Kumataro Ito, Japanese Artist on Board the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross During the Philippine Expedition, 1907–1910

Kumataro Ito produced hundreds of beautiful color paintings of fishes and invertebrates during and after the 1907-10 Philippine Expeditin of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross. The paintings are housed in the files of the Divisions of Fishes and Mollusks, United States National Museum of Natural History, and Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Few of those paintings have been published in color, but many have been publishes in black and white. Two years after the expedition, Ito came to Washington, D.C., in 1912 for an extended period to render final paintings based on preliminary color sketches made during the expedition. He did not completly render all the sketches during his stay, probably because he was asked to produced a large number of black-and-white illustrations of Philippine fishes, and a few of North American fishes. Most of the black-and-white illustrations have been published. Few publications containing Ito's Philippine and North American illustrations have acknowledged him. The very little that is known about Ito's life is discussed, examples of his black-and-white and colored fish paintings are reproduced, and his previously unacknowledged illustrations in various publications are herein acknowledged. Another Japanese artist, Yasui, about whom almost nothing is known, joined the Albatross during Ito's second tour on board the ship. It appears, with few exceptions, that Yasui produced only preliminary color sketches of fishes, which, if rendered as final paintings, were done by Ito.

Description of manganese nodules collected by the U.S.S. NERO during survey for a trans-pacific cable

In the early part of 1899 the U.S.S. Nero was dispatched from San Francisco to survey a route for a telegraph cable between the United States, the Philippines Islands and Japan. Concurent with meteorological and oceanographic observations, closely spaced samples of bottom material were systematically sampled. They have been carefully accounted and described by James M. Flint in this volume. On the way, numerous submarine peaks were discovered. During this voyage U.S.S. Nero also took a sounding in the area of the Challenger Deep, recording a depth of 5269 fathoms (9636 m), the greatest depth recorded at that time. Carefull study of the deep-sea deposits have also revealed a number of manganese nodules and encrustations as well as micronodules.

Revision of the North American moths of the subfamily Eucosminae of the family Olethreutidae /

At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum.

Foraminifera of the genus Ehrenbergina and its species /

Cover title.

Culture of the ancient Pueblos of the upper Gila river region, New Mexico and Arizona /

At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum.

Kentriodon pernix : a miocene porpoise from Maryland /

From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 69, Art. 19.

The puparia and larvae of Sarcophagid flies,

"No. 2566. - From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum, vol. 66, art. 29."

Bulletin /

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List of generic terms proposed for birds during the years 1890 to 1900, inclusive, to which are added names omitted by Waterhouse in his "Index generum avium,"

From the Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 24, no. 1267.

Generic names applied to birds during the years 1901 to 1905, inclusive, with further additions to Waterhouse's "Index generum avium" /

Issued December 16, 1908.

Field notes on vertebrates collected by the Smithsonian-Chrysler East African expedition of 1926,

Proceedings of the United States National Museum, v. 73, no. 17.

The birds of the Anamba Islands /

At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. United States National Museum.

The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalog of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other islands of the Caribbean Sea, and the Galapagos Archipelago.

Pts. 1-8, 1901-19 by Robert Ridgway; pt. 9-10, 1941-46 by Robert Ridgway, completed by Herbert Friedmann; pt. 11- , 1950- by Friedmann.

A revision of the lepidopterous family saturniidae.

Caption title.

Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. [microform]

Vols. for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary, also published separately.