No. 5. — Rqiorts on the Results of Dredging under the Supervision 

 of Alexander Agassiz, on the East Coast of the United States, 

 during the Summer of 1880, hy the U. S. Coast Survey Steamer 

 " Blake," Commander J. II. Bartlett, U. S. N., Commanding. 



(Published by permission of Caulile P. Patterson and J. E. Hilgard, Superin- 

 tendents U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.) 



XIX. 



Report on the Fishes. By G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. 



The specimens discussed in the following preliminary report were 

 obtained by Mr. Agassiz in the dredge and trawl, during the summer of 



1880, off the eastern coast of the United States between George's Bank 

 and a line eastward from the vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, 

 between north latitude 31° 57' to 41° 35', and west longitude C5° 35' 

 to 78° 18', at depths varying from 44 to 1632 fathoms. 



Many of the same species were obtained by the United States Fish 

 Commission in the deep waters off Newport and Wood's Holl, in 1880, 



1881, and 1882, as well as by various Gloucester fishermen collecting 

 on the fishing banks for the National Museum. 



Drawings have been prepared to accompany the following descrip- 

 tions, mainly from material collected by Mr. Agassiz. These are not 

 published in connection with this preliminary report, but are retained 

 for the illustration of a monograph of the deep-sea fishes of the Western 

 Atlantic, which is now in an advanced state of preparation. 



Allusion is frequently made in the following pages to the mutilated 

 condition of the specimens sent to us for examination. It seems only 

 fair to ourselves to call attention to the unsatisfactory state of the ma- 

 terial investigated, since in some instances our most studious efforts 

 have resulted in only partially complete descriptions. At the same 

 time, it should be said that specimens of fishes brought up from such 

 great depths are rarely perfect after they have been separated from the 

 mass of mud and hard-shelled invertebrates which are usually found in 



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