Annual report of the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the year . elong tothe Museum. The grand total is certainly well over a millionspecimens of insects and spiders, probably representing at leastforty or fifty thousand species. All these specimens are nowas fully labeled as the data accompanying them when they wereobtained will permit. There has been no change in the regular entomological H. G. Barber was employed for a month to work on thecollection of Hemiptera. Dr. J. Bequaert has assisted withthe collection of Congo wasps and ants. In compliance with the p
Annual report of the trustees of the American Museum of Natural History for the year . elong tothe Museum. The grand total is certainly well over a millionspecimens of insects and spiders, probably representing at leastforty or fifty thousand species. All these specimens are nowas fully labeled as the data accompanying them when they wereobtained will permit. There has been no change in the regular entomological H. G. Barber was employed for a month to work on thecollection of Hemiptera. Dr. J. Bequaert has assisted withthe collection of Congo wasps and ants. In compliance with the policy adopted by the Museum ingeneral, there have been no extensive field trips in the pastyear. During July and August, Mr. Miner spentie or six weeks at the Marine Biological Laboratoryin Woods Hole, Mass. He was accompanied by Messrs. Her-man Mueller, Chris E. Olsen and Show Shimotori of the model-ing staff, and through the courtesy of Director Frank R. Lillieand Assistant Director Gilman A. Drew, succeeded in obtain-ing many studies of marine life for use in connection with the. DEPARTMENT OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY The Butterfly GroupThe Monarch Butterfly—migrating Publications on Invertebrates 69 new Bryozoa Group. Much information was obtained on thelife histories of the forms to be represented, which will formthe basis, not only for exhibition work, but for future notes, water-color sketches and preliminary models weremade directly from life. Dr. Lutz spent considerable timeduring the summer in northern New Jersey obtaining materialfor exhibition purposes. He had three main objects in view:(1) an exhibit of spider webs, (2) an exhibit of the burrowsof bees, solitary wasps and other insects, and (3) an exhibitshowing the number of species of insects to be found in a sub-urban back yard. Approximately five hundred species werefound in a lot 75 x 200 ft. in a town within easy commutingdistance of New York City. The Curator has made substantial progress in the
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