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ner, with a view of an exhaustive study of them hereafter, 

 and of distributing series to the museums throughout the 

 country (after the National Museum and Yale College were 

 supplied), this involving the accumulation of large numbers 

 of duplicates, filling many thousands of bottles. Sixth, the 

 species of animals which could not be readily preserved for 

 study were to be examined and described while living. Notes 

 of this kind already made amount to over 1000 pages. Sev- 

 enth, drawings were to be made of living animals, especially 

 such as change their form in alcohol. For this object Mr. 

 Emerton, of Salem, was employed, who made more than 164 

 drawings from living animals. Eighth, the relation between 

 the fishes, and the lower animals which serve as food for the 

 latter, was to be borne in mind. To this end the stomachs 

 of a large number of fishes were to be examined, and lists 

 made of their contents. Ninth, parasites, both external and 

 internal, were to be collected and preserved for future study. 

 Tenth, similar investigations were to be prosecuted on the 

 Georges Banks, on the United States steamer Bache, in con- 

 nection with her regular Coast Survey work. 



For this purpose Professor Peirce, Superintendent of the 

 Coast Survey, authorized the Commissioner of Fisheries to 

 place on board two of his associates : at first, Mr. S. I. Smith 

 and Mr. Oscar Harger, and afterward Dr. A. S. Packard, 

 Jun., and Mr. Caleb Cooke, of Salem. All this was in addi- 

 tion to and independent of the researches carried on by Pro- 

 fessor Baird and his immediate assistants in reference to the 

 natural history of the fishes themselves. 



Professor Verrill remarks in his article that, as the result 

 of these labors, at least 350 species, exclusive of foraminifera 

 and entomostraca, were added to those known before he 

 commenced his researches in this vicinity a few years ago. 

 Many of these are undescribed; but the majority are known 

 from Northern Europe. Four actinoid and three alcyonoid 

 polyps were added to the list. Thirty-eight species of aca- 

 lephs were added to those previously known from this re- 

 gion ; ten species of echinoderms. Ninety-five species of 

 mollusca were also added, 125 of worms, and 100 of Crus- 

 tacea, exclusive of entomostraca and a large number of 

 sponges. 



Among the most interesting discoveries was that of a new 



