BEEBE, WM., New York City. 53 Isopods from the Galapagos Islands. BORODIN, DR. N., Hartford, Conn. 1 Vial of shrimps (Michtheimysis stenolepis). CHAPIN, JAMES P., New York City. 3 Parasitic worms from Gatun Lake, Panama. DELAFIELD, MRS. J. R., New York City. 26 Fresh-water shells from Sawkill River, Annandale, N. Y. FLORES, MRS. E. J., New York City. 1 Squid. GEOLOGY, DEPARTMENT OF (transfer). 12 Land and marine shells from Coronation Gulf. Collected by R. M. Anderson. GREGORY, MISS E. F., New York City. Collection of invertebrates from the Philippine Florida. Islands and LENG, C. W., St. George, Staten Island. 5 Specimens of tunicates (Molgula manhattensis) from Tompkinsville, S. I. MATTHEW, DR. W. D., New York City. 147 Land shells from Florida. MCLEAN, MRS. NORTH, Shrub Oak, N. J. 38 Land shells from Jamaica, B. W. I. MEYER, DR. G. W., New York City. 185 Land shells from Algiers and other localities. MILLER, Capt. THOMAS I., Newark, New Jersey. 3 Slides of hydroids from Hunter's Island, N. Y. MYERS, FRANK J., Ventnor, N. J. 18 Slides of mounted and named rotifers, including 9 types, from Mt. Desert Island, Me., and New Jersey. MYERS, G. S., New York City. 3 Parasitic worms from Wilmington, N. C. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, New York City. (Marine Piling Investigations.) Pilings showing damage done by Teredo and Limnoria. 9 Vials of isopods (Sphæroma destructor). SCHUBERT, WILLIAM, New York City. Clam shell showing part of cable attached to it: SEIBERT, ROBERT, New York City. 2 Pieces of mahogany showing damage done by Teredo from Cape Gracias, Central America. SHERIDAN, CAPT. JOHN, New York City. 1 Shell from District Pirogana, Panama. SMITH, FRANKLIN S., Montclair, N. J. Fresh-water shells from Edge mont Pond, Montclair, N. J. STUNKARD, PROF. H. W., New York City. 4 Slides and 2 vials of trematodes. SWENSON, MRS. S. A., New York City. 10 Marine shells. TABLEMAN, FRED, Newark, N. J. 100 Labeled land shells and 1 slide showing radula and jaw of Pyramidula alternata from Pelham Bay, N. Y. 11 Fresh-water mussel shells from Morris Canal, Bloomfield, N. J. VAN NAME, DR. W. G., New York City. Collection of invertebrates from Barro Colorado Island, C. Z., Panama; 64 fresh-water shells. VARRELMAN, F. A., New York City. Collection of ascidians, shipworms, barnacles, and other invertebrates, from bottom of bark 'Guadalhorce' from Cavada, Spain, and from New London, Conn., and Cape May, N. J. VERRILL, A. HYATT, Colon, Panama. 1 Crustacean from Porvenu Island, Panama. YATES, MRS. W. J., New York City. 2 Echinoderms from Puget Sound, Washington. THROUGH MUSEUM EXPEDITIONS Collected 170 Land and fresh-water shells 31 Cases of corals, sea fans and other FAUNTHORPE-VERNAY INDIAN EXPEDITION. 41 Land shells. Collected at North Kheri Forest, Satiana, British India. MARSH-DARIEN EXPEDITION. 71 Invertebrates from Panama. Collected by C. M. Breder. 26 Invertebrates from Panama. 28 Crustaceans, land shells and myriapods, from Panama. WHITNEY SOUTH SEA EXPEDITION. 6 Crustaceans, 2 echinoderms, 1 myriapod, and 2 pieces of wood showing damage by Teredo. Teaching FRANK E. LUTZ, Curator As in former years, the Department of Entomology has been much interested in the problem of teaching about insects. In such work we must depend largely upon exhibits that are instructive as well as interesting-also interesting as well as instructive, but it is increasingly evident that there should be a personal contact between those who know and those who would like to learn. The room set aside for the New York society of amateur entomologists and the corner of the exhibition hall set aside for Boy Scouts who wish to study insects are efforts that have been successful in this direction. The New York Entomological Society is made up largely of amateur entomologists. They meet twice a month in their quarters at the Museum for discussions and the reading of papers; they have immediate charge of a very good collection of local insects, and they publish a Journal of about 300 pages per year. The Museum entomologists are regular attendants at these meetings and help with the other activities of the society. Incidentally, the collection of local insects is very useful to others who wish to identify their captures. The Boy Scout corner is under the general supervision of Mr. B. T. B. Hyde, who is not officially connected with the department but who is much interested in its work. In addition, Mr. Mutchler, one of our staff, gives instruction there at regular intervals, and the boys are encouraged to come to us in our offices whenever they have questions to ask about insects. However, we want to do even more, and we hope to make arrangements so that those interested may conveniently see, under skilled direction, living insects in their natural environments. Our experiment, made this year, of having living insects on exhibition in the Museum, has convinced us that such a plan can be a success. Except for that in connection with exhibits, the only field work concerned insect sounds. In this we had the kind coöperation of Work the Research Department of the Westinghouse Electric Field and Manufacturing Company, who loaned considerable apparatus, including the microphone invented by Doctor Thomas of that Company. Our object was to study the possibility that insects make sounds too shrill for man to hear. A report on this work has been published. Notable progress has been made in the exhibition hall. Five new habitat groups are nearly or quite completed and lack only the permanent fronts. Exhibition These are the Cabbage Butterfly, the Monarch Butterfly, a Swallow-tail, the Japanese Beetle and Lady-beetles on a mountain-top. The last two are particularly interesting. Each shows a large number of individual beetles, but one horde is bent on destruction of vegetation, while the other is an army that will defend man against the attacks of plant lice. The improvement of the general exhibition has made good progress through the efforts of Messrs. Mutchler and Wunder. It is planned to install a better lighting system so that even the smallest insect may be easily seen. The study collections have grown somewhat, but there have been no notably large additions. In the arrangement of these collections, we have had the volunteer assistance of Mrs. L. Heineman. Publications Publications on insects included "A New Species of Cicindelidæ from Cuba" by A. J. Mutchler; "New Species of Collembola from New York State" by J. W. Folsom; "New Anthophorid Bees from Arizona and Wyoming" by T. D. A. Cockerell; "West Indian Gyrinidæ and a New Species of Gyrestes from Northern Brazil" by George Ochs; "The Dermaptera of the American Museum Congo Expedition, with a Catalogue of the Belgian Congo Species" by J. A. G. Rehn; and "Insect Sounds" by Frank E. Lutz. ENTOMOLOGY ACCESSIONS BELL, E. L., Flushing, L. I. 184 Lepidoptera. BROWNE, DR. GORDON D. BY GIFT 100 Insects, Amazon between Para BRUNER, STEPHEN C., Santiago de las 125 Insects from British Honduras. 10 Beetles from Cuba. Collected by J. Acuna. BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, United States Department of Agriculture, Melrose Highlands, Mass. 87 Specimens of brown-tail moth and biological material from Massachusetts. |