No. 17] FOURTH BIENNIAL REPORT 21 



A beginning has been made in the preparation of a series of 

 bulletins on the marine zoology of the state. A bulletin on the 

 echinoderms, by Professor W. R. Coe, has already been accepted 

 for publication. Professor A. E. Verrill of Yale University is 

 engaged in the preparation of a bulletin on the Stalk-eyed 

 Crustacea (Decapoda, Cumacea, and Stomatopoda). This group 

 includes the highest in rank, the largest and most conspicuous, 

 and the most important economically, of the Crustacea. Here 

 belong the crabs, lobsters, and shrimps. While several species 

 of the group on our Connecticut coast are of some degree of 

 economic importance, the common lobster is one of the most 

 valuable of the food resources of the sea. Professor Verrill's 

 paper will deal thoroughly with the scientific relations of the 

 animals in question, and, particularly in the case of the lobster, 

 will treat very fully indeed their economic relations. These large 

 and conspicuous Crustacea are exceedingly interesting objects of 

 study, and the work will be of very great value to teachers. It 

 will be profusely illustrated with photographs of entire animals, 

 and drawings of important parts of the anatomy. 



Next in importance to the groups of Crustacea treated by Pro- 

 fessor Verrill are the amphipods and isopods. Most of these ani- 

 mals are marine, while others, as the wood-lice or sow-bugs, are 

 terrestrial. A bulletin on these forms by Dr. B. W. Kunkel of 

 Yale University is nearly completed. Though less conspicuous 

 than the crabs and lobsters, these animals are large enough to be 

 often collected by visitors to the shore, and a manual of our 

 Connecticut species will be of much use to teachers of zoology 

 in our schools. 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE APPROPRIATIONS 

 The expenditures for work which has been completed and for 

 which full payment has been made since the last biennial report 

 have been as follows : — 



Name 



W N. Rice 

 C. R. Eastman 

 R. S. Harvey 



Conn. Botanical Soc. 

 E. A. White 

 W. R. Coe 



