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report, was continued, and some drawings and i)li()t()graplis to Ije 

 used as illustrations weic prepared. Miss llathltiin also completed 

 a [)apei' ou the hracliyurau crustaceans ol)tained duiiun- llie I'ecent 

 Albatross cruise in the Northwestern Pacific, aud hciiau the study 

 of an important collection of crabs fj'oui the (Jul I' oi' Siaui, trans- 

 mitted by the Natural History Museuui at C'opi'uhaii'eii. Deiniuirk. 

 Arrangements were made to jjublish a \alual)le uianuscript prepared 

 some forty years ago by the late Dr. A\'illiam Stimpsou ou the 

 Brachyuran and anonuiiau crustaceans obtained mainly ou (he North 

 Pacific exploring expedition of 1 «.").") to 1858. it will be issued in 

 the Miscellaneous Collections of the Smithsouiau Institution. Dr. 

 Harriet Richardson, collalnmitor, worked up and reported on the 

 isojxxl crustaceans collected during recent cruises of the Fisheries 

 steamer Albatross in the Noi'th and South Pacific Ocean. Mr. 

 Austin H. Clark, naturalist of the steamer Albatross during the 

 North Pacific expedition of lOOO, spent several months in the study 

 of the crinoids secured on that cruise, as well as the specimens in the 

 general collection of the Museum, and prepared descriptions of a 

 number of new species for publication. 



A considerable number of specimens of the genns Hellaster of star- 

 fishes from the Galapagos Islands were lent to Dr. Hubert L. Clark, 

 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, for nse in a revision of the 

 genus. The collection of pedunculate cirripeds was sent to Dr. H. A. 

 Pilsbry, of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, who has kindly 

 offered to report on this group as represented in the National Museum. 

 Arrangements w^ere made wath Mr. J. A. Cnshman, of the Boston 

 Society of Natural History, to work up the foraminifera from the 

 deep-sea dredgings and soundings of the Fisheries steamer Albatross 

 in the Pacific Ocean, and a considerable amount of material has al- 

 ready been sent to him. 



In the division of plants Doctor Rose, associate curator, continued 

 his studies of Mexican plants and of the cacti, on which he has been 

 engaged for some years. Mr. Maxon, assistant curator, made good 

 progress in his work on the American ferns, giving special attention to 

 those of Cuba and Jamaica, and Mr. Painter, aid, continued his in- 

 vestigations of water lilies. Over a thousand plants Avere lent for 

 study to both American and European botanists. 



In the division of geology and mineralogy nearly all of the time 

 available for research work was devoted to the study of meteorites 

 and associated phenomena. Six papers on this subject by the head 

 purator. Doctor Merrill, three being in collaboration with Mr. Tassin, 

 assistant curator of mineralogy, were prepared and, with one excep- 

 tion, were printed during the year. At the close of the year Doctor 

 Merrill was engaged in an exhaustive study of the problems presented 



