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chase or repair of instruments, or in rewards, by medals or otherwise, 

 for the discovery of new comets, planets, or for the writing of new 

 and valuable essays on astronomical subjects." 



MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY AT HARVARD COLLEGE. 

 Address. Cambridge, Mass. Curator: Samuel Henshaw. 

 History. Founded in 1859 by private subscription and an appropriation 

 from the State of Massachusetts. In 1876 the property in the hands 

 of the Trustees of the museum was transferred to the President and 

 Fellows of Harvard College. 



Ref.: An account of the organization and progress of the Museum of 

 comparative zoology at Harvard college in Cambridge, Mass. Cam- 

 bridge, 1871. 8. 



Publications. 



BULLETIN . . . v. I-XLII, XLIV-XLVII. Cambridge, 1863/69- 

 1906. 8. 



v. 43, 48, 49, 50 in progress, v. 13, no. 9 and v. 20, no. 7, issued also as 



Fay House Monographs, no. 1-2. 



v. 7, 16, 28, 34, 38, 42, 44, 49 form Geological series, v. I- VIII. 

 v. 14-15: A contribution to American thalassography. Three cruises of the 



U. S. C. & G. S. steamer "Blake" in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Carri- 



bean Sea and along the Atlantic coast of the United States, 1877-1880. 



By Alexander Agassiz. 2 v. (For sale by Hough ton, Mifflin & Co.) 



MEMOIRS . . . v. I-XXIV, XXVIII-XXIX, XXXI-XXXIII. Cam- 

 bridge, 1864/65-1906. 4 & fol. 



v. 25, 26, 27, 30, in progress, v. 1-4 include Illustrated catalogue of the 



Museum of comparative zoology, no. 1-8. 



v. 12-13: The water birds of North America. By S. F. Baird, T. M. 

 Brewer, and R. Ridgway. 2 v. (For sale by Little, Brown & Co., 

 Boston, Mass.) 



v. 22: Oceanic ichthyology; a treatise on the deep sea and pelagic fishes 

 of the world, based chiefly on the collections made by the steamers 

 "Blake," "Albatross" and "Fish Hawk" in the N. W. Atlantic. By C. 

 Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. (Published as Smithsonian con- 

 tributions to knowledge, v. 30-31, and as a special bulletin of the U. S. 

 National Museum.) 



The Bulletin and Memoirs are devoted to the publication of original work 

 by the professors and assistants of the museum, of investigations carried 

 on by students and others in the different laboratories of natural history, 

 and of work by specialists based upon museum collections and explora- 

 tions in charge of Alexander Agassiz, including: Reports on the results 

 of dredging by the U. S. Coast Survey steamer "Blake," 1877-1880; 

 Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and 

 South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, by the U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission steamer "Albatross" during 1891 ; Reports on the scientific results 

 of the expedition to the tropical Pacific, 1899-1900. 



