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viously recorded from Bermuda. In the Reports of the Voyage of 

 the Challenger there are lists* of the 25 shallow-water species 

 obtained at Bermuda. Dr. W. M. Rankin, of Princeton University, 

 published in 1900 a much more comj)U^te list, including all the 

 species known up to that date.f He recorded 33 species of Bra- 

 chyura and 6 of Anomura. He utilized the collections made by 

 the parties from the University of New York. He also had, for his 

 use, a list of the species obtained by Mr. G. Brown Good e, J in 1876 



* Miers, Edw. J. — Report on the Brachj'ura, vol. xvii, 1886. Henderson, J. E. — 

 Report on the Anomura, vol. xxvii, 1888. 



f The Crustacea of the Bermuda Islands, with notes on the Collection made 

 by the New York University Expeditions of 1897 and 1898. Annals New York 

 Acad. Science, vol. xii, No. 12, pp. 521-548. 



J Mr. G. Brown Goode, who was for many years Assistant on the U. S. Fish 

 Commission ; later, Assistant Secretary of theSmithsonian Institution and Director 

 of the National Museum ; and at one time Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries; 

 was a prominent ichthyologist. He piiblished a number of important works on 

 fishes. One of his earlier ones was a Catalogue of the Fishes of Bermuda with 

 notes on their colors and habits. (Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum, No. 

 5, 1876.) He published a more complete catalogue in Bulletin 25, 1884. 



He visited Bermuda in the winters of 1876 and 1877, partly for the benefit 

 of his health. While there he made extensive collections, especially of fishes, 

 Crustacea, sponges, corals, and echinoderms. His collections were much 

 larger than any previously obtained there. They contained about 35 species of 

 Brachyura and Anomura ; also many Macrura. Amphipods, etc. His corals, 

 actinife, echinoderms, bryozoa. etc., were identified by me, before 1880, and 

 studied with reference to the preparation of a faunal report on those groups, 

 for Bulletin 25 of the U. S. National Museum. But this work and several 

 others were laid aside in order to undertake the more important investigation 

 of the deep-sea invertebrate fauna off the American coast, by the U. S. Fish 

 Commission, which was begun in 1880, and placed under my charge by the 

 Commissioner, Professor S. F. Baird. As that work continued annually from 

 1880 to 1888, and the vast collections obtained were put in my care for study, 

 many of them even to the present time, with scarcely any funds to employ 

 assistants, I have never been able to resume the publication of those Bermuda 

 reports, in the foi'ui intended, but the results liave, in large part, been included 

 in the papers recently published by me in these Transactions. Although Mr. 

 Goode's collection of Crustacea was the best made up to that date, it was by 

 no means complete. 



The following extract from one of Mr. Goode's letters to Pi'ofessor S. I. Smith 

 will serve to illustrate his interest in collecting the Crustacea : 



Bermuda, March 19, 1877. 

 My Dear Professor Smith : 



" I am making fine hauls among the crustaceans, especially among the minute 

 forms, and have already filled about 125 phials and bottles. Have not yet found 



