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Blackford, of Fulton Market, New York, by carefuFy watching the 

 market slabs, has added at least ten species of fishes to the fauna of the 

 United States. Mr. F. Mather is studying the fish of Long Island and 

 the Sound. Dr. Yarrow, Mr. Earll, and others, have collected from Cape 

 May to Key West. The Gulf States coast was explored last winter by a 

 party conducted by Mr. Silas Stearns, who spent nine months in study- 

 ing the food-fishes and apparatus for the census. The entire Pacific 

 Coast has been scoured by Professor Jordan for the commission and 

 the census, and the ichthyology of that region has been enriched by the 

 discovery of sixty species new to the fauna, forty of them being new to 

 science. A similar investigation on the great lakes has been carried 

 over a period of several years by Mr. Milne* and Mr. Kumlien. The 

 ichthyology of the rivers of the country has received much attention 

 from the many experts employed by the commission in the fish-cultural 

 work. 



In addition to these local studies may be mentioned the general 

 explorations such as are now being carried on for the oyster, by Mr. 

 Ernest Ingersoll and Mr. John A. Ryder, for the shad by Colonel 

 McDonald, for the smelt and the Atlantic salmon by Mr. C. G. Atkins, 

 and the quinnat salmon by Mr. Livingston Stone. 



A partial indication of what has been accomplished may be found in 

 the number of species added to the various faunal lists. Take, for 

 instance, the cephalopod mollusks of New England. In Professor Ver- 

 rill's recently published monographs twenty species are mentioned, 

 thirteen of which are new to science. Ten years ago only three were 

 known. 



I am indebted to Professor Verrill for the following estimate of the 

 number of species added within the past ten years to the fauna of New 

 England, mainly by the agency of the Commission: 



Crustacea 



Pycnogonida ... 



Annelida 



Venues 



Mollusca 



Echinodermata . 



Anthozoa 



Tunicata 



Polyzoa 



r^rachiopoda 



Sponges 



Acalophao 



o 



a 



1 



105 



5 



67 



a 

 5 





193 

 10 



238 



a 



o 



a 



M 



o 



298 



15 



305 



20 



50 



5 



10 



Total in round numbers . 



800 



25 

 91 



80 



1,000 



51 



147 



5 



90 



1,800 



It is but just to say that many of these species were obtained by Pro- 

 fessor Verrill in the course of his independent explorations in Maine 

 and Connecticut previous to 1871. 



