asso-
ciate curator; William Schaus, honorary assistant curator; B. Preston
Clark, collaborator.

Section of Hymenoptera: S. A. Rohwer, custodian; W. M. Mann,
assistant custodian.

Section of Myriapoda: O, F. Cook, custodian.

Section of Diptera: J. M. Aldrich, in charge; Charles T. Greene,
assistant custodian.

Section of Coleoptera: B. A. Schwarz, custodian; L. L. Buchanan,
specialist for Casey collection of coleoptera.

Section of Lepidoptera: Harrison G. Dyar, custodian.

Section of Orthoptera: A. N. Caudell, custodian.

Section of Hemiptera: W. L. McAtee, acting custodian.

Section of forest tree beetles: A. D. Hopkins, custodian.

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DEPARTMENT OF BioLogy—Continued.

Division of Marine Invertebrates: Waldo L. Schmitt, curator; C. R. Shoe-
maker, assistant curator; James O. Maloney, aid; H. K. Harring, cus-
todian of the rotatoria; Mrs. Harriet Richardson Searle, collaborator ;
Max M. Ellis, collaborator; William H. Longley, collaborator; Maynard
M. Metcalf, collaborator.

Division of Mollusks: Paul Bartsch, curator; William B. Marshall, assist-
ant curator; Mary Breen, collaborator.

Section of Helminthological Collections: C. W. Stiles, custodian; M. C.
Hall, assistant custodian.

Division of Echinoderms: Austin H. Clark, curator.

Division of Plants (National Herbarium): Frederick Y. Coville, honorary
curator; W. R. Maxon, associate curator; J. N. Rose, associate curator;
P. C. Standley, associate curator; Emery C. Leonard, aid; Ellsworth P.
Killip, aid; H. H. Bartlett, collaborator; Albert C. Smith, collaborator.

Section of Grasses: Albert S. Hitchcock, custodian.

Section of Cryptogamic Collections: O. F. Cook, assistant curator.
Section of Higher Algae: W. T. Swingle, custodian. :
Section of Lower Fungi: D. G. Fairchild, custodian.

Section of Diatoms: Albert Mann, custodian.

Associates in Zoology: C. Hart Merriam, W. L. Abbott, Mary J. Rathbun,
David Starr Jordan.

Associate Curator in Zoology: Hugh M. Smith.

Associate in Botany: John Donnell Smith.

Associate in Marine Sediments: T. Wayland Vaughan.

Collaborator in Zoology: Robert Sterling Clark.

DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY:
George P. Merrill, head curator; Margaret W. Moodey, aid.

Division of Physical and Chemical Geology (systematic and applied) :
George P. Merrill, curator; E. V. Shannon, assistant curator.

Division of Mineralogy and Petrology: ¥. W. Clarke, honorary curator ;
W. F. Foshag, assistant curator; Frank L. Hess, custodian of rare metals
and rare earths. 5

Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology: R. S. Bassler, curator; Charles H.
Resser, associate curator; Jessie G. Beach, aid; Joseph A. Cushman,
collaborator. i

Section of Invertebrate Paleontology: T. W. Stanton, custodian of
Mesozoic collection; Paul Bartsch, curator of Cenozoic collection.
Section of Paleobotany: David White, associate curator; Erwin R. ~

Pohl, aid.

Division of Vertebrate Paleontology: Charles W. Gilmore, curator; James
W. Gidley, assistant curator of mammalian fossils.

Associates in Paleontology: Frank Springer, E. O. Ulrich.

Associate in Petrology: Whitman Cross.

DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES, AND DIVISION OF HISTORY:
William deC. Ravenel, director.

Divisions of Mineral and Mechanicat Technology: Carl W. Mitman, curator;
Paul HE. Garber, assistant curator; F. A. Taylor, aid: Chester G. Gilbert,
henorary curator of mineral technology. %

Division of Textiles: Frederick L. Lewton, curator; Mrs. E. W. Rosson, aid.

Section of Wood Technology: William N. Watkins, assistant curator.
Section of Organic Chemistry: Aida M. Doyle, aid.

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DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES, AND DIVISION or History—Continued.
Division of Medicine: Charles Whitebread, assistant curator.
Division of Graphic Arts: R. P. Tolman, assistant curator.
Section of Photography: A. J. Olmsted, custodian.
Loeb Collection of Chemical Types: O. BE. Roberts, jr., curator.
Division of History: T. T. Belote, curator; Charles Carey, assistant curator;
Mrs, C. L. Manning, philatelist.

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Chief of correspondence and documents, H. S. Bryant.
Superintendent of buildings and labor, J. S. Goldsmith.
Editor, Marcus Benjamin.

Engineer, C. R. Denmark.

Disbursing agent, N. W. Dorsey.

Photographer, A. J. Olmsted.

Property clerk, W. A. Knowles.

Assistant librarian, Isabel L. Towner.

REPORT OF THE PROGRESS AND CONDITION
OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
FOR THE YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1927

By ALEXANDER WETMORE
Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution

By the death of Charles Doolittle Walcott, Secretary of the Smith-
sonian Institution, on February 9, 1927, the United States National
Museum, of which he was the keeper by virtue of his higher office,
has suffered a severe loss.

For 45 years Doctor Walcott was intimately associated with the
work of the Museum. In 1882, while in the service of the United
States Geological Survey, Doctor Walcott was appointed honorary
assistant curator in the department of fossil invertebrates of the
Museum having special charge of the Paleozoic fossils, and the next
year he was made honorary curator of these collections, a position
which he held until 1895, when all the paleontological collections
of the Museum were centralized under his general administration as
honorary curator.

When the Museum lost the leadership of the late G. Brown Goode,
Doctor Walcott, in addition to his arduous duties as director of the
Geological Survey, provisionally put at the service of the Smith-
sonian Institution his recognized scientific and executive qualifica-
tions, serving as acting assistant secretary of the Smithsonian in
charge of the National Museum from January 27, 1897, to June 30,
1898, when a permanent successor to Doctor Goode was selected.
During Doctor Walcott’s administration the Museum was reorgan-
ized under three departments with a head curator in charge of each.
In this reorganization the department of paleontology became the
division of stratigraphic paleontology in the department of geology,
and Doctor Walcott continued in charge as honorary curator until
the division was divided in 1908.

In 1904 the Museum instituted a new department of mineral tech-
nology, under the curatorship of Doctor Walcott, to care for vast
collections illustrative of the mineral resources of the United States
received from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, in

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the selection of which Doctor Walcott, as director of the United
States Geological Survey, had been instrumental. Doctor Walcott
continued oversight of this department until 1913, when the Museum
was able to employ a curator to devote full time to the subject.

On January 23, 1907, Doctor Walcott was elected Secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution, and, by virtue of that position, became
keeper of the National Museum. During the 20 years which have
since elapsed Doctor Walcott has directed investigations in various
parts of the world and personally studied large areas in the Rocky
Mountains, particularly in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada,
the vast resulting collections—the bases of his original researches—
having materially enriched the National collections.

The work of the late secretary and his achievements will be re-
corded in another place and at another time. In this connection I
only wish to express my sense of personal loss and my deep appre-
ciation of the confidence he bestowed in committing to me the
administration of the National Museum.

FOREWORD

The Congress of the United States in the act of August 10, 1846,
founding the Smithsonian Institution, recognized that an oppor-
tunity was afforded, in carrying out the design of Smithson for the
increase and diffusion of knowledge, to provide for the custody of
the Museum of the Nation. To this new establishment was, there-
fore, intrusted the care and development of the national collections.
At first the cost of maintaining this activity was paid from the
Smithsonian income; then for a time the Government bore a share;
but since 1877 Congress has provided for the expenses of the
Museum.

The museum idea was fundamental in the organic act establishing
the Smithsonian Institution, which was based upon a 12 years’
discussion in Congress and the advice of the most distinguished
scientific men, educators, and intellectual leaders of the Nation
during the years 1834 to 1846. It is interesting to note how broad
and comprehensive were the views which actuated the Congress in
determining the scope of the Museum, a fact especially remarkable
when it is recalled that at that date no museum of considerable
size existed in the United States, and the museums of England and
of the continent of Europe, although containing many rich col-
lections, were still to a large extent without a developed plan.

The Congress which passed the act of foundation enumerated as
within the scope of the Museum “all objects of art and of foreign
and curious research and all objects of natural history, plants,
and geological and mineralogical specimens belonging to the
United States,” thus indicating the Museum at the very outset as
the Museum of the United States and as one of the widest range in
its activities. It was appreciated that additions would be necessary
to the collections then in existence, and provision was made for their
increase by the exchange of duplicate specimens, by donations, and
by other means.

The maintenance of the Museum was long ago assumed by Con-
gress, the Smithsonian Institution taking upon itself only so much
of the necessary responsibility for its administration as is required
to coordinate it with its other activities. The Museum as a part of
the Smithsonian is an integral part of a broad organization for
increase and diffusion of knowledge, for scientific research, for
cooperation with departments of the Government, with universities
and scientific societies in America, and with all scientific institutions

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and men abroad who seek interchange of views with men of science
in the United States.

Since 1846 the only material changes in the scope of the National
Museum have been (1) the addition of a department of American
history, intended to illustrate, by an appropriate assemblage of ob-
jects, important events, the domestic life of the country from the
colonial period to the present time, and the lives of distinguished
personages, and (2) provision, in 1920, for the separate administra-
tion of the National Gallery of Art as a coordinate unit under the
Smithsonian Institution. From 1906 to 1920 the gallery was admin-
istered as the department of fine arts of the Museum.

The development of the Museum has been greatest in those sub-
jects which the conditions of the past three-quarters of a century
have made most fruitful—the natural history, geology, ethnology,
and archeology of the United States, which have been supplemented
extensively by collections from other countries of the world. Op-
portunities for acquisition in these various directions in the first years
of the institution were mainly brought about through the activities
of the scientific and economic surveys of the Government, many of
which have been the direct outgrowths of earlier explorations stimu-
lated or directed by the Smithsonian Institution. Additions from
these sources still continue in large volume. As supplemental to them
an increasing number of persons interested in science make annual
additions to our collections either directly or through financial sup-
port of expeditions by members of the staff. The increment of
material from these contributions increases annually and is greatly
appreciated. Such outside aid brings material that is of the greatest
importance and that often could be obtained in no other way.

The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 afforded opportunity for estab-
lishing a department of industrial arts, which has received great
impetus recently through the cooperation of industrial firms and
associations, particularly in the assembling of material illustrative
of historical development in various lines.

The historical series has been greatly augmented since 1918 by large
collections illustrative of the World War, and also extensive additions
to exhibits in aircraft and kindred subjects have been received during
this period.

Public interest in the growth and development of the Nationai
Museum is refiected by the steady increase of recorded attendance, in
correspondents, and in requests for information.

OPERATIONS OF THE YEAR

APPROPRIATIONS

Provision for the maintenance of the National Museum for the
fiscal year ended June 30, 1927, was made in the following regular
items of appropriation carried in the executive and independent
offices act approved April 22, 1926:

Preservation of collections________________-___--_--_--- $450, 000
Kirniture and fixtures’? #152. t 7s oi, Sis Aes Nie ay 23, 730
Heating tand dightingl20: S22 ie Ga eee 2 78, 140
UTIs TEWAS eS wet ec ele oy sh Seo ON Peeks se ee A eden 12, 000
TOOK St reset mee Seer i ae ee pea ie aa 1, 500
J UCSB SAS Ne pee 2 ee a ee wears 450
Printine cane pling ire see See eee a ee ee 43, 500°

609, 320

The total sum represents an increase of $10,928 above the appro-
priation available for the year 1926. An increase of $8,918 under the
main appropriation, that for preservation of collections, has included
the addition of two assistants for the work of the library, and of one
in the office of the assistant secretary in charge of the National
Museum where no provision had been made for office staff in estab-
lishing the position. The remainder, $4,778, was distributed for the
purchase of needed supplies, to cover the ever increasing bills for
freight and other matters, including an additional allotment for the
purchase of specimens. An additional amount of $1,930 under the
heading of “ Furniture and fixtures ” covered one minor readjustment
on the salary roll and the allotment of $1,870 for the purchase of ma-
terials utilized in housing the great inflow of new specimens for the
collections. The sum of $580 under heating and lighting added to
small sums gained by retrenchment in other expenses under this
appropriation has permitted the employment of an assistant. tele-
phone operator to aid in the increasing work of our telephone
switchboard.

The increases recorded have given certain relief but require con-
siderable addition.

The matter of increased compensation for the staff of the entire
Museum has become one of paramount importance since, with the
exception of a small number on the shop forces, to the close of the
fiscal year here under discussion there had been no provision made
for increases in salary with efficiency in service since the establish-

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ment of the reclassification act on July 1, 1924, though the routine
surveys of efficiency required by law have indicated that except in
a few instances the persons concerned showed such attention in the
performance of assigned duties as to entitle them to this considera-
tion. With no funds available for allotment for this purpose it has
been impossible to make increases on this basis without addition
to the appropriations.

To look ahead to a matter not properly included in the present
report it may be said that the approriation for the year 1928 has
carried additional items for one rate increases for the majority of the
personnel. This step has given a measure of relief and has had a very
favorable reaction on the part of the employees. It is felt, however,
that this is but one step in the proper direction and that further allot-
ments for the same purpose should be made. As a result of this
readjustment on the salary roll the majority of the staff for the
fiscal year 1928 will receive one rate more than the entrance salary
established by law for their respective grades. To continue the
intent of the reclassification act further funds for promotion should
be provided until the salaries of the various groups attain the average
established for the grade. It is earnestly urged that further addi-
tions to the appropriations be made until this object can be attained.
To do this will provide only proper reward for the conscientious
performance of duty on the part of the staff, while a better salary
status will inevitably react favorably to the interests of the Museum.

Because of its status as a national organization the Museum has
a tremendous scope in its scientific activities. It is expected that
it shall maintain collections and be in a position to supply informa-
tion in all the many branches concerned with natural science, as well
as in the field of history and the manifold phases of industrial
development. In its legal function as a depository of! the national
collections in all these varied branches it has expanded under neces-
sity from modern development to a point where increases in the ~
permanent staff are imperative. Modern science and knowledge
whether concerned with some group of insects, shells, birds, or any
other biological development, or with history or industry have become
so complex and so varied and the knowledge available so great that
exactness in dealing with all details demands division into smaller
groups for study and mastery than in previous generations. Where
40 or 20 years ago one mind might compass exactly the informa-
tion available in several fields it is now necessary for the scientist
to restrict his activities within narrower limits to keep abreast of the
steadily increasing march of human knowledge. Specialization
demands closer attention. At the present time there are several
groups of animals where we have extensive collections that have no

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curator designated on our staff. In a number of divisions also there
should be provided assistants for the older men who should be in
position to train others to carry on their work when they are gone.
In scientific research many years are required before competence is
attained and much has to be learned by precept that is not available
in any other way.

Existing appropriations are taken up so largely with necessary
routine expenditures that there is little available to be used in
exploration and field work. Many interested friends and cor-
respondents make great additions to our collections annually, but the
Museum should be provided with adequate funds that would enable
it to develop various field researches along logical and continuing
lines. Further, there come to the Museum frequent reports of
valuable specimens that may be had if some one competent can go
to the spot to obtain them. These are usually of such nature that
they can not be collected and sent in by the inexperienced as unless
properly handled they are not worth the cest of transportation,
though when properly prepared they are highly valuable. At the
present time this material is usually lost, though for a comparatively
small expenditure it might be preserved. Funds that may be used for
such purposes and for field work in general are urgently needed.

It may be added that in the United States to-day there is an
increasing part of the population that is definitely interested in
science. This is shown in the present demand for authentic scientific
news on the part of the press, for photographs of interesting scientific
objects for publication, and by the general attitude of the public. As
our country grows there develops an increasing group of those
financially independent who turn to scientific researches and investi-
gations either as recreation or with serious desire to assist in addition
to human knowledge, and who find in scientific matters relaxa-
tion and inspiration, recreation and serious endeavor. This group
now assists tremendously in the furtherance of scientific development
and will be an increasing force in that direction in the future.
These persons from their financial situation make large contribu-
tions toward the Federal income in the form of taxes, and therefore
it would seem logical to make a part of this money available for
‘support of their immediate interests in the form of increased appro:
priations for the National Museum.

COLLECTIONS

Additions to the collections during this fiscal year have exceeded
the average and in fact the materials received as a whole are among
the most extensive that have come to the institution during a similar
period. The increments were covered in 1916 separate accessions

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which included a total of 402,531 separate specimens. The new
material has included some of the most valuable collections that
have ever been incorporated in our series. The specimens acces-
sioned were divided among the various departments as follows:
Anthropology, 12,974; biology, 198,279; geology, 176,781; arts and
industries, and history, 14,497. The total increase in 1926 came to
254,032 specimens which, however, was below the average for recent
years.

The large number for the year 1927 has been due to several exten-
sive collections that have come to hand, among which may be men-
tioned especially the ethnological material from the Stirling
expedition in the interior of New Guinea, including wonderful series
from peoples practically unknown, the contributions of the National
Geographic Society from the excavations at Pueblo Bonito, the col-
lection of 20,000 beetles presented by Mr. John D. Sherman, valuable
collections in various branches of natural history made by Dr. Hugh
M. Smith in Siam, and the minerals in the Roebling and Canfield
collections. Complete accounts of these and other specimens received
will be found in the reports of the head curators which follow.

There have been received also 1,371 lots of material for examina-
tion and report, the larger part being geological. Some of this has
been added to the collections, some returned to the senders, and a
part discarded as not valuable for preservation. ,

During this fiscal year 3,717 specimens were sent out as gifts,
mainly te educational institutions. Included in these were 6 sets of
mollusks of 149 specimens each, and 27 sets to show the formation
of soil through the weathering of rock each consisting of 16 speci-
mens. Exchanges of duplicate material with other institutions and
individuals amounted to 31,747 specimens for which many valuable
additions were obtained for the collections. There were also 24,066
specimens loaned for study for the use of workers outside of Wash-
ington. The selection and preparation of this material, its packing
and shipment, and its installation once more in the collections on
its return constitute a tremendous task that takes much time and
attention.

The following statement of specimens now covered in the Museum
catalogues will be of interest:

PANE TO DOO RA yes LENS C20 ONE RR RAIN CN egos SN Ca yoni 668, 312
ESTOUO SV 0 Fi sa ae Tee Nt ee 2h Oe 4, 727, 552
Geologye) 2228 eee BETA USE eH A Ag Ma a 1, 890, 255 x
ATts’ andeinGUStrieg es 2.0 es ee ee a anes ah 91, 232
FESTUS DO ye ee SVE Se Na cy OU ea A ec 355, 934

4 Wf) 7} MARI me eee ies one meee Spree, oe eee eee aes Oe eed ee Ys 10, 733, 285

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EXPLORATIONS AND FIELD WORK

Field researches through the past year have been continued
through special funds available from friends of the Institution or
through a variety of cooperative arrangements. In spite of the
restrictions thus imposed the work has been varied and highly pro-
ductive in definite results. The Museum is handicapped through
inability with present funds to take up many opportunities for field
work that offer and it is important that money for such purposes
be made available. At comparatively low cost much may. be
accomplished.

On June 1, 1927, N. M. Judd, curator of American archeology, on
leave without pay, again proceeded to New Mexico as director of the
National Geographic Society’s Pueblo Bonito expedition. These ex-
peditions have been maintained annually since 1921 at a cost, for
field work alone, of more than $100,000 and the Geographic Society
has presented to the National Museum practically all of the resulting
collections, totaling 3,651 specimens. The current field season is
planned primarily as an opportunity for preparation of the scientific
report on the results of this work.

The field work of Dr. A. Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthro-
pology, in 1926 consisted of an extensive archeological and anthro-
pological survey of Alaska. This is described in a preliminary way
in a report published in the Smithsonian Exploration volume for
1926, while a more detailed report is in preparation. Work in
Alaska and nearby Siberia begun many years ago by Smithsonian
interests under the leadership of Kennicott, Dall, Nelson, and others
is of the utmost interest and promise. During the present season
H. W. Krieger, curator of the division of ethnology, visited certain
areas along the Yukon, while H. B. Collins, jr., assistant curator, and
T. Dale Stewart, aid in the division of physical anthropology, went
north to Nunivak Island to explore certain old village sites. The
results of these investigations will be given in the report for next year,
as the close of the present fiscal year found these men out of close
touch with Washington. Much is expected from their observations.

Among the important expeditions in which the Institution has
cooperated has been that of Matthew W. Stirling, formerly assistant
curator of ethnology on the Museum staff, and his associates in the
interior of Dutch New Guinea. The work was carried on through
private means supplied by Mr. Stirling and his companions and was
finally developed as a joint enterprise with the Dutch Colonial
Government. The principal object was to make anthropological
and ethnological studies of the pygmy tribes, which it was expected
to find on the higher slopes of the Nassau mountains with supple-

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mental work among the Papuans of the lake plain. After estab-
lishing a base camp in May near the mouth of the Mamberamo River
the party made reconnaissance of the interior by means of an airplane
taken especially for that purpose. With a clear view of the courses
of the streams that traverse the unknown interior it was possible to
select the most direct route toward the final objective in the interior
mountains. Following these preliminaries the expedition pushed
ahead by means of boats up the Mamberamo to the Rouffaar and
along that stream to a point where an overland journey was made
into the country of the pygmies. The travel was hindered by heavy
floods, and was beset with many uncertainties through difficulties
attendant upon establishing contacts with the Papuans, who were
excitable and nervous and fearful of the intention of the invaders.
In the main, friendly relations prevailed and much valuable cultural
material was obtained through barter with groups of hitherto un-
known savages. The pygmies of the mountain slopes proved friendly
and of entirely different disposition so that Mr. Stirling and his com-
panions lived among them at ease without necessity for the constant
guard required with the natives of the lake plain. The party com-
pleted its observations in December and retraced its long journey to
the coast, embarking finally for Java. Shipments of specimens to
the Museum consisted of 14 large cases containing thousands of
implements from peoples living under the cultural conditions of the
stone age. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. Stirling and his com-
panions the National Museum now possesses one of the finest collec-
tions of the kind from New Guinea in existence. The work of the
party has been of the highest importance i in extending our knowledge
of one of the few nalaioae areas remaining on the earth’s surface.

The courtesy of the Dutch Colonial Government in cooperating in
the scientific work, in providing steamer transportation both for the
party and for subsequent shipments of supplies, and furnishing
guards to safeguard camps and parties during travel was greatly _
appreciated. This assistance was of the highest importance to the
success of the expedition.

During his second year under the Walter Rathbone Bacon scholar-
ship, Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, curator of marine invertebrates, con-
tinued field studies of the crustacean fauna of South America, prin-
cipally on the west coast from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to Punta Arenas,
Chile, including visits to the island of Juan Fernandez and the Falk-
land Islands, returning by way of Patagonia and es The
collections brought to the Museum as a result of this year’s studies are
far larger than those of last year, due in part to a longer period in
the dela and include several genera and one family cS crustacea
found ‘on the first time on the west coast of South America. Doctor
Schmitt left New York on August 19, 1926, arriving at Salaverry,

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Peru, on the 30th of the same month. Until October 3 work was
earried on at Guayaquil, Ecuador, and vicinity, and until October 25
near Salaverry, Peru. The time until November 10 was divided
between Lima, Callao, and near-by localities. On November 29 he
sailed in a schooner for the island of Juan Fernandez, landing on
December 7 and remaining until December 27. There he observed
one of the most productive of crustacean fisheries, that of the Juan
Fernandez spiny lobster (Palinostus frontalis), besides making ob-
servations and collections of marine invertebrates and fishes. After
visiting Valparaiso he proceeded to Concepcion, Talcahuano, and
other points in Chile, collecting on the way, and arrived at Punta
Arenas on January 26, 1927, where he collected until February 13.
From there he took passage in a schooner for the Falkland Islands,
where extensive studies and collections were made until the end of
April, returning to Punta Arenas and leaving the latter port for
Buenos Aires on May 2. The return was made by way of Monte-
video, Santos, Rio de Janeiro, and New York, arriving in Washington
on June 10. Doctor Schmitt gratefully acknowledges the valuable
assistance and generous hospitality received from all authorities and
a large number of private persons in South America and in the
Falkland Islands.

Dr. Hugh M. Smith, director of the fisheries of Siam, honorary
curator in zoology of the National Museum, continued field work in
Siam. His explorations have resulted in splendid collections of
mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, and insects which
are now being studied with the keenest interest by specialists in the
Museum. He himself will undertake the study of the fishes.

The Smithsonian-Chrysler African expedition to Tanganyika and
Kenya, although undertaken to secure living animals for the Na-
tional Zoological Park, resulted in additions to the Museum collec-
tions, since through the interest of Dr. W. M. Mann, director, speci-
mens of birds, mammals, and miscellaneous invertebrates taken at
odd times, when the naturalists of the expedition were not engaged
with living animals, were secured and have been presented to our
collections. The material is very welcome, since it includes valuable
additions to our series from the section covered. The collection of
birds preserved for dissection is especially notable.

On March 22, 1927, Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary
in charge of the National Museum, traveling under the Swales’ fund,
sailed from New York for Port au Prince, Haiti. Until the end of
April he carried on field investigations in Haiti and then crossed to
the Dominican Republic, finally sailing north from Puerto Plata on
June 3. Through the interest of Dr. W. L. Abbott the Museum is in
possession of extensive collections of birds, mammals, reptiles, am-

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‘phibians, plants, and other specimens from Hispaniola. Doctor
Wetmore’s work in the field was planned with a view to supplement
Doctor Abbott’s material when necessary and to gather information
on faunal areas and distribution that will be useful in the prepara-
tion of reports on the Abbott collections now under way. His work
in Haiti, thanks to the interest of Dr. G. F. Freeman and other mem-
bers of the Service Technique, was highly successful and included
investigations in the vicinity of Port au Prince, in the southern
peninsula, with the coffee experiment station at Fonds-des-Negres as
a base, an exploration of the high La Selle, unknown zoologically
until this visit, a trip to the interior plain at Hinche, a visit to the
caves near St. Michel, famous for their bone deposits, and finally
work at Caracol on the north coast.

In the Dominican Republic Doctor Wetmore worked principally
on Samand Bay and in the high interior in the valley of Constanza.
His collections have included many items of interest. Among forms
already described are a new species of thrush and a new genus of
lizards from La Selle.

Owing to disturbed conditions in China, the activities of A. de C.
Sowerby, under the auspices of Col. R. S. Clark, have been greatly
curtailed. Nevertheless, he has succeeded in sending the Museum
large and valuable collections, especially of reptiles and fishes, which
have added notably to our series.

Clarence R. Shoemaker, assistant curator of marine invertebrates,
under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, during
July and August, 1926, visited the Marine Biological Laboratory, at
Dry Tortugas, Fla., for the purpose chiefly of making carcinological
studies. More than 3,300 specimens of marine invertebrates were
collected for the Museum.

Dr. P. Bartsch, curator of mollusks, in 1926 spent from August 10
to 21 at the Tortugas, and August 21 to 24 along the Florida Keys,
examining Cerion colonies in continuation of his experiments in
heredity with these organisms. A more detailed report on this work
has already been published in the Smithsonian Exploration Pam-
phlet for 1926 (pp. 80-89). While at the Tortugas, Doctor Bartsch
made experiments in the exposure of moving-picture film among
the coral reefs undersea, securing a series of pictures showing faunal
associations of marine organisms 7m situ. As in former years, he
kept account of the birds observed from day to day.

J. M. Aldrich, associate curator of insects, before the close of the
fiscal year departed on an expedition to the western part of the coun-
try for the purpose of making collections of insects, principally
Diptera, in certain regions from which very few specimens have
been received in the past. His itinerary was planned to extend to

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California, returning through Nevada, Yellowstone Park, and the
Black Hills.

Capt. R. A. Bartlett, a valued volunteer collector for the Museum,
as a result of explorations off the northwest coast of Greenland in
the summer of 1926, sent in 776 specimens of marine invertebrates.

Dr. W. R. Maxon, associate curator of plants, left Washington in
May, 1926, for Jamaica and returned early in the following August.
The exploration, which was made possible by a grant from the Amer-
ican Association for the Advancement of Science and the cordial
cooperation of the New York Botanical Garden and the United Fruit
Co., was conducted in the extreme eastern end of the Blue Mountain
range and on some of the high peaks to the westward. The work was
extremely productive in material for use in writing a proposed
descriptive volume on the ferns of Jamaica, some 2,100 numbers
(chiefly ferns) having been collected, many of these with numerous
duplicates. The present collection, with material gathered during
several previous trips, comprises an ample series of specimens show-
ing local distribution, altitudinal range, and habital forms of most
of the 500 fern species known to occur in the island. E. P. Killip,
aid, and Albert C. Smith, collaborator, left Washington for Colombia
in October, 1926, and returned in April, 1927, spending approxi-
mately six months in field work in the interior regions of that coun-
try. The expedition was organized through the cooperation of the
New York Botanical Garden, the Gray Herbarium, the Arnold Ar-
boretum, and Mr. Oakes Ames, with the National Museum. The
greater part of the work was done in the general vicinity of Bucara-
manga, in the Department of Santander, and along the Colombian-
Venezuelan border in the Department Norte de Santander. Alto-
gether some 30,000 specimens of plants were collected, representing
over 7,100 collection numbers. The bulk of the material, and the
portion which will prove most valuable, was obtained in the difficult
mountain regions of the Bucaramanga district, a nearly unexplored
area not previously visited by American botanists. The present is
the third recent American botanical expedition to Colombia and the
second in which Mr. Killip has participated in his project to prepare
a report upon the plants of Colombia.

Prof. A. §. Hitchcock, custodian of the grass herbarium, spent
about two months in the summer of 1926 collecting grasses in the
Rocky Mountain region, and in November and December, in coopera-
tion with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation, collected grasses
throughout the island of Cuba.

Prof. H. H. Bartlett, honorary collaborator, left last autumn upon
a year’s botanical collecting trip in the East Indies. A considerable
collection has already been received from Formosa and at last reports
excellent results were being obtained in Sumatra.

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Dr. W. F. Foshag, assistant curator of mineralogy and petrology,
was in the field in Mexico from May 23 to late September, 1926,
collecting minerals and ores and studying their occurrence at some
of the chief mining centers. The localities visited were Los Lamen-
tos, Santa Eulalia, La Ceja, Placer de Guadalupe, Cuchilla Parada,
and Naica, in the State of Chihuahua; Sierra Mojada, in the State
of Coahuila; and Velardena and Durango, in the State of Durango.
This expedition, undertaken in collaboration with Harvard Univer-
sity, was highly successful, due largely to the hearty cooperation of
the Mexican Government officials and American mining engineers
in charge of the properties. Over two tons of material were col-
lected from which representative sets have been selected for both
Harvard and the National Museum.

A field trip by Dr. R. S. Bassler, curator of stratigraphic paleon-
tology, through France and Germany during August and September,
was most fruitful of material results. Two weeks were spent in a
study of the Paris Basin in company with Dr. Ferdinand Canu, of
Versailles, France, the most eminent student of microfossils on the
Continent. Field investigations here yielded some valuable collec-
tions of microfossils, but a much larger and varied amount of mate-
rial was donated by Doctor Canu from the results of his previous
researches. Furthermore, Doctor Canu, to commemorate his long
association with the paleontological work of the National Museum,
presented his entire collection of French Cenozoic and Mesozoic fos-
sils, numbering more than 100,000 specimens. Doctor Bassler visited
in succession the Rhine Valley, the valley of the Main, the Early
Tertiary areas around Miinich, and the classic Mesozoic region north
of the Hartz Mountains.

Doctor Resser spent August and September in field work in the
Rocky Mountains, in continuation of the study of Cambrian strati-
eraphy under the direction of Secretary Walcott. He was assisted
by Erwin R. Pohl, of the paleontological staff, whose special interest
in the Devonian led him to secure good study collections from those
strata whenever encountered. The work on the Cambrian was di-
rected mainly to a determination of the section in Shoshone Canyon,
west of Cody, Wyo., of various sections farther north in the Bear-
tooth Range, and particularly a restudy of the famous sections north
of Gallatin Valley in Montana. Here ample collections were ob-
tained in strata from which the National Museum has previously had
but a few fragments. Near the close of the season during several
days’ study of exposures in the Wasatch Mountains north of Brigham —
City, Utah, under the guidance of Prof. Asa A. Mathews, of the
University of Utah, he obtained many instructive fossils of early
Paleozoic age and important stratigraphic data. Previous to the
work with Doctor Resser in the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Pohl was

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detailed to continue his researches of the previous year on the
Devonian rocks of New York and Ontario.

Under an allotment from the National Academy of Sciences
Charles W. Gilmore was again enabled to visit the Grand Canyon
of the Colorado. While the main object of this trip was to assist
in the development of certain educational features of the canyon
for the National Park Service, an opportunity was offered to make
further collections of fossil footprints from the Supai formation, a
level from which our collections are deficient. As a result of this
expedition, Mr. Gilmore secured more than half a ton of footprints
from both the Supai and the Hermit formations. A noteworthy
slab of large size from the latter has the clearly impressed track-
ways of no less than three different kinds of animals on its surface
and will make an unusually interesting exhibit.

In the early autumn of 1926 the Venice Co. of Venice, Fla., re-
ported the discovery of fossil remains of a mammoth, and cordially
invited the Smithsonian to send and recover the specimen. Dr. J. W.
Gidley was detailed for this work which occupied 10 days. It was
found that the bones all belonged to one individual of very large
size, but the skeleton was by no means complete. However, the por-
tions remaining were of sufficient value to amply repay the time and
expense required to collect and preserve them.

Later in the fiscal year Doctor Gidley was detailed to visit Curtis,
Okla., and Sarasota, Fla., in order to investigate reported finds of
fossil remains. The visit to the first mentioned locality yielded
remains of various Pleistocene mammals. At Sarasota and Zolfo
Springs, Fla., a good collection representing a considerable fauna
from the west coast was obtained.

NATIONAL SESQUICENTENNIAL EXPOSITION, PHILADELPHIA

As mentioned in the report of the Museum for 1926 the Smith-
sonian Institution was allotted $25,000 for the preparation, installa-
tion, and maintenance of an exhibition at the National Sesquicenten-
nial Exposition in Philadelphia. As the exposition buildings were
delayed in completion the Institution was not given possession of the
space assigned to it until late in June, so that although part of our
material was arranged by June 30 it was not possible to make
complete installation of our cases until after the beginning of the
present fiscal year. The section assigned to the Institution was one
of the first in the Transportation Building to be arranged and made
ready for display.

The exposition continued until November 30, 1926. During the
entire period one or more members of the staff remained in attend-
ance to answer the questions of visitors and to explain the various

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objects displayed. The material exhibited was returned to Washing-
ton in December, all in good condition.

The exhibits attracted much attention and were favorably received
by the public. A detailed account of the exhibits shown was in-
cluded in the annual report of the Museum for 1926 and need not be
repeated here.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

On February 11, 1927, there was called a conference of the estab-
lishment and Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution to
which there were invited prominent Americans to advise with refer-
ence to the future policy and field of service of the Institution. Asa
background for this conference there was arranged in the main hall
of the Smithsonian Building a special exhibition to demonstrate
activities in research carried on at present under the Institution.
The National Museum as one of the major organizations admin-
istered by the Smithsonian was prominently represented in so far
as the departments of anthropology, biology, and geology were
concerned.

For the occasion in question a series of temporary booths was
arranged by means of screens about the entire main hall. Benches,
tables, and cases were utilized for the exhibition of specimens and
the walls were given over to charts, diagrams, and photographs.
The entire installation was arranged not as a temporary transfer of
cases and materials from the halls and storage collections of the
National Museum, but as a demonstration of research activities on
the part of the staff. Each object displayed, while chosen for its
interest, was designed to represent some particular phase of science.
The entire arrangement was designed to indicate a cross section of
existing researches as developed in the Museum and the Institution
in general. J ae

The department of anthropology was represented by materials to
show recent studies in the anthrepology and archeology of the Colum-
bia River Valley of Alaska, the lower Mississippi Valley, and the
ancient Indian pueblos of the Southwest, supplemented by certain
matters dealing with Old World archeology, with the evolution of
man as a species in the animal kingdom, and with the development
of the modern American since the invasion of the New World by the
Caucasian race.

Projects illustrated in geology and paleontology included studies
in elephants and dinosaurs as representatives of ancient vertebrate
life, and illustrations of investigations into the thousands of fossil
species known among the invertebrates, of the highest importance
as indicators of the age of ancient rock strata with their included

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oils and minerals. With these were examples of minerals taken
from recent gifts and bequests in the Roebling and Canfield collec-
tions, together with materials to illustrate the formation of soil
through the disintegration of granite and other rock.

The work comprised in the department of biology is so vast that
attempt was made to cover only a few of its various branches. The
section devoted to botany, important as the foundation of agriculture,
was illustrated by the results of recent explorations on the plant life
of tropical America and by demonstrations of systematic studies in
various groups of plants. In zoology there were shown specimens of
reptiles, paintings of fishes, of insects, birds, mollusks, mammals,
foraminifera, crinoids or sea lilies, and other animals arranged to
demonstrate various researches, some of purely Bcicn Hille interest,
others of known economic application.

With each section of the exhibits there were in attendance research
workers of the scientific staff to explain fully to those interested the
various questions involved. The exhibits proved so popular that
they were thrown open to the public for several days during the
week that followed.

EDUCATIONAL WORK

The educational work of the Museum consists in part of its exhi-
bitions—objects so labeled that the public may be instructed as by
an encyclopedia cut apart and spread out, except that its illustra-
tions are real and material things.. With advance in Museum
methods, the objects on display are being grouped to a greater and
greater extent to show relationships, with, whenever possible, some
added indication of their source, so that at a glance the visitor may
comprehend their true character and significance. Visitors to the
exhibition halls of the National Museum reached a higher number
during the present fiscal year than ever before in the history of the
institution, a certain index to present-day interest in knowledge as
included in the scope of the modern museum. As is usually true the
greater number of visitors came during the warmer months, and
as in other recent years the automobile was an important means of
travel. The range of States represented by license plates on cars
parked before the buildings included every section of the Union.

An incidental educational feature having for its purpose the pro-
motion of scientific or technical teaching throughout the country has
been the distribution to schools and colleges of duplicate material,
properly identified and labeled, while through its publications and
correspondence the National Museum has contact with a great group
of persons many of whom never come to Washington.

Mr. A. H. Clark, who has continued the radio program of the
Smithsonian Institution, reports that the talks are maintaining their

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popularity and that many are preserved permanently in the form
of printed articles. During the summer of 1926, as a result of the
taking over of station WEAF in New York by the Radio Corpora-
tion of America and the discontinuance of station WCAP in Wash-
ington, the local radio situation became somewhat involved. From
station WCAP station WRC acquired the scientific talks of the
National Research Council and of Science Service, as well as the
interesting talks on natural history subjects arranged by Percival
S. Ridsdale. As station WRC was already running the regular
Smithsonian series of talks and the nature talks from the National
Zoological Park, some readjustment was necessary, as it was not
practicable to give out so many more or less similar talks from a
single station. The situation was still further complicated by the
fact that WRC had now become the Washington outlet for sta-
tion WEAF, as well as for station WJZ in New York. The closest
cooperation has from the first existed between the managers of all
of these series of scientific talks. In view of the fact that station
WRC was having considerable difficulty in arranging its program,
especially in satisfying the demands for time from the two stations
in New York, the representatives of the Smithsonian Institution,
the National Research Council, and Science Service asked the sta-
tion to regard all of the scientific talks collectively as a single unit
and to allot them such time as practicable which they would divide
up between themselves. The National Research Council decided to
discontinue its series, and after a few talks Mr. Ridsdale also dis-
continued his. Science Service shortly afterwards transferred its
talks to station WMAL. This left the situation as heretofore, with
the Smithsonian Institution the only organization giving scientific
talks over WRC. Because of the demands on its time by outside sta-
tions, station WRC this year was unable to allot to the Smithsonian
Institution more than a single period each week. The nature talks
from the National Zoological Park, given on Saturdays last year,
were therefore combined with the regular Smithsonian series, which
was given on Wednesdays instead of on Thursdays as formerly.
Twenty-nine talks were given during the season as follows:
Bringing home living animals from Africa. Dr. William M. Mann, Director,
National Zoological Park, November 24, 1926.
Early American animals—elephants and others. Dr. J. W. Gidley, National
Museum, December 1, 1926. :
Shooting stars. Dr. Willard J. Fisher, Harvard College Observatory, Decem-
ber 8, 1926 (read by Austin H. Clark).
An observatory among the Hottentots. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Assistant Secre-
tary, Smithsonian Institution, December 22, 1926.
The invasion of the snowy owl. Dr. Alexander Wetmore, Assistant Secretary,
Smithsonian Institution, December 22, 1926.
Natural history in Louisiana. Perey Viosca, jr., State biologist of Louisiana,
January 5, 1927.

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Dialogue between Miss Sarah W. Clark and Dr. William M. Mann on the sub-
ject of experiences in collecting living animals in Africa, January 19,
1927.

The Antarctic continent. Prof. Sir Douglas Mawson, The University, Adelaide,
South Australia. January 26, 1927.

Some African reptiles. Miss Doris M. Cochran, National Museum, February
2, 1927.

White ants or termites. Dr. Thomas H. Snyder, Bureau of Entomology, Feb-
ruary 9, 1927.

The romance of the lighthouse service. John S. Conway, Deputy Commissioner
of Lighthouses, February 23, 1927.

Oyster farming. Herbert F. Prytherch, Bureau of Fisheries, March 2, 1927.

American wild horses. Dr. J. W. Gidley, National Museum, March 7, 1927.

Fishery products in the arts and industries. Lewis Radcliffe, Deputy Com-
missioner of Fisheries, March 16, 1927.

Beetles: what they are and what they do. Dr. Edward A. Chapin, Bureau of
Entomology, March 21, 1927.

Watchmakers as inventors. Carl M. Mitman, National Museum, March 28,
1927.

The study of the sun. FE. EH. Fowle, Astrophysical Observatory, April 6, 1927.

The sea. Austin H. Clark, National Museum, April 13, 1927.

Frogs and toads. Miss Doris M. Cochran, National Museum, April 20, 1927.

The honey bee. James I. Hambleton, Bureau of Hntomology, April 27,
1927.

Mice. Arthur J. Poole, National Museum, May 4, 1927.

Fossil footprints in the Grand Canyon. Charles W. Gilmore, National Mu-
seum, May 11, 1927.

Who owns Potomac Park? Dr. George P. Merrill, National Museum, May 18,
1927.

Museums. Chauncey J. Hamlin, president, American Association of Museums,
May 25, 1927.

The Black Hills of South Dakota. Dr, James W. Gidley, National Museum,
June 1, 1927.

Goldfish and other aquarium creatures. Glenn C. Leach, Bureau of Fisheries,
June 8, 1927.

Snakes: Charles S. Hast, National Museum, June 15, 1927.

The Gold Coast, West Africa. Charles H. Knowles, Director of Agriculture,
Accra, Gold Coast, June 22, 1927.

The coins of Asia. T. T. Belote, National Museum, June 29, 1927.

The National Museum has no funds that may be devoted to lec-
ture courses and conducts no definite activities of that kind, except
as members of the staff may present talks before various organiza-
tions and meetings. A brief review of work of this sort during the
past year is presented together with an account of educational activi-
ties through loans of specimens and other means.

The Florida State College for Women, of Tallahassee, Fla., utilized
a special collection of ceremonial objects of carved wood, sent it
as a loan, in classes in anthropology and sociology, as exhibits in their
art department, and in the School of Home Economics, and finally
to illustrate a number of talks at different high schools.

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Dr. Walter Hough gave a talk on Americana to a group of the
Archeological League, and on American aboriginal art before the
art section of the Twentieth Century Club. He talked on Egypt
before the Carnegie Library Association. Groups of the Wilson
Teachers Normal School were given explanations of the collections
in anthropology by members of the staff. Three hundred members
of the National Farm Boys and Girls 4-H Club, brought to Wash-
ington by the Department of Agriculture, were shown the ethno-
logical collection by the head curator of the department.

During the fiscal year just ended the curator of American arche-
ology has lectured, chiefly on various phases of the Pueblo Bonito
expeditions, before the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.; the
Arizona Archaeological Society, Tucson; the El Paso Archaeological
Society, El Paso, Tex.; the Texas Technological College, at Lub-
bock; the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Society
and section H, American Association for the Advancement of
Science, at Philadelphia; and, in Washington, before members of
the Washington Society of Engineers; Lebanon Chapter, Order of
the Eastern Star; the Men’s Club of Foundry Methodist Church; the
Cosmos Club; and the National Academy of Sciences at its 1927
annual meeting.

Doctor Casanowicz guided a high-school group from Virginia
through the classical exhibits, and also explained the Assyro-Baby-
lonian antiquities to a group from the Oyster School of Washington.

Talks were given by Doctor Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthro-
pology at the Museum to students of divinity from Catholic Univer-
sity, Professor Duncan’s class of the American University, and the —
graduating class of St. John’s College, Annapolis, Md. He gave
lectures outside to the Club of University Women, the Washington
City Club, the City ‘Club, the Men’s Club of Mount Pleasant Congre-
gational Church, and before the Anthropological Society of Wash-
ington, and a presidential address at the meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, Philadelphia. In addition, a number
of lectures, where expenses were paid, were given at several institu-
tions outside of Washington, before the Teachers’ Institute, Spring- :
field, Ill.; the board of directors, Bell Telephone System Co., Phila-
delphia; at Wells College, before the Dental Society, Philadelphia.

Miss Doris M. Cochran, assistant curator of reptiles, rendered
assistance to the nature study teachers of the public schools of the
city, by giving several half-hour talks on the commoner North Ameri-
can reptiles and amphibians. She also addressed the students of the
Howard University medical school on the subject of poisonous rep-
tiles with exhibition of specimens and a visit to the reptile hall. Dr.
J. M. Aldrich, associate curator of insects, gave two lectures on

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Diptera affecting man before the junior medical students of Howard
University, and an exhibit of several species of Diptera injurious to
man was prepared for use by the officials of the Bureau of Entomol-
ogy at the meeting of the American Medical Association. Dr. Paul
Bartsch, as head professor of zoology at George Washington Univer-
sity, and professor of parasitology at the medical school of Howard
University, frequently brought classes to the Museum for examina-
tion of exhibits. He also gave a number of popular lectures before
various organizations on natural-history subjects. Thus, he gave a
talk on “The wonders of the deep” as the first of a series in the
10-event course at the Georgetown Presbyterian Church; to troop 33
of the Boy Scouts at Takoma Park on “ Birds about home,” and
another on the same topic to the Citizens’ Association of Chevy
Chase. An illustrated lecture, “An hour with our birds,’ was given
to the Washington Club. The Parent-Teachers’ Association at the
New Brightwood School was addressed on problems connected with
the retarded child in the light of modern medical investigation. The
Dunbar High School students were given an address on chalk, chalk
animals and their relatives, and the Vivarium Society at the National
Zoological Park was given a talk on mollusks, their habits and
method of culture.

Austin H. Clark, curator of echinoderms, gave three lectures on
“Life in the sea” before the annual symposium arranged by the
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, the University of Buffalo, and
Canisius College on April 20-22, at Buffalo, N. Y. During the
meeting of the American Association of Museums held in Wash-
ington he conducted the symposium on science museums, which was
held at the Willard Hotel on the evening of May 24, 1927. In his
capacity of news manager (originally director of publicity) for
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mr.
Clark attended the meetings of the association held in Philadel-
phia from December 27, 1926, to January 1, 1927. A detailed ac-
count of the news service at this meeting has been published in
Science.

Educational work by members of the staff of the division of plants
has consisted mainly of assistance rendered in connection with the
identification of material for such organizations as the American
Nature Association, and in suggesting methods of work and titles of
helpful literature, much of this help, though official, having been
extended informally. Dr. J. N. Rose delivered an illustrated lec-
ture on cacti before the Botanical Society of America at the mid-
winter meeting, and Professor Hitchcock and Mrs. Agnes Chase
presented more technical papers on taxonomy at the same time.

Dr. G. P. Merrill, head curator of the department of geology,
delivered two papers at the meetings of the American Association

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for the Advancement of Science at Philadelphia—one before the
History of Science Society entitled “ Geologists and geology of colo-
nial Philadelphia”; and the other before the section of chemistry
on “The present condition of knowledge on the composition of
meteorites.” He also prepared and delivered a brief radio talk en-
titled “ Who owns Potomac Park? ”

Dr. W. F. Foshag acted as associate editor of the American Min-
eralogist and as councilor of the Mineralogical Society of America.
Upon the invitation of the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society he
delivered an informal talk on his trip into northern Mexico.

Mr. C. W. Gilmore delivered a lecture on “ Extinct monsters” to a
rally of the fourth division of Washington Boy Scouts, and later
the same was repeated to the Men’s Club of Foundry Methodist
Episcopal Church. About 700 persons were present at the two lec-
tures. On several occasions he has given brief explanatory talks tc
classes from various schools of Washington and vicinity. Doctor
Gidley delivered informative talks before various clubs in Washing-
ton, and to a class of high-school students at Zolfo Springs, Fla..
and beth Mr. Gilmore and Doctor Gidley have prepared and broad-
cast radio talks in the Smithsonian course, the former delivering one
and the latter three.

Doctors Bassler and Resser gave lectures and informal talks to
classes in natural science of the Washington high schools and visiting
schools, as well as to young people brought here by other departments
of the Government. The 4-H Club of the Department of Agricul-
ture, numbering several hundred, received instruction in the work
of the paleontologist from Doctor Bassler. Various universities also —
have brought their advanced classes in geology to Washington and te
these Doctor Bassler has explained the Museum’s activities as well
as the local geology. Doctor Bassler continues to serve as examiner
in geological subjects for the Girl Scouts, while Doctor Resser has
had occasion to lecture on the work cf the Institution at local
churches and near-by colleges. Both presented papers before scien-
tific organizations, and Doctor Bassler completed his seventeenth
year as secretary of the Paleontological Society of America. He has
also served as director of one of the major projects of the National
Research Council in cooperation with the American Petroleum
Institute. :

The divisions of mineral and mechanical technology rendered their
usual assistance to local schools by lectures on mineral technology by
Carl W. Mitman and F. A. Taylor and on mechanical technology by
Paul E. Garber. Probably the largest individual group to whom the
collections were explained was the 4-H Club of boy and girl farmers
who were entertained by the Department of Agriculture for a week
in June, 1927. Mr. Taylor gave a talk on the activities of the

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Smithsonian and its branches before the student branch of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers at its spring meeting at
George Washington University.

In the division of textiles informal talks were given in the halls
by F. L. Lewton to classes from the Washington Missionary College,
Takoma Park, Md., and to the class in costume design from George
Washington University, and by Mrs. E. W. Rosson to classes from
Wilson Normal School of Washington.

For several years past employees of Woodward & Lothrop’s depart-
ment store, Washington, D. C., enrolled in its training department,
have come to the Museum in groups for talks on textiles by Mr. Lew-
ton. This year a change was made whereby the lectures were given
at the store to a much larger group, permitting a more formal pre-
sentation and covering a wider field. Thus, on February 7, 9, and 10,
1927, Mr. Lewton gave lectures to three groups of store employees on
the technology of yarn and cloth construction, in which the effect on
the finished goods of the different physical properties of the five
principal fibers was emphasized. He was also the speaker for indus-
trial arts evening at the Arts Club of Washington, on February 10,
when he gave an informa! talk on the technology of fabric decora-
tion, illustrated by specimens of fabrics showing special types of dec-
oration such as weft and warp printing, and cross-dyeing effects. The
same speaker, on January 11, 1927, addressed the Washington Chap-
ter of the American Home Economics Association, at the Bureau
of Home Economics, on “ Rayon—lIts future and possibilities.” On
January 19 he spoke to the Science Club of Eastern High School,
Washington, D. C., on “ Rayon—Its manufacture and application ”’;
on March 8, to the Mothers’ Club of Takoma Park, Md., on “A com-
parison of the qualities of dress fabrics 20 years ago and to-day”;
and on March 11, 1927, to the home economics department of George
Washington University, on “ The manufacture and future of rayon.”

Students from the Wilson Normal School of this city were
addressed in the Museum by William N. Watkins on the subject
of “Turpentining,” and he likewise conducted the graduating class
from the Hallstead (Pa.) High School through the wood court speak -
ing on the collection generally.

Dr. George B. Roth, professor of pharmacology at George Wash-
ington University, continued to visit the Museum with medical
students for the purpose of acquainting them with the classification
of medicinal materials and the physical characteristics of the crude
drugs from which medicines are made.

The District of Columbia Parent-Teacher Congress made special
arrangements to have the health exhibits explained to its members.
The first delegation consisted of about 50 members, and throughout

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the year other delegations of varying numbers called for the same
purpose. The American Optometric Association during its annual
convention in Washington included in its program a visit to the
Museum for the express purpose of studying the exhibits of the
hall of health. Several hundred delegates from all parts of the
United States were included in the group.

In connection with American forest week activities, the section
of wood technology installed exhibits during the period that covered
tree planting, timber growing, forest protection, recreation, and
utilization. During American forest week 18,739 persons visited
the building, and up to closing time on May 18, when some of the
exhibits were removed, 48,163 visitors had been recorded.

R. P. Tolman, assistant curator of the division of graphic arts,
gave one talk before the convention of American Pen Women. At
the present time this division has six traveling exhibits of graphic
arts which show how prints are made, and two traveling exhibits on
the history of photography. These were shown 47 times in public
schools, colleges, libraries, and other establishments from Massachu-
setts to California. These exhibits are available for display by any
organization that is interested, the only expense being the expressage.
The two larger exhibits are engaged for nearly the entire next sea-
son, and a number of engagements have been arranged for the
Sule: ones.

VISITORS

The Museum buildings are open to the public free of charge every

week day from 9 a. m. to 4.30 p. m. and, in addition, the Natural -

History Building and the Arts and Industries Building are open
on Sunday afternoon from 1.30 to 4.30. This year all exhibition
halls were closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, following
the precedent of 1926, and the Smithsonian Building was closed to
the public for two days, February 10 and 11, 1927, when the Institu-
tion was using the public halls for a conference. In connection with
the Nation’s welcome to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on June 11, all
exhibition halls were closed at noon.

The flags on all Museum buildings were placed at half mast at

12.50 p. m., February 9, 1927, when notice was received of the death
of Secretary Walcott, and were so continued through February 12,
the day of the funeral. The offices in all Museum buildings were
closed all day February 12 and the exhibition halls were closed to
the public after 2p. m.

The visitors to the Museum for the year aggregated 1,153,212
persons, an increase of nearly 50,000 over the previous year. Aver-
age attendance for week days was 3,263 and for Sundays, with only
two buildings open, 2,660. The number of visitors to the Smith-

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sonian Building during the year was 128,868 and to the Aircraft
Building 82,628, a daily average of 414 for the former and 265 for
the latter; to the Arts and Industries Building, 338,566 on week days
and 41,864 on Sundays, a daily week-day average of 1,088 and a
Sunday average of 805; and to the Natural History Building, 464,800
on week days and 96,486 on Sundays, a daily week-day average of
1,494 and a Sunday average of 1,855.

The following tables show, respectively, the attendance of visitors
during each month of the last year and for each year since 1881,
when the building now devoted to arts and industries was first opened

to the public:

Number of visitors during the year ended June 30, 1927

Year and month Taueee
1926
LUIS RR eae edge 17, 356
guste. ose Ss 22, 080
September__________ 14, 990
IP bOMER Seo ers 8, 971
November________-- 5, 647
December-________-- 4, 049
1927
Samiany = ie Ss 3, 643
February._-_-_____- 3, 856
Nianehwer 1 Seo 5, 373
[Ofer Lena Sagal Wis oat Ste 15, 457
11 LE Bk Bil ie go 10, 973
cl NUON Gis ee VRE a OD anette Ae 16, 473
etal So ee 128, 868

Museum buildings

Art d Natural ee

Taduuities Tuistory Aircraft
41, 022 69, 724 21, 515 149, 617
59, 330 74, 729 9, 965 166, 104
43, 334 59, 094 | 7, 592 125, 010
30, 563 41, 814 4, 382 85, 730
17, 917 28, 389 3, 144 55, 097
11, 394 18, 917 2, 473 36, 833
13, 193 22, 827 2, 092 41, 755
13, 230 27, 665 2, 054 46, 805
19, 573 34, 714 3, 220 62, 880
47, 018 65, 719 7, 185 135; 379
38, 867 55, 999 7, 470 118, 309
44, 989 61, 695 11, 536 134, 693
380, 430 561, 286 82, 628 | 1, 153, 212

Number of visitors to the Smithsonian and Museum Buildings since 1881

Museum buildings

Year Sane Total
inden | Aireraft
MSS Gaw Lichen 2180 es Vea 100, 060 THO ROOO eee o Ses aU ees ar 250, 000
ISS Ze iise Pigs el rae 152, 744 UOVBA Sas wees > Fear ede. pie rae ae 320, 199
TRIOS Use en ae ak Peon 104, 823 PADS or Ste SSG se apathy PEL, oe 307, 011
1884 (half year)_____ 45, 565 OP ACG IL Weare eee ea Oe gene 143, 226
1884-85 (fiscal year)_| 105, 993 FAVS) OOVAG IPies sy EUG eB a5 e221 is Sate Cates 311, 019
TS85-8G6 la ee 88, 960 LAB PA RI eee Sneed Sa a IS Fea SE NE 263, 185
SSG—-8 (xe ee i 98, 552 PG Oe 2 ol pn kee, See SEALE 315, 114
TSS7TaS Sts LU 102, 863 2406604 (eke otal Sos: MG 352, 528
1888-89____________ 149, 618 iA OAS yi ies Pap fal Soe eS. OS 524, 461
PS89=90uU es sy sets 120, 894 DIGESTING eas 3k IOS Se ata) a es Da 395, 218
1890-914% oe 111, 669 PSO PAD GN ie te ete Se oS SARS he) 398, 095
NBO 92s sievet Aad. 114, 817 DOO 7S 2g |i ere ees Bae 384, 642
PSO 220 3 Oi spk ele ea 174, 188 ME OOS Op Fi eee ate 28) aS phaser 494, 118

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Number of visitors to the Smithsonian Museum Building since 1881—Continued

Museum buildings
Year Bralthsoniag
(Nora Arts and Natural .
Tague: History Aircraft

UBQS =O ire ey ee 1038, 910 95748 Se. en i ee
He AO ea ae ey 105, 658 ZOLTAR oS De a eh ee
FSO5-960 2 OU ty 103, 650 US OP SOS Ye SUS ee ee ee
1896—-97___._-___-_- 115, 709 229 AGO Gi isi 25 ys Be Pe seal eel
TEOGE OS ere sa Se 99, 273 Gr DOA Mest mere a, 3 eats a ee
1898-99____________ 116, 912 LOZ SATE Nee EIS SE eae eee
1800-19005. 2 30> 133:947 (225, 440 ee eee
LIOOALOO Hee TS 151; BGS} 216, GG eee el Oe eae
PQQUED ES tire. aca PAA FOTN T7S4888 Walt Wl Allee eas
190223ec ae es SET | SS SOT re et oe eee
POO SHA sess ee ME si 143, 988 PAPA V Rae Bee Pusch Etna nieve A key ILM IDN CSE ED 2
HO Q4A= he a hae ee 149, 380 Zw OD TL Lae eli pee |e ee
QO SH 6s 2 Seiad sane 149, 661 210; SSG 4) Bee Les ee
HO Gee eh Nate 158, 591 210) OL 7] & ee re ees [ees eared
TOOTS ee kt ahs Be. 237, 182 ZOOS GO bee” Slee ee a a
TO OSS aks eed es 198, 054 2E0, 1ST Wee ee eee
TIO OFM sine Gus 179, 163 228, 804 DOM403" feta
POO. se aps 0 167, 085 207, 010 A Aes i Le ee
OPS 12 spp en 143, 134 172, 182 Zoe Se ae urea es
1919-19" 1 145.290") |) 178, S58"! 9300) ede) De
EGIS FAL RLY | BOD 645,41) TG. GOS ul sl O peel ioe eae
Wt4-15. [bees AQ, Bad || Pisa. 2005 | soy gt oe ame
1915-16... SVT AS. Bb UTAG. Ga6 FSGS pie are a
EOUG SAGs oie veseg he oe 86, 335 161, 700 AVG O25 42 ae
1ST 718 2 eee 67, 224.1) tol, 2085). 401 100. |. ee ee
LOVS SOS Ue are yh ee 8 101, 504 266; 5325) 2 132859) |2eee eae
VOT9—20. 2s 2 en al 8 86, 013 250, 982 4Q2 O84 Lee ees
WO 20S 20 ee ie pope Ny 90, 235 286, 397 467, 299 31, 235
L991 99 0) Ken S| 83, 384 | 262,151 | 441, 604 46, 380
1999293 Pree i 5) 95,168 | 259,542 | 508, 518 42, 904
LOQP—94.. i shal a 104, 601 | 290,012 | 540,776 43, 534
TOD 4 2 0 alee pe 107, 342 304, 858 557, 016 62, 787
FOZ 5 S2O RSS ee 110, 975 355, 762 581, 563 58, 005
POZG=2 623-2 ores thee 128, 868 380, 430 561, 286 82, 628

Grand total_____ 5, 702, 582 |10,707,396 |6, 857, 559 | 357, 473

1 Building open for only 3 months of the year.

PUBLICATIONS

Total

299, 658
307, 402
284) 155
345, 315
276, 527
309, 383
358, 587
368, 119
317, 995
496, 481
364, 766
385, 301
360, 547
363, 698
536, 841
443, 241
458, 370
525, 207
597, 203
636, 084
578, 559
495, 238
576, 701
655, 060
629, 622
500, 895
759, 979
875, 166
833, 519
906, 132
978, 923

1, 022,003 -

1, 106, 305
1, 153, 212

23, 565, 010

The publications issued during the year include 10 volumes, namely,

the annual report for 1926; Bulletin 1384, Material Culture of the

People of Southeastern Panama, Based on Specimens in the United
States National Museum, by Herbert W. Krieger; Bulletin 135, Life
Histories of North American Marsh Birds, Orders Odontoglossae,
Herodiones, and Paludicolae, by Arthur Cieveland Bent; Bulletin
186, Handbook of the Collection of Musical Instruments in the United
States National Museum, by Frances Densmore; Bulletin 137, The
‘Collection of Primitive Weapons and Armor of the Philippine Is-
lands in the United States National Museum, by Herbert W. Krieger;
Bulletin 138, The Fossil Stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific Slope
of North America, by Mary J. Rathbun; Bulletin 139, Fire as an

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Agent in Human Culture, by Walter Hough; Bulletin 140, Bird
Parasites of the Nematode Suborders Strongylata, Ascaridata, and
Spirurata, by Eloise B. Cram, and a very small edition, for office use,
of the complete volume 67 of the Proceedings and the complete
volume 238, Contributions from the United States National Herba-
rium. Sixty-three separate papers published include three papers in
the Bulletin series, 5 in the Contributions from the United States
National Herbarium, and 55 in the Proceedings. A third and revised
edition of the Illustrated Handbook of the Department of Geology
of the United States National Museum was printed.

The complete distribution of the volumes and separates to libraries
and individuals on the regular mailing lists aggregated 101,598 copies,
while in addition 8,982 copies of publications issued during this and
previous years were supplied in response to special requests. The
mailing lists have been carefully revised to avoid loss in distribution
so far as practicable.

The editorial office, besides supervising the printing of the publica-
tions, has charge also of all miscellaneous printing and binding for
the Museum, in which connection 711,119 forms, labels, and other
items were printed and 2,202 volumes were bound.

LIBRARY

The library of the National Museum, in common with the other
divisions of the Smithsonian library, owes its growth largely to the
exchange of publications between the Institution and its branches and
other learned institutions and societies throughout the world. These
publications come to the library direct, or through the International
Exchange Service, which is administered by the Institution. During
the last fiscal year 31,647 packages of one or more publications each
came by mail and 7,459 through the exchange. This was an increase
of more than 1,200 packages over the year before, and testified to the
generous response made to the letters prepared by the library asking
for numbers missing from its sets, or proposing or accepting exchange
relations with new societies. After the 39,106 packages had been
opened, the items were stamped, entered, and sent to the appropriate
divisions of the library, but chiefly to the Smithsonian deposit in the
Library of Congress and the library of the National Museum.

During the year 2,492 volumes and 1,299 pamphlets were added to
the Museum library, representing an increase in accessions of more
than 20 per cent over the year before, and giving the library a total
of 69,300 volumes and 105,716 pamphlets. Most of the accessions
came, as has been said, by exchange; others came by gift, especially
from the Library of Congress, which was generous enough to send
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umes needed by the library. Other important gifts were made by
the late Secretary Walcott, Dr. W. H. Holmes, and Dr. C. W. Rich-
mond. Among the 71 volumes and 73 pamphlets given by Doctor
Holmes was a manuscript volume of letters that scores of his friends
in America and abroad had written to him on his eightieth birthday.
This volume, together with several others of personal interest given
by Doctor Holmes, was assigned to the library of the National Gallery
of Art. Some of the other donors were Assistant Secretary Wetmore,
Dr. J. M. Aldrich, A. H. Clark, the late Dr. W. H. Dall, Dr. O. P.
Hay, Dr. Walter Hough, Dr. Ale3 Hrdlitka, N. M. Judd, Dr. W. R.
Maxon, Dr. G. P. Merrill, G. S. Miller, A. J. Olmsted, J. U. Perkins,
Miss M. J. Rathbun, and J. H. Riley.

In the course of the year 12,274 parts of periodicals were entered,
710 volumes and 948 pamphlets were catalogued, and 4,818 cards were
added to the shelf list. One of the most important pieces of work
was the preparation of nearly 2,000 volumes for binding, of which

1,489 were sent to the binder, and 1,183 on their return checked, ac-

cessioned, and shelved. The loans to members of the scientific staff
totaled 4,316, of which 1,721 were borrowed from the Library of
Congress and 137 elsewhere. The other loans numbered 198, made
chiefly to Government libraries and libraries outside of Washington.
Loans of especial interest, as the items were rare in this country, were
made to the California Academy of Sciences, the University of Wis-
consin, and Johns Hopkins University. To the last were sent 104
titles in paleobotany. ‘Thousands of publications were consulted in

the reference room, both by members of the staff. and by other research

workers, including a number from foreign countries.

In addition to. the regular work of the year, several important
special tasks were undertaken. The intensive effort to complete
broken sets of periodicals, begun last year, was continued with excel-
lent results. A beginning was also made toward cataloguing some of
the special collections in the sectional libraries. Among the others
were the filing of 30,866 cards in the methodical and alphabetic sets of
the Concilium Bibliographicum, which was almost twice the number

filed the year before; the final checking of the holdings of the library.

for the forthcoming Union List of Serials; and the preparation, in
connection with the other divisions of the Smithsonian library, of an
exhibit of books for the conference on the future held at the Institu-
tion last February.

The number of sectional libraries in the Museum is now 37. These
represent important working units of the main library. They are as
follows:

Administration. Anthropology.

Administrative assistant’s office. Biology.
American archeology. Birds.

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Botany. Mineral technology.
Hehinoderms. Mollusks.

Hditor’s office. National Gallery of Art.
Ethnology. Old World archeology.
Fishes. Organic chemistry.
Foods. Paleobotany.

Geology. Photography.

Graphic arts. Physical anthropology.
History. Property clerk’s office.
Insects. ' Reptiles and batrachians.

Invertebrate paleontology.

Superintendent’s office.

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Mammals. | Taxidermy.

Marine invertebrates. | Textiles.

Mechanical technology. | Vertebrate paleontology.
Medicine. | Wood technology.
Minerals.

The technological library, which is located in the Old Museum
Building, concerns itself chiefly with the useful arts and industries.
During the past year the work of reorganization that was begun two
years before was continued, but, owing to the increasing difficulty of
the task and the lack of help, was not completed. The shelf list was
finished, however, by the addition of 2,500 cards, and an excellent
beginning made on the inventory. Many duplicates were removed
to the west stacks of the Smithsonian Building, together with a large
number of Government publications and publications of various
States not needed in the Library. These will be disposed of later.
Their removal from the old museum building has materially increased
the space available for collections necessary to the work of the
curators. The loans numbered 450.

The library of the National Gallery of Art, which is at present
administered as a sectional library of the National Museum, is in
reality one of the ten divisions of the Smithsonian library, and as
such is entitled to a place by itself in the annual report of the Libra-
rian. This library increased during the year by 123 volumes, 738
parts of volumes, and 120 pamphlets. It now totals 704 volumes and
785 pamphlets. The most important gift of the year was made by
Dr. William H. Holmes, director of the gallery. It has already been
spoken of among the accessions to the library of the National
Museum.

On the whole, the year was one of progress toward solving the
problems which have arisen in connection with the work of reorgan-
izing the Museum library that was begun three years ago. But the ©
progress would have been far greater if funds had been at hand for
buying books and periodicals needed by the curators, for supplyine
in the standard sets the missing numbers that can not be obtained by
exchange, and for employing enough trained workers to make avail-

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able at the earliest possible moment the thousands of volumes and
pamphlets now lying useless on the shelves. For these purposes the
library is in serious need of funds.

PHOTOGRAPHIC LABORATORY

The photographic laboratory of the Museum, with but three em-
ployees, reports as the work of the year the making of 1,577 nega-
tives, 11,971 prints, 310 lantern slides, 71 enlargements, and 2 trans-
parencies; the development of 120 field negatives, 53 rolls, and 22
film packs; the mounting of 831 prints and 32 prints bleached for
drawing. These were required for illustrations in publications or
for record purposes in the National Museum and the National Gal-
lery of Art. The Museum through a cooperative arrangement serves
the Gallery along these lines.

BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT

Building repairs and alterations——In the Natural History Build-
ing the most important work accomplished was the repainting of
the exterior surfaces of all metal window sashes on the first and
second floors; the remodeling of the public comfort room for men
on the ground floor; and the painting of concrete floors in corridors
and at the west entrance, ground floor. The walls and ceiling of the
bird storage room on the third floor: were painted white, greatly im-
proving the lighting and facilitating work in all parts of the space.
Minor repairs were made to the wall of the east freight elevator
shaft and to walls and ceilings in various offices 0 on the Faroe and _
third floors.

In the Arts and Industries Building the worn-out copper down-
spouts leading from the upper to the lower roofs were replaced by
galvanized-iron spouts. The tin roofs over the four courts, the north
and the west halls, sections of the rotunda, and over the restaurant
were given a coat of metallic paint. New wire screens were installed
in windows of the exhibition halls, and new awnings were provided
for the skylight over the Poe In the interior, portions of the
walls in several exhibition halls were pointed up and painted, - -and
the wooden floor in a small storage room was renewed.

In connection with the Smithsonian Building the most important
work was the repairing and painting of the exterior of all window
sashes and doors; the completion of the remodeling of the disburs-
ing offices, begun in 1926, to provide greater protection on pay day;
the painting of the public comfort room for men; and the attaching
of safety treads on the oak steps leading from the first floor to the
basement of the north tower.

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The roof and the exterior of two sides of the metal Aircraft Build-
ing were painted, and the other two sides were touched up where
necessary.

Heat, light, and power plant—The power plant, which was closed
down for the summer, as customary, was put in operation on Septem-
ber 20, 1926, and continued until May 28, 1927.

The plant has been in operation nearly 18 years, during which
time a number of major repairs have been made to the main generat-
ing unit, which consists of three 250 and one 125 horsepower engines.
The new steam valves installed on the large units in 1926 have in-
creased somewhat their efficiency and have made it possible to carry
somewhat heavier loads than heretofore. New pistons, complete with
rings, rods, and packing, have now been installed on these units,
which will add to their smooth and continuous operation. ‘The
Taylor mechanical stokers have required somewhat less attention
than previously, due partly to the installation of new gear cases on
two of the boilers. ,

The boilers were given annual inspection, as usual, by the Steam-
boat Inspection Service and reported in good condition. The new
feed water connections requested by the inspector the preceding year
were changed to meet his approval.

In the operation of the plant, 3,329 tons of bituminous coal were
used during the year, which is slightly less than consumed in 1926.
The cost of coal averaged $5.78 a ton, which exceeds that of the
previous year, when the cost was only $5.57 a ton.

Electric current generated during the year totaled 586,041 kilo-
watt hours, at a cost of 1.97 cents for the kilowatt hour if interest
on plant and depreciation are included, or 1.68 cents for the
kilowatt hour if not included. It should be noted that the cur-
rent produced approaches 600,000 kilowatt hours which, for the
time the plant is in operation, is about all that can be produced.
During the summer when the plant is not in operation, current for
power and light is purchased from a commercial concern under
contract made by the Treasury Department.

The ice plant in operation for 3,413 hours produced 868 tons of
ice, which was suflicient to meet the needs of all the buildings of
the Institution in the Smithsonian Park. The cost of ice, including
labor and supplies, replacement of cans, new drive chain, and the
depreciation on the ammonia compressor purchased during the year
1926, was $2.49 a ton. Thus the Museum manufactured ice at 50 per
cent less than the contract price on the general supply schedule, the
amount saved for the year being approximately $1,000.

The labor turnover in connection with the heating, lighting, and
power plant has been greater than ever before. Even during the
World War, when labor was scarce, there was no such considerable

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turnover in the boiler-room force as has been the case this year.

Until the salary rates for firemen and many of the other employees,

as well as for skilled mechanics, can be substantially increased, work
will continue to be greatly handicapped. |

The plant in the Natural History Building, when installed about
1910, was designed to care for the Smithsonian Building, the Nat-
ural History Building, and the Arts and Industries Building. Since
then the heating and lighting and ventilating of the Freer Gallery
of Art and of the Aircraft Building have been added. This has
necessitated supplementing the main plant by using the old boilers
in the Arts and Industries Building during the severest winter
weather. The plant has always been operated with an absolute
minumum of employees, and as a matter of economy the Museum
has relied upon obtaining temporary help for about four months each
year to run this additional unit. Experience has shown, however,
that it is impossible to secure suitable temporary employees because
of the low salary grades maintaining at the Museum and since all
appointees must enter the service at the minimum of the grade.
Temporary employees are not granted sick or annual leave, which
further detracts from the service. Under these conditions it is
absolutely necessary for the Museum to have an additional permanent
engineer, a fireman, and an elevator conductor, in order that the
plant may be efficiently operated.

Furniture and fixtures—The furniture added during the year
included 13 exhibition cases and bases; 253 pieces of storage, labor-
atory, and office furniture; and 1,572 drawers of various kinds. Dur-

ing the same period 12 exhibition cases and bases, 7 pieces of storage,

laboratory, and office furniture, and 180 wing frames were condemned
as unfit for further use. An inventory of furniture on hand June
30, 1927, shows 3,715 exhibition cases and bases; 12,364 pieces of
storage, laboratory and office furniture; 51,235 wooden unit drawers;
4,712 metal unit drawers; 14,544 inet drawers; 18,933 eggs
drawers; 1,185 wooden boxes; and 533 wing frames.

MEETINGS. AND RECEPTIONS

The United States National Museum, with its fully equipped audi-
torium and lecture room, is precluded by its limited maintenance
funds from initiating courses of lectures in its own behalf. It freely
offers its meeting facilities, however, to other organizations of
kindred purposes for their regular and special gatherings and assists
so far as possible in carrying out their programs. The auditorium
and lecture room were utilized on 114 such occasions during the year.
The contacts made and the variety of interests served will be seen
from the following list of organizations using these facilities, and the
names of speakers and titles of lectures delivered.

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1926

July 16, 8 p. m. (room 43): Vivarium Society. Regular meeting.

July 31, 2 p. m. (room 43): Southwestern College, Winfield, Kans. Meeting
of special class under supervision of William M. Goldsmith.

August 11, 7 p. m. (auditorium): National Association of the Deaf. Wxhibi-
tion of motion pictures of the World War and two reels in deaf and dumb
language. :

August 20, 8 p. m. (room 48): Vivarium Society. Regular meeting.

August 24, 8.30 p. m. (auditorium): The Mississippi Society of Washington.
Addresses by Hon. Dennis Murphy, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, and
others. Exhibition of motion pictures and concert by quartet.

September 14, 8.30 p. m. (auditorium) : International Union of Pure and Ap-
plied Chemistry. Seventh International Conference. Illustrated address by
M. le Prince Ginori Conti, president of the Italian Society of General and
Applied Chemistry, Florence, Italy, on ‘‘ The utilization of geothermal power
in Tuscany.”

September 17, 8 p. m. (room 48): Vivarium Society. Regular meeting.

September 25, 9.30 a. m. (room 43) : Federal Horticultural Board, United States
Department of Agriculture. Hearing to consider the advisability of extend-
ing the Japanese beetle quarantine to include the States of New York and
Connecticut.

October 6, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium): Forest Service, United States Department
of Agriculture. Talk by Shirley W. Allen on ‘‘ Western forests.”

October 6, 3 p. m. (room 48) : Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Illustrated lecture by Dr. EH. van Slogteren of the
Laboratorium yoor Bloembollen Ondersoek, Lisse, Netherlands, on ‘“ Bulbs
and insects in Holland.”

October 7, 8 p. m. (room 48) : The Entomological Society of Washington. Ad-
dresses by Dr. J. M. Aldrich on “ Collecting diptera in Guatemala,” and by
C. T. Greene on “‘ Hunting fruit flies in Panama.”

October 11, 4.45 p. m. (room 48): Anthropological Society of Washington.
Address by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka: ‘‘ Explorations in Alaska and Northeast
Asia.”

October 12, 4.30 p. m. (room 48): Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

October 12, 8 p. m. (room 48): American Horticultural Society. Illustrated
lecture by Maj. U. S. Grant on “ Development of Washington, D. C., and its
parks.”

October 15, 8 p. m. (room 48): Vivarium Society. Regular meeting.

October 30, 11 a. m. (room 48): Girl Scouts. Address by Dr. Paul Bartsch.

November 4, 8 p. m. (room 438): The Entomological Society of Washington.
Illustrated lecture by H. EH. Ewing on “ Recent developments of chiggers and
their control.”

November 9, 4.45 p. m. (room 43): Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

November 9, 8 p. m. (room 48): American Horticultural Society. Address by
C. A. Reed on “ Growing nuts in America and China.”

November 16, 4.45 p. m. (room 48): Anthropological Society of Washington.
Illustrated lecture by Dr. J. W. Fewkes, “An account of field work.’

November 27, 5 p. m. (room 43): Vivarium Society. Regular meeting.

December 1, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium): Forest Service, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.

December 2, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Entomological Society of Washington.
Business meeting, with election of officers. Addresses by E. A. Richmond
-on ‘“‘ Olfactory response of the Japanese beetle; ”’ by 8S. E. Crumb on “ General

. observations on chemotropism in insects,’ and by Perez Simmons on “The
ability of the larvae of the cheese skipper to endure unfavorable conditions.”

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December 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, and 138, 10 a. m. (room 48): Aeronautical Society.
Address by Dr. Theodore von Karman.

December 14, 4.30 p. m. (room 48): Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

December 14, 8 p. m. (room 43): American Horticultural Society. Illustrated
lecture by Professor Zimmerman of the Maryland Agricultural College on
“Propagating plants.”

December 14, 8 p. m. (auditorium) : American Institute of Electrical Hngineers
and American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Joint meeting, with address
by W. C. L. Hlgin, vice president and general manager of the Philadelphia
Hlectrical Co., on ‘‘ Conowingo hydroelectric development.”

December 16, 3 p. m. (room 48): Smithsonian staff. Illustrated lecture by
H. D. Skinner, of Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, on “Anthropology.”

December 17, 8 p. m. (room 48): Vivarium Society. Regular meeting.

December 21, 4.45 p. m. (room 43): Anthropolegical Society of Washington.

1927

January 6, 8 p. m. (room 48): The Entomological Society of Washington. Ad-
dresses by Dr. J. M. Aldrich, retiring president, and by Dr. L. O. Howard on
“J. H. Patton and his work.”

January 10, 2 p. m. (room 48): Art section of the Twentieth Century Club.
Address on “Art,” by Dr. Walter Hough, introduced by Dr. Alexander
Wetmore.

January 11, 4.30 p.m. (room 43) : Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

January 11, 8 p. m. (room 43): American Horticultural Society. Illustrated
address by Dr. F. V. Coville on “The cultivation of ericaceous plants.”

January 12, 8.15 p. m. (room 43): The Wild Flower Preservation Society. f
Annual meeting and election of officers. Reports on summer trips by
members.

January 18, 4.30 p. m. (room 48): Anthropological ‘Society of Washington.
Annual meeting, with address by Warren K. Moorhead on “The prehistoric
mound builders.”

January 20, 19 a. m. (auditorium): Biological Survey; United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Conference to consider revising rules and regulations
for protection of game. : /

January 21, 11.80 a. m. (auditorium): Forest Service, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Address by A. G. Hamel on “ Forestry.”

January 21, 4.30 p. m. (auditorium) : Vivarium Society. Address by Dr. Wil-
liam Mann, director of the National Zoological Park, on “The Smithsonian-
Chrysler African expedition,” jllustrated with motion pictures.

January 28, 8 p. m. (auditorium) : Spanish-American War Veterans. Recep-~
tion in honor of the ambassador from Cuba, Sefior Dr. Orestes Ferrara, and
Senator R. W. Means, of Colorado, on the anniversary of the birth of José :
Marti, the Cuban patriot. Addresses were made by the ambassador and the
Senator. Motion pictures were shown and music rendered by the Army
band.

February 2, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Wild Flower Preservation Society. Illus-
trated lecture by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry on “The selection of a national
flower.”

February 3, 4.45 p. m. (room 48): Anthropological Society of Washington.
Address by Mrs. Zelia Nuttall on “ New light on ancient calendars.” »

February 3, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Entomological Society of Washington.
Address by A. L. Quaintance: “ Synopsis on arsenical residues.”

February 5, 8 p. m. (auditorium) : Audubon Society of the District of Colum-
bia. Business meeting, with election of officers. Illustrated lecture by
Alden H. Hadley, on “ Birds and conservation.”

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February 8, 4.20 p. m. (room 43): Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

February 8, 8 p. m. (room 43): American Horticultural Society. Business
meeting.

February 10, 8 p. m. (auditorium): American War Mothers. A patriotic
gathering, with yocal and instrumental music and addresses.

February 15, 8 p. m. (auditorium): National Aeronautic Association. Illus-
trated address by Maj. L. D. Gardner on ‘Twenty-one thousand miles
over the airways of Europe.”

February 22, 10 a. m. (auditorium) : Masonic Club of the District of Columbia.
Celebration of Washington’s birthday. Address by Hon. A. M. Free, member
of Congress from California, on “The life of George Washington and
Masonry.”

February 23, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Wild Flower preservation Society. Il-
lustrated address by Dr. Edgar T. Wherry on “Rediscovering lost wild
flowers.”

February 26, 1 p.m. (room 48): Howard University Medical School. Address
by Dr. H. H. Hwing on “ Ticks.”

March 3, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Hntomological Society of Washington. Illus-
trated address by C. A. Weigel on “ Hot water bulb sterilizer,’ and W. H.
White on “ The pea aphis problem.”

March 8, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium): Forest Service, United States Department
of Agriculture. Illustrated address by Dr. Raphael Zon on ‘ What is a
forest”? ;

March 8, 3.30 p. m. (room 48): Howard University Medical School.. Address
by Dr. Harrison G. Dyar on “ Mosquitoes.”

March 8, 4.30 p. m. (room 48) : Society for Philosophical Inquiry.”

March 8, 8 p. m. (room 48): American Horticultural Society. Iliustrated
lecture by Edwin C. Powell on “ Grapes for the home garden.”

March 10 and 15, 3.30 p. m. (room 48): Howard University Medical School.
Addresses by Dr. J. M. Aldrich on “ Insects.”

March 15, 8 p. m. (auditorium): The Botanical Society of Washington. Ad-
dressed by Dr. EH. W. Berry on “The first land plants”; by C. C. Plitt
on “The altitudinal distribution of lichens in the Blue Mountains of
Jamaica”; and by B. BH. Livingston on “The water supplying power as re-
lated to the condition of a lawn in Baltimore’, and by D. §. Johnson on
““ Seventeen years of revegetation of a denuded tropical valley.”

March 16, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Wild Flower Preservation Society. ITlus-
trated lecture by P. L. Ricker on ‘ Native wild flowers.”

March 17, 330 p. m. (room 48) : Howard University Medical School. Illustrated
address by Dr. C. W. Stiles on“ Hook worms.”

March 17, 4.45 p. m. (room 48): Anthropological Society of Washington. Talk
by M. W. Stirling on “The Stirling expedition into Dutch New Guinea.”
March 22, 3.30 p. m. (room 43): Howard University Medical School. Address

by Dr. Maurice C. Hall on “ Treatment of hook-worm disease.”

March 24, 430 p. m. (room 43): Howard University Medical School. Address
by Dr. L. O. Howard on “ Some of the men in the world who have done some-
thing worth while.”

March 29, § p. m. (auditorium): Extension Work, United States Department
of Agriculture. Address by Dr. L. O. Howard on “ Research work in ento-
mology.”

March 31, 3.30 p. m. (room 43): Howard University Medical School. Address
by Miss Doris M. Cochran on ‘ Reptiles.”

April 5, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium): Forest Service, United States Department
of Agriculture. Address by O. C. Bradeen of the Forest Service on “ Supplies
of the Forest Service.”

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April 5, 8 p. m. (auditorium): The Botanical Society of Washington. Ilus-
trated lecture by Prof. J. H. Priestly, of the University of Leeds, England,
on “ Light and growth of plants.”

April 9, 7.45 p. m. (auditorium): Fourth National Oratorical Contest and
Second International Oratorical Contest. Orations delivered by pupils of
private and parochial schools in the Washington Star area. Music rendered
by the Powell Junior High School orchestra.

April 12, 4.45 p. m. (room 48): Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

April 12, 8 p. m. (room 48): American Horticultural Society. WTlustrated lec-
ture by P. H. Dorset, of the United States Department of Agriculture, on
“Plant hunting in northeastern China.”

April 16, 2.30 p. m. (room 48) : Daughters of the American Revolution.

April 19 to 21: District of Columbia Dental Society. Dental educational cam-
paign for better teeth—better health. Auditorium used at regular intervals
during daytime for exhibition of motion pictures, with music, illustrating how
a child would feel whose teeth are in bad condition, and on the evening of
the 19th for a meeting to award prizes for the winning dental poster and a
play, by the pupils of Park View Public School, entitled “ Bad baby molar.”
The auditorium lobby and the adjacent foyer also were utilized during this
week for displaying special exhibits on the subject prepared by the United
States Public Health Service, United States Army, United States Navy,
Children’s Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, Division of
Physical Anthropology of the United States National Museum, the Baltimore
College of Dental Surgery of the University of Maryland, Public School
Dental Clinic of the District of Columbia Health Department, District of
Columbia Dental Hygienist Association, and the District of Columbia Dental
Society.

April 20, 8 p. m. (auditorium) : Washington Society of Engineers. Address
by R. H. Sargent, United States Geclogical Survey, on “The Alaskan aerial
survey expedition of 1926, under the leadership of Lieut. B. H. Wyatt,
United States Navy,” illustrated with motion pictures.

April 26, 2 p. m. (auditorium) : District of Columbia Public Schools and United
States Forest Service. Illustrated address by C. E. Rachford of the United
States Department of Agriculture on “Growth and destruction of the
forest.”

April 26, 8 p. m. (auditorium): American Dairy Federation. Extension Work,
United States Department of Agriculture. Addresses by R. W. Dunlap, Assist-
ant Secretary, Department of Agriculture; by A. F. Woods on “Research
work of the department”; and by Dr. J. N. Mohler on ‘“ Progress of T. B.

eradication.” Exhibition of motion pictures by Department of Agriculture ~

motion-picture service.

April 30, 8 p. m. (auditorium): Daughters of the American Revolution, con-
servation and thrift committee. Illustrated lecture by Herbert N. Wheeler
on “The lure of the forest.”

May 38, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium) : Forest Service, United States Department of
Agriculture. Exhibition of motion pictures illustrating the Alaskan fisheries,
game and forest, and vocal music by employees of the service.

May 4, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium): Fourth national oratorical contest and
second international oratorical contest. Addresses by three competitors—
John Oscar Bell, jr., William Alexander Loker, and Miss Bessie Cush—
representing the Lee High School, Ballston, Va.; Leonard Hall School,
Leonardtown, Md.; and Notre Dame Academy, Washington, D. C.

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May 5, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Entomological Society of Washington. Ad-
dresses by ©. F. White and W. E. Dove on “The creeping eruption”; and
by P. W. Mason on “ Discussion on the specialization of aphids from general
feeders to monoxenous feeders.”

May 10, 4.45 p. m. (room 43): Society for Philosophical Inquiry.

May 10, 8 p. m. (room 43): American Horticultural Society. Illustrated
lecture by Dr. L. C. Corbett on “Production of vegetables in the United
States.”

May 14, 10 a. m. (room 48): Girl Scouts.

May 18, 8 p. m. (auditorium): Washington Philatelic Society. Illustrated
address by Capt. I. ©. Aker, United States Army, on “The flight of United
States Army airplanes to South America.”

May 28, 7.30 a. m. (room 438): George Washington University students. Meet-
ing under leadership of Dr. Paul Bartsch.

May 28, 3.30 p. m. (auditorium) : Federal Post No. 824, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. Annual Memorial Service. Address by Dr. A. F. Woods, and music
by the Navy band.

June 1, 11.30 a. m. (auditorium) : Forest Service, United States Department
of Agriculture. Illustrated address by B. BE. Carter on “The Black Hills.”

June 2, 8 p. m. (room 43): The Entomological Society of Washington. Notes
and exhibition of specimens.

June 10, 3.30 p. m. (auditorium): Hxtension Service, United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Illustrated lecture by Sir John Russell, director of the
Rothamsted Experiment Station, England, on “ Soils and plants.”

June 16 to 23: Extension Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
Conference of the National Farm Boys and Girls 4-H Club. Auditorium
used for 10 general sessions and room 43 for 6 conferences of State leaders
and special committee meetings. ‘The program included an address of
welcome by Hon. W. M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture; addresses by
Mrs. Mavle Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General; Dr. William
M. Mann, director of the National Zoological Park; J. J. Tigert, United
States Commissioner of Education; Hon. J. B. Aswell of Louisiana, and
Dr. W. S. Abernethy, and an exhibition of motion pictures of birds.

June 20, 9.50 a. m. (room 43): Federal Agricultural Board, United States De-
partment of Agriculture. Public hearing to consider the advisability of
quarantining the State of Texas on account of the Morelos orange worm.

June 23, 8 p. m. (auditorium): Finals in the third annual national spelling
bee under the auspices of the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., and 16 asso-
ciated newspapers, presided over by Hon. John H. Bartlett, First Assistant
Postmaster General. First prize was won by Dean Lucas, of West Salem,
Ohio.

The American Association of Museums.—The twenty-second an-
nual meeting of the American Association of Museums convened in
Washington, D. C., from May 23 to 25, 1927. The opening session
on the forenoon of May 23 was held in one of the graphic art exhi-
bition halls of the National Museum in the Smithsonian Building,
where a temporary meeting place was arranged. This session was
devoted to the subject “ National problems of museums.” ‘The presi-
dent of the association, Chauncey J. Hamlin, presided, and the dele-
gates were welcomed by the Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian
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“The relation of the National Museum to the museums of the
Nation.” Paul M. Rea, director of The Cleveland Museum of Na-
tional History, presented the report of the committee on museum
finance. Other sessions of the convention were held elsewhere.

Receptions—Three evening receptions were held in the Museum
during the year.

The first floor of the Natural History Building was thrown open
for a reception on September 14, 1926, to delegates to the Seventh
International Conference of the International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry and to members of the diplomatic corps of the
countries belonging to the union. ‘This followed the lecture by M. le
Prince Ginori Conti earlier in the evening in the auditorium. Dr.
William J. Hale, of the National Research Council, was in charge
of the arrangements. Dr. Alexander Wetmore, assistant secretary,
represented the Smithsonian Institution on the receiving line.

On April 19, 1927, the National Gallery of Art and the other
halls on the first floor of the Natural History Building were the
setting for a reception to the Daughters of the American Revolution
who were gathering in Washington for their annual convention.
Music for the occasion was furnished by the Army band.

On the evening of June 20, 1927, the exhibition halls on the first
and second floors of the Natural History Building were opened for
a reception to the delegates and guests of the First International
Congress of Soil Science, the Acting Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institution, Dr. C. G. Abbot, heading the receiving line.

CHANGES IN ORGANIZATION AND STAFF

The organization of the Museum remained unchanged through-
out the year, but the changes in the scientific staff included the loss
of several prominent scientists.

In the department of anthropology, ‘Thomas D. Stewart tem-
porarily served as aid in the division of physical anthropology from

December 1, 1926, to March 1, 1927, when he was permanently ap-~

pointed to the position. The appointment of Dr. George Grant

MacCurdy as collaborator in anthropology was extended for one |

year from March 1, 1927. Miss Iscbel H. Lenman, of Washington,
D. C., who has long been a benefactor of the national collections,
was made collaborator in ethnology on March 30, 1927. Neil M.
Judd, curator of American archeology, was on furlough from the
Museum from July 1 to October 31, 1926, and during June, 1927, to
direct explorations of the National Geographic Society. ;
In the department of biology Miss Doris M. Cochran was ad-
vanced from aid to assistant curator in the division of reptiles and
batrachians on March 1, 1927. On December 11, 1926, A. Brazier
Howell, corresponding secretary of the American Society of Mam-

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malogists, was appointed collaborator in the division of mammals;
and Albert C. Smith was given a similar appointment in the division
of plants for one year from October 1, 1926.

In the department of geology Miss Margaret W. Moodey’s title
was changed on July 1, 1926, from recorder to aid; Dr. Paul Bartsch,
curator of mollusks in the department of biology, was given appoint-
ment in the department of geology as curator of Cenozoic inverte-
brates from April 18, 1927; and Dr. Joseph A. Cushman, who has
long worked on the national collections, was appointed collaborator
in the division of stratigraphic paleontology for six months from
May 10, 1927.

In the department of arts and industries, Carl W. Mitman was
on furlough from July 1 to December 31, 1926, assisting in develop-
ment of plans for an industrial museum for New York City, though
he spent the week ends in Washington and continued general over-
sight of the work of the divisions of mineral and mechanical tech-
nology. R.C. Smith, aid in the division of graphic arts, was granted
furlough for one year from October 8, 1926, to accept the assistant
secretaryship of the American Association of Museums.

The Museum was deprived by death of several important members
of its scientific staff, all of whom had long been associated with
the Museum. They were Dr. Charles D. Walcott, keeper of the
Museum; Dr. William H. Dall, honorary curator of mollusks and
associate curator oi Cenozoic collection; Dr. Frank H. Knowlton,
custodian of mesozoic plants; Dr. Paul Haupt, associate in historic
archeology. The death of George C. McClain, for over 40 years a
member of the mechanical force of the Museum, came during the
year.

Dr. Frank H. Knowlton, paleobotanist of the United States Geo-
logical Survey and custodian of mesozoic plants in the United States
National Museum, died on November 22, 1926. He was born in
Brandon, Vt., September 2, 1860, and graduated at Middlebury
College in that State in 1884. He was a born naturalist, publishing
his first paper, A List of the Birds of Brandon, Vt., in 1878.
Shortly after graduation he entered the employ of the National
Museum, first being appointed aid in the old division of fossil and
recent plants under Dr. L. F. Ward, and in 1887 being advanced to
assistant curator of fossil plants. After several summer’s field work
with United States Geological Survey parties he began to turn his
attention more particularly to fossil forms and made his first con-
tribution in 1888, a description of the silicified woods of Araucarioxy-
lon arizonicwm in the celebrated fossil forest in Arizona. In 1889
he was appointed assistant paleontologist on the survey, where he
remained during the rest of his life, with the exception of a brief

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‘period in 1892-93. In 1894 he was appointed honorary custodian of
mesozoic plants in the National Museum, a title that he held to the
time of his death. In 1907 he gained the full rank of geologist on
the survey, retaining his quarters in the National Museum where he
had access to the collections upon which his work was based.

Doctor Knowlton was an earnest student, in manner kindly and
genial. For the greater part of his career he was afflicted with
chronic bronchial asthma, which seriously interfered with his work
but never dampened his enthusiasm nor altered his kindly dis-
position.

On February 2, 1888, Dr. Paul Haupt (born Gérlitz, Germany,
November 25, 1858), professor of the Semitic languages at Johns
Hopkins University, of Baltimore, Md., was appointed honorary
curator of the newly established section of oriental antiquities, and,
with Dr. Cyrus Adler as assistant curator, began the preparation
of a study series of casts of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities.
In 1898 he was appointed honorary curator of the division of his-
toric archeology, and in 1905 associate in historic archeology, a posi-
tion held at his death December 17, 1926. This long and active
connection was of incalculable benefit to the Museum, as Doctor
Haupt, a world acclaimed authority on Orientalia, was always at
hand to give council on this subject. Doctor Haupt was a master
of Biblical exegesis. He was an indefatigable worker and his
writings on Biblical and Assyrian philology, archeology, history,
comparative Semitic grammar, Sumerian, and similar subjects, num-
ber more than 400.

William Healey Dall, honorary curator of the division of mol-
lusks and cenozoic invertebrates in the National Museum, died
March 27, 1927. Doctor Dall was born in Boston, Mass., August 21,
1845, and studied under Louis Agassiz at the museum in Cambridge
during 1862 and 1863. In 1865 when a very young man he was
appointed chief of the scientific corps of the Western Union Interna-
tional Telegraph expedition to Alaska, a place which he held for three
years. It was on his return from this expedition that, through the
influence of Professor Baird, he became affiliated with the Smithsonian
Institution, a connection which lasted 58 years. From 1870 to 1885 he
was an assistant in the Coast Survey and spent several years in ex-
ploration in Alaska. In 1885 he was appointed a paleontologist of
the Geological Survey, a place which he held until his retirement
in 1925, with office in the National Museum, where he had especial
charge of fossil mollusks. To Doctor Dall! belongs the credit for
establishing the splendid organization, installation, and care of the
division of mollusks and cenozoic invertebrates in the National Mu-
seum, which, under his leadership has grown to be the largest of its
kind in the world.

DETAILED REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS
REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

By WALTER HovucH, Head Curator

A year of increased activity in exploration has swelled the receipt
of specimens in this department beyond precedent. Work con-
ducted by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, Chief of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, at an ancient pueblo near Flagstaff, Ariz., resulted in
an excellent collection of material from that source. Through funds
provided by the Bureau of American Ethnology field researches were
made possible during the field season of 1926; by Dr. AleS Hrdlicka,
curator of physical anthropology, in reconnaissance of many sites
of ancient villages in Alaska; by Herbert W. Krieger, curator of
ethnology, at Indian sites on the upper Columbia River and in
southern Alaska; by Henry B. Collins, jr., assistant curator of
ethnology, in archeological investigations in Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi, and in 1927 by the head curator at Indian Mound in western
Tennessee, where a number of sites were examined that gave many
archeological specimens. The work of Neil M. Judd, curator of
American archeology at Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex., under funds pro-
vided by the National Geographic Society, has been continued during
the present year. Especially noteworthy in its importance to the
Museum was the exploration of unknown parts of Dutch New Guinea
by Matthew W. Stirling, formerly assistant curator of ethnology,
through private means supplied by Mr. Stirling and his associates.
This enterprise, originated by Mr. Stirling, was carried out as a
joint exploration by the Dutch Colonial government of the East
Indies and Mr. Stirling, representing the Smithsonian. The expedi-
tion made use of an airplane furnished by Mr. Stirling for pre-
liminary reconnaissance and then penetrated inland across the Lake
Plain of New Guinea to the pygmy settlements in the Nassau Moun-
taius along river routes examined from the air. The cooperation of
the Dutch Government in these investigations is highly appreciated.

Parties in the field at the close of the fiscal year included Mr.
Judd, at Pueblo Bonito; Henry B. Collins, jr., assisted by T. Dale
Stewart, aid in the division of physical anthropology, at Nunivak
Island, Alaska; and Herbert W. Krieger, on the Yukon River,
Alaska.

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ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR

Accessions in this department for the year numbered 148, 24
more than in the previous year, while the number of specimens added
totaled 12,974 against 4,223 in the fiscal year 1926.

Of first importance was the collection of several thousand objects
presented by Matthew W. Stirling and resulting from the explora-
tion mentioned in the interior of New Guinea. This consists of
bows and arrows, hafted stone axes, stone knives, chisels; woven bags,
armor, wristlets; innumerable barbaric ornaments, necklaces, head-
dresses; fire thongs, pipes, salt bundles, and many other objects
secured often in series and forming a wonderful exhibit of the mate-
rial culture of these peoples. This material is entirely new to the
Museum collections and contains much previously unknown to
science, especially where secured from hitherto unvisited Papuans
and from Negritos of the Nassau range in central Dutch New Guinea.

Current exploration and investigations in the ethnology and
archeology of Alaska by the Bureau of American Ethnology re-
sulted in several valuable collections. That obtained by Dr. Ales
Hrdlicka in the summer of 1926 consisted of many ancient and mod-
ern artifacts, much extending the Museum’s fine collection from
Alaska. In this connection material lent by Karl Lomen is impor-
tant as it contains many specimens of etching and carving on fossil
ivory made by extinct people belonging to some as yet undetermined
race. A noteworthy American Indian collection received as a gift
from C. H. Heyl, 2d., consists of valuable painted shields, head-
dresses, paintings on skin, bows and arrows, costumes, beadwork,
and other objects collected by the late Col. C. H. Heyl, United States
Army. Several hundred specimens of Philippine ethnologica, given
by Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, United States Army, consist of costumes,
weapons, weavings, and other objects of value. From Miss Isobel
H. Lenman there were received as a loan over 100 rare headdresses,
ornaments, and other objects from the Pacific Islands. Mrs. Richard
Wainwright also presented a number of Indian baskets, pieces of —
pottery, and stonework. |

The division of American archeology makes special mention of the
large contribution of the National Geographic Society in material
collected by Neil M. Judd at Pueblo Bonito, N. Mex., during his
several seasons of successful field work. The specimens, numbering
2,480, including many lots, consist of pottery, stone, bone, wood, and
shell artifacts of the advanced material culture of this ancient pueblo
whose inhabitants have passed into oblivion. The society also pre-
sented material secured from Pueblo del Arroyo, N. Mex., from
small house sites near Chaco Canyon, and from other pueblo sites in
the canyon. A large collection excavated by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes

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from a ruin named Eildon Pueblo, near Flagstaff, Ariz., consisting
principally of pottery new to the Museum, was transferred from the
Bureau of American Ethnology. Herbert W. Krieger, exploring
for the bureau, brought back a large collection of pottery, stone,
and bone implements and ornaments from extended investigations of
sites on the Upper Columbia River. The field work of Henry B.
Collins, jr., for the bureau in Louisiana and Mississippi resulted in
important specimens. A series of earthenware vessels, stone imple-
ments, and shards, was collected by Dr. Manuel Gamio, of Mexico,
for the Archaeological Society of Washington, who loaned them to
the Museum. Nine stone images from Tennessee, purchased from
the collection of the late W. E. Myer, were transferred from the
Bureau of American Ethnology.

The most valuable addition during the year to the division of
Old World archeology, both from archeological and artistic point
of view, is the collection of objects of Jewish religious ceremonial
objects, Maccabean coins, and Palestinian antiquities and art works,
comprising manuscript scrolls of parts of the Scriptures, marriage
contracts, lamps, and silverware used in the religious life of the
Jews, filling out many gaps in the section of Judaism in the exhibit
of religions, received as a loan from E. Deinard. Among other
accessions are such rarities as a manuscript on palm spathe from the
Battaks, a tribe living in the central highlands of Sumatra, Dutch
East Indies, the only non-Mohammedan lettered people in the Indian
Archipelago, presented by Miss Rose EK. Fankhauser; and a mag-
nificent Buddhist manuscript measuring 23 by 214 inches, written in
Siamese Pali on palm leaves, held between covers which are beauti-
fully gilded, lacquered, and ornamented with mythical animals and
floral designs, received as a gift from the Siamese National Library,
H. R. H. Prince Damrong, president, Bangkok, Siam, through Dr.
Hugh M. Smith.

In the division of physical anthropology the most important
accessions were those of the skeletal material and photographs made
by the curator in Alaska and transferred to the Museum by the
Bureau of American Ethnology. The collection embraced 58 Indian
and Eskimo skeletons, 342 separate skulls, large numbers of lower
jaws and other parts of the skeletons. The photographs, mainly por-
traits of the natives, include several hundred, of which about 150
were made by the curator. A further important acquisition by the
division was a set of valuable casts of the Krapina early man, cb-
tained through Prof. Karl Gorjanovic-Kramberger, of the Geologicko-
Paleontologicko Museum, Zagreb, Jugoslavia. Other valuable acces-
sions include 63 Indian crania, with some other skeletal parts, col-
lected in mounds and burial sites of Louisiana and Mississippi by
Henry B. Collins, jr., of the division of ethnology, and transferred by

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the Bureau of American Ethnology; a gift of 16 skulls from old
burials in Hopkinsville, Ky., from the Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., through Warren K. Moorehead.

Accessions in the section of musical instruments consisted of two
harpsichords in glass cases, the gift of Hugo Worch, and three old
square pianos, also presented by Mr. Worch.

In the section of ceramics notable accessions during the year were
64 specimens of Chinese pottery and bronze received as a loan from
the estate of Gen. C. F. Humphrey, United States Army; an old
American plate decorated with a spread eagle, gift of Robert D.
Weaver; a copy of the oldest Worcester jug, donated by Mrs. Marian
Bruce Clark; and pewter, snuff boxes, and a condiment set, a gift
from Mrs. Stephen B. Stanton.

Accessions received during the year in the section of art textiles
consisted of several French ecclesiastical paintings of the thirteenth
century, lent by Mrs. Alice C. Barney; an especially fine old bag
worked with beads and silk, several snuff boxes, and embroidered
handkerchief, presented by Mrs. Stephen B. Stanton; 15 pieces of
lace, donated by Miss Isabella C. Freeman and Mrs. B. H. Bucking-
ham; and an Italian white linen hand-woven towel, gift from Mrs.
Belle Bushnell. A Duchess lace fan was received as a bequest from
Mrs. Sophia L. Rutherford.

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

Rearrangements of exhibits in ethnology were on a rather exten-
sive scale due to the return of the collection sent for exhibit to the
Sesquicentennial Exposition, and also to the transfer of the Piney
Branch quarry group to the division of archeology. The present
exhibit was improved whenever possible by the introduction of types
of processes or methods employed by aboriginal artisans. The an-
tique ironwork presented by Heinrich Meyn was placed. on public
view, cases containing Alaskan ivories, collected by Doctor Hrdlicka

and Karl Lomen were placed in the Eskimo section, and the splendid —

collection of Moro brass lent by Maj. Edward Dworak, United

States Army, was installed in the Philippine section. Porcelains and |

bronzes from the estate of Gen. C. F. Humphrey, United States
Army, were exhibited in the Chinese pagodas.

In American archeology the return of exhibits from the Sesquicen-
tennial necessitated considerable reinstallation. A case was designed
for the Tuxtla statuette, the oldest dated antiquity in the New
World, to give it more effective setting, and a special case was made
to exhibit as a transparency a photographic enlargement of one of the
Atlantean figures from the Temple of the Warriors at Chichen Itza,
Mexico,

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In the division of Old World archeology additions were installed
in the exhibit of Judaism and in the prehistoric collection from
Palestine. In the Mohammedan case models of religious buildings
from Sumatra were installed, as also the lately added collection of
Chinese and Tibetan religious specimens. The Parsee collection and
the Warner collection of Buddhism were reinstalled. ‘The collections
of Paleolithic remains from France and other localities were classified
and placed in storage.

During the year the division of physical anthropology added to
the public exhibits of early man; prepared three cases of exhibits of
Alaskan archeological material obtained by the curator last sum-
mer; and prepared three cases of exhibits on the variation of human
teeth and jaws as a special exhibit from April 19 to 28 for the dental
convention held at that time. In the office rooms it was necessary to
rearrange a large part of the collection, due to new accessions of the
last four years, and to endeavor, under difficulties, to keep the collec-
tions for which no racks exist in something approaching order.

Mr. Hugo Worch, collaborator of the section of musical instru-
ments, prepared labels for the excellent collection of pianos given by
him. One of the real improvements of the violin, invented by
Emile Berliner, was tested by Mrs. Duff-Lewis before the Friday
Morning Club with success. G. D. McCoy, of the head curator’s
office, assisted in the care of the collection of pianos.

The art textiles and ceramics have been put under the special care
of R. A. Allen. The Barney French church panel paintings and a
number of small lots of laces were installed in the section of art
textiles. Thirteen cases holding brocades are being fitted with sashes.
Miss Edith Long rearranged the cases of the Misses Long, containing
specimens illustrating the art of the thread.

In the anthropological laboratory, under the direction of W. H.
Egberts, a figure was made for the dress of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge to
be exhibited in the period costume collection. A cast of a large iron
meteorite was made for the department of geology, and various
restorations and repairs of pottery were undertaken for the Bureau
of American Ethnology. Of especial interest was the restoration of
white salt glaze tableware from the fragments from the excavations
around the foundation of the Washington home at Wakefield, Va.
Much work was done on modeling and repairing lay figures. A death
mask of the late Secretary Charles D. Walcott, made by Doctor
Hrdli¢ka, was developed and appropriately mounted: on a pedestal.
Participation in the Sesquicentennial necessitated a great amount of
dismantling and setting up of cases of exhibits.

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INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Research by members of the staff in ethnology was chiefly limited
to the study of collections obtained in the field during the previous
season. Research by outside investigators was aided by Museum
specimens from Polynesia, the Pueblo region, Berber, and other
North African material, Tibetan and west Chinese collections, the
Catlin collection, and Northwest coast designs. Much information
was given to persons bringing in specimens and material was deter-
mined in several instances for other museums. A number of inquiries
concerned the preservation of ethnological material of various kinds.
The head curator completed a research on the use of fire from the
material in the heating and illumination collection of the Museum
and prepared a memoir that will appear in the autumn. Dr. A. V. |
Kidder, of Phillips Academy, with Mrs. Kidder made an extended
study of our great collection of modern Zuni Indian pottery, with
the intention of preparing a report on the subject. Miss Irene
Mermet of Washington was given much advice and made extensive
use of the head curator’s library in preparing for ethnological work
in Mexico. Miss Frances Densmore completed researches on the
collection of musical instruments and finished the manuscript of a
handbook dealing with this subject which was printed. M. R. Har-
rington, of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation,
New York City, arranged for study of the costume collection with a
view of publishing a work on the subject of American Indian cos-
tume. Miss Mary Lois Kissell, of the American Museum of Natural
History, New York City, studied the material on Salish weavings
for a paper for the Bureau of American Ethnology. H. D. Skinner,
of Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, on a traveling fellow-
ship from Oxford, made a study of the Polynesian collections of the
Museum, especially those of the Maori.

Individual Boy Scouts were aided with advice as to fire making.
The custom houses of Georgetown and Baltimore were aided in de-
termining the age of materials passing through customs.

In the division of American archeology at the time of this report
the curator, Mr. Judd, is directing the National Geographic Society’s
explorations in Pueblo Bonito. Among investigators from other
institutions who have visited the Museum for examination and study
of its archeological collections may be mentioned Dr. and Mrs. A. V.
Kidder and Warren K. Moorehead, of the Peabody Museum at Phil-
lips Academy, Andover, Mass.; Superintendent and Mrs. Jesse L.
Nusbaum, of the Mesa Verde National Park, Colo.; Dr. W. B. Hins=
dale, of the department of anthropology, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Mich.; H. C. Shetrone, of the Ohio State Historical
Society, Columbus, Ohio; S. W. McCallie, State geologist, Atlanta,
Ga.; E. H. Morris and Karl Ruppert, Carnegie Institution of Wash-

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ington; Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, Casa Alvarado, Coyoacan, D. F., Mexico;
and Dr. Manuel Gamio, former director of antiquities, Mexico City.
In addition, Miss J. Dolores Calahan, of the National Geographic
Society’s Pueblo Bonito expedition, beginning March 1, was engaged
in work on the expedition’s collections. Twenty lots of material were
received for examination and report. As opportunty offered the
curator has, at his own expense, visited other institutions for study of
their archeological collections. These have included the New Mexico
State Museum at Santa Fe; the Arizona State Museum at Tucson;
the Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.; the University Museum
and the Academy of Science, Philadelphia Pa.; the Museum of the
American Indians, Heye Foundation, and the American Museum of
Natural History, in New York City, and the Brooklyn Institute of
Arts and Sciences. During the early part of March the curator
visited the Etowah Mound group, near Cartersville, Ga., where Mr.
Moorehead, of the Peabody Museum, Phillips Academy, Andover,
Mass., was conducting explorations. As a result of this brief sojourn
the Museum’s collections from Etowah Mound may shortly be
exhibited to greater advantage.

Warren K. Moorehead made a census of the stone implements in
our collections, a work in which he expects to cover the museums of
the country. P. E. Cox, State archeologist of Tennessee, advised
with the Museum as to problems encountered in his work. Dr.
Manuel Gamio, distinguished archeologist of Mexico, spent much
time in the Museum writing a report on his collections from old
sites in Guatemala, where he explored for the Archaeological Society
of Washington.

The time of the assistant curator in charge of the division of Old
World archeology was mainly occupied in the study of the collections
concerning historic religions and in the preparation of a publication
on the subject. Henry Field, of the Field Museum of Natural His-
tory, Chicago, Ill., examined the prehistoric collections of the
division.

Research by the curator of physical anthropology has been con-
tinued in the two major lines of man’s evolution and antiquity and
of the origin and antiquity of the American aborigines. In addition,
a survey was made, at a request of the “Committee on the Negro” of
the National Research Council, of what has been done to date on the
anthropology of the American negro. Henry B. Collins, jr., of the
division of ethnology, conducted an investigation on the temporo-
frontal articulation in the human skull. Among researches carried
on with our material, under the curator’s guidance that have been
completed and published, may be mentioned those of C. J. Connolly,
of the Catholic University, Washington, D. C., On the Location of the
Nasion, and On the Relation of the Orbital Plane in the Human
Skull to Position of Teeth. In addition, the following have carried

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on investigations in this division: Dr. E. R. Reynolds, of Boston,
Mass., November 3, 1926, to February 24, 1927, anthropological
studies on the pelvis; Dr. Francis W. Nash, of Washington, D. C.,
November 5, 1926, and subsequently, study of jaws and teeth; Dr.
HK. C. Kirk, Philadelphia, Pa., March 29 to April 2, 1927, study of
jaws; Miss Frances Dennets, Brown University, March 30-31, in-
struction in anthropometry; Miss Alice M. Townsley, Brown Uni-
versity, May 2-6, 1927, instruction in anthropometry; and Dr. A.
Wolfson, East Orange, N. J., June 7-8, 1927, facial anthropology.

From duplicate specimens the division has furnished 42 Indian
teeth and 26 old Egyptian teeth to Dr. T. Okumura, Dean of the
Tokyo Dental College, and casts of Ameghino’s “ diprowhome, ” “tet-
raprothomo,” and “ erat ” atlas to Prof. J. Matiegka, Chief of the
Anthropological Institute, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

The head curator read a paper on dolls and anthropomorphic
images before the meetings of the American Association for the’ Ad-
vancement of Science in Philadelphia which attracted wide attention,
and a popularized article on the subject appeared later in the Sun-
day New York Times. A tentative plan for an exhibit for the
exposition to be held in October 1928 in Seville, Spain, was drawn
up by the head curator to cover in eee the proposed participation of
the Smithsonian.

Among distinguished visitors in the department were four mem-
bers of the faculty and administration of the University of Paris,
who considered the exhibit series unique and excellent. Dr. H. HL.
Juynboll, Director of the Leiden Museum inspected the collections.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS

During the year the division of ethnology presented the Henry
Ford Museum, Dearborn, Mich., with 47 patent models of lamps.
Exchanges made during the same period comprised six sendings
totaling 97 specimens, as follows: The Amerindian Museum, Pater-
son, N. J., 4 specimens of American Indian handiwork; National
Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 50 pieces of American Indian ethno-
logica from North America and Panama; H. T. Harding, Walla
Walla, Wash., 8 specimens of basketry, pottery, and similar material
from the Indians of the western United States; W. T. Jewell, East
Falls Church, Va., a Philippine kris; Public Library, Museum, and
Art Galley, Perth, Australia, 33 pieces of North and South American
pottery, and J. T. Watkins, Lakeport, Calif., a bed-warming pan.
Four loans have been made as follows: New Public Library, Birming-
ham, Ala., 47 specimens of Eskimo and Chinese handicraft; Florida
State College for Women, Tallahassee, Fla., 11 ceremonial objects of
carved wood from Alaska, British Columbia, United States, and
Panama; New Haven Progress Exposition, New Haven, Conn., 14

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examples of pewter ware from Europe and the United States; and
the Public Library, Washington, D. C., 74 specimens of Oriental art,
Mrs. George Kennan, Medina, N. Y., withdrew seven weapons from
her collection on exhibit.

Six lots of material have gone out from the division of American
archeology during the year to aid other institutions: To the Indian
Museum, Calcutta, India, 94 aboriginal stone implements in exchange
for similar material for the division of Old World archeology; to
the National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 archeological speci-
mens in exchange for ethnological material; to the Hastings Museum,
Hastings, Nebr., 96 stone implements from the United States and
the West Indies, as gifts; to W. C. Marsh, Anchorage, Alaska, cast of
a leaf-shaped flint blade in exchange for the original; to the South-
west Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., a lot of miscellaneous potsherds,
unaccessioned, from Eldon Pueblo, near Flagstaff, Ariz.; and to
the North Carolina State Museum at Raleigh, casts of a bannerstone
and a steatite bowl in exchange for the courtesy of reproducing the
originals for the national collections.

The division of physical anthropology forwarded as a gift 11
samples of human hair to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley,
Mass., and loaned a human skull to the Office of Motion Pictures,
United States Department of Agriculture. A human skull, prob-
ably a mix-blood, from Cuba was exchanged with W. H. Egberts for
the skull of a white man.

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT

There were 148 accessions with the remarkably large total of 12,974
specimens received in the department of anthropology during the
year just ended. Of these, 10 accessions, comprising 755 specimens,
were loans, the permanent accretion to the national collections being
12,219 specimens, as compared with 4,005 specimens for the previous
year. The additions were distributed as follows: Ethnology, 57
accessions with 5,648 specimens; American archeology, 44 accessions
and 5,039 specimens; Old World archeology, 13 accessions of 1,546
specimens; physical anthropology, 36 accessions with 638 specimens;
musical instruments, 3 accessions and 5 specimens; ceramics, 5 acces-
sions of 74 specimens; and art textiles, 7 accessions with 24 specimens.

On June 30, 1927, the total number of specimens in the department
was 668,312, as follows:

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American -archeolog ye) 2ks2s oer wee Lee a 429, 515
Olde Worldtarcheolog yee oa ae VAG lua aha 34, 903
PHYSICA ANEATOPOLO Rye em Os es 30, 531
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PAN: fea ei CSc atbin a USS Ea UNG uy a ane ea 1, 439

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REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY
By LEONHARD STEJNEGER, Head Curator

The main efforts of the staff of this department during the past
fiscal year have of necessity been confined to the preservation of the
steadily growing collections. It is a matter of congratulation that
no serious arrears are to be reported in this work, though this result
has been achieved often at the expense of the research work of the
divisions, as the members of the scientific staff have had to spend an
undue amount of time and labor on purely curatorial work which
might have been done by clerical and custodial help had such been
available. Further assistance in the department is absolutely essen-
tial, as the present condition whereby highly trained personnel is
employed in routine that should be performed by assistants has
reached a point where it interferes seriously with the scientific work
that public interest demands.

Field work under this department has, as in previous years, been
curtailed through lack of funds. Doctor Schmitt, under the Walter
Rathbone Bacon scholarship, carried on field studies of the crusta-
cean fauna of the western coast of South America. Dr. Hugh M.
Smith, associate curator in zoology, through funds supplied by the
Museum, has gathered and forwarded rich collections from Siam,
and small collections have come from western China from the native
collector trained by D. C. Graham who has continued work during
Mr. Graham’s absence in the United States on small amounts of
money furnished by the Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secre-
tary Wetmore visited Haiti and the Dominican Republic from March
to June, traveling at the expense of the Swales fund. Important
botanical collections have come from the work of Doctor Maxon in
Jamaica and Mr. Killip and Mr. Smith in Colombia. These and
other activities of a similar nature are detailed fully elsewhere in
the report of the Assistant Secretary.

ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR

The total number of accessions to the various divisions was 1,277,

a slight increase over the corresponding figures of last year. The

increase in the number of specimens received by the various divi-

sions averages considerably more than last year, except in the divi-

sion of insects, which reports a falling off, due to the fact that last
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year’s report included 82,000 lepidoptera in the Dognin collection.
The increase of specimens in the department during the past fiscal
year amounts to more than 197,000.

Apart from such special accessions as 20,000 specimens of water
beetles donated by John D. Sherman, and 10,000 moths presented
by Doctor Schaus, which will be specifically mentioned later on,
the largest and most comprehensive collections received during the
year are as follows:

Dr. Hugh M. Smith, director of fisheries, Bangkok, Siam, an hon-
oary associate curator in zoology, United States National Museum,
was instrumental in bringing together exceedingly important and
valuable collections of Siamese mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians,
fishes, insects, mollusks, and marine invertebrates, which fill a dis-
tinct gap in the Museum’s collections between the Chinese material
from the north and that secured by Dr. W. L. Abbott from the Malay
Archipelago to the south that has come in previous years. Another
valuable addition consists of the mammals, birds, and reptiles gath-
ered by the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition to Africa. Dr. Waldo
L. Schmitt’s South American expedition under the auspices of the
Walter Rathbone Bacon traveling scholarship, apart from rich col-
lections of crustaceans, the principal object of the expedition, re-
sulted in large additions in other branches of zoology. Owing to
the unsettled conditions in China during the past year, collections
from that country which recently have played a leading part among
our accessions, have fallen off considerably; nevertheless collections
of birds, reptiles, and fishes which have been received from A. de
C. Sowerby through the generosity of Col. R. 8. Clark, are highly
important. They are supplemented by various small collections made
by the native collector trained by Rev. D. C. Graham.

Manvmals.—The small mammals (154 specimens) obtained by Dr;
Hugh M. Smith in Siam are particularly important to the Museum
in connection with the large collections of Malay mammals that have
been presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott. The 154 mammals, mostly of |
small size, collected by Arthur Loveridge in Tanganyika Territory,
Africa, while attached to the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition, are
also deserving of special mention. By exchange with the Instituto —
de la Salle, Bogota, Colombia, 238 small mammals were obtained
from that locality. In the same manner, 17 specimens from Russia
were acquired from the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sci-
ences, Leningrad, Union of Socialistic Soviet Republics. Two species
representing genera not previously in the Museum were received in
exchange with the American Museum of Natural History in New
York City. A skin of the rare pigmy hippopotamus from Sierra
Leone, Africa, was presented by W. N. Martin, Rouzerville, Pa.

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Birds.—The valuable collection of Chinese birds from Col. R. 8S.
Clark, the Siamese birds obtained from Dr. Hugh M. Smith, and the
material received from the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition have
already been referred to. The year has been particularly profitable,
as in addition to these comprehensive collections representatives of
18 genera and 120 species and subspecies hitherto lacking in the col-
lection have been added, mostly through the generosity of friends.
B. H. Swales, honorary assistant curator, donated 176 skins and 7
skeletons, including 46 species and 4 genera new to the Museum.
About 100 of the skins come from the States of Parahyba and Ceara,
Brazil. Dr. Charles W. Richmond, associate curator, presented 66
skins and 3 skeletons, mostly from South America and Africa, and
including 9 genera and 36 species hitherto unrepresented in the Mu-
seum, the species being chiefly tanagers, warblers, vireos, and honey
creepers. Dr. Thomas Barbour, Cambridge, Mass., generously gave
a specimen each of two genera of birds Torreornis inexpectata and
Ferminia cerverai recently discovered in Cuba. Two species of love
birds of the genus Agapornis new to the Museum were donated by
E. 8. Schmid, Washington, D. C., and C. H. Popenoe, Silver Spring,
Md., respectively. Dr. Casey A. Wood, collaborator in the division
of birds, presented Fijian birds, among them a species of flycatcher
new to the Museum. A skin of Pterocnemia tarapacensis, a rhea from
Argentina, new to the collection was presented by D. O. King of
Mendoza, Argentina. The skeleton collection was enriched with
many additional genera and species, among them a skeleton of Monias
benschi from Madagascar and a trunk skeleton of the monkey-eating
eagle Pithecophaga jefferyt from the Philippine Islands. Among
the many other contributors of valuable additions, Victor J. Evans,
Justus von Lengerke, and Col. Wirt Robinson may be mentioned.
From Edward L. Caum, Honolulu, T. H., 10 alcoholic specimens and
4 eggs of the Laysan rail (Porzanula palmeri) were received as a
eift.

Reptiles and batrachians—The Siamese and Chinese collections
received respectively from Dr. Hugh M. Smith and Col. R. S. Clark,
and the African collections of the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition,
constitute the bulk of the valuable accessions of this year. In addi-
tion, a collection of herpetological material from Guatemala trans-
ferred by the United States Biological Survey, and a set of speci-
mens from Lower California presented by the Navy Department in
cooperation with the California Academy of Sciences, have been
added to. the collection.

Fishes——The increase in the number of specimens received during
the present year over that of the preceding year is considerable. For
one of the most valuable collections of Chinese fishes received in
recent years we are indebted to the generosity of Col. R. S. Clark;

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no less than 1,748 specimens were collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby
during the past three years in the waters contiguous to Shanghai.
Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, as a result of his South American expedition
under the auspices of the Walter Rathbone Bacon scholarship,
brought home 111 specimens representative of the fish fauna of Juan
Fernandez Island, off the Chilean coast. The United States Bureau
of Fisheries transferred 338 specimens from various localities, amoug
them the types of seven new species. Similarly, 187 specimens from
various localities in Central and South America, Haiti, and Porto
Rico were received from the International Health Board, these being
of special interest in that they are known as destroyers of larve and
so assist in mosquito-control work. Dr. Hugh M. Smith donated 21
fishes from Siam, and Dr. W. H. Longley, of Goucher College, 76
from the Tortugas, Fla. A.J. Poole and Dr. Remington Kellogg,
during a trip to the porpoise station at. Hatteras, N. C., collected
1,239 specimens for the Museum. In exchange with the Academy of
Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, through Dr. H. W. Fowler, 238
specimens of fishes from the Hawaiian Islands were obtained.

Insects.—The outstanding gift to the Museum in this division was
the special collection of about 20,000 water beetles presented by
John D. Sherman, of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Another large dona-
tion, made by Dr. William Schaus, honorary assistant curator, was
that of about 10,000 moths, mostly from Bolivia. Dr. H. G. Dyar,
custodian of lepidoptera, presented the division with about 6,000
specimens of mosquitos obtained by him in summer collecting trips
to Montana, representing quite completely the mosquito fauna of
that region. Miss Theresa F. and W. E. Schoenborn presented the
Museum with the splendid collection of. lepidoptera made several
years ago by their father, the late Henry F. Schoenborn of Wash-
ington, D. C. It includes a considerable number of named European
species, but the larger part consists of specimens collected in the
region about Washington. All are in excellent condition and where
not especially needed for the general collection are to be part of the
special collection of District of Columbia animals. Dr. EK. A. Chapin,
of the Bureau of Entomology, donated a very valuable collection of
121 alcoholic lots and 398 microscope slides of ectoparasites of Mallo- °
phaga fleas, mites, and pseudoscorpions. Through the instrumentality
of Doctor Dyar, extensive shipments of mosquitoes and other blood-
sucking diptera from Venezuela were received from Dr. M. Nunez-
Tovar; these were sent primarily to secure identifications, but have
added importantly to these collections. From Dr. Reinhold Meyer, of
Germany, several shipments of named Old World Hymenoptera were
received in exchange. The Philippine Bureau of Science, through
R. C. McGregor, has sent several collections of Philippine insects
during the year.

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Marine invertebrates—The total number of accessions for the
present year was 120, covering some 17,840 specimens. Though the
number of accessions was less than last year actually 6,588 more
specimens were received. The more noteworthy additions are those
secured by the expeditions mentioned above, some of which may
be specifically enumerated here: From Dr. Hugh M. Smith, more
than 250 crustacea in connection with his investigation of the fish-
eries of Siam; Capt. R. A. Bartlett, 776 specimens of marine inver-
tebrates collected off the northwest coast of Greenland during the
summer of 1926; Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, a comprehensive collection
of South American crustaceans, together with miscellaneous takings
of hydroids, coelenterates, annelid worms, and other forms, the re-
sult of this year’s travels under the Walter Rathbone Bacon scholar-
ship; Clarence R. Shoemaker, 3,357 specimens collected at Tortugas,
Fla., under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution Marine Bio-
logical Laboratory. The United States Bureau of Fisheries, as
usual, transferred large and important collections, including nearly
300 samples of plankton, partly from the cruises of the Grampus and
the Bache, and partly from the Albatross Philippine tow-net hauls,
in addition to 66 lots of Euphausiaceae and Mysidaceae, the basis of
Dr. Walter M. Tattersall’s report on these forms from the western
Atlantic. Melbourne Ward, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,
presented 167 specimens of crustacea from the coast of New South
Wales, a region but meagerly represented in our collections. Among
the smaller contributions many deserve special reference as containing
valuable type material. R. K. Coker, Chapel Hill, N. C., presented a
number of slides of crustaceans, among them types of three species
and subspecies; Prof. Arthur Willey, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada, deposited the type specimens of the copepod Moraria lauren-
tica, and Dr. Stillman Wright, University of Wisconsin, the holotype
and paratype of Diaptomus insulanus. ‘This courtesy of depositing
types in the National Museum is highly appreciated. Dr. Frank
Smith, University of Illinois, presented 10 specimens of earthworms,
including holotypes of two new species, together with 511 microscope
slide mounts of serial sections of earthworms.

Mollusks——There was a slight decrease both in the number of ac-
cessions and specimens in this division. Among those received, men-
tion is made of the following as of particular merit. Dr. Hugh M.
Smith sent about 620 specimens of mollusks and squids from Siam;
Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, United States Army, Washington, D. C., pre-
sented about 2,500 specimens of marine shells from the Philippine
Islands; C. Walton, Peterhead, South Australia, supplied the types
and a number of paratypes of 13 new species and subspecies of
Thersites (Hadra) from islands in Torres Straits; the Rev. David

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C. Graham forwarded approximately 100 specimens of mollusks in
continuation of collections he has made in China; C. Ping, Uni-
versity of Amoy, China, sent 178 lots, about 500 specimens of land,
fresh-water, and marine shells from China, some being new to the
collection and some extending the distribution of species; Prof.
Auguste Teisseire, Colonia, Uruguay, presented 75 lots, about 127
specimens, of fresh-water bivalve shells, which contained the types
and a number of paratypes of new species of Corbicula and many fine
specimens of other species of that genus; Dr. H. A. Pilsbry, Acad-
emy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, sent four paratypes of Physa
zionis Pilsbry from Zion Park, Utah; Dr. Henry Pittier, Caracas,
Venezuela, forwarded 5 species, 9 specimens of fresh-water shells,
including the types and 3 paratypes of 2 species; C. C. Allen, St.
Petersburg, Fla., 57 lots, about 350 specimens of mollusks from
Florida, the Bahamas, and Cuba; Dr. William A. Hoffman, Univer-
sity of Porto Rico, 67 specimens of land and marine shells; Ralph
W. Jackson, 2 specimens of pearly fresh-water mussels, the type and
paratype of a new species, Diplodon jacksoni Marshall; D. Bram-
well, Jamaica, British West Indies, 40 lots, about 1,000 specimens, of
mollusks; Joseph Harrison, Jamaica, British West Indies, 34 lots,
approximately 200 specimens, of mollusks; D. Thaanum, Honolulu,
Hawaii, 26 species, 61 specimens, of marine shells from Japan;
Richard Buhlis, Imboden, Ark., 60 lots, 60 specimens, of pearly fresh-
water mussels; J. Morgan Clements, Papeete, Society Islands, 60
species, about 225 specimens, of mollusks from Cook Islands; and Dr.
F, Felippone, Montevideo, Uruguay, 20 lots, consisting of 28 speci-
mens, of marine and land shells from Uruguay.’

Echinoderms.—The number of accessions received during the year
was 17, more than twice the number received last year. The total
number of specimens incorporated in the collection was 368, as com-
pared with 41 last year. The most noteworthy accessions were the sea
urchins of the family Cidaridae which were collected by the Bureau
of Fisheries steamer AZbatross on the Philippine expedition in 1907-
1910 and reported upon by Dr. Th. Mortensen of the Zoological Mu-
seum, Copenhagen, Denmark, and the several collections made on the
coast of South America by Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt, curator of marine ©
invertebrates, while traveling under the Walter Rathbone Beacon
fund.

Plants.—There were 490 accessions in this division, comprising
55,750 specimens of great value, representing a slight gain in both
accessions and specimens over the preceding year. The more impor-
tant accessions are as follows: 9,203 specimens received as a transfer
from the Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department of
Agriculture, including 5,512 mounted grasses and 1,436 Chinese
specimens collected by P. H. Dorsett; 9,500 specimens of plants from

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Colombia, collected for the Museum by E. P. Killip and Albert C.
Smith; 11,000 specimens of Jamaican plants, chiefly ferns, collected
_ for the Museum by William R. Maxon; 3,550 specimens from southern
China, presented by the National Geographic Society, Washington,
D. C.; 2,000 specimens of Chinese plants, received from the Univer-
sity of Nanking, China, in exchange; 1,300 specimens of plants from
Asia, received as an exchange from the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle,
Paris; 768 specimens of Chilean plants presented by the Rev. Brother
Claude Joseph, Temuco, Chile; 1,051 specimens, chiefly from North
America and Cuba, received as an exchange from the Riksmuseets
Botaniska Avdelning, Stockholm; 555 specimens from Mexico and
Central America, received as an exchange from Universitetes
Botaniske Museum, Copenhagen; 3,035 specimens from New Mexico,
presented by the Rev. Brother Arsene, Las Vegas, N. Mex.; 484 speci-
mens chiefly of tropical American trees, presented by the Yale school
of forestry, New Haven, Conn., through Prof. Samuel J. Record;
380 specimens from Peru, presented by Prof. Fortunato L. Herrera,
Cuzco, Peru; 297 specimens received as an exchange from the Gray
Herbarium of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; 348 speci-
mens from Alberta, presented by A. H. Brinkman, Craigmyle,
Alberta, Canada; 481 specimens of Greenland plants received from
the Danske Arktiske Station, Disko, Greenland; 403 specimens of
Mexican plants, presented by J. G. Ortega, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex-
ico; 505 specimens received in exchange from the University of Cali-
fornia, Berkley, Calif.; 633 specimens from Texas and Mexico, re-
ceived from the University of Texas as a gift, through Prof. B. C.
Tharp; 875 specimens received from the New York Botanical
Garden, New York City, as an exchange; 178 specimens from Guate-
mala presented by the Direccion General de Agricultura, Guatemala
City; 355 specimens, chiefly from Alaska, received from the Bureau
of Biological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture, as
a transfer.

In this connection should be mentioned the receipt in March last
of the 50,000 mounted specimens constituting the remaining half of
the John Donnell Smith Herbarium presented to the Smithsonian.
Institution in 1905, but until this year retained for study in the
custody of Captain Smith in Baltimore. The remainder of the John
Donnell Smith library came to the Smithsonian Institution earlier in
the year. The value of these collections to students of American
botany can hardly be overestimated. ‘The herbarium is notable in
particular for its unique collections of Central American plants.
These, with the material recently collected under the auspices of the
_ National Museum, constitute the most extensive herbarium of Central
American plants in existence.

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INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

The principal change in the exhibition halls in this department was
the installation of the New Rocky Mountain sheep group. The ©
group formerly on exhibition was dismantled during the previous
year, but the newly prepared animals were displayed during the
summer as part of the Smithsonian exhibit at the Sesquicentennial
Exposition in Philadelphia. In the fall of 1926 this material was
returned to the museum and the work of constructing the rocks to
serve as accessories and background for the new group began. Asa
result of much careful labor on the part of W. L. Brown, who de-
signed and executed the group, and his associates, the bighorn group
takes its place among the largest and most successful of our more
recent biological exhibits. The whole back of the large case that
contains it represents a section of a mountain side, with ledges, on
which stand an old ram and three younger males. The group con-
stitutes a worthy companion to the Rocky Mountain goat case
installed two years ago.

The case containing the baboons and related African monkeys has
had added several recently mounted specimens. All the specimens
in the case have been reinstalled and several of the older, poorly
mounted ones were removed. A young female mountain gorilla,
collected by B. Burbridge, was mounted during the year and installed
in the African anthropoid case.

A model of the white Chinese lake dolphin, obtained in exchange,
and a skeleton of a reindeer, mounted by J. Scollick, were likewise
placed on exhibition. Several other specimens were mounted but
await the construction of a suitable case before being exhibited. The ~
model of a giant squid, restored during the year, was exhibited sus-
pended from the ceiling in the fish hall, with its companion piece the
giant octopus.

More than a dozen birds required for the District of Columbia
exhibit mounted during the year were labeled and added to that
series. Most of these were secured by Dr. P. Bartsch, who has volun-
teered to oversee this part of the collection. Stereograph slides
showing the home life of birds have been prepared and colored under |
his pone and added to the local exhibit.

The care of the scientific study material by the curatorial staff of
the various divisions has progressed satisfactorily, with this reserva-
tion, that on account of lack of help, progress as a rule has been at
the expense of the scientific output of the members.

In the division of mammals ten quarter unit cases were added to
the storage facilities for large skulls and skeletons in the attic. Con-
siderable progress has been made during the past year in arranging
this part of the collection, the new cases being used in part for storage

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of new material or for the spreading of series that were too crowded.
Good progress has been made in labeling and rearranging certain
groups. In order to conserve space, sets of leg bones of the larger
ungulates are being removed from the regular storage cases, labeled,
packed in wooden boxes, and stored in the mammal range, second
floor. Practically all the available space in the attic is now occupied
with cases, but the entire collection stored there still remains in a
crowded condition, though at this time in much better shape than
ever before. Three half-unit and five quarter-unit cases have been
added for the skin collection, which is still in an overcrowded condi-
tion, although now some of the smaller groups have been given
proper space. Two unit cases ordered last year, but delayed owing
to work on Sesquicentennial exhibits, were delivered and have mate-
rially helped to reduce the congestion of several of the larger skin
cases. Three quarter-unit cases were added to the collection of small
skulls located in the office rooms. These are now in fairly good shape
again, but the question of additional cases in order to prevent over-
crowding is quite serious owing to lack of further space. Consider-
able time has been devoted during the year to further arrangement
of the cetacean collection, two quarter-unit cases being added. The
small skulls and small skeletons have all been placed in cases. The
small cetaceans alone now occupy 61 quarter-unit cases. The speci-
mens, case trays, and cases have all been properly labeled and a card
index made of this entire collection, which is now in excellent shape.
Most of the larger whale skulls and skeletons are properly arranged.
A rather large amount of alcoholic porpoise material has been taken
from barrels in which it was stored, labeled, and put in proper con-
tainers. Quite a number of these specimens has been used for study
during the past year. A few large skins and quite a number of small
ones, including some used for exhibition purposes, were tanned by the
taxidermists. During the year the taxidermists prepared as study
specimens some 115 flat skins and 110 made-up skins. Work on
cleaning large and medium skulls and skeletons by the Museum force
has resulted as follows: Skulls, 267; skeletons, 52. Contract work
cn small and medium-sized skulls and skeletons has resulted in the
cleaning of 509 skulls and 55 skeletons.

It is gratifying to report that the various collections in the division
of mammals are at this time in better shape than they have ever been
heretofore.

In the division of birds, the skin collection of the family of crows
(Corvidae) was expanded through the release of one half-unit case
from other use. Some other minor readjustments of material were
made in various parts of the collection to relieve congestion without
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drawers were received during the year. Seven of the cases were used
for eggs received from A. C. Bent, four were utillized for temporary
storage purposes, and one was added to the skeleton series. The
alcoholic series was further improved by incorporating part of the
recent material and respacing portions of the collection on the shelves,
to provide greater convenience for consulting it. A card catalogue
of the collection was completed. In the skeleton series,’718 items were
received from the cleaners during the year, reducing the uncleaned
material on hand to a very few specimens; 517 of the cleaned speci-
mens were placed in containers, labeled, card catalogued, and dis-
tributed in the collection. The accessions of eggs and nests were cata-
logued and filed away in temporary quarters. Several installments
from the Bent egg collection were received and arranged, but the
eggs have not been catalogued. The skin collection is in good condi-
tion, though again becoming crowded in places. Some of the mate-
rial received during the year was labeled and distributed, but much
of it was held out for further determination or report or labeling.
Several hundred skins received at earlier periods were labeled and
distributed during this year. The status of the egg collection is
unchanged from last year. In alcoholics and skeletons the collec-
tions are in a very satisfactory condition indeed. ‘The taxidermists
remade or improved about 115 skins, mounted 13 birds for the local
exhibit, and the preparators cleaned 718 skeltons.

In the division of reptiles more than 2,100 amphibians and reptiles
have been assigned to permanent places in the storage rooms. A
majority were identified by Miss Cochran, the assistant curator.
The amount of old unidentified material is steadily shrinking under _
combined efforts to achieve an ideal of a perfect collection of iden-
tified and easily accessible specimens. Since this division has ac-
quired eight new unit cases for the storage of skeletal and dried
material it has; been possible to relieve the congested condition of
some of the storage cases. The assistant curator is now engaged on
a complete card catalogue for the dry material like the one in use for
alcoholic specimens, and has this important work about half com-
pleted. Some work has been done by the taxidermists in cleaning
skulls and preparing skins. The present status of the collection is
very good. :

B. A. Bean, assistant curator in charge of fishes, reports that the
lower floor and about one-half of the upper floors of the alcoholic
storage rooms have been thoroughly inspected, shelves and con-
tainers cleaned, and the jars refilled where necessary. Many labels
that had become illegible have been restored and like material from
the same general locality has been wrapped and grouped together to
save space and jars. The present condition of the collections is good.

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In a collection growing rapidly as that in the division of insects a
great deal of time is consumed in incorporating new material.
Within the past year the division has received 800 insect drawers,
_ the same as in the preceding year, which has allowed space in
arranging the collections. Considerable progress has been made
during the year in various groups. In the section of Diptera, Mr.
Greene has arranged the extensive slide collection of gnats belong-
ing to the family Itonididae (Cecidomyidae), not available hereto-
fore in a satisfactory manner. The collection of immature stages of
Diptera has been installed.in approved manner and now ranks as
probably the best in the world. In the Lepidoptera, Dr. William
Schaus has made decided progress in the incorporation of the Dognin
collection and has arranged and expanded the Neotropical collec-
tion in a number of groups. He has also spent considerable time in
arranging and expanding the collections of Noctuidae of the Old
World. Mr. Busck and Mr. Heinrich have completed the incorpora-
tion of the Microlepidoptera belonging to the Fernald collection, and
have practically completed the incorporation of the exotic collection
of Microlepidoptera purchased from B. Hamfelt, of Sweden. In
the section of Orthoptera, Mr. Caudell has completed studies on
oriental Blattidae, which necessitated the rearrangement of the col-
lections of blattids from this region. Doctor Ewing has rearranged
and brought up to date the collection of scorpions from the western
United States, and has added a considerable amount of new material
from the Southwest. Work on the Casey collection of Coleoptera
through the continued interest of Mrs. Casey has been carried on
through the year by L. L. Buchanan, who has made excellent prog-
ress. The material in the families Cerambycidae, Buprestidae, Coc-
cinellidae, Curculionidae (except the Brazilian Barini), Melyridae,
Dermestidae, Mycetophagidae, Lucanidae, Anthicidae, Alleculidae,
and some others with parts of the Staphylinidae, Carabidae, Scara-
baeidae, Psilaphidae, and Tenebrionidae have now been arranged so
that they are available to students. These groups include about 2,500
of the Casey types. The methods employed in installation in this
collection have been highly praised by specialists from other institu-
tions who have had occasion to examine the series. In the general
collection of beetles Dr. E. A. Chapin has assembled a large part
of the family Cleridae and has made arrangements in certain tribes
of the family Staphylinidae and part of the family Coccinellidae.
Mr. Barber has arranged parts of the collection belonging to the
family Lampyridae and certain other small units throughout the
order. Mr. Fisher has covered parts of the family Cerambycidae
and has done additional work on the members of the Buprestidae.
Mr. Hyslop has devoted some time to the Elateridae and has incor-

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porated the specimens from the Gorham collection, which he pur-
chased and donated to the Museum. Mrs. Blake rearranged the
genus Oedionychis of America north of Mexico. While in the sec-
tion of Hymenoptera there has been little opportunity to complete —
research that will assist in systematizing the collections it has been
possible to put a number of series in much better order.

With the adoption of the plan of mounting dissected parts on slides
and keeping the slides in trays and of placing tag-mounted and slide-
mounted specimens in the same tray, it has been possible to make
considerable progress in arranging certain groups of chalcidoid flies
and also to simplify the study of some other groups, as the bees. Fol-
lowing is the list of the more important units in which considerable
rearrangement of material has been done during the fiscal year.
‘Bethylidae; this entire family has been completely rearranged. The
Ashmead and Museum collections have been combined into one and
arranged in accordance with the system used by Kieffer in his publi-
cation in Das Tierreich. Anteonidae (Dryinidae): The entire col-
lection of Anteonidae was rearranged in accordance with Kieffer’s
classification as published in Das Tierreich by Doctor Fenton when
working at the Museum during the Christmas holidays. Apoidea:
Miss Sandhouse has expanded the collection of Apoidea, incorporat-
ing a great deal of material which had been in the boxes of dupli-
cates and certain other scattered through various collections. In
addition, she has rearranged a number of genera as Osmaa, exotic
Aylocopa, North American Halictus, Agapostemon, and the tribe
Megachilini, and has made and entered in the slide book about 500
slides of dissected parts of bees. Chalcidoidea: Mr. Gahan has con- -
tinued the arrangement of chalcidoids, with particular reference to
the Eulophidae and Encyrtidae. Braconidae: Mr. Gahan has re-
vised and rearranged the oriental species of Apanteles. Psammo-
charidae; this family was rearranged by Mr. Rohwer, the regional
collections broken up, and the entire series arranged in’ one unit.
Mutillidae: the genus Dasymutilla and allies were partially rear-
ranged to coincide with a manuscript by Dr. C. E. Mickel which has
recently been submitted for publication. More work on this group
will be necessary later.

In the division of marine invertebrates, by the employment of
additional temporary help, headway has been made with the great
and at one time rather alarming arrearage in replenishing the alcohol
lost by evaporation from the vast study collection. The duties en-
tailed in the sorting of incoming collections have been heavier even
than in previous years on account of the greater bulk of material
gathered by various expeditions.

The curator of the division of mollusks reports that progress has
been made in arranging new material in the study series. The divi-

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sion, however, is so shorthanded that much time of the staff is re-
quired for daily routine, requests for determinations, care of collec-
tions, and their proper intercalation in the study series. The section
of corals, on account of lack of a custodian, has been more or less
quiescent during the year. The only work done has been the com-
pletion of the installation of the entire coral series in the southwest
hall and in room 427. The collection of helminths has been cared for
as heretofore.

In the division of Echinoderms extra temporary help has been em-
ployed to replace alcohol in the containers. Further progress has
been made in converting specimens from the alcoholic to the dry
collections. The curator reports that the study collections are in
excellent shape. '

Work on the collections of the National Herbarium has progressed
as usual. In the main herbarium 42,992 specimens have been entered
in the record books preparatory to their being added to the general
herbarium. It has been possible to insert in the herbarium only a
part of this material, owing to extreme congestion, so that there are
on hand awaiting distribution about 70,000 specimens. Besides these,
there are about 75,000 that have been mounted, but that are not yet
stamped or recorded, making a total of nearly 150,000 specimens to
be inserted in the herbarium. Fortunately, the projected balcony in
the western end of the herbarium hall is to be constructed within the
next few months. This, with installation of new cases, will allow
ample opportunity for expansion, and it is hoped that during the
coming year the stamping and recording just mentioned will have
been added to the herbarium. The shifting of old cases and the instal-
lation of new ones will involve a complete rearrangement of all the
specimens in the phanerogamic herbarium. ‘There remain to be
mounted at the present time only about 25,000 specimens, these chiefly
Old World plants.

Work in the herbarium has progressed as satisfactorily as other
duties and the crowded condition of the material would permit.
Doctor Maxon has identified and distributed a large number of ferns
and Mr. Standley has performed like services in the case of Mexican
and Central American phanerogams, which have been received in
great quantity. Similar work has been accomplished by Mr. Killip
and Mr. Leonard for South American and West Indian material,
respectively.

The segregation of type specimens of phanerogams has been con-
tinued by Mr. Killip, 12,964 such types having now been distinctively
labelled and specially catalogued with complete data. These consti-
tute the so-called “type herbarium” kept apart from the main
herbarium.

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Aside from curatorial work on the moss herbarium by Mr. Leonard,
the condition of the cryptogamic collections remains the same as last
year, since it is not feasible, owing to lack of special curatorial help,
to incorporate the large accumulation of many years past. The
cryptogamic herbaria are of sufficient importance to merit the same
attention that is given to the flowering plants and ferns, and it is
urgently recommended that there be appointed an aid whose first
duty shall be to give general curatorial attention to the cryptogamic
herbaria.

Exceptionally good progress has been made in the mounting of
plants during the past year, mainly through the employment of extra
help. During the year 18,730 specimens of flowering plants and
ferns have been glued; 18,855 glued specimens have been strapped,
13,955 of these by contract; and 23,617 specimens have been mounted
wholly by adhesive plaster, 18,870 of this number by contract. The
total number of specimens mounted during the year is thus upward
of 40,000, which is nearly twice the number mounted during the pre-
vious year. As mentioned elsewhere, there remain unmounted about
25,000 specimens. These are chiefly Old World plants, but include
also the recent Colombian collections of Messrs. Killip and Smith.
The work of stamping and recording the specimens is greatly in
arrears and demands immediate attention in order to clear up the
accumulation of about 75,000 unstamped and unrecorded specimens
and permit the insertion of this material in the herbarium.

The work of the taxidermists and preparators in so far as it relates
to the exhibition series has already been mentioned. The usual work
of the shops in mounting, renovating, degreasing, and repairing speci- ~
mens, in addition to the regular work of cleaning skeletons, skulls, and
other skeletal parts has progressed satisfactorily. The dismount-
ing of the Burchell’s zebra mentioned in last year’s report was a
difficult and time-consuming task successfully accomplished by George
Marshall, who also made over 114 defective field skins of birds and
skinned and mounted a large number of birds and mammals. Mr-
Scollick and Mr. East cleaned 399 bird skeletons, 191 mammal skulls,
5 mammal skeletons, 1 fish skeleton, and 40 skeletons of reptiles and |
amphibians, in addition to other work. C. EK. Mirguet was chiefly
occupied in making plaster casts of anatomical parts and of reptiles
for the exhibition series. He also restored and mounted the large
model of the giant squid now on exhibition in the fish hall. Much of
his time was taken up with the cleaning of 34 large mammal skele-
tons, 31 mammal skulls, and some reptile skeletons. Much work in
skinning and curing large mammals fell to the lot of the taxidermists
after the return of the Smithsonian-Chrysler expedition to Africa,
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Zoological Park, with the usual annual mortality, brought many
specimens from this source. The taxidermists are handicapped in
their work through lack of space and deserve great credit for a large
amount of excellent work done under adverse conditions.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Research for the benefit of the Musewm.—tIn addition to research
work of the scientific staff of the Museum, a vast amount of work is
done for the benefit of the Museum by scientists not officers of the
institution, in most cases where no specialist is represented on our
staff.

Gerrit S. Miller, jr., curator of mammals, has completed final revi-
sion of a monograph of the American bats of the genus Myotis, on
which he has been engaged for several years in collaboration with
Dr. Glover M. Allen, of Cambridge, Mass. The manuscript is now
in the printer’s hands. He has also finished and published a study
of some fossil Mongolian mammals and has made some progress in
working up a collection of bones that he made in cave deposits in
Haiti two years ago. A. B. Howell, collaborator, has worked up
most of the Chinese mammals collected by Arthur de C. Sowerby
and D. C. Graham and has continued his studies of mammalian
anatomy. |

Robert Ridgway, curator of birds, reports that his work on Bulle-
tin 50 (Birds of North and Middle America) has been of the same
character as reported for the previous year, the compilation of synon-
ymy, preparation of diagnoses, keys, and descriptions of the higher
groups, those for the family Anatidae (ducks, geese, and swans)
having been included in the work for the present year. Dr. C. W.
Richmond, associate curator, in the scant time allowed him from
routine, curatorial, and office work, finished a paper on “ Generic
names applied to birds during the years 1916 to 1922, inclusive, with
additions to Waterhouse’s Index Generum Avium,” and has also pre-
pared several short papers dealing with nomenclature. The work on
the projected catalogue of types of birds in the Museum collection in
_ preparation jointly with B. H. Swales, honorary assistant curator,
progressed slowly. The report on the birds of the Island of Haiti
planned by the same investigators has now been taken up by Dr.
Alexander Wetmore in association with Mr. Swales. Doctor Wet-
more also made various studies of fossil birds of North America,
partly to identify new material and partly to examine into the valid-
ity of forms previously described. He completed an account of the
birds of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands and undertook to com-
plete the work, A Monograph of the Accipitres, left unfinished by
the late H. Kirke Swann, and made some progress to this end. J. H.

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Riley, aid, continued his studies of the Chinese collections of birds,
particularly the one formed by the Rev. D. C. Graham, and began: a
report on the birds of the Mentawi Islands, based on material in
part presented by Dr. W. L. Abbott and in part submitted by the
Raffles Museum, of Singapore.

Lack of material from certain critical localities has made progress
on the monograph of the turtles of North and Middle America slow,
so that the curator of reptiles, Leonhard Stejneger, has devoted his
time to the study of Chinese herpetology based on the rich material
received during the last few years from D. C. Graham, A. de C.
Sowerby, and other sources. Miss D. M. Cochran, assistant curator,
continued and nearly completed a study of the collections of Siamese
reptiles and amphibians made by Dr. Hugh M. Smith.

The report on the Philippine fishes undertaken by H. W. Fowler,
assisted by B. A. Bean, assistant curator, progressed satisfactorily,
one volume going to press and the manuscript of the second volume
being submitted. Work on the third volume is well advanced.

Dr. J. M. Aldrich, associate curator of insects, continued studies
of the older types of American muscoid flies in the Vienna Museum
of Natural History through material forwarded from Vienna for the
purpose. An article covering some 30 additional species is now in
press. He also continued work on the taxonomy of the Diptera in
the course of which several papers were prepared, the principal one
being on the genus Belvosia. C. T. Greene, assistant custodian of
Diptera, has completed a study of the larvae and pupae of flies belong-
ing to the family Trypetidae. Dr. A. G. Béving has continued his
researches on the classification of the larvae of Coleoptera, and dur- ~

ing the year has extended and revised a manuscript dealing with the
tee in the Museum collection belonging to the an heae Halti- ©
cinae. He has prepared also a review A the larvae belonging to the
families Mylabridae and Anobiidae, and has made notes and draw-
ings of all the scarabaeid larvae in the collection belonging to the
subfamily Dynastinae. In addition he has published papers on the-
immature stages of various species.

W. S. Fisher has devoted much time to a revision of the North |
American Buprestid beetles of the genus Agrilus, has completed a
study of the Buprestidae of the West Indies, and has begun an inves-
tigation of the Cer ambycids of the West Indies. In addition, he has
continued to study the Buprestids and Cerambycids from the oriental
region forwarded by Prof. C. F. Baker and has described many
species. Dr. E. A. Chapin has begun an extensive revision of the
Cleridae of the Nearctic region, an investigation that will be con-
tinued throughout the coming year. He has also done considerable
work on the classification of the Coccinellidae and has prepared a

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synopsis of the species belonging to the tribe Telsimiini, has com-
pleted a revision of the North American species of the genus Ptilo-
dactyla, and has conducted minor investigation on various units in
the family Staphylinidae. H.G. Barber has continued his investiga-
tions on the taxonomy of beetles of the family Lampyridae and has
been able to correlate certain minor structural differences with differ-
ences in flight, flashing habits, and habitat. Mrs. Blake has com-
pleted a study of the beetles of the genus Oedionychis, which occur
in America north of Mexico, and has described many new forms in
connection with a revisionary paper which was published in the
Proceedings of the Museum. Dr. F. H. Chittenden has completed a
review of the North American nut weevils belonging to the genus
Curculio (Balaninus), and has described a number of new forms.
He has also completed investigations on the genus Phyllotreta and
has published a revisionary synopsis, including the descriptions of
many new species. A. Busck has continued his studies on the classi-
fication of the North American Microlepidoptera belonging to the
family Tortricidae and allies, and has completed a review on this
subject, for which illustrations are being prepared. C. Heinrich has
continued investigations on Microlepidoptera and has devoted much
study to classification of the larve. During the year he has spent a
considerable portion of his time in the field. Dr. W. Schaus has done’
important research in connection with the identification of material
from the oriental region submitted by Dr. C. F. Baker, and material
from Africa and the Neotropical region, and has prepared descrip-
tions of many new species. A. N. Caudell has continued investiga-
tions on the taxonomy of cockroaches, and has completed a report on
material collected in the Fiji Islands.

Dr. H. G. Ewing has continued work on the relationship of various
genera of Mallophaga and has prepared one or two papers describing
unusual forms. He has also spent considerable time studying mites
injurious to vegetation, especially those groups which are found on
bulbs, and has continued work in the literature of mites. W. L.
McAtee and J. R. Malloch have been occupied with investigations on
the classification of bugs of the subfamily Thyreocorinae, and Mr.
McAtee has worked with leaf hoppers of the tribe Eupterygini, espe-
cially those belonging to the neotropical region. As mentioned in the
last report, Dr. H. H. Knight was employed by the Bureau of Ento-
mology to conduct investigations on bugs of the family Miridae. He
worked for the first two months of the fiscal year, completing the
arrangement of the insects belonging to this family. H. G. Barber,
during a detail of six weeks for the Bureau of Entomology, arranged
part of the neotropical collection of bugs belonging to the family
Reduviidae. Both Mr. Rohwer and Mr. Gahan have had to devote
much time to administrative work or routine identification and have

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had little opportunity to conduct research work except that incidental
to identification. R. A. Cushman has continued identification work
and has also had opportunity to study ichneumon flies of the sub-
family Tryphoninae and to continue his researches on the tribe Ich-
neumonini. In addition he has practically completed a review of
the tribe Mesostenini and a review of the oriental and Malayan species
of the genus Xanthopimpla. Miss Grace Sandhouse had opportunity
to do research on certain groups of bees, in which she spent consid-
erable time studying the genus Osmia. to complete a revision of the
North American species of this group, made some preliminary studies
on the tribe Megachilini, and undertook the classification of the bees
of the family Halictidae. Work on the Halictidae has progressed
satisfactorily, especially as concerns the genus Agapostemon as it
occurs in North America.

In the division of marine invertebrates, Dr. Mary J. Rathbun,
associate in zoology, has continued work on the third volume of her
monograph on American crabs. Her report on a collection of
‘“ Brachyuran crabs from Australia and New Guinea ” was published
in the Records of the Australian Museum; that on “ The fossil stalk-
eyed Crustacea of the Pacific slope of North America” as Bulletin 138
of the United States National Museum; and her “ Crustacea” of “The
fauna of the Ripley formation on Cook Creek, Tenn.,” in the report
on that fauna by Bruce Wade, as United States Geological Survey
Professional Paper 137. Current identifications of numerous small
collections of recent and fossil crabs have occupied a considerable
amount of Miss Rathbun’s time, in addition to the service she has
rendered as editor of the section of Crustacea of Biological Abstracts,
both in an editorial and abstracting capacity. The curator, Dr.
Waldo L. Schmitt, spent the greater part of the year in the field
as the Walter Rathbone Bacon scholar of the Smithsonian Institu-
tion. Though his field work has consumed more time than originally
contemplated, this has permitted examination of a greater range

of territory than would have been possible otherwise. The assist- _

ant curator, Clarence R. Shoemaker, who during Doctor Schmitt's
absence took over the curatorial duties of the division in a most
satisfactory manner, was left little time for scientific work.
Nevertheless, work was continued on the Amphipods collected
during the fisheries research project of the Biological Board of
Canada in the Gulf of St. Lawrence during 1917. James O. Maloney,
aid, in addition to undertaking numerous identifications for the
Federal Horticultural Board, made a report on the isopods
obtained by the Albatross Lower California expedition of 1911.
Part 3 of the Rotifer Fauna of Wisconsin; A Revision of the
Genera Lecane and Monostyla, was published during the year by

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H. K. Harring, custodian of the Rotatoria, in collaboration with
Frank J. Myers. Part 4, The Dicranophorinae, was completed dur-
ing the year and is now in press. The study of the rotifers of Mount
Desert Island was continued and some time spent in making collec-
tions in the State of New Jersey. In addition, Mr. Harring has
edited the section dealing with the Rotatoria, Gastrotricha, and
Chaetognatha for Biological Abstracts. Determinations also have
been made of a number of small collections for the Canadian game
and fisheries service and for the museum of the University of Michi-
gan. Dr. Max Ellis, collaborator, is working on the extensive collec-
tions of discodrilids that he has personally collected on several
transcontinental automobile tours. Dr. Maynard H. Metcalf, col-
Jaborator, has continued his studies on the opalinid parasites of
South American frogs.

In the division of mollusks Dr. W. H. Dall completed a paper
upon the small shells dredged by the U. S. fisheries steamer Alda-
tross between 1885 and 1886 in east American waters. He like-
wise prepared descriptions of miscellaneous species for publication
in the proceedings. The curator, Dr. Paul Bartsch, has about com-
pleted a paper on the Philippine Naninidae; also a monograph on the
West Indian land shells of the family Annulariidae. These two ef-
forts have occupied all the time available for research. William B.
Marshall, assistant curator, has identified specimens submitted by
correspondents and distributed material into the study series. He has
partially revised the foreign shells of the genera Bulimulus, Bulimi-
nus and Bithynia, and has prepared a paper on “A new genus and
two new species of South American fresh-water mussels,” which has
been published by the Museum. He also prepared and submitted
for publication papers on “ New mollusks of the genus Corbicula
from Uruguay and Brazil” and on “The Australian land shell
Thersites bipartita and its allies.”

The research work undertaken by the curator of Echinoderms,
Austin H. Clark, during the year consisted mainly in a continuation
of work on another part of his monograph of the recent crinoids.
In addition, he began studies on the crinoids collected by the Austral-
asian Antarctic expedition of 1910-1914, which were sent through the
kindness of Sir Douglas Mawson, of the University, Adelaide, South
Australia, and Prof. Clement Vaney, of the Université de Lyon,
Lyon, France. All of the species represented in this collection have
been identified.

Dr. Frederick V. Coville, curator of plants, has continued his
studies upon the breeding and culture of blueberries (Vaccinium) and
other acid-soil plants. Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator, has con-
tinued studies of the leguminous families Caesalpiniaceae and the
Mimosaceae jointly with Dr. N. L. Britton, director of the New York

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Botanical Garden, with the object of preparing a monograph of the
North American species. As heretofore, he has given much time to
the Cactaceae and Crassulaceae groups, which he had previously
treated monographically. Dr. William R. Maxon, associate curator,
following his last trip of exploration in Jamaica, has begun the
preparation of manuscript for a volume upon the ferns of that island.
Mr. Paul C. Standley, associate curator, has given particular atten-
tion to the identification of Costa Rican material collected by him-
self and has published several papers describing new species from
these exceedingly rich collections. At the request of the Field Mu-
seum of Natural History, he is engaged in preparing an enumeration
of the plants of the Yucatan Peninsula, based largely upon the collec-
tions of Dr. G. F. Gaumer. E. C. Leonard, aid, has continued his
studies of the West Indian fiora, particularly the plants of Hispan-
iola, and has begun an investigation of the family Acanthaceae as
represented in tropical America. EK. P. Killip, aid, spent six months
in field work in Colombia in connection with his study of the flora of
that country, and at other times has given special attention to identi-
fying specimens from the South American Andes, particularly the
families Passifloraceae, Urticaceae, and Boraginaceae.

James L. Peters, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, kindly
determined a series of pigeon hawks for the Museum; Dr. C. E.
Hellmayr, of the Field Museum of Natural History, revised the
identifications of various skins of Asiatic and tropical American
birds; Donald R. Dickey, Pasadena, Calif., did the same for a num-
ber of Central American specimens; Dr. H. C. Oberholser identified
various birds in the Abbott Malayan collections and revised determi-
nations of certain North American birds in the Museum. Mr. Rem-
ington Kellogg, Bureau of Biological Survey, has been engaged upon
a study of the amphibians of Mexico, doing a large amount of
exceedingly valuable work in verifying the old Museum records of
specimens collected about the middle of last century, as well as iden-
tifying a considerable amount of later material. The division of_
reptiles is also indebted to various specialists for identifications, as
Dr. Frank H. Blanchard, Percy Viosca, jr., Dr. Afranio do Amaral, —
Dr. E. R. Dunn, Dr. A. H. Wright, and J. W. Bailey. Prof. P. L.
Lesne, of the Paris Museum, kindly determined certain beetles be-
longing to the family Lyctidae. The arrangement of the collection
of beetles of the family Mordellidae has been greatly improved by
assistance rendered by Emil Liljeblad, of the Field Museum, in
making identifications. R. W. Dawson, University of Minnesota,
has cooperated in the identification of certain scarabaeid beetles
introduced into the United States. Dr. J. Gilbert Arrow, British
Museum of Natural History, on request, has rendered similar valuable

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assistance in identifying beetles recently established in the United
States. Dr. Alex. Petrunkevitch, Yale University, has kindly coop-
erated in the identification of certain exotic spiders which have been
received for determination, and Dr. Ralph V. Chamberlain, Uni-
versity of Utah, has similarly identified a number of lots of Myri-
apoda sent him. The curator of the division of marine invertebrates
writes that no small part of the credit for the successful working of
the division is due to the very important unofficial staff of collabora-
tors who have kindly assisted by identifying material. The list
includes the following: Dr. Henry B. Bigelow (Medusae, Cteno-
phora); Dr. H. Boschma (Rhizocephalids, Crustacea); Dr. R. V.
Chamberlain (Annelids and Gephyrea) ; Dr. Henri Coutiére (Cran-
gonidae, Crustacea) ; Dr. Joseph A. Cushman (Foraminifera) ; M. W.
de Laubenfels (Porifera) ; Prof. G..S. Dodds (Fresh-water Entomo-
straca); Prof. Max Ellis (Discodrilids); Dr. A. G. Huntsman
(Ascidians) ; Dr. Chancey Juday (Cladocera, Crustacea) ; Mr. Frits
Johansen (Fresh-water Entomostraca); Mr. T. Kaburaki (Turbel-
laria); Dr. C. Dwight Marsh (Fresh-water Copepods); Dr. May-
nard M. Metcalf (Salpa, Pyrosoma, Protozoa); Dr. J. Percy Moore
(Leeches) ; Dr. Charles C. Nutting (Hydroids); Dr. Raymond C.
Osborn (Bryozoa); Dr. Henry A. Pilsbry (Barnacles) ; Capt. F. A.
Potts (Rhizocephalids, Crustacea); Prof. Frank Smith (Harth-
worms, fresh-water sponges) ; Miss Caroline E. Stringer (‘Turbella-
ria) ; Dr. W. M. Tattersall (Mysidacea, Crustacea) ; Dr. A. L. Tread-
well (Annelids); Dr. C. B. Wilson (Parasitic and free-swimming
marine Copepods); Dr. H. V. Wilson (Porifera). The generous
assistance rendered by the Scripps Institute for Biological Research
in determining the salinity of 18 water samples obtained by Dr.
Waldo L. Schmitt in the course of his studies on the South American
macruran fauna deserves special acknowledgment.

The generous assistance accorded the curator of mollusks by
Charles T. Simpson, of Little River, Fla., alluded to in last year’s
report, was continued during the year. Acknowledgment is made
to Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, University of Colorado, for the identifi-
cation of some slugs; also to Miss Phoebe Knappen, Cornell Uni-
versity, for the dissection of Cerions.

Prof. Walter K. Fisher, Stanford University, continued work on
the starfishes of the North Pacific in connection with the preparation
of the second part of the monograph on the Asteroidea of the North
Pacific which is now well on the road to completion. Dr. Hubert
Lyman Clark, of the Museum of Comparative Zodlogy, continued
study of the holothurians of the Albatross Philippine expedition.

The division of plants acknowledges assistance received from
Dr. S. F. Blake, who identified and revised a large number of speci-

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mens, mainly Compositae, from South America and the western
United States. The loan of undetermined herbarium material to
specialists in or out of Washington is usually of benefit to the
Museum when returned with critical identifications. Names of spe-
cialists who have rendered such service will be found mentioned later.

Research of outside investigators aided by Museum material—
The facilities for research afforded investigators, not members of the
official staff of the Museum, have been utilized by a large number of
students who have either come to the Museum to examine series of
specimens of critical species and types of described forms or have
borrowed specimens to supplement that at their disposition else-
where. Many are the investigators who will testify to the impossi-
bility of bringing their studies to a satisfying conclusion without the
aid afforded by the national collections.

The collection of mammals has been consulted frequently by Drs.
Adolph H. Schultz, Ernst Huber, and George P. Wislocki of Johns
Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore. Miss Tagert, secretary to
Childs Frick, of the American Museum of Natural History, spent
several days in the division taking measurements of the skulls of
zebras and certain antelopes. Dr. Dorothy H. Anderson, School of
Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, N. Y., studied certain points of
the anatomy of a number of mammals that could only be obtained
in this Museum. Dr. O. P. Hay, of the Carnegie Institute of Wash-
ington, has made constant use of the osteological collection in con-
nection with his work on fossil mammals. The members of the
United States Biological Survey have had constant access to the
collections. Mr. Donald Dickey compared specimens of Central
American mammals. Dr. Paul B. Johnson, of Washington, dis-
sected many of the mammals sent to the taxidermist shop from the
Zoological Park, and gave valuable assistance in preparing speci-
mens of soft parts for preservation in the study series. |

Miss Mary E. Laing, of California, spent much of the time between
January 6 and May 22, 1927, studying various North American birds _
and consulting publications in the sectional library while preparing
two popular books on the subject. Miss Mary E. McClellan, assist-
ant curator of ornithology and mammalogy at the California Acad-
emy of Sciences, spent two weeks or more examining western United
States birds for California records, comparing certain Mexican birds,
and looking up other data. Mr. Donald R. Dickey, of Pasadena,
Calif., spent several days studying and comparing Central American
birds, with a view to determining a series of birds from Salvador.
A. C. Bent, Taunton, Mass., spent three days at the end of March
studying North American shore birds and their eggs in connection
with his work on the life histories of North American birds of this

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group. Prof. E. H. Forbush, Boston, Mass., examined woodpeckers,
cuckoos, kingfishers, and flycatchers in connection with his work on
the birds of Massachusetts. W. W. Bowen, New York City, exam-
ined African weaver birds of the genus Lagonosticta and starlings
of the genus Cinnyricinclus, and on another visit examined the North
African species of sand grouse. Herbert W. Brandt, Cleveland,
Ohio, studied various Alaskan birds and eggs. Dr. George Finlay
Simmons, of the same place, examined certain African species.
' Charles M. B. Cadwalader, Port Washington, Pa., examined species
of teal and widgeon from North America and Europe; Dr. Walter
Koelz, of Michigan, studied gyrfalcons, longspurs, and other species
from northern America. J. R. Pemberton, Beverly Hills, Calif.,
inspected certain eggs in the North American series, and Ernest G.
Holt, Montgomery, Ala., examined martins of the genus Progne.

Mr. Remington Kellogg, of the United States Biological Survey,
has had a table in the division of reptiles for the continuation of his
work on Museum amphibians, and a similar privilege was extended
toward the end of the year to Dr. Hugh M. Smith for his Siamese
studies. Various distinguished herpetologists have visited the divi-
sion at intervals, examining material bearing on their investigations,
among them Dr. Frank N. Blanchard, Percy Viosca, jr., Dr. E. R.
Dunn, Dr. A. H. Wright, and J. W. Bailey.

The collections in the division of fishes were visited by a number
of specialists examining material in connection with their scientific
work, namely, Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, Museum of Zoology, University
of Michigan; W. C. Kendall and S. F. Hildebrand, of the United
States Bureau of Fisheries; and H. W. Fowler, Academy of Natural
Sciences, Philadelphia.

In the division of insects the officials of the Bureau of Entomology
had constant access to the collections, R. A. St. George, S. E. Crumb,
EK. V. Walter, and Dr. J. W. Folsam being especially mentioned as
having spent considerable time there. A large number of other
entomologists made use of its facilities throughout visits which often
extended over a considerable time. Dr. H. Prell, of Dresden, Ger-
many, spent some time in the division; H. C. Fall, Tyngsboro, Mass.,
during two trips to Washington was materially aided by the study
of types of species described by the late Colonel Casey, and later
published notes on some of the species; C. H. Curran, entomological
branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, Canada, spent two
weeks in the Museum in the study of muscoid flies; Dr. Karl Jordan,
of Tring Museum, England, for about a month studied types of fleas
in the collection, in completing a comprehensive monograph of the
fleas of the world; Dr. J. M. Swaine, Ottawa, Canada, with his co-
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and examined type specimens in the Casey collection; Frank Mason,
of Philadelphia, was occupied for a day with the Cerambycids in the
same collection; Dr. Foster H. Benjamin, Decatur, IIl., has been
aided in his investigations by study of types in the collection of
Lepidoptera; Dr. H. B. Hungerford, of the University of Kansas,
spent some time examining types chiefly in connection with his re-
port on aquatic Hemiptera collected for the Museum by the Mulford
Biological Expedition; Dr. E. D. Ball, of Sanford, Fla., spent some
time at the Museum on two different occasions studying types of leaf ©
hoppers; Dr. H. L. Dozier, Newark, Del., was materially aided in
his investigations on Hemiptera by examining specimens; Dr. J. B.
Parker, of Catholic University, Washington, D. C., has continued
studies on the wasps of the subfamily Bembecinae, averaging more
than one day a week at the Museum, and has completed a synoptic
review of the genera with descriptions of new species; Robert M.
Fouts, Washington, D. C., has continued to use the collection in study-
ing parasites belonging to the superfamily Serphoidea; C. Howard
Curran, in charge of Diptera in the National Museum of Canada, at
Ottawa, spent two weeks in Washington studying the collection of
muscoid flies; EK. T. Creeson, jr., Philadelphia, spent a day at the
Museum studying Diptera; Dr. William A. Hoffman, School of
Tropical Medicine, Porto Rico, spent some time at the Museum in
the study of bloodsucking diptera; Dr. A. Avinoff, director of the
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, was aided in his investigations by
study of material; Melville B. Grosvenor, of the editorial staff of the
National Geographic Magazine, was aided in obtaining photographs
of butterflies and moths to illustrate an article which appeared
recently in that publication, two photographers of the staff of the
National Geographic Society working for several weeks under the
direction of the custodian, Dr. H. G. Dyar, and obtaining material
for 16 plates in full color; ii E. Walters, of the Federal Horticultural
Board, has continued to oe on the Thysanoptera.

ee the visitors of the division of marine invertebrates during-
the year are the following: Dr. J. A. Cushman, specialist on Forami-
nifera; M. W. de Laubenfels, who spent some time consulting litera- .
ture and examining Pacific sponges; Dr. Charles J. Fish, director of
the Buffalo Museum of Natural History and specialist on marine
plankton; Gordon E. Gates, of Rangoon, Burma, specialist on earth-
worms; Dr. C. Dwight Marsh, specialist on fresh-water Copepods;
Drs. Stillman Wright and Arthur Willey, who have recently de-
scribed a number of fresh-water copepods and presented the types to
the National Museum; Dr. Deogracias V. Villadolid, professor of
zoology, College of Agriculture, University of the Philippines, who
is particularly interested in the Philippine marine life; Dr. Arata

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Terao, professor of zoology in the Imperial Fisheries Institute,
Tokyo, an ardent student of crustaceans; and Dr. C. B. Wilson, spe-
cialist in parasitic and free-swimming marine Copepods. Dr. H. C.
Kellers, United States Navy, paid a visit to the division before sailing
for Nicaragua, where he expects to secure further collections for the
Museum. Capt. Robert A. Bartlett, who recently returned from the
Putnam Greenland expedition and donated a number of specimens to
the national collections, also visited the division before joining the
second Putnam expedition in Baffin Land. Laboratory facilities
were afforded Dr. Theodore Mortensen and Miss Elizabeth Deich-
mann, for study of collections in the division of Echinoderms.

The collection of recent mollusks have been freely consulted by
Drs. Wendell C. Mansfield, W. P. Woodring, C. W. Cooke, and Julia
Gardner, members of the staff of the Geological Survey, who have had
constant use of specimens for comparative purposes. Miss Harriett
Bundick is continuing on the Philippine Epitoniidae; Mrs. Mary
Quick Bowman has finished dissecting 100 hybrid Cerions for Doctor
Bartsch; Miss Elizabeth Parker is working on a correlation of the
shell with the radula of the family Neritidae; Miss Lucy Reardon has
completed her anatomic studies of certain fresh-water mussels; while
Messrs. Irving Erschler, John Borelli, Samuel Koronefsky, and Miss
Blanche Cullen have been working on radula of West Indian and
Philippine mollusks.

The following individuals have spent varying lengths of time, rang-
ing from a few hours to weeks in the division of mollusks, examining
and studying material; Dr. Rollin H. Stevens, Detroit, Mich.; Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis B. Stillwell, Princeton, N. J.; Mrs. Howard Roberts
Bliss, Long Island, N. Y.; Frederick Morris Reed, Riverside, Calif. ;
Charles H. Brodin, Detroit, Mich.; Dr. Thomas L. Southworth, New
York City; Curtis A. Perry, Bridgeport, Conn.; Mrs. Albert Willis
and her sister, Louisville, Ky.; James Gutsell, Beaufort, N. C.;
William G. Mazyck, Charleston, 5. C.; Mrs. L. M. Perry, Asheville,
N. C.; Wellington Martin and Dr. Sylvia B. Martin, Lake Hopat-
cong, N. J.; and Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Everhart, Norfolk, Va.

Dr. Th. Mortensen, of the Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Dan-
mark, spent a month in the division of Echinoderms, studying sea
urchins of the family Cidaridae in connection with the preparation
of a monograph on the Kchinoidea on which he is now engaged; Dr.
Elizabeth Deichmann, of Copenhagen, spent a week at the Museum
in work. on the holothurians.

Among the many out-of-town botanists who have visited the
National Herbarium in connection with special studies are the follow-
ing, with mention of their projects: Prof. B. C. Tharp, University
of Texas (vegetation of Texas); Prof. H. M. Hall, Univernity of
California (Compositae of the western United States); Dr. F. W.

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Pennell, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Scrophu-
lariaceae of South America) ; Carl Epling, University of. California,
southern branch (plants of the Northwestern States); Dr. Frank
D. Kern, Pennsylvania State College (rusts of West Indian plants) ;
E. B. Bartram, Bushkill, Pa. (mosses of the southwestern United
States) ; Prof. Le Roy Abrams, Stanford University (several families
of plants in connection with the preparation of manuscript for
volume 2 of the Illustrated Flora of the Pacific Coast); Dr. M. O.
Malte, National Herbarium of Canada, Ottawa (grasses of Canada) ;
Albert W. Steward, University of Nanking (flora of China, especi-
ally grasses); Dr. Ryozo Kanehira, Government Research Institute,
Formosa (flora of the South American Andes); Dr. John Briquet,
director of the Delessert Herbarium and of the Botanical Garden,
Geneva, Switzerland (grasses and herbarium management) ; Lyman
B. Smith, Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (tropical Ameri-
can Bromeliacea); C. W. Powell, Balboa, Canal Zone (orchids) ;
Prof. Harold St. John, Washington State College (certain groups
of North American aquatic plants); T. A. Sprague, Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew (tropical American species of Dilleniaceae) ; Dr. J. K.
Small, New York Botanical Garden (flora of the southeastern United
States) ; and W. E. Manning, Cornell University (Juglandaceae).
Much material, in many instances large collections, has been sent
out to investigators not residing in Washington to assist in their
researches. The importance of this service may be seen from the
following list, which embraces the more important loans sent out.
From the division of mammals to the Western Reserve University,
school of medicine, anatomical laboratory, 2 complete gorilla skele-
tons for use by Dr. W. L. Straus, jr., in a study of the differences
between the skeletons of the mountain and plain gorillas; Colorado
Museum of Natural History, Denver, 4 skulls of Virginia deer; Uni-
versity of Pittsburgh, 1 beaver skull and a young beaver in alcohol;
American Museum of Natural History, New York, alcoholic bats for
examination of the stomach contents by Dr. G. G. Goodwin, and the
pelvic bones of a whale for study by Dr. F. A. Lucas; Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif., 542 specimens of weasels for
E. Raymond Hall; Museum of Comparative Zoology, for G. M.
Allen, 4 bats for study in connection with a monograph of the Ameri-
can species of Myotis, and 1 Chinese rabbit; British Museum of
Natural History, London, a skin and skull of Marmosa impavida for
study by Oldfield Thomas. Institutions and individuals borrowed
a total of 393 specimens of birds during the year, as follows: The
American Museum of Natural History, for Dr. Frank M. Chapman
and W. W. Bowen; British Museum of Natural History, for W. L.
Sclater; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, for W. E. Clyde Todd; Field

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Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 56 specimens of birds to assist
Dr. C. E. Hellmayr in studies of Asiatic and South American birds,
and 15 skins of parrots and warblers from the Isle of Pines and Swan
Island for Pierce Brodkorb; Museum of Comparative Zoology, 31
skins for Outram Bangs and James L. Peters; Museum of Vertebrate
Zoology, Berkeley, skulls and sterna of fox sparrows for Jean Lins-
_ dale, and 12 skins for Dr. Joseph Grinnell; Raffles Museum, Singa-
pore, 9 flycatchers of the genus Cyornis, for the use of C. Boden
Klose; University of Kansas Museum of Birds and Mammals, 27
skeletons of woodpeckers for the use of W. H. Burt; Zoological
Museum, Tring, England, 2 blood pheasants Jthaginis rocki from
China, to enable Lord Rothschild to make comparisons with a related
species; Donald R. Dickey, Pasadena, Calif; Dr. E. L. Furlong, Uni-
versity of California; Ira N. Gabrielson, Portland, Oreg.; Arthur T.
Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S.C. Specimens of reptiles and amphibians
were borrowed by Miss Olive Griffith Stull, Northampton, Mass.;
Dr. Thomas Barbour and J. W. Bailey, Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.; Dr. T. D. A. Cockerell, University of
Colorado; C. E. Burt, Manhatten, Kans.; Dr. E. R. Dunn, Northamp-
ton, Mass.; Dr. F. N. Blanchard, Ann Arbor, Mich.; L. M. Klauber,
San Diego, Calif.; and Dr. A.do Amaral, Glenolden, Pa. A specimen
of Raia granulata was loaned to W. C. Schroeder, United States
Bureau of Fisheries.

Entomological material was loaned to a large number of institu-
tions and investigators to aid in their studies. There has been very
little call for the loan of marine invertebrates this year, only two
having been made to the New York Zoological Society. Dr. H. A.
Pilsbry, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and Dr.
Frank C. Baker, University of Lllinois, borrowed some mollusks.
Holothurians of the family Psolidae were sent to the Museum of
Comparative Zodlogy for study by Miss Deichmann. Some speci-
mens of the starfish Ctenodiscus procurator were sent to Copenhagen
for study by Mr, Ingvald Lieberkind in connection with his work on
this genus. Five specimens of the sand dollar (£chinarachnius
parma) from Alaska and a number of sea urchins were sent to Dr.
Th. Mortensen for detailed study in connection with material in the
Zoological Museum at Copenhagen. Two four-rayed sea urchins
were sent to Prof. Robert T. Jackson for study in connection with
his work on abnormal echinoids.

The researches of many outside investigators have been facilitated
by the loan of mounted specimens from the National Herbarium.
Thus, 45 lots of material, aggregating 1,251 specimens, have been lent
during the year to 13 investigators in the Department of Agriculture,
chiefly in the Bureau of Plant Industry. The material lent for

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study to institutions or to individuals outside of Washington con-
sists of 93 lots aggregating 6,693 specimens. The more important
sendings are as follows: University of California, 1,166 specimens;
Edwin B. Bartram, Bushkill, Pa., 805 specimens; Gray Herbarium,
Harvard University, 788 specimens; University of Illinois, 741 speci-
mens; G. K. Merrill, Rockland, Me., 620 specimens; Botanical Gar-

den and Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany, 613 specimens of -

Meibomia; University of Wyoming, 467 specimens of Oveocarya;
New York Botanical Garden, 355 specimens; Missouri Botanical
Garden, 174 specimens; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 130
specimens; University of Montreal, Canada, 126 specimens of
Botrychium.

ASSISTANCE BY MEMBERS OF STAFF TO OTHER GOVERNMENT BUREAUS AND
PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS

Under this heading there was given in last year’s report a sum-
mary of the multifarious questions and problems submitted to the
staff for answer and solution, which constitute a considerable part
of the service rendered to the public in general as well as to several
important Government branches, and which occupied no small por-
tion of the time of the force. Many of these inquiries are of consid-
erable importance and demand the closest attention. Others while
apparently trivial, yet may cause time-consuming search for reply
both circumstantial and courteous. The following is a brief sum-
mary of some of the more important.

In the division of mammals in addition to assistance rendered to
outsiders doing research work there and the usual miscellaneous in-
quiries detailed reports were made on a total of 30 lots, including
about 140 specimens in all. In the division of birds, information
and other cooperation was given to the members of the Biological
Survey who had occasion to prosecute work in the division; some
identifications were furnished the National Zoological Park and the
Bureau of Standards; specimens were identified for the Zoological
Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Kent Scientific
Museum, Grand Rapids, Mich.; California Academy of Sciences,
San Francisco; Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, Calif.;
Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pa. Bone material, fossil or recent,
was determined for the Natural History Museum, San Diego, Calif.;
American Museum of Natural History, New York; Colorado
Museum of Natural History, Denver. Other assistance was given
to individuals as to A. C. Bent on the manuscript of one volume and
proof of another of his “ Life histories of North American birds”;
G. M. Mathews on proof of part 1 of the Systema Avium dealing
with the birds of the East Indies, Australia, and the Pacific Islands;

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R. C. McGregor on the nomenclature of a manuscript relating to
a group of Philippine birds; 16 or more lots of birds and bones from
as many institutions and individuals were received and reported on
during the year. In the division of reptiles, Miss Cochran has
identified a number of lizards and frogs taken by the Federal Horti-
cultural Board at points of entry for foreign plants. A considerable
number of letters from individuals relating to herpetological matters
have been answered and written reports made on many separate lots
of material received for identification. Assistance by members of the
staff of the division of fishes has been rendered to various members
of the staff of the Bureau of Fisheries in the identification of mate-
rial; and a number of lots of fishes received from the International
Health Board, New York City, were named and a duplicate series
returned. These were, for the most part, fishes which feed on the
larvae of insects injurious to health. Eighteen lots of fishes were
received for determination, mostly of minor importance.

The principal work of the division of insects as at present organ-
ized is the identification of material for the Bureau of Entomology.
As indicative of this work during the year there have been received
for report by the section of Hymenoptera 508 lots, and in Diptera
1,304 lots. A great deal of the material above referred to comes from
other bureaus, as the Federal Horticultural Board, as well as experi-
ment stations scattered throughout the country. The work is of
necessity largely handled through the staff of the Bureau of Ento-
mology. The division has identified much material for institutions
and individual entomologists.

There have been numerous calls from other Government bureaus
for information and determinations of animals falling within the
scope of the division of marine invertebrates. By far the greatest
demand upon the division has been by the Federal Horticultural
Board for the identification of invertebrates found on plant impor-
tations. Twenty-two lots, comprising 112 specimens, were named for
the board. Similar services have been rendered the Bureau of Fish-
eries, the United States Department of Commerce, the Bureau of
Biological Survey, the Bureau of Entomology, the United States
Department of Agriculture, and the United States Geological Sur-
vey. For other museums, scientific and related institutions, numerous
identifications were made directly or were arranged through the
many specialists with whom the division is in constant touch. As-
sistance was also rendered in the shape of reports prepared on col-
lections submitted for determination. During the past year assist-
ance was likewise rendered to the American Museum of Natural His-
tory, New York City; the Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia;
and the Museo Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Considerable assistance

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was given to university students and professors with regard to re-
search and thesis work, either in the form of pertinent references or
information, or, as more often is the case, by furnishing authorita-
tive identifications of the material upon which their studies are
based. A detailed account of these activities would fill several pages.
For private individuals and firms 24 lots, including 322 specimens,
have been determined. The number of lots of material received for
identification during the year totals 117, necessitating more than 1,500
identifications.

The division of Mollusks has determined for the Federal Horti-
cultural Board 29 lots of various organisms which have adventi-
tiously been imported with plant stock to indicate whether these
were dangerous to agricultural pursuits. In all, 1,429 lots of mate-
rial have been received for identification. The assistance rendered
by the curator of Echinoderms to outside organizations and individ-
uals, beyond the usual correspondence, consisted in identifying 52
lots of material received for that purpose during the year.

A large number of inquiries has come concerning herbarium
management and such matters as plant distribution, the selection of
helpful botanical literature and the economic uses of plants, but
the great majority handled relate to the identification of botanical
material, some shipments containing hundreds or even thousands of
specimens. In accordance with the traditional policy and spirit of
the Institution, every effort is made to accede promptly to all requests
for assistance. In particular the work of identification has grown
steadily in recent years. During the year just closed a total of 300
lots of plants consisting of 14,107 specimens were examined, the
identifications in all cases being furnished to the senders. The
material thus reported upon was chiefly American, and came not
only from private individuals, but from various governmental and
educational agencies in the West Indies, Mexico, Central America,
South America, and Europe, as also from several State experiment
stations and bureaus in the Department of Agriculture. Special
mention should be made of one large lot of Mexican and Central
American flowering plants collected long ago by Liebman and
Oersted, which was forwarded by the Botanical Museum of Copen-
hagen for identification, and of several lots, chiefly Central American
trees, received similarly from the Yale School of Forestry. These
collections contained many species new not only to the National
Herbarium but to science. Further help has been extended by Mr.
Standley in furnishing abstracts of botanical papers for publication
in Botanical Abstracts, and by Dr. J. N. Rose in testifying as an
expert for the Government in an important lawsuit.

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VISITS TO OTHER INSTITUTIONS OR PLACES ON OFFICIAL WORK

Large collections of mollusks and other marine invertebrates from
the eastern Atlantic north of Cape Hatteras, originally gathered by
the United States Commission of Fisheries and since transferred to
the Museum, had been intrusted to the custody of Prof. A. E. Verrill
of the Peabody Museum, Yale University, for report. In 1907, that
portion which had been identified up to that time was shipped to the
Museum, the rest remaining at the Peabody Museum in Professor
Verrill’s care. After his death on December 10, 1926, the Museum
was informed by the authorities of Yale University that the col-
lections, which in the meanwhile had been moved several times into
different buildings, were at its disposal. Dr. J. E. Benedict, assistant
curator, who packed and invoiced the collections in 1907, was, there-
fore, sent to New Haven where he spent five days in searching out
the material belonging to the National Museum and packing what
could be found. Since his return to Washington he has checked
systematically the material received with the records, a slow and
difficult task which is still unfinished. Lack of funds for the purpose
have prevented travel by Museum employees for the purpose of
attending scientific meetings or visiting other museums or libraries
for the purpose of studying specimens, literature or methods, except
at personal or other outside expense. It goes without saying that
under such circumstances presonal contact between the staff and
specialists of other institutions has been more restricted than is
desirable.

The curator of mammals, Gerrit S. Miller, spent two days at the
American Museum of Natural History and one at the Museum of
Comparative Zoology. Dr. A. Wetmore and Dr. C. W. Richmond
visited the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa during October
and examined fossil and modern bird material there on the occasion
of the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union.
Doctor Wetmore also spent some time in the ornithological library
at McGill University in Montreal. B. A. Bean, assistant curator
of fishes, visited the Academy of Sciences in Philadelphia upon
several occasions to confer with Dr. H. W. Fowler upon the report
on the fishes of the Philippine Islands. During one of these visits
he assisted Doctor Fowler in selecting specimens from Hawaii and
neighboring islands mentioned under the year’s accessions. Dr.
Paul Bartsch was detailed to serve as expert witness in a case against
the United States Shipping Board for losses sustained in the ship-
ment of a cargo of mahogany timber from Africa to Boston. W. lL.
Brown and C. R. Aschemeier, of the taxidermist force, visited New
York during the autumn for the purpose of studying technique
for making rockwork accessories in connection with the group of

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Rocky Mountain sheep, noted elsewhere in this report. From July
8 to 10, 1926, Austin H. Clark, curator of echinoderms, attended a
ene in ees of the advisory committee on source bed studies
of the American Petroleum Institute, acting in cooperation with the
National Research Council. From December 26, 1926, to January
1, 1927, he was in Philadelphia attending the meetings of the Amer-
ican Association for the Advancement of Science as an official dele-
gate from the Smithsonian Institution and also as news manager for
the association. Mrs. Agnes Chase, associate botanist in the grass
herbarium, spent about two months in Europe studying the type
specimens of certain American grasses in the herbaria at Berlin,
Paris, Geneva, and Vienna. Dr. J. N. Rose, associate curator of
plants, spent several weeks in studying leguminous plants at the
Gray Herbarium and the New York Botanical Garden, in connection
with joint monographic work with Dr. N. L. Britton, previously
mentioned. A number of the honorary custodians, members of the
staff of the Bureau of Entomology, visited various institutions on
work directly beneficial to the Museum as follows: Dr. E. A. Chapin
visited the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phila-
delphia and the American Museum of Natural History, New York,
comparing specimens with the types housed in these institutions.
H. 8. Barber went to Mount Vernon, N. Y., at the expense of the
Bureau of Entomology, and brought back to Washington the exten-
sive collection of water beetles given to the Museum by John D.
Sherman, jr. In the month of June Doctor Chapin went to Spring-
field, Mass., to arrange for the packing and shipping of the insect
collection of Dr. George Dimmock. Doctor Dimmock had expressed
a desire to deposit in the National Museum his extensive collection
of adult and immature stages with his notes on their rearing. ‘This
collection will come to the Museum early in the next fiscal year.
A. N. Caudell, Dr. H. KE. Ewing, S. A. Rohwer, and Dr. J. M.
Aldrich attended the meetings of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science which were held in Philadelphia. During
the year S. A. Rohwer examined types in the Academy of Natural
History, and Mr. Cushman spent a week in Philadelphia compar-
ing specimens of ichneumon flies with the Cresson and Davis types
in the Academy of Natural Sciences.

DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS

Duplicates distributed to high schools, colleges, and other similar
institutions aggregated 1,137 specimens, of which 596 consisted of
mollusks in four prepared sets, and 219 of fishes, also in four sets.

Exchanges to the number of 23,363 were sent out, of which 1,232
were zoological specimens. Of the 22,131 plants thus ARSE!

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exchanges comprising lots of 1,000 specimens and over were sent to
the Arnold Arboretum, Gray Herbarium, New York Botanical Gar-
den, and the Natural History Museum at Vienna, Austria; the others
were distributed to 126 correspondents and institutions.

NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGY

The number of specimens, including duplicates, as far as it has
been ascertained by count and subsequent estimate, or by estimate
alone, now exceeds 7,700,000. ‘The total number is probably much
greater, since several collections, such as the corals, have not been
included in the estimates, nor does the number of plants given below
include unmounted material or the lower cryptogams.

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REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF GHOLOGY
By Grorcr P. Merritt, Head Curator

The year has been one of unprecedented activity and prosperity
in this department. This is due mainly to the acquisition of two
large mineral collections with accompanying endowments, noted
later, a collection made by Dr. W. F. Foshag in Mexico, and im-
portant additions to the paleontological collections obtained mainly
through efforts of members of the staff.

Exploratory work was largely cooperative, or undertaken at per-
sonal expense, but was highly beneficial not only to the collections,
but in establishing relations with active workers elsewhere, and in
presenting an opportunity to study field prospects, collections, and

museums.
ACCESSIONS

Although the number of accessions is less, the total of specimens
and their value are overwhelmingly greater than last year when
291 accessions with a total of 45,895 specimens were recorded. The
accessions of the present year are tabulated below:

Accessions Specimens
Geology, systematic and applied__.______.___.___-_- 51 670
Mineralogy. anc: petrology {fet Se tvew Sesh ts oo 48 26, 000
Stratigraphic paleontology________________--______ 75 150, 000
Vertebrate paleontology______________._-_______- 34 lil
Motalys ante NE ee Teele Leds aE re oegn Ts 208 176, 781

Of primary importance are the Washington A. Roebling and
Frederick A. Canfield mineral collections. The first mentioned, the
gift of Mr. John A. Roebling, placed in the Museum one of the best
known and most complete private collections of minerals in exist-
ence. Comprised of approximately 16,000 specimens it embraces
almost the entire number of known mineral species, and contains
much valuable material for exhibition. It is in its completeness,
however, that its scientific value lies, and it is a distinct gratifica-
tion that Mr. Roebling recognized the benefit to science in placing
these rare specimens in the National Museum, where after their final
installation they will be accessible to all accredited students. Mr.

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Roebling further provided for keeping the collection up to its pres-
ent standard by an endowment of $150,000, through which several
unusual specimens already have been added to both exhibition and
study series. From a fund previously deposited by Colonel Roeb-
ling several exceptional specimens were secured, notably one of
purpurite and some rare Franklin Furnace minerals.

On July 27, 1926, notification was received of the bequest to the
Institution by Frederick A. Canfield, of Dover, N. J., of his min-
eral collection of upward of 9,000 specimens, with an endowment
of $50,000. Although this collection had long been known to our
curators, the bequest came as a pleasing surprise, no intimation hay-
ing been received that Mr. Canfield had considered the Smithsonian
as a depository. The collection is notable for its fine examples of
Franklin Furnace, N. J., minerals, although containing also series
of Bolivian silver compounds, complete suites of various rare min-
erals from localities now unavailable, and which are now therefore
almost priceless, and many rare and beautiful showy specimens for
exhibition purposes. The collection had been completely catalogued
by Mr. Canfield, and the beauty and value of many of the specimens
have been emphasized by the long hours spent by him in removing
the matrix from the crystal groups.

In cooperation with Harvard University, Dr. W. F. Foshag, dur-
ing a summer’s field work, was enabled to secure an exceptionally
fine lot of minerals and ores from the mining regions of northern
Mexico. Groups and clusters of mammoth gypsum crystals from
caves in Naica are the outstanding exhibition minerals of this collec-
tion. These are supplemented by wulfenites, pyromorphites, des-
cloizites, pyrrhotites, spurrites—some of exceptional quality—and
series of ores representative of the mines visited. _

The existing series of radium ores and radioactive minerals was
materially increased by the transfer of materials purchased for the
Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Varieties of the ores
from the Belgian Congo are worthy of especial note. The national
collections are now exceptionally rich in these interesting minerals.

Incidental to the head curator’s visit to Europe during the sum-
mer of 1926, an unusual opportunity was offered to secure many
objects of interest for the gem collection, through the Chamberlain
fund. These included carved objects and cut gems of which par-
ticular mention should be made of two beryls, one pink (morganite)
and one green-yellow (“heliodor”); a kunzite from Madagascar;
a peridot; beads of the different varieties of quartz; and a series
of synthetic rubies and sapphires. The carved objects are of lapis-
lazuli, serpentine, agate, and others. Of other acquisitions through
the Chamberlain fund, the most important are two Brazilian dia-
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yellow sapphire weighing 25 carats; three cut gems, beryl, phenacite,
and tourmaline; a natural crystal and a cut stone of yellow spodu-
mene; a small pink diamond; and two strings of beads of Baltic
amber with three polished pieces of the fluorescent Sicilian amber,
are all worthy of note.

Individual gifts to the gem collection comprise a series of Brazilian
gem minerals in rough and cut form, presented by Capt. Hugh
Barclay, military attaché at Rio Janeiro, and 24 cut tourmalines from
Maine, selected to show variety of color, donated by Dr. W. B.
Moulton, of Portland.

The chief source of material to the division of systematic and ap-
plied geology was as usual the United States Geological Survey, nine
sets of rocks and ores illustrative of published reports being among
the transfers. Of exhibition value are white crystalline masses of
cerussite, one weighing upward of 40 pounds, donated by the West
Toledo Mining Co., of Alta, Utah, through Victor C. Heikes, to whom
we are constanly indebted for his watchfulness in securing valuable
material which is brought to his notice. A 410-pound mass of sphal-
erite coated with chalcopyrite crystals, and a mass of crystallized
galena, both from the Crutchfield mine, north of Joplin, Mo., were
presented by F. Sansom, of Joplin.

Through arrangements made by the head curator while in Europe.
the Geological Survey of the Union of South Africa presented a
series of ores with associated rocks and minerals from the new South
African platinum deposits; and the Geological Survey of Great
Britain, a series illustrating the geology of the island of Mull and
a mass of English chalk with its included flints.

Additions to the meteorite collection have been large in point of
numbers owing to the acquisition of those of the Canfield and Roeb-
ling collections, and though to a considerable extent duplicating
what we already have, are in several cases worthy of note. Of
primary importance are two complete individual irons weighing,
respectively, 111,360 and 305,450 grams, from Oakley, Idaho, and
the Wallapai Indian Reservation of Arizona, both credited to the
Roebling fund. It was through the kindly intervention of Supt.
William A. Light, of the agency, and Indian Commissioner Charles
A. Burke that the latter was secured. A 21,250-gram iron from
Bolivia in the Canfield collection should be noted and in the Roebling
collection were the following: A 250-gram slice of the Ensisheim,
Upper Alsace, stone of 1492; two excellent slices of the Staunton,
Va.; iron, weighing 912, and’2,200 grams, each containing large sec-
tions of nodular troilite and carbon; two slices of the Wichita,
Tex., iron, weighing 612 and 13,700 grams; a fairly complete indi-
vidual stone, weighing 900 grams of the Homestead fall; and others

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from various sources, weighing from 5 to 1,000 grams. Through
exchanges there were obtained an 86-gram slice of the stone of
Supuhee, India; a beautifully complete example of the Hessle,
Sweden, fall, weighing 282 grams; and a 1,405-gram portion, repre-
senting approximately one-half of a stone seen to fall during the
past year near Florence, Williamson County, Tex. The total num-
ber of individual additions has been 35, of which 9 are new to the
collection.

A collection of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils containing approxi-
mately 100,000 specimens, presented by Ferdinand Canu, of Versailles,
France, constitutes the most important accession of the year in the
‘division of stratigraphic paleontology. This material is of value in
that it contains, in addition to a large series of accurately labeled
French fossils, quantities of washings with microfossils from many
classic localities of western Europe, and a great number of European
post-Paleozoic corals which hitherto have been represented in the Na-
tional Museum by a very few species. The division has been fortu-
nate also in securing, through personal efforts of members of the
staff, other important collections from widely separated foreign
countries.

Collections made in the field by members of the staff of the division
were as follows: Dr. R. 8. Bassler collected over 5,000 specimens in
Germany and France; C. E. Resser and Erwin Pohl secured 800
from Devonian and Carboniferous, 500. from the Canadian, and 5,000
from the Cambrian rocks of Utah and Montana; and Mr. Pohl, in
the course of field work in western New York and Ontario, obtained
approximately 15,000 Middle and Upper Devonian invertebrates and
plants.

In the course of her studies of the Hiabee irate ne Mary
Rathbun examined all important plleesars from the Pacific slope of
North America, and from these obtained for the Museum numerous
types and other studied material. Twelve accessions record dona-
tions by Stanford University, the California Academy of Sciences,

Peabody Museum of Yale University, University of Washington, —

University of Oregon, and others. Additional material which has
added appreciably to the value of the collections consists of Carbon-
iferous Ostracoda and Foraminifera, from Oklahoma, presented by
Bruce H. Harlton, of Tulsa; and Devonian forms from Iowa described
and presented by C. H. Belanski, Nora Springs, Iowa.

Gifts by E. H. Vaupel and an exchange with C. O. Schlemmer,
both of Cincinnati, added about 1,500 excellently preserved Silurian
fossils from a newly discovered locality in southwestern Ohio. Men-
tion may also be made of Carboniferous fossils from Missouri, pre-
sented by Frank T. Ransom, Greenwood, Mo.; a large slab illustrat-

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ing the Ordovician-Devonian unconformity in Alabama, by Dr.
Walter B. Jones, University of Alabama; Middle Cambrian and
Lower Ordovician fossils from Utah, by Frank Beckwith, Delta,
Utah; and small but important collections from the Cambrian of
New York and Missouri, presented respectively by Dr. A. F’. Foerste,
Dayton, Ohio, and Prof. Josiah Bridge, Rolla, Mo.
Transfers from the United States Geological Survey comprise
Cambrian fossils from Utah and the Grand Canyon, Ariz., and 72
described specimens of echinoderms and mollusks from North and
South Carolina.

Of the eleven exchanges received by this division, the most note-
worthy was that from Williams College, comprising 1,060 inverte-
brates from the Devonian of Wisconsin, and including many types
and original drawings. From Ward’s Natural Science Hstablish-
ment were obtained 5,000 fossils from various European Paleozoic
and Mesozoic formations, many microfossils from the Eocene of
southern Germany, 250 invertebrates from the Warsaw and Knob-
stone groups of Indiana, and a Jurassic ammonite from Wyoming.
From the New York State Museum was acquired a large collection of
European Foraminifera and Ostracoda, valuable for consultation and
study. Purchases were limited to a single specimen, a fossil squid of
great rarity from Kansas.

The accessions in paleobotany include 137 Mesozoic and Cenozoic
plants from Sweden, forwarded as the first of a proposed series of
exchanges whereby the National Museum will receive post-Paleozoic
plants from Europe and Asia now under study at the Riksmuseum at
Stockholm. A large exhibition slab of the primitive fossil plant
Cryptozoon, obtained and presented by K. O. Ulrich and H. D. Miser,
should also be mentioned.

Of first importance among the accessions of fossil vertebrates is the
material exhibited at the Sesquicentennial Exposition, consisting
of fish, turtle, and lizard skeletal remains from the Niobrara Upper
Cretaceous chalk of western Kansas. Especially noteworthy are the
nearly complete skeleton of a large fish (Portheus molossus) 12 feet in
length and of unique interest in having the partially digested skeleton
of a smaller fish within the abdominal cavity; three large marine
turtles (Protostega gigas) with a painted restoration; and two skele-
tons of the marine lizard Platecarpus coryphaeus, which sufficiently
supplement one another as to make feasible their combination into
a single mount. Additional material from the same locality, acquired
by purchase, gives to the Museum a very adequate representation of
this interesting marine fauna. |

By far the most important mammalian material acquired is a
partial skeleton of a large mammoth, the bones of which were uncov-
ered during the course of excavations by the Venice Co. of Florida,

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who assumed practically all the expense of recovery. The preserved
parts include nearly complete lower jaws, both upper molars, parts of
both tusks, and sufficient number of foot and toe bones to restore
a fore and ind foot, and other fragmentary pieces. |

Interesting phytosaurian remains from the Triassic were received
through the generosity of N. H. Brown, of Lander, Wyo., and W. W.
McPherson, Tubeack, Tex.; Dr. C. N. Fenner, of the Carnegie Insti-
tution of Washington, ee a reptile found in New. Jersey,
which proves to be a form new to science; and G. F. Sternberg,
donated remains of Hesperornis sae I ohthyornis, both _among the
rarest of fossil birds.

Other materials deemed worthy of mention are Pleistocene phot
from Alaska secured by Dr. A. Hrdlicka; a lower jaw of a new species,
of marten from the Miocene of Montana, gift of C. A. Kinsey; casts
of the lower jaws of the mastodon Trilophodon angustidens, the
original of which is in the museum at Lyon, France, and of the type
of Thescelosaurus warrent, a Canadian dinosaur, furnished by the
American Museum of Natural History; and fine skulls of fossil horses
from Alaska, received from Martin Matusuka and the United States
Geological Shy ee

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

Changes in the exhibition halls were mainly incidental to the
proper display of newly acquired materials or the introduction of
exhibits prepared for the Sesquicentennial Exposition, and the
Smithsonian conference of February, 1927. In the mineral hall, a
specially built case provided with electric lighting contains the finer
examples of polished opals and the cut gems of the Roebling collec-
tion, one flat-top case contains a number of the finer mineral speci-
mens, and on either side of this, one side of each of the upright cases
has been utilized to display miscellaneous minerals selected for their
coloring and unique form, thus forming an alcove devoted entirely
to the Roebling collection. Under the window on a pedestal is an
unusual group of California tourmalines. The famous 12%4-inch
crystal ball loaned by the Fukushima Co. of Liee York Hicns here
a centerpiece of unrivaled beauty.

It was hoped that a similar exhibit of the Canfield collection could
be installed, but in the absence of the curator and with the small
force nance: this has been found as yet impossible. Such exhibi-
tion will be arranged at as early a date as is practicable.

In a small Kensington case which was available has been placed a
temporary exhibit of some of the gypsum crystals secured in Mexico
by Doctor Foshag.

The exhibit at the Sesquicentennial’ Exposition at Philadelphia,
showing the characteristic coal measures plants of Pennsylvania

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which contributed to the making of the coal beds, proved of general
interest and upon its return was incorporated into the regular
paleobotanical series. Similarly the fossil seaweeds from the pre-
Cambrian rocks of the Western States, illustrating the earliest
known forms of life, and the unique fossil animals of Middle Cam-
brian time discovered by Secretary Walcott at Burgess Pass, British
Columbia, were also added to the permanent series, as were three of
the exhibits prepared for tthe Smithsonian conference on Hebrgsty
11;,1927.

With the installation in the Museum of the cc tishiiie focails exhib-
ited in Philadelphia, all of the more important representatives of the
Niobrara fauna of the Upper Cretaceous period are now contained
in our series. A 12-foot skeleton of a fish (Portheus molossus Cope) ©
and a giant marine turtle (Protostega gigas Cope) are shown as bas
reliefs, the latter accompanied by a painted restoration by R. Bruce
Horsfall which gives an idea of the appearance in life of the animal.
A second specimen of the same species is temporarily installed, the.
bones being effectively displayed in an articulated. position in sand.
This will eventually be made into an open mount. An articulated
skeleton of the extinct swimming reptile, Platecarpus chadeaclcoies
Cope, is also shown.

Of the mammoth from Venice, Fla., sufficient restorations have
been made to warrant their being placed i in a wall case in the main
exhibition hall.

Exhibits illustrating the teriatn’ of all divisions of the depart-
ment were prepared for inspection by those attending the Smith-
sonian conference on February 11. The division of oe pre-
sented an illustration of the phenomena of fall and different. vari-
eties of meteorites; a series illustrating the weathering of rocks and
formation of soil; and a series illustrating the chemical processes
involved in the formation and oxidation of metallic ore: deposits.
The assistant curator of mineralogy chose a study in mineral genesis,
selecting the California pegmatites to illustrate his problem. The
curator of stratigraphic paleontology prepared: four exhibits—(1)
the oil shale problem, (2) the evolution of plant life, (3) the study
of microorganisms from core and churn drillings, and. (4) the prog-
ress in studies of Cambrian geology. Vertebrate paleontology was
represented by two exhibits, one illustrating several phases of
paleontological work, especially the collecting, preparing, and restor-
ing of large dinosaurian fossils; the other showed some of the results
of paleontological field work in Florida, net rose lal in its relation
to the occurrence of fossil human remains.

The main activities of the entire force during the year were
centered in the laboratories and workrooms. The packing. and
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drafts upon our resources, particularly as much shifting was nec-
essary in order to make space for the great amount of expansion
involved. In the course of this, some 7,000 lots of metallic ores
turned over by the United States Geological Survey in 1925 were
gone over and about 1,000 specimens selected for permanent: pres-
ervation. These were set aside to await cataloguing. Likewise the
collections made in Bolivia by F. L. Hess in 1920 were sorted and
a representative set selected and trimmed.

The packing of the Canfield collection at Dover required the
services of Messrs. Shannon and Benn, with local assistants, for a
period of four weeks, and that of the Roebline collection at Tren-
ton, of Messrs. Foshag and Benn and Miss Moodey for six weeks.
‘The resultant 873 packing boxes holding the combined collections
were brought to Washington by motor trucks and all safely
housed by December 8, 1926.

In the work of npatlne here in Washington, the collections
made in Mexico by Doctor Foshag were given first attention in
order to bring to a conclusion the cooperative agreément with Prof.
Charles. Palache, of Harvard University. ‘This was completed
early in January of the present year. Work upon the Roebling
collection was begun almost immediately and practically finished
by March 28. Some weeks were then devoted to a selection of some
of the more showy materials for exhibition, their cataloguing, label-
ing, and installation. On May 16 work on the Canfield collection
was begun and completed about June 1. The materials of these three
collections are now stored in drawers awaiting systematizing, cat-
aloguing, and arrangement with the Museum collections, a work
which, with the present force and the constant interruption of the
ever-present routine, will require some years.

The study series of both fossil plants and animals have required
an unusual amount of time and effort this year. In the section of
paleobotany this: was concentrated on the Mesozoic and ‘Cenozoic
collections for many years under the custodianship of Dr. F. H.
Knowlton, whose death necessitated certain changes in their general
arrangement. The accumulations of unstudied material in the room —
formerly occupied by him have been removed and this will in future
be utilized for the housing of valuable types.

Additional new storage cases have filled all ches space in the loft
allotted to the paleontological division, and a new arrangement of
the stratigraphic series of fossil arliroalls is now in prdenesss Only
a beginning has been made on this move which will involve the
transfer of four or five thousand drawers, so that another year will
be required to complete the changes contemplated.

The Cambrian collections howe: occupied the entire time of Dedter
Resser, who has evolved a system of arrangement which ought to

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care for them for many years. The collections held by Secretary
Walcott in the Smithsonian Building were transferred so far as
accommodations permitted; his library also was removed and tem-
porarily arranged in the Cambrian section of the division, and his
field notes assembled and classified.

Following the appearance of his latest monograph on fossil cri-
noids, Dr. Frank Springer planned with the curator for the final
arrangement of his extensive collection. This, the largest; assem-
blage of fossil echinoderms known, is now concentrated in about
1,250 standard drawers in regular order of classification and with
sufficient room for expansion.

The Cenozoic collections, long under the custodianship of the late
Dr. W. H. Dall, have, since his death, been placed under the imme-
diate direction of Dr. Paul Bartsch. The assistance furnished by
W. C. Mansfield, Dr. W. P. Woodring, and others of the United
States Geological Survey in caring for these collections is acknow]-
edged. It is only by their efforts that the materials received within
the past year have been properly cared for.

Dr. T. W. Stanton and others of the United States Geological
Survey, have continued, as in the past, the care of the Mesozoic
invertebrates.

In the laboratory of vertebrate paleontology, the energies of the
force have been devoted, with slight interruptions, to the preparation
of the Diplodocus skeleton. This work, after three years, can now
be reported as practically finished. To our great disappointment,
the neck, which was thought to belong to the same genus, proves to
be that of an allied form and can not be used in the composite skele-
ton. The preparation of this cervical series has been continued,
however, and it is estimated that within six months all of the
collection from the Dinosaur National Monument will be entirely
prepared.

Doctor Gidley reports the complete preparation of collections
made in Florida and Oklahoma, and some progress on the arrange-
ment of the older mammalian collections. Work still remains to be
done on the latter, but it can not be carried much further until more
storage space is available.

Mr. Remington Kellogg, of the Biological Survey, has been of
great assistance in the systematic arrangement. of the cetacean col-
lection. Here, too, the arrangement could be improved if storage
facilities were more commodious. .

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

Research by members of the staff—Research by the head curator
was limited, in part by his absence in Europe and in part by the
extra work involved by the acquisition of the Canfield and Roebling

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collections mentioned elsewhere. Studies have been made on two iron
meteorites from the Canfield collection, one from Seneca Township,
Mich.,:and one'from Oakley, Idaho. A newly received 672-pound
iron’ fier the Wallapai Indian Baas is now: under eoet
investigation.

Mr. Shannon reports that tedeandhhi in the chemical laboratory was
continued throughout the year. A paper on the minerals of Italian
Mountain, ‘Colo., was submitted during the year, and others on the
determination of alkalies in minerals, and on apatite from Maryland
are’in process of publication. Several Bebe ge partially com-
pleted are now in hand.

Research by Doctor Foshag has been conaited to the material col-
lected in Mexico. His field notes and collections will form the basis
of three reports, one 2B phe is almost completed and another well
advanced. |

Until a few days before his death, Secretary Walcott was actively
engaged upon his monograph on the stratigraphy of the Cambrian
and associated rocks of the Rocky Mountains. The completion of
this work has been assigned to Dr. Charles E. Resser, and it is hoped
that doubtful poimts will be solved during the coming field season.
Progress has been made on most of the research problems noted in
previous reports upon which Doctor Resser is engaged.

Curator R. 8. Bassler: has been unable to devote much time to
research but in collaboration with Ferdinand Canu he has trans-
mitted. for publication a detailed account of the Bryozoa of the Gulf
of Mexico. region; based on numerous dredgings made in years aaa
by the Albatre ‘O88, ain on a Pliocene fauna from Panama.

Mr. Pohl has concentrated on a study of the Wisconsin Devonian
collection which is unique in that exposures of these rocks are ni
longer available and the National Museum has: the: most ee
set known.

Mr. Gilmore reports the completion of a short paper ‘descriptive
of some well-preserved specimens of Zerrapene from the Pleistocene.
of Florida, the preparation of a second paper on fossil footprints
from ‘the Grand: Canyon, and a partially prepared manuscript de- |
scriptive of a new reptile from the Triassic of New Jersey.

Doctor Gidley has continued research on the Pleistocene faunas
of the Cumberland Cave, Md., and those of Florida and’ Oklahoma,
with special attention: to the Tees and Edentata. A’ paper
descriptive of the Camelidae of the San Pedro Valley, Ariz., Pliocene
deposits is in preparation.

Research of outside inwestigators aided by Museum material, in-
cluding work in the Musewm or material loaned—RMaterials for
research have been supplied to many of the scientific bureaus located

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in Washington, to various universities, and to private individuals
both in this country and abroad. A total of 4,068 specimens have
been sent out within the year. The collections in all branches of
the department have as usual been accessible to accredited students,
but extended research has been confined to the paleontological
divisions.

Ira Edwards, curetan of geology in the Wdeaitniceet Public Minseriiny
was again detailed for four months to:study the Wisconsin Gomibrint
brachiopods of our. collections; Prof. B. | F. Howell, of Princeton
University, was occupied in research workin connection with a
monograph of the trilobite family Agnostidae; and Dr. A. F. Foerste,
who regularly spends his summer vacation in a study of our Early
Paleozoic collections, was occupied in this way during the summer
of 1926.

Dr. R. C. Moore, State geologist of Kansas, has had tae nen

occasion to consult the collections during his studies of the major
geosynclines of North America, a project of the American Petroleum
Institute in cooperation with the National Research Council.
. Dr. I. Hayasaki, of Tohoku Imperial University, has studied our
Paleozoic corals, and Dr. Yoshiaki Ozawa, of the Imperial Uni-
versity of Tokyo, studied Carboniferous bryozoans and foraminifera.
Dr. I. P. Tolmachoff, of the Carnegie Museum, studied the Paleozoic
collections to further his' researches on Arctic paleontology.

The stratigraphic portion of the: Austin collection of Harly
Silurian fossils was assembled and arranged by three graduate
students of George Washington University, G. R. Tash, John E.
Organ, and M. W. Shepherd, each of whom et one BE the three
formations of the group.

W. S. Dyer of the Geological ee of Canada, and M. M.
Knechtel, a graduate student of Johns Hopkins University, have
had access to “ih Mesozoic collections and library while engaged in
researches, and Dr. Frank M. Carpenter, of the Bussey Institute,
examined the unstudied Mesozoic and Cenozoic insects and selected
material for study and description. The Cenozoic and Mesozoic
collections have been constantly consulted and worked upor by mem-
bers of the United States Geological Survey staff who have desk
room and working space in the division.

Dr. R. Florin, assistant curator of paleobotany in the Royal State
Museum at Stockholm, spent some days studying our fossil plants
in connection with a monograph on the Permian floras of China.

Dr. O. P. Hay and Mr. Remington Kellogg have continued their
researches in the division of vertebrate paleontology, and Charles
Merriam has made a study of the collections from the John Day
formation of Oregon.

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Assistance to other Government bureaus and individuals —This
work has continued as heretofore and consists mainly in supplying
materials for investigation. No record is supplied of the number of
callers to whom information has been furnished, or of letters written
on official business. It can be said that at least one-fourth of the
time of the heads of divisions is taken up in furnishing information
either by letter, to callers, or in the examination of materials. Dur-
ing the. year, 450 lots were received through official channels for
report, and 470 letters, chiefly requests for information on various
subjects, were referred to the department from the division of
correspondence.

Visits to other institutions and places on official work aa(Phe lead
curator was in Europe for practically the entire summer of 1926,
his time being devoted at first to attendance on the Geological Gok
egress in Madrid, and later to geological explorations on the island
of Majorca, and a study of European museums. Periods of from
one to several days were spent in the museums of Madrid, Paris,
Vienna, Prague, Brussels, and London. Geological trips were also
made into the tin mining districts of Cornwall, England, and the
celebrated:serpentine areas of Kynance. Two side trips were made
to the gem-cutting town of Oberstein, Germany, where important
additions to the Isaac Lea collection of gems were made by purchase.

Assistant Curator W. F. Foshag visited the following mineral
collections: American Museum of Natural History, Philadelphia
Academy of Sciences, the private collection of George Vaux at Bryn
Mawr, Pa., and the Apeat collection in the Chamber of Mines at
Ghakahna City, Mexico.

In the course of his work in Kurope, Doctor- Bassler uate
methods of installation and collections in the leading museums of
Paris, Miinich, Frankfort, Berlin, and London. .

DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS

The matter of distribution of specimens remains much as in pre-_
vious years. Of the sets illustrating phases of rockweathering and
soil formation, 27, aggregating 432 specimens, have been sent out |
as gifts. Additional material prepared on special requests number
867 specimens sent out as gifts; 4,068 as loans, usually for purposes
of research; 8,137 specimens and 150 pounds of material as ex-
changes; aad one lot numbering 138 pene as a transfer ae a.
Government bureau.

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NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT

The estimated totals as given by heads of divisions are as follows:

Geology, systematic and applied
Mineralogy and petrology._-_____-_--_--

Stratigraphic paleontology

Vertebrate paleontology___________-__-

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DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND INDUSTRIES AND DIVISION OF HISTORY
By WILLIAM DEC. 'RAVENEL, Director of Arts and Industries

. The first Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, in
interpreting the organic act establishing the Smithsonian, included
as within the scope of the Museum of the Nation, among other things,
the history of the progress of useful inventions, and the collection
of raw materials and products of manufactures and arts. The
early development of the Museum, however, was chiefly along other
lines—in the natural history, geology, ethnology, and archeology of
the United States, and to a lesser degree of other countries. Greater
opportunities for acquisitions in these directions were brought about
through the activities of the scientific and economic surveys of the
Government, many of which were the direct outgrowths of earlier
explorations stimulated or directed by the Smithsonian Institution.
.It was not until 1876 that opportunity was afforded for estab-
lishing a department of industrial arts on a creditable basis, and
so important was the subject considered that the curatorship was
given by Secretary Baird to Dr. G. Brown Goode, who as assistant
secretary was in charge of the National Museum. From the Cen-
tennial Exhibition of 1876 at Philadelphia, the first of the large
international expositions to be held in the United States, the National
Museum obtained 100 carloads of valuable material, being a large
part of the foreign exhibits in the useful arts, as well as some from
domestic sources. This unusual acquisition was the immediate cause
of the erection of the brick building now known as the Arts and
Industries Building. The collections from the Philadelphia Ex-
hibition with additions from other sources were sufficiently extensive
to occupy the greater part of this building, when it was completed
in 1881. The division of American history was also started at this
LAME, «s,m

The first separate report of the National Museum, that for 1881,
relates how the great mass of material acquired at Philadelphia,
which had been stored in the Armory Building had then been
brought to the Museum and stored in two of the central courts;
that the collection of naval models and musical instruments and a
portion. of the Chinese collection were put in order and were ready
for exhibition; that the materia medica collections had been assorted

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and catalogued to the extent of 1,574 entries; that considerable
work had been done on the collection of foods numbering 951 speci-
mens; that large series of Japanese cottons and United States cotton
fabrics, ornamental woods of Japan, 30 working models of schooners,
an exhibit illustrating the process of making kid gloves, and many
others, had been received.

By 1884 the building was filled with industrial art collections, his-
torical specimens, and the overflow of natural history from the
Smithsonian Building; where to store incoming collections was a
serious problem leaving entirely out of consideration the question of
their display. The rapidly increasing natural history collections, for
which there was no room in the Smithsonian Building, encroached so
constantly that a large proportion of the industrial collections had
from time to time to be retired and placed in storage. The building
became so overcrowded with the continued rapid growth of the col-
lections that an orderly arrangement ceased to be possible and ex-
hibits of natural history, of anthropology, of arts and industries,
and of fine arts were more or less intermingled, Pe
and with little regard to relationship.

The department of arts and industries in the Museum on June 30,
1897, consisted of historical collections, religious ceremonial objects,
technological collections, electrical collections, graphic arts, materia
medica, forestry, physical apparatus, and photographic collections.
A new plan of organization effective July 1, 1897, divided the whole
Museum into three departments—anthropology, biology (zoology and
botany combined), and geology (including paleontology). All col-
lections not readily referable to biology or geology were thrown with
ethnology and archeology into the new department of anthropology
and included the following: Division of technology (mechanical
phases) with section of electricity; division of graphic arts with
section of photography; division of medicine; division of religions
with section of historic religious ceremonials; and division of history
and biography with section of American history. Forestry in the
new classification was made a section of the division of plants in the
department of biology. The organization of the collections remained
thus for years.

In order to take advantage of the exceptional opportunities
afforded by the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for obtaining mate-
rial relating to industrial subjects, especially to the mineral in-
dustries, a department of mineral technology was nominally estab-
lished in 1904 under the curatorship of Dr. Charles D. Walcott, then
Director of the United States Geological Survey, though at the time.
no space whatever was available for display. Of the 30 carloads of
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prised natural products, models or actual examples of appliances of
manufacture and finished products in various branches of the mineral
industry from many parts of the world. At the time of acceptance
it was understood that this material would have to go into storage
until additional floor space could be secured, and it was packed in
St. Louis with this plan in view.

With the completion of the Natural History Building in 1911 a new
era dawned. The removal of the natural history and the fine arts
collections to that building left space available for the reorganization
and development of the department of arts and industries and for
the display on a scale more commensurate with their importance of
the methods and results of the applied arts and sciences.

In March, 1912, the division of textiles with a curator in charge
was established, with custody over other vegetable and animal prod-
ucts not specifically provided for otherwise. This was done without
disturbing the relationships of the several industrial branches which
had continued to be administered under the three-department Museum
organization. The division of mineral technology, which had been
nominally recognized since 1904, with Dr. Charles D. Walcott as
honorary curator, was given a definite status June 6, 1913, with a
paid curator, and the vast accumulation of stored material from St.
Louis began to be available.

With the appointment of an assistant curator, on June 11, 1915,
the section of wood technology was organized tentatively under the
curator of textiles. Though comprehended in the former section of
forestry, very little material of public or even of technical interest
had been assembled. During the fiscal year of 1916 the division of -
medicine, which had been without an immediate head, was likewise
transferred to the care of the curator of textiles.

On November 1, 1918, William deC. Ravenel was designated by
Secretary Walcott as director of arts and industries, and steps were
taken looking to the more definite organization of the department.

On July 1, 1919, the division of mechanical technology was trans-
ferred from the custody of the department of anthropology to that
of arts and industries. One year later the division of graphic arts
was likewise placed in arts and industries, and, to facilitate adminis-
tration, the division of history was separated from anthropology
to become an independent division reporting directly to the admin-
istrative assistant.

Necessity for governmental economy following the World War
has hindered further development in the department, the only other
change in organization being the creation of a new section of organic
chemistry, under the supervision of the curator of textiles in August
1922, to which were transferred the old collections of animal and
vegetable products.

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One privately supported collection, the Loeb collection of chemical
types, has since April 1, 1924, been administered as a separate entity
in the department of arts and industries. This collection, in charge
of a chemist as curator, is maintained entirely through the benefi-
cence of the late Dr. Morris Loeb.

In the general survey of Government housing papthidiee: made iy
the Public Building Commission in 1917, the Miser was reported
as needing immediately a building for the arts and industries and
American history, with temporary accomodations for the National
Gallery of Art. The decade which has since intervened has seen the:
art industrial collections increase greatly, while the collections of
historical material have been augmented beyond all precedent. Some
temporary relief as to space was secured by the occupation of the
metal building erected on the Smithsonian reservation by the War
Department—known as the Aircraft Building—and by the overflow-
ing of the historical collections into the Natural History Building,
where they use some 35,000 square feet of exhibition space urgently’
needed for the collections for which the building was designed. No
space now remains for even ordinary growth, and great gifts can not
be solicited with the knowledge that no place exists for their accom-
modation. As to the personnel very little relief has been afforded,
and additional members of the scientific and preparatorial staff are
urgently needed to properly care for the varied collections.

That none of the classifications for art industrial subjects pro-
posed from time to time by the National and other museums have’
been strictly followed in the arrangement of the collections here is
. due mainly to limitations of space, resulting in a more or less dis-
orderly distribution of subjects, the conditions leaving no other choice
than that based on convenience. Work is being chiefly centered at
present on those subdivisions which are most’ prominent in relation
to current industrial affairs, but there are other subdivisions with
important collections which are not represented by experts on the
staff from lack of funds for their employment.

The year ending June 30, 1927, was an unusually busy one for this
department and the division of history. The regular work was
augmented by duties in connection with installation, maintenance,
and dismantling of collections at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in
Philadelphia. The customary routine was further interrupted by
the Smithsonian conference which added materially to the load
carried by some of the employees.

The hearty cooperation and support of the scientific and other
workers has made possible the progress recorded in the following >
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ACCESSIONS FOR THE YEAR

The department of arts and industries and the division of history
acquired 14,497 specimens during the year, assigned by subjects as
follows: Mechanical technology, 79; mineral technology, 112; tex-
tiles, 337; food, 206; organic chemistry, 1,195 ; wood technology, 1,014;
medicine, 958; graphic arts, including photography, 3,238; Loeb col-
lection of chemical types, 175; and history, 7,183. Besides the above
there are some 6,000 or 7,000 additional Patent Office models to be
critically gone over, classified, and catalogued before being recorded
as Museum property.

Mineral and mechanical technology—The number of accessions
received in the divisions of mineral an mechanical technology for
the year was 25, the number of objects in 24 of these being 191, or
considerably less than one-half the number received the preceding
year. Of this total, 112 objects were assigned to mineral technology
and 79 to mechanical technology. Of the twenty-fifth accession, com-
prising Patent Office models transferred from the Department of
Commerce, no official count of objects has as yet been made, though it
is estimated that some 1,500 or more will be permanently retained as
the property of the Museum.

Probably the most important exhibit received, in so far as concerns
its educational value, is that of a series of objects presented by the
Norton Co. This exhibit, as installed, shows the raw materials and
steps in the manufacture of artificial abrasive wheels and indicates
by finished products the great variety of refractories, special abra-
sives, floor tiles, and laboratory equipment produced from the same
material. A beautifully made scale model of the electric furnace
used to convert raw materials into abrasive stock and a photograph
of the inventor are exhibited in a special case, while the manufacture
of four types of abrasive wheels, namely, vitrified, silicate, rubber-
bonded, and bakelite-bonded wheels, is shown in wall cases by the
use of wheels in various stages of completion, together with the mold-
lag equipment used. Hight pencil sketches drawn from the com-
pany’s plant show in further detail the operations of manufacture.
The company cooperated with the Museum in the design of the ex-
hibit and presented it as a complete unit ready for installation.

The Museum has been endeavoring to obtain for addition to the
aircraft collections the United States Navy seaplane VC-4 ever since
its memorable flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919. The greatest
difficulty has been the matter of size, there being no space large
enough to exhibit the plane. As a last resort and with the generous
assistance of the Navy Department, the hull alone was transferred
during the year and is now exhibited in the Aircraft Building.
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the collection), and all other parts are being held at the naval air-
craft factory, Philadelphia, in the hope that eventually space will
be secured here for housing the entire plane.

Of value particularly to the technical man is the accession Of six
airplane engines, five transferred from the naval aircraft factory,
Philadelphia, and one, the very first Liberty engine produced in
1917, transferred from the Department of (nae The latter
siheee which upon its completion was sent to the Department of
Commerce for tests, represents a triumph in engine production,
having been completed in 27 days. Among the five engines trans-
ferred from the Navy Department are a Union engine such as is
used in small dirigibles, and a Wright D—7 six-cylinder engine which
was originally intended for the ill-fated Shenandoah, but, due to
the accident which destroyed that airship, never saw service.

Another accession of importance was that of two models of
Chinese war chariots of about 500 B. C., received as a gift from the
Government Historical Museum, Peking, China, through the di-
rector, Ch’iu Tzut-yiian. These present several unusual features,
particularly in wheel construction, and materially enhance the series
showing the development of the wheel. ae

In the section of horology three very interesting donations were
received. The first contained three early and valuable Japanese
timepieces, consisting of a wall clock, a table clock, and a. sundial
presented by Mrs. Harold C. Ernst ren the collections of her late
husband. The second donation was one of the original watch move-
ments made by the J. P. Stevens Watch Co. between 1882-1885 and
presented by J. P. Stevens. This company, while in active operation.
but three years, holds the unique distinction of having been the only
watch manufacturing company in the South. The third was an
old English watch in a shagreen case, made by Peter Garon, of
London, about 1690, lent by George H. James. This is the oldest
representative of Breich watchmaking in the Museum’s collection
and is therefore a distinct and valuable Nadaiiaon.

The extensive study collection of horology was quite materially en-
hanced in value during the year through the addition of approxi-
mately 50 Patent Office models, including those of D. Azro Buck,
the inventor of the “dollar watch,” which invention is recognized
the world over as America’s greatest contribution to the science of
horology.

Textiles, foods, organic chemistry, wood technology Yy and wriaee
cine.—The accessions in the subjects under the general supervision of
the curator of textiles contained 3,710 Henin which number, how-
ever does not include a large number of patent models still under
examination ; some of these will later be definitely added to the collec-

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tions.| The additions to the collections are divided into five groups,
as follows: Textiles, 337; foods, 206; organic EneREEs 1,195; wood
technology, 1,014; aa EER 958.

| Among the oe number) of medal of mechanical. inventions ain
specimens of combinations of matter brought from. the storage
warehouse of the Patent Office for examination and study, 314
have so far been accepted for the Museum as marking steps of prog-
ress in arts and industries. The following classes of objects have |
been more or less studied during the year by the curator and his
assistants: Sewing machines, weaving appliances, lumbering and
woodworking inventions, dental and surgical instruments, pharma-
ceutical appliances, artificial dyestuffs and synthetic chemicals, and
agricultural implements. The models of the most important inven-
tions in the last group were selected by R. B. Gray, of the Bureau
of Public Roads, United States Department of Agriculture. In
some cases, however, since the Museum can do no more than. preserve
and store the models until more space is available, it has loaned ‘to
educational institutions, where good use will be made of them in
the meantime, destnable models which could not be exhibited at
present.

From George Crompton was received the original patent model
of the first power loom for weaving fancy figured fabrics, which
was invented by his grandfather, William Gann and, on which
United States Patent No. 491 was issued November 25, 1837. This
model, reclaimed from the Patent Office by George Crompton as the
heir of the inventor, was presented to the Museum for inclusion in
the collection of important original models received directly from
the Patent Office.

With the exception of the Patent Office Todas the most, important
additions to the textile collections were made by firms who had
formerly cooperated in furnishing educational material. ‘Two groups
of beautiful silk dress goods printed in unique designs and repre-
sentative of the highest grade of printed fabrics produced to-day
were contributed by H. R. Mallinson & Co. (Inc.).. These fabrics
illustrate application of scientific findings to needs of a commercial
industry.° The first group of 14 specimens, received in August, 1926,
were fabrics intended for the fall trade of 1926 and the spring of
1927... The whole series was suggestive of the sea, the motifs. repre-
senting seaweeds, kelp, sea nettles, starfish, coral, flying fish, dolphins,
gulls, and the like. Many of the designs were developed from orig-
inal sketches made by Mrs. Helen 'Tee Van while on board the steam
yacht, Arcturus on the New York Zoological Society’s expedition to
the Sargasso Sea and the Galapagos Islands. In the second group
of 28 specimens, called the National Park Series, the natural) won-
ders of our National and State parks have supplied the motifs.

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Through the courtesy of the National Park Service of the United
States Department of the Interior and the Union Pacific system,
photographs were obtained of the particular scenes in the parks
which suggested the designs on the fabrics for installation « in the
case with the textiles. |

Additions to their already generous cbntHibiEond of textiles were
also made by the Pacific Mills, S. B. & B. W. Fleisher Seay ), and
N. Erlanger, Blumgart & Co. (Fac)!

A donation from Miss Isabella C. Freeman and Mrs. H. B. Buck-
ingham to other branches of the Museum included a series of 26 gay
Roman-striped silks in the shape of scarfs and sashes in brilliant
color combinations, all of foreign origin.

A portion of an Anglo-Persian Wilton rug, showing steps in its
construction and the cutting of the looped pile, was contributed by
the M. J. Whittall A denetatteRs

In continuance of the effort to obtain for the Museum examples
of the official standards so important nowadays in almost every line
of industry, the Museum requested the transfer from the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture,
of a set of official standards of the United States for American cotton
linters. This set of seven basic grades ranges from the longest first
cuts of linters to the shortest second cuts. Cotton linters are ob-
tained preparatory to conditioning cottonseed for oil extraction by a
second ginning of the seed from which the greater portion of the
fiber has been removed by the ordinary cotton gin, and represent the
residual short fiber remaining after the first ginning. Depending
upon the grade of linters obtained, this material is used for mat-
tresses, cushions, wadding, paper, twine, lamp wicks, and bandages,
for an immense number of cellulose chemicals and varnishes, and as
a source of rayon, or artificial silk. |

Public interest in the several forms of artificial fibers, now gener-
ally know as rayon, has made the gift of specimens of gelanase

_ by the American Cellulose & Chemical Manufacturing Co. (Litd.) |

especially acceptable for exhibition in the collections. Celanese is
the trade-mark name for an artificial fiber of cellulose acetate made
from cotton linters. It differs in chemical composition — and prop-
erties from the other forms of rayon, particularly in its behavior
to dyestuffs. The usual basic coal-tar dyes, which readily dye silk
and wool, do not affect it; and its behavior with dyes which color
cotton is different despite its manufacture from cotton linters.
Special dyes have been discovered, however, which will dye celanese
without dyeing cotton, silk, or wool. This makes it possible to obtain
beautiful color effects in textiles by weaving combination fabrics
which can be cross dyed, or dyed in one operation, and overcomes

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the necessity of weaving the fabric with previously dyed yarns. The
series of specimens contributed includes celanese yarn in skeins and
on bobbins, knitted and woven plain undyed fabries, dyed, printed,
and figured fabrics, examples of celanese and cotton woven together
to illustrate cross dyeing, and many specimens of the special dyes
developed for use with celanese. Ln ,

Four interesting and beautiful specimens of Javanese batik were
presented by Mrs. Charles D. Walcott for exhibition. The designs
show various mythological personages venerated in Java and are
quite different from those already on exhibition in the Museum.
The batik process consists essentially in tracing on the prepared
cloth a design by means of a fine stream of melted beeswax and
filling in the design with a film of wax, so as to protect the cloth from
the action of the dye where the color is not wanted.

Mrs. Laura M. Allen, expert weaver and instructor of weaving,
added 33 examples of hand weaving done by seven persons to the
collection previously assembled by her and presented to the Museum.

To Capt. George W. Swartz the Museum is indebted for an inter-
esting addition to the collection of old textile machinery, in the form
of a hand-operated machine which gins, cards, and spins cotton,
receiving the seed cotton as it is picked, and delivering a good qual-
ity of spun yarn wound upon bobbins. This old machine was made
by J. & T. Pearce, Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1840, and is one of several
that were taken to northern Alabama over 80 years ago. Machines
of this type were introduced in the cotton-growing sections of the
South and were operated by slaves. It has been recorded that on
one plantation a single machine produced enough yarn to furnish
the clothing for 300 slaves.

One of the most interesting exhibits for the section of food is an
observation hive of three-banded Italian bees, received through the
A. I. Root Co., Medina, Ohio, and C. P. Dadant & Sons, Hamilton,
Ill., two prominent manufacturers of beekeeping supplies, and the
bee-culture laboratory of the Bureau of Entomology, United States
Department of Agriculture. The mahogany and glass observation
hive, with a 12-foot plate glass tunnel leading through a window to
outdoors, was constructed at the expense of these two firms, while
the live bees were loaned by the Department of Agriculture and
brought to the Museum from the bee-culture laboratory at Somerset,
Md. The hive is the standard size used in commercial honey pro-
duction, accommodating 20 of the regular Langstroth frames, and
constructed of double walls of glass, enabling the activities of the
bees to be plainly observed. The long glass tunnel, placed hori-
zontally from the top of the'case to the window sill, over the heads
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plane which enables one to see perfectly the incoming workers with
the pollen baskets on their hind legs packed full of golden pollen.
This tunnel, constructed to give visitors a view of the bees passing in
and out of the hive, proved to be a handicap to the workers in their
task of producing honey. At the height of the honey flow, during
May and June, the thin liquid nectar was brought into the hive
faster than the bees could fan away the excess moisture and condense
the nectar to the consistency of honey. The task of moving the long
column of moisture-saturated air inclosed in the tunnel proved too
great for the hundreds of pairs of wings endeavoring to ventilate the
observation gallery, and it was found necessary to come to their
assistance with an electric fan. Blowing a gentle current. of, air
through the long tunnel for a short while assisted in removing many
pounds of water from each week’s harvest.

The bee-culture laboratory also loaned 54 specimens of liquid
honey graded according to color and types of crystallization, speci-
mens of cut combs, etl’ honey combs and beeswax, examples
of beekeepers’ tools and appliances, and a full-sized section of a
standard beehive arranged for honey production with the frames
containing extracted combs, or comb foundation, in proper position.

A collection of 92 prize jars of fruits, vegetables, and meats, put up
in glass by members of 4-H Canning Clubs under the auspices of
the Office of Cooperative Extension Work, United States Department
of Agriculture, was contributed by the Hazel Atlas Glass Co. This
company had offered prizes in every State of the Union for the best
examples of food products put up in jars of their manufacture by the
4-H Clubs... The’ collection as assembled represents in kinds and
quantity the winter supply of canned foods for an average family.

Twelve jars of typical examples of almonds grown in California
during 1926 were transferred from the Bureau of Plant Industry,
United States. Department of Agriculture. The food value of al-
monds above that of all other kinds of nuts is fast becoming-recog-
nized, and these specimens fill a long-felt need in the exhibit of im-
portant foodstufts. )

For the section of organic chemistry, the Museum is indebted to the
Tanners’ Council of America for over 200 specimens of. hides, skins,
leather, and leather products, together with photographs of animals
furnishing raw materials and of leather processes. This valuable
collection, covering almost every important phase of the leather in-
dustry, was furnished by 49 different firms, members of the Tanners’
Council of America, without expense to the Museum. The mate-
rial so far received covers the following groups: aadi>

1. Skins of the animals furnishing the bulk of the raw material
for leather, tanned with the hair on: cow, calf, kid, and horse. 2,

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Tanning and coloring agents used in producing leather: barks, ex-
tracts, seeds, roots, chemicals, oils, and dyes. 8. By-products of the
leather industry: glues and hair products, such as felts, cushions,
insulating and packing materials. 4. Heavy leather for shoe soles,
a whole side of a large steer hide marked to show the best grades of
sole leather, and strips, blocks, and cut soles as supplied to the
cobbler. 5. Leather for shoe uppers: calf, kid, kangaroo, and horse
leather, in plain, fancy, and patent finishes. 6. Belting leather: an
oak tanned “bend ” from the thickest part of the hide, and specimens
of mechanical belts of all kinds. 7%. Bag and strap leather: whole
side of bag leather in natural and fancy grains, pigskin leather,
straps for all purposes, and men’s fancy belts. 8. Harness leather:
black and russet, side of lace leather, and strips of lacing. 9. Glove
leather: kid, mocha sheep, buckskin, horsehide, and gloves of all
kinds. 10. Upholstery leathers: whole hides of great size, finished
in fancy grains and colorings. 11. Fancy leather: alligator, snake,
lizard, elephant, walrus, seal, and ostrich. 12. Miscellaneous leathers:
for textile machinery, gas meters, sporting goods, and bookbinding;
also chamois in several stages.

The Rubber Association of America continued its splendid coopera-
tion by contributing 463 additional specimens and many photographs,
which were supplied by 13 manufacturing firms, members of the
association. ‘The material added this year includes hose, belting,
packing, valves, and gaskets; druggists’ sundries and hospital equip-
ment, hard rubber articles, battery jars, toys, and sporting goods.

Research in the insulating value of different types of gutta-percha
and rubber by the Bell Telephone Laboratories resulted in the
assembling of an extensive collection of specimens of these materials
from the Dutch East Indies, British Malaya, and the Philippines.
The collection, mounted in three hardwood cabinets, was presented
to the Museum and forms a valued addition to the study series.

Rods and sheets of an imported casein plastic, sold under the trade
name of “Inda,” were contributed by the American Machine &
Foundry Co.

The Max Ams Chemical Engineering Corporation donated a model
of the essential parts of the apparatus used by them for the produc-
tion of rayon fiber from wood pulp by the viscose process, 34 speci-
mens showing materials used and finished fiber in several forms, and
a specially constructed exhibition case for displaying the exhibit.

A series of specimens showing steps in the manufacture of soap
and its by-products, fatty acids, and glycerin was contributed by
Armour & Co. This includes crude oils, chemicals and refining re-
agents for refining the oils and converting them into soap, and simi-

lar reagents for refining the by-products.

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Mrs. William Chapin Huntington, daughter of Frank G. Car-
penter, the late well-known author, presented a collection of 95 speci-
mens of footwear collected by her father and herself during travels in
many lands. Many of these specimens have been used in illustrating
the writings of Mr. Carpenter and his daughter, and represent unique
types of footwear.

In the division of medicine, the most instructive exhibit received
this year is the one on the subject of vision donated by the American
Optometric Association, through Dr. Thomas H. Martin. The first
scene of the exhibit pictures members of a primitive family using
their eyes for distant vision, the manner in which they function with
the least strain; next, a present-day home emphasizing the fact that
modern life has imposed upon the eye the severe requirement of near
vision; then scenes of laboratories where eyes are tested. Four
illuminated legends, with drawings, convey information concerning
the anatomy and physiology of the eye, normal vision, common de-
fects of vision, and how these defects are corrected.

The Museum is indebted to the American Dental Association for
an exhibit on the subject of oral hygiene. A light from a modeled
lighthouse attracts onlookers and warns of the importance of the
subject. On each side are arranged health lessons, models of tooth-
building foods, the importance of saving the first permanent molars
which appear about the sixth year of life, the proper time and method
of brushing the teeth, and the necessity of periodic inspections.

The Bureau of Biological Survey, United States Department. of
Agriculture, designed, and transferred to the Museum an operating
model to illustrate how rats transmit disease and the methods of
proofing homes against these destructive pests, by which it. is
hoped to awaken interest in the matter of rat extermination.

The Aladdin Co. contributed to the Museum a specially con-
structed model illustrating the evolution of the American home and
the great progress made in hygienic living conditions. This con-
sists of four scenes. The first is that of a cliff dweller’s abode,
the second an Indian tepee, the third a log cabin home of the
pioneers, and the last a modern home which plays so important a
part in the increase of the life span.

The historical exhibits of the division of medicine were en-
hanced by the addition of 214 models transferred from the United
States Patent Office. Some of these American inventions portray
important progressive steps in various branches of the healing art,
while others bring to mind misleading theories of the past cen-
tury. One is the original patent model of Morton & Gould’s anes-
thetizing apparatus, which attracts more than ordinary attention
because Doctor Morton was the dentist who demonstrated to the

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world the art of surgical anesthesia. The surgery models show
steps in the development of instruments used in operative work,
and the pharmaceutical models assist in telling the story of the
important changes which have taken place in medicine making.

A set of old surgical appliances and instruments was presented
by Miss Frances M. Cosine. These instruments, some of which
are of a type used in this country about 100 years ago, were owned
by the donor’s grandfather, Dr. Enoch T. Winter.

Dr. George B. Roth added 16 old surgical instruments to the
deposit which he made in the preceeding year. All are valuable
because of their age, but the one which has attracted the most
attention is a stethoscope of the pattern used about 1836 when this
important diagnostic adjunct first came into general use in the
United States.

Medicinal materials which became official in the latest editions of
the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary were con-
tributed by the following companies: Parke, Davis & Co., the Bayer
Co. (Inc.), Monsanto Chemical Works, E. R. Squibb & Sons, the
Abbott Laboratories, Eimer & Amend, and Schieffelin & Co.

In the section of wood technology, the most noteworthy addition
from the standpoint of public interest is the series showing stages
in the manufacture of Masonite structural insulation and “ Presd-
wood,” presented by Mason Fibre Co. Masonite is a trade name
adopted for products made from sawmill wood waste by a process
which, through the use of saturated steam at high temperature and
pressure, explodes the wood chips and produces a resultant wood pulp
consisting of long fibers incrusted with the original wood lignins.
The process is unique in two particulars, namely, the chips are neither
ground nor cooked to separate the fibers as in similar operations, and
no artificial binder is used to consolidate them. To form boards, the
exploded fiber is refined, passed over a fourdrinier similar to a paper
machine, and placed in a press. In making structural insulation, the
time in the press is from 50 to 60 minutes. In addition to insulation,
it is used for sheathing, plaster base, interior finish, and as a sound
deadener. Presdwood is in the presses about 25 minutes. Its
present largest uses are linings for automobile doors, desk tops, card
tables, radio cabinets, wall board, and paneling.

Another use for sawmill waste was represented by the contribu-
tion from the United Products Co. of specimens showing the manu-
facture of “ woodkets,” a recently developed fireplace fuel. Wood-
kets are compressed sawdust and shavings and are said to leave only
about one-half of 1 per cent of ash after burning. Besides affording
a clean, easily handled fuel, woodkets add one more link to the chain
of processes that are being promoted to conserve the waning wood

supply.

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A contribution from Mahogany Association (Inc.) consisted of
four large panels of solid Central American mahogany, four of solid
“African mahogany,” and four small inlaid panels showing mahog-
any in combination with such other valuable woods as Kast India
satinwood, boxwood, ebony, kingwood, and oleo vermelho. Each has
a beautiful semipolished surface.

Twenty specimen hardwood boards, all cut in Bath County, Va.,
were presented by the Tide Water Hardwood Corporation through
H. A. Cavendish, manager. They are all highly waxed and very
attractive.

The Paine Lumber Company (Ltd.) sent an “African mahogany ”
table to supplant the birch table formerly accompanying the exhibit
of their products. Attached is a small glass case designed for
specimens showing the internal construction of their veneered doors.

The Scene-in-Action Corporation contributed an animated forest-
fire model made for use in connection with forest-protection activities.
The phrase, “ Everybody loses when timber burns,” is made to stand
out prominently by means of a light at the rear. This vivid lesson
in color is a fine example of increasing cooperation in forest conser-
vation.

Through the courtesy of H. R. Kylie, United States Forest Service,
the Museum secured the loan of one large, lighted camp-fire model
and five colored bromides of forest scenes for exhibition during
American forest week. The theme of both the model and bromides
is, “ The forest is your friend—Keep it green”; and one is shown
what to do and what not to do when camping on wooded areas.

The most valuable accession to the study collection was that of
801 wood. samples received as an exchange from Yale University
School of Forestry, through Prof. Samuel J. Record. Most of them
are from tropical America, representative of Cuba, Haiti, British
Honduras, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia,
Venezuela, and Brazil, and were collected with botanical material.
Approximately half of them are completely identified, in many more
the genus has been determined, and all are linked with numbers in
the Yale catalogue, enabling the Museum to receive further informa-
tion when Professor Record obtains it.

Another fine lot of 45 wood samples for the study series was re-
ceived as a gift from Sr. Ing. J. G. Ortega, of Mazatlan, Sinaloa,
Mexico, collected by the donor in Sinaloa, with all but five identified,
and three of these given provisional identifications. by Professor
Record.

Nineteen hand samples of Manchurian woods and cross sections of
trunks of 10 Egyptian trees were received by transfer from the
Office of Foreign Plant Introduction, United States Department of
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and are largely quarter-sawed sections with the bark left on. They
were obtained by P. H. Dorsett, agricultural explorer, from D. I.
Sinaisy, forester in charge of the lumber plant of the Chinese Kast-
ern Railway and the forest concessions of Shitoukhetsy, Manchuria.
The Egyptian tree sections are from a country usually considered
to be without forests.

Graphie arts—From the standpoint of permanent {chiiteltidnt
the year was the most successful one in the history of the division
of graphic arts. Specimens to the number of 4,280 were’ réeceivea,
of which 3,238 became the property of the Miseuas; and the remain-
ing 1,042 were accepted as loans for exhibition. Many of the latter
have already been returned to their owners. The increment this
year shows a gain of 334 per cent over last year’s additions, and
the total number of specimens in the division, including the section
of photography, was increased more than 10 per cent.

The gift of 2,304 prints and etched copper plates from Jean Leon
Gerome Ferris is by far the most important and valuable gift of
the year and probably of any year in the history of the division.
This accession contains the work of many famous artists—drawings,
etchings, engravings, mezzotints, aquatints, softground prints, and
lithographs, by Rembrandt, Rubens, Drevet, Saint Non, John Faber,
Samuel Cousins, Corot, Millet, Gavarni, the Morans, Haden, Lalanne,
Jacquemart, and others of more or less fame. Many etchings by
the donor and his father, Stephen J. Ferris (1834-1915), are included
and also 63 of their etched copper plates. The Ferris gift is large,
and, as only a few specimens have been catalogued and matted, it
is impossible at this time to give a comprehensive account of its
value and importance. It is, however, of great artistic and intrinsic
value.

The United States Patent Office transferred 477 models relating
to graphic arts and photography which assume more importance at
each examination. The models have been roughly arranged but
no study has yet been possible. Of the 150 models assigned to
photography, many illustrate concretely the development of Mba
art and will add materially to the exhibition series.

Kighteen samples of a new method of commercial printing in water
colors were donated by the Aldus Printers (Inc.), through Bert C.
Chambers, who was instrumental in its development and patenting.
The process is based somewhat on the Japanese method of block print-
ing in water colors. In seeking to obtain the beautiful results of the
Japanese color print in a few printings on the modern power press,
two problems were involved—to find first a suitable substance in
which to cut the design, and, second, a satisfactory medium for the
ink. The material found to be most suitable for the blocks is com-

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posed of several alternating layers of rubber and cloth. The addition
of glycerin to the ink prevents its drying too fast. The design to be
reproduced is usually a pen-and-ink drawing. A line cut is made
and prints from it are transferred to each of the sheets of rubber
which are to print the various colors. The part that is to become the
printing surface is carefully cut around with a sharp knife down to
the first layer of cloth, and then the part not wanted is pulled off,
leaving the design in relief. The rubber plate is mounted type high
and is ready for the printer. The various colors are printed first in
water color and then the line cut in printer’s ink. The only altera-
tion in the press is the substitution of rubber ink rollers for the com-
position rollers. The prints dry instantaneously, so there is no offset.
An improvement nearing perfection makes the line cut in rubber, so
that the whole design and colors can be printed from rubber in water-
color ink. While the results as a rule are of a commercial nature,
still the prints in water color are beautiful and have a distinction all
their own. A small exhibit has been installed, and the Museum has
the promise of a technical one. Mr. Chambers had been working on
the idea for some time when he visited the division and studied the
Japanese exhibit; the whole process crystalized after that visit.

Ten examples of the “ Pantone” method of preparing plates for
printing pictures were donated by the Sun Engraving Co. (Ltd.), of
Watford, England, in whose plant the process was developed by A.
Ronald Trist. Pantone is a process of making a printing plate
of smooth metal, the part of the plate which is not to print being
treated with mercury, which repels the printer’s ink. The Museum
has the promise of additional specimens for a technical exhibit show-
ing the various steps.

Frederick E. Ives; one of the earliest if not the first to develop
a commercially successful half-tone process printed from relief blocks,
added to the large amount of his early material in the Museum
one example of his early three-color work dated August, 1881—a rare
historical specimen made from three selective .color negatives—and
a specimen of his half-tone intaglio process of 1891. Mr. Ives’
specialties since the early seventies have been along the lines of
graphic arts and photography in black and white and in color, and
he has contributed many improvements.

Over 50 specimens of rotary intaglio photogravures were added
this year, all fine examples. A large percentage of them, the gift
of John U. Perkins, are of historical and artistic interest, being
old reproductions of historical paintings. The others were the gift
of A. J. Newton and are the work of the Sun Engraving Co. (Ltd.). -
These are in color, three and four printings, including two series
showing progressive results. .

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A. B. Carty continued his interest in the division and was the
means whereby several kinds of hitherto unrepresented specimens
were obtained. He also loaned a copy of the largest daily newspaper
ever printed, the Miami Daily News of July 26, 1925, containing
504 pages.

About 50 artistic prints in various mediums were added to the
permanent collection. George O. Hart contributed 29 examples of
his very original work; his results both in subject and treatment are
entirely different from those of other workers in the same mediums.
Chauncey F. Ryder, an artist of great skill, donated three drypoints
and. one lithograph; Lee Sturges gave four etchings, which are ar-
tistically and technically excellent and cover his field of subjects.
George C, Wales contributed two plates and four prints of the
clipper ship Houqua, showing his method of making a lithograph in
two printings. This is one of his series of ships which are very
popular at the present time.

Some years ago the division started to collect examples of fine
letter press printing in the form of books, pamphlets, and broadsides.
This series was slow in getting started but some superior examples
have been obtained. Five examples contributed by the Windsor
Press of San Francisco, Calif., are of most excellent quality. Two
examples of the work of John Henry Nash also of that city were added,
one from the printer, a broadside which was awarded first prize at the
recent Graphic Arts Leaders Exhibition, and the second a book, the
gift of James W. Coffroth. Mr. Nash’s work is well represented. in
the national collections.

William Edwin Rudge continued his interest by contributing
many examples from the products of his printing establishment,
including separate prints by the Smithsonian process from the North
American wild flower book of Mrs. C. D. Walcott, prints from the
Pennell book, and samples of aquatone. He also presented in un-
bound form the four volumes of the book on Gilbert Stuart by Law-
rence Park. William G. Mather presented a beautiful book, “The
Portraits of Increase Mather” by Kenneth B. Murdock, of interest
for its beauty as a book and for its contents. It was designed by
Bruce Rogers and printed from the original type of John Basker-
ville now owned by the Harvard University Press.

A contribution of more than usual interest which came to the sec-
tion of photography as a gift of Miss Lillian M. Fletcher, consisted
of 14 paper negatives and a print made by her father, Abel Fletcher
(1820-1890). The note which was around them read: “My first
experiments with paper negatives, before glass negatives were in-
vented, about 1845.” There is good reason to believe that these are
the earliest paper negatives made in the United States.’ Abel
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making daguerreotypes. Whether he was an inventor or’ whether
he knew of the invention of Fox Talbot of England does not alter the
great interest and historical value of these early specimens of pho-

tography. The negatives are in perfect condition and excellent prints

have been made from them. To Stanley M. Baltzly of Massillon 1 1s
due the credit of discovering these paper negatives.

As photographic prints in color are difficult to make, the Museum
was glad to receive an increment of 27 prints contributed by Fred-
erick E. Ives, 10 being by his process called “ Hicrome” and’ 17 by

“Hicarbo.” A second gift was from Mrs. Thomas A. Witherspoon

of two color transparencies by Joly. ‘The Museum possesses only one
other print by this process. The third gift was from’ Theodore
Bolton, a print made by M. Miley & Son, of Lexington, Va., by

superimposed carbon tissue printed from three color separation
negatives, and taken from the first painting of George Washington

by Charles Willson Peale.

Three pictorial prints of historical value were the gift of. A W.
Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland; these were made about 20 years ago by a
NRO ot of the gum process, known as the “ Hill’s pibaitedt proc:
ess. )
three pictorial prints made by her late husband, the’ founder of the
Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York City.
From H. A. Latimer came five examples of his pictorial work; two
were carbon prints and three reproductions made by the photo-
gravure process. The very large carbon of the yacht Lasca is’ a
wonder ful piece of marine photogr aphy.

Other pictorial prints worthy of favorable mention included three
bromides, the gift of Bertrand H. Wentworth, which were taken

along the New England coast. Joseph Petrocelli donated four

examples of his artistic efforts obtained on his trip abroad. J. H.
Radcliffe continued his interest in the section of phobogeaey wi
donating four prints largely of historical value.

Mrs. Clarence H. White contributed for educational’ purposes

Five siddvtaiaris were made to the motion-picture series. Foulk came

from E. H. Amet and relate to the early history of the art. Among
them is'a small strip of early film; also a negative of a model basin
in which the destruction of the Spanish fleet of 1898 was filmed.
John U. Perkins gave an amateur motion-picture camera and pro-
jector combined, produced about 15 years ago and one of the first
machines put on the market to popularize the art.

Leslie T. Adams, Oxford, England, contributed 12 old lantern
slides of about 50 or 60 years ago inal by H. W. Taunt and used

at children’s Christmas entertainments. R. P. Tolman donated

box camera of the vintage of about 1890. The Ilex Optical Co:
gave three photographic shutters which show their latest aes
ments.

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. A friend who has long assisted the photographic collection, Frank
V. Chambers, editor of The Camera, this year contributed 141 old
books on photography which are a valuable addition to the library
of the section of photography.

_ Loeb collection of chemical types——Efforts during the year in
behalf of the Loeb collection of chemical types resulted in the receipt
of 175 specimens for addition to the collection. A number of
materials which were tendered had to be refused as not of the
character prescribed, and some specimens were lost through breakage
of tubes in transit. Many new contacts with research workers in
the chemical field were made by correspondence and a considerable
number through personal interviews by the curator, Maj. O. E.
Roberts, jr., and much new material has been promised.

History.—During the year 7,183 specimens were added to the col-
lections in the division of bisiaies Space permits of mention of pay
the more important acquisitions of the year.

The antiquarian collections were increased by a desk chair owned
and used during the latter part of the nineteenth century by Susan
B. Anthony, presented to the Museum by her biographer, Mrs. Ida
H. Harper.. A white satin brocade evening dress, with accessories,
worn by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was. presented by her, together with
a Pi Beta Phi fraternity pin, for the collection of the series of cos-
tumes worn in the White House. A light tan hand-embroidered
muslin dress of 1845 was contributed by Miss Isabella C. Freeman
and Mrs. B. H. Buckingham, and American costumes of the period
of the Civil War were given by Miss Isabel Rives and by Miss Lola
Tate.

The Maryland Historical Society presented for perpetual preserva-
tion and exhibition with the Star Spangled Banner three fragments
of that historic flag, removed from it by a former owner and now
restored by the society. This flag which flew over Fort McHenry
during its successful defense against the British fleet September 13
and 14, 1814, and was immortalized by Key as “ The Star Spangled
Banner,” descended from the commander of the fort, Lieut. Col.
George Armistead, to his grandson, Eben Appleton, from whom the
National Museum received it as a gift in December, 1912. These
pieces, one of red, one white, one blue, were cut from the flag by
Mr. Appleton in October, 1880, and given to William W. Carter,
whose sister, Miss Virginia M. Carter, in October, 1889, presented
them to the Maryland Historical Society in accordance with the
wishes of Mr. Carter.

The military collections were increased by the addition of 20 pieces
of heavy German ordnance captured during the World War and
transferred to the Museum from the War Department, together with
8 United States Army rifles. The uniform coat, chapeau, two sashes,

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sword belt, two pairs of epaulets, aiguilette, and gloves of the period
of the war with Mexico worn by Col. William G. Freeman’ of the
Fourth United States Artillery, were presented by Miss Freeman and
Mrs. Buckingham. A British officer’s sword and a Dutch naval
cutlass both of the late eighteenth century were donated by als,
Francis T. Redwood.

A series of 8 small flags illustrating the development oF the
United States national colors from 1776 to 1926, specially prepared
for exhibition at the Sesquicentennial at Philadelphia) was trans-
ferred to the Museum at the close of the exposition. The first of
these represents the design of the Grand Union Flag which was
flown over the Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass., in January,
1776, and the second the first Stars and Stripes as established by
resolution of the Continental Congress, June 14, 1777. The third
shows the design of 15 stars and 15 stripes as established by act of
Congress approved January 13, 1794, and as flown during the War
of 1812-1815. The fourth flag shows the design established by act of
Congress approved April 4, 1818, which provided that the number of
stripes be reduced from 15 to 18 and that the stars should represent
the number of States in the Union, each new star to be added’ to the
design on the 4th of July succeeding the admission of the State thus
represented. The fifth shows the design during the first year of the
war with Mexico, 1846-1847, when the union contained 28 stars. The
sixth shows the design during the first two years of the Civil War,
1861-1863, when the union contained 34 stars. The seventh shows
the national colors during the war with Spain, 1898, when the num-
ber of stars was 45. The eighth and last shows the design used
during the World War, 1917-18, when the number of stars was 48.

The naval collections were saidveaked by a gold mounted sword
which was presented by the State of New York to Commodore
Thomas Macdonough, United States Navy, in recognition of his
achievements during ‘hie War of 1812-1815, and a ae of gold-

mounted pistols presented to him by the State of Connecticut ‘in

recognition of the same services. These three objects of unique
historical and artistic interest were lent to the Museum by his grand-—
son, G. H. Macdonough.

The numismatic collection received a number of additions. A gold
medal awarded by act of Congress approved June 28, 1902, to Lieut.
Ellsworth P. Bertholf, United States Revenue Cutter Service in
recognition of his soli cel in connection with the expedition of
1897-98 for the relief of whaling ships in the Arctic regions, was
lent by Mrs. Emilie E. Bertholf. A bronze medal commemorating
the centennial anniversary of 1927 of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Co. was presented by that company. An artistic bronze plaque

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designed by Emil Fuchs in commemoration of the Teh onal
Philatelic Exhibition, New York, 1996, was given by the Association
AY Stamp Exhibitions (Inc.).

A ‘collection ‘of 43 United States cold, ‘silver, nickel, and nS
coins, struck 1920-1926, a series of 81 medley ne een European
coins (ohn d 4 Chinese coins were transferred from the Treasury Depart-
ment, as were also a bronze medal commemorating the seventy-fifth
anniversary of the founding of the Aztec Club of 1847 and two copies
of the bronze portrait medal of Alexander Hamilton, first seceeleny of
the United States Treasury.

The' pictorial collections were increased by an oil A gece i.
William S. Horton, showing Gen. John J. Pershing and the American
troops traversing ttle Place de la Concorde on the occasion of the
victory fété in Paris, July 14, 1919. This painting was presented
to the Museum by Patina Marius de Brabant through Mrs. ‘H.
Fairfield Osborn. A second oil painting of historic interest. received
this year is one by Charles Bryant entitled “'The American, Battle
Fleet i in Sydney Harbor,” presented to the United States by citizens
of New South Wales and transferred. to the Museum from the State
Department.

Henry K. Bush-Brown, the. sculptor, contributed nine examples in
plaster of his skill in making men of history very real to the gen-
erations following. These pieces consisted of an equestrian statu-
ette, of Gen. Anthony Wayne, being the working model for the
statue at Valley Forge, Pa., erected by the State of Pennsylvania ;
an equestrian statuette df Gon, John Sedgewick, being the model for
the statue at Gettysburg erected by the State of Cenneeree: por-
trait bust, life size, of Gen: G. G. Meade, being a ‘study for equestrian
statue at Gettysburg erected by State of Pennsylvania; portrait head
of Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, being study for equestrian statue
at Gettysburg erected by the State of Pennsylvania; portrait bust
of Admiral Harry’. Taylor; portrait bust’ of Dr. A. W. Cowles,
président of the first College for Women at Elmira, N. Y.; portrait
bust of Henry Kirke Brown,’ being model for bronze in the hall
of remembrance in New York University ; and portrait heads of
cake Daniel E. Sickles and of Gen. David McN. Gregg. pt

. A miniature! plaster bust of Grover Cleveland by A. Pedro Fla-
quepagne made in 1892 was donated by Thomas Tapscott Gill,
through Mrs.’ George B. Gill. A statue of Laddie Boy, by Miss
Bashka Paeff; cast from pennies contributed by the newsboys of the
United States in memory of their friend, Warren Gamaliel Harding,
was presented by The Roosevelt Newsboys’ Association, through E. E.
Keevin, director.
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The philatelic collection was increased by 5,856 specimens of which
4,956 were transferred from the Post Office Department and 900 were
a donation.

The transfer from the Post Office contained, in triplicate, the new
regular and commemorative issues of all the countries in the Uni-
versal Postal Union, a series of Hungarian stamps issued 1913 to
1924, together with the new United States air mail stamp and the
United States stamp commemorating the 150th aut etelays of the
battle of White Plains.

In 1926 the division came into possession of a collection in a branch
of philately new to the Museum, through the transfer from the Post
Office Department of 12,314 precancel postage stamps, which had
been donated to the department for reference by Walter L. Gates,
of Teaticket, Mass. This year the Precancel Stamp Society, through
its president, John L. Parker, offered its services in building up here
a complete series of these stamps. The society appointed Mr. Gates
as its official representative to procure by various methods the stamps
needed to complete the collection and to assist the Museum philatelist,
if need be, in mounting the specimens. The society this year do-
nated 900 additional precancels, all new to the collection.

INSTALLATION AND PRESERVATION OF COLLECTIONS

Mineral and mechanical technology—The most extensive rear-
rangements of exhibits had to do with the transfer elsewhere of a
collection of 1,106 objects received from the War Department in 1923
and assigned here as relating to the subject of communication. As
this collection is made up entirely of American, allied, and German
war signaling equipment, it was transferred to the division of history
for incorporation in the war collections, to which group it rightfully
belongs. Space thus made available was immediately utilized in the
expansion of the collections on communication and machine tools.
It permitted the exhibition of the more important objects in a less
crowded atmosphere, and the expansion of the machine tool collec-
tion, which had been concentrated in a space considerably less than
one-third of that needed.

With the cooperation of the division of history, the division ar
mineral technology was able to place on exhibition from storage
several exhibits showing the production and refining of several of the
rarer metals. While these exhibits, which have been held in storage
for a great many years, are by no means ideal, they have informative
value and are being used temporarily pending the time when added
exhibition space will make possible more complete and modern col-
lections.

Besides these major rearrangements, the preparator, F. C. Reed,
and assistant, W. L. Dawsey, were constantly at work in the main-

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tenance of the working models, repairing exhibits, cleaning collec-
tions, and making minor rearrangements of individual objects. In
conjunction with this work the assistant curator, Paul EK. Garber,
and aid, F. A. Taylor, were constantly engaged in revising old
descriptive labels, preparing new labels, and attending to general
administrative work.

The divisions are equipped with but one preparator and an assist-
ant, a force by no means adequate to keep the collections in perfect
condition. Changes and improvements in descriptive labels on both
old and new collections are a perpetual task, and it has been impos-
sible as yet to be fully up to date in this respect.

Textiles, foods, organic chemistry, wood technology, and medi-
cine.—In the subjects under the general supervision of the curator
of textiles, all new material has been installed as soon after its re-
ceipt as possible. ‘Twenty-three installations of new exhibit material
or rearrangements of exhibits already on view were made in the tex-
tile halls during the year, the principal changes being in the cotton
and silk sections. The most important new exhibits comprised rayon,
Javanese batiks, hooked rugs, sun-fast cotton goods, and novelty dress
silks,

In the section of foods nine exhibit cases were installed. The most
important new exhibits were those showing honey production and
canned foods for winter consumption by an average family.

In the section of organic chemistry 42 new installations or rear-
rangements were made on the south and southwest court galleries,
covering such subjects as rubber, leather, footwear, felt hats, gut
strings, rayon, and soap. The most noteworthy are the series of
cases devoted to the leather industry, and the exhibit showing the
tapping of a rubber tree to obtain the latex or milk. The latter intro-
duces the series of rubber exhibits installed in the preceding year.
Tts. installation at that time was prevented by an accident which
seriously damaged the wax figure of the tapper. The figure has
since been restored by W. H. Egberts, who also skillfully modeled
the bark and tapping cuts on a real trunk of a rubber tree from an
East Indian plantation, which had been in storage since the Inter-
national Rubber Exposition in 1912.

In the division of medicine 47 new or rearranged installations were
made during the year. The installation of the materia medica ex-
hibits was altered to conform to a new scheme of classification, and
the history of medicine and the pharmacy materials were reorgan-
ized to permit the insertion of new materials recently received. The
most important of the new installations of the year were the Gorgas
memorials, three cases of patent models, the oral hygiene and eye
exhibits, the American home model, and the model depicting the
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tissues of! the organotherapy exhibit were replaced with new mate-
rial, anid the hospital exhibit’ in the Natural ear cee wedi
fietiabed with newlabels.\~

In the wood ‘court 14 installations’ of new exhibition material ie
two rearrangements have been made during the year. ‘The installa-
tions of new material included: Commercial woods of Virginia ; ‘the
table ‘and case’ showing type construction of. Paine’ Lumber ’Co.’s
doors; animated forest fire model; mahogany ‘panels; ‘digger pine and
Dowelas fir cones; tree planting Keats and helps; forest’ fire’ protec-
tion; United States Forest Service camp-fire ‘model; forest utility
ae a rey developed fireplace fuel;\and the shave tire of

“masonite.” The original reversing ene on the Paine ‘doors
was completely removed, and’ a much better’ device installed. The
Japanese timber buimbosd were assembled into two groups instead
of three as formerly’ to conserve space and improve appearance.
Samples of about 900 hitherto unrepresented woods were incorpo-
rated in the study collection, and 525 hand samples of wood | were
prepared for distribution ined exchange. Mat

Graphic arts — Additions’ of note’ to the: permanent exhibition
series included a technical exhibit of engraving specially prepared
for and shown as part’ of the Museum’s ahitie's at the Sesquicenten-
nial at Philadelphia; '72 specimens from the Ferris gift which ‘were
mounted by the curator; and the Wales gift showing t the oo of
a‘ lithograph in two HG

The Musetim has for many years had on exhibition in the division
of history the printing press on which Benjamin Franklin worked
when he first went to England in 1725-26. The press ‘was’ this year
transferred. to the custody of the division of graphic arts. ‘In plac-
ing it on exhibition in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building
advantage was taken of the opportunity to so reassemble the parts
that the press now’ conforms to the old engravings of it.’ The ‘press
is valuable not only from its association with Franklin but’ as’ @
genuine press of that period which has not been restored 'in' any way.

While fewer new exhibits'were incorporated, the permanent exhi- —
bition series as a whole ‘was’ greatly improved by rearrangement.
Much of the exhibition space of the division in the Smithsonian
Building was dismantled ‘for ‘about six weeks during the middle ‘of
the year to'allow the Smithsonian Institution to utilize the main hall
and: connecting range for an important conference early in February.
Special exhibits ofthe varied ‘activities of the Institution and its
branches brought together here for this conference were ‘continued
for several weeks. In providing space inthe connecting range for
the conference, ‘the printing presses and type-casting and composing
machines occupying the center of the range were permanently moved:
into’ the chapel. This necessitated. the complete rearrangement of

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the cases in that hall. After the conference a number. of flat-top
cases were placed in the center of the range, and these, have since
served for the display of the special loan exhibitions. Being adja-
cent to the office of the assistant curator, R. P. Tolman, they cam be
installed and cared for with a minimum of effort.

In the section of photography a general rearrangement of the long
case on the north wall of the court gallery was undertaken with a
view to providing space here to exhibit the comprehensive collection
of early motion-picture apparatus which the Museum has been assem-
bling, mainly through the cooperation of The Motion Picture Pro-
ducers and Distributors of America (Inc.) and through C. Francis
Jenkins and others more or less interested in the industry. The
Museum possesses many motion-picture cameras, projectors, and
other apparatus and prints, only a small part of which it has been
possible heretofore to place on view. Two such _ projectors—a)
Latham projector used in 1895 and an early Mutoscope projector—
formed a part of the Museum’s exhibit at the Sesquicentennial and
were on their return from Philadelphia! added to the exhibition
series. |
Special exhibitions were arranged every month and during most
_ of the year there were two series, one relating to printing PED CEES
and the other relating to pictorial photography.

“The Fifty Prints of the Year,” sponsored by the American Insti-
tute of Graphic Arts and oss August 2 to 28, consisted of 25
conservative and the same number of modern prints, in various
mediums, so that the two trends in art could be studied side by side.
» The inserts of the Sesquicentennial number’ of the American
Printer were shown during the month of September. These related
to the history of the United States in the last 150 years, and from
the graphic arts standpoint were of value as illustrating the quality
of work now being produced in the United States from the Atlantic
to the Pacific in designing, illustrating, engraving, and letter press
printing. These inserts were the work of a hundred. different con-
cerns, and are the property of the Museum.

Sixty-three wood-block prints in. color by Gustave Batman
Santa Fe, N. Mex., were shown October 2 to 29. These were lent
by the artist and werte mostly of western subjects printed in the
European manner.

Fifty-one wood-block prints in color made and lent by Mrs: Beitha
Lum, Hollywood, Calif., were displayed October 80 to November
26. ‘Oriental in fuislGhc,) conception and execution, these formed a’
great contrast with those of Mr. Baumann.

Seventy etchings, drypoints, and wood-block prints in cols ‘e
Bu J. O. Nordfeldt, Santa Fe, N. Mex., were shown as a loan’ from

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him November 27, 1926, to January 2, 1927. His early work was
conservative while his recent productions are in the modern manner.

A group of 24 very rare and valuable eighteenth century color
prints, lent by Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., (Inc.), was shown
January 3 to 29, 1927. This exhibit was appreciated by the public,
as prints of this quality are scarce and seldom seen in any quantity.

Sixty etchings, dry points, and aquatints by H. M. Luquiens, an
American artist of Honolulu, were displayed as a loan January 31
to February 26. All were of Hawaiian subjects.

Fifty dry points, lithographs, and drawings by Chauncey F.
Ryder, New York City, were loaned by that artist for exhibition
February 28 to March 26. His dry points are among the most
skillful the Museum has ever shown.

_ Fifty-five etchings made and lent by Lee Sturges, president of the
Chicago Society of Etchers, were exhibited March 28 to April 23.
His mountain scenes in the West are very impressive.

Fifty lithographs by Bolton Brown, New York City, were shown
April 25 to May 21. All his work is done directly on stone, and his
prints have the true qualities of art.

In the section of photography, 50 bromoils by Floyd Vail, New
York City, were exhibited July 15 to September 30, 1926, the first .
showing of his work in this medium, which gives him a better method
of expression than bromide.

Through Mr. Vail’s efforts 201 prints comprising the pictorial
section of the seventy-first annual exhibition of the Royal Photo-
graphic Society of London, were shown during December. ‘This is
the first time such a series has been seen in America, and marks a
step in the closer relations that now exist between the pictorial
workers of the two countries.

Sixty-nine photographs, “In Old World Gardens,” by Miss Fran-
ces Benjamin Johnston, New York City, were exhibited in February,
1927. These were made by her during a recent sojourn in England,
France, Spain, Italy, and Algeria. t

Twenty-eight portraits by Marcus Adams, London, England,
were shown March 15 to 31. The series was brought to this
country for display at the convention of the Photographers’ Asso-—
ciation of America before which Mr. Adams was an invited
speaker.

The last show of the year, hung June 15 to extend through the
month of July, consisted of 127 prints by members of the Cleve-
land Photographic Society, of Cleveland, Ohio. These are in
various mediums from bromides to color photography. a

History—The work of outstanding importance accomplished in
the division of history this year was the installation in the Museum
of the military and naval collections which had been shown at the

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Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia. This material, with
the exception of the series of flags already mentioned, was all the
property of the Museum, selected mainly from the reserve collec-
tions. Its installation now in the exhibition series, while adding a
new note to the exhibition halls, adds nothing new to the Museum’s
possessions. It calls attention, however, to the vast resources of
historical material available for display when additional space can
be obtained.

The exhibits from Philadelphia, besides the flags mentioned, con-
sisted of a series of military uniforms showing the types used by
the United States Army from 1776 to 1926, all originals except
those of the Revolutionary period, which are reproductions; a
series of swords carried by officers and men of the United States
Army during the same period, the earlier ones of foreign manufac-
ture and those of the first decade of the nineteenth century examples
of the first formal military swords produced in America; a series of
firearms used in the Army, 1776 to 1926, from flintlock pistols to
the modern rifle; a series of shoulder straps worn by officers of the
United States Army from 1850 to 1898, with those worn during the
World War; a complete series of types of medals and decorations
awarded for special services in the United States Army during
1862 to 1926; models of the ships of Columbus, of the Mayflower,
and of the Constitution; and a series of United States and foreign
commemorative postage stamps issued from 1876 to 1926.

Notable changes made during the year in the arrangement of the
floor space and the location of exhibits, particularly in the Arts and
Industries Building, have also greatly enhanced the educational
value of the historical collections. The west hall which had been
occupied for a number of years by specimens in anthropology,
mineral technology, and history was entirely rearranged. All the
anthropological material was removed to the Natural History Build-
ing and the hall was divided lengthwise, the south side for the divi-
sion of mineral technology and the north side for the division of
history. The increased historical space was at once installed with
antiquarian and military materials.

The northwest court which formerly contained the postage-stamp
collection and a miscellaneous collection of antiquarian and military
materials arranged in cases of various sizes, was also completely over-
hauled. The postage-stamp cabinet, formerly set up in the shape of
a rectangle in the center of the court, was moved to the numismatic
hall, where the various sections were placed in a single line along
the south wall. The value of the postage-stamp exhibit was vastly
increased by the improved lighting facilities, by the more prominent
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arrangement of all the frames in a single line, and finally by its
placement in proximity to the numismatic collection to which it is
more closely related than to any other class of historical material.
The miscellaneous floor cases with their contents were taken from
the court and scattered through the other historical halls, thus
affording space in the court for two of the exhibit series from
Philadelphia, namely, the military uniforms installed in remodeled
door screen cases, and the military swords in slope top cases.

In the north hall the antiquarian, military, and naval collections on
display were reclassified and reinstalled, greatly improving general
conditions.

A large amount of military materials of the World War esti
was transferred from the Arts and Industries Building to the Natural
History Building. The historical materials in the latter building
all belong to the period of the World War, and the present plan
is to preserve and perfect this division of material esdeigle the two
buildings.

The time of the curator of history, T. T. Belote, was largely devoted
to a revision of the national numismatic exhibit in anticipation of the
meeting of the American Numismatic Association in Washington
during the third week in August, 1926, and to the preparation of
plans for the installation of the exhibits from the Sesquicentennial,
of new exhibits in the west hall and the northwest court, and to oe
change in the north hall.

In all the above Mr.’ Belote was ably assisted by the assistant
curator, Capt. Charles Carey, who also accomplished independently
much work along other lines, including the completion of the installa-
tion of the historical exhibit at the Sesquicentenniues the care of the
entire Smithsonian exhibit there from August 8 to September 20;
the rearrangement of the exhibition collections in the northeast bite
of the Arts and Industries Building and of the military piles naval
storage collections.

In addition to superintending the moving of the philatelic si
bition collection already mentioned, the philatelist, Mrs. Catherine
L. Manning, installed a special seth of the postage-stamp cabinet .
as a part of the exhibit at the Sesquicentennial. This section con-
tained 50 vertical sliding frames, each providing exhibition space on
each side for four rectangular mounts 8 by 10 inches in size. Upon
these she mounted and labeled a series of 1,889 commemorative
postage stamps and envelopes issued by the United States and 100
foreign countries during the period 1876 to 1926.

Under the direction ue the philatelist the collection of pekbingcaibh
postage stamps was classified and catalogued by Walter L. Gates,
who kindly volunteered his services for this purpose and worked

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in the Museum from November 8 to November 22, 1926... This, collec-
tion includes over 13,000 postage stamps precanceled in many of
the leading cities of the 48 States of the Union and in the District
of Colaniia:

Present condition of the collections——Probably no recent year has
witnessed so many changes in the location and arrangement of the
collections in the department of arts and industries and the division
of history as were accomplished the past year. The Sesquicenten-
nial and the Smithsonian conference both caused much activity in
these lines, with the result that the exhibition halls at the end of
the year were, it is felt, in better condition than ever before, especially
as to grouping within the various divisions. In all the divisions
the appearance of the public exhibition was good and the collections
were well labeled, but lack of space for expansion is keenly. felt.

INVESTIGATION AND RESEARCH

The collections in the wide field covered by the department of
arts and industries and the division of history offer opportunities for
investigation and research in many and varied lines. These collec-
tions are always freely available for study not only by members of
the staff but also by studients and research workers generally, and
Museum employees are always glad to assist other investigators: in
so far as lies in their power. The ever increasing number of speci-
mens without corresponding increase of personnel, however, limits
greatly the amount of time that can be used for such purposes, since
the actual care and preservation of the collections must of RS
take precedence.

research by members of the staff—¥or a number of years the
assistant curator of the divisions of mineral and mechanical tech-
nology, Paul E. Garber, has devoted as much time as possible to
research in aeronautical developments. The results have been shown
from time to time in the construction of aircraft models, and toward
the close of this year a handbook of the aeronautical collections ‘was
written. By means of numerous illustrations from the collections
and descriptive matter, a thumb-nail sketch of the history of aero-
nautics is presented which is believed will prove of value to the
layman.

During the last six months the curator, Carl W. Mitman, and ‘the
aid, F. A. Taylor, were engaged in research concerning the progress
and developments in power generation and transmission, chiefly with
a view to the design of an extensive exhibit bearing on this subject.

‘In the division of textiles a systematic study of the New World
species of Gossypium and other genera related to the cotton plant,
begun some time ago by the curator, F. L. Lewton, was continued.

128 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927
‘

As routine work permitted, work was done on the preparation of
comprehensive technical definitions of textile fabrics based upon
authentic specimens in the collections and the examination of avail-
able current textile literature.

A rearrangement of the study collection of woods from a conser
cal grouping to one arranged according to the most approved botani-
cal classification has facilitated study of the wood structure of
related plant families and aided the classification of wood specimens
of unknown species.

The revision of the classification of the materia reeshiP specimens
continued to receive the principal attention of the assistant curator,
division of medicine, Dr. Charles Whitebread, throughout the year,
and the study of American medical history begun some months ago
was also continued as opportunity offered.

In the division of history the curator, T. T. Belote, continued ad
brought near to completion a treatise on military and naval swords,
and the assistant curator, Capt. Charles Carey, continued the prepara-
tion of a monograph on the firearms in the National Museum. In-
formation was furnished in connection with an unusually large
amount of correspondence relating to matters of general historical
museum interest.

Research of outside investigators and assistance to Federal bureaus
and private individuals.—Assistance given by members of the staff
to two projects, one private and one Federal, may become of far-
reaching importance. Mr. Mitman devoted the greater part of the
first half of the year to developing plans for a proposed industrial
museum for New York City. As to the Federal project, Mr. Mitman
and Mr. Lewton continued work begun last year in connection with
the examination of the accumulation of Patent Office models under —
the act of Congress of February 13, 1925, returning many models to
inventors or their heirs, depositing others in educational establish-
ments, and bringing many hundreds to the National Museum for fur-
ther study before definitely deciding to keep or dispose of same.

Among the Patent Office models selected for preservation in the
division of mechanical technology were a number pertaining to cal-
culating machines, including three models of Barbour, whose pioneer —
work was of much importance in the advancement of this art. Bar-
bour’s models were loaned for study purposes to J. A. V. Turck, of
Chicago, and L. Leland Locke, of Brooklyn, both of whom are recog-
nized as authorities in the calculating machine field and have written
numerous articles bearing on their work.

From time to time the Bureau of Roads of the Department of
Agriculture has called upon the division for assistance, particularly
with regard to questions pertaining to the history of transportation.
This bureau is engaged quite extensively in the preparation of models

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and educational motion pictures bearing on the general subject of
highway transportation, and the Museum has cooperated whenever
called upon. The Baltimore & Ohio, the Southern, and the Dela-
ware & Hudson Railroad Companies were assisted from time to
time during the year in connection with individual historical studies.
Miss Frances Schwartz, assistant to J. D. Ellsworth of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., spent some time in the division exam-
ining and studying data on the subject of communication. Miss
Frances Foster, editorial assistant to Dr. Harold Rugg, Teacher’s
College, Sis tr University, who is engaged in the preparation
of a series of seventh and eighth grade textbooks on the industries
of the United States, was given all possible assistance, particularly
in the form of illustrative matter to be used in these publications.

Another type of assistance rendered was that of checking facts
contained in manuscripts for publication by private individuals.
Thus the chapter on aviation developments contained in a forthcom-
ing book by Mark Sullivan was carefully edited, and the chronology
record on aviation prepared by Maj. Ernest Jones was similarly
checked. In addition to the special help of which the above instances
are typical, the division is daily rendering informative service
through the regular correspondence channels.

In the division of textiles, the large reference collection of wool
fabrics was studied by Francis Fries, a graduate of the Philadelphia
Textile School, for designs of fancy fabrics. Specimens of coir fiber
were supplied the Department of Agriculture for use in a ions
before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

A member of the staff of the United States Tariff Getinniisairl
examined the exhibits and literature on cork. Representatives of the
United States Forest Service, the United States Forest Products
Laboratory, and Lieutenant Harrison, of the Bureau of Aeronautics,
United States Navy Department, sought information from the col-
lections in connection with researches on the use of bamboo in the
construction of airplane pontoons. Prof. Toyokazu Suzuki, of the
Agricultural and Forestry College, of Suigen, Korea, examined
methods of handling exhibition and reserve collections of wood. Dr.
Ryozo Kanehira, director of the department of forestry, Government
Research Institute, Taihoku, Formosa, also studied the wood collec-
tions, being particularly interested in wood anatomy and the by-
products of wood. C. P. Wright, of the department of economics of
Harvard University, utilized Museum material on forest conserva-
tion, in which subject he was engaged in research. C. L. Redfield,
Chicago, Ill, and P. J. Harkins, Washington, D. C., examined
the “ masonite ” products. H.S. Olin, architect, of Baltimore, Md.,
studied the Museum’s specimens of wood sections and micrographs
of wood.

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‘The curator of textiles, F. lL. Lewton, furnished: technical | im-
formation on wool manufacture, Levers lace machines, and the work-
ing of embroidery jacquards, to the textile section of the Bureau of
the Census, United States Department of Commerce. He also’ identi-
fied ‘specimens of fiber for the United States Appraiser’s: Office,
Treasury Department, and supplied a valuation report on a sample
of raw ‘silk produced in America, for the Bureau of Entomology,
United States Department of Agriculture. Special information on
industrial raw materials and the identification of specimens weré
furnished ‘to several bureaus of the Government, and to numerous
individuals, the identification of fibers, fabrics, gums, resins, seeds,
and woods for individuals both in and out of the Government service
continuing to be a part of the regular work. As heretofore, Mr.
Lewton furnished the identification of cottons and cottonseeds intro-
duced by the Office of Foreign Plant Introduction, United States
Department of Agriculture, and to him were referred letters’ re-
questing information on silk and artificial silk recerved ‘by various
Federal departments. Three lots of material were received for iden-
tification and report. |

In the division of graphie arts, the assistant curator, R.. P. Tolman,
rendered assistance in the identification of old paintings, miniatures,
prints, books, especially Bibles, and newspapers both for institutions
and individuals, including, among others, the Frick Art Reference
Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, both of New York
City. Harry B. Wehle, assistant curator of paintings in the latter,
was aided concerning miniatures; both in connection. with the: ex-
hibit in that museum and with Mr. Wehle’s new book on the subject.
Information was also furnished individuals bringing oh im be
son for identification. |

DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE OF SPECIMENS

Distributions from the department of arts and industries and the
division of history aggregated 6,041 specimens, as follows: Gifts in~
aid of education, 498; loans for special] exhibitions elsewhere and
for research or study Br inate 5,200; transferred to other’ Govern:
ment establishments, 5; and returned to owners, 338.

The gifts included 491 Patent Office models relating to mechanical
devices, which were donated to colleges, high choles museums and
other institutions under the terms of the act of Congress of Feéb-
ruary'13, 1925. Some 420 dental patent models not needed imme-
diately for display in the National Museum were lent, 419 to Coltum-
bia University School of Dental and Oral Surgery, New York City,
and 1 to the Northwestern University Dental School, Chicago, Ill.
The other loans were chiefly for exhibition purposes and comprised
mainly the traveling loan exhibits of the division of graphic arts.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 _ ici
NUMBER OF SPECIMENS UNDER DEPARTMENT

The total number of specimens in the department of arts and
industries and the division of history on June 30, 1927, was 447,166
assigned as follows:

VBI CMT O LOS yee es ee ee eee Ue Nit Ne ee ee 4,188
Mechanical) technology. in ae 6, 609
“AY Seo A SY SION a pe Da Naa Ae Paes sg VE I Nate Ni ss NSIS 12, 080
AVY OO CTE CH MOL Sayan vee oo AEE LE the ae SEED a ENS Ba Pe 5, 844
TP aTiTE” CHETMES Ty ao OEE NE OS A AS Bae has 17, 662
JW OYO(G SS SER A a AR Ed Le CC ae eI 1, 192
MUL SCBCD TTC SW RORN EEN NENI RI CRO uly Qi Lalas Set at 14, 036
Graphic arts, including photography____-___________-___-_ 28, 631
Loeb collection of chemical types___________________-____ 990
15 USE ICD ii RS LIE en rN GR ECR tg 355, 934

447, 166

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS TO THE COLLECTIONS DURING
THE FISCAL YEAR 1926-97

(EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE INDICATED, THE SPECIMENS WERE PRESENTED OR WERE
TRANSFERRED BY BUREAUS OF THE GOVERNMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW)

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, North
Chicago, Ill.: Specimen of epineph-
rin, a medicinal substance made offi-
cial in the U. S. Pharmacopoeia X

~ (93560) ; (through Dr. E. H. Vol-
wiler) ; specimen of chemical for
the Loeb collection of chemical types
(97637).

ACADEMY OF NATURAL § SCI-

-ENCKS, Philadelphia, Pa. (through
Dr. Henry W. Fowler) : 238 speci-
mens of fishes from Hawaii and

' neighboring islands (94517, ex-
change) ; 5 specimens of flies
(94691).

ADAMS, Lersiip T., Oxford, England:
12 lantern slides (96066).

ADAMS, Marcus, London, England:

28 portraits for special exhibition of
his work from March 15 to 31 ,1927
(95239, loan).

ADDINGTON, HueH M., Nicklesville,
Va.: Shed skin of a black snake
(96877).

ABLLEN, Prof. Pau, Schaffhausen,
Switzerland: Plant from Sweden
collected by Carl Blom (92969) ; 92
plants (95383.) Exchange.

AGRICULTURH, DEPARTMENT
OF:

Bureau of Agricultural Economics:
Set of official standards of the
United States for American cot-
ton linters; bulk samples of sev-
en grades of cotton linters, and
a specimen of cottonseed oil
cake (95104).

Bureau of Biological Survey:
Model illustrating the part rats
play in disease transmission and
the methods of proofing houses
against them (89421) ; 22 plants
collected in Florida by A. H.
Howell (92143); 24 cleaned

AGRICULTURE, DEPT.—Continued.
Bureau of Biological Survey—Con.
skeletons of birds (92326); 11
skeletons of birds from Arizona
and Nevada and 11 raven eggs
from Oregon (92541) ; eggs and
larvae of land crabs collected at
the Bureau of Fisheries Station,
Key West, Fla., by Philip R.
Stephenson, acting superintend-
ent; 10 land crabs and 26 vials
containing eggs and young, be-
ing material that was used in
land crab experiments at the
fisheries biological laboratory, at
Key West, Fla., during the
month of September, 1926
(92549, 95393); 3 eggs of a
curassow laid by a captive bird
at Sapelo Island, Ga. (92860) ;
73 reptiles and batrachians in-
cluding specimens from Florida,
Nevada, and Mexico (92955) ;
96 specimens of lichens collected
in Alaska by L. J. Palmer
(92994) ; young yellow-crowned
night heron and 2 basket stars
from Florida (93495, 94986); 3
fossil bison bones, 25 specimens
of lichens, and 2 skeletons of
birds from Alaska (94103, 94384,
94585); (through W. L. Mc-
Atee) plant from South Dakota
(94256); 8 skeletons of birds
from the eastern United States
(94871) ; 9 snakes, 1 turtle, 1
toad, and 2 alligators (94486) ;
211 plants collected in Alaska by
Messrs. Palmer and Miller
(94741) ; 187 reptiles and am-
phibians from Guatemala
(95673) ; skeleton and skin of 2
birds and 640 mammals (96293,
96941).

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134 LIST OF ACCESSIONS

AGRICULTURE, DEPT.—Continued.
Bureau of Entomology (through

; AGRICULTURE, DEPT.—Continued.
Federal Horticultural Board—Con.

E. <A. McGregor, Lindsay,
Calif.) : 30 specimens of unde-

: termined »insects) (92595)); 12

isopods collected: by Dr.\ S.C.
Bruner, Santiago, Cuba (92952) ;
85 specimens’ of determined
eoleopterous larvae © (98547) ;
(through FE. C. Bishepp) 6 speci-
mens of, flies (94391) ; crab col-
lected by James Zetek on Barro
Colorado Island, Canal Zone
(94781) ; 19,3873 miscellaneous
insects (97143). 00, yo...

(See also. under, R. W.

Harned.)

Bureau of Entomology, Bee-Cul-

ture Laboratory, Somerset, Md.:

‘Colony of 3-banded Italian bees,

samples of honey, beekeeping

- supplies, and photographs on the

subject of beekeeping (93490).

Federal Horticultural, Board: 4

land shells from New. Orleans,
La. (92352) ; isopod from China,

land shell from Honduras, and |

tree frog from South Carolina
(92353); 48 isopods (92365,
92453, 93583, 96308, 96616); 3
land shells and an isopod from
gamaica (92886, 92865) ; 16 land
shells from the West Indies and
Germany (92399); 3 isopods
from Cuba (92535); milliped
from Java (92602) ; lizard from
banana débris and pupa and
larva. of a. dipterous insect
(92603) ; isopod from the Phil-
ippine Islands, and 2 shells from
Costa. Rica (92789) ; gecko from
Costa Rica (93175); shell and
2 insects from China (92824,
93173) ; : ‘mollusk from New Eng-
land. (92866) ; ; 4 isopods col-
lected at Rosemont, Montgomery
County, Pa. (92976); 4 land
shells from, the Azores and
Switzerland, and an isopod from
the Azores (93199); 4 land
shells from Australia, and ;
isopods from India (93202) ;

:

' Seotia

isopods from France, and 4 mol-
lusks from England and Nova.
(93259) ; isopod | from
Holland, 1 from France, and 5
from China (93393); 2 isopods
from Holland and 2 land shells
from Costa Rica (93438) ; mol-
lusk from Mexico (938382); 14
mollusks from France,, Porto
Rico, England, and Germany
(98844,.94843) ; isopod from the
Philippine Islands (94857) ; frog
irom, Savannah, Ga. (94499) ;
16 land, shells and slugs, from
Europe, and 11 isopods from
India, (94504) ; 10 amphipods; 1
isopod and 4 mollusks (94600) ;
mollusk. from Brazil . (94748) ;
mollusk from Bermuda and a
lizard, from Honduras, (95186) ;
2 slugs from the Azores , (95545) ;
2 slugs and a_ snail. from
Treland , (95678, 96097) ; 4 iso-
pods from Costa Rica and Hol-
land and a mollusk from Ire-
land (95759) ; 4, land. mollusks
from Hngland and Spain and 3
isopods from Italy (95898); 5

slugs and snails from Munope
and a _myriapod (96902) ; sy

land ‘mollusks from none
Hungary, and Cuba, and 9 iso-
pods from England (96067) ; 7

land shells from the West. In-
dies, Bermuda, and “Central
America, also 1 land planarian
from Bermuda (96446); slug
from Germany (96807). bai:

Forest Service: Type specimen of

plant from Oalifornia (94581) ;
16 ‘posters for use in exhibit

arranged for American forest

week (96300); (through H. R.

Kylie), campfire. model and 6

colored bromides , of | forest
scenes. for exhibition. during
American forest week, (96801,
loan) ; photograph of a multiple
cone, from shortleaf _ pine
(96863) e plant from Oregon

97068).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

AGRICULTURB, DEPT.—Continued.
Bureau of Plant Industry: 4 plants

_. (92407, 94541); (through. Prof.
Ny RSP Hitchcock) 2 plants from
Peru (92408), 2,936 mounted
specimens of grasses, plant from
Argentina, and 2 plants from

Brazil (94257, 94946, 95747,
. 96847); 5 plants: collected in
Cuba: by Professor Hitchcock

(94758) ; (through O. M. Free-
man) 2 plants (92409, 93383) ;

20 plants from Arizona (92410) ;
(through Frederick V. Coville)
1 specimen and 6 photographs of
plants from Maryland; 3 plants
from Texas; 58 plants and 10
photographs (92462, 93265,

; 99870); (through, Dr... H.
Kearney) 1,657 plants from Ari-
zona (92463, 94259, 94729, 94734,
94999, 96466, 96963, 97095), 71
specimens of ferns from Arizona
(93396, 94215, 94582, 95341) ;
(through Mrs, Agnes Chase)

_ 2,552. specimens of grasses
(92479, 94258, 94512); plant
from New. Jersey (92597) ;
(through Dr. C. R. Ball) 42
plants (92954, 93191, 93382) ; 7
plants from Colorado (93397,
93493) ; 3 plants from Uruguay
and Paraguay (93149) ; (through
L. H. Dewey) plant from Cuba
(93264) ; (through H. C. Skeels)
228 specimens of plants collected
in Moroceo and other localities
by Dr. David Fairchild (93426),
30 specimens of ferns collected in
’ the Hast Indies by Doctor Fair-
child and Mr. Dorsett (93494),
1,400 plants collected in China
and Manchuria by Mr. Dorsett
(93538), 48 plants collected in
the East Indies by Messrs. Fair-
child and Dorsett (94719), plant
from Georgia (96767) ; (through
M. W. Talbot) plant (93475) ;
(through Prof. O. F. Cook) 15
plants from South America, 4
photographs of palms from Vene-
zuela, 15 palms (93623, 94099,

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AGRICULTURE, DEPT.-Continued.
Bureau of Plant Industry—Contd.
94109) ; (through John A. Ste
venson) 19 hand samples of Man-
churian woods (94562); cross
sections, of 10 Hgyptian trees
(94563) ; 12 named varieties of
almonds grown in California in
' 1926. (95103) ; 106° plants, ecol-
lected in South Ameriea by Dr.
J. R. Weir (96094) ;. (through
Dr, 8. F. Blake) 76 plants col-
lected in Arizona by Dr. T. H.
Kearney (96768).

AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT
STATION, Logan, Utah: 4 bees
representing native species (90458).

AGRICULTURAL EXPHRIMENT
STATION, Department van den
Landbouw, Paramaribo, Surinam

(through Gerold Stahel, ae
5 plants (96075). 1)

ALADDIN CO., THE; Bay City,
Mich.: Model illustrating the evolu-
tion of the American home and

‘emphasizing the advance in hygienic
living conditions (93552).

ALDUS PRINTERS (INC.), THE,
New York City (through Bert C.
Chambers) : 12 examples ‘in color
produced by the new “Jean Berté”
process of color printing, Patent No.
1595756 (98165) ; 6 examples of the
new method of printing in water
color, developed by the donor
(96424).

ALEXANDER, Dr. C. P.
Dr. Edward Jacobson.)

ALFARO, Sr. Don Anastasio, San
José, Costa Rica, Central America:
27 specimens of orchids from Costa
Rica (92784). ala

ALLAN, JAmzEs,.. Mountain
N. Mex.: 2 plants (94604).

ALLEN, C. C., St. Petersburg, Fla.:
Approximately 350 mollusks from

(See under

Park,

Florida, Bahamas, and . Cuba
(92455). |
ALLEN, C. F.,.H., Boston, Mass.: 13

specimens of chemicals for the Loeb
collection of chemical types (95863).

136

ALLEN, HAROLD.
May L. Allen.)
ALLEN, Dr. H. W., Riverton, N. J.:
2 type specimens of flies (95340).
ALLEN, Mrs. Laura M., Watertown,
ON. Y.: 34 specimens of hand-woven
fabrics, including an old draft of a
design ‘ Flowery Walks,” written
January 15, 1842, intended to illus-
trate the evolution of domestic

(See co Miss

manufactures, collected by the
donor from various weavers and
persons interested in weaving
(93198).

ALLEN, Miss May L., and Haroip
ALLEN, Washington, D. C.: Black
Chantilly lace fan of the early part
of the 19th century, and 2 dresses of
the period of the Spanish-American
War. (94693).

ALLEN, R. A., Washington,
Moro spear (93381).

ALLEN, WALTER E.woop, Washington,

'D. C.: Specimen of a blue jay from
Maryland (96274).

D. C.:

AMERICAN CELLULOSE & CHEMI- |

CAL MANUFACTURING CO.
(LTD.), New York City: 22 speci-
mens of celanese yarns and fabrics,
a sample of a scouring agent for
celanese, and 58 specimens of arti-
ficial dyestuffs, 21 of them for dye-
ing celanese, 13 which dye wool,
and 24 which dye cotton, but not
celanese (93447).

AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIA-

_ TION, Chicago, Tl.:
phasizing the importance of
hygiene (92992).

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF
GRAPHIC ARTS, THE, New York
City: “Fifty prints of the Year”
(92297, loan).

AMERICAN MACHINE & FOUNDRY
CO., Brooklyn, N. Y.: Set of speci-
mens of Inda, a casein plastic,
mounted on a wooden tray, consist-
ing of 20 small plaques and four-
teen 3-inch pieces of half-inch tubing
all in varied colors (93144).

AMERICAN MILITARY } ENGI-
NEERS, THE SOCIETY OF, Wash-
ington, D. C. (through L. R. Lohr,

oral

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MILITARY ENGI-
NEERS, THE SOCIETY OF—Con.
executive secretary): Medal, bar,
button, and ribbon of the Society of
American Military Engineers
(96259).

AMHBRICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY, New York City: 2 small
mammals from China; cast of a
porpoise from Tung Ting Lake,
China; 2 bird skins; hair seal from
Greenland; 16 specimens of flies;

. east and model of the skull of a dino-
saur (92808; 93879; 94968; 95102;
95397; 95894, exchange); 7 speci-
mens of Anthidiine bees, represent-
ing 5 species, including paratypes of
2 species; 2 crabs; (through Mr.
Childs Frick) casts of the lower
jaws of a mastodon in the museum
at Lyon, France, and of skulls and
jaws of 8 smaller mammals (94362,
94558, 95010). ;

AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSO-
CIATION, Pittsburgh, Pa. (through
Dr. Thomas H. Martin): An exhibit
emphasizing the importance of con-
servation of vision (94545).

AMERICAN PHARMACEUTICAL AS-
SCCIATION (INC.), Baltimore, Md. :
Copy of The National Formulary V
(official copy A—7593) for inclusion
in the exhibit illustrating the history
of the United States medical stand-
ards (92406).

AMERICAN PRINTER, THE (through
Edmund G, Gress), New York City:
91 mounted inserts showing the
“Chronological list of Events in
American History,” as pictured in
the Sesquicentennial number of The
American Printer, and 1 copy of
The American Printer, July, 1926
(92583).

AMERICAN PROTEIN CORPORA-
TION, Boston, Mass.: 5 specimens
of commercial organic derivatives
from the edible proteins separated
from beef blood (94057).

AMERICAN RAILWAY ASSOCIA.
TION, New York City (through Mr,
H. S. Balliet, secretary): A train
indicator signal, one of a _ series

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AMERICAN RAILWAY ASSOCIA-
TION—Continued.
being assembled by the American
Railway Association to visualize
progressive steps in the methods of
railway signaling (94712).

AMERICAN TRIPOLI CO., Seneca,
Mo.: Specimen of fossil of the order
Conularida from Oklahoma (96483).

AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS CoO..
Jersey City, N. J.: Bronze bust of
Theodore Low DeVinne by Chester
Beach (92434, loan).

AMERINDIAN MUSEUM, THE, Pat-
erson, N. J.: Conch shell wampum
material from Pascack, N. J. (92825,
exchange).

AMET, E. H., Redondo Beach, Calif.:
A small piece of early motion film;
a negative, % by 414, of a model
basin with miniature battle fleet in
action and representing one of the
earliest utilizations of models in
producing full size motion pictures;
a news clipping relating to motion
pictures from an 1898 paper, ‘and a
business card having on the back a
cut of the ‘ Magniscope,” one of the
early forms of motion picture appa-
ratus (94132).

ANDRADBH, Dr. E. Navarro bE, Rio

Clare, Sao Paulo, Brazil, South
America: 19 beetles (96484, ex-
change).

ANONYMOUS: Wasco or Umatilla
basket, 2 Tlingit baskets, 3 pairs of
beaded moccasins, and a_ large
twined Indian hemp bag made by
Umatilla Indians (96443).

ARCHABOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF
WASHINGTON, Washington, D. C.:
Pottery vessels and fragments col-
lected by Dr. Manuel Gamio for the

‘society at various localities in Gua-
temala (58 specimens) (92995,
loan) ; collection of paleolithie stone
implements and osseous material
from the rock shelter of Castel Merle

near Sergeac, Dordogne, France
(95150, deposit).
ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD, Camp

Nome No. 9, Nome, Alaska (througk
Dr. A. Hrdlitka): 2 wooden spear
throwers, a wooden hook, 2 carved

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ARCTIC BROTHERHOOD—Contd.
wooden masks, a mounted imple-
ment, wooden dance rattle, and part
of a fire-making set, from Seward
Peninsula, Alaska (92889).

ARKANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF, Fay-
etteville, Ark. (through David G.
Hall): 5 flies (95172).

ARMOUR & CO., Chicago, Vl.: 22 —
specimens of raw glands and glan-
dular tissues obtained from slaugh-
tered food animals (92838); a se-
rieg of specimens illustrating stages
in the manufacture of soap, includ-
ing 20 samples of soap making and
9 samples each showing steps in
the recovery of glycerin and of fatty
acids as valuable by-products
- (92870).

ARMSTRONG, W. R., Gastonia,
N. C.: 2 photographs of an old cot-
ton ginning, carding,.and spinning
machine owned by the donor; also
a specimen of cleaned cottonseed
and one of yarn turned out by the
machine (91229).

ARNOLD, BENJAMIN WALWORTH.
(See under Miss Edith Drury.)

ARROW, GILBERT J. (See under
British Government, British Mu-
seum (Natural History).

ARSENE, Rev. Brother G., Las Vegas,
N. Mex.: 3,035 plants from New
Mexico (938472, 96662); 18 plants
(95752).

ASSOCIATION FOR STAMP EXHI-
BITIONS (INC.), THE, New York
City: Bronze plaque designed by
Emil Fuchs, commemorating the
International Philatelic Exhibition,
New York, 1926 (94960).

ATKINS, Commander A. K., United
States Navy, Charleston Navy Yard,
Charleston, S. C.: 80 marine an-
nelids collected by the donor in
Cooper River opposite the navy yard

(87186).
ATKINSON, Mrs. D. T., San An-
tonio, Tex:: 15 photographs of

eacti (96962, exchange).

ATLANTIC AIRCRAFT CORPORA-
TION, Hasbrouck Heights, N. J.:
Descriptive data relating to the

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ATLANTIC AIRCRAFT. CORPORA- |

TION—Continued.

Fokker F-VII Trimotor air liner, |

consisting of photographs, bulletins,
and blue print (94860).

AUSTEN, Maj: BE: BH. (See under
British Government, British Mu-
seum (Natural History).

AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM, THH, Sya-
ney, Australia (through Frank A.
McNeill): 3
ans, one from Saddleback Island,
near Port. Denison, and 2 from Cap-
vicorn, Group (islands), Augtralia
(92497, exchange).

AVERY, Miss Myra H., Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.: Pottery, Roman lamp, and a
piece of the, wedding dress of a
bride who came over in the May-
flower (96609).

AYERS, Marsa “M., Wastin
D. C.: A nearly complete male In-
dian skull found on an island near
Duluth, Minn. (93147).

AZTEC CLUB OF 1847, THE, Wash-
ington, D. C. (through Col. J. F.
Reynolds Landis, United States
Army (retired) ) ; Bronze medal com-
memorating the seventy-fifth anni-
versary of the founding of the Azter
Club of 1847 (92356).

BABCOCK, O. G., Sonora, Tex.: A
small lot of human skeletal remains
from a cave hear Sonora, and 2
flint implements (91339).

BACON SCHOLARSHIP. (See under
Walter Rathbone Bacon scholar-
ship. )

BADGER, H. S:, Deland, Fla.:
‘from Florida’ (95178).

BAILEY, Dr. L. H., Ithaca, N. Y.:
Plant from Texas (92429); 2 plants
(93492, 95181)'; 38 photographs and a

fragmentary specimen of plant
(94108, exchange) ;.3 specimens and
6 photographs of plants (94498, ex-
change) ;: plant from’: Hawaii
(95128); 5 plants from California
(953844, 95634).

(See also under Ernest B. Braun-
ton.)

BAILEY, Vernon, Washington, D. C.:
Plant from Michigan (93222).

Plant

specimens of crustace-—

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS |»

BAKER, Prof.’C. F:, Los Banos; P. I):
3806 moths from the Philippine
Islands, containing many noxplties
(86787).

BAKHR, Dy. F.. H., Richinaga Vie-
toria, Australia; 17 insects ‘from
Australia: (94970, 95639) 5 )5::speci-
mens of. miscellaneous insects; 9
specimens, 4 species, of marine shells
from, Australia (95146, 96984, ex-

change). re wane
BALDINGHR, Maj. O. M..,), United
States Army (retired), Marion,

Ohio:; Collection of buttons; of the
latter part of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury (252 specimens) (93176). .

BALDWIN BIRD RESEARCH, LAB-
ORATORY, THE, Gates Mills, Ohio:
20 flies, bird parasites (93278).

BALDWIN, RatpeH, Clarendon,, Va.:
Blant “(95885 en inti A

BALDWIN, Mastzr, Nome, Alaska
(through _Dr.. A. Hrdlitka).:. Ap-
proximately 25 specimens, 7 species,
of marine shells (93549).

BALL, Dr. C. R.. (See under Agricul-
ture, Department. of, Bureau of
Plant Industry.)

BALL, W. H., Washington, D. C.:
Ring- necked duck from the Potomac
River (94594).

BALLINT, H. 8.
Railway Association,
City. ).

BALLINT, Lerson, Tonopah, Nev.:
Crystals of aragonite from a cavern
in. the Grapevine ‘Mountains, 16
miles west of Beatty, Nev. (92621).

BALLING, Wit11Am M., San Gabriel,
Calif. (through Hoyt’ 8.’ Gale and
W. T. Schaller): Examples’ of | the
mineral kernite (96779). |.

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD
CO., Baltimore, Md.:° Bronze medal
‘commemorating the centennial anni-
versary of the Baltimore .& + Ohio
Railroad Co., 1927 (96775):. - /

BALTZLY, Stantey M. (See under
Miss Lillian M. Fletcher.) |:

BANKS, NatHan; Cambridge, » Mass.
(through Dr. H. G. Dyar) : 8) speci-
mens, 5 species, of flies; 3 of which
are cotypes of 3 appcige (ABMs ex-
change). rar ¢)

(See under American
New York

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BARBER, H. 8., Washington, D. C.:
Decorated battle ax collected by
Frank N. Myers in western Tibet in

1911 (94488, loan).

BARBOUR, Dr: THomaAs, Cambridge,
Mass.: A remarkable species of
wren. from Cuba, representing a
genus and species new to the Mu-
seum collections (96445) ; bird from

» Cuba, representing a genus and
species new to the Museum collec-
tions (96913).

BARCLAY, Capt. Hucu, Rio de Ja-
“neiro, Brazil: Collection of gém min-
erals” in rough and cut form
(94359).

BARNEY, Mrs: Arice C., Washington,
D. C.: 4 Thirteenth century painted
and gilded panels from a chapel in
southern France (953863, loan).

BARTLETT, Capt. R. A., New York
City: Approximately 776 specimens
of marine invertebrates together
with algae, echinoderms, mollusks,
and fishes from North Greenland
(92510).

BARTRAM; Hpwin B., Tuscon, Ariz.:
64 plants’ (94957, 95126, 96186).
BARTSCH, Dr. Pavr, Washington,
D. C.: 15 birds from Columbia Is-
land, Wash., D. C. (92420) : 6 birds
from Florida (98269); a large
sponge from the beach at Biscayne
Bay, Fla. (93399); specimen of a
western sandpiper from Washington,

D. C. (98428).

BAUMANN, Gustave, Sante Fe, N.
Mex.: 63 wood-block prints in color
for special exhibition of his work
from October 2 to 29, 1926 (93425,

Joan).
BAXTER, Dr. Gi P., Cambridge,
Mass.: Specimen of pollucite from

Perein 8. Dudley dike of pegmatite
on Hodgens Hill, 34% miles south-
west of Buckfield, Me. (94101).
BAYER CO: (INC.), THE, Albany,
N. Y.: 5 specimens of medicinal sub-
stances made official in the United
' States Pharmacopoeia X (93252).
BEACH, I. T., Ithaca, N. Y.: 2 speci-
mens of chemicals for the Loeb col-
‘lection of chemical types (96368).

139

BEALS, Mrs. W. G., Douglas, Ariz.:
67 plants from Arizona (95138).

BEAMER, Prof. R. H. (See under
Kansas, University of.)

BEATTIE, Dr. R. Kent, Washington,
D. C.: 3 plants from Oregon (97101).

BECK, Hiiis A., Washington, D. C.:
Butterfly (92483).

BECKWITH, Frank, Delta, Utah: 27
specimens of trilobites from the
Middle Cambrian of Utah (96226) ;
miscellaneous fossil specimens from
Utah (96482).

BEECROFT, W. I., Escondido, Calif. :
7 plants (95875).

BEISLER, Walter H., Pith éetin: N.
J.: 3 specimens of ahednieale for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(97624).

BELANSKI, C. Hi, Nora Springs,
lowa: 20 specimens, paratypes and
plesiotypes, of Devonian fossils from
Towa (95401)..

BELL TELEPHONE LABORATO-
RIES, New York City: 3 cabinets
containing 297 specimens’ of erude
gutta-percha and 81 leaf specimens
of gutta-percha trees’ from Dutch
East Indies, Malay, and the Philip-
pine Islands (94623).

BENEDICT, Rev. Brother A.,: Sante
Fe, N. Mex.: 189 plants from New
Mexico (93221, 98385, 94733).

BENEDICT, Dr. James E., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Wood thrush from Mary-
land (98450).

BENEDICT, James E., jr., Linden,
Md.: Medusa (jelly-fish) collected
by the donor at Piney Point, Md.
(93166) ; 72 amphipods, 5 isopods
and 5 insects (98224); 3 sponges,
approximately 25 bryozoans, 12 ma-
rine .annelids, 2. isopods, approxi-
mately 25 amphipods; 17 shrimps,
22 crabs, 2 shipwormis, and 1 mollusk
(933889) ; erab, 2 amemones, and a
marine annelid collected: in the vicin-
ity of Herring Creek, St. Mary’s
County, Md. (948738); 4 mollusks
(95518); 3 specimens of fiddler
erabs' collected by the donor at Tall
Timbers, Herring Creek, tributary
of the Potomae River (96405); 25

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BENEDICT, James B., jr—Continued. | BLAKE, Dr. 8. F—Continued.

specimens of terrestrial isopods ¢ol-
lected on the beach at Tall Timbers
(96915).
BENN, JAMES.
Shannon.)
BERGER, Dr.

(See under Earl V.

E. W., Gainesville,

Fla.: Approximately 15 » isopods
(95733).
BERRY, Dr. Epwarp W. (See under

Johns Hopkins Unversity.)

BERTHOLF, Mrs. Emmie B., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Gold medal awarded
by act of Congress, approved June 28,
1902, to Lieut. Ellsworth P. Bertholf,
United States Revenue Cutter Serv-
ice, in recognition of his services in
connection with the expedition of
1897-98, for the relief of whaling
ships in the Arctic regions (95229,
loan).

BETSCH, Curis, Russian Mission.
Alaska (through Dr. A. Hrdlicka) :
2 wooden vessels inlaid with lime-
stone, a plain wooden vessel, and a

bag of soil containing charred wood |

(92968).

BEVILL, Curves J., Waldron, Ark.:
Impressed clay objects found by the
donor in a shallow ravine on the
farm of Algie Bennett, 2 miles west
of Waldron (10 specimens) (94778).

BIBLINSKI, R. C. G., Delanco, N. J.:
Snuff bottle, witch doctor’s staff, 2
spears, 2 wire arm bands, and a
photograph of some idols, all African
(95227).

BIRMINGHAM, Pat, Aragon, N.
Mex. (through Mr. Rhea Kuyken-
dall) : 2 leg bones and portions of
2 skulls of male Indians from Cat-
ron County, N. Mex. (938836).

BIRT, CHartes H., Ann Arbor, Mich.:
Snake from Kansas (96482).

BISHOPP, F. C. (See under <Agri-
culture, Department of, Bureau of
Hntomology.)

BLAKH, Mrs. Doris H., Washington,
D. C.: 337 miscellaneous, undeter-
mined insects from Europe (93585).

BLAKE, Dr. S. F. Washington, D. C.:
17 plants (95009); 2. plants from
the western United States (96648).

(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Plant In-
dustry and Field Museum of Nat-
ural History, Chicago, Il.)

BLAKE, Dr. 8S. F., and Paut C.
STANDLEY, Washington, D. C.: 16
plants from New England (93419).

BLERIOT-ABRONAUTIQUE, Sures-
nes (Seine), France: 10 photo-
graphs of airplanes made by the
company, namely: Spad No. 61,
world altitude record (3 photos) ;
Spad No. 51 (2 photos); Spad
No. 56 (2 photos); Bleriot No. 165
(2 photos) ; Spad No. 81 (1 photo.) ;
also printed descriptive matter on
these planes (95558).

BLISS, Gen. Tasker H., United States
Army, Washington, D. C.: Approxi-
mately 220 ethnological specimens,
6 boxes of shells, and a large turtle
shell from the Philippine Islands
(96608).

BLY, Mrs. CHarLres, Kingman, Ariz.:
Plant (loco wood) (96013).

BODEKRR, Fr., Cologne, Germany: 2
photographs of plants (93840,
94542, exchange); 3 plants (94711,
951538, exchange) ; 2 photographs of
plants (97090).

BOGUSCH, E. R., Austin, Tex.: 329
plants (93242).

(See also under Texas, thiventis

of.)

BOLTON, THEODORE, Brooklyn, N. Y.:
Photograph in color by M. Miley &
Son, Lexington, Va., of. Charles
Willson Peale’s oil painting of
George Washington (94766).

BOOTH, Dr. E. R., Cincinnati, Ohio
(through Dr. Riley D. Moore, Wash-
ington, D. C.): 7 pictures for addi-
tion to the exhibit of the history of
osteopathy in the Museum (92611).

BOSCHMA, H., Leiden, Holland: 3
erabs collected by the donor at Tor-
tugas, Florida (88167).

BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL
HISTORY, Boston, Mass. (through
-C. W. Johnson): 2 flies and 14
moths; 160 specimens of determined
Coleoptera: and 52 specimens of de-

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BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL
-HISTORY—Continued.
termined bees from Mount Desert,
Me. (93568, 94997).

BOTANIC GARDENS, Singapore,
Straits Settlements: 84 specimens of
ferns, mostly from the Malay Penin-
sula (94260, exchange).

BOTANICAL INSTITUTE OF MA-
SARYK UNIVERSITY, Brno,
Czechoslovakia: 100 specimens of
plants (Century II, Flora Exsiccata
Reipublicae Bohemicae Slovenicae)
(97066, exchange).

BOTANICAL MUSEUM OF UPSALA
UNIVERSITY, Upsala, Sweden:
290 plants from Brazil (Regnell col-
lection) (97085, exchange).

BOTANISCHER GARTEN UND MU-
SEUM, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany: 2
photographs and fragmentary speci-
men of plant (92774) ; (through Dr.
R. Pilger) fragmentary specimen
and 2 photographs of a plant; plant
and photograph of a plant (93932,
94720); (through Dr. I. Urban) 2
photographs of type specimens of
plants from Cuba, (94261) ; 4 plants
from the West Indies (95129); 100
plants from Bolivia (95975). Ex-
change.

BOURN, W. S., Buzzard Bay, Munden,
Va-: Hydroid (92539).

BOVING, Dr. A. G. (See under E.
Rosenberg. )

BRABANT, Madame Marius DE
(through Mrs. Henry Fairfield Os-
born, New York City): Oil painting
by W. 8S. Horton showing General
Pershing and the American troops
traversing the Place de la Concorde
on the occasion of the Victory Féte
in Paris, July 14, 1919 (91078).

BRADY, Maurice K., Washington,
D. C.: 18 lizards, 4 snakes, and 1
frog from Texas (95376).

BRAMWELL, D., Jamaica, British
West Indies: Approximately 1,000
shells from Jamaica (93215).

BRANDT, Lieut. Commander Gzrorezr
E., United States Navy, Washington,
D. C.: 4 crabs, some brittle stars,
and a Shell collected by the donor

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BRANDT, Lieut. Commander GrorcEe

E.— Continued.

on the beach at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba (92393); sea urchin from
Salinas Bay, Nicaragua, and 12
barnacles (96487).

BRAUNTON, Eenest B., Los Angeles,
Calif. (through Dr. L. HZ Bailey):
2 living plants (95154); 3 plants
from California (95636, 96451).

BREGUET, Louis, Paris, France: 4
photographs of the “ Breguet XIX”
airplane which obtained the world’s
distance record without landing
three times during the year 1926;
also 3 copies of the Breguet Journal
containing accounts of these flights
(95661).

BRENTZEL, Prof. W. H., Agricultural
College, North Dakota: 6 plants
from North Dakota (93231).

BRIDGE, Prof. Jostauw, Rolla, Mo.: 15
small collections of invertebrate fos-
sils from the Cambrian rocks of
Missouri (93590).

BRIMLEY, C. S., Raleigh, N. C.:
Nematode worm belonging to an un-
identified species (93228).

(See also under North Carolina
Department of Agriculture.)

BRINKMAN, A. H., Craigmyle, Alber-
ta, Canada: 348 plants from Can-
ada (94969).

BRISTOL, UNIVERSITY OF, Bristol,
England: 5 specimens representing
paratypes of a bryozoan (94494) ;
collection of invertebrate fossils
from the Carboniferous of Great
Britain (94579).

BRITISH GOVERNMENT:

British Museum (Natural His-
tory), London, England:
(Through Gilbert J. Arrow)
paratype of a leaf beetle
(92811) ; (through Dr. J. Water-

' ston) 6 specimens of hymenop-
terous parasites, including para-

types of 2 species, 142 specimens
of determined bees, representing

117 species, many of them new
to the collection (93942, 96904,
exchange) ; (through George T.
Prior) slice weighing 88 grains

142

BRITISH GOVERNMENT—Contd.
of the meteoric stone which fell
on January 19, 1865, at Supuhee,
Padrauna, Gorakhpur district,
' United Provinces, India (94089,
exchange) ; (through Maj. EH. E.
Austen) 15 flies representing
-10 species (94106); (through
Ward’s Natural Science Hstab-
lishment, Rochester, N. Y¥.) a
nearly complete individual of
the meteorite of Hessle, Sweden
(91481, exchange) ; (through L.
R. Cox) casts of the holotypes
of 7 species of fossil mollusks
(94654, exchange) ; (through N.
- Burton) 38 fresh-water sponges
(94911, exchange) ; 2 frogs from
Tibet (95432, exchange).
Geological Survey of Great Britain,
London, England: A series of
rock specimens of the chalk of
England (93025) ; series of rocks
and minerals illustrating the
geology of Mull (94770).

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sur- |

rey, England: 9 fragmentary
plants (93212, 95169) ; fern from
Colombia (93936); (through T.
A. Sprague) fragmentary plant
(94100) ; 3 cactus seeds (95682) ;
plant (95767); 16 ferns from
the Hawaiian Islands (96247).
HEixchange.

BRITTON, Dr. N. L., New York City:
Seeds of a plant from Porto Rico
(95681).

BROADWAY, W. E., Port of Spain,
Trinidad, British West Indies: 18
plants from Trinidad (93839, 97093).

BROWN, ALFRED W., Jr., Chevy Chase,
D. C.: 96 specimens, 40 ‘species, of
marine shells from the island of
Guam (95187).

BROWN, Botton, New York City: 50
lithographs for special exhibition of
his work from April 25 to May 21,
1927 (96406, loan).

BROWN, Epwarp J., Eustis, Fla.: 5
bird skins from Eustis, Fla., and 3
crabs from Salt Springs, Mla. (93250,
94248). :

(See also under B. M. Kinser.)

NE EEE EE ee eae

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

BROWN, W. L., Washington, D: C.:
Bird, yellow-bellied sapsucker, from
Virginia, and skull of a moose and
skeleton of a reindeer (94727,
95524).

BRYAN, Jumian C., Marshall Hall,
Md.: Barn owl from Maryland
(96793).

BRYANT, Owen, Banff, Alberta, Can-
ada: 2 young toads from Bilby,
Alberta, Canada (94990).

BUCHANAN, ESTATES OF MR.
AND MRS. ROBERDEAU (through
Thomas McKean Meiere, Baltimore,
Md., and Paul BE. Johnson, Washing-
ton, D. C.): Miscellaneous collection
of relics owned by the Roberdeau
family (12 specimens) (97135).

BUCHER, Witrttam F., Washington,
D. C.: 2 photographs ‘of cucumber
trees in the grounds of ‘the United
States Capitol (94575); 7 small
specimens of orange wood from
Florida (95179).

BUCKINGHAM, Mrs. B. H., Washing-
ton, D.C. (See under Miss Isabella
C. Freeman. )

BUEHLER, C. A., Knoxville, Tenn.:
14 specimens of chemicals for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(97627).

BUENO, J. R. DE La Torre, White
Plains, N. Y.: 5 bugs from Sumatra
representing types of 3 species de-
scribed by the donor (94502).

BUHLIS, RicHarp, Imboden, Ark.: 60
pearly fresh-water mussels from
Randolph and Lawrenee Counties,
Ark. (94366).

BUNKER, C. D. (See under Kansas, _
University of.)

BURGESS, J. T., Washington, D. C.:
United States cent struck in 1822
(95980).

BURGESS, THornton W., Washing-

ton, D. C.: Flies and a spider
(938422). :
BURKENROAD, Martin, New Or-
leans, La.: Moth from Louisiana
(95655). '
BURR, J. H. Ten Eyck, Casenovia,

N. Y.: 2 specimens of the mineral
holmquistite from: Uto, Sweden
(94947).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

BURT, CuHarwes E., Manhattan, Kans. :
' 22 amphibians and 2 reptiles from
‘Kansas (93462, 96432).

(See also under Kansas State
Agricultural College.)

BURTON, N. (See under British
Government, British Museum (Nat-
ural History) .)

BUSCK, Aveust, Washington, D. C.:
Six-lined race-runner lizard from
Terra Cotta, Washington, D. C.
(97097).

BUSH, B. F., Courtney, Mo.: 11
plants from Missouri and Kansas
(93239, 96281) ; plant (96491).

BUSH, J..8., Aetna, Kans.: Small col-
lection of fossil teeth and fragmen-
tary bones from Oklahoma (96473).

BUSH-BROWN, Henry K., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Portrait busts and
statuettes by the donor (96784).

BUSHNELL, Mrs. BELLe, Washing-
ton, D: C.: White linen towel with

damask pattern, woven by hand,
about 1825, by nuns in Italy
(95008).

BUSHNELL, D. I., Washington, D. C.:
'Kragmentary soapstone pots col-
lected by the donor in Virginia
(93471); piece of tuckahoe, or
Indian bread, and 12 old iron tools
all from Virginia (93500, 94381) ; 56
stone implements from various lo-
ealities (93521) ; chipped stone im-
plements and stone and clay pipes
collected by the donor in ‘Todd
County, Ky., and St. Louis County,
Mo. (95521).

(See also under H. N. Covell.)

BUTLER, Capt. C. S., Bugado post
office, Port au Prince, Haiti: 35
fossil mollusks from ‘Thomonde
Mountain, Haiti (96923).

BUTTS, CHartes. (See under J. B.
Hoover.)

BUXTON, Dr. P. A. (See under Lon-
don School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine. )

CALDERON, Sefor Dr. SaALvapor.
(See under Salvador, Government of,
Direccion General de Agricultura. )

143
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCI-
ENCES, San Francisco, Calif.: 24
plants (94492, exchange); 7 fossil
erabs (94774) ; fly (95338) ; (through
Mr. Charles L. Fox) 25 specimens
of aculeate Hymneoptera, including
paratypes of 4 species (96444, ex-
change).
(See also under Navy Department
Washington, D. C.).

CALIFORNIA CITRUS EXPERI-
MENT STATION, Riverside, Calif.
(through P. H. Timberlake): 18
Specimens of parasitic Hymenoptera,
being types of 3 species deseribed by
Kamal (94978).

CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF,
Berkeley, Calif.: 16 specimens of
fossil crab material (85578) ;
(through Prof. N. L. Gardner) 2
fragmentary specimens of plants
(92619, exchange), 125 plants
(94754, exchange), 144 photographs,
chiefly representing type specimens
of plants in European herbaria
(95155, exchange) ; (through H. E.
Parks) 106 specimens of ferns from
Fiji and Tonga (93951); (through
Prof. E. ©. Essig) 4 specimens of
larvae of flies, and 2 trapdoor spiders
(94203, 94222) ; 8 ferns from Tonga
(94760, exchange) ; (through Harold
Compere) 17 chalcid flies represent-
ing 6 species, 4 of which are
represented by paratypes (95674) ;
(through Prof. P. B. Kennedy) 116
plants from Sonora, Mexico (95879) ;
(through W. B. Herms) approxi-
mately 100 specimens of files from
California (96642).

CAMPBELL, StEwart, Boise, Idaho:
Miscellaneous ore specimens from
Blaine and Custer Counties, Idaho
(93624).

CAMPOS R., Prof. F., Guayaquil,
Ecuador: 7 specimens of flies from
South America (94124).

CANADIAN GOVERNMENT:

Department of Agriculture, Ento-
mological Branch, Ottawa, Can-
ada (through C. Howard Cur-

| ran) ; 12 specimens of flies, rep-

144

CANADIAN
resenting 7 species, of which 6
specimens are paratypes; 4-flies
(98414, 94938, 95640, exchange) ;
18 specimens of flies, represent-

\.. ing 7 species, 5 of which are rep-
resented by paratypes (93917).

CANFINLD, Freprrick A. (through
Alfred Elmer Mills and Hdward K.
Mills, executors, Morristown, N. J.) :
Collection of minerals, meteorites,
photoplates of minerals and cata-
logues of the collection (98625, be-
quest).

CANU, FERDINAND, Versailles, France:
Approximately 100,000 specimens of
Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils from
France (93034).

CARNEGIE INSTITUTION OF
WASHINGTON, Washington, D. C.:
Photograph of Andrew Carnegie
(94701).

Coastal Laboratory, Carmel, Calif.
(through Dr. D. T. MacDougal,
Director): 5 plants (92529,
92558, 92780).

Desert Botanical Laboratory, 'Tuc-
son, Ariz.: 112 plants collected
in Sonora by Dr. Forrest Shreve
and Miss Frances Long (92487) ;
2 photographs of cactus plants
(92773).

CARR, F. 8., Medicine Hat, Alberta,
Canada: 2 flies, 1 being the para-
type of a new species (95856) .

CARSON, Dr. C. M. (See. under
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.)

CARTWRIGHT, Oscar L., Oswego,
S. C.: 22 beetles representing 5 spe-
cies (95942).

CARTY, A. B., Washington, D. C.:
Copy of the Miami Daily News of
July 26, 1925, comprising 504 pages
and weighing 8 pounds (938591,
loan).

(See also under Electro-Tint En-
graving Co., Henning Sales
Agency, and Zinc-Oid Printing
Plate Corporation. )

CASEY, Mrs. LavurRA WELSH, Washing-
ton, D. C.: A Zulu assagai from
South Africa, secured by the transit
of Venus expedition .under Prof.
Simon Newcomb, and an egg cooker

LIST OF ACCESSIONS |

GOVERNMENT—Contd. | CASEY, Mrs. LaurkA WELtsH—Contd. ~

. with aleohol lamp, from Philadel-
phia, Pa. about 40 years old .
(94515).

CAUM, Enwarp L., Honolulu, Hawaii:
10 specimens of the Laysan rail —
(98209) ; 4 eggs of the Laysan rail,
and 7 eggs (with fragments of 6
others) of the blue-throated quail
(93601).

CHAMBERLAIN, Prof. CuHartzs J.,
Chicago, Ill.: Plant (95180); 3
specimens and 2 photographs of
plants (95523, exchange). phy

(See also under Chicago, Univer-
sity of.)

CHAMBERLAIN FUND, FRANCES
LEA, Smithsonian Institution: Mis-
cellaneous cut gems and gem min-
erals (93272); tourmaline beads,
pendants of aventurine quartz, and
8 carved objects (938290); 4 bowls
cut from serpentine (93386); cut
gems and carved objects (19 speci-
mens) (938387); 3 cut gems, beryl,
phenacite, and tourmaline (98398) ;
a small pink diamond (938427) ; mis-
cellaneous cut stones and beads
(93528) ; a series of rough and eut
synthetic precious stones (93540) ;
an agate tray (93596); natural
crystal of spodumene and a cut gem
of spodumene (94211); 2 diamond
crystals in the matrix from Brazil
(955388) ; pendant of clouded amber
(96079) ; yellow sapphire weighing
25.28 carats (96282); 2 strings of
beads of amber from the Baltic
Sea, and 3 polished pieces of Sicilian
amber (96304).

CHAMBERLIN, T. S., Chicago, Ill:
Copy of the March, 1927, issue of
Medical Life, which contains histori-
eal articles concerning the | dis-
eoveries of Dr. Samuel Guthrie
(96862). :

CHAMBERS, Bsrrt C. (See under
Aldus Printers (Inc.), The.)

CHAMBERS, Mrs. C. L., Bethesda,
Md.: China plate decorated with the
flags of the nations allied with the
United States during the World
War (96776).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

CHAMPLAIN, A. B., Harrisburg, Pa.:
68 specimens of miscellaneous deter-
mined New Zealand beetles, repre-
senting 29 species (92447).

(See also under Pennsylvania De-
partment of Agriculture).

CHAPIN, Dr. E. A., Washington, D.
-C.: 121 alcoholic lots and 398 slides
of ectoparasites of the orders Mallo-
phaga, Siphonaptera, Acarina, and
pseudo-scorpions (93609).

CHAPMAN, Rev. JoHN W., Anvik,
Alaska: 25 photographs of natives
of Alaska (93167).

CHASE, Mrs. Acenes, Washington,
D. C.: 6 plants from Austria (93526).

(See also under Agriculture, De-

- partment of, Bureau of Plant
Industry, and Deogracias V.
Villadolid.)

CHASE, Dr. Witt, Cordova, Alaska
(through Dr. A. Hrdlicka) : A com-
plete skull, apparently of an Hs-
kimo, found in a cave on an island
in Prince William Sound, Alaska
(93262).

CHAUVENET, S. H., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Collection of tin ores and con-
eentrates from Franklin mines, 17
miles north of El Paso, Tex
(94121).

CHAVES, Senor Don DIOCLECIANO,
Managua, Nicaragua: 77 plants from
Nicaragua (94086). i

CHIAO, C. Y. (See under Nanking,
University of.)

CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF, De-
partment of Botany, Chicago, IIl.
(through Prof. Charles J. Chamber-
lain): 15 seeds of plants (96961,
exchange).

CHRISTENSON, Miss HE. G., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Mounted canary
(96656).

CLARK, A. B. J., Washington, D. C.:
A rare butterfly (92596).

CLARK, <AvsTIN H., Washington,
D. C.: 2 rare butterflies (92794).
CLARK, B. Preston, Boston, Mass.:

Moth from Arizona (94988).

CLARK, Dr. F. C., Santa Monica,
Calif.: Approximately 390 speci-
mens of fossil crustacea from Cali-
fornia (95944).

145

CLARK, Mrs. Martan Bruce, Wash-
ington, D. C.: Porcelain copy of The
Worcester Jug (95757).

CLARK, Rosperr Stertine, New York
City (through Arthur deC. Sower-
by): 10 mammals and 247 birds
from China (93280).

CLARKE, Miss Minprep H., Chevy
Chase, D. C.: A wrap of the latter

part of the nineteenth century
(93516).
CLAUDE JOSEPH, Rev. Brother,

Tamuco, Chile: 768 plants from Chile
(938918, 94268, 95658).

CLAY, Dr. T. S., Savannah, Ga.
(through Capt. James J. Pirtle,
United States Army): Fish (92634).

CLEMENT, Rev. Brother, Santiago de
Cuba: 47 ferns from Cuba (97094).

CLEMENTS, J: Morean, Papeete, So-
ciety Islands: A fruit-bat from Man-
gaia Island, Cook Islands, and a
collection of insects, shells, and a
lizard (92810).

CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COL-
LEGH, Clemson College, S. C.
(through John O. Pepper): 5 flies
from South Carolina (93584, 95167,
95890) ; 2 wasps, the type and para-
type of a new species (95379).

CLEVELAND PHOTOGRAPHIC SO-
CIETY, Cleveland, Ohio: 127 picto-
rial photographs for special exhibi-
tion from June 15 to July 31, 1927
(94788, loan).

CLINTON, H. G., Manhattan, Nev.:
Collection of gold ores from the
Lother Lode, California, and miscel-
laneous mineral specimens (94853) ;
minerals and fossils from the So-
called “ Petrified Forest” west of
Fish Lake Valley, Esmeralda County,
Nev. (94554) ; 4 specimens of realgar
and orpiment (95642).

COBLENTZ, W. W., Washington, D.C.:
A small collection of insects (30
specimens) from Sumatra (92815).

COCHRAN, Miss Doris M., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 12 fishes (95517).

COCKERHELL, Prof. T. D. A., Boulder,
Col.: 40 specimens of bees repre-
senting types of 40 species (93379) ;
192 insects, including holotypes of
388 species of bees, paratype of 1 bee,

146

COCKERELL, Prof. T. D. A.—Contd.
paratype of 1 moth, and holotype of a
fiy (93519) ; young toad from Colo-
rado (93594); 28 inseets, including
holotypes of 18 species of bees, a
coecid, and a dipteron (938948) ;
26 insects, including types of 19
species of bees (94207, exchange) ;
125 specimens of miscellaneous in-
sects, ineluding 5 specimens of de-
termined bees (94558); 88 insects,
including types of 33 species, mostly
bees (951386) ; 182 specimens of bees
of the subfamily Halictinae, includ-
ing 2 determined species (95532) ;
31 insects, including 16 specimens of
named bees, representing 15 species,
one of which is represented by a
paratype (95979); 76 unidentified
‘specimens of miscellaneous Hymen-
optera (96267) ; 81 miscellaneous in-
sects, including 7 named species, 5
of which are represented by type
material (96450) ; 213 miscellaneous
insects, consisting of determined,
undetermined, and unmounted mate-
rial, including 9 types of determined
bees, representing 8 species (96934) ;
141 miscellaneous, undetermined
(mounted and unmounted) insects;
also 5 slugs (97064).

(See also under Hlven C. Nelson.)

CODY, M. D., Gainesville, Fla.: Plant
from Florida (96621).

COFFIN, C. A. New York City
(through Dr. C. D. Walcott) : Por-

trait by Miss Rebecca Smith of the
Tewa Indian “Big John” (Pho qui
tah) from the pueblo of San Juan,
N. Mex. (94869).

COFFROTH, James W., San Diego,
Calif.: Book entitled “An Apprecia-
tion of James Wood Coffroth” by
Hdward EF. O'Day, printed by John
Henry Nash in 1926 (93957).

COKER, Dr. R. H., Chapel Hill, N. C.:
Plankton material from Lake James,
N. C. (96634).

COLEGIO BIFFI, Barranquilla, Co-
lombia (through Rey. Brother
Rafael, Director): 53 plants col-
lected in Colombia (96488); 27
plants (96971).

COLLINS, Prof. J. FRANKLIN, Provyi-
dence, R. I.: 13 specimens of grasses
from New England (93597).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

COLLOM, Mrs. W. B., Payson, : sg) :
4 plants from Arizona ig iin ;
plants (95386, 95869).

COLOMBO MUSEUM, Colombo, '‘Cey-
lon: 34 bird skins from: Senor
(89150, exchange). t{

COMMERCE, DEPARTMENT OF:

Bureau of Fisheries: 300° sea
urchins of the family Cidaridae
identified by Dr. Th. Mortensen
of the Zoological Museum, Cop-
enhagen, Denmark (85969); 76
bottles of plankton taken on the
Aibatross-Philippine Hxpedition,
1907-1910 (938189); 66 lots of
Huphausiacea and Mysidacea
from the Western Atlantic col-
lected by the steamer Bache in
1914, also 4 plankton samples
taken by the Bache in 1914
(93288, 94065); 214 bottles of
plankton taken by the schooner
Grampus eruises of 1912-1913
(93405) : 3 specimens of White-
fishes, types of subspecies
(95555) ; collection of insects,
shells, sand dollars, bird nest
and eggs, crinoids, and miscel-
laneous ‘specimens (alcoholic)
collected by G. Dallas Hanna on
St. George Island, Alaska
(95785) ;, 331 fishes and 2
turtles (96615); 8 type speci-

' mens of fishes from Greenwood,
Miss. (96795); type specimen
of a fish collected at Crisfield,
Md., September 15, 1921, by
William C. Schroeder (96873).

Bureau of Mines. (See under
Frank Sansom.)

Bureau of Standards:
Liberty engine (94179).

Patent Office: A collection of
original models of patented in-
ventions (89797); 14 models of
torches, lamps, whaling imple-
ments, and musical instru-
ments (94380).

COMPANIA DE PETROLEO “HL
AGUILA” S§8. A., Vera Cruz, Mexico
(through Dr. O. P. Hay) : Fragmen-
tary lower jaws with incomplete
teeth of a mastodon from 5 miles
northwest of Macuspana, Tobasco,
Mexico (94090).

The first ~

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

COMPERE, Haromp. (See under Cali-

(fornia, University of.) '

CONARD Prof. Henry 8.
Grinnell College.)

CONVERSH, A. W., alien Mass. :

' Maori ‘wood carving of a superna-

- tural being’ (94972).

CONZATTI, Prof.'C., Oaxaca, Mexico:
30 plants from Mexico (95364).

COOK, Dr. BE. Futterton, (See under
Wnited States ‘Pharmacopoeial Con-
vention, The.)

COOK, Miss’ Fannyve A., Crystal
Springs, Miss.: 2 specimens of the

painted bunting from Louisiana
(92562).

COOK, Prof..O. F. (See under Agri-

' culture, ‘Department of, Bureau of
Plant Tudustry.)

COOLIDGE, Mrs; Carvin, The White
House, Washington, D. C.: White

‘satin brocade evening gown with ac-
cessories and a fraternity pin worn

‘by Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge
during the ‘administration of her
husband, President Calvin Coolidge,
- 1924 (93081).

CORDRAY, James M., Harrington,
‘Del. : Stone ax found on the Cordray
farm near Harrington, Del., about
250 years ago (97110).

CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca,
WN. Y¥. (through Prof. Robert Mathe-

' son): Fly: collected at sirerggle Idaho
(93498).

CORNWELL, RartepH T: K., Ithaca,
N. Y.: 4 spec mens of chemicals for
the Loeb Collection of Chemical
Types (97631).

COSINE, Miss Frances M., Suffern,

“N. Y¥.: 40 surgical appliances and
instruments owned prior to 1871 by
Dr. Enoch T. Winter, grandfather
of the donor (95819).

COVELL, H. N., Schuyler, Va.
' (through D. I. Bushnell): 2 large
fragments of soapstone pots from

' Virginia (94709).

COVILLH, Dr: Freperick V.,’ Wash-
ington, D. C.: 20 plants (hepaties)
from central New York (94735).

‘(See also under Agriculture, De-
‘partment of, Bureau of Plant
Industry. )

‘ariel under

147

COX, L. BR. (See under British Gov-
ernment, British Museum’ (Natural
History.)

CRANE, Mrs. J. C., University, Miss. :
36 paper dolls in colors depicting
the natives of Korea (96796).

CRAWFORD, J. C., Raleigh, N. C.:
7 specimens of determined, bees,
types of 4 species (95557, exchange).

(See also under North Carolina
Department of Agriculture.)

CRIMMINS, Joun, Vallejo, Calif. :
Fossil leaf in diatomaceous earth
from near Knights Ferry, Stanislaus
County, Calif. (94950).

CROFFUT, Mrs. W. A., Washington,
D, C.: Woven bag from the Nahuatl
Indians of N. Mex., and 9 small
purses of Mexican make collected
in Mexico in 1848 by Gen. Ethan
Allen Hitcheock (93586).

CROMPTON, GEORGE, Worcester,
Mass.: Original patent model of the
first power loom for weaving fancy
figured fabrics, invented. by William
Crompton, grandfather of the donor,
United States Patent No. 491, issued
November 25, 1837 (96804).

CURRAN, C, Howarp. (See under
Canadian Government, Department
of Agriculture, Entomological
Branch.)

CZERNY, Asr LEanprer, Kremsmun-
ster, Oberoesterreich, Austria: Col-
lection of identified flies, comprising
120 specimens, 55 species, ineluding
4 ceotypes of 2 species (92793, ex-
change).

DADANT, C. P. & Sons.
A. I. Root: Co.)

DALL, Dr. W. H., Washington, D. C.:
Package of ‘‘Ao-nori” green algae
prepared for food, from Japan
(95105).

(See also under Mrs. W. H. Hsh-
naur.)

DAMPF, AIf, Merit: Mexico: 30 apec-
imens of flies (93260).

DANSKE ARTISKE STATION, Dis-
ko, Greenland: 481 plants: (92781,
97134). . Exchange.

(See under

‘DARLINGTON, P. J., Boston, Mass. :

~

5 specimens, paratypes of 4 new
species of beetles (96396, exchange).

148 | LIST OF ACCESSIONS

DAVIDSON, Dr. A., Los Angeles, | DIRECCION DE PASEOS PUBLI-
Calif.: 3 plants (93236, 93416). | COS, Montevideo (Prado), Uruguay

DAVIS, ArtTHUR G., London, England: (through Luis Guillot) : 6 specimens

. Approximately 2,000 specimens of of cacti (96627, exchange).
Cretaceous and Tertiary fossils | DIXIE COLLEGE, THE, St. George,
from England (94220). Utah (through A. M. Woodbury) :

DAVIS, Prof. Braptry M., Ann Arbor, 10 specimens of flies (94569, 96083).
Mich.: 5 plants from Jamaica DODD, Ato Ps Sherwood, Brisbane,

(96954). | Australia: 27 specimens of para-
DAVIS, Ear J., Detroit, Mich.: sitic Hymenoptera, representing 24
Fragments of pottery from Michi- species, from Australia (94793, ex-
gan (92607). | change). , :
DAVIS, Frank ©., Glendale, Calif.; | POZIER, H. L., Newark, Del.: 15
3 plants (94248, exchange). specimens of Homoptera, types of 9

DAVIS, Prof. J. J: (See under Pur- species described by the donor
due University.) Gees

DAVIS, Miss Mareurrits, Princeton, DRAKE, Dr. Cart J. Ames, Twas on
Missl- iieerrdevpe of a‘chiie atm specimens of. Hemiptera, including a

‘made in 1847 by Daniel Davis of Bae a 1 species) (Oates
Boston; 2 leaves of a japonica, one ID Vy itt ita Goncord awe
whole with leaf inside, and the other | (through Benjamin Walworth Ar-

open showing the leaf inside; stem nold): A four-rayed sand-dollar

, : 93469).
of the japonica flower, and a copy (
of a daguerreotype of Daniel Davis DuBOIS, Grorce B., Washington,

if

|

|
taken about 1845 (92493). D. C.: Man’s coat, 2 pairs of men’s
DAVY, Dr. J. Burrr. (See under Im-| °Jesgings, and one girl’s legging, all
perial Forestry Institute.) : of deer skins, collected by Capt.
DEAN, Flat Ww. }Kiliance Onto®: 4 Richard C. DuBois, United States

starfishes from western Australia, Army, near Yuma, Ariz., from 1870-

and 23 specimens, 16 species of oe (96415).
shells from Curacao (94598, 95194). | DUNBAR, Dr. Cann 0. (See under
DEANE, RuTHVEN, Chicago, Ill.: A Yale University, Peabody Museum of
small photograph of S. B. Meek | Natural History.) !
(96177). DURY, CHartes, Cincinnati, Ohio: T-
DEANE, Watter, Cambridge, Mass. | Peetles (92836).
(through C. A. Weatherby): 140 | DUVAL, Hucu H., Bastrop, Tex.: 3
plants collected in the eastern | Plants (93533).
United States by J. R. Churchil) | DYAR, Dr. Hagpison G., Washington,
(96404). D. C.: 750 specimens of two-winged
DEGENER, Orro, Honolulu, Hawaii: flies from the Northwest (96268) ;
15 plants from the Hawaiian Is- 5,964 specimens of mosquitoes col-
lands (95631). lected by the donor in Glacier Na-
DEINARD, E., New York City: 8 ob- tional Park (96412) ; 735 specimens ,
jects of Jewish religious art and 15 of flies, all collected by the donor
coins; collection of Jewish religious from Glacier National Park (96935).

ceremonial objects (93631, 94763, (See also under Nathan Banks,
95111). Loan. and Dr. M. Nunez-Tovar.),
DELACOUR, Jan, Seine Inférieure, | DYKE, A. L., St. Louis, Mo.: Harly
France: Skin of a bird (93213, ex- type of float-feed carburetor (87038).
change). HARLH, CHarwtes T., Bradenton, Fla.:
DEWEY, L. H. (See under Agricul- Ring-necked snake, 2 snakes and a
ture, Department of, Bureau of lizard from Florida (96806, 96893).
Plant Industry.) EAST, C. 8S. (See under E. D. Reid.)

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

EDWARDS, H. T., Washington, D. C.:
3 specimens, 2 species, of land shells
from hills near Guara, in the vicinity
of Nipe Bay, Cuba (92475).

EGBERTS, W. H., Washington, D. C.:
Skull of a white man (96092, ex-
change).

BICHORN, Atvin S., Cleveland, Ohio:
2 shrimps (96251).

EIMER & AMEND, New York City:
Specimen of phenolsulphonphthalei-
num, a medicinal substance made
official in the United States Pharma-
copeia X (93232).

ELECTRO-TINT PNGRAVING CO.,
Philadelphia, Pa. (through A. B.
Carty, Washington, D. C.): 4 large
specimens of four color halftones
(96426).

ENDO, Ringi, Fu-Shun Middle School,
Manchuria, China: Approximatelly
200 specimens of invertebrate fossils
from Manchuria (92413).

EPLING, Cart, Los Angeles, Calif.:
18 ferns from Idaho (951838, 96284).

ERLANGER, BLUMGART & CO.
(INC.), N., New York City: 14
specimens of cotton dress goods fast
to sun and washing (93377).

ERNST, Mrs. Harorp C., Jamaica
Flain, Mass.: An old Japanese clock,
with movable hours; Japanese level-
ing apparatus with movable Japa-
nese hours, and an old Japanese
wall clock, descending weight, indi-
eating Japanese hours, collected by
Prof. Harold C. Ernst (94870).

ESHNAUR, Mrs. W. H., Bellflower,
Calif. (through Dr. W. H. Dall):
5 specimens, 2 species, of land and
fresh-water shells and 8 specimens
of insects from Bellflower, Calif.
(938548).

ESPANOPOULOS, Micuarn J., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 2 pottery lamps found
near the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
(92526).

ESPOSITO, Lovis, Jr., Brooklyn,
N. Y.: 3 dry sponges collected at
Jupiter Beach, Jupiter, Fla. (95700).

ESSIG, Prof. E. O. (See under Cali-
fornia, University of.)

149

ESTACION FORESTAL, Vera Cruz,
Mexico (through Prof. Ferd. Maw-
cinitt) : 7 specimens of insects from
the vicinity of Vera Cruz (94054).

ETHERIDGE, Isaac, Virginia Beach,

Va.: Snowy owl from Virginia
(95371).
EVANS, Mrs. Apa, St. Michaels,

Alaska (through Dr. A. Hrdlicka) :
5 photographs of natives and scenes
in Alaska (92868).

EVANS, A. H., Cambridge, England:
4 eggs of 3 species of petrels from
the Kermadec Islands and New Zea-
land (96394, exchange).

EVANS, Miss A. M., Liverpool, Eng-
land: 3 specimens of mosquitoes
(93145, exchange).

EVANS, H. W., Washington, D. C.:
3 mounted fish skins (94536).

EVANS, Victor J., Washington, D. C.:
3 birds, 2 of them _ silver-beaked
tanagers, and the other a golden
white-cheeked plantain eater
(92421); barred upland goose
(92627) ; skeleton of a crowned pi-
geon (93294); Nicobar pigeon
(98947); doreas gazelle (94073) ;

. black-necked stork (95626).

HVENING STAR NEWSPAPER CoO.,
Washington, D. C.: Bald eagle about
8 years old, from Occoquan, Va.
(94577). |

EWING, Dr. H. E., Washington, D. C.:
Frog and snake from Texas, and a
lizard from Arizona (96916).

EYERDAM, Wattrr J., Seattle,
Wash.: 75 mollusks from Illinois
and Washington, and 68 marine
shells from Washington (95889).

FAIRCHILD, GraHam, Washington,
D. C.: Approximately 100 specimens
of land mollusks from Morocco;
also insects from Morocco and other
localities (96009).

FANKHAUSER, Miss Rost E., Utica,
N. Y. (through Miss L. C. Foucher) :
Battak manuscript written on palm

spathe, collected by the donor in
Sumatra, Dutch East Indies
(95666).

150 |

-

FARMAN, Henri and Maurice, Billan- |

court (Seine), France:

14 photo- |

graphs of Farman airplanes which |
have established various world rec- .

ords,

also ‘a printed’ booklet of

‘ deseriptive matter about the :planes |
and a typewritten list of records and —

prizes for Farman motors and air- |

planes (95660).
FAUNTLEROY, Col.

P. °C., United :

States Army, Washington; D. C.: 8 |
stone implements from two sites in ;

King George County, Va.: (94560).
FAZ, ALFREDO, Santiago, Chile:

Collec- |

tion of Diptera. (57.specimens), and |

8 plants (92816, 95764).

FELIPPONH, Dr. FLORENTINO,
tevideo, Uruguay: 32 butterflies; 11
shells from Brazil and Uruguay, and
17 species, of marine and land shells
from Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina
(92492, 93254, 95368).

FELT, Dr. E. P. (See under New
York State Museum. )

FENNER, Dr. C. _N., Washington,
D. C.: A partly articulated reptilian
fossil from Clifton, Passaic County,
N. J.. (95892).

FERRIS, Jean Leon, GEROME, Phildel-
phia, Pa.: 63..copper plates etched
by Stephen J. Ferris; also 2,241
prints, etchings, engravings, mezzo-
tints, lithographs, ete. (94830)...

FERRIS, Mrs, Roxana 8. (See under
Stanford University, Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif.)

FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY, (Chicago, ‘ Lil°: Photo-
graph of a plant (96289, exchange) ; |
(through Dr. S. F. Blake) 9 plants
from Peru (96630, exchange).

FISHER, A. G., Valona, Ga.: Skull of
a porpoise from Wolf Island beach
(92152).

FISHER, Grorce L., Houston, Tex.: |

34 plants
(92782) ;
and Texas (93523; 93588).
FLAGG, Mrs.

young migrant shrike (92449).

from South Africa
277 plants from Mexico |

Grace L., Takoma, D.
C.; Plant from Virginia (92430) ; .

Mon-

|

LIST OF ACCESSIONS [0

-FLEISHER, INC., S. B. & B. 'W.,

Philadelphia, Pa.: 21 balls © of
worsted yarn and 10 finished articles
crocheted or knitted therefrom, and
a series of 9 specimens showing the
making of a hooked rug (96758).

FLETCHER, Miss Litt1an M) ‘Los
Angeles, Calif. (through Stanley M.
Baltzly) : A Fletchertype print and
14 Wletchertype “paper negatives
made by Abel Fletcher, father of
the donor, about 1845, at pene
Ohio (96129). i Oy al Taioite

FOERSTH, Dr. A. F., Dhytosl Ohio:
12 specimens of Cambrian fossils
from east of the Hudson’ River at
Troy, N.Y. (94120). 0

FOLSOM, Dr. J. W., Tallulah, La.:
Plant from Mississippi (93241); 131

‘specimens of insects of ‘the subclass
Apterygota (95941). MY

FOSHAG, Dr. W.' F.; Washington,
D. C.: 2 described specimens of the
mineral okenite from Crestmore, ,
Calif. (96909). (Si6

FOSTER, Joun G., Atlanta,
insects (termites) (92415).

FOUCHER, Miss L. GC. (See under
Miss Rose BH. Frankhauser.)

FOWLER, Dr. Henry W. (See. ‘un-
der Academy of Natural Sciences,
Philadelphia, Pa.) ”

FOX, Dr. CARROLL. _ (See under
Treasury Department, Public Health
Service. )

FOX, CHartes L. (See under Cali-
fornia Academy of Sciences. perros

FRACHON, JEAN, Ardeche, France :
Volume entitled “J oseph et Htienne
de, Montgolfier,” a fine example of

Ga.: 2

paper making, printing, and book |
illustrating (93420). ay
FRAZER, Mrs. James C., (See under

National Society of Colonial nil
of America.) si
FREEMAN, Miss ISABELLA Gy quid
. Mrs. B. H. BuckineHamM, Washing-
ton, D. ,C.: 20. ethnological speci-
mens, 15 pieces of lace, 26 silk searfs,
and a small collection of historical

specimens (96010).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

FREEMAN, Matcotm, Washington,
.D. C.: King rail from Washington,
D.C. (96470). -

FREEMAN, O. M., Washington, D. C.:
Plant from Virginia (93570).

(See also under Agriculture, De-

(partment of, Bureau of Plant }

Industry.)

FRHER GALLERY OF ART.

.-under Peking, China.)

FRENCH, H. E., Columbia, Mo.: 59
specimens of chemicals for the Loeb
collection of chemical types (95223).

FRIC, A. V.; Prague, Czechoslovakia :
38 photographs of plants (94552); 4
plants (96403).

FRICK, Cuinps, New York City.
(See under American Museum of
Natural History, New York City.)

FRIEDMAN, E: G., Brownsville, Tex. :
2 specimens of insects from Texas
and Mexico (93271).

FRIERSON, b&. 8., Gayle, La.:
from Louisiana. (91714).

FRISON, Dr. T. H. (See under
Illinois’ State Natural History Sur-

' vey Division, Urbana, Tl.)

FROST, 8S. W., Arendtsville, Pa.: 5
flies, types of 3 species (96845).
FUSCO, SatvarorE, Baltimore, Md.
' (through Salvatore Secaleo, Wash-
ington, D. ©.) : Highly ornamented
bridle used in the old’horse races in

Palermo, Sicily (96276).

GAHAN, A. B. (See‘under 8S. No-
wicky. )

GALE, Hoyt S.
M. Balling.)

GANDER, Frank F.; San’ Diego,
Calif.: 6 specimens of crayfish, juve-
nile, hatched in an aquarium from
specimens taken from a pool in the
Hseondido River, near Escondido,
Calif. (93197).

GANGE, Louis pz, Port-of-Spain, Trin-
idad, British West Indies: A’ small
collection of feather mites' (2 slides)
from Trinidad (94755).

GARBER, Mrs. Marcarer R., Wash-
ington, D. C.: A print of Lowe’s
Civil War balloon, illustrating the

‘first use of aircraft in warfare by
the United States (94365).

69199—27—_-11

Turtle

(See under William

(See.

GEE, Dr.

i

151

GARBER, Paut H., Washington, D:;
C.: Small specimen of degame lance-
wood (938296).

GARDNER,. Dr. Jutta, Washington,

D. C.: 25, specimens, 4. species, of
fresh-water | shells from, Texas
(95519). )

GARDNER, Prof. N. L.. (See under
California, University of Depart-
ment of Botany.)

GATES, Rev. SmBastian, Grenada,
British West Indies: 6 insects

(93182) ; parasitic isopod from Car-
riacon, British West Indies (93423).
GAVIN, JamEs and Cuester, Jr., Fort
Gaines, Ga.: Bannerstone or amulet
from near Fort Gaines (96783).

N. Gist, Peking, China: 45
specimens of miscellaneous insects
from China (88849).

GEISER, Prof. S. W., Dallas, Tex.: 46
insects and 7 isopods (92828, 96649).

GHIST, Orto W., Fairbanks, Alaska:
Collection of plants from St. Michaels
Island and the vicinity of Nome,
Alaska (93919).

GEORGIA STATE GHOLOGICAL
SURVEY, Atlanta, Ga. (through 8.
W. McCallie, State Geologist) :
Fragment of Social Circle meteor-
ite, Georgia (94218).

GERRARD, EH. B., Hill, N. Mex:: Por-
tion of the skull of an adult male
Indian (94992).

GIBSON, Miss .Mary, Washington,
D. C.: Young starling (96791).

GILL, Mrs. Gzorem B. (See under
Thomas Tapscott Gill.)

GILL, TuHomAs Tapscott (through
Mrs. George B. Gill, Little Rock,
Ark.): Miniature plaster bust of
Grover Cleveland, designed by A.
Pedro Flaquepagne, of Mexico, in
1892 (96326).

GILLESPIE, JoHn W., Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif.: 30 pestis from Pan-
ama (92484):

GILMAN, M. Frencu, Banning, Calif. :
7 plants (95348, 96789); 26 plants
from Arizona (95546, 96095) .; 5 ferns
(96441) ; 2 plants from California
(97092),

152

GIRTY, Grorcz H., Washington, D.
C.: Approximately 2,000 marine
shells from Barbados (92405). |

GLAFCKE, L. B., Soldier Summit,
Utah (through Victor C. Heikes) :
5 specimens of refined natural wax
made from ozokerite (96901).

GLASGOW, HueH. (See under New
York State Agricultural Experiment
Station.) ;

GLENN, L. C., Nashville, Tenn.: 10
pieces of clay containing 2 species
of fresh-water fossil mollusks from
Kentucky (96928).

GLUCK, Prof. Dr. Hucu, Heidelberg,

GREENH, C. T.

Germany: 75 specimens of plants |

from Hurope (96222, exchange).
GOLDMAN, Marcus I., Washington,
Dr Crs
lected in Hurope (93841).
GONGGRIJP, J. R. C., Clevia Hstate,
Dutch Guiana: 2 species of isopods,

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

GRAHAM, Rev. Davin C., Suifu,
China: 275 insects, 2 eels, a fossil
crab, 8 quartz crystals, 22 snakes,
16 frogs, 6 lizards, 13 salamanders,
21 tadpoles, 16 birds, 6 mammal
skulls and skins, 24 invertebrates
and approximately 100 mollusks
(91536) ; reptiles, mammal skins and
bones, and 7 bird skins (96448). ©

GRAHAM, Mrs. Henry, Aragon, N.
Mex. (through Rhea Kuykendall):
Complete male skull from Catron
County, N. Mex. (93621).

GRANT, J. M., Marysville, Wash.: 16
plants, chiefly grasses (93143).

(See under George

M. Greene.)

' GREENE, Frank C., Tulsa, Okla.: 2

5 geologic specimens col- |

plants from Oklahoma, and 2 photo-
graphs (92966); fern from Okla-
homa (94532).

' GREENE, Grorer M., Harrisburg, Pa.

and 17 specimens of shipworms from |.
Surinam River and a sample of }

Alata wood attacked by shipworms

(90667).
GOODMAN, Henry J., Sarasota, Ma.:
2 plants (96007).

GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER |

COMPANY, THE, Akron, Ohio
(through Dr: ©. M. Carson):

_GRESS,

(through C. T. Greene) : 200 beetles

from Germany, Japan, and the
United States (94095).
GREENMAN, Dr. J. M. (See under

Wistar Institute of Anatomy and
Biology.)

EDMUND
American Printer.)

G. (See under

» GRIMMEL, H. C., Baltimore, Md.: A

16 |

specimens of chemicals for the Loeb |

Collection of

(94916).

Chemical

ton, D. C.: Collection of personal

relics, medals, and badges of the |}

late Maj. Gen. William Crawford
Gorgas, United States Army
(92641) ; collection of military uni-
forms, commissions, diplomas, etc.,
of Maj. Gen. W. C. Gorgas, Sur-
geon-General of the United States
-Army during. the World
(92817). Loan.

types |

‘ GRIMSHAW, P. 4H.
GORGAS, Mrs. WiLtiAMmM C., Washing-

Wheeler & Wilcox sewing machine
used for over 55 years by Mrs.
Henry Grimmel, mother of the
donor (93715). :
(See

Royal Scottish Museum, The.)

under

_GRINNELL COLLEGE, Department

War }

GOSSWEILER, J., Loanda, Angola, |

Portuguese Hast Africa: 107 speci-

GRAGG, Mrs: Hazzarp,. San Luis
Obispo, Calif.: Fern from California
(96389).

of Botany, Grinnell, Iowa (through
Prof. H. C. Conard): 81 plants,
chiefly from Hurope (94740, 95751).

GRISOL, MAyrut (through Dr. H.
Pittier, Caracas, Venezuela): 38 :
Venezuelan plants (90718).

GROUT, Dr. A. J., New Brighton,
N. Y.: 12 specimens of North Amer-
ican Musci Pleurocarpa (95101; ex-
change).

GUATEMALA, GOVERNMENT OF:
mens of plants from Africa (95900). |.

Direccion. General de Agricultura,
Guatemala City, Guatemala,
Central America (through Sr.
Don Jorge Garcia Salas, Director

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

GUATEMALA, GOVERNMENT OF—
Continued.
Direccién General de Agricultura—
Continued.

General) : 15 insects from Gua-
temala (92873, 96965) ; 2 speci-

mens of moth larve in coffee
stems (93457) ; 113 plants from
Guatemala (94209, 95130, 95891,

96865); seeds of a plant
(94723) ; 34 plants and 2 wood
specimens from Guatemala
(96249).

GUILLOT, Luis. (See under Direc-
cion de Paseos Publicos, Montevideo
(Prado), Uruguay.)

GUNNELL, L. C., Washington, D. C.:

Weasel from Alexandria, Va.
(94072).
GUTHRIH, Prof. J. HE. (See under

Iowa State College.)

GUYTON, T. L. (See under Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture.)

HALL, Davin G. (See under Arkan-
sas, University of.)

HALL, Evuenne, Washington, D. C.:
A United States naval flag of the
latter part of the nineteenth century
(94761).

HALL, Fren 4H., Austin,
plants (96960).

HALLOCK, Haroxtp C.
Dr. H. C. Huckett.)

HALSEY, Witittam §., New York
City: Bronze club head and 6 pieces
of jewelry from Cerro del Pasco,
Peru, and a shell and gold nugget
from the region of Lake Titicaca,
Peru (96414).

HARDER, E. C., Philadelphia, Pa.
(through D. F. Hewett, Washington,
D. C.): Stone ax from northern
Brazil (96797).

HARDING, H. T., Walla Walla,
Wash.: 7 household articles of the
American Indian and Eskimo
(92592, exchange).

HARDWICK, HuvpeErt, Livingstone,
Northern Rhodesia (through State
Department): Female négro skull
and some bones from the same skele-
ton (97070).

Tex. : 20

(See under

153

HARLTON, Bruce H., Tulsa, Okla.:
21 slides of ostracods and 28 slides
of foraminifera from the Pennsyl-
vania Glenn formation of southern
Oklahoma, representing types of
species (96292).

HARNED, R. W., A. and M. College,
Miss. (through Bureau of MWntomol-
ogy, United States Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.):
11 slugs from Pike County, Miss.
(95748) ; 4 slugs (96016).

HARPER, Gorpon, Port of Spain, Trin-
idad, British West Indies: 2 land
shells from Belle Eau Road, Bel-
mont, Port of Spain, Trinidad
(92476) ; approximately 25 shells
from Trinidad (93154).

HARPER, Mrs. Ipa Hustep, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Desk chair owned and
used by Susan B. Anthony, 1863-
1906 (938069).

HARPER, Dr. R. M., Tallahassee,
Fla.: 26 plants from Florida (92580,
96245).

HARRIS, Prof. B. B. (See under
North Texas State Teachers Col-
lege. )

HARRIS, Mrs. Hucene A., San An-
tonio, Tex.: Plant (96008).

HARRISON, JosztreH, Jamaica, British
West Indies: Approximately 200
shells from the West Indies (92554).

HARSHBARGER, Dr. JoHN W. (See
under Pennsylvania, University of.)

HART, Gerorer, O., Coytesville, N. J.:
29 prints, being the work of the
donor (92987.)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cam-
bridge, Mass.:

Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain,
Mass.: 92 specimens of ferns col-
lected by EK. J. Palmer (94538).

Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass. :
2 plants (96401).

Cryptogamic Herbarium and Lab-
oratories (through Prof. Roland
Thaxter): 106 specimens of
algae from Florida (96076, ex-
change).

154

HARVARD. UNIVERSITY—Contd.

|

Gray Herbariwmn, Cambridge,

Mass. (through Dr. I. M. John-
ston): 4 fragmentary © speci-
mens of plants (93948); 12
plants from Honduras (95632) ;
10 specimens of Chilean ferns
and 38 photographs of ferns
(96290); 268 plants (96801).
Exchange.

Museum, of Comparative Zodlogy,
Cambridge, Mass.: Turtle (co-
type) (92872, exchange); toad
from Mina Carlota, near Cien-
fuegos, Cuba, collected by H. R.
Dunn in 1925 (92891); frog
(94566) ; 4 bird skins from the
West Indies, representing species
new to the National Museum
(94646, exchange).

HAUGHT, Oscar, Negritos, Peru: 72
plants from Peru (93293, 95349,
95903, 95650, 96397, 96846, 96976,
97091).

HAWAIIAN SUGAR PLANTERS HX-
PERIMENT STATION, Honolulu,
Hawaii: 14 South American flies
(91659).

HAWSON, Henry, Fresno, Calif.: 2
photographs of a beaked whale from
Santa Cruz, Calif. (94583).

HAY, Dr. 0. P. (See under Compania
de Petroleo “Ei Aguila” 8. A.)

HAYNES, Miss Carorine C., Palm
Springs, Calif.: 3 plants from Cali-
fornia (94764, 95876).

HAYS, Dr. H. H., Cleves, Ohio
(through Dr. John Uri Lloyd): A
pocket case of “‘ divided medicines,”

a micrometer, and;a photograph of

_ Doctor King for addition to the ex-
hibit illustrating the eclectic school
of medicine (94521). .

HAZEL ATLAS GLASS CO., Wheel-
ing, W. Va.: 92 pint jars of canned

. foods put up by members of 4-H
Canning Clubs under auspices of
the. office of cooperative extension
work, United States Department of
Agriculture (971382).

HEIKES, Victor ©. (See under L. B.
Glafcke, and West Toledo Mining
Co.)

LIST OF ACCESSIONS)

HHITMULLER, Anton.
Miss Isobel H. Lenman.). bit

HHIJBAL, Joza, Coney Island, Nu Y.:
A reconstruction of the skull of
pitheeanthropus (95399).

HHLLHR, A. A., Chico,

. plants (95006). cpa

HENDERSON, Jon, Seattle, Wash. :
A nearly complete tusk and a por-
tion of another of a fossil elephant
from Alaska (93921).

HENNING SALES AGENCY, Brrtren
O., Chicago, Ill. (through wet B.
Carty, Washington, D. C.) : 5 speci-
mens of nickel-steel stereotyping,
a lead mold for electrotyping and
4 specimens of Elgin Made-Ready
Hlectrotype Plate (95628).

HHRMS, Prof. W. B. (See. under
California, University of.)

HERRERA, Dr. A. L. (See :under
Mexico, Government of, Direccion dé
Hstudios Biologicos.)

HERRERA, Prof. PF @e enh we L.,
Cuzeo, Peru: 879 plants and ferns
from Peru (92889, 93551, 93578,
95998, 96291, 96398) ; (through Dr.
J. R. Weir): 82 plants from Peru
-(93146).

HHWETT, D. F., Washington, D. C.:
3 specimens of Lower Cretaceous
invertebrates from the Province of
Viscaya, Spain (92984) ; 4 stone ham-
mers from San Bernardino, Calif.,

“used by an ancient people in mining
or preparing, turquoise: (96238).

(See also under EK. C. Harder, and
Madame Fernand Serpieri.) |

HEYL, C. H., 2d, Washington, D. C.:
Specimens collected by the late Col.
Charles H. Heyl, U. S. Army, dur-
ing his. campaigns in the West
against the Indians | (96777).

HIGGINS, Mortimer L. J., Hartford,
Conn.: 7 butterflies (92482); 46
beetles from Dutch Guiana (92961).

HILL, A. W., Edinburgh, Scotland: 3
gum prints made some 20 years ago
by “ Hill’s pigment process ” (95509).

HINDS, W. EH. (See under Louisiana
Hxperiment Station. )

HINE, Prof. James §S., Columbus,
Ohio: 8 flies (95352, exchange).

sei: unden

Calif.: 30

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

HINKLE, John, Namur, N. C.: Beetle
(92459) .

HIORAM, Rev. Brother, Guantanamo,
Oriente, Cuba: 31 ferns from Cuba
(95004) .

HIRSCHI, Dr. H., -Spiez, Sectiemlani

2 specimens of. dumortierite, with
tourmaline in pegmatite from: Swit-
weriand (95415).

HITCHCOCK, Prof. A. 8. (See under
Agriculture, Department of, Bureau
of Plant Industry.)

HOFFMAN, .,. ALFRED, Kew “Gardens,
N. Y.: 12:specimens of chemicals for
the jp collection of eacmaice) types
. (97626).

HOFFMAN, Dr.. Wittiam,.A. San
Juan, P. R.: 40 insects, including

cotypes of 2 species of Diptera
(92563) ; 41 mollusks from seepage
pools near Guayama, P. R. (95356) ;
122 insects and a small collection of
shells from Porto Rico (96457).

HOFFMEISTER, Dr. J. E., Rochester,
N. Y. (through John B. Reeside,
jr.) : 2 fossil shells from the Ter-
tiary beds on Hua Tonga Islands
(94543).

HOGVALL, A., Winkelman, Ariz.: Hix-

‘ amples of Raneatiee with fine irri-

’ descence from the Standard mine at |)

_ Winkelman, Ariz. (94991). -
HOLLANDER, I.

the Civil War (92796).
HOLLOW. HORN BEAR,
Kary, 8. Dak.
William Williamson) :
cheted and beaded hood (92359).
HOLMES, Dr. W. H., Washington,

Miss Alice,

land (96178).
HOLZINGER, Prof. Joun M., Winona,
~Minn.: A cluster of galls made by

insects (93159).

HOMBERSLEY, Archdeacon Arruor,

Trinidad, British West Indies. :

HOOVER, J. B., Pittsburgh Pa.
(through Charles Butts) :

H., Washington,
D. C.: Colt revolver of the period of |

(through Hon.
Infant’s cro- |

: Tat ied | HUCKE, Dr.
D. C.: 9 stone implements collected |

aN the donor in Tilinois and Mary- |

23 |
‘ferns from Trinidad (91839, 95731). |
| HUMPHREY, Col.
43 fossil |
invertebrates from the coal measures
of Armstrong County, Pa. (95016). |

155

‘HORNER, Atrrep B., Washington,
D. C.: A silver cup of the Colonial
period (94114).

‘HOUNAM, Sam, Ophir, Alaska: Por-
tion of a skull of an extinct species
of caribou from Alaska (92633).

in: Harry E., Hummelstown,

: 3 18-inch pieces of butternut

oa? (92644).

OW EEL, A. B., Washington, D. C.:
34 fishes (94055) ; skull of a domes-
tic dog (94071) ; 3 sessile barnacles,
approximately 50 parasitic amphi-
pods and many fragments of shrimp
taken from a California gray whale,
and 2 stalked barnacles taken from
a hump-back whale, all from ‘Trini-
dad, Calif. (94888) ; 12 small mam-
mals from California (95525); ap-
proximately 150 crustaceans (96260) ;
5 fishes from Mexico and Africa
(96269) ; female specimen of black-
throated warbler (96792); 6 skele-
tons of the Huropean hedgehog and
embryos of a shrew (96964).

“HOWELL, Miss Einor G., Chevy

: Chase, Md.: Gray squirrel (95416).

»HOXIA, W. J., Savannah, Ga.: Human

' bones from Georgia (92981).

| HRDLICKA, Dr. A., Washington, D.

* C.: 18 specimens . ‘of Hskimo cary-

ing in old and recent ivory (94085) ;

blue jay (96657).

(See also under Arctic Brother-
hood: Master Baldwin, Chris
Betsch, Dr. Will. Chase, Mrs.
Ada Hvans, Father Lafortune,
Karl Lomen, W. G. Marsh, Mar-
tin Matusuka, and Elwyn Swet-
mann.)

Kurt, Templin (Ucker-
mark), Germany: 38 _ fossil mol-
lusks from the Middle Oligocene
(Septarienton) at Joachimsthal,

“Germany (94218).

| HUCKETT, Dr. H. C., Riverhead, N.

Y. (through Harold C. Hallock,
Riverton, N. J.): Specimen of fly
(96082) ; 3 flies, being paratypes of
a new species (96410).

HE. H., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 97 specimens of piercing
and slashing weapons. (92477,
loan.) ;

156
HUMPHREY, ESTATE OF GEN. C.
F. (through Col. E. H. Humphrey,
United States Army, Washington,
D. C.) : 33 pieces of pottery and 31
pieces of bronze. (92478, loan.)
HUNGERFORD, Prof. H. B.
under Kansas, University of.)
HUNTINGTON, Mrs. WILLIAM CHa-
PIN, Washington, D. C.: Collection
of footwear assembled by the late
Frank G. Carpenter, father of the
donor, during some 40 years of for-
eign travel (93542).
HUNTINGTON, Witti4mM ELDERKIN,
Washington, D. C.: Military uni-
form accessories, small pictures and
a china cup owned by Col. William
Anthony Elderkin, United States
Army during the Civil War (96071).
HURD, Cuartes D., Evanston, Ill.: 6
Specimens of chemicals for the Loeb
Collection of Chemical Types
(97625).
HYSLOPP, J. A., Washington, D. C.:

(See

3 beetles, including a male paratype

and 2 larvae (95411).

IDAHO MANGANESE CoO., Cleveland,
Idaho (through Interior Depart-
ment, United States Geological Sur-
vey) : 3 mammoth teeth from Idaho
(93599) .

ILEX OPTICAL CO., Rochester, N. Y.:
3 Ilex shutters with cable releases
(96892).

ILLINOIS STATE NATURAL HIS-
TORY SURVEY DIVISION. Ur-
bana, Ill. (through Dr. T. H. Fri-
son) : 2 saw-flies (paratypes) (94503,
exchange); 2 flies from § TIllinois
(95118).

IMPERIAL FORESTRY INSTITUTH,
Oxford, England (through Dr. J.

’ Burtt Davy) : 210 plants (97103, ex-
change).

INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Blooming-
ton, Ind. (through Dr. Will Scott):
21 amphipods from Wawasee Lake,
Indiana (95161).

INGRAHAM, Miss RurxH, Los Altos,
Calif.: Eggs of katydid inserted in
a piece of railroad time table
(95110).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

INSTITUTO DE LA SALLE, Bogota,
Colombia (through Brother Nice
foro Maria): 229 mammals from
Colombia (91820, 97141). Exchange.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT:

Office of Indian Affairs: (See un-
der Roebling fund, sue DE
Institution. )

National Park Service, Grand Can-
yon National Park, Grand Can-
yon, Ariz.: A slab of fossil foot-
prints from the Supai forma-
tion, Grand Canyon National
Park, collected by Glen Sturde-
vant (93195).

United States Geological Survey:
Mineral specimens consisting of
native sulphur and associated
Sulphate efflorencences, collected
by W. T. Schaller in Culberson
County, Tex. (92414); miscel-
laneous rocks and ores illus-
trating various published re-
ports (92991) ; thin sections of
educational series of rocks
(93421) ; specimens from the
Randsburg district, Calif., col-
lected by F. L. Hess (93436) ;
thin sections from J. D. Irving’s
Black Hills collection (93437) ;
bat from Idaho (93514); 70
plants collected
Alaska by J. B. Mertie, jr.
(98586) ; specimens illustrating
Bulletins 774, 763, and 780-D,
United States Geological Sur-
vey, by Clyde P. Ross (93564) ;
ores from the Mineral Hill dis-
trict, Idaho, and Searchlight
mining district, Wyoming, and a
large specimen of jarosite from
Clark County, Nev. (93610) ;.
suite of 105 specimens represent-
ing the manganese ores and
associated rocks from Montana,
Utah, Oregon, and Washington,
described in Bulletin 725-C,
United States Geological Survey
(93924) ; suite of 48 specimens
representing the manganese ores
and associated rocks from near
Lake Crescent and Humptulips,

in northern _

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 L5G

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT—Contd.
United States Geological Survey—

Continued.
Wash,, described in a bulletin
ot the United States Geological
Survey (93927); suite of 68
specimens representing the ores
and associated rocks from the
Garrison and Phillipsburg phos-
phate fields, Montana, described
in Bulletin No. 640-K of the
United States Geological Survey
(94063) ; rocks and ores illus-
trating the geology and ore de-
posits of the Mogolion district,
N. Mex., described in Bulletin
787, United States Geological
Survey (94064) ; part of a skull
of a Pleistocene horse, collected
by Philip 8. Smith in northern
Alaska (94068) ; 100 specimens,
538 species, of shells from Peard
Bay, northern Alaska, and an
isopod from the beach near
Point Barrow, Alaska, collected
by Philip S. Smith (94246) ;
thin sections of rocks and ores
from various districts in Nevada
(94374) ; suite of 109 specimens

representing the ores and asso-

ciated rocks from the northwest-
ern part of the Garnet Range,
Mont., described in Bulletin 660-—
F of the United States Geologi-
eal Survey (94375); thin sec-
tions and rocks from the various
districts in California (94876) ;
suite of eight specimens repre-
senting the ores and associated
rocks from the Dunkleberg min-
ing district, Granite County,
Mont., described in Bulletin
660-g of the United States Geo-
logical Survey (943877) ; thin sec-
tions of rocks and ores from
various districts in Arizona
(94378) ; thin sections of erup-
tive rocks collected north of
Boston, Mass., by J. S. Diller
(94892) ; thin sections of rocks
from various districts in Maine
(94893) ; thin sections of rocks

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT—Contd.
United States Geological Survey—

Continued.
collected by Walter H... Weed
in the region about Sonora,
Mexico (94894); thin sections
of rocks from various districts
in Utah (94397) ; 20 specimens
of fossil material collected by
L. W. Stephenson and W. C.
Mansfield on the western shore
of Chesapeake Bay, St. Marys
County, Md. (94496) ; thin sec-
tions of rocks illustrating a re-
port on the Colorado River dam
sites by F. L. Ransome (94497) ;.
thin sections of specimens from
various districts in the State of
Washington (94522); thin sec-
tions of specimens from various
districts in Montana (94523) ;
thin sections of rocks collected
in the Llano district, Tex., by
Sidney Paige, and thin sections
of specimens also collected by
Mr. Paige in the region about
Tyrone, N. M. (94524, 94525) ;
thin sections of specimens from
various districts in Oregon
(94526) ; thin sections of speci-
mens collected by C. W. Hayes
in an examination for the
Nicaraguan Canal Commission
(94527) ; thin sections of speci-
mens from the region about
Knoxville, Tenn. (94528) ; thin
sections of specimens collected
by S. F. Emmons in the Acari
mines, Peru, South America
(94529); small collection of
Triassic parasuchian reptile re-
mains obtained by A. A. Baker
in the Chinle formation, 2 miles
south of Moab, Utah (94530) ;
minerals upon which were made
the optical determinations for
Bulletin 679, United States Geo-
logical Survey, by HE. S. Larsen
(94544) ; Cambrian fossils ob-
tained by L. S. Westgate in the
Pioche district, Nev., and by
James Gilluly in the Stockton

158

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT—Conta.

United States Geological Survey— | * Ba

Continued.
‘and Fairfield quadrangles, Utah

(94702) ; manganese ores stud- ;
ied by D. F. Hewett and asso- |!

ciates in the United States Geo-

logical Survey, and’ by George |
University of Minne- |
; Upper and Middle |

A. Thiel,
sota (95088)
Cambrian fossils collected by

R. C. Moore in the Grand Can- |!
yon, Ariz., in 1923" (95618) ; 72 |
and |
mollusks from North and South |

specimens of echinoderms

Carolina, described by L. W.

Stephenson (96765) ; fossil teeth |)
of horse and elephant collected |

by A. H. Kimzey, Farmersville,

Tex. (96790) ; 71 specimens of |

manganese ores illustrative of

published reports on deposits in |
New Mexico, Arizona, Califor-
and Colorado ||

nia, Wyoming,
(96878).

(See also under Idaho Man-
H. |

* ganese Ca. !
Roberts. )-

and #H.

INTERNATIONAL HEALTH BOARD |

OF THE ROCKEFELLER FOUN-
DATION, New York City (through
Dire eR TiSsele director) : 187

fishes from various localities in Cen- |
tral and South America, Haiti, and |
11. fishes |

Porto Rico
(95089).

INTERNATIONAL \NICKEL GCO.,
THH, Bayonne, N. J. (through Dr.

Paul D. Merica): Specimen
metallic nickel for the Loeb collec-
tion of chemical types (97633).

(92851) ;

INUKAIT, Dr. Tetsuo, Sapporo, Japan:

3 . salamanders |
Japan (957, 3h).

IOWA. STATE COLLEGE, meee

from . Sakhalin.

_ Iowa (through Prof. J. E. Guthrie) :

, Snake from Iowa, (93561) :

Department of Botany: 118 plants |
(through |
' Prof. L. H. Pammel) 355 plants j
from Oregon (96986, exchange). !

(96465, exchange) ;

of }

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

IVES, Freprrtck E., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Half ‘tone in 3 colors, dated
August, 1881; halftone photo-
| gravure; 10 ‘“hicrome”’ colored
‘photographs and’ 17 “hié¢arbo”
prints (96850). fh
IVES, Prof. J. D., Jefferson City,
_ Tenn.: 16 insects and a salamander
from Indian Cave, Tenn: '( 93409) ;
13 insects and a mollusk collected in
a cave near Three Springs, Tenn.
(94061) ; 2 bats ‘and a colléction of
insects (94341) ; 4 insects, 9 isopods,
a bat, an earthworm, and 2 spiders
from Nick-a-Jack Cave, Tenn., and
Mammoth Cave, Ky. (95973).
JACKSON, RaLtpeHe W., Cambridge,
Md.: 2 pearly fresh-water ‘mussels
| from Arcos, Brazil (type and para-
type of a new species) (95107).
ee ©. A... Morgantown,
| W. Val: 3 specimens of ‘chemicals
for the Loeb collection of chemical
types (976380).
' JACOBSON, Dr. Epwarp, Fort de
‘Kock, Sumatra: 5 specimens of bugs
from Sumatra, being types of 3
species described by Dr. J. R. de la
“Torre Bueno (94502) ; (through Dr.
b oy: B, Alexander) 13 specimens of -
flies’ (the types of 8S species and 1
additional ‘subspecies of Sumatran
crane flies) (94603).
-JACOT, ArrHuR. Pavut, ‘Tsinan,
China: 2 skulls and 3 skeletons of
small mammals from Connecticut
(95347) .
(See also ies ‘shantune Chris-
tian University, ‘Department of
Biology.) .
| JAMES, Grorce lel “Washington,
| —-D..C.: Watch made by Peter Garon,
London, about 1690 (94974, loan).
| JAMES, M., Lutesville, Mo.: 14 speci-
mens, 8 species, of pearly mussels
from Crooked Creek, Bollinger
~ County, Mo., and 10 fossil gastropods
from near Lutesville: (95374).
JARDIN BOTANIQUE PRINCIPAL,
Leningrad, © Union ’ of | Socialistic
Soviet Republics’ in |Hurope: 160
plants from Brazil (95381) ;'7 plants
from’ Asia (96974). Exchange.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

JOHANSEN, Hoterr, Summit, Canal ;
_ Zone;:, 13 plants, from, Canal Zone |
(92777, 92965,, 93237, 93473).
JOHNS. HOPKINS. UNIVERSITY, |
__ Baltimore, Md. (through Dr. Duncan
risen: olnson) : 2 shrimps and 2 crabs |
collected from the Mabess River.
. Jamaica (93842); 15 ferns from J a
_Maica (94092, exchange) ; a (through |
Dr. Edward W. Berry) 2 seeds of |
plants from Panama (92489, ex-|
-change). ;
JOHNSON, Giranrace, Dry Tortugas, |
_ Fla.: 71 birds, in alcohol, from Dry |
Tortugas, Fla. (93478).
JOHNSON, C. W., Boston, Mass, :
_, insects (93179) ; type specimen of a |
fly (953853, exchange). . |
(See also under Boston Society of |
Natural History.) . |
JOHNSON, Dr... Duncan 8. (See}
under Johns Hopkins University, | i
, Baltimore, Md.) i
JOHNSON, Frank, New York City: |
4 specimens of insects, comprising |
male and female each of two rare |
species, new to the Museum collec:
tions, (93916) ; 53 moths (94487) 5°
‘alto specimens of Lepidoptera omit
Arizona, New York, and South }
America (95656); 43 moths and)
butterflies including several new to’
the Museum collections (96786). |
JOHNSON, G. Duncan, Baltimore, |
Md.: 4 specimens of ferns from Ja- |
maica (93482).
JOHNSON, Prof. J. Harwan, Golden, |
Calif. (through J. B. Reeside, jr.) :
4 specimens of undescribed species
- of Cretaceous invertebrates from the
Fox Hills sandstone of Colorado:
: (95013).
JOHNSON, Dr. Paut, Washington, |
D. C.: Chimney swift (96418).

JOHNSON, Pau = HE. (See under |
. Buchanan, Hstates of Dr: and Mrs.

_ Roberdeau.)
JOHNSTON, Miss Frances BENJAMIN,
New York City: 69 bromide enlarge-
ments of photographs entitled “In
_Old World Gardens,” for special ex-
hibition of her work during the

month of February (95106, loan).

ui

159

JOHNSTON, Dr. I. M. (See under
Harvard University, Gray Herbar-
ium.)

JONES, Cart. T., Lawshe, Ohio:
Beetle and stone implements from
Ohio (94410, 95175). +)

JONES, E. Duxinriztp, Glendale,
Calif. : 111 specimens of South Amer-
ican Lepidoptera, representing ap-
proximately 50 new species, and 43

. Specimens of Lepidoptera from Cali-
fornia (95867).

JONES, Col. E. Lister, Washington,

_D. C.; Split-bamboo fishing rod made
about i860 .by. Charles Hopkins
Jones, father of the donor, and said
_to be the second fly rod ever made
~ (98076).

JONES, Dr. WALTER B., University,
Ala.: Large. exhibition slab. illus-
trating the Ordovician-Devonian un-
conformity in Alabama (94780).

JORDAN, Dr. Kart, Tring, Herts,
Hngland: Rare insect from Malay
Peninsula (96485) ; skeletons of 3
wood ‘rats from near Great Falls,
Va. (96924). é

JOYCE ENGRAVING CO., MAURICE,
Washington, D, C.: 4 halftone plates
and 10 prints therefrom (93626).

JUDD, Neitz M., Washington, D. C.:
Pottery fragments collected by the
donor in October, 1926, at Hueco
tanks, near EI Paso, Tex. (94580) ;
2 Navaho animal shrines and a bird
trap used by Zuni Indians at Pueblo
Bonito (95520).

JURICA, Hinary S. (See under St.
Procopius College, Lisle, Til.)
KALUSOWSKI, Dr. H. E., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Belgian double-barreled
fowling piece, made about the mid-
dle of the nineteenth eae.

(92863).

KANH, CHARLES, Washington, D: C.:
American shelf clock of about 1850
(94956).

KANSAS STATH AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGH, Manhattan, Kans.
(through Prof. R. H. Painter): 3
flies, types of 8 species (85764; ex-
change) ; (through Charles E. Burt)
‘scorpion (94750). eA

160

KANSAS, UNIVERSITY OF, Law-

rence, Kans. (through Prof. R. H.
Beamer) 2 specimens of flies (para-
types) (91906, exchange) ; 21 speci-
mens of flies, paratypes of 9 species
(94354, exchange); (through Prof.
H: B. Hungerford) 8 specimens of
beetles (93465); (through C. D.
Bunker) 2 turtles (94122); 6 flies
from Kansas (96463, exchange).

KEARNEY, Dr. T. H.: Washington,
D. C.: 2 plants from Arizona
(96454).

(See also under Agriculture, De-
partment of, Bureau of Plant
Industry.)

KEEVIN, BE. E. (See under Roosevelt
Newsboys’ Association, The.)

KELLOGG, Reminetron. (See under
Smithsonian Institution, National
Museum, collected by members of
the staff.)

KENG, Dr. Lim Boon, Amoy, China:
8 photographs of a whale (93268).

KENNAN, Mrs. EMELINE WELD, Me-
dina, N. Y.: Catalan (Spain) dagger
and a Barbary (North Africa) knife
(92452).

KENNEDY, E. F. (See under South-
ern Railway system, development
service. )

KENNEDY, P. B. (See under Cali-

_ fornia, University of.)

KIAER, Prof. JoHAan, Oslo, Norway
(through Dr. HE. O. Ulrich, Wash-
ington, D. C.): Collection of fossils,
particularly ostracoda, illustrating
the Ordovician and Silurian periods
in Norway (96646).

KIMZEHY, A. H., Farmersville, Tex.: 4
stone implements and a lot of pots-

herds from near Farmersville
(95899).
KING, D. O., Mendoza, Argentina:

Specimen of rhea (bird) from Ar-
gentina (95001).

KING, WiLLt1AmM C., San Antonio, Tex.:
Plant from Texas (93429).

KINSER, B. M., Eustis, Fla. (through
EK. J. Brown): The last upper tooth
of an extinct species of horse
(93508) .

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

KINSEY, C. A., Belgrade, Mont.:
Lower jaw of a marten from the
Miocene near Belgrade (91717).

KIRK, Dr. Epwin C., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Mounting stand for holding
lower jaws for photographing
(96653).

KIRN, ALBERT J., Somerset, Tex.: 189
specimens of land and fresh-water
shells from Iowa, Kansas, Texas,
and other localities (95109).

KLARMANN, Emm, Bloomfield, N. J.:
8 specimens of chemicals for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(97629). :

KLASH, J. S8., Avon Park, Fla.:; 4 in-
sects and a lidard from Florida
(94549).

KNOWLTON, Dr. G. F. (See under
Utah Agricultural College.)

KNULL, J. N., Harrisburg, Pa.: 32 un-
determined Hymenoptera (93518).

KOHL, Dr. H., Berlin, Germany: 10
specimens of minerals (86684, ex-
change).

KORNHAUSHR, Dr. S. I.
Louisville, University of.) :

KUGLER, Dr. H. G., Puerto Cabello,

‘Venezuela (through Dr. W. P. Wood-
ring, Washington, D. C.) : 27 eollec-
tions of Tertiary invertebrate fossils
from the State of Falcon, Venezuela
(98477) 2.25

KUYKENDALL, Ruea, Reserve, N.
Mex.: Potsherds and fragments: of
2 male skulls from Catron County,
N. Mex. (92552).

(See also under Pat Birmingham
and Mrs. Henry Graham.)
KYLIN, H. R. (See under Agricul-
ture, Department of, Forest Service.)
LAFERERTY, C. E., Newfield, N. J.:
3 gray squirrels from New Jersey’

(95417).

La FLESCHH, Dr. Francis, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Necklace of seeds of Wa-
non-p’in-hi, or “ necklace tree,” from
the Osage Indians, Oklahoma
(93261).

LA FORTUNE, Rev. Father BELarmMon,
Nome, Alaska (through Dr. A. Hrd-
li¢ka) : 6 photographs of natives of
Alaska (92869).

(See under

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161

LANDIS, Col. J. F. Reynoips, United | LEWIS, Rev. C. 8., Trenton, N: J.: 5

States Army (retired). (See under
Aztee Club of 1847, The).

LARSEN, Dr. E. S., Cambridge, Mass. :
4 specimens of the mineral cancri-
nite described by E. S. Larsen and
W. F. Foshag (95426).

LATHAM, Roy, Orient, N. Y.: 2 pearly

_ fresh-water mussels and 3 valves of
land shells from Montauk, Long Is-
land, N. Y. (96001, 96476).

LATIMER, H. A., Boston, Mass.: 2
carbon prints and 3 photogravure
prints (94782).

LAUGHLIN, Dr. BLANCHE STILL,
Kirksville, Mo. (through Dr.. Riley
D. Moore, Washington, D. C.): 2
dental forceps used by Dr. Andrew
Taylor Still (93587).

LA WALL, Prof. CHARLES H.
under Lippincott, J. P., & Co.)

LAWLER, F. R., New Orleans, La.:
Mollusk and egg cases of mollusk, a
bryozoan, 2 leeches, and a land pla-
narian (93291).

LAWRENCE & CO., Lawrence, Mass.
(See under Pacific Mills, Boston,
Mass.)

LENGERKE, J. von, Orange, N. J.:
21 hawks from New Jersey (93922,
94062, 96275) ; goshawk and a red-
tailed hawk from near Westchester,
Conn. (93939); 3 goshawks and a
marsh-+hawk from New Jersey
(94118).

LENMAN, Miss Isoprit H., Washing-
ton, D. C. (through Anton Heitmul-
ler) : 110 ethnological objects from
the peoples of the Pacifie (95745,
loan).

LEON, Rev. Brother, Vedado, Habana,
Cuba: 8 plants from Cuba (92482).

LEONARD, E. C., Washington, D. C.:
20 land shells from northern Haiti
(96176).

LERMOND, Norman W., Gulfport,
Fla.: 22 specimens of Miocene fos-
sils dredged off the water front of
St. Petersburg, Fla. (94507).

LESNH, P., Paris, France: 24 speci-
mens, representing 10 species, of
determined beetles of the family
Lyctidae (96073).

(See

ferns from New York (94358).

LEWIS, Miss Evizasetu S., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 2 fresh-water mussels
from Anacostia River, at Benning
Station, D. C. (92795).

LIBRARY OF CONGRHESS, Washing-
ton, D. C.: Bound volume of herba-
rium specimens prepared by William
Paine in 1732 (94599).

LIGHT, WittiAmM A. (See under Roe-
bling Fund, Smithsonian Institution. )

LIORE & OLIVIER, Levallois (Seine)
France: Photograph of the Liore &
Olivier hydroplane, type Leo H.
194, with which Bernard and Bou-
gault made the flight from France
to Madagascar and return (95559).

LIPPINCOTT & CO., J. P., Philadel-
phia, Pa. (through Dr. Horatio C.
Wood and Prof. Charles H. La
Wall): Copy of the United States
Dispensatory, twenty-first edition,
for inclusion in an exhibit of Amer-
ican medicinal standards (93277).

LLOYD, Dr. JoHN: Uri, Cincinnati,
Ohio: Medal awarded to the donor
by the Cincinnati Industrial Expo-
sition, 1875, for an exhibit of “ Fine
and rare chemicals” (94520).

(See also under Dr. H. H. Hays.)

LLOYD LIBRARY, THE. (See under
Naturhistorisches Museum, Botan-
ische Abteilung.) ;

LOHMANDHER, Hans, Lund, Sweden:
66 isopods representing 5 species
(95366) .

LOHR, L. R. (See under American
Military Engineers, The Society of.)

LOMEN, Kart, Nome, Alaska (through
Dr. A. UHrdlicka): Archeological
specimens from the Bering Sea re
gion (93834, loan).

LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE
AND TROPICAL MEDICINE, Lon-
don, England (through Dr. P. A.
Buxton): 42 flies (Sarcophigidae)
from Samoa and New Hebrides
(93515).

LONGLEY, Dr. W. H., Baltimore,
Md.: 76 fishes from Tortugas, Fla.;
also an insect and crustacean
(938233).

162

LORING, J. Atpen, Oswego, N. Y.:
Skull of a male Seminole Indian
from Florida (98835). :

LOS ANGELES MUSHUM, Los An-
geles, Calif. (through L. J. Much-
more) : 4 flies (95378, exchange).

LOUISIANA EXPERIMENT STA-
TION, Baton Rouge, La. (through
W. EH. Hinds) : Moth bred from the
“cotton leafworm” of Central Peru,
Canete Valley, by Mr. Hinds’
(94128). .

LOUISVILLE, UNIVERSITY OF,

Louisville, Ky. (through Dr. 8. I.;

Kornhauser) : 40 flies and a speci-.

men of subcutaneous tissue (from:

cadaver), infested with larve of.
Drosophila, from Louisville, Ky.|
(95672).
LOY, Harry D., Romney, W. Va.:.
Bald eagle from West Virginia.
(94214).

LUEDERWALDT, Dr. H:
Museu Paulista.)
LUM, Mrs. BertTHa, Hollyticodl Calif, :/
51 wood-bleck prints in color, J apa-;
hese method, for special exhibition
of her work from October 30: to:
November 26, 1926. (93627, loan).
‘LUMMIS, Mrs. Grorem M., Fort’
Myers, Fla.: 2 plants from Florida’
(96093, 96490).
-LUMMIS, Sranpizy B., Fort Myers, |
a.: Orchid from Florida’ (93168) .’
LUQUIENS, H. M., Honolulu, Hawaii:
60 etchings, dry points, and aquatints’

(See aiden!

for special exhibition of his. work

from January 31 to February 26,)
1927 (94695, loan) :
dry. points, and 1 aquatint (95955).

LUTHER BURBANK HXPERIMENT:
FARMS, THH, Santa Rosa, Calif.: 3:
small lots of charred botanical food:
material from Indian. mounds in)
Ohio (92845). gies

McATEEH, W. L. (See under Agricul-
ture, Department of, Bureau of Bio-
logical Survey.)

McCALLIB, 8S. W. (See under Georgia:
State Geological Survey, Atlanta,
Ga.) {

2 etchings, 2)

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

McCARTHY, H. F., Asheville, N: /C::
Fragments of pottery found. by the
donor and A. EF. Hough in the Pis-
gah National Forest, N.\C. (92798).

McCONNELL, Dr: R. S., New York
City: Beetle (94756). i

McDONALD, Mrs. Lorena #., Silesia,
Md.: An old instrument for extract-
ing teeth, owned by ‘her husband,
the late Dr: L. H. McDonald, of
Norwalk, Ohio (93446) /

-McELVAIN, S. M., Madison, Wis.: 19

specimens of chemicals for the Loeb
collection of chemical types (92944).

McGEHER, Dr. E: P., Lake Village,

_ Ark.: Larva of a moth (92616). .

McGINNIS, W. R., Charleston, W. Va.:
Specimen of the Carolina mantis
(93292).

McGIRR, NEWMAN F., "Philadelphia,
Pa.: Book of. Hours illuminated
probably by Hans Memling and
Gerard David with reproductions in
photogravure of 11 representative
miniatures (96422). ut

McGREGOR, EH. A., Lindsay, Calif. :
%S insects from California (96088,
96763).

(See also under eee United
States Department of, Burgeo of
Entomology.)

McGRHGOR, R. C. (sdseindes Phil
ippine Islands, Government of.) -

McINTOSH, Watrter qe Duneans,
P. O., Jamaica, British West In-
dies: 30 shells from Jamaica
(92899). .

MCKER, Prof, J. C., Agricultural and
Mechanical College, Miss.: Plant-
from Missis ssIpp1 (96452).

McNEILL, Frank A. (See under |
Australian Museum, The.)

McPHERSON, W. W., Lubbock, Tex.:
Portion of a skull of a phyhospurian
reptile, (93452).

McRAW, Dr. E. H., Tampa, Fla.: 2
insects from Florida (93456):

MACDONOUGH, G. H., Washington,
D.' C.: Gold-mounted sword pre-
sented by the State of New York to
Commodore Thomas 'Macdonough,

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

MACDONOUGH, G. H.—Continued.
United States Navy, and a pair of
‘gold-mounted pistols presented to
him by the State of Connecticut, in
recognition of his achievements dur-
ing the War of 1812-15 (94639,
loan).

MacDOUGAL, Dr. D.. T&T. Carmel,
Calif.: Specimen and 7 photcgraphs
of plants (92419, exchange).

(See also under Carnegie’ Insti-

tution of Washington, Coastal Lab- |

oratory. )

MACH, B. M., Jr.,. American trade
commissioner to Argentina, Uru-
guay and Paraguay, care State De-
partment, Washington, D. C.: Bag
containing a corncob and a frag-
ment of fiber cord of the ancient
Peruvians, found in a cemetery at
Arica,.Peru (92527)...

MACGINITIN, G. E., Fresno, Calif.:
16 specimens of crustacea (93196).

MACKIE, Mrs. Ratpu P., McKiniey
Park, Alaska: 40 plants from Alas-
ka (90938, 92534, 92588, 93158).

MACNEAL, W. J., New York City: 10
specimens of chemicals for the Loeb
collection of chemical types (9762&).

MADDEN, J. L., Shinnston, W. Va.:
Approximately 500 land, fresh-wa-
ter and marine shells and a crab
from Charlotte County, Mla. (92572).

MAHOGANY ASSOCIATION (INC.),
New York City: 8 large panels of
Central American and African ma-
hogany, and 5 small inlaid panels
showing mahogany in combination
with other valuable woods (94547).

MAINE FOREST SERVICE, STATE
OF, Augusta, Me. (through H. B.

Peirson): 4 specimens of insects
(92435).
MALLINSON & CO. (INC.), H. R.,

New York City: 14 specimens of silk

- dress fabrics (92859); 28 samples
of novelty silk fabrics, called the
American National Park Series,
which are printed with designs in-
spired by the natural wonders of
our National and State parks; and
9 piece-dyed silk fabrics for installa-
tion with these (95522).

163

MALLOCH, J. R., Washington, D. C.:
3 specimens of flies, paratypes of 1
species (93487) ; 5 specimens of flies,
including paratypes of 3 new species
(94979).

MANDA, Rospert F., West Orange,
N. J.; 12 plants (cacti) (92417).
MANDA (INC.), W. A., South Orange,
N. J.: 9 plants (cacti) (92557, ex-

change).

MANSFIELD, Mrs. Grorce R., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Boy’s hat of the early
part of the nineteenth century
(93219).

MARCUCCI; Sr. Don FRANctsco,
Moyuta, Guatemala, Central Amer-
ica: Seeds of a tree from Guatemala
(94208, 94732).

MARSH, O. GaytorD, Montevideo,
Uruguay (through Department of
State) : Barnacle known as “ Whale
louse,” taken from a whale in the
vicinity of the South Shetland

Islands (92879); 2 mollusks and
some barnacles from © Uruguay
(98374).

MARSH, W. G., Anchorage; Alaska
(through Dr. A.. Hrdli¢ka) : Leaf-
shape flint blade found by the donor
on a ranch 5 miles northeast of
Anchorage (938520).

MARSHALL, Byron C., Imboden,
Ark.: 86 insects’ from Arkansas
(93152, 98938, 94757, 95116, 96861).

MARSHALL, Hrnest B., Laurel, Md.:
Crow, 4 pine mice, 3 specimens of
laughing gull and a bluejay, 2
specimens of red-shouldered hawk,
and 25 small mammal skulls, and a
sparrow hawk, all from Maryland
(93479, 94074,, 94111, 94949, 96467,
96469).

MARSHALL, Grorce, Washington,
D. C.: 3 specimens, 2 species, of
fresh-water mussels from Patuxent
River, Laurel, Md. (95413).

MARTIN, Grorcze A.: Approximately
112 shells from Jamaica (90149).

MARTIN, Dr. THomas H. (See un-
der American Optometric Associa-
tion.)

164

MARTIN, W. N., Rouzerville, Pa.:
Skin of a pigmy hippopotamus from
Sierra Leone, Africa (88655).

MARTINEZ, Sr. Don MaxiImtIno.
(See under Mexico, Government of,
Direccion de Estudios Biologicos.)

MARYLAND HISTORICAL SO-
CIETY, THE, Baltimore, Md.: 3
fragments of the Star Spangled Ban-
ner and 4 documents establishing
their authenticity (93535).

MASON FIBRE CO., Laurel, Miss.:
43 specimens showing stages in the
manufacture of “Masonite,” a syn-
thetic lumber (96280).

MATHER, Wirtram G., Cleveland,
Ohio: Book entitled ‘‘ The Portraits
of Increase Mather” by K. B. Mur-
dock, printed by Bruce Rogers at
the Harvard University Press, 1924
(92563).

MATHESON, Prof. Roprrt.
der Cornell University.)

MATHEWS, Prof. Asa A. L.
under Utah, University of.)

(See un-

(See

MATILDA ZIEGLER PUBLISHING

CO. FOR THE BLIND (INC.), New
York City: 6 specimens of printing
for the blind (96419).

MATLEY, Dr. C. A., Edinburgh, Scot-
land (through Dr. W. P. Woodring) :
Collection of late Tertiary fossils
from Jamaica (96562).

MATTHEWS, Ransom, Selma, Calif.:
Collection of ignition apparatus com-
prising a high tension Atwater Kent
generator; a German Bosch mag-
neto; an American Bosch magneto;
a Rocker type magneto; and 9 spark
plugs (95489, loan).

MATUSUKA, Martin, Fairbanks,
Alaska, (through Dr. A. Hrdlitka) :
Fossil skull of a horse from Tofty,
Alaska, and the skull of a grizzly
bear from the Seward Peninsula,
Alaska (92480).

MAWCINITT, Prof. Frrp.,; Vera Cruz,

Mexico: 4 specimens of fungi
(91248).
(See also under Estacion For-
estal.) :

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

MAX AMS: CHEMICAL ENGINEERR-
ING CORPORATION, Bridgeport,
Conn.: An exhibit illustrating the
production of viscose rayon (92361).

MAY, Col. Henry, Washington, D. C.:
Infantry field officer’s dress helmet
of the period of the Spanish-Ameri-
ean War, and a Sharp’s rifle, cali-
ber 45 (96945); pair of dragoon
revolvers, caliber 45, period of the
Civil War, and a shoulder stock
(97140).

MAYER, Mrs. ELEANoR GALE, Ryder,
Alaska: 107 plants from Alaska
(94087).

MEADOWS, Don C., Laguna Beach,
Calif.: 100 insects from California
(95409).

MHINRE, THomAs McKEAn. (See
under Buchanan, Estates of Mr. and
Mrs. Roberdeau.)

MELANDER, Prof. A. L., New York
City: Specimen of fly (96794, ex-
change). ,

MELL, C. D., New York City: 35
plants from Mexico (953842, 96012,
96014, 96244); 22 plants (95400,
95635) ; specimen each of Jonote and
‘Caobillo wood collected by the donor
in Mexico (96629).

MERCK & CO., Rahway, N. J.: 18
specimens of medicinal substances
made official in the United States
Pharmacopoeia X (93800).

MBEREDITH, A. A., Amarillo, Tex.: 15
galls made by flies on swamp willow
bush in Texas (94568).

MHERICA, Dr. Paut D. (See under In-
ternational Nickel Co.) 2

MERRILL, Dr. Evmer D., Berkeley,
Calif.: 4 plant photographs (types
of species) (95902).

MERRITT, E. B. (See under S. F.
Stacher.)

METCALF, Dr, M. M., Baltimore, Md.:
8 trematode worms taken from rep-
tiles collected in Brazil (91767).

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART,
New York City (through Harry
Wehle) : 26 photographs of minia-
tures in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art (92820). :

\

\

MEXICO, GOVERNMENT OF:

Direccion de Estudios Biologicos
(through Dr. A. L. Herrera):
7 erayfishes (92355); 2 speci-
mens of shrimp from Tuxtla
Guitierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
(92467) ; 2 sea-urchins (92590) ;
plant from Mexico (92973, ex-
change); mollusk (93200); 2
living plants (932638, exchange) ;
2 shells (93545) ; 5 specimens, 3
species, of land and fresh-water
shells and a few marine inver-
tebrates from the State of Vera
Cruz, Mexico (93940); 11 eray-
fishes collected from the river
Cupatitzio, Michoacan (94535) ;
plant from Mexico (94967, ex-
change); shell and 3 opercula
from Guyamas, Sonora, Mexico,
and a starfish (96234) ; approxi-
mately 50 mollusks from’ El
Penon, Mexico (96435) ;
(through Sr. Don Maximino
Martinez) 7 plants and 4 photo-
graphs of plants (92158, 92378,
95127, exchange).

Direccion Forestal y de Casa y
Pesca, Mexico, Mexico (through
Carlos Stansch, Escuinapa, Si-
naloa, Mexico): Marine inver-
tebrates, some immature fishes,
and a mollusk from Mexico
(92746).

MEYER, Dr. RetnHow, Darmstadt,
Germany: 78 specimens of deter-
mined European bees, representing
47 species; 279 specimens, represent-
ing 53 determined species of acule-
ate Hymenoptera; 262 specimens of
Hymenoptera representing 81 spe-
cies (88571, 94557, 95377). Ex-
change,

MBYN, HeinricH, Washington, D. C.:
Collection of antique hinges and
locks (98576).

MICHIGAN, UNIVERSITY OF, de-
partment of geology, Ann Arbor,
Mich.: Cast of a phytosaur pelvis
(92561, exchange).

MIDDLETON, Gzorcr, Washington,
D. C.: English penny coined in 1797
during the reign of George III
(94556).

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165

MILLER, Mrs. FLorENcE G., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Wooden spoon from the
Philippine Islands, inscribed with
rare Battak writing (92970).

MILLER, Gerrit S., jr., Washington,
D. C.: Plant from Virginia (96978).

MILLS, Atrrep Hiuer. (See under
Frederick A. Canfield.)

MILLS, Epwarp K. (See under Fred-
erick A. Canfield.)

MILLS, Lieut. K. L. (DF) United
States Naval Reserve, Fort Lauder-
dale, Fla.: Echinoid from Florida
(93282).

MILLS, Mrs. StepHen C., Washington,
D. C.: Small collection of Indian
and Philippine baskets and mats
(93499) ; Apache basket from the
collection of the donor’s father, the
late Gen. J. C. G. Lee (95425).’

MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM,
department of geology, Milwaukee,
Wis.: 235 specimens of invertebrate
fossils from Wisconsin (90418, ex-
change).

MIRGUET, C. E., Washington, D. C.:
Skeleton of a rough-winged swallow
from Washington, D. C. (92799).

MISER, H. D. (See under Dr. E. O.
Ulrich.)

MIYOSHI, Koraro, Yamaguchiken,
Japan: Small collection of miscel-
laneous insects from Japan (96409).

MONSANTO CHEMICAL WORKS, St.
Louis, Mo.: A 4-ounce specimen of
chlorinated paraffin (92894).

MOONEY, R., Washington, D. C.: Slab
of fossil chinoids from the Missis-
sippian rocks at Judith Gap, Fergus
County, Mont. (96273).

MOORE, Dr. Ritry D. (See under
Dr. E. R. Booth, Dr. Blanche Still
Laughlin, and Dr. Curtis H. Muncie.)

MOOREHEAD, Warren K. (See un-
der Phillips Academy.)

MORGAN, Mrs. E. L., Washington,
D. C.: Collection of ethnological and
skeletal material gathered by the
late Dr. E. lL. Morgan (39 speci-
mens) (93169).

MORREY, Mrs. J. B., Washington,
D. C.: 12 ethnological specimens
mainly from the Western Indians,
and a gourd dipper (95534).

166

MORTENSEN, E., Uvalde,
specimens of cacti (92559).
MOTT, Dr. G. E., United States Navy,
Annapolis, Md.: Italian sword of
. the early fifteenth century (95868).
MOULTON, Dr. W. B., Portland, Me.:
24 cut gems of tourmaline from
Maine, showing variety of color
(96392).
MUCHMOREH, L. J.
"Angeles Museum.)
MUNCIE, Dr. Curtis H., Brooklyn,
N. Y. (through Dr. Riley D. Moore,
Washington, D. C.): 5 instruments
used by osteopaths in the treatment
of deafness (93430).
MUNDT, WaAtrtTER, Berlin-Mahisdorf,

(See under Los

Germany: 3 plants (95100, ex-
change).
MUNROE, Miss HELEN, Washington,

D. C.: A ball dress of brocade silk
ornamented with bouquets of flowers
and | fruits; Chinese carved ivory
cardease; blue velvet beaded bag
‘and 2 beaded bags and a silk fan

- with ivory sticks used during the-

early part of the nineteenth century
(95746) .
MUNZ, Dr. Puiie A. (See under
' Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.)
MURAKAMI, Hanzo, Japan: 8 speci-
“mens of Cambrian fossils (92983, de-
posit).
MURPHY, O. A., Salt Sulphur Springs,
W. Va.: Nest of the blue-gray gnat
catcher from West Virginia (93253).

MURPHY, Rosert CusHMAN, New
York City: 5 parasitic isopods
(93444).

MUSEE ROYAL D'HISTOIRE NATU-
RELLE | DH. BELGIQUE, Brussels,
Belgium: Fragment from: the mete-
orice stone which fell at Lesves, Bel-
gium, April 138, 1896 (938228, ex-
ichange) .

MUSEU PAULISTA, Sao Paulo,
Brazil, South America (through Dr.
H. Luederwaldt) : Anomuran erab

\ from Isle Sao Sebastiao, and 49 ma-
rine’ mollusks from Brazil (91456,
92448).

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS ©

MUSEUM NATIONAL D’HISTORIE
NATURELLE, Paris, France: 2
‘photographs of a plant; 1807 plants,
mainly from Asia Co 93525).
Exchange.

NABOURS, Rosert K., Manhattan,
Kans.: Otolith (ear stone) taken
from a catfish in Kansas River
(96257 ).

NANKING, UNIVERSITY OF, Col-
lege of agriculture and forestry,
Nanking, China (through C. Y.
Chiao) : 2,000 Chinese plants (93898,
exchange).

NASH, JoHn Henry, San Wise
Calif.: Broadside entitled “El Toi-
son de Oro,” written by Hdward
O’Day, printed by the donor in 1925,
and awarded a first prize at the
Graphic Arts Leaders Exhibition at
Philadelphia (94053).

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
Washington, D. C.: 3,550 plants col-
lected in the North River region of
southern China, under the direction
of F. R. Wulsin (8rd -collection)
(93589) ; archeological material col-
lected for the society by Neil M.
Judd from various prehistoric vil-
lage sites in Arizona and New Mex-
ico, during October, 1926 (94762) ;
archeological collections from ruins
in. or near Chaco Canyon, N. Mex.,
from the society’s Pueblo Bonito ex-
peditiong (1921-1926) ‘under’ Mr.

~ Judd (95112); archeological collec-
tion from Pueblo del Arroyo, Chaco
Canyon National Monument, N. Mex.,
secured by the Pueblo Bonito expedi-
tions (1921-1926) of the society un- |
der Mr. Judd (95954) ; archeological
material collected by the society’s '
expeditions at the ruin of Pueblo

. Bonito, Chaco Canyon National
Monument, N. Mex., during the years
1921-1926 (96004). ;

NATIONAL MUSEUM, Gopesiazen,
Denmark: Collection of: 85 ethno-
logical specimens from the .Ammas-
salik Hskimo of Hast - aes
(98532, exchange): WERE

NATIONAL SESQUICENTENNIAL
EXHIBITION COMMISSION: A
series of radium ores and radioac-
tive minerals; vertebrate fossils in-
cluding fish, turtle, and lizard re-
mains, and 50 specimens of Warly
Paleozoic invertebrates (95977) ;
series of United States flags show-
ing the development of the design
1776-1926 (8 specimens) (976388).
Transfer.

NATIONAL SOCIDTY OF THE
COLONIAL DAMHS OF AMERICA,
Washington, D. C. (through Mrs.
James ©. Frazer): A trench coat
worn during the World War by Miss
Hlizabeth C. Lee (96788, loan).

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, San
‘Diego, Calif.: 14 specimens of para-
sitic mites (92494).

NATURAL HISTORY MUSHUM,
Stockholm, Sweden: 2 skulls of
wolverine from Swedish Lapland
(92188, exchange).

NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM,
Botanische Abteilung, Vienna, Aus-
tria: 15 lots of washings with
Tertiary bryozoa from Hurope
(92600); 100 specimens (Century
30) Kryptogamae Exsiccatae (95382,
exchange); ‘(through the Lloyd
Library, Cincinnati, Ohio) 27 speci-
mens of fungi (96661, exchange).

NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMU-
SHETS, Stockholm, Sweden:

Botaniska Afdelning: 121 speci-
mens of ferns collected in Cuba
by E. L. Ekman (85234, 87323) ;
(through Prof. G. Samuelsson)
192 specimens of Brazilian
plants (92642); 269 plants,
chiefly from Cuba (92871); 7
plants from Cuba (95084) ; 209

plants. from South America
(96632) ; 253 plants (969387).
Exchange.

Mineralogiska Avdelning: 2 min-
eral specimens, fiuoborite and

magnesiumorthite from WNor-
berg, Sweden (95976, ~ex-
change).

-Paleobotaniska Avdelning: 137
specimens of Mesozoic and
Cenozoic plants, chiefly from

Seania (98808, exchange).
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167

NAVY DEPARTMENT: 5 aircraft en-
gines, namely, the Hall Scott A-7—A,
Union 2-6, Curtiss CD-12, Wright
D-1, Bentley BR-2 (90248) ;‘hull of
the NC-4, the Navy boat airplane
which was the first aircraft to cross
the Atlantic Ocean (96306);
(through California Academy of
Sciences, San Francisco, Calif.) 6
frogs, 2 snakes, and 43 lizards from
the Revillagigedos Islands, collected
by the academy’s expedition to the
islands in 1925 (94848).

NELSON, Even C., Boulder, -Colo.
(through Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell) :
Type specimens of a butterfly
(95137).

NEVERMANN, Ferprinanp, San Jose,
Costa Rica (through T. BH. Snyder) :
Specimen of fungus (92971) ; plant
from Costa Rica (94088).

NEWELL, Mrs. Eriten M., Coconut
Grove, Fla.: Moth from Florida
(96602).

NEWTON, A. J., Rochester, N. Y.: 3
rotary photogravure prints in color,
made by the’ Sun Engraving Co.,
Watford, England (94113) ; 12 speci-
mens of rotary photogravure work of
the Sun Hngraving Co., of Watford,
England; comprising 1 set of progres-
sive proofs in 3 colors, and a set of
progressive proofs in 4 colors
(95506).

NHW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN,
Bronx Park, New York. City: 126
plants (92404, 92427, 92786, 93945,
93952, 94255, 94518, 94514, 94710,
94759, 94765, 94966, 96287, 96610) ;
plant from Kentucky (92424); 2
photographs of plants (924381) ;: 12
plants from the West Indies
(92779) ; photograph of type sheet
of a plant (93246) ; 79 plants from
Florida (93474, 93491, 93501, 93622) ;
5 fragmentary specimens and 1
photograph of plants (93524); 7
specimens and 2 photographs of
plants. (93980) ; 11 ferns from Cuba
(94221) ; 2 photographs of plants
(94864); 9 ferns from Porto Rico
(96489) ; 2 ferns from Cuba (96977),
Hxchange.

168

NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTU-
RAL EXPERIMENT STATION,
Geneva, N. Y. (through Hugh Glas-
gow): Fly (adult and puparium)
(96604).

NEW YORK STATH MUSEUM, Al-
bany, N. Y¥.: (Through Dr. E. P.

. Felt) 4 flies from Allegany State
Park (93592); (through Dr. Rudolf
Ruedemann) fossil foraminifera and
ostracoda from European localities
(96644, exchange).

NICE, Mrs. Marcaret M., Normsn,
Okla.: 17. ferns from Oklahoma
(93286, exchange).

NICEFORO MARIA, Brother. (See
under Instituto de la Salle, Bogota,
Colombia.)

NIEDER, CHaArtrs P., Miami, Fla.:
2 insects from Florida (96666).
NIELSEN, Dr. K. BrunnicH. (See
under Universitetets Zoologiska Mu-

seum, Copenhagen, Denmark.)

NIEMEYER, Miss ERNESTINE H., Bar-
ranquilla, Colombia: 66 plants from
Colombia (94258).

NORDFELDT, B. J. O., Sante Fe,
N. Mex.: 70 etchings, drypoints, and
wood-block prints in color, for spe-
cial exhibition of his work from
November 27, 1926, to January 2,
1927 (94249).

NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE, Raleigh, N.
C.: (through C. S. Brimley) 6 flies
(92269), 14 flies from North Caro-
lina (941238); (through M. C. Van
Duzee) 6 flies, types of 5 species,
described by Mr. Van Duzee
(953389) ; (through J. C. Crawford)
23 named bees and wasps, including
11 species, 2 of which are represent-
ed by types (95531, exchange).

NORTH CAROLINA, UNIVERSITY
OF, Department of Botany, Chapel
Hill, N. C.: 20 specimens of fungi,
chiefly type material (93502, ex-
change).

NORTH TEXAS STATH TEACHERS
COLLEGE, Denton, Tex. (through
Prof, B. B. Harris): 8 insects from
Texas (92982).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

NORTON CO. THE, Worcester,
Mass.: An exhibit visualizing the
manufacture of Alundum (artificial
abrasive), grinding wheels, and
refractories, consisting of 67 num-
bered specimens, 9 sketches and a
model of an Alundum electric fur-
nace (96870).

NOWICKY, S., Prague II, Czecho-

slovakia (through A. B. Gahan):
96 chalcid-flies, including 5 named
species (92985, exchange).

NUNEZ-TOVAR, Dr. M., Maracay,
Hstado Aragua, Venezuela: 1,400
insects from South America (93376,
exchange): (through Dr. H. G.
Dyar) 1,500 specimens of mosquitoes
(93620, 94546, exchange); 8 flies
from South America (94206).

OHIO STATE ARCHEOLOGICAL
AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Co-
lumbus, Ohio: Mounted sample of
prehistoric cloth from Seip Mound
No. 2, Bainbridge, Ross County, Ohio
(94097).

OHSHIMA, Dr. Hrrosui,- Fukuoka,
Japan; 13 specimens of a commensal
crab (95542) ; 34 specimens of crabs
collected by the donor in ‘Tapes
shells at the shore of Nishi-Park of
Fukuoka (96310).

OKLAHOMA, UNIVERSITY OF, Nor-
man, Okla. (through Dr. A. I. Or-
tenburger) : Soft-shelled turtle
(89556) ; 22 turtles from Oklahoma
(938205).

OLDROYD, Mrs. Ipa S. (See under
Stanford University, department of
geology and mineralogy.) —

OLDROYD, T. S., Stanford University, —
Calif.: Approximately 200 specimens
of fingers of fossil crustacea (95943).

ORCUTT, C. R., San Diego, Calif.. 4 |
specimens of living plants from
Texas; also a turtle, mammal skull,
insects and shells (92384) ; approxi-
mately 950 mollusks, insects, plants,
2 crabs, and an archeological speci-
men from Texas, Mexico, and New
Mexico (92624) ; 55 plants from the
United States (92766); 50 land
shells from a tributary of the

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

ORCUTT, C. R.—Continued.

Puereo River, Ariz. (93461) ; plant
(93587) ; 3 plants from California
(93614) ; 3 specimens of marine in-

_ vertebrates (95355); 1 starfish and
1 sea-urechin (95405); 2 crabs
(95619) ; crab and beetle (95644) ;
crabs, isopods, and bottom samples,
mumunified bird, and fragments of a
lizard shell (96601).

OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL-
LEGE, Corvallis, Oreg. (through H.
A. Scullen): 5 specimens of pinno-
therid crabs (93210); (through
Joseph Wilcox) 17 specimens of flies
(94205, 94977, 95408).

OREGON, UNIVERSITY OF (through
Prof. E. L. Packard): 6 specimens
of fossil crab material (949387).

ORTEGA, Sr. Ina. Jusus G., Mazatlan,
Sinaloa, Mexico: 102 Mexican plants
and 45 wood specimens (92395) ; 150
plants from Mexico (94640) ; 3 photo-
graphs of plants (95125) ; 150 plants
from Mexico and a photograph of a
plant (95140).

ORTENBURGER, Dr. A. I., Norman,
Okla.: 48 plants from Oklahoma
(93998).

(See also under Oklahoma, Uni-'

versity of.)
OSBORN, Mrs. Henry FAtrFietp. (See
under Madame Marius de Brabant.)
OVER, Prof. W. H. (See under South
Dakota, University of.)

PACIFIC MILLS, Lawrence, Mass.

(through Lawrence and Company) :-

15 samples of printed cotton goods
(969783).
PACK, Hegsert J.
Agricultural College.)
PACKARD, Prof. E. L.
Oregon, University of.)
PAHNKH, RioHarp J., Washington,

D. C.: Pair of Chinese shoes from |
the Philippine Islands; pair of wood-

en shoes from Germany; pair of
paper twine shoes made and used in
Germany during the World War, and
a specimen of paper twine fabric
from Germany (95630).

(See under Utah

(See under

169

PAINE LUMBER CO. (LTD.), Osh-
kosh, Wis.: An African mahogany
table with attached exhibit case
(93295, exchange).

PAINTER, Prof. R. H. (See under
Kansas State Agricultural College.)

PALMHR, Hrnest J., Webb City, Mo.:
3 plants from Texas (92502).

PALMER, Dr. KATHERINE V. W., Itha-
ca, N. Y.: Fossil crab (84181).

PAMMEL, Prof. L. H. (See under
Iowa State College.)

PAMPANA, Dr. E. J., Andagoya, via
Buenaventura, Colombia, South
America: 20 snakes from Choco
Province, San Juan River, Colombia
(96447).

PAN AMHRICAN UNION, Washing-
ton, D. C.: 12 plant bulbs (94742,
exchange).

PARINH, S. B., Berkeley, Calif.: Plant
from California (95537).

PARKE, DAVIS & CO., Detroit, Mich.:
6 medicinal substances made official
in the United States Pharmacopoeia
X (93279).

PARKER, JouHn L. (See under Pre-
cancel Stamp Society.)

PARKS, H. E. (See under California,
University of.)

PAUL, Rey. Brother, Colegio Bifii,
Barranquilla, Columbia: 46 plants
from Columbia (93418).

PAUL, Miss Pavia, Blumenau, Est.

Sta. Catharina, Brazil: 2 specimens
of fresh-water crustacea collected by
the donor (92853).

PAYNE, Epwarp W., Springfield, Ill.:

Small lot of photographs of archeo-
logical specimens in the Springfield
Museum (94129).

PAYSON, Epwin B. (See under
Wyoming, University of.)

PHARSON, Prof. NatHAN E., Indian-
apolis, Ind.: 4 specimens of fly
larvae, parasitic on katydid, from
Winona Lake, Ind. (95999).

PHATTIN, Donarp C., Rosslyn, Va.:

32 plants collected in Morelos,
Mexico, by Mr. Robert Redfield
(95974).

(See also under Robert Redfield.)

170
PHIRSON, H. B.
Forest Service, State of.)

PEKING, CHINA, GOVERNMENT
HISTORICAL MUSEUM (through

Ch’iu Tzi-ytian, director and Freer
Gallery of Art) : 2 models of ancient
Chinese war chariots based in part
on fragments found at Hsin-chéng

Hsien, 27 miles south of Chéng Chou, .

Honan Province (95540).

PELLOUX, Prof. A., Genoa, Italy: 7;
specimens of minerals from Italy

(95736, exchange).

(See under Maine _

PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF |

AGRICULTURE, . Harrisburg, Pa.

(through T. L. Guyton): 2 phyl-|

lopods collected by George E. Lester '
in Pennsylvania (90382); 10 speci-

mens of insects ($2959) ;

(through |

A. B. Champlain) ; 3 flies (96919).

PENN SYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF,

Philadelphia, Pa. (through Dr. John:
W. Harshbarger) 15 plants (95734).
(See under Clemson |

PEPPER, J. 0.
Agricultural College.)

PERKINS, Mrs. Hyetyn, Perkinsville, °

Ariz.: Nearly complete skeleton of:

a middle-aged male Pueblo Indian

and a small lot of pottery fragments»

(96342).

PERKINS, Joun U., Washington, D.

C.: “ Movee”’ motion-picture camera |

and projector (92450) ;.41 examples

of rotary photogravure published »

about 1906 (96425).

PERRY, Curtis A., Sanibel Island, |
Fla.: 4 specimens, 2 species, of mol- :

lusks
(95176).

PERRY, Stuart H., Adrian, Mich.: |

A 30-gram fragment of the Seneca

Township, Lenawee County, Mich.,

meteoric iron (95982).

PERRYGO, W. M., Washington, D.C. : |
' Gray squirrel from the District of:

Columbia (95403).
PERSONS, C. E.
ard Oil Co. of California.)
PETERS CARTRIDGE CO:, THE,
_Cincinnait, Ohio: Display board of
‘ammunition products (129° speci-
mens) (96659).

from: Sanibel Island, Fla.

i

(See under Stand-

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

PETROCELLI, Joseeu, Brooklyn, N.
Y.::55 bromoil prints for special ex-
hibition of his work during April
and May, 1927 (95906, loan); 4
bromoils—“ At the door of the Mos-
que,” “Fakirs of the Sahara,” “ Ali
Ben Hassan,” and “Sunset in Flor-
ence” (96918).

PHILIPPINH ISLANDS, GOVERN-
MENT OF; °{/\)

Bureau of Science, Manila
(through R. C. McGregor): 16
starfishes (93424); 810 speci-
mens of miscellaneous insects
from the Philippine Islands
(94227) ; 28 skeletons, 20 species,
of birds from the Philippines
($4540, exchange); 182. speci-
mens of miscellaneous insects,
some sponges; and a, vial of
shells from the Philippine
Islands. (94630) ;. 12. specimens
of miscellaneous insects. from
Laguimanoe (95115) ; 464 speci-

mens of miscellaneous insects
and 4 lots, 11 specimens, of
shells from the Philippines
(95651) ; 586, miscellaneous , in-
sects from the Philippines
(96967).

PHILLIPS ACADEMY,, Andover,
Mass. (through Warren K. Moore-
head): 16 human skulls from burials
in Hopkinsville, Ky. (97069).

PHOTOGRAVURE AND COLOR CO.,
New York City: 11 examples of pho-
togravure, the work of the donor
(96421). poh

PICKENS, A. L., Greenville, S. C.: 3
salamanders, soft-shelled turtle and—
the lower pharyngeal of a drum fish,
8 frogs and 5 salamanders, 2 snakes,
9 frogs, and 3 salamanders, turtle,
6 salamanders and one nematode,

and 5 salamanders, all from South
Carolina (92375, 93566, 94223, 95369,

96296, 96876). i

PIERCH; Dr. W. DwicHt, Washington,
D. C.: Small ‘collection of natural
history material comprising 7 mam-

“mals, 14 insects, 3 bird skins, and
2 bird tongues, approximately 150
specimens of land and fresh-water

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171

‘PIERCE, Dr. W. DwicutT—Continued. POPENOH, C. H., Silver Spring, Md.:

shells (mostly slugs), 2 specimens
of fishes; also 3 human embryos
(938729).

PILGER, Dr. R. (See under Botan-
iseher Garten und Museum, Berlin-
Dahliem, Germany.)

PILSBRY, Dr.
Pa.: 4 shells (paratypes) from Zion

. Park, Utah (94863) ; 25 specimens,
6 species, of land shells from New
Mexice and Texas (95188).

PING, C., Amoy, China:

water, and marine shells from China
' (95390) .

PIRION; P. ANASTASE, Santiago, Chile,
South America: 28 flies from South

“America (96639). :

PIRTLE, Capt.
States Army.
Clay).

JAMES J.,

PITTIDR, Dr. H., Caracas, Venezuela:
of fresh--
_. water shells, including the types and
new species of:
fresh-water mussels; 173 plants; 114.
miscellaneous insects, all from Vene-
zuela (92555, 94882, 96975, 96664).:

9 specimens, 5 species,

3 paratypes of 2

(See also under Mayeul Grisol.)

-PLASSEH, GekorcEs, Paris,

a sugar process etching (93243).
PLATTS, Norman G., Fort Pierce,
' Fla.: 2 fishes, and 20 mosquitoes
from Florida (95367, 96297).

PLITT, Lovis A. E., Hamilton, Balti-

more, Md.: Photograph of a plant
(95152, exchange).

POHL, E.R. (See under Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum, col-
lected by members of the staff.)

POLLARD, Mrs. Wirtarp A., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Bow, quiver, and 7
arrows of the Kiowa Indians,’ Okla-
homa (93571).

‘POMONA COLLEGE, Claremont,
Calif. (through Dr. Philip A.
Munz):: 15 plants collected in Cali-

«fornia by Doctor Munz (93550, ex-
change).

H. A., Philadelphia, :

Approxi-.
mately 500 specimens of Jand, fresh-

United |
(See under Dr. T. S.°

France-
- (through Ralph C. Smith, Washing-.
ton, D. C.) ; 2 progressive proofs of

Bird (94584); bird representing a
species new to the Museum collee-
tions (94703); love bird (95388) ;
black-cheeked love bird (95754) ;
200 land and fresh-water shells from
Kansas, and a lot of crustaceans
(96623) ; 2 black-winged love birds
(96912, 97071).

PORTS, Percy L., Clarendon,
Plant from Texas (95350).

POST OFFICE DHPARTMENT: 138
sets of specimen stamps, ete., in
triplicate (4,849 specimens) received
from the International Bureau of
the Universal Postal Union, Berne,
Switzerland (92669, 92974, 93178,
93546, 93958, 94945, 95087, 95148,
95945, 96185, 96906); 3 specimens
each of the following United States
postage stamps: Sesquicentennial
commemorative stamp, 2-cent, issue
of 1926; John Hricsson memorial
stamp, 5-cent, issue of 1926 (6 speci-
mens) (92525); a collection of 12
stamps of the Republic of Panama
(92668) ; Hungarian postage stamps
issued 1918-1924 and received by
the Post Office Department from
‘the postal’ administration of Hun-
gary (59 ‘specimens) (93061); 3
specimens each of the following
United States postage stamps:
15-cent air-mail stamp, issue of
1926; 2-cent Battle of White Plains
commemorative stamp, issue of 1926
(6 specimens) (94216); 3. speci-
mens of the United States 20-cent
air-mail stamp, issue of 1927
(95680) ; one set, 21 specimens, of
Philippine commemorative stamps
(95945).

Division of dead letters and dead
parcel post: 84 pistols and re-
volvers (96905).

POTEZ, Henry, Paris, France: Pho-
tograph of the airplane ‘Henry
Potez,” type 28, with which Captain
Arrachart made the flight from
Paris to Bassorah without landing
(95560).

POTTS, F. A., Fortuna, Porto Rico:
Specimen of Porto Rican short-
eared owl (96895).

Va.:

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS

POWELL, J. W., Mesilla Park, N. | RAGAN, Mrs. Apa E., Osprey, Fla.:

Mex.: Plant (927838).

PREBLE, Epwarp A., Washington,
D. C.: Sponge (?) from a fresh-
water pond, Rocky Point, Oreg., col-
lected by Mr. Cone (94749).

PRECANCEL STAMP SOCINTY, Al-
toona, Pa. (through John L. Parker,
president) : 900 preecanceled postage
stamps (94247).

PRIBST, Mrs. G. C., Key Largo, Fla. :
Small collection of ground pearls
(91812).

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, Prince-
ton, N. J.: 2 specimens of a Silurian
fish (96939).

PRIOR, Grorce T. (See under Brit-
ish Government, British Museum
(Natural History).)

PROCTOR, Joun C., Washington,
D. C.: 10 family portraits (96252,
loan).

PUBLIC LIBRARY, MUSEUM, AND
ART GALLERY, Perth, Western
Australia: Collection of approxi-
mately 75 aboriginal specimens from
Australia (94717, exchange).

PUGH, F., Winnipeg, Manitoba: 41
original photomicrographs of textile
fibers taken in the laboratory of the
Winnipeg Research Bureau (97099).

PURDUE UNIVERSITY, La Fayette,
Ind. (through Prof. J. J. Davis) :
Type specimen of a beetle (93602).

PURPUS, Dr. C. A:, Huatusco, Vera
Cruz, Mexico: 210 plants from
Mexico (92612, 93216, 93235, 93417,
93384, 93837, 94516, 94731, 94981,
95118, 96005, 96303): 4 plants
(92648, exchange) ; seeds of a plant
(95139). .

PURPUS, Dr. J. A., Darmstadt, Ger-
many: 2 plants (92418, exchange).

PUTNAM, Dr. H. A., Monrovia, Calif.:
Insect (92589).

RADCLIFFE, J. H., Woodhaven, Long
Island, N. Y.: 4 photographs entitled
“Washington Hlm,’ Cambridge,
Mass.; ‘“Sulgrave Manor,’ -Nor-
hants, England; ‘“‘ Monticello,” Vir-
ginia and “ Polo Pony” (93390).

RAFAEL, Rey. Brother. (See under
Colegio Biffi.)

4 pottery fragments from Florida
(90646).

RANDALL, C. E., Bath, Jamaica: A
rare and beautiful species of butter-
fiy (98170) ; 2 plants from Jamaica
(93388) .

RANDS, E. P., Portland, Oreg.: Ab-
normal horn ? (91599).

RANSIER, H: E., Manlius, N. Y.: 5
plants from New York (92809).

RANSOM, Frank T., Greenwood,
Miss.: 1,300 Carboniferous fossils
from Missouri (86357).

RAYMENT, Tartton, Sandringham,
Australia: 41 specimens, represent-
ing 16 determined species, of Aus-
tralian bees (94989, exchange).

REAMER, Louis, Orange, N. J.: Hx-
amples of 3 minerals from Madagas-
car (96760, exchange).

RECORD, Prof. Samurt J. (See un-
der Yale University, School of For-
estry.)

REDFIELD, Rosert, Rosslyn, Va.
(through Donald C. Peattie): 31
plants collected in Morelos, Mexico
(96864).

REDWOOD, Mrs. Francis 'T., Balti-
more, Md.: 2 swords of the Colonial
period (92090).

REED, Etmer, Juneau, Alaska: 19
photographs of Eskimo (93148).

REED, W. S., Sanibel, Fla.: Dried
specimen of fish (92618).

REESH, Miss Marearer D., Alexan-
dria, Va. (through Dr. Edward T.
Wherry) : 22 plants from Newfound-
land (93579).

REESIDE, Joun B., Jr., Washington,
D. C. (See under Dr. J. E. Hoff-
meister, Prof. J. Harlan Johnson, ,
Maurice A. Rollot, and J. H. Sin-
clair.)

REEVES, Capt. S. W., United States
Army, Medical Corps, War Depart-
ment, Washington, D. C.: 2 insects,
and a large crab from Alaska
(93600, 96925).

REICHE, Dr. Cartos, Mexico, D. F.,
Mexico: 2 plants from Mexico
(96400).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

REID, E. D., Washington, D. C.:'2 | ROBBINS, Brengamin H., Nashville,

skeletons of fishes from the Wash-
ington market (95163.)

REID, E. D., and C. S. EAST, Wash-
ington, D. C.: 15 fishes from Chesa-
peake Bay, Md. (93234).

REKO, Dr. Bias P., Mexico, D. F.,
Mexico: 238 plants from Mexico
(94564, 95904, 96655, 97089).

REMINGTON ARMS CO. (INC.),
Bridgeport, Conn.: Display board of

_ 147 specimens of ammunition prod-
ucts of the company (96658).

RENTSCHLER, Dr. H. C. (See un-
der Westinghouse Lamp Co.)

RHODE ISLAND STATE BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE, Kingston, R. I.
(through A. E. Stene): 2 larvae of

insects (93201).

RHODUS, Howarp J., Mexico, Mo.:
Iron medal commemorating the sink-
ing of the British steamship “ Lusi-
tania” by a German submarine,
May, 1916 (94196).

RICH, Georce S., Washington, D. C.:
Slab of-oak wood showing the town-
ship and range figures in reverse
from an overgrowth on the blazed
face of a “witness tree,’ marking
a corner of Ottumwa Township,
Wapello County, Iowa, surveyed in
1834 or 1835 (92433).

RICHARZ, Prof. STEPHEN, Techuy,
Tll.: Specimen of the mineral
magnalite from Oberpfalz, Bavaria
(96645).

RICHMOND, Dr. CHARLES W., Wash-
ington, D. C.: 13 bird skins, repre-
senting 8 genera and 10 species new
to the Museum ecollections (96455) ;
17 birds from Cold Spring, N. Y.
(96803); 389 birds, mostly from
South America, including i genus
and 26 species new to the Museum
(96911).

RIDGWAY, Rosert, Olney, Ill.: Tree
frog from Illinois (93483).

“RIVES, Miss Isaset, Washington,
DPD, C.: 2 dresses and a bonnet of the
period of the Civil War (96408).

ROADS, Miss Katiz M., Hillsboro,
Ohio: Plant (92425) ; 41 plants from
Ohio (92530, 92818, 92972, 94104).

173

Tenn.: 2 specimens of chemicals for
the Loeb Collection of Chemical
Types (97682).

ROBERTS, H. H., San Antonio, Tex.
(through Interior Department,
United States Geological Survey) :
Tooth and fragmentary bones of a
three-toed horse (96458).

ROBERTSON-MILLER, Mrs. ELten,
Coronado Beach, Fla.: 2 specimens
of worms collected at Coronado
Beach, Fla., and 9 specimens of ma-
rine invertebrates (92144, 96849).

ROBINSON, Col. Wirt, United States
Army, West Point, N. Y.: Gecko,
blind snake, 2 erabs, lizard, snake,
3 spiders, mollusk, 2 hawk moths, 1
ornithoptera, and 3 other moths, all
from the Philippine Islands (93460,
94570, 96299) ; red-tailed hawk, gos-
hawk, red-tailed hawk, and 2 red-
shouldered hawks, all from New
York (93926, 95189, 95742); 3 gos-
hawks and 2 red-tailed hawks from
New Jersey (94102) osprey from
Florida (94608).

ROHBLING FUND, Smithsonian In-
stitution: 4 examples of native iron
from Buhl, near Weimar, Germany
(89955) ;S small diamond crystals
of unusual form from Brazil
(96078) ; (through Commissioner of
Indian Affairs and William A. Light,
superintendent Truxton Canon In-
dian School and Agency, Valentine,
Ariz.) : A 672-pound meteoric iron
found by Dick Grover in the Walla-
pai Indian Reservation, Arizona
(96522).

ROEBLING, JoHn A., Bernardsville,
N, J.: The Washington A. Roebling
collection of minerals (93318).

ROEBLING, Col. WasHineton A.
(Fund), Smithsonian Institution:
An iron meteorite from 10 miles
northeast of Oakley, Cassia County,
Idaho (918538) ; 1 lot of the mineral
anauxite in cimolite from Bilin, Bo-
hemia (98527); specimen of pur-
purite (94212) ; 2 specimens of me-
teorie irons, Campo del Cielo, Argen-
tina, and Copiapo, Chile (945938) ;

174

ROEBLING, Col.
_ Continued,
specimen of the mineral melonite
from Cripple Creek, Colo., and 14.
specimens: of minerals from Frank-:
lin Furnace, N. J. (95182).
ROJAS, Sr. Prof. Rusén Torres, Car-
-tago, Costa Rica: 18 plants from |
Costa Rica (92428, 95384) ; a phas-'
mid (insect) (92474).
ROLLER, Mrs. L. L., Muskogee, ©
Okla.: 4' plants (94730, exchange). |

WASHINGTON

ROLLOT, Dr. Maurice A., Bogota, a]

lumbia (through J. B. Reeside, jr.) :

Fossil tooth of a horse from Naza-|

‘rath, near Bogota, Department of |
Cundinamarca, Columbia (93266).

ROOSEVELT MEMORIAL ASSOCIA-|

TION (INC.),
(through Miss
assistant secretary) :
proposed Roosevelt Memorial de-'
signed by John Russell Pope (94692,
loan).

ROOSEVELT NEWSBOYS’ ASSO-.
CIATION, THER, Lynn, Mass.’
(through H. BH. Keevin, Director) :
Bronze statue of the dog “Ladie.
Boy” by Bashka Paeff, cast from
pennies contributed by the newsboys.
of the United States in memory of.
their friend, the late Warren Gama-,
liel Harding (85459). ;

ROOT, A. I., CO.,: Medina, Ohio, and
C. P. Dadant.& Sons, Hamilton, Ill. ;.
Glass and mahogany observation’
beehive (98380).

ROOT, Henry J., Omaha, Nebr.:
Mounted specimen of hybrid between
mallard and pintail ducks (94244)...

ROSENBERG, E., Copenhagen, Den-
mark (through Dr. A. G. Boving) :
26 specimens of early stages of Euro-
pean beetles, representing 11 spe-
cies (94096).

ROSS, LirEweLtyn, Hugene, Oreg.:
Specimen of shrimp collected by the
donor at Coos Bay, Oreg. (92802).

ROST, E. C., Alhambra, Calif.: 2
plants from Arizona (95633).

New. York City;
Gisela Westhoff, |

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Model. of the:

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

ROTH, Dr. Grorce B.,. Washington,
D. C.: 16. old surgical instruments
(92578, deposit); young, Carolina
chickadee, a nest and: 4 young: in
aleohol (96780).

ROUILLARD, C. M., pigdndsilae end
temala, Central ‘Ammaentieabi Small eol-
lection of insects,: chiefly paraSites
on the migratory locust in Guate-

. mala (92990) ; 346 flies and: 1 ‘bee
collected in Guatemala (96298).

ROUNDY, P. V., Washington, D. C.
Approximately 30 specimens of land
and fresh-water shells from the
vicinity of Ann Arbor, Mich. (93604).

ROUTH, Jos, Tallevast, Fla.: Lime-
stone arrowhead found in Manatee
County, Fla., about 5 miles’ ee
Tallevast (92505). —

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM “OF
MINERALOGY, Toronto, Canada:
12 mineral specimens and a polished
slab of porphyritic syenite (95952,
exchange).

ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY,

London, England: 201 pictorial pho-
tographs (93138, loan).
ROYAL SCOTTISH MUSEUM, THE,
Hdinburgh, Scotland (through Po Ey.
Grimshaw): 4 specimens, of flies
from Scotland (96246). ;

RUBBER ASSCCIATION OF AMER-
ICA,-THE, New York City: A col-
lection of objects and photographs
illustrating the manufacture and ap-
plications of rubber (92988).

RUDGE, Wit1iaM E., New York City:
Unbound and Mei cned copy of the
four-volume work by Lawrence Park,
entitled “Gilbert Stuart. An Ilus-—
trated list of his works,” printed by
the donor (93171) ; 2 aquatone print- .
ing plates and 2 proofs therefrom
(93496) ; 12 printed signs of the
Zodiac called “A Series of Quaint
Astronomical. Nativity Folders”. de-
signed by Edna L. Freeman, and. =)
book entitled “The Gospel of Saint
Luke” (95507) ; 82 samples of. let-
ter press printing and halftones in.
color (96420)...

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

RUEDEMANN, Dr. Rupotr. (See
under New York State Museum.)
RUNYON, Rosert, Brownsville, Tex.:
49 plants from Texas (92464, 92967,
-96800)5 | photograph of a_ plant
(96011). ay

' RUSSELL, Dr. F. F. (See under In-
ternational Health Board of the
Rockefeller Foundation, New York
» City.)

RUTH, Prof. aes Polytechnic,
Tex. : 50, plants (93192, 93240, 93831,

94980, 96631, 97067) ; 10 plants from

Texas (98476).

RUTHERFORD, Mrs. SoPpHia L.
(through the Washington Loan a
Trust Co., Washington, D. C.):
Duchess lace fan (94506, bequest).

’ City: 33 dry points, 2 lead-pencil
drawings, 15 lithographs for special
exhibition of his work (95404 loan) ;

3 dry points and 1 lithograph
(96181).
SAGHHORN, FRreEp, Stuarts Point,

“Calif.: 5 mollusks (95412).

ST. PROCOPIUS COLLEGE, Lisle,
Tl. (through Hilary S. Jurica):
’ Beetle (942380).

SALAS, Sr. Don Jorck Garcra, Guate-

‘mala, Central America: 21 plants |

from Guatemala’ (93247).
(See also under Guatemala, Gov-
- ernment of.)
SALMAN, K. A.
dor, Government of, Direccion Gen-
eral de Agricultura. )

SALMONS, F. A., San Diego, Calif. |
SCHENCK, Huperr G.,

(through Dr. W. T. Schaller) :
Specimen of yellow spodumene from
Pala Chief ‘mine, Pala, Calif.
(96778). mY

SALT, Grore#, Santa Marta, Colom-
bia: 12 plants from Santa Marta,
Colombia (96391).

SALVADOR; GOVERNMENT OF, DI-
“RECCION. GENERAL DE AGRI-
CULTURA, San Salvador, El Salva-
“dor, Central America: (Through K.
“A. Salman)! 2 specimens of snout

beetles, taken from a coffee tree in
San Salvador (86073) ; (through Sr.

(See under Salva- }

SAMUELSSON, Prof. G.

175

SALVADOR, GOVERNMENT OF—
Continued.
Dr. Salvador Calderon) 10 nihadties
from Salvador (92423), 3 plants
from Central America (92775), 4
plants from Salvador (938238), 10
plants (94116), specimen of fungus
and a plant photograph (96179).
(See under
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseets Bota-
niska Afdelning, Stockholm, Sweden.)

| SAN SOM, FRANK, Joplin, Mo. (through

“SARGENT, D. L., Logan,
RYDER, Cuauncey F., New York }

Department of Commerce, Bureau of
Mines) : Large specimens of sphaler-
ite and galena, with accompanying
chalcopyrite, from the Crutchfield
mine, north of Joplin, Mo. (93276).
Utah: 14
amphipods (94339).

| SAUR, BELDEN C., Norwood, Ohio: 2

plants (93415, exchange).
SCALCO, SatvatTorE. (See under Sal-
vatore Fusco.)
SCENH-IN-ACTION CORPORATION,
Chicago, Ill.: An animated model of
a forest fire (93950).

| SCHALLER, Dr. W. T., Washington,

| SCHALLERT, Dr.

D. C.: Examples of the mineral
‘romeite from Italy and _ Brazil
(96988).
(See also under William M. Bal-
ling and F. A. Salmons.)

P. O., Winston-
Salem, N. C.: 33 plants from Tibet
(93172).

SCHAUS, Dr. WiLtrAmM, Washington,
D. €.: 10,000 moths from Incachaca,
Bolivia (94987).

Stanford Uni-
versity, Calif.: 6 specimens of fossil
crab remains (95015).

(See also under Stanford Univer-
sity.)

SCHIHFFELIN & CO. New York
City ; 1 specimen each of 8 drugs to
be used in an: exhibit of official
drugs added to the United States
Pharmacopoeia X (92551).

SCHLEMMHER, CuHAries O., Cincin-
nati, Ohio: 3 Ordovician trilobites
(95871) ; 500 specimens of Silurian
fossils from Centerville, Ohio
(96492, exchange).

176

SCHLESCH, Hans, Copenhagen, Den-
mark: Approximately 350 specimens
of shells from northern Hurope and
Greenland (94783).

SCHMID, Epwarp S.,. Washington,
D. C.: 3 birds (92574); 2 birds, a
grosbeak from South America, and
a coeckatoo parrot from Australia
(93946) ; specimen of Lilian’s love-
bird, representing a species new to
the Museum collections (94112).

SCHMIDT, Hetnricu, San José, Costa
Rica: 4 specimens of flies with
‘puparia of three (95978).

SCHMIDT, Prof. Petre, Leningrad

Union of Socialistic Soviet Repub- |
lics in Hurope: 8 fishes (98821, ex- |

change).
SCHMITT, Dr. WALpDo L.

ship. )
SCHOENBERGHER, Pavt, Belton,
Mont.: 5 specimens of flies (96241).

SCHOENBORN, Miss THeErmsa I,

and WILLIAM #). SCHOENBORN, Wash- |

ington, D. C.: 10,574 specimens of
Lepidoptera from the _ eastern

United States and Europe, being the }

collection of the late Henry F.

Schoenborn, Washington, D. C.
(96486). ;
SCHOENBORN, Wittram E.. (See

under Miss Theresa F. Schoenborn.)

SCHRAMM, Rev. F. H., Nicaragua,
Central America: 64 plants from
Nicaragua (94217).

SCHULZ, Miss Hrtten D., San An-
tonio, Tex.: 41 plants from Texas
(92485).

SCHWARZ, Sr Ine. THEO, Durango,
Mexico: 2 plants (93935).

SCOFIELD, JoHNn, Washington, D. C.:
4 amphipods from a small brook in
Georgetown, D. C. (93933).

SCOTT, Dr. Atrrep, Athens, Ga.:
Specimen of chemical for the Loeb
collection of chemical types (97636).

SCOTT, Capt. J. F. R., United States
Army, Washington, D. C.: Necklace
with 3 ancient human effigy wood
carvings, coiled basket, and 9 photo-
graphs, all of the Seri Indians,
Calif. (93470).

SCOTT, Dr. WIL.

'SCULLEN, Prof. H. A.

(See under |
Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholar- |

_ SERPIERI,

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

(See under In:
diana University. )

(See under:
Oregon Agricultural College).

SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILWAY

CO., Development Department,’ Sa-
vannah, Ga.: 2 forest fire seine
placards (94561).

'-SEIFRIZ, Dr. Wr.1AmM, Philadelphia,

i Sf: potatos of plants (95414,
exchange).

. SELIGMANN, REY & CO. (ING.), AR-

NOLD, New York City: 24 eight-
eenth century French color prints,
for special exhibition, from January
3, to January 29, 1927 (91565, loan).
SELLERS, Watter W., Washington,
D. C.: Bone handled dirk owned by
Henry C. Sellers, ship carpenter,
during the Civil War (95750).
Madame Frrnanp, Ath-
ens, Greece (through D. I. Hewett,
Washington, D. C.): Greek pottery
lamp (92993).

SETCHELL, Prof. W. A., Berkeley,

Calif.: 4 crinoids from the pone
Islands (93395).

SHANNON, East V., and JAMES BENN,
Washington, D. C.: 38 fishes from
Oxen Run, Anacostia, Md. (96924).

SHANTUNG CHRISTIAN UNIVER-
SITY, Department of Biology, Tsi-
nan, China (through Arthur Paul
Jacot): Approximately 158 speci-
mens of miscellaneous insects col-
lected in China (92442).

SHAW, T. H., Pacific Grove, Calif.:
75 marine copepods from. a, small
pool on the Bird Rock, Pacific Grove, ©
collected by the donor (91690).

SHEAR, Dr. C. L., Washington, D. C.:
Plant from West Virginia (92486,
exchange).

SHEDD, Miss Heten S., Washington,
D. C.: A small umbrella swift used
for holding skeins of yarn (94131,
loan).

SHENON, Puit., Gilman, Col.; Speci-
men of the mineral mimetite from
Bilboa Mine, Santa Ana, Zacatecas,
Mexico (96288).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

SHERMAN, JoHN D., Jr.,
Vernon, N. Y.: 20,000 water beetles,
representing approximately 400
North American and 200 additional
exotic species, including types, co-
types, and paratypes of the Fall
Species (93603).

SHINER, V. J., Laredo, Tex.: 9 plants
from Téxas (97083).

SHOEMAKER, C. R., Washington, D.
C.: Approximately 101 specimens of
crustaceans (96471).

SHOEMAKHER, Ernest, Brooklyn, N.
Y.: Very rare beetle (92640).

SHRINER, RatpH L., Geneva, N. Y.:
2 specimens of chemicals for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(96502).

SIAMESE NATIONAL LIBRARY,
Bangkok, Siam (through Dr. Hugh
M. Smith) : Manuscript of Buddhist

‘seriptures on palm leaf strips
(96798).

SIMONDS, Prof. F. W. (See under
Texas, University of).

SINCLAIR, J. H., New York City
(through J. B. Reeside, jr.) : 100
specimens of Cretaceous inverte-
brates and 25 fish teeth and bones
from eastern Ecuador (93267).

SINE, Frank, Maurertown,
Jumping mouse (96890).

Va.:

SIRRINE, Miss Emma F., Washing-

ton, D. C.: Plant (96453).
SKEELS, H. C.
ture,
Plant Industry).

SLATER, Mrs. H. D., El Paso, Tes =

Plant from New Mexico (93606).

SLAVIK, Perer, Prague, Czechoslova-

kia: 2 examples of lead-silver ores
showing vein structure, from Pri-
bram (96230).

SMITH, Mr. Atsert C. (See under
Smithsonian Institution, National
Museum, collected by members of the
staff.)

SMITH, Mrs. CLaReNce M., San Fran-
cisco, Calif.: 21 sun-baked fragments
of pottery and 7 fired fragments of
pottery found in a tomb near Heijo,
Korea (95362).

Mount | SMITH, Exert, Alpena’ Pass,

(See under Agricul-
Department of, Bureau of

177

Ark.:
Specimen of beetle (92835).

SMITH, Dr. FRANK, Urbana, Ill.: 10
earthworms, including the holotypes
of 2 new species, together with 511
miseroscopic slide mounts of serial
sections of earthworms examined by
Doctor Smith (92801).

SMITH, Dr. Hucu M., Bangkok, Siam:
25 specimens of crustacea including
the type of a parasitic copepod; a
lot of mollusks; an amphibian, some
insects, and skin and skull of a mam-
mal, collected in Siam by the donor
in the course of an investigation of
the Siamese fisheries (90941); 949
bird skins and 19 skeletons of
birds, a collection of mammals, mol-
lusks, 2 turtles, 2 bamboo bows, 4
dried-clay balls used with string
bow, all from Siam (92813); 9
orthopterous insects from Siam
(93285) ; 363 bird skins, 13 skeletons
of birds, and 85 mammal skins and
skulls from Siam (94971) ; reptiles,
amphibians, insects, scorpions,
spiders, mollusks, squids, crabs,
shrimps, fishes, bats, and echino-
derms from Siam (95528); 55 rep-
tiles and amphibians from Siam
(95675). (See also under Siamese
National Library, Bangkok, Siam.)

SMITH, Joun, Washington, D. C.:
Starling from Washington, D. C.
(94519).

SMITH, Lestiz M., Berkeley, Calif. :
2 insects (paratypes) (96411).

SMITH, Rauex C., Washington, D. C.:
28 examples of modern French book-
covers, bindings, and books, col-
lected in Paris, France, in July,
1926 (93289, loan).

(See also under Georges Plasse.)

SMITH, V. J. (See under West Texas
Historical and Scientifie Society.)

SMITH, Witr1arp James, jr., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Flying squirrel from
Chain Bridge (94983).

SMITHSONIAN - CHRYSLER EX-
PEDITION: 55 bird skins, 4 eggs,
2 nests, approximately 114 mam-
mals and 2 shells from Tanganyika

178 LIST OF ACCESSIONS.

SMITHSONIAN-CHRYSLER EXPE- | ;MITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con:
DITION—Continued. Bureau. of ‘American pee
Territory, Hast Africa (95766) ;-col- i@ontinwed.» M1
lection of reptiles and amphibians Tide ‘Moun di renne ye Dr.
from Africa (96917). j ar Alice ei 9692 i" é
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION : alter Hough (96920) ; archeo-
Etching, “Gloucester. Fisherman,” logical material collected for the
by Carl 5. Nordell (deposit, 95510). Museum at Eldon Pueblo, Ariz.,
Bureau of American Ethnology: by Doctor Newkes during the
summer of 1926. (96921)...

Collection of archeological and
skeletal material secured along National. Museum, collected. en

the upper. Columbia _ River,
Wash., during the spring of
1926 by Mr. Herbert W. Krieger
(91522) ; skeleton of an Indian
medecine-man, or shaman (less

the skull), 2 femora of another |

shaman, and 2 bleached bones
from the skeleton of a chief, all

Tlinkit, of Alaska, collected by |

Dr.. A. Hrdlicka (92528) ;

thropological, geological, and |
biological material collected by }
Doctor Hrdlicka in Alaska dur- |
ing the summer of 1926 (93522) ; |
material collected during the |
summer of 1926 in Louisiana and |

Mississippi by Henry B. Colins,

jr. (93607) ; small collection of
shell beads and bracelets, and |
stone implements, obtained, from
the ruin of Las Trincheras in }
the Altar district of Sonora by |,

S. A. Williams (7 specimens)

(94202); archeological speci- |
mens from Arkansas, Colorado, !
Florida, Kentucky, and Tennes- |
see, Secured by various collec- |
tors for the Bureau (94776) ; |
10 master records of Hopi In- |
dian songs recorded during the }
summer of 1926 at the Grand |
Canyon by Dr. J. Walter |
HWewkes, and 2 master records of }
a speech by William’ Jennings |
Bryan (95011); carved and |
painted wooden figure represent- |

ing a Hopi snake priest (95372) ;
4 Indian crania from the Elden
Pueblo, Ariz., and 2 from Monte-
zuma Canyon, Colo. (96091) ;
collection of archeological ob-
jects gathered for the Bureau at

members of the staff: Bassler,
R. S.: Approximately 5,000 in-
vertebrate fossils from the Pale-
ozoic and Mesozoic rocks of
Germany, and the Cenozoic for-
mations: of France, including
washings with microfossils from
various ‘classical localities
(94219). Foshag, W. F.:, Col-
lection of minerals and, ores ©
made in Mexico during the sum-
mer of 1926, under the joint.
auspices of Harvard University
and the United States National
Museum (88320). Gidley, J. W.:
A.palate with both upper teeth
of a mammoth, with associated

.foot bones, anda. lower jaw

with one tooth and a few asso-
ciated bones of. an edentate,
from Oklahoma (95462) ; mis-
cellaneous bones and teeth of
fossil elephant and smaller
mammals from Sarasota and
Zolfo Springs, Fla. _ (96663).
Killip, E. P., and, Albert .C.
Smith :, 9,500 plants from Colom.
bia (98342). -Maxon,, W. R.:

11,000 specimens of. plants,
largely ferns, also a bat, a tree
toad, birds eggs,. and 2 wood
specimens collected in Jamaica
(92098) ;_ plant from Jamaica
(92488). Merrill, George P.;
Miscellaneous geological mate-
rial from various European lo-
ealities (938194). Pohl, Erwin
R.: Approximately 15,000: speci-
mens of Middle and Upper De-
vonian invertebrates and fossil
plants from western New York
and Ontario, Canada (92598).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 179

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con. ;; SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con.

National Museum, collected by National Museum, obtained by pur-
members of the staff—Contd.
Poole, A. J., and Remington,
Kellogg: 22 skulls and 6 skele-
tons; also a collection of rep-

tiles, batrachians, birds, mol- |,

lusks, crustaceans, fishes’ and
insects, all from Hatteras, N. C.
(93079). Resser, Charles E.,
and Pohl, Erwin R.: 800 speci-
mens of
from the Devonian and Carbon-
iferous, 5,000 from the Cambrian
rocks of Montana and Utah, and

500 from the Canadian of Utah |

(93539). Rose, J. N.: 25 speci-

mens of algae collected in At- |

lantie City (93287). Shoemaker,

C. R.: 3,357 specimens of marine |
invertebrates, together with a

small collection of corals, mol-

lusks, echinoderms, insects, and |

fishes collected at the Dry Tor-

tugas during July and August, |

1926, under the auspices of the

Carnegie Marine _ Biological |
Watkins, |

Laboratory (93400).
W. N.: 9 pieces of American
elm wood (97100).
(See also under Bradshaw H.
Swales and A. Wetmore.)

National Museum, obtained by pur-
chase: 100 specimens of plants
from Trinidad (93839); a par-
tial skeleton of a phytosaurian
reptile from the Triassic near
Lander, Wyo. (96235); 165
plants from Missouri and Kan-
sas (95901); 5 colored casts
of finds of prehistoric man
(91572) ; cast of a fossil bird
_ from the original in the British
Museum (92564) ; 33 articles of
Makah and other Indian handi-
work (96074) ; 3 pieces of pot-
tery excavated near Flagstaff,
Ariz. (96665) ; fossil fish from
Grayson County, Tex. (97104) ;
16 casts of the lower jaws, eic.,
of the “krapina man” (96959) ;
200 plants from Japan (96628) ;

invertebrate fossils |:

chase—Continued. |;

75 specimens of mosses: (North
American Musci Perfecti) Nos.
1-75 (96416) ; 300 plants from
northern California and south-
ern Oregon’ (95625) ; 50. speci-
mens of North American mosses
(Musei Acrocarpi, Fascicies 24
and 25 (92890, 96006); iron
spearhead and 3 coins, all Chi-
nese (95173) ; 15 small mammal
skins with skulls (96942); 50
specimens of lichens (Fascicles
4 and 5, Lichenes Eixsiccati)
(93443, 95648); fossil squid
from Kansas (95387); sheep-
horn spoon from one of the pre-
historic Supai houses in the
Grand Canyon, Ariz. (94689) ; 2
bronze copies of the Theodore
Roosevelt distinguished service
medal (92441); 12 reptiles and
amphibians (92047) ; skeleton of
a bird from Madagascar
(96468) ; 408 bird skeletons from
Tanganyika (964938); gavial
skin (96926); 7 specimens com-
prising fish and. reptilian re-
mains from the Niobrara Chalk
(Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas
(92560) ; skull of a turtle and
feagmentary turtle remains
(95402) ; American military
sword of the early part of the
nineteenth century (93218).

National Museum, made in. the

Museum. teboratories: 4 colored
easts of a ieaf-shape flint blade
found on a. ranch 5 miles north-
east of Anchorage, Alaska, by
W. G. Marsh (938489) ; cast of
the type of a fossil. bird
(94592); 4 casts of a dark

_steatite bannerstone from near

Roxboro, N. C., and 3 casts of
a grayish steatite bowl found
near Wilkesboro, N. C., the orig-
inals of which were sent in by
the North Carolina State Mu-

_ Seum (Harry T. Davis) (94597).

180

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION—Con.
National Zoological Park: 15 birds
(92465) ; 2 eggs of blue goose
(92628) ; 6 birds (92953) ; skins
and skeletons of a_ gazelle,
hedgehog, Tasmanian devil,
sloth, kangaroo, and an alcoholic
specimen of a lemur (92986) ;
4 birds (93449); 11 birds
(93505) ; skin and skeleton of a
lynx, skin and skeleton of a
porcupine, and skin and skele-
ton of an antelope (94511); 5
bird eggs (94551); 77 birds, 6
frogs, 21 lizards, 9 snakes, 27
mammals, and 48 turtles, from
British East Africa, Egypt, Cey-
lon, and India, collected by
the Smithsonian-Chrysler Expe-
dition (94694) ; 5 birds (94938) ;
382 birds (95541) ; 10 bird eggs
(95627) ; 25 mammals (95905) ;
10 mammals (96305) ; 10 mam-
mals (96611) ; 24 birds (96910) ;
horseshoe crab collected by J. D.

Nowicki at Atlantic City, N. J..

(96914) ; 11 mammals (97096) ;
13 mammals (97142). |

SNURE, Rosret, Silver Spring, Md.:
Starling from Maryland (93448).

SNYDER, T. E. (See under Ferdinand
Nevermann.)

SOCIETE ANONYME NIHUPORT-AS-
TRA, Issy-les-Moulineaux (Seine),
France: Photograph of the Nieuport-
Delage airplane, model of 1924
(95295).

SOPER, H. P., Landover, Md.: Great

horned owl (93225).

SOUTH DAKOTA, UNIVERSITY OF,
Vermilion, S. Dak. (through Prof.
W. H. Over) : 155 plants from South
Dakota (94700).

SOUTHERN BIOLOGICAL SUPPLY
CO., New Orleans, La. (through
Percy Viosca, jr.): 6 frogs and 2
salamanders from Louisiana (95345).

SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM, de-
velopment service, Washington, D. C.
(through BH. FE. Kennedy, chief

clerk): Large bowl. turned from

curly yellow poplar wood (96759).

~

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

SOUTHWORTH, CuHartes, Thedford,
Ontario, Canada: 300 Devonian fos-
sils from Ontario, Canada (94075).

SOWHRBY, Artuur DEC. (See under
Robert Sterling Clark.)

SPRAGUE, T. A. (See under British
Government, Royal Botanic Gar-
dens. )

SQUIBB & SONS, EH. R., New Bruns-
wick, N. J.: 3 medicinal substances
made official in the United States
Pharmacopoeia X (93464).

STACHER, 8S. F., Crown Point, N.
Mex, (through EH. B. Merritt, Wash-
ington, D. C.) : 4 photographs of old
Navaho scouts (93488).

STAHHEL, Grrotp. (See under Agri-
cultural Experiment Station, De-
partment van den Landbouw.)

STANDARD OIL CO. OF CALIFOR-
NIA, San Francisco, Calif. (through
C. EH. Persons): 2 photographs of a
plant (95151).

STANDLEY, Mrs. Fiorence A., Fort
Myers, Fla.: Orchid and 2 plants
from Florida (92776, 94490).

STANDLEY, PavuL CC, Washington,
D. C.: 200 plants from Florida, also
a small collection of marine shells
and a spider (95749).

(See also under Dr. S. F. Blake.)

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford
University, Calif.: (through Mrs.
Roxana §8. Ferris) 101 plants from
the Tres Marias Islands (92623, ex-
change), 27 specimens of ferns frem
Mexico (94250, exchange), 3 photo-
graphs of plants (94345, exchange) ;
(through Mrs. Ida 8S. Oldroyd) 36_
specimens, 13 species of fossil crus-
taceans described in Bulletin 138,
United States National Museum :
(95753); (through Dr. H. G.
Schenck) 4 specimens of fossil crus-
tacea from Oregon and California
(96271). ;

STANSCH, Cartos. (See under Mex-
ico, Government of, Direccion Fore-
stal y de Casa y Pesca.) “

STANTON, Mrs. StErpHEN BERRIAN,
Washington, D. C.: Beaded cro-

} cheted bag, about the late eighteenth

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

STANTON, Mrs. STEPHEN BERRIAN—
Continued.

century (94379); 5 pieces of pew-
ter, consisting of a flagon, sirup
pitcher, 2 plates, and a gravy bowl
(96003) ; hand embroidered hand-
kerechief with monogram, made in
Switzerland; 2 copper snuff boxes of
Duteh make, and a condiment set
(96654).

STARR, Dovuetas N., Washington,
D. C.: 2 penis bones of wolves
(93255); 2 canines of the saber-
toothed tiger, a bison tooth and 5
incisors of carnivores (94726).

STATE, DEPARTMENT OF: Oil
painting by Charles Bryant, entitled
“Mhe American Battle Fleet in
Sydney Harbor,” presented to the
United States by the citizens of New
South Wales (94590).

(See also under Hubert Hardwick
and O. Gaylord Marsh.)

STEELE, E. S., Washington, D. C.:
Collection of plants,
positae,
‘mens (97102).

STENE, A. H.
Island State Board of Agriculture.)

STEPHENS, Mrs. Karts, San Diego,
Calif.: 81 specimens of fossil crus-
tacea (95877).

STERNBERG, Grorce F., Oakley,
Kans.: Fossil bird bones (95085).
STEVENS, Miss Betzee A., Friday Har-
bor, Wash.: 6 hermit crabs, 3
sponges, and 10 worms collected by
the donor off Reed Rock, near Fri-
day Harbor (92416); 3 Xanthid
erabs collected. by Miss Stevens at
the northeast corner of Brown Is-
land, Friday Harbor (94751); 10

specimens of crustaceans (94985).

STEVENS, J. P., Atlanta, Ga.: One of
a limited number of watches made
by the J. P. Stevens Watch Co., At-
lanta, Ga., embodying the Stevens
patented regulator (92531).

STEVENSON, Joun A. (See under
Agriculture, Department of, Bureau
of Plant Industry).

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| STEWART, M. A., Washington, D. C.:

(See under Rhode

chiefly com- | STURGHS, Lez,

estimated at 1,000 speci- |

nn a TT |

Beetle and a larva from Chain
Bridge, D. C. (96242). 2

STIRLING, M. W., Berkeley, Calif. :
Collection of approximately 3451
ethnological specimens secured by
the Stirling Dutch-American expedi-
tion to New Guinea in 1926 (87036).

STOCKARD, Prof. A. H. (See under
Wyoming, University of.)

STONE MOUNTAIN GRANITE COR-
PORATION, Stone Mountain, Ga.:
A 5-ineh cube of Stone Mountain
granite (95395).

STORY, Miss ISABELLE F.
Union Pacifie System.)

STUDHALTRER, Prof. R. A., Lubbock,
Texas: 175 plants from western
Texas (92785).

STURDEVANT, GLen E., Grand Can-
yon, Ariz.: Plant from Arizona
(96907).

STURGEON, Sam, Gillette, Wyo.:
Specimen of pseudoscorpion (96900).

Hlmhurst, Ill.: 55
etchings for special exhibition of his
work from March 28 to April 23,
1927 (95659, loan); 4 etchings by
the donor (96612).

SUN ENGRAVING CO., (LTD.), THH,
Watford, England: 10 examples of
the “ Pantone” method of preparing
smooth metal plates for printing pic-
tures (96180).

SWALES, B. H., Washington, D. C.:
Pair of birds from Madagascar
(92629) ; skin of a hawk from Mada-
gascar, a species new to the Mu-
seum (92819); skin of a bird be-
longing to a genus new to the Mu-
seum collections (93503) ; skin of a
starling from Assam, a subspecies
new to the Museum collections
(93987) ; 2 Arctic horned owls, and
a hawk owl from Minnesota (94052) ;
5 bird skins, chiefly from the Anda-
man Islands, representing 4 species
new to the Museum collections
(94059) ; 100 bird skins from Brazil,
including a genus new to the Mu-
seum (94323) ; 2 skins of a tinamou
from Ecuador (94846); 3 rough-

(See under

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SWALHS, B. H.—Continued.
legged hawks from Minnesota
(94485) ; 6 bird skins representing 5

_ species new tc the Museum collec-
tions (94948); 5 bird skins, includ-
ing) 3 forms new to the Museum
(94958) ; 25 bird skins, mostly from

. West ‘Africa, representing 21 forms

“new to the Museum (95526) ; 21 bird
skins from Argentina and Bolivia,
including 2 forms new to the Mu-

’ seum (95637) ; 5 bird skins and 1
skeleton from Madagascar, includ-
ing a genus and 2 species new to
the Museum (95755); 2 bird skins
from Venezuela, including a genus
new to the Museum. (96393).

SWALRES, B. H., and A. WETMORE,
Washington, D. C.: Natural history
material comprising 6 bats, bones of
4 species of extinct mammals, 206
birds, 64 bird skeletons, 10 bird
eggs, 1 bird nest, 9 lots of mol-
lusks, 133 insects, 1 plant, 3 bees-
wax candles, and the following
specimens in alcohol: 24 birds, 6
bats, 3 snakes, 49 lizards, 10 frogs, 11
fishes, 9 crabs, 2 lots of earthworms,
and 2 scorpions, collected for the
Museum by Dr.
Haiti and Santo Domingo in the
spring of 1927 (97353).

SWARTZ, Capt. Grorce W., Hunts-
ville, Ala.: A “ spin-ginner,” a ma-
chine for ginning, carding, and spin-
ning cotton, made by J. & T. Pearce,
Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1840 (95535).

SWEET, A. T., Washington, D. C.: 60
plants from Haiti (96417).

SWETMANN, Etwyrn, Seward, Alaska
(through Dr. A. Hrdli¢ka) : 2 bas-
kets and a basketry mat from Nuni-

_ yak Island and an Attu fish basket.

(92451).

SWOPE, Mrs. CO. A., Grants Pass,
Oreg.: Piece from old hand-woven
coverlet in block pattern which had

- been in the donor’s family about 200
years (95359),

SYDOW, H., Berlin, Germany: Plant
‘from Costa Rica (95159).

A. Wetmore in }

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

| TABER, W. B., Jr., Kansas, Ill.:
Specimen of fly, a bird parasite,
from red-tailed hawk (94251).

TALBOT, M: W. (See under Agricul-
ture, Department of, Bureau of
Plant Industry: ) M0

TANNERS’ COUNCIL OF AMERICA,
New York City: A collection of
specimens and photographs illustrat-
ing the manufacture and applica-
tions of leather (92989).

TATH, Miss Lora, Washington, D. C.:
American costumes of the period | of
the Civil War (93161). °

.TATH, W. J., Coinjock, N. C.: Tooth
of a small whale (92770). .

THISSHIRE, Prof. Aucusts, Colonia,
Uruguay: Approximately 75 speci-
mens of fresh-water bivalve shells
from Uruguay (95361, 90303).

THLL, WrairMm, Austin, Tex.: 5
plants from Texas (96626).

TEXAS, UNIVERSITY OF, Austin,

x.: (Through Prof. B. C. Tharp)

78 plants from Mexico (93577) ;
(through H. R. Bogusch) 490 plants
from Texas: (93984, 97065) ; 66 plants
from Texas (94953); (through Dr.
I, W. Simonds) a portion weighing
1,405. grams of a meteoric stone
from Florence, Williamson County,
Tex. (97015, exchange).

THAANUM, D., Honolulu, Hawaii: 61
specimens, 26 species, of marine
shells and 3 echinoderms collected in
Japan by J. B. Langford (93605).

THACKDRY, FrAnK A., Indio; Calif. :
Plant from California (95649).

THARP, Prof. B. -C. (See under
Texas, University of.) .

THAXTER, Prof. Rotanp. (See under ~
Harvard University, Cryptogamic
Herbarium and Laboratories.)

THELLUNG, Prof. A., Zurich, Swit-
zerland: 2 plants (95343).

THERIOT, I., Fontaine-la-Mallet, par
Montvilliers, France: 388 specimens
of mosses collected in. Mexico “by
Brother Amable (94724),

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THOMAS CoO., ArtHur H., Philadel-
phia, Pa.: Specimen of chemical for
the Loeb collection of chemical types
(97634).

THOMPSON, Gerorce A., Baltimore,
Md.: An old quadrant used in 1792

by an ancestor of the donor
(93249).
THORNTON, CHARLES W., Nome,
Alaska: 8 plants from Alaska
(97133).

TIDE WATER HARDWOOD COR-
PORATION, Bacova, Va.: 20 speci-
men boards of commercial woods of
the United States (92422).

TIMBERLAKE, P. H., Riverside,
Calif.: 6 specimens of bees, repre-
senting 3 species, 2 of which are
represented by paratypes (94708).

(See also under California Citrus
Experiment Station, Riverside,
Calif.) :

TISDALE, Miss Carrie 8., Washing-

ton, D. C.: A time globe (93248).

TODD, Maj. M. L. (M. C.), Browns-
ville, Tex.: Skull, wing, and foot of
a pigeon from Brownsville, Tex.
(92848).

TOLMAN, R. P., Washington, D. C.:
Box camera for 4 by 5 plates, made
by the Rochester Optical Co., about
1890 (96647).

TRHASURY DEPARTMENT:

Bureau of the Mint: Bronze medal
commemorating the seventy-
fifth anniversary of the found-
ing of the Aztec Club of 1847
(92394); bronze portrait of
Alexander Hamilton, first Sec-
retary of the United States
Treasury (2 copies) (92448) ;
81 medieval and modern EKuro-
pean coins (92556); United
States gold, silver, nickel, and
bronze coins struck, 1920-1926
(48 specimens) (93468); 2
specimens each of the five and
ten cent nickel coins of Yunnan
Province, China (955383).

Public Health Service, Rosebank,
Staten Island, N. Y. (through
Dr. Carroll Fox): 2 adults, 2

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TREASURY DHEPARTMENT—Contd.
Public Health Service—Continued.
puparia, and 2 larvae of flies
(923848).
TREGO, Mrs. ELizaBerH Y., Washing-
ton, D. C.: 18 bird skins, 2 fishes,
a collection of shells and an en-

graved ivory utensil (Chinese)
(95667).

TREMOLERAS, Juan, Montevideo,
Uruguay: 29 specimens of flies

(90497, exchange).

TZU-YUAN, CH’IU. (See under Pek-
ing, China, Government Historieal
Museum. )

ULKHE, Titus, Washington, D. C.: 8
plants from the District of Columbia
(92778).

ULRICH, Dr. E. O.

_ Johan Kiaer.)

ULRICH, Dr. H. O., and H. D. MISER,
Washington, D. C.: Specimen of fos-
sil plant from 8 miles north of
Springer, Okla. (96272).

UMBSTAHTTER, Rosert J., Washing-
ton, D. C.: Tibetan rosary called Go
Mulla, composed of disks from the
skull of a Lama, from Darjelling,
India (94998).

UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA, Pre-
toria:

Geological Survey: Series of
South African platinum ores
and additional rock specimens
(95878).

UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM, Omaha,
Nebr. (through Isabelle F. Story,
editor, National Park Service):
Photograph of the Grand Canyon of
the Colorado, Ariz., and a photo-
graph of Wall of Windows in Bryce
Canyon, National Monument, Utah
(953880).

UNITED CHEMICAL AND ORGANIC
PRODUCTS CO., Chicago, Ill:
Hight ounces of photographic gela-
tin used in the aquatone process
(96943).

UNITED PRODUCTS CO., (INC.),
Los Angeles, Calif.: Specimens show-
ing 8 stages in the manufacture of
“ Woodkets,” a recently developed
fireplace fuel (94576).

(See under Prof.

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U.S; PHARMACOPORIAL CONVEN-

TION, (INC.), Philadelphia, Pa.
(through Dr. H. Fullerton, Cock,
chairman, board of trustees) : Docu-
ments concerning the 10th Revision
of the United States atc
(94282).

INIVERSITETHTS BOTANISKE
MUSHUM, Copenhagen, Denmark:
106 specimens of ferns from tropi-
cal America (93619) ; 2 plants from
Costa Rica (94788); 398 plants
(95886) ; 28 plants from Cuba and
Haiti, and 21 ‘photographs of type
specimens of Chinese ferns cae
Exchange!

UNIVERSITHTHTS ZAOOLOGISKA
MUSEUM, Copenhagen, - Denmark
(through Dr. K. Brunnich Nielsen) :
Washings from the Cretaceous of
Denmark ‘containing bryozoa and
other’ fossils’ (95351, exchange).

URBAN, Dr. I. (See under’ Botani-
scher Garten und Museum, Berlin-
Dahiem, Germany. )

UTAH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
Logan, Utah (through Mr. Herbert
J. Pack): 6 specimens of insects
(Hemiptera) (92299); (through G.
F. nowlton) 42 insects from Utah
(92975, 94350, 94856, 94699, 95758).

UTAH, UNIVERSITY OF, Salt Lake
City, Utah (through Prof. Asa A. L.
Mathews) : 12 specimens. of Middle
Cambrian fossils (94518).

VAL, Froyp; New York City: 50 pic-
torial bromoils for special exhibition
of his work from July 15 to October
41,1926 (92532, lean).

VALERIO, Prof. Manunz, San. José,
Costa Rica,’ Central America: 56
plants and 20 ferns from Costa
Rica (94601, 96636) ; 16 specimens
of ferns (96262); approximately 30
amphipods (96617).

VAN DUZEH, M. C. (See under
North Carolina Department of Ag-
riculture. )

VAN. FOSSEN,
nore; Calif.:

Miss Huta N., Hisi-

| VAN

| VENICE

Specimen of ant lion —
representing. a rare species (92829). '

‘LIST; OF ACCESSIONS

‘TYNE; Jossetyn, Ann, Arbor,
Mich.: 5 specimens. of fly larvae,
parasitic on birds, from Barro Col-
orado Island, Canal Zone (93562).

VAUGHAN, Miss .C. B.,. Savannah,
Ga. : Plant (96618).

VAUGHAN, Prof. R. E., Royal Gores
Mauritius: 88 specimens of grasses
and 30 ferns from Mauritius (82682
96077).

VAUGHAN, Dr. T. Waytanp, La Sotla,
‘Calif.: Topotypes of a fossil coral
from the Hocene’ of ‘California
(93158) ; a small. collection of in-
vertebrate fossils and a small shell
from Japan (94739) ; 33 lots of mise
cellaneous invertebrate - fossils
(94779). :

VAUPHL, E. H., Cincinnati, Ohio: - 400
specimens of Harly Silurian fosails
from’ southwestern: Ohio. (94725) ;
260 specimens of rare Upper Ordo-
vician and Harly Silurian fossils
from southwestern Ohio (95539) ;
600 fossil invertebrates from the
Harly Silurian Brassfield formation
at Centerville, Ohio (95981).

CO., Venice, Fla.: Partial
skeleton of a mammoth and miscel-
laneous fossil teeth discovered by —
the Venice Co. during excavations
made near Venice, Fla. (94003).

VERRILL, ‘Prof. A. ., Santa Bar-
bara, Calif.: 12 specimens of marine

mollusks from Kanai, Hawaii

(96427). .
VILLADCLID, Derogractas YV., Los

Banos” College,” Wasuiea aa kph

(through Mrs. Agnes Chase, Wash-
ington, D. C.): 16 parasitic copepods —
(95268).

VIOSCA, Percy, Jr. (See . under
Southern Biological Supply Co.)

VOLWILER, Dr. BH. H. (See under
Abbott Laboratories.)

VON ESCHEN, Prof. F., Salem, Oreg.:
3 shells from Neskowin, Oreg.
(92382). ral

WAINWRIGHT, Mrs. Ric arp, Wash-
ington, D. C.: 24 specimens of Indian
basketry, pottery,. and stonework
(93445).

REPORT OF, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

WAKEMAN, James M., Hast Orange,
N. J.: Babylonian cylinder seal of
steatite (95133).

WALCOTT, Dr. CHartus D.
under C. A. Coffin.)

WALCOTT, Mrs. CHARLES D., Wash-
ington, D. C.: Wooden holy water
vegsel used by the Greek Orthodox
Church .in Constantinople (92797) ;
lot of pottery fragments collected
March 12, 1926, by the donor from
shell heaps about 5 miles from Beau-
fort, 8. C. (94777) ; 4 examples of
wax resist dyeing, or batik, made by
Sie King Goan, Solosche Batikkug,
Solo, Jaya (96270).

WALHS, Grorce C., Brookline, Mass.:
A set of 6 specimens showing the
donor’s method of making a lithc-
graph in two printings (96866).

WALKER, H. P., Juneau, Alaska: 2
porpoise skulls, a young porpoise,
and fragments of a whale skull, all
from Alaska (96980).

WALTER, Mrs. A., Aurora, Ill.: Pair
of shoes for a foot-bound Chinese
woman (95629).

WALTER RATHBONE BACON
SCHOLARSHIP, Smithsonian Insti-
tution (through Dr. Waldo. L.
Schmitt, Bacon scholar, 1925-1927) :
Natural history material comprising
579 crustaceans, 20 annelid worms,
bryozoans, a sponge, 2 ascidians, 2
bottom samples, 2 tow-net samples,
1i water samples, a few dry echino-
derms, a small collection of mol-
lusks, 4 fishes, 1 turtle, and 3 frogs,
collected in Brazil, Uruguay, and
Argentina (92491); also a compre-
hensive collection of marine inverte-
brates, approximately 6,092 speci-
mens, comprising crustacea, coelen-
terates and annelid worms collected
‘by Doctor Schmitt on the west coast
of South America (93322).

WALTHER, Eric, San Francisco,
Calif.: 4 plants (96302, 96908,
97084).

WALTON, C. PzerEruEaD, South Aus-
tralia: 48 jand shells from islands in
Torres Strait, North Australia
(96766).

(See

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WAR DEPARTMENT:

Ojfice of the Adjutant General: 3
certificates concerning the award
of the distinguished service cross
to Pvt. Frank Arkman, Seret.
Carl C. Carter, and Seret. Ed-
ward G. Mason, United States
Army, in recognition cf special
services during the World War
(94559).

Army Air Corps: 3 photographs
illustrating the Air Corps good
will South American flight
(96250).

Ordnance, Office of the Chief of:
Captured German artillery ma-
terial (20 pieces) (84269); 8
United States Army rifles
(91561).

Quartermasters Corps, Office of the
Chief of: British, French, anc
German radio equipment of the
period of the World War (73
specimens) (91551).

WARD, Melbourne, Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia: 168 speci-
mens of crustaceans, and 1 fish eol-
lected by Mr. Ward on the coast of
New South Wales (92800, ex-
change) ; crab (95190).

WARD'S NATURAL SCIENCE HS-
TABLISHMENT, Rochester, N. Y.:
Approximately 5,000 invertebrate
fossils from various European Paleo-
zoie and Mesozoic formations (941390,
exchange) ; specimen cf a Jurassic
ammonite from Wyoming (95014);
250 specimens of invertebrates from
the Warsaw and Knobstone groups
of Indiana (95893, exchange) ;: col-
lection consisting of ostraceds and
bryozoa from the Hocene of southern
Germany (95895, exchange).

(See also under British Govern-
ment, British Museum (Natural
History.)

WARKFORD, Harry A., Philadelphia,
Pa.: Specimen. of the mineral andra-
dite from Franklin Furnace, N,.. J.
($6802, exchange).

WASHINGTON LOAN & TRUST CO.,
THE. (See under Mrs. Sophia L.
Rutherford. )

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WASHINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF;
department of geology, Seattle,
Wash. (through Prof. C. H.
Weaver): 6 specimens of fossil
crustacea from Washington (95000).

WATEXRSTON, Dr. J. (See under
British Government, British Museum
(Natural History).

WATKINS, J. T., Lakeport, Calif.:
Finely woven Attu basket from the
Aleutian Islands (96972, exchange.)

WATKINS, Mrs. M. J., Taylor, Pa.:
2 small pieces of pear wood grown
in Susquehanna County, Pa. (92867.)

WHATHERBY, C. A., Hast Hartford,
Conn.: 115 plants from Connecticut
(96402. )

(See also under Walter Deane.)

WHAVER, Prof. C. EH. (See under
Washington, University of, depart-
ment of geology, Seattle, Wash.)

WHAVHR, Rosert D., Washington,
D. C.: Plate with eagle and shield in
colors made in Philadelphia before
1800 (95012).

WHBB, Rev. CHARLES W., Osprey, |

Wla.: 4 specimens of dragon fly
nymphs from Florida (94785).

WEGEHENHDR, H. M., Los Angeles,
Calif.: 8 specimens and 5 photo-
graphs of plants (92852, 93888).

WEHLE, Harry, New York City.
(See under Metropolitan Museum of
Art.)

WHER: Drie RR:
¥. L. Herrera.)

WELLS, R. C., Washington, D. C.:
Small collection of minerals ob-
tained by the donor in the Hawaiian
Islands (94978).

WELLS, Wayne W., Ashland, Oreg.:
14 specimens of crabs and a marine
annelid from San Juan Island, Wash.
(94231).

WHNDAL, Harry, Washington, D. C.:
Bald eagle from Maryland (93504).

WENTWORTH, Bertranp H., Gar-

(See under Prof.

diner, Me.: 8 pictorial bromides
(92840).
WESTERN CARTRIDGE CO., Hast

Alton, Ill.: Display board of ammu-
nition products (165 specimens)
(96660).

LIST OF ACCESSIONS

WESTHOFE, Miss Gisexa. (See un-
‘der Roosevelt Memorial Association

(Ine.).)
WESTINGHOUSE LAMP CoO., research
department, Bloomfield, N. J.

(through Dr. H. C. Rentschler):
Specimen of chemical for the Loeb
collection of chemical types (97635).

WEST THXAS HISTORICAL AND
SCIENTIFIC SOCINTY, Alpine, Tex.
(through VY. J. Smith): 2 adult In-
dian skulls, one male and the other
female, from Texas (96641).

WHST TOLEDO MINING CO., Alta,
Utah (through Victor C. Heikes) :
Specimen of the lead carbonate ore,
cerussite, from the property of the
West Toledo Mining Co. at Alta
(94605); a 40-pound specimen of
cerussite from the property of the
West Toledo Mining Co. at Alta
(96860).

WHITMORE, Dr. A., Washington,
D. C.: 3 mammals and 8 birds, with
one trunk skeleton, from Maryland
(94510).

(See also under B. H. Swales.)

WHEELER, Prof. W. M., Forest Hills,
Boston, Mass.: 8 specimens of flies
(96637).

WHERRY, Dr. Encar T., Washington,
D. C.: Fern from: the’ District “of
Columbia (92888); 6 plants (93931,
94491) ; 3 plants from the southern
United States (94107); plant from
Virginia (94115) ; 2 plants from the
vicinity of Washington (94489).

(See also under Miss Margaret D.
Reese.) PRS

WHITH, Mrs. CLARENCE H., New York
City: 3 photographs by Clarence
H. White, as follows: Self Portrait;
the Symbolism of Light, and The
Tree Toad (97105). !

WHITFIELD, R. D., Houston, Miss. :
Small lot of pottery fragments and
an incomplete female Indian skele-
ton (92892).

WHITING, Mrs. WiLtiAM Macome,
Washington, D. C.: Part of the flag-
staff of the Castle of San Juan~>de
Ulua, Vera Cruz, taken by the
American Army, March 29, 1847
(96625).

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

WHITTALL ASSOCIATHS. M.. J:,
Worcester, Mass.: An analysis rug

showing steps in the weaving of a
Wilton rug (96243).

WILCOX, JosrepH. (See under Ore-
gon Agricultural College.)

WILLEY, Prof. Artuur, Montreal,
Canada: 2 slides containing the
types male and female of a copepod
(93163).

WILLIAMS COLLEGE, department of
geology, Williamstown, Mass.: 1,060
specimens of fossil invertebrates
from the Devonian of Wisconsin, in-
cluding types and original drawings

(94495).

WILLIAMS, Dr. F. X., Honolulu,
Hawaii: 8 specimens of aculeate
Hymenoptera, including paratypes
of 5 species (96418).

WILLIAMS, Lieut J. H., United

States Army, Washington, D. C.: A
Dutch silver dollar, issued by the
Province of West Friesland, in 1598
(93394).

WILLIAMS, Samurt, Nevis, British
West Indies: 387 sShelis from St.
Kitts, British West Indies (92506).

WILLIAMSON, Hon. Wirtam. (See
under Miss Alice Hollow Horn
Bear.)

WILLSIA, Miss Anna, Honesdale,
Pa.: Cotton handkerchief bearing a
printed facsimile of the Declaration
of Independence (96187).

WINDSOR PRHSS, THE, San Fran-
ciseo, Calif. ; 3 examples of fine book-
making: Cupid and Psyche, copy No.
38; William Caxton, copy No. 116;
and Letter of Columbus to Luis de
Santangel, copy No. 32; also a
Christmas broadside, printed and
designed by The Windsor Press, 1926
(94847) ; book entitled “'The Press
of the Renaissance in Italy,” by
James S. Johnson, No. 23 of an edi-
tion of 200 (96423).

WINTERS, Fren H., Santa Barbara,
Calif. : 32 specimens, representing 20
species of beetles, belonging to the
family Hydrophilidae (95162).

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WISMER, D. C., Hatfield, Pa.: A $40
cheek on the bank of North America,
dated November 26, 1791 (95657).

WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY
AND BIOLOGY, Philadelphia, Pa.
(through Dr. J. M. Greenman):
Toad from Borneo (93412, ex-
change).

WITHERSPOON, Mrs. THomas A,
Washington, D. C.: 2 Joly trans-
parencies and a parallax stereogram
(94767).

WOLARIK, JoHN, Washington, D. C.:
38 Shells and 6 corals from Holly-
wood, Fla. (93217).

WOLCOTT, Dr. Grorce N., Port au
Prince, Haiti: 22 specimens of
Haitian beetles representing 13
species, 5 of which are represented
by cotypes (93608).

WOO, F. C., Ithaca, N. Y¥.: 4 specimens
of files from China (95580).

WOOD, Dr. Casry A., Colombo, Cey-
lon: Specimen of flycatcher from the
Fiji Islands, representing a species
new to the Museum collection
(94125) ; 6 skins and 5 skeletons of
birds from the Fiji Islands (94498).

WOOD, Dr. Horatio C. (See under
Lippincott & Co., J. P.)

WOODBURY, A. M.
Dixie College.)

WOODRING, Dr. W. P. (See under
Dr. H. G. Kugler, and Dr. C. A. Mat-
ley.)

WOODY, C. L. Baltimore, Md.: Speci-
men of moth (93544.)

WORCH, Hugo, Washington, D. C.:
2 harpsichords in glass cases, one
dated 1665 and the other 1690
(93944) ; German square piano con-
structed about 1765 (94056); 2
square pianos made about 1810, one
marked “G. Astor and Company,”
London, and the other made in
Amsterdam (94098).

WRAY, Mrs. Mazen L., Lawrence,
Kans.: A bark cloth blanket from
Uganda, Africa, woven cotton
blanket from Mandingos, West
Africa, and a robe of skin, Zulu
Kaftir, from South Africa (93582).

(See under

188

WRIGHT, Mrs. D. E., “Winchester,
Va.: Fossil shark’s tooth, a rubber
effigy doll, and a pottery whistle
(94849).

WRIGHT, Dr. Stir~mAan, Madison,
Wis.: 2 copepods, holotype and para-
type; 4 copepods from Brazil and
Philippine Islands (94067; 96184).

WYATT, Miss Gracz, Nashville,
Tenn.: 2 specimens of blind fishes
(96286).

WYOMING, UNIVERSITY OF, De-
partment of Botany, Laramie, Wyo.:
(through Mr. Edwin B. Payson)
2 plants from Utah (95536, ex-
change); (through Prof. A. H.
Stockhard) 9 specimens of flies
(95683).

YALH UNIVERSITY.

School of Forestry, New Haven,
Conn. (through Prof. Samuel J.
Record) : 14 specimens of trees
from Central America (91847) ;
3 fragmentary specimens of
plants (92398); 70 plants from

British Honduras, collected by

H. W. Winzerling — (92609,

94058) ; 78 plants from British

Honduras (98157, 93220, 98258,

94210, 94721, 96462); 2 plants

from Costa Rica (94060); 2

plants from Guatemala, eollect-

ed by Mr. Kuylen (94117); 3

plants (94508, 94509) ; 801 wood

specimens, mostly from tropical

America (95124, exchange) ; 246

plants from Central America

(95872) ; 25 plants from Gua-

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LIST OF ACCESSIONS

YALE UNIVERSITY—Continued.
temala (96248); plant from
Peru (96399); 88 plants from
Panama and British Honduras
(96782) ; plant from Honduras
(96799) ; plant from Mexico
(96979).

Peabody Museum of Natural His-
tory (through Dr. C. O. Dun-
bar): 98 specimens of fossil
erustaceans (95365).

YAO, L., Chusan, Chekiang, China: 12
beetles from China (96983).

ZANHTTI, Col. J. HNRiqgus, New York
City: Specimen of chemical for the
Loeb collection of chemical types
(95841).

ZWTHEK, J., Ancon, Canal Zone: Frag-
ment of a celt found at Santa Maria
River, San Francisco, Panama
(93185). :

ZiINC-OID PRINTING PLATE COR-
PORATION, Rochester, N. Y.
(through Alton B. Carty): En-
graved Zinc-Oid Hcono plate and
print from it (95638).

ZOOLOGICAL MUSHUM, ACADEMY
OF SCIENCHS, Leinigrad, Union of
Socialistic Soviet Republics in Hu-
rope: 17 small mammals from Rus-
sia (94982, exchange).

ZOOLOGICAL . MUSEUM, — Tring,
Herts., Hngland: Pair of blood
pheasants from south China (93965,
exchange). i

ZUNDEL, Grorer L., Pullman, Wash.:
Plant (rust) from | Washington
(92762). -

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ISSUED BY. THE UNITED
_ STATES NATIONAL. MUSEUM DURING, THE FISCAL

_ YEAR 1926-27

REPORT

Report on the progress and condition of the United States National Museum for

the year ending June 30, 1926.
8vo., pp. i-ix, 1-205, frontispiece.

PROCHEDINGS

Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Volume 67.
8vo., pp. i-xix, 1-972, arts, 1-29, pls. 1-155, 86 figs.

BULLETINS

No. 134. Material culture of the people
of southeastern Panama,
based on specimens in. the
United States National Mu-
seum. By Herbert W.
Krieger,

_ 8vo., pp. i-v, 1-141, pls. 1-27.

No. 185. Life histories of North Ameri-
can marsh birds. Orders
Odontoglossae, Herodiones,
and Paludicolae. By Ar-
thur.Cleveland Bent.

8yo., pD. 1-490, pls.

1-98.,
No. 136. Handbook of the ‘collection of
musical instruments in the
United States National Mu-
seum. By Frances Dens-
more.
8vo., pp. i-iii, 1-164, pls. 1-49.

i—xii,

No. 137. The collection of primitive
weapons and armor of the
Philippine Islands in the
United States National Mu-
seum. By Herbert .W.
Krieger.

8vo., pp. i-lii, 1-128, frontis-
piece (map), pls. 1-21.
No. 188. The fossil stalk-eyed crustacea
of the Pacific slope of North
America. By Mary J. Rath-
bun.
8vo., pp. i-vii,
1-89, 6 figs.

No. 139, Fire as-an agent in human

eulture. By Walter Hough.
8vo., pp. i;xivy, 1-270, pls.
1-41.

No. 140. Bird parasites of the nema-
tode suborders Strongylata,
Ascaridata, and Spirurata.
By Hloise B. Cram.

8vo., pp. i-xyii, 1-465, 1-444 figs.

1-155, pls.

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL HER-
BARIUM

Vol. 23. Trees and shrubs of Mexico. By Paul ©. Standley.

8vo., pp.,i-exxxi, 1-1721.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SHPARATEH FORM

FROM THE BULLETINS

From No.:100. Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and

‘adjacent regions.

Volume 2, Part 5. The shipworms of the Philippine Islands.
8vo., pp. 533-562, pls. 58-60, 1 fig.

By Paul Bartsch.

Volume 6, Part 2. Additions to the polychaetous annelids collected. by the United
States Fisheries steamer Albatross, 1907-1910, including one new genus and

three new species.

By A. L. Treadwell.

8vo., pp. 183-193, 1—20 figs.

Volume 6, Part 3. Report on the hydroida collected by the United States Fisheries

Steamer Albatross in the Philippine region, 1907-1910.

8vo., pp. 195-242, pls. 40-47.

By Charles C. Nutting.

189

190

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

From Volume 22.—Contributions From The United States National Herbarium

Part 10. The North American species of Scutellaria. By Emery C. Leonard.

8vo., pp. i-viii, 703-748.

From Volume 23.—Contributions From The United States National Herbarium

Part 5. Trees and shrubs of Mexico.

C. Standley.
8vo., pp. ili, 1313-1721.

(Bignoniaceae-Asteraceae.) By Paul

From Volume 24.—Contributions From The United States National Herbarium

Part 8. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

8vo., pp. i-xx, 291-556.

By A. 8. Hitcheock.

From Volume 26.—Contributions From The United States National Herbarium

Part 1. The Lecythidaceae of Central America. By H.. Pittier.

8vo., pp. i-v, 1-14, pls. 1-12.

Part 2. The Piperaceae of Panama,

S8vo., pp. i—viii, 15-50.

By William Trelease.

FROM VOLUME 69 OF THE PROCEEDINGS

No. 2680. The collection of ancient ori-
ental seals in the United

States National Museum. |

By I. M. Casanowicz. Art.
4, pp. 1-28, pls. 1-20.

No. 2681. Catalogue of human crania |

in the United States Na-
tional Museum collections.
The Algonkin and related
Iroquois; Siouan, Cad-
doan, Salish and Sahaptin,
Shoshonean, and Califor-

nian Indians. By Alés
Hrdli¢ka: Art. 5, pp.
1-127.

No. 2682. A new sea star of the genus
Hvasterias. By W. K.
Fisher. Art. 6, pp. 1-5,
pls. 1-2. ‘

No. 26388. Descriptions of new reared
parasitic Hymenoptera

and some notes on synony-
my. By C. F. W. Muese-
beck. Art. 7, pp. 1-18.

No. 26384. Crustaceans of the orders
Euphausiacea and Mysida-
cea from the western At-

lantic. By Walter M.
Tattersall. Art. 8, pp. 1-
31, pls. 1-2.

No. 2635. Review of the American Xyl-
otine Syrphid-flies. By
Raymond C. Shannon. Art.
9, pp. 1-52.

No. 2636. The North American two-
winged flies of the family
Simuliidae. By Harrison
G. Dyar and Raymond C.
Shannon. Art. 10, pp. 1-54,
pls. 1-7.

No. 2637. The Chrysotoxine Syrphid-
flies. By Raymond C.
Shannon. Art. 11, pp. 1-20,
3 figs.

No. 2638. New land and fresh-water
mollusks from Central and
‘South America. By Wil-
liam B. Marshall. Art. 12,
pp. 1-12, pls. 1-3.

No. 26389. American two-winged flies of
the genus Microphthalma
Macquart, with notes on
the related forms. By J. M.
Aldrich. Art. 13, pp. 1-8..

No. 2640. Classification of the Chelios-
tomatous bryozoa. By Fer-
dinand Canu and Ray S8.
Bassler. Art. 14, pp. 1-42,
pl. 1.

2641, Polychaetous annelids from
Fiji, Samoa, China, and Ja-
pan. By A. L. Treadwell.
Art. 15, pp. 1-20, pls. 1-2.

No. 2642. A revision of the parasitic
wasps of the subfamily
Braconinae occurring in
America north of Mexico.
By C. F. W. Muesebeck.
Art. 16, pp. 1-73, pls. 1-2.

No.

No. 2643.

No. 2644.

No. 2645.

No. 2646.

No. 2650.

No. 2651.

No. 2652.

No. 2653.

No. 2654.

No. 2655.

No. 2656.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 191

Identity of Hallowell’s snake

genera Megalops and Aepi- |

dea. By Leonhard Stej-
neger. Art. 17, pp. 1-3.
Notes on the age of the con-
tinental Triassic beds in
North America, with re.
marks on some fossil ver

“tebrates. By F. R. von
Huene. Art. 18, pp. 1-10,
figs. 1-8.

Kentriodon pernix, a Miocene
porpoise from Maryland.
By Remington Kellogg.
Art. 19, pp. 1-55, pls. 1-14,
figs. 1—20.

Additional new mollusks from
Santa Elena Bay, Ecuador.

By Paul Bartsch. Art. 20,
pp. 1-20, pls. 1-3.

No. 2647. Distributional notes on some

neotropical bugs of the
family Nabidae, with de-
Seription of a new species.
By Halbert M. Harris.
Art. .21, pp. 1-4.

No. 2648. Descriptions of new and lit-

tle known Diptera or two-
winged flies. By J. M. Al-
drich. Art. 22, pp. 1-26.

No. 2649. Cymbidium, a new genus of

Silurian pentameroid
Brachiopods from Alaska.
By Edwin Kirk. Art. 23,
pp. 1-5, pl. 1.

FROM YOLUME 70 OF THE PROCEEDINGS

American wasps of the genus
Sceliphron Klug. By Ben-
net A. Porter. Art. 1, pp.
1-22, pls. 1-4.

Descriptions of larvae and
pupae of two0-winged flies
belonging to the family

Leptidae. By Charles T.
Greene. Art. 2, pp. 1-20,
pls. 1-3.

A fossil palm fruit from the
Middle Eocene of North-
western Peru. By Hdward
W. Berry. Art. 3, pp. 1-4,

pl. 1.

New Urocoptid land shells
from Mexico. By Paul
Bartsch. Art. 4, pp. 1-13,
pl. 1: ;

A collection of birds from the
Provinces of Yunnan and
Szechwan, China, made for
the National Geographic
Society by Dr. Joseph F.
Rock. By J. H. Riley. Art.
5, pp. 1-70.

Nematode eggs from the gill
region of a shark, Carchar-
hinus milberti. By G. A.
MacCallum. Art. 6, pp.
1-2, 1 fig.

Notes on cestode parasites of
birds. By Edwin Linton.
Art. 7, pp. 1-73, pls. 1--15.

No. 2657. Some braconid and chalcid

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

flies from Formosa, para-
sitic on aphids. By A. B.
Gahan. Art. 8, pp. 1-7.

. A review of the South Amer-

ican two-winged flies of
the family Syrphidae. By
Raymond C. Shannon. Art.
9, pp. 1-34, pl. 1.

2659. On a collection of copepoda

from Florida, with a de-
Seription of Diaptomus
floridanus, new species. By
C. Dwight Marsh. Art. 10,
pp. 1-4, figs. 1-6.

2660. New west American marine

mollusks. By Paul Bartsch.
Art. 11, pp. 1-386, pls. 1-6.

. Tanaodon, a new molluscan

genus from the Middle De-
vonian of China. By Hd-
win Kirk. Art. 12, pp. 1-4,
pl. 1.

. Contribution to the anatomy

of the Chinese finless por-

poise, Neomeris phocae-
noides. By A. Brazier
Howell. Art. 13, pp. 1-43,

pl. 1, figs. 1-14.

. A taxonomic and ecological

review of the North Ameri-
ean chaleid-flies of the ge-
nus Callimome. By L. I.
Huber Art. 14, pp. 1-114,
pls. 1-4.

192

No. 2664. Generic names applied to
birds during the years 1916
to 1922, inclusive, with -ad-
ditions tc Waterhouse’s
“Index Generum Avium.”
By Charles W. Richmond.
Art. 15, pp. 1-44.

No. 2665. Foraminifera of the genus
Hhrenbergina and its spe-
cies. By Joseph A. Cush-
man. Art. 16, pp. 1-8, pls.
2

Deseription of a new dragon
fly from lower Siam be-
longing to the genus Uro-
themis: By F. ¥. Laidlaw.
Art. 17, pp. 1-8, pl. 1.

Small shells from dredgings
off the southeast coast of
the United States by the
United States Fisheries
steamer. Albatross in 1885
and 1886. By William H.
Dall.. Art. 18, pp. 1-134.

No. 2668. Diagnoses of undescribed

new species of mollusks in
the collection of the

No. 2666.

No. 2667.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

- United States National
Museum. By William

_ Healey Dall. Art. 19, pp.
1-11,

No. 2669. The occurrence and :proper-
ties of Chlorophoenicite, a
new arsenate from Frank-
lin, N. J... By William
FB, Foshag, Harry M. Ber-
man; and Robert B. Gage.
Art. 20, pp. 1-6, figs. 1-2.

No. 2670. A stony; meteorite from
Forksville; Mecklenburg
County, Va. By George
P. Merrill. ‘Art. 21, pp.
1-4, pls. 1-3.

No. 2671. Richmond faunal zones in
Warren and Clinton
Counties, Ohio. By
George M. Austin. Art.
22, pp. 1-18.,;

No, 2672. A revision of the beetles of
the genus Oedionychis oc-
curring in America north
of, Mexico. By Doris
Holmes Blake. Art. 23,
pp. 1-44, pls. 1-2, fig. 1.

FROM VOLUME 71 OF THE PROCEEDINGS

No. 2678: Description of a new species

of fresh-water copepod of |

the genus Moraria from
Canada. By Arthur Wil-
ley: Art. 1; pp. 1-12, figs.
T3Op ib

No. 2674. The beetles of the’ family
Cleridae collected on the
‘Mulford Biological Ex-
ploration of the Amazon

Basin; 1921-1922. By
Hdward A. Chapin. Art.
2; pp. 1-10:

No. 2675. On a collection of orthop-
teroid insects’ from Java
made by Owen Bryant
and William Palmer in
1909. By A. N. Caudell.
Art. 3, pp. 1-42.

. 2676. Miscellaneous | descriptions
of new parasitic hymen-
optera: with some syn-
onymical notes. By A. B.
Gahan. Art.:4, pp. 1-89,
pl. 1, figs. 1-3.

No. 2677. A new parasitic nematode
from an unknown species

of bat. By Benjamin
‘ Schwartz. Art. 5, pp.
144, figs. 1-4:

No. 2678. A new genus and two new

species of South American

fresh-water mussels. By

William B. Marshall. Art.

6, pp. 1-4, pis. 1-2.

No. 2679. Orthopteroid ingects from the
Maritime Province of Si-
beria. (On the insect |
fauna of the Maritime
Province. of Siberia.) By
A. N. Caudell. Art. 7, pp.
1-7, figs. 1-2.

No. 2680. Larger foraminifera of the
genus lLepidocyclina re-
lated to Lepidocyclina man-
telli. By TT: Wayland
Vaughan. Art. 8, pp. 1-5,
pls. 1-4.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927

No. 2681. The digger wasps of North
America of the genus Poda-
lonia (Psammophila). By

H. T. Fernald. Art. 9, pp.

1-42, pls. 1-2, figs. 1-4.
No. 2682. Notes on fishes obtained in
Sumatra, Java, and Tahiti.
By Henry W. Fowler and
Barton A. Bean. Art. 10,
pp. 1-15, figs. 1-2.
No. 2683. Notes on the Melitaeid but-
terfly Huphydryas phaéton

\

193

(Drury), with descriptions
of a new subspecies and a
new variety. By Austin H.
Clark, Art. 11, pp. 1-22,
pls. 1-5.

No. 2684. Megachilid bees from Bolivia
collected by the Mulford
Biological Expedition,

1921-1922, By T. D. A.
Cockerell. Art. 12, pp
1-22.

LIST OF PAPERS BASED WHOLLY OR IN PART ON THE
COLLECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL
MUSEUM, PUBLISHED BY THE MUSEUM AND ELSE-
WHERE DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1926-27

Aldrich, J. M.

American two-winged flies of the genus Microphthalma Macquart, with notes
on related forms: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 13, no. 2639, Oct. 15,
1926, pp. 1-8.

Deseriptions of new and little known Diptera or two- winged flies: Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 22, no. 2648, Dec. 27, 1926, pp. 1-26.

A new species of Oedematocera reared from the tropical migratory locust
(Diptera) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 1, Jan. 1927, pp. 17, 18.

Notes on muscoid synonymy: Bull. Brooklyn Hnt. Soc., vol. 22, no. 1, Feb.
1927, pp. 18-25.

Notes on the Dexiid genera Cordyligaster and Hedrdylivadeers°! Journ.
Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 4, Feb. 19, 1927, pp. 84-86.

Chiromyia oppidana Scopoli occurring in the United States (Diptera): Ent.
News, vol. 38, no. 8, Mar. 1927, p. 79.

Alexander, Charles P.
New or little known neartic species of Trichoceridae (Diptera) Pt. 1: Can.
Ent., vol. 59, no. 3, Mar. 1927, pp. 66-73, figs. 1, 2

Amaral, Afranio do.
Studies of neotropical Ophidia (5). Notes on Bothrops lanbergii and
B. brachystoma: Bull. Antivenin Inst. America, vol. 1, no. 1, Mar. 1927,
p. 22.

Anthony, H. EH.
Two new rodents from Bolivia: Amer. Mus. Novitates, no, 289, Dec. 4, 1926.
pp. 1-3.
Austin, George M.
Richmond faunal zones in Warren and Clinton Counties, Ohio: Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 22, no. 2671, May 4, 1927, pp. 1-18.

Bailey, Alfred M,
A report on the birds of northwestern Alaska and regions adjacent to
Bering Strait: Pt. 10, Condor, vol. 28, no. 4, July 15, 1926, pp. 165-170,
figs. 46, 47.
Notes on the birds of southeastern Alaska: Auk, vol 44, no. 1, Jan., 1927, pp.
1-23, pls. 1-3; vol. 44, no. 2, Apr., 1927, pp. 184—205, pls. 8, 9.

Bangs, Outram.
Atthis heloisa morcomi Ridgway, not a valid subspecies: Condor, vol. 29, no. 2,
Mar. 15, 1927, pp. 118, 119.

Barber, H. G.
Notes on Coreidae in the collection of the United States National Museum
with description of a new Catorhintha (Hemiptera-Heteroptera) : Journ.
New York Ent. Soc., vol. 34, no. 2, June (Issued July 28), 1926, pp.
209-216.
195

196 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Bartram, Edwin B. i
A short list of Panama mosses: Bryologist, vol. 29, no. 6, Nov., 1926, pp. 67, 68.
Bartsch, Paul.

New urocoptid land shelis from Mexico: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 70,
art. 4, no. 2653, Nov. 29, 1926,-pp. 1-13, pl. 1. ;
Additional new mollusks from Santa Hlena Bay, Hcuador: Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., vol..69, art. 20, no. 2646, Dec. 16, 1926, pp. 1-20, pls. 1-3.
Breeding experiments with cerions: Carnegie Inst. of Washington, Year
Book 25, 1925-26, pp. 287, 288.
‘New west American marine mollusks: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 11,
no. 2660, Apr. 8, 1927, pp. 1-86, pls. 1-6.
The shipworms of the Philippine Islands: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 100,
vol. 2, pt. 5, Apr. 28, 1927, pp. 533-562, pls. 538-60, fig. 1
Bassler, R. 8.
Report on the department of geology: Annual Report U. S. National Museum,
1926, Mar. 11, 1927, pp. 81-97.
Explorations for microfossils in France and Germany: Smithsonian Misc.
Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 29-85, figs. 35-40.
(See also under Ferdinand Canu.)

Bean, Barton A. (See under Henry W. Fowler and Barton A. Bean.)
Bent, Arthur Cleveland.

Life histories of North American marsh birds, Orders Odontoglossae, Hero-
diones, and Paludicolae: Bull. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., no, 135, “1926” (Mar. 11,
1927), pp. i-xii, 1-490, pls. 1-98,

Berman, Harry M. (See under William F. Foshag.)
Berry, Edward W.

A fossil palm fruit from the Middle Hocene of northwestern Peru: Proe. U.
S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 3, no. 2652, Oct. 5, 1926, pp. 1-4, pl. 1.

Bigelow, Henry B.

Plankton of the offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine; Bulk. U. S.. Bur,
Fish., vol. 40, pt. 2, no. 968, 1924, pp. 1-509, figs. 1-134.

Blake, Doris Holmes.
A revision of the beetles of the genus Oedionychis occurring -in mented
north of Mexico: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 23, no. 2672, Apr. 25,
1927, pp. 1-44, pls. 1, 2.

Blake, S. F.

Notes on Disterigma: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16, no. 13, July 19,
1926, pp. 361-865.

A new Stylosanthes from British Honduras: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 39, July 30, 1926, pp. 51, 52.

Note on “arboloco”: Trop. Woods, no. 7, Sept: 1, 1926, pp. 33, 34. -

Five new American Melampodiinae: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16,
no. 15, Sept. 19, 1926, pp. 418-422. t
Sericocarpus bifoliatus, an invalid name: Rhodora, vol. 28, no. 335, Nov,

1926, pp. 209, 210.
New names for five American Asteraceae: Proc. Biol. Soe. Washington, vol
39, Dec. 27, 1926, p: 144.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 197

Blake, S. F.—Continued.
Two genera of Asteraceae new to the’ United States: Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, vol. 39, Dec. 27, 1926, p. 145.
Lennoa caerulea in Colombia: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 39, Dec. 27,
1926, p. 146.
New Asteraceae from Costa ni Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., yol. alee no.
3, Feb. 3, 1927, pp. 59-65, fig.
The Sgn Diplostephioides of A aH poe Amer. Journ. Bot., vol. 14, no. 3,
, 1927, pp. 107-115.
bly § rk American species of Liabum: J ourn. Washington Acad. Sci., vol.
17, no. 11, June 4, 1927, pp. 288-303.
A new Hymenothrix from Arizona: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40,
June 30, 1927, pp. 49, 50.
Two new species of Securidaca from South America: Proe. Biol. Soc.
Washington, vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 51-53.

Bottimer, L. J.
Notes on some Lepidoptera from Hastern Texas: Journ. Agric. Res., vol. 33,
no. 9, Nov. 1, 1926, pp. 797-819, figs. 1-8.
Boving, Adam G.
The immature stages of Psephenoides gahani Champ. (Coleoptera: Dryo-
pidae): Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 74, Dec., 1926, pp. 381-3888, pls.
89, 90.

The larva of Nevermannia dorecatomoides Fisher with comments on the
classification of the Anobiidae according to their larvae (Coleoptera:
Anobiidae) : Proce. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol: 29, no. 8, Mar., 1927, pp.
51-62, pl. 3.

Britton, N. L. (See under Paul C. Standley.)
and J. N. Rose.
A new Albizzia of British Honduras: Tropical Woods, no. 8, Dec. 1, 1926, p. 7

Buchanan, L. L.
A new Otiorhynchid with single tarsal claws (Coleoptera): Proe. Ent. Soc
Washington, vol. 28, no. 8, Nov., 1926, pp. 179-181, figs. 1-4.
A short review of Notaris (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) : Bull. Brooklyn Pnt.
Soe., vol. 22, ne. 1, Feb., 1927, pp. 36-89, pl. 3.
. A review of Panscopus ee Otiorhynchidae) : Proc. Hnt. Soc. Wash-
ington, vol. 29, no. 2, Feb., 1927, pp. 25-36, pl. 2.
Notes on some light- nbaetea beetles from Louisiana (Coleoptera): Ent.
News, vol. 38, no. 6, June, 1927, pp. 165-170, pl. 3.

Bush, Benjamin Franklin.

The glabrate species of Tilia: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 54, no. 3, Mar.,
1927, pp. 231-248.

Butts, Charles.

The Paleozoic rocks [of Alabama]: Geology of Alabama, Geol. Surv. Alabama,
Special Rep. no. 14, 1926, pp. 41-230, pls. 38-76, fig. 2

Canu, Ferdinand, and R. S. Bassler.

Contribution a l’etude des Bryozoaires d’Autriche et de Hongrie: Bull: Soe.
geol. de France, ser. 4, vol. 24, 1926, pp. 672-690, pls. 23-25.

Classification of the cheilostomatous Bryozoa: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69,
art. 14, no. 2640, Apr. 9, 1927, pp. 1-42, pl. 1.

198 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Casanowicz, I. M.

The collection of ancient Oriental seals in the United States Nakina Mu-
seum: Proc, U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 4, no, 2630, Sept. 23, 1926,
pp. 1-23, pls. 1-20.

Caudell, A. N.
On a collection of orthopeteroid insects from Java made by Owen Bryant and
William Palmer in 1909: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 3, no. 2675,
Apr. 23, 1927, pp. 1-42.
Orthopteroid insects from the maritime province of Siberia (On the insect
fauna of the Martime Province of Siberia): Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol.
71, art. 7, no. 2679, May 21, 1927, pp. 1-7, figs. 1, 2.

Chamberlin, F. S., and J. H. Tenhet.
Cardiochiles nigriceps Vier. an important parasite of the tobacco bud worm
Heliothis virescens Fab.: Journ, Agric. Res., vol. 33, no. 1, July 1, 1926,
pp. 21-27, figs. 1-4.

Chambers, Frank V.

Exhibit of the Cleveland Photographic Society at the Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D. C.: The Camera, vol. 33, no. 5, Nov. 1926, (no text),
5 illus.

Chapin, Edward A.

Southwellia ransomi new species: Journ. Parasitol., vol. 13, no. 1, Sept.,
1926, pp. 29-83, figs. 1-3.

Eustrongylides ignotus Jagersk. in the United States: Journ. Parasitol.,
vol. 13, no. 1, Sept., 1926, pp. 86, 87.

Collyriclum faba (Brems.) and C. colei Ward not specifically distinct:
Journ. Parasitol., vol. 18, no. 1, Sept., 1926, p. 90.

A hew Paederus (Coleopt. : ‘Giapuylinnge) causing vesicular dermatitis in
man: Arch. f. Schiffs- u. Tropen-Hyg., Leipzig, vol. 30, no. 9, Sept., 1926,
pp. 369-3872.

On some Coccinellidae of the tribe Telsimiini, with descriptions of new
species: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 39, Dec. 27, 1926, pp. 129-134.

On some Asiatic Cleridae (Coleoptera): Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, yol.
40, Mar. 5, 1927, pp. 19-22.

The beetles of the family Cleridae collected on the Mulford Biological
Exploration of the Amazon Basin, 1921-1922: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
vol. 71, art. 2, no. 2674, Mar. 17, 1927, pp. 1-10, fig. 1. Fs

A new genus and species of Staphylinidae from Sze-Chuan, China: Proce. Biol.
Soc. Washington, vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 75-78.

Chapman, Frank M.

Descriptions of new birds from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil: Amer.
Mus. Novitates, no. 231, Oct. 16, 1926, pp. 1-7.

The distribution of bird life in Ecuador. A contribution to the ee of
the origin of Andean bird life: Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 55,
1926, pp. i-xiv, 1-784, pls. 1-30, figs. 1-21.

The variations and distribution of Saltator aurantiirostris: Amer. Mus.
Novitates, no. 261, Mar. 28, 1927, pp. 1-19, figs. 1-8.

Chase, Agnes.

+

New grasses from Panama: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 6,
Mar, 19, 1927, pp. 142-147, figs. 1-4.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 199

Chittenden, F. H.
A new and remarkably large species of Eupagoderes: Bull. Brooklyn Ent.
Soe., vol. 21, no. 4, Oct., 1926, pp. 169, 170.
Two new species of Attelabus with notes (Coleoptera) : Proc, Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, vol. 28, no. 7, Oct., 1926, pp. 162-165.
Classification of the nut curculios (formerly Balaninus) of Boreal America:
Ent. Americana, vol. 7 (n. s.) no. 8, Dec., 1926, pp. 129-191, pls. 12-19.

Clark, Austin H.

Our giant moths. Sci. Monthly, Nov. 1926, pp. 385-397, figs. 1-19.

Carnivorous butterflies. Smithsonian Report for 1925, December 1926, Pub-
lication 2856, pp. 489-508, figs. 1-5.

The biological reiationships of the land, the sea, and man. Science, vol. 65,
No. 1680, Mar. 11, 1927, pp. 241-245.

Notes on the melitaeid butterfly Euphydryas phaéton (Drury) with deserip-
tions of a new subspecies and a new variety. Proc. U. S: Nat: Mus., vol.
71, art. 11, no. 2683, Apr. 22, 1927, pp. 1-22, pls. 1-5.

The present needs of science. ‘‘ Hobbies ” Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. 8, no. 1,
May 1927, pp. 3-10.

Animals of Land and Sea-[{second edition, rena D. Van Nostrand Com-
pany, New York, 1927; pp. i-xxxvii, 1-312; frontispiece; pls. 1-18, 740
text figures.

The future balance of life. Sci. Monthly, June 1927, pp. 548-555; figs. 1-8.

Claudy, C. H.
The Floyd Vail Exhibit: The Camera, vol. 33, no. 3, Sept., 1926, pp. 166, 167.
Royal Photographs: The Camera, vol. 34, no. 2, Feb. 1927, pp. 100, 101, 23
illus.

Cochran, Doris M.
A new pelobatid batrachian from Borneo: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci.,
vol. 16, no. 16, Oct. 4, 1926, pp. 446, 447.
A new genus of anguid lizards from Haiti: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 91, 92.

Cockerell, T. D. A.
The genus Dixa in Colorado (Diptera: Dixidae) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol. 28, no. 7, Oct., 1926, p. 166.
A new subspecies of Papilio paeon (Lepidoptera) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washing-
ton, vol. 29, no. 2, Feb., 1927, p. 48.
Megachilid bees from Bolivia collected by the Mulford Biological Expedition,
1921-1922: Proc. U. 8: Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 12. no. 2684, June 38,1927,
pp. 1-22.
Coker, R. E.
New genus of Darter from western North Carolina. Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish.
vol. 42, Document no. 1004, pp. 105-108, fig. 1, 1926 (1927).
Collins, Henry B., jr.
The temporo-frontal articulation in man: Amer. Journ. ae Anthrop., vol.
9, no. 8, July-Sept., 1926, pp. 3438-348.
Archeological work in Louisiana and Mississippi: Smithsonian Mise. Colls.,
vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, p. 200-207, figs. 198-204.

69199—27——_14

200 ‘LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Connolly, C. J.
The location of nasion in the living: Amer. Journ. ign Anthrop., vol. 9,
no. 8, July-Sept., 1926, pp. 349-353.
Relation of the orbital plane’ to position of teeth: Amer. Journ. Phys. An-
throp., vol. 10, no. 1, Jani-Mar., 1927, pp. 71-78, fig. 1.

Cook, O. F.
A new genus of palms based on Kentia forsterianna: Journ. Washington
Acad. Sci., vol..16, no. 14, Aug. 19, 1926, pp. 392-397.
New genera and species of ivory palms from Colombia, Hcuader cid ee
Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 9, May 4, 1927, pp. 218-280.

Cook, O. F., and J. W. Hubbard.
New species of cotton plants’ from Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico: Journ.
Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16, no. 12, June 19, 1926, pp. 333-339.
New species of cotton from Colombia. and Heuador: Journ. Washington
Acad. Sci.; vol. 16, no. 20, Dec. 3, aoe pp. 545-552.

Cosgrove, George F.

Lumber exhibits in Smithsonian Institute: Hardwood Record, vol. 61, no.
8, Aug. 10, 1926, p. 28.

Coulter, John M., and J. N. Rose.

Revision of the genus Myrrhidendron: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17,
no. 9, May 4, 1927, pp. 213-215.

Coville, Frederick V. ’
Buttermilk as a fertilizer for blueberries: Science, vol. 64, no. 1647, July 23,
1926, pp. 94-96, fig. 1.
Olearia versus Shawia: Journ. mee Brit. & For., vol. 64, no. 763, July, 1926,
pp. 193, 194.

Cram, Eloise B.

Redescription of Taenia krabbei moniez: Journ. Parasitol., vol. 13, no. 1,
Sept. 1926, pp. 3441, figs. 1-8.

A parasitic disease of the esophagus of turkeys : a Amer. Vet., Chicago,
vol. 7, no. 10, Oct., 1926, pp. 46-48, figs. 1,

Nematodes of pathological significance found in ie important birds
in North America: Journ. Parasitol., vol. 13, no. 3, Mar., 1927, p. BR
Bird parasites of the nematode sub-orders Strongylata, OT Be ee and Spir-
uata: Bull: U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 140, June 30, 1927, pp. i-xvii, 1-465,

figs. 1-444. ‘ 5

Crampton, G..C.
The abdominal structures of ie duthontotond serhily Grylloblattidae and ine
relationships of the group: Pan-Pacific Ent., vol. 3, no. 8, Jan., 1927,
pp. 115-184, figs. 1-10, text figs. a—b.

Crawford, J. C. uate ‘ pt
North American bees of the genus .Panurginus; Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington,
vol. 28, no. 9, Dec., 1926, pp. 207-214, pls. 12, 13.

Curran, C. Howard.

Descriptions of a new Canadian Diptera : ohana Ent., vol, 58, no. 7, July, 1926,
,, pp. 170-175; no. 9, Sept., 1926., pp. 211-218. é
The species of the Tachinid genera related to Lydella, as represented in the
Canadian National Collection: Can. Ent.; vol. 59, no. 1, Jan. 1927,
pp. 11-24. ';
Four new species of Volucella (Syrphidae, Dipt:) : Bull. Bropkion Ent. Soc.,
vol. 22, no. 2, Apr., 1927, pp. 84-88.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 201

Cushman, Joseph A.
Sporadogenerina, a degenerate foraminiferal genus: Contr. Cushman Lab.
for Foram. Res., vol. 2, pt. 4, no. 37, Dee. 31, 1926, pp. 94, 95.
Foraminifera of the genus Hhrenbergina and its species, Proc. U. 8. Nat.
Mus., vol. 70, art. 16, no. 2665, Feb. 25, 1927, pp. 1-8, pls. 1, 2.
An outline of a reclassification of the Foraminifera. Contr. Cushman Lab.
for Foram. Res., vol. 3, pt. 1, Feb. 28, 1927, no. 39, pp. 1-105, pls. 1-21.

and Reginald W. Harris.

The significance of relative measurements in the study of. Foraminifera:
Contr. Cushman Lab. for Foram. Res., vol. 2, pt. 4, no. 36, Dec. 31, 1926,
pp. 92-94,

Notes on the genus Pleurostomella: Contr. Cushman Lab. for Foram. Res.,
vol. 3, pt. 2, no. 44, June 4, 1927, pp. 128-133.

Cushman, R. A.

New species and new forms of Ichneumonidae parasitic upon the gipsy-moth
parasite, Apanteles melanoscelus (Ratzeburg) : Journ. Agric. Res., vol. 34,
no. 5, Mar. 1, 1927, pp. 453-458. wm

The parasites of the pine tip moth, Rhyacionia frustrana (Comstock) : Journ.
Agric. Res., vol. 34, no..7, Apr. 1, 1927, pp. 615-622, fig. 1

Three new hymenopterous parasites of the pine tip moth Rhyacionia frustrana
(Comstock): Journ. Agric. Res., vol: 34, no. 8, Apr. 15, 1927, pp. 739-741.

Dall, William Healey.

Diagnoses of undescribed new species of mollusks in the collection of the
U. S. National Museum: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 19, no. 2668,
Web. 9, 1927, pp. 1-11;

Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States
by the United States Fisheries Steamer “ Albatross” in 1885 and 1886:
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 18, no. 2667, sive 20, 1927, pp. 1-134.

Davis, William T.

New cicadas from California and Arizona with notes on several other species:
Journ. New York Ent. Soec., vol. 34, no. 2, June 1926 (issued July 28,
1927), pp. 177-190, pls. 21-238; 5 figs.

Densmore, Frances.

Handbook of the collection of musical instruments in the United States
National Museum: Bull. U. §8. Nee Mus. no, 186, May 26, 1927, pp. i-iii,
1—164, pls. 1-49.

Dickey, Donald R., and A. J. Van Rossem.

A southern race of the fan-taiied panes Condor, vol. 28, no. 6, Nov. 15,
1926, pp. 270, 271.

Seven new birds from Salvador: Proc. Biol. Soe. Washington, vol. 40, Jan. 8,
1927, pp. 1-7.

The spotted rock wrens of Central America: Proc. Biol, Soc. Tashiieton.
vol. 40, Mar. 5, 1927, pp. 25-27.

Diels, L
Miscellanea sinensia I1:, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, vol. 9, no. 89, Nov. 15,
- 1926, pp. 1027-1033.
Dingle, Edward von 8.

‘Leach’s petrel (Oceanodroma leucorhoa) in South Carolina: Auk, vol. 44,
no. 2, Apr., 1927, p. 244.

202 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Dodds, G. 8.

Entomostraca from the Panama Canal Zone with description of one new
species: Occ. Papers Mus. Zool., Univ. Mich., no. 174, June 10, 1926, pp.
1-26, figs. 1-3.

Dozier, H. L.

A new Fulgorid from Porto Rico: Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 35, no. 1,
Mar., 1927, pp. 58, 54, figs. 1, 2.

Dunn, E. R.

The frogs of Jamaica: Proc. Boston Soe: Nat. Hist., vol. 38, no. 4, July,
1926. pp. 111-1380, pls. 1, 2.

Additional frogs from Cuba: Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, July
6, 1926, pp. 209-215.

Hyla phaeocrypta in Tennessee: Goveici no. 162, Jan. Anant 1997, p. 19.

The salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae: Smith College Fiftieth Anni-
versary Pubs., Northampton, Mass., 1926, pp. i-viii, 1-411, 2 pls., frontis-
Piece, figs. 1-86.

Dyar, Harrison G.

Three Psychodids from the Glacier National Park (Diptera, ay wiih
Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14, nos. 7-9, July—Sept., 1926, pp. 103-106, pl. 1

Some apparently new American Psychodids (Diptera, Daehn Ins.
Ins, Mens., vol. 14, nos. 7-9, July—Sept., 1926, pp. 107-111.

Notes on Panama mosquitoes (Diptera, Culicidae) : Ins. Ins. Mens., vol, 14,
nos. %-9, July—Sept., 1926, pp. 111-114,

New Lepidoptera from Mexico—I: Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14, nos. 7-9, July—
Sept., 1926, pp. 140-148.

A note in Psychodidae (Diptera): Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14, nos. 7-9, July—
Sept., 1926, pp. 148, 149.

Note on Corethrella appendiculata Grabham (Diptera, Culicidae): Ins. Ins.
Mens., vol. 14, nos. 7-9, July—Sept., 1926, p. 150.

Mosquito notes (Diptera, Culicidae) : Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14, nos. 10-12,
Oct.—_Dec., 1926, pp. 179-182.

New Lepidoptera from Mexico—II: Ins. Ins. BOE a 14, nos. 10-12, Oct.—
Dec., 1926, pp. 183-187.

Note on hanks nearticus Dyar: Ins, Ins. Mens: vol. 14, nos. 10-12, Oct.—Dec.,
1926, pp. 190, 191.

and Raymond C. Shannon.

The North American two-winged flies of the family Simuliidae: Proc. U. Ss.
Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 10, no. 2686, Feb. 25, 1927, pp. 1-54, pls. 1-7,

and Nunez Tovar.

Notes on biting flies from Venezuela (Diptera, Galedae Psychodidae) :
Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14, nos. 10-12, Oct.-Dec., 1926, pp. 152-155. _ Adden-
dum p. 190.

Epling, Carl Clawson.

Studies on South American Labiatae. Til. Synopsis of the genus Satureia:
Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard., vol. 14, no. 1, June 8, 1927, pp. 47-86.

Ewing, H. E.

Descriptions of new genera and species of Mallophaga, together with keys to
some related genera of Menoponidae and Philopteridae: Journ. Nees
ton Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 4, Feb. 19, 1927, pp. 86-96. "4

A new flea from Alaska: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, June 30, 1927,
pp. 89, 90.

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Fedde, F.
Neue Arten von Corydalis aus China. XI: Repert. Sp. Nov., vol. 22, nos.
13-21, June 15, 1926, pp. 218-222.
Neue Arten von Corydalis aus China. XII: Repert. Sp. Noy., vol. 23, nos.
12-17, Dec. 10, 1926, pp. 180-182, pl, 37.

Fernald, H. T.
The digger wasps of North America of the genus Podalonia (Psammo-
phila): Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 9, no. 2681, May 21, 1927,
pp. 1-42, pls. 1, 2. .

Fisher, W. K.

A new sea star of the genus Hvasterias. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 6,
no. 2682, Dec. 16, 1926, pp. 1-5, pls..1, 2.

Fisher, W. s.

A new Acmaeodera from Nevada infesting Purshia (Coleoptera Bupresti-
dae): Ent. News, vol. 37, Apr. 1926, pp. 114, 115.

Fauna sumatrensis: Buprestidae: Ent. Mitteil., vol. 15, nos. 3 4, July,
1926, pp. 282-295.

Fauna samarensis: Buprestidae: Philippine Journ. Sci. vol. 31, no. 2,
Oct., 1926, pp. 235-244.

New cactus beetles: Proc. Hunt. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, no. 9, Dec., 1926,
pp. 214-217.

A new cerambycid beetle from Colombia and Central America (Coleoptera) :
Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington, vol. 29, no. 1, Jan., 1927, pp. 23, 24.

A new genus and species of Coleoptera from a termite nest in Costa Rica
(Family Anobiidae): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 3, Mar.,
1927, pp. 49, 50, figs. 1-3.

Fauna sumatrensis: Cerambycidae: Suppl. Hnt., no. 15, Mar., 1927, pp.
80-86. ;

Foerste, August F.
Actinosiphonate, trochoceroid, and other cephalopods: Bull. Sci. Lab. Deni-
son Univ., vol. 21, Sept., 1926, pp. 285-388, pls. 32-53.
Forbes, Wm. T.

The genus Melinaea Hubner, with a description of a new species (Lepi-
doptera, Ithomiinae): Journ. New York Ent. Soc., ae 35, no. 1, Mar.,
1927, pp. 23-36, pls. 2, 3.

Foshag, William F.
The selenite caves of Naica, Mexico: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12, June,
- 1927, pp. 252-256, figs. 1, 2.
Collecting minerals in Mexico: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927,
pp. 51-56, figs. 55-59. yk
The Roebling mineralogical collection: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7,
1927, pp. 58, 59.

, Harry M. Berman, and Robert B. Gage.

The occurrence and properties of chlorophoenicite, a new arsenate from
Franklin, New Jersey: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 20, no. 2669,
Mar. 17, 1927, pp. 1-6, figs. 1, 2.

Fouts, Robert M.

Notes on Serphoidea with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera) : Proc.
Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, no. 8, Nov., 1926, pp. 167-179, figs. 1, 2.

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Fowler, Henry W., and Barton A. Bean.

Notes on fishes obtained in Sumatra, Java, and Tahiti. Proc. U. 8. Nat.
Mus., vol. 71, art. 10, no. 2682, May 4, 1927, pp. 1—15, figs. 1, 2.

Freeman, O. M.
Parthenium auriculatum in Burke County, North Carolina: Rhodora, vol.
28, no. 334, Oct., 1926, p. 208.

Gage, Robert B. (See under William F. Foshag.)

Gahan, A. B.
Some braconid and chalcid flies from Formosa, parasitic on aphids: Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 8, no. 2657, Jan. 7, 1927, pp. 1-7.

Four new chalcidoid parasites of the pine tip moth Rhyacicnia, frustrana
(Comstock) : Journ. Agric. Res., vol. 34, Mar. 15, 1927, pp. 545-548.
Miscellaneous descriptions of new parasitic Hyenoptera with some syno-

nymical notes: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 4, no. 2676, Apr. 18,
1927, pp. 1-39, pl. 1, figs. 1-3. iy h
Description of a new species of Mymaridae parasitic in psocid eggs (Hymen-
optera) ; Pan-Pacific Hnt., vol. 3, no. 4, Apr. 1927, pp. 180, 181.
A new species of Syntomaspis: Proc. Hnt. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 4, Apr.
1927, pp. 99, 100.

Garber, Paul E.
The 1926 National Air Races: U.S. Air Services Mag. vol 11, no. 10, Oct. 1926,
pp. 13-20, 4 illus.
Mail Air Tour, 1927: U. S. Air Service Mag., vol 12, no. 6, June, 1927, pp.
pile 52

Gardner, Julia.

The molluscan fauna of the Alum Bluff group of Florida: Prof. Paper, Uz Ss.
Geol. Surv., no. 142 A, B, C, D, 1926, pp. 1-184, pls. 1-28.

Gee, N. Gist.

Tentative list of Chinese decapod ee ay Lingnaam Agri, tere vol. 3, no.
2, pp. 156-166.

Gidley, James Williams.

Pisces: In Bruce Wade, Fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon Creek, Tenn.
Prof. Paper Me S. Geol. Surv., no. 137, 1926, p. 192, pl. 62, figs. 9, 10; pl.
71, figs. 1-5, 9-11.

An elephant ae in Florida: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927,
pp. 48-51, fig. 54.

Investigating evidence of early man in Florida: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., voi.
78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 168-174, figs. 170-176.

and Frederic 3B. Loomis.
Fossil man in Florida: Amer. Journ. Sci., vol. 12, Sept., 1926, pp. 254-264.

Gilmore, Charles W.

On a nearly complete lizard skull from the Oligocene of Nebraska: Univ.
Kansas Sci., Bull, vol. 16, no. 6, Mar., 1926, pp. 229-233, pl. 15.

Reptilia: In Bruce Wade, Fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon Creek,
Tenn., Prof. Paper U. 8. Geol. Surv., no. 137, 1926, pp. 191, 192, pl. 62,
figs. 5, 8; pl. 71, figs. 6, 8; pl. 72.

Collecting fossil footprints in the Grand Canyon, Ariz.: Smithsonian’ Misc.
Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 45-48, figs. 52, 53.

So eee oe

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Ginsburg, Isaac. (See under Samuel F. Hildebrand and Isaac Ginsburg.)

Goldman, E. A.

A new kangaroo mouse from Nevada: Proc. Biol. Poe Washington, vol. 39,
Dee. 27, 1926, pp. 127, 128.

Greene, C. T.

Deseriptions of larve and pup of two- See Fos tgrhine to the family
Leptidae: Proc. U. S. Nat. pee i Be 70, art. 2, no. ‘2651, } Nov. 12, 1926,
pp. 1-20; pls. 1-3. “ pathos

The larva and puparium of Oedematocera dampfi' Aldrich (Diptera) : Pree.
Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 1; Jan; 1927, pp..18, 19, figs. a—d.

Grinnell, Joseph.
A new race of Say phoebe, from northern Lower California : Condor, vol. 28,
no. 4, July 15, 1926, pp. 180, 181.
A eritical inspection of the gnatcatchers of the Californias: Proc. California
Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 15, no. 16, Sept, 15, 1926, pp. 493-500, 1 fig.

Hall, David G.

A new species of Sarcophaga (Diptera) from Ohio: Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14,
nos. 10-12, Oct.-Dec., 1926, pp. 176-178, pl: 2.

Hall, E. Raymond.

Systematic notes on the subspecies of Bassariscus astutus with description of
one new form from California: . Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 30,
no. 3, Sept. 8, 1926, pp. 39-50, pls. 2, 3.

Hall, Eliza Calvert (Mrs. Lida Calvert Obenchain).

A notable collection of textiles recently presented to the Smithsonian Institu-
tion: The House Beautiful, vol. lb no. 1, Jan., 1927, pp. 54, 55, 96, 98,
10 illus.

Hall, Maurice C.

Dirofilaria immitis vomited by a dog: Journ. Parasitol.,. vol. 13, no. 1, Sept.,
1926, p. 87. as

Los parasitos del ganado en la 26d de Panama. Memorandum informal
presentado al Doctor Louis Schapiro. 27 pp. Panama. :

Parasites and parasitic diseases of sheep: Farmers’ Bull. no. 13830, U.S.
Dept Agric., Washington, Jan., 1927, pp. 1-35, figs. 1-34. ,

Hookworm studies in Central America, 1926: Bull. Internat. Health Board,
N. Y., vol. 7, no. 4, Mar., 1927, pp. 262-266.

The parasite problems of the live stock industry in the United States and in
Central America: Journ. Amer. Vet. Med. Asso., te Mich., vol. 70,
n. s., vol. 23, no. 6, Mar., 1927, pp. 1-85, figs. 1-84.

Harper, Francis.
A new marsh wren from Alberta: Occas. Papers Boston Soc, Nat. Hist.,
vol. 5, Dec. 10, 1926, pp. 221, 222.
Harring, H. K., and Myers, F. J.
The rotifer fauna of Wisconsin.-III. A revision of the genera Lecane and
Monostyla: vol. 22, Trans. Wise. Acad. Sci., pp. 315-423, pls. 8-47.
Harris, Halbert M.

Distributional notes on some neotropical bugs of the family Nabidae, with
description of a new species: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 21,
no, 2647, Nov. 10, 1926, pp. 1-4:

206 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Harris, Reginald W. (See under Joseph A. Cushman.)
Hassall, Albert. (See under C. W. Stiles.)

Hebard, Morgan.

Studies in the Dermaptera and Orthoptera of Colombia, 4th paper: Trans.
Amer. Ent. Soc., vol. 52, no. 4, Dec., 1926, pp. 275-354, pls. 18-22.

Hellmayr, Charles E.

Catalogue of birds of the renee pt. V, Tyrannidae: Field Mus. Nat. Hist.,
Pub. 242, zool. ser., vol. 18, Apr. 11, 1927, pp. i-vi, 1-517.

Hildebrand, Samuel F., and Isaac Ginsburg.
Descriptions of two new species of fishes from Key West, Fla., with notes on
nine other species collected in the same locality. Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish.,
vol. 42, no. 1018, 1927, pp. 207-215, figs. 1-5.

Hitchcock, A. S.

Eragrostis hypnoides and H. reptans: Rhodora, vol. 28, no. 331, July, 1926,
pp. 113-115.

An international committee on botanical nomenclature: Science, vol. 64, no.
1656, Sept. 24, 1926, pp. 290, 291.

Two new grasses, Psammochloa mongolica from Mongolia and Orthachne
-breviseta from Chile: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 6, Mar.
19, 1927, pp. 140-142, figs. 1, 2.

How the taxonomists may utilize the International Committee on Nomencla-
ture: Science, vol. 65, no. 1687, Apr. 29, 1927, pp. 412-415.

The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia: Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb., vol. 24,
pt. 8, May 4, 1927, pp. 291-556.

Two. new grasses from South America: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17,
no. 9, May 4, 1927, pp. 215-217, figs. 1, 2.

New species of grasses from Central America: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 79-88.

Hoffman, William A, k
Notes on Ceratopogoninae (Diptera): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 28,
no. 7, Oct., 1926; pp. 156-159, figs. a—d.

Holt, Ernest G.
On a Guatemalan specimen of Progne sinaloae Nelson: Auk, vol. 48, no. 4,
Oct., 1926, pp. 550, 551. -

Hough, Walter.
Fire as an agent in human culture: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 139, Dee. 30, 1926,
pp. i-xiv, 1-270, pls. 1-41, figs. 1-4.
A new type of stone knife: Amer. Anthrop., vol. 29, no. 2, Apr.—June, 1927,
pp. 296-298, fig. 1.
Report on the Department of Anthropology: eeuual Report, U. S. Nat. ids,
1926, Mar. 11, 1927, pp. 39-48.

Howell, VASE
Voles of the genus Phenacomys, I. Revision of the genus Phenacomys; II.
Life history of the red tree mouse (Phenacomys longicaudus) : North
American Fauna, no. 48, Oct. 12, 1926, pp. i-iv, 1-66, pls. 1-7, figs. ae
Anatomy of the wood rat (comparative anatomy of the subgenera of the
American wood rat genus Neotoma) : Monog. Amer. Soc. Mamm., no. 1,
Oct. 29, 1926, pp. 1-225, pls. 1-3, figs. 1-37.

REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1927 207

Howell, A. B.—Continued. ;

Three new mammals from China: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 39, Dec.
27, 1926, pp. 187-139.

A new name for Felis (Catopuma) melli Matschie, and note on the nomen-
clature of Felis pardus centralis Loénnberg: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 39, Dec. 27, 1926, p. 143.

On the faunal position of the Pacific coast of the United States: Heology,
vol. 8, no. 1, Jan., 1927, pp. 18-26.

Five new Chinese squirrels: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 4,
Feb. 19, 1927, pp. 80-84.

Two new Chinese rats: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40, Mar. 5, 1927,
pp. 43-45.

Contribution to the anatomy of the Chinese finless porpoise Neomeris phocae-
noides: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 18, no. 2662, Mar. 11, 1927,
pp. 1-48, pl. 1, figs. 1-14.

Visit to a California whaling station: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 78,
no. 7, Apr. 21, 1927, pp. 71-79, figs. 78-87.

Hrdli¢ka, Ales.

An appeal to the German colleagues in physical eaeninileioe and anatomy:
Anthrop. Anz., vol. 3, 1926, p. 119.

The Krapina Man: Mem. Vol. to K. Gorjanovic-Kramberger, 1926 (Zagreb,
Jugoslavia), pp. 510, 511.

The peopling of the earth: Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. 65, no. 3, 1926,
pp. 150-156.

Note on the Zambesi gravels: in Neville Jones’s, The Stone Age in Rhodesia,
1926 (Oxford Univ. Press, London), pp. 114-116.

Anthropology and medicine: Amer. Journ. Phys. SELNEOR vol. 10, no. 1,
Jan.—Mar., 1927, pp. 1-9.

Variation in sex characters: Science, Feb. 4, 1927, p. 141.

Catalogue of human crania in the United States National Museum collections:
Proce. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 5, no. 2631, May 4, 1927, pp. 1-127.
Anthropological work in Alaska: Smithsonian Mise. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7,

1927, pp. 137-158, figs. 143-157.
Anthropology of the American negro: Amer. Journ. Phys. Anthrop., vol. 10,
no. 2, Apr._June, 1927, pp. 205-235.

Hubbard, J. W. (See under O. F. Cook.)

Hubbs, Carl L.

A check-list of the fishes of the Great Lakes and tributary waters, with
nomenclatorial notes and analytical keys. Univ. of Mich. Mus. Zool.
Mise. Pub. no. 15, July 7, 1926, pp. 1-77, pls. 1-4.

Huber, L. L.

A taxonomie and. ecological review of the North American chalcid-flies of the
genus Callimome: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 14, no. 2663, May
25, 1927, pp. 1-114, pls. 1-4.

Huene, F. R. von.

Notes on the age of the continental Triassic beds in North America with
remarks on some fossil vertebrates: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 18,
no. 2644, Oct. 15, 1926, pp. 1-10, figs. 1-8.

Johnston, Ivan M.

Studies in the Boraginaceae.—VI. A revision of the South American Bora-
ginoideae: Contr. Gray Herb., no. 78, Mar. 15, 1927, pp. 1-118.

208 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS |

Judd, Neil M. ; KODE if
Archeological observations north of the Rio Colorado: Bull. | Bur. Amer.
Ethnol., no. $2, 1926, pp. i-ix, 1-171, pls. 1-61, figs. 1—46.
Archeologicai investigations in Chaco Canyon, N. Mex.: Smithsonian Mise.
Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 158-168, figs. gia eee ne

Kellogg, Remington.
Kentriodon pernix, a Miocene porpoise from GLa Proce. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
vol. 69, art. 19, no. 2645, Feb. 5, 1927, pp. 1-55, pls. 1-14, figs. 1-20.
Kemp, S. .

Notes on ‘erustacea decapoda in the Indian Museum. XVII. On various
Caridea; Ree. Ind. Mus. vol. 2%, pt. 4, Calcutta, Aug., 1925, pp. 249-343,
figs. 1-24.
Kendall, William Converse.
The Smelts: Bull. U.S. Bur. seas vol. 42, no. 1015, 1927, pp. 217-875, figs.
1-25.
Kennard, Frederic Hedge.
The specific status of the greater ‘snow goose: Proce. New England Zool. Club,
vol. 9, Feb. 16, 1927, pp. 85-93.
Killip, Ellsworth P.
.. Tetrastylis, a genus of Passifloraceae: Journ. Washington Acad, Sci., vol. 16,
no, 13, July 19, 1926, pp. 365-369.
New plants mainly from western South America: Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 16, no. 21, Dec. 18, 1926, pp. 565-573.
Passifloraceae. In I. Urban, Plantae Haitienses novae vel rariores IV. a cl.
H. L. Ekman 1924-26 lectae: Arkiv for Botanik, yol. 21 A, no. 5, 1927, pp.
1-97.
New names for tropical Oe ccan Spas le Proc. Biol, Soc. Washington, vol.
40, Mar. 5, 1927, p, 29.
See also under ,H. Pittier,
Kirk, Edwin.

Cymbidium, a new genus of Silurian pentameroid brachiopods from Alaska:
Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69,” art. 23, no. 2649, Nov. 23, 1926, pp. 1-5,
pl. 1.

Tanaodon, a new molluscan genus from the Middle Devons cok Chinas
Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 12, no. 2661, Feb. 25, 1927, pp. eo pl. 1.

Knight, Harry -H.
Notes on species of Polymerus with descriptions of four new species and two

new varieties (Hemiptera, Miridae) : Can. Ent., vol. 58, no. 7%, cee 1926, ©

pp. 164-168.
A new Semium from Arizona and ‘Colorado (Hemiptera, Miridae): Bull.
Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 22; no. 1, Feb., 1927, pp. 26, 27.
Knowlton, Frank Hall.
Plants of the past, a popular account of fossil plants. Princeton, 1927, pp.
i-xix, 1-275, 90 illustrations.
Knuth, R.

Dioscoreaceae novae. Il: Repert. Sp. Nov., a 22, nos. 22 25, July 15, 1926,
pp. 344-347.

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Knuth, R.—Continued.
Oxalidacearum species novae Americanae: Repert. Sp. Noy., vol. 238, nos.
4-11, Oct. 25, 1926, pp. 188-144.
Oxalidacearum species novae Americanae. II: Repert. Sp. Nov., vol. 23, nos.
18-25, Mar. 20, 1927, pp. 275-282.

Komp, W. H. W.

Observations on Anopheles walkeri and Anopheles atropos (Diptera, Culi-
cidae) : Ins. Ins. Mens., vol. 14, nos. 10-12, Oct—Dec., 1926, pp. 168-176.

Krieger, Herbert W.

Some aspects of Northwest Coast Indian art: Sci. Monthly, vol. 23, Sept.
1926, pp. 210-219, 6 illustrations.

Material culture of the people of southeastern Panama, based on specimens
in the United States National Museum: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 134,
Noy. 4, 1926, pp. i-v, 1-141, pls. 1-37.

The collection of primitive weapons and armor of the Philippine Islands in
the United States National Museum: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 137, Dec.
1, 1926, pp. i-iii, 1-128, pls. 1-21, frontispiece.

Areheological and ethnological studies in southeast Alaska: Smithsonian

Mise. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927; pp. 174-187, figs. 177-184.

Archeological investigations in the Columbia River valley: Smithsonian
Mise. Collis., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 187-200, figs. 185-197.

Pseudo-culture diffusion on the Northwest coast: Amer, Anthrop., vol. 28,
no. 2, Apr.—_June, 1926, pp. 445-447.

Kuylen, Henry. (See under Samuel J. Record.)
Laidlaw, F. F.

Description of a new dragon fly from Lower Siam belonging to the genus
Urothemis: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 17, no. 2666, Feb. 25, 1927,
pp. 1-8, pl. 1.
Leonard, E. C.
Notes on the genus Sanchezia: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16, no; 18,
Nov. 38, 1926, pp. 484492.
Fourteen new species of plants from Hispaniola: Journ, Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 17, no. 3, Feb. 3, 1927, pp. 65-78, figs. 1, 2.
The North American species of Scutellaria: Contr. U. 8. Nat. Herb., vol. 22,
part 10, Feb. 9, 1927, pp. 703-748.
(See also under J. N. Rose.)
Ligon, J. Stokley.
Habits of the spotted owl (Syrnium occidentale) : Auk, vol. 45, no..4, Oct.,
1926, pp. 421-429, pls, 19-21. |
Limpricht, W.
Nachtriige zu Pedicularis: Repert. Sp. Nov., vol. 23, nos. 18-25, Mar. 20,
1927, pp. 333-339.
Lincoln, Frederick C.
The migration of the cackling goose: Condor, vol. 28, no. 4, July 15, 1926,
pp. 153-157, figs. 39-41.
Loomis, Frederic B. (See under James Williams Gidley.)

MacCallum, G. A.

Nematode eggs from the gill region of a shark, Carcharhinus milberti: Proe,
U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 6, no. 2655, Oct. 15, 1926, pp. 1, 2, fig. 1

210 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Malloch, J. R.
A new species of the genus ania R.-D. from North America Cbintees:
Anthomyiidae) ; Ent. News, vol. 38, no. 6, June, 1927, p. 176, figs. 1, 2.
Mann, W. M.
Some new neotropical ants: Psyche, vol. 33, nos. 4-5, Aug.—Oct., 1926, pp. 97—
107, fig. 1.
Three new Termitophilous beetles from British Guiana: Proc, Ent. Soe.
Washington. vol. 28, no. 7, Oct., 1926, pp. 151-155, figs. 1, 2.
Marsh, C. Dwight.
On a collection of copepoda from Florida, with a description of Diaptomus
floridanus, new species: Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 10, no. 2659,
Dec. 16, 1926, pp. 1-4, figs. 1-6.
Marshall, William B.
New land and fresh-water mollusks from Central and South America: Proc.
U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 12, no. 2638, Nov. 6, 1926, pp. 1-12, pls.
1-3.
A new genus and two new species of South American fresh-water mussels:
Proe. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 6, no. 2678, Apr. 9, 1927, pp. 1-4,
pls. 1, 2.
McAtee, W. L.

Notes on neotropical Hupteryginae with a key to the varieties of Alebra albo-
striella (Homoptera: Jassidae) : Journ. New York Ent. Soc., vol. 34, no.
2, June, 1926 (issued July 28, 1927), pp. 141-174, pls. 19, 20.
Cicadidae of the vicinity of Washington, D. C.: Proc. Ent. Soe. Ware
vol. 29, no. 38, Mar., 1927, pp. 70-72.
McDunnough, J.
A new Haploptilia (Coleophora) from sweet fern (Lepidoptera) : Can. Ent.,
vol. 58, no. 9, Sept., 1926, p. 218.
McGill, Frederick A.
Optometry exhibit at Smithsonian Institute: The Optical J ournal and Review
of Optometry, vol 59, no. 12, Mar. 24, 1927, pp. 31, 32, 1 illus.
McKee, Oliver, jr.
Commemorative stamps as teachers of ee Boston Evening Transcript,
July 10, 1926, Part 5, p. 2, 4 illus. z
McLellan, M. E. Ee Renee
Notes on birds of Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico, in the fall of 1925: Proc.
California Acad. Sci., ser. 4, vol. 16, no. 1, Jan. 31, 1927, pp. 1-51, figs. 1-3.
McNeill, Frank A.
Studies in Australian carcinology No. 2: Rec. Australian Mus. vol. 15, no. 1,
Apr. 15, 1926, pp. 100-181, pls. 9, 10, figs. 1-4.
Merriam, C. Hart.
The glacier bear: The Field (London), vol. 147, no. 3825, Apr. 15, 1926, p. 658.

Merrill, E. D.

New Chinese ligneous plants: Journ. Arn. Arb., vol. 8, no. 1, Jan., 1927, pp.
3-22,

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Merrill, George P.
' The present condition of knowledge on the composition of meteorites: Proc.
Amer. Philos. Soc., vol. 65, no. 2, 1926, pp. 119-130.
A stony meteorite from Forksville, Mecklenburg County, Va.: Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 21, no. 2670, Feb. 28, 1927, pp. 1-4, pls. 1-3.
Visits to the serpentine district of southern England and the gem-cutting town
of Oberstein, Germany: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7, 1927,
pp. 21-238, figs. 27-34.
Report on the department of geology: Annual Report U. S. Nat. Mus., 1926,
Mar. 11, 1927, pp. 81-97.

Miller, Gerrit S., jr.
Bibliography of Ned Hollister, 1892-1925: Rep. Smithsonian Inst. for 1925,
(Nov. 29, 1926), pp. 609-619.
Biological field-work in Florida: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7,
Apr. 21, 1927, pp. 67-71, figs. 72-77.
Revised determinations of some tertiary mammals from Mongolia: Palaeon-
tologia Sinica, series C., vol. 5, Fasc. 2, Apr., 1927, pp. 5-20.

Miller, W. deW. (See under A. Wetmore.)

Mitman, Carl W.
Buck and the Waterbury watch: Jewelers’ Circular, vol. 93, no. 6, Sept. 8,
1926, pp. 12-125, 6 illus. !
Several American stem wind and set inventions: Jewelers’ Circular, vol.
94, no. 1, Feb. 2, 1927, pp. 381-385, 3 illus.
Watchmakers as inventors: Jewelers’ Circular, vol. 94, no. 14, May 4, 1927,
pp. 187-141, 4 illus.

Morrill, A. W.
Description of a new cotton infesting species of Bucculatrix (Lepidoptera) :
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 4, Apr., 1927, pp. 94-97, figs. 1,
2, pl. 4.
Morrison, Harold.
Descriptions of new genera and species belonging to the Coccid family Marga-
rodidae: Proc. Biol. Soe. Washington, vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 99-110.
Mousley, Henry.
Thanaos juvenalis Fabr. (Lepidoptera) : Can. Ent., vol. 58, no. 12, Dec., 1926,
pp. 293-296, figs. 1-3.
Muesebeck, C. F. W.
Descriptions of new reared parasitic Hymenoptera and some notes on syn-
onymy: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 7, no. 2633, Oct. 15, 1926,
pp. 1-18.
A revision of the parasitic wasps of the subfamily Braconinae occurring in
America north of Mexico: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 16, no.
2642, Mar. 17, 1927, pp. 1-73, pls. 1, 2.

Myers, F. J. (See under H. K. Harring.)

Needham, James G.
A Baetine mayfly nymph with tusked mandibles: Can. Ent., vol. 59, no. 2, Feb.,
1927, pp. 4447, figs. A-I.
Nelson, E. W.

Two new birds from Mexico: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 39, Aug. 25,
1926, pp. 105-107.

212 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Wutting, Charles C.
Report on the Hydreida collected by the United States Fisheries sien
“Aibatross”’ in the Philippine region, 19807-1910: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus.,
no. 100, vol. 6, pt. 3, Apr. 27, 1927, pp. 195-242, pls. 4047.
Oberholser, Harry C.
Description of a new Oriolus from the Nicobar islands: Proc. Biol. Soe. Wash-
ington, vol. 39, July 30, 1926, pp. 31, 32.
Descriptions of nineteen new Hast Indian passerine birds: Journ. Washington
Acad. Sci., vol. 16, no. 19, Nov. 18, 1926, pp. 515-522.
Orleman, M. B. (See under C. W. Stiles.)

Osborn, Herbert.
Faunistic and ecologic notes on Cuban Homoptera; Ann. Mnt. Soe. bane ee
vol. 19, no. 8, Sept., 1926, pp. 335-364, pls. 30, 31.
Palache, Charles, and E. V. Shannon.

Holdenite, a new arsenate of manganese and zinc, from Franklin, New Jersey:
Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12, Apr,, 1927,,pp. 144-148, fig. 1

Peters, James L.

A review of the races of Elaenia martinica (Linné) : Occas. Papers Boston
Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 5, June 7, 1926, pp. 197-202. (Omitted from last
yéar.)

The North American races of Faleo columbarius: Bull. Hssex Co. Orn. Clu,
for 1926, May 9, 1927, pp. 20-26.

Pickens, A. L.
Intermediate between Bufo fowleri and Bufo americanus: Copeia, No. 162,
Jan.-Mar. 1927, p. 25.
Pittier, H. :
The Leeythidaceae of Central America: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., vol. 26,
pt. 1, May 2, 1927, pp. 1-14, pls. 1-12.
Six new Convolvulaceae from Venezuela: Journ. Washington Acad. Sei., vol.
17, no. 11, June 4, 1927, pp. 284-288.
and H. P. Killip.
Venezuelan species of Valeriana, section Porteria: Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 16, no. 15, Sept. 19, 1926, pp. 422-428, figs. 1-8.
Pohl, Erwin R.
Geological field work in New York and Ontario:: Smithsonian Misc. Colls.
vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 40-44, figs. 46-51.
Porter, Bennet A.
American wasps of the genus Sceliphron Klug: Proe. U. 8S, Nat. Mus., yol. 70,
art. J, no. 2650, Dec. 1, 1926, pp. 1—22, pis. 1-4.
Price, Emmett W.

Aneylostoma braziliense de Faria, 1910, a parasite of the dog in ihe United
States: Journ. Amer. Vet. Med. Asso., Detroit, Mich., vol. 69, n. s., vol.
22, no. 4, July, 1926, pp. 490-492, fig. 1

A note on Oncicola canis (Kaupp), an acanthocephali d parasite of the dog:
Journ. Amer. Vet. Med. Asso., Detroit, Mich., vol. 69, n. s., vol. 22, no. 6,
Sept., 1926, pp. 704-710, figs. 1-6... : 0

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Rathbun, Mary J.

Crustacea: In Bruce Wade, Fauna of the Ripley Foumations on Coon Creek,
Tennessee, Prof. Paper U. 8S. Geol., Sury., no, 137, 1926, pp. 184-191, pls.
63-70.

The fossil stalk-eyed Crustacea of the Pacific Slope of North America: Bull.
U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 138; Dee: 30, 1926, pp. i-vii, 1-155, pls. 1-39, figs. 1-6.

Ravenel, W. deC. .

Department of Arts and Industries and Division of History: Annual Report,

U. S.-Nat. Mus., 1926, Mar, 11, 1927, pp. 99-121.
Record, Samuel J.
Trees of Honduras: Trop. Woods, no. 10, June fe 1927, Je: 10-47.

and Henry Kuylen.
Trees of the lower Rio Motagua Valley, Guatemale: Tropical Woods, no. 7,
Sept. 1, 1926, pp. 10-29. ~ A

Reeside, John B., jr.

A comparison of the genera Metaplacenticeras Spath and Placenticeras Meek :
Prof. Paper U. S. Geol. Surv., no. 147—A, 1926, pp. 1-5, pls. 1, 2.

Resser, Charles E.

Geological field work in the Rocky Mountains: Smithsonian Misc. Colls.,
vol. 78, no. 7, 1927, pp. 86-89, figs. 41-45.

Richmond, Charles W.

Note on Myiothera loricata S. Miiller: Proc. Biol, Soc. Washington, vol. 39,
Dec. 27, 1926, p. 141.

On the name Phalacrocorax vigua: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 39,
Dec. 27, 1926, p. 142.

Generic names applied te birds during the years 1916 to 1922, inclusive, with
additions to Waterhouse’s “Index Generum Avium’: Prec. U. 8. Nat.
Mus., vol. 70, art. 15, no. 2664, Apr. 6, 1927, pp. 1-44:

Two preoccupied generic names for birds: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol.
40, June 30, 1927, p. 97.

Ridgway, Robert.

As to the type of Falco peregrinus pealei: Condor, vol. 28, no. 5, Sept. 21,
1926, p. 240.

Riley, J. H.

A new genus and species of ground warbler from the province of Szechwan,
China: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 39, July 30, 1926, pp. 55, 56.

A new species of Liocichla from the mountains of Szechwan, China: Proc.
Biol. Soe. Washington, vol: 39; July 30, 1926, pp. 57, 58.

A collection of birds from the provinces of Yunnan and Szechwan, China,
made for the National Geographic Society by Dr. Joseph F. Rock: Proc.
U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 5, no. 2654, Oct. 23, 1926, pp. 1-70.

Note on the genus Irena Horsfield: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 40,
Mar. 5, 1927, pp. 28, 24.

Description of a new owl from susie Mana Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 93, 94.

Spolia Mentawiensia—three new birds from the Mentawi islands: Proc. Biol.
Soc. Washington, vol. 40, June 30, 1927, pp. 95, 96.

214 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Robinson, B. L.
Records preliminary to a general treatment of the Hupatorieae—-VI: Contr.
Gray Herb., no. 77, Sept. 30, 1926, pp. 1-62.
Rohwer, S. A.
Description of a new Braconid parasite of Artona editemeunveh (Hymenoptera) :
Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 28, no. 8, Nov., 1926, pp. 188, 189.
A new Tiphia from Korea (Hymenoptera) : Proc. Ent. Soc, Washington, vol.
29, no. 1, Jan., 1927, pp. 19, 20. : ;
Some scoliid wasps from tropical America: Journ. VSR ete Acad. Sci.,
vol. 17, no. 6, Mar. 19, 1927, pp. 150-155.
Two Huropean sawflies of the genus Emphytina found in ne United States
(Hymenoptera) : Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 29, no. 8, Mar., 1927,
pp. 66, 67.
On the synonymy of a leaf mining sawfly. Proc. Ent. Soe. Washington, vol. 29,
no. 3, Mar., 1927, pp. 67-69.
Rose, J. N.
Professor D. Carlos Spegazzini, 1858-1926: Journ. N. Y. Bot. Gard., vol. 28,
no, 329, May, 1927, pp. 118, 119.
(See also under N. L. Britton and J. M. Coulter.)

and E. C. Leonard.

Some Mimosaceae from Hispaniola: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17,
no. 10, May 19, 1927, pp. 254-259.

and Paul C. Standley.

The Central American species of Hydrocotyle: Journ. Washington Acad
Sci., vol. 17, no. 8, Apr. 19, 1927, pp. 194-197.

Rothschild, Lord.

On the avifauna of Yunnan, with critical notes: Nov. Zool., vol. 33, no. 3,
Dee. 8, 1926, pp. 189-343.

Rusby, H. H.

Additions to the genus Munnozia R. & P.: Bull, Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 54,
no. 4, Apr., 1927, pp. 311-320.

Rydberg, Per Axel.

Notes on Fabaceae-IX: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 54, no. 4, Apr, 1927,
pp. 321-336.

Schaeffer, Charles.

New species of Boloschesis (=Chlamys) with notes on nore species (Coleop-
tera; Chrysomelidae; Fulcidacinae): Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol.
28, no. 8, Nov., 1926, pp. 181-187.
Schaus, William.
A new Satyrid from China (Lepidoptera) : Proc. Ent. Soc. lier vol.
28, no. 9, Dec., 1926, p. 218.
New species of Lepidoptera from South America: Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington,
vol, 29, no. 4, April, 1927, pp. 73-82.
Schindler, A. K.

Desmodii generumque affinium species et combinationes novae. II: Repert.
Sp. Nov., vol. 22, nos. 18-21, June 15, 1926, pp. 250-288, ;

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Schmitt, Waldo L.

Report on the crustacea macrura (Families Peneidae, Campylonotidae and
Pandalidae) obtained by the F. I. S. “Endeavour” in Australian Seas,
with notes on the species of “ Penaeus” described by Haswell and con-
tained, in part, in the collections of the Macleay Museum, at the Uni-
versity of Sydney: Biolog. Results of the Fishing Experiments carried
on by the F. I. S. “ Endeavour ” 1909-14, vol. 5, pt. 6, Commonwealth of
Australia, Dept. Trade and Customs, Fisheries, Sydney, June 15, 1926,
pp. 311-381, pls. 57-68.

Schulz, 0. E.
Cruciferae-Draba et Erophila: In A. Engler, Das Pflanzenreich, Heft 89
(IV. 105), 1927, pp. 1-396, figs. 1-85.

Schwartz, Benjamin.

A new parasitic nematode from the stomach of an unknown member of the
Cervidae: Journ. Parasitol., vol. 13, no. 1, Sept., 1926, pp. 25-28, pl. 1,
figs. 1-5.

Occurrence of Spirocerca sanguinolenta in a dog in North Dakota: Journ.
Parasitol., vol. 13, no. 1, Sept., 1926, p. 83.

Occurrence of the nodular worm Borgelatia diducta in swine in Mauke,
‘Cook Island South Seas: Journ. Parasitol., vol. 18, no. 1, Sept., 1926,
p. 83.

Correspondence between the description of Oesophagostomum dentatum by
Railleet, Henry and Bauche (1919) and that of O. longicaudum Goodey
1925: Journ. Parasitol., vol. 18, no. 1, Sept., 1926, p. 84.

Specific identity of whipworms from swine: Journ. Agric. Res., Washington,
vol. 33, no. 4, Aug. 15, 1926, pp. 311-316, figs. 1, 2.

A possible new source of infection of man with Trichuris. With a considera-
tion of the question of physiological varieties among helminths: Arch. f.
Schiffs- u. Tropen-Hysg., Leipz., vol. 30, no. 9, Sept. 13, 1926, pp. 544-547.

Nematodes belonging to the genus Setaria parasitic in the eyes of horses:
North Amer. Vet., Chicago, vol. 8, no. 2, Feb., 1927, pp. 24-27, figs. 1, 2.

A new parasitic nematode from an unknown species of bat: Proe. U. S. Nat.
Mus., vol. 71, art. 5, no. 2677, Apr. 6, 1927, pp. 1-4, figs. 1-4.

Shannon, Earl V.
The serpentine locality cf Montville, New Jersey: Amer. Mineralogist, vol. 12,
Feb., 1927 pp. 53-55.
The Canfield mineralogical collection: Smithsonian Mise. Colls., vol. 78, no. 7,
1927, pp. 57, 58, figs. 60, 61.
(See also under Charles Palache.)

Shannon, Raymond C.
The Chrysotoxine syrphid-flies: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 11, no. 2637,
Noy. 26, 1926, pp. 1-20.
Review of the American Xylotine syrphid-flies: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69,
art. 9, no. 2635, Dec. 1, 1926, pp. 1-52.
On the characteristics of the occiput of the Diptera: Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash-
ington, vol. 29, no. 2, Feb., 1927, pp. 47, 48.
A review of the South American two-winged flies of the family Syrphidae:
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 70, art. 9, no. 2658, Apr. 29, 1927, pp. 1-34, pl. 1.
(See also under Harrison G. Dyar.)

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Shoemaker, Clarence R. . ee

“Results of the Hudson Bay Expedition in 1920 V. Report on the marine am-
phipods collected in Hudson and James Bays by Frits Johansen in the
summer of 1920: Contr. Can. Biol. & Fish., vol. 3, no. 1, 1926, pp. 3-11.

Skutch, Alexander F.
On the habits and ecology of the tube-building amphipod Amphithoé rubri-
eata Montagu : Heol., vol. 7, no. 4, Oct., 1926, pp. 481-502, figs. 1, 2.
Smith, Ralph Clifton. ,

The printing of fine books: Inland Printer, vol. 78, no. 1, Oct. 1926, p. 64,

11 illus.
Paper covered books in France: International Bookbinder, vol. 27, no. 10,
Oct. 1926, pp. 509-511, 4 illus.

How to collect prints: Museum Graphic, vol. 1, no. 5, May 1927, pp. 179-183,

1 illus.

Snyder, L. L.
The birds of Wrangell Island, with special reference to the Crawford col-
lection of 1922: Univ. Toronto Studies, Biol. Ser., no. 28, 1926, pp. 1-20.

Snyder, Thomas E.
The biology of the termite castes: Quart. Review Biol., vol. 1, no. 4, Oct.,
1926, pp. 522-552, 15 figs.
Changes of names of termites (Isoptera). General notes: Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, vol. 39, Dec. 27, 1926, p. 148.

Speer, Alma Jane,
Compendium of the parasites of mosquitoes (Culicidae): Hyg. Lab. Bull,
no. 146, 1927, pp. 1-36.

Springer, Frank.
American Silurian crinoids. Washington, 1926, pp. i-iv, 1-239, pls. 1-33,
figs. 1-8, 2 portraits. f

Standley, Paul C.

Parrafos de una carte de un profesor norteamericano sobre cosas de Centro
América: Pareceres (San Salvador), vol. 1, no. 2, July 15, 1926, p. 3..

New species of trees collected in Guatemala and British Honduras by
Samuel J. Record: Trop. Woods, no. 7, Sept. 1,.1926, pp. 4-9.

The genus Calatola: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16, no. 15, Sept. 19,
1926, pp. 413-418, fig. 1.

The flora of Venezuela: Bull. Pan Amer. Union, vol. 60, no. 10, Oct. 1, 1926,_
pp. 978-990, illus.

(Descriptions of Torrubia leonis, Rondeletia myrtacea, R. ingrata, R. gaul-

therioides, Chimarrhis macrocarpa.) In N. L. Britton, Studies of West -

Indian plants—XIII: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, vol. 58, no. 7, Oct., 1926,
pp. 457-471.

The Costa Rican species of Ilex.: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16, no. 18,
Noy. 3, 1926, pp. 481-484.

Trees and shrubs of Mexico (Bignoniaceae-Asteraceae) : Contr. U. S. Nat.
Herb., vol. 23, part 5, Noy. 15, 1926, pp. 18138-1721.

Three new species of Central American trees: Trop. Woods, no. 8, Dee..1,
1926, pp. 46.

A new species of Gymnanthes from Texas: Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
vol. 39, Dec. 27, 1926, p. 135.

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Standley, Paul C.—Continued.

New plants from Central America—VI: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol.
17, no. 1, Jan. 3, 1927, pp. 7-16.

Primula Parryi: Gard. Chron., vol. 81, no. 2089, Jan. 8, 1927, p. 27, fig. 16.

Plants of Glacier National Park: pp. i-iv, 1-110, colored pls. 1-5, figs. 1-150.
U. S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Washington, D. C.,
Jan. 25, 1927.

The ferns of Barro Colorado Island—I: Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 16, no. 4,
Feb., 1927, pp. 112-120.

A counterfeit collection of Mexican plants falsely attributed to Brother G.
Arséne: Science, vol. 65, no. 1675, Feb. 4, 1927, pp. 130-183. Reprinted,
in part, in Journ. Bot. Brit. & For., vol. 65, no. 772, Apr., 1927, pp.
118-121.

Alfaroa, a new genus of trees of the family Juglandaceae from Costa Rica:
Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 17, no. 4, Feb. 19, 1927, pp. 77-79.

Poisonous trees of Central America: Trop. Woods, no. 9, Mar. 1, 1927, pp.
3-7.

Three new species of plants collected in British Honduras by Harry W.
Winzerling : Trop. Woods, no. 9, Mar. 1, 1927, pp. 10-12.

Calderonia salvadorensis found in British Honduras: Trop. Woods, no. 9,
Mar. 1, 1927, p. 12.

Ferns of Barro Colorado Island-II: Amer. Fern Journ., vol. 17, no. 1, Mar..
1927, pp. 1-8.

New plants from Central America.-VII: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol.
17, no. 7, Apr. 4, 1927, pp. 159-171.

New plants from Central America.-VIII: Journ. Washintgon Acad. Sci.,
vol. 17, no. 10, May 19, 1927, pp. 245-254.

The flora of Barro Colorado Island, Panama: Smithsonian Misc. Colls., vol.

78, no. 8, May 20, 1927, pp. 1-82.

(Descriptions of Zanthoxylum ferrisiae, Esenbeckia nesiotica, Astrocasia
peltata, Acalypha verbenacea, Celaenodendron mexicanum, Matayba
spondioides.) In Roxana §S. Ferris, Preliminary report on the flora of
the Tres Marias Islands: Contr. Dudley Herb., vol. 1, no. 2, May 21,
1927, pp. 63-81, pls. 1-4.

New or otherwise interesting trees and shrubs collected in Guatemala and
Honduras in 1927 by Samuel J. Record and Henry Kuylen: Trop. Woods,
no. 10, June 1, 1927, pp. 4-7.

New trees collected in Panama by George P. Cooper and George M. Slater;
Trop. Woods, no. 10, June 1, 1927, pp. 47-51.

(Letter addressed to Samuel J. Record) : Unifruitco, vol. 2, no. 11, June, 1927,
p. 636.

New plants from Central America.-IX: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol.
17, no. 12, June 19, 1927, pp. 309-317.

(See also under J. N. Rose.)

Stejneger, Leonhard.

Two new tailless batrachians from western China: Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash-
ington, vol. 39, July 30, 1926, pp. 53, 54.

A new toad from China: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 16, Oct. 4, 1926,
p. 446,

Identity of Hallowell’s snake genera Megalops and Aepidea: Proc. U. S. Nat.
Mus., vol. 69, art. 17, no. 2648, Oct. 16, 1926, pp. 1-3.

Report on the Department of Biology: Annual Report, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1926,
Mar. 11, 1927, pp. 49-80.

A new genus and species of frog from Tibet: Journ. Washington Acad. Sci.,
vol, 17, no. 12, June 19, 1927, pp. 317-319.

218 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Stiles, C. W.

The names Simia, S. satyrus, and Pithecus: Science, vol. 64, no. 1649, Aug.
6, 1926, p. 188; Nature, July 10, 1926, p. 49.

Zoological nomenclature: Science, Oct. 15, 1926, p. 381.

The underlying factors in the confusion in zoological nomenclature: Science,
vol. 65, Feb. 25, 1927, pp. 194-199.

International commission on zoological nomenclature: Science, vol. 65, Mar.
25, 1927, pp. 300, 301.

Sixty-one names under consideration for inclusion in the official List of
Generic names: Science, vol. 65, May 18, 1927, pp. 471, 472.

and Albert Hassall.

Key-catalogue of the worms reported for man: Hyg. Lab. Bull. no. 142,
1926, pp. 69-196.

Key-catalogue of the crustacea and arachnoids of importance in public health:
Hyg. Lab. Bull. no. 148, 1927, pp. 197-289.

and M. B. Orleman,

La Nomenclature des genres de Cestodes, Raillietina, Ransomia, et John
stonia: Ann. de Parasitol. humaine et comparee, Jan. 1926, vol. 4 (1),
pp. 65-67.

Retention of Cercopithecus, type diana, for the Guenons: Journ, Mam., vol. 7,
1926, (1), Feb., pp. 48-53.

The nomenclature for man, the chimpanzee, the orang-utan, and the ‘Barbary
ape: Hyg. Lab. Bull. no. 145, 1927, pp. 1-66, figs. 1-16.

Straus, William L., jr.
The development of the human foot and its phylogenetic significance: Amer
Journ. Phys. Anth., vol. 9, no. 4, Oct—Dec., 1926, pp. 427-438.
Suk,’ V.

Anthropological and physiological observations on the negroes of Natal and
Zululand: Amer. Journ. Phys, Anthrop., vol. 10, no. 1, Jan.—Mar., 1927,

pp. 31-64.
Swales, B. H.
Yellow-crowned night heron in Virginia: Auk, vol. 48, no. 4, Oct., 1926,
p. 538.
Idiopsar brachyurus in Argentina: Auk, vol. 43, no. 4, Oct., 1926, pp. 547,
548. ;

Swann, H. Kirke.

A monograph of the birds of prey; London: pt. 6, Sept. 1926, pp. 265-396, ‘

5 pls.
Swarth, Harry S.
Report on a collection of birds and mammals from the Atlin region, northern
British Columbia: Univ. California Publ. Zool., vol. 30, no. 4, eRe 24,
1926, pp. 51-162,-pls. 4-8, figs. a-k.
Tattersall, Walter M.
Crustaceans of the orders Euphausiacea and Mysidacea from the western
Atlantic: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 69, art. 8, no. 2634, pp. 1-81, pls. 1, 2.
Taverner, P. A.
Some recent Canadian records: Auk, vol. 44, no. 2, Apr., 1927, pp. 217-228.

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Taylor, Frank A.
The Smithsonian Institution: Mechanical Engineering, vol. 49, no. 6, June
1927, p. 624.

Tenhet, J. H. (See under F. S. Chamberlin.)

Tobey, James A.
Health on Display—A personally conducted tour through the Hall of the
Health of Mankind; Hygeia, vol. 4, no. 8, Aug., 1926, pp. 464467, 3 illus.

Todd, W.‘H. Clyde.
A study of the neotropical finches of the genus Spinus: Annals Carnegie
Mus., vol. 17, no. 1, June 9, 1926, pp. 11-82. (Omitted from last year.)

Tolman, Ruel Pardee.
The Development of Printing: The British and Colonial Printer and Stationer,
vol. 99, no. 26, Dec. 23, 1926, pp. 409, 410.
Microscopie Engraving: Science and Invention, vol. 14, whole no. 161, Sept.
1926, pp. 404, 450, 5 illus.
Printing owes its wonders to invention of paper by the Chinese in 221 B. C.:
Printing, vol. 38, no. 10, Dec. 4, 1926, pp. 34, 36.

Topaz, Lionel.
The Sunset: The Optometric Weekly, vol. 18, no. 3, Mar. 24, 1927, pp. 85,
86, 1 illus.

Torre-Bueno, J. R. de la.
Fauna sumatrana-aquatie Heteroptera: Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc., vol. 22, no. 1,
Feb., 1927, pp. 29-385.

Tovar, Nufiez. (See under Harrison G. Dyar.)

Treadwell, A. L.

Polychaetous annelids from Fiji, Samoa, China, and Japan; Proc. U. 8. Nat.
Mus., vol. 69, art. 15, no. 2641, Oct. 14, 1926, pp. 1—20, pls. 1, 2.

A daiéions to the polychaetous annelids collected by the United States Fish-
eries Steamer “Albatross,” 1907-1910, including one new genus and three
new species: Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 100, vol. 6, pt. 2, Nov. 20; 1926, pp.
183-193, figs. 1-20.

Trelease, William.
Piperaeceae hispaniolenses: Repert. Sp. Noy., vol. 23, nos. 18-25, Mar. 20,
1927, pp. 803-333.
The Piperaceae of Panama: Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., vol. 26, pt. 2, May 21,
1927, pp. 15-50.

Urita, Tomoye.

A check list of Brachyura found in Kagosima Prefecture, Japan: Tsingtao,
Japan, 1926, pp. 1-40, map.

On Penaeus orientalis Kishinouye from Tsingtao North China: Zool. Mag.
(Dobutsugaku Zasshi), vol. 38, no. 457, Nov. 15, 1926, pp. 362-864, Eng.
trans., pp. 364-868.

Vail, Floyd.

The Banfield Collection: The Camera, vol. 33, no. 1, July, 1926, pp, 39-41,
18 illus.

Outstanding Hvents: The Camera, vol. 34, no. 3, Mar., 1927, pp. 167, 168, 1
illus.

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Van Rossem, A. J.

The California forms of Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus): Condor, vol. 28,
no. 5, Sept. 21, 1926, pp. 215-280, figs. 72-76.

(See also under Donald R. Dickey.)

Vaughan, T. Wayland.

Larger Foraminifera of the genus Lepidocyclina related to Lepidocyclina

mantelli: Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 8, no. 2680, May 23, 1927,
pp. 1-5, pls. 1-4.

Wade, Bruce.
The fauna of the Ripley formation on Coon Creek, Tennessee: Prof. Paper
U. 8S. Geol. Surv., no. 137, 1926, pp. 1-272, pls. 1-72.

Walcott, Charles D.
Pre-Devonian sedimentation in southern Canadian Rocky Mountains: Smith-
sonian Mise. Colls., vol. 75, no. 4, Apr. 2, 1927, pp. 147-178, pl. 25, figs.
14-23.

Wetmore, Alexander.
Observations on fossil birds described from the miocene of Maryland: Auk,
vol. 48, no. 4, Oct., 1926, pp. 462-468.
The fossil birds of North America: Nat. Hist., vol. 26, no. 5, Sept.—Oct.,
1926, pp. 525, 526.
An additional record for the fossil hawk Urubitinga enecta: Amer. Mus. Novi-
tates, no. 241, Dec. 31, 1926, pp. 1-3, figs. 1-3.
The migrations of birds: Cambridge, 1926, Harvard University Press, pp.
i-vili, 1-217, figs. 1-7.
A method for keeping notes and files dealing with ornithology: Condor, vol.
29, no. 2, Mar. 15, 1927, pp. 109-111.
Present status of the check-list of fossil birds for North America: Auk, vol.
44, no. 2, Apr., 1927, pp. 179-183.
Records from the coast of Maryland: Auk, vol. 44, no. 2, Apr., 1927, pp
256, 257.
A thrush new to science from Haiti: Proce. Biol. Soe. Washincionss vol. 40,
June 30, 1927, pp. 55, 56.
and W. deW. Miller,
The revised classification for the fourth edition of the A. O. U. check-list :
Auk, vol. 48, no. 3, July, 1926, pp. 337-346.
Wherry, Edgar T.
The soil reactions of some certeonene orchids: Journ. Washington Acad.
Sci., vol. 17, no. 2, Jan. 18, 1927, pp. 35-88, fig. 1.
Willey, Arthur.
Description of a new species of fresh-water copepod of the genus Moraria
from Canada: Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mus., vol. 71, art. 1, no. 2673, Apr. 6, 1927,
pp. 1-12, figs. 1-30.
Wimmer, F. E.
Lobelioideae. III: Repert. Sp. Nov., vol. 22, nos. 13-21, June 15, 1926, Dp.
193-218, pls. 31-383.

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Wood, Casey A.
The nest of the baya weaver bird: Auk, vol. 43, no. 3, July, 1926, pp. 295-802,
pls. 18-16.
The nest of the Indian tailor bird: Smithsonian Rep. for 1925, no. 2852, 1926,
pp. 349-354, pls. 1-5.
Woodring, W. P.
American Tertiary mollusks of the genus Clementia: Prof. Paper U. S.
Geol. Surv., no. 147-C, Nov. 22, 1926, pp. 25-49, pls. 14-17, fig. 1.
Wright, Stillman.
A revision of the South American species of Diaptomus: Trans. Amer.
Micros. Soc., vol. 46, no. 2, Apr., 1927, pp. 73-121, pls. 1-9.

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