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Through tlie kindness of Dr. W. C. Mcintosh, of Perth, an 

 eminent authority on this group, the marine worms of the St. 

 Lawrence are in a fair way of being worked up. The whole of 

 the specimens dredged during the last three summers, filling 

 about 200 bottles, have been forwarded to him. 



In the April No. of the Annals of Natural History, Dr. Mc- 

 intosh has published the result of his studies on those Canadian 

 specimens which belong to the first six families in the classifica- 

 tion proposed by Malmgren. The general results are that 19 

 species have been determined, of which six are new to science. 

 These latter have been described and figured in the Journal 

 previously mentioned. 



With the assistance of Mr. S. I. Smith, of Yale College, who 

 kas identified most of the Amphipods and the more critical 

 among the Decapods, most of the crustaceans recently collected 

 have been determined. 56 species have been added to our local 

 lists, several of which are Norwegian forms, not hitherto met 

 with on the American coast. One of these is a curious new 

 generic type collected in the deep sea mud, and described in a 

 recent number of the American Journal of Science and Arts. 

 The few fishes collected at great depths, some of them of great 

 interest, and including about 10 species, have been studied and 

 labelled. 



Extentive exchanges have been made with Professors Verrill 

 and S. I. Smith, and in this way about 120 species collected in 

 dredgings under the auspices of the U. S. Fish Commission, 

 liave been obtained. All of these are carefully named. The 

 whole series has been put into a fresh set of bottles, and re-labelled. 



The new case for alcoholic preparations mentioned by the 

 Chairman of Council now contains 250 species of N. American 

 marine invertebrates, each in a separate bottle labelled with the 

 proper locality and name of the object it contains. In addition 

 to this, there are about 150 bottles (or jars) full of various mar- 

 ine animals dredged in the Gulf, which have yet to be studied. 

 Before leaving this topic, it may be as well to mention that an 

 article cjiving a condensed account of the zoological results of 

 last summers investigations has been published in Silliman's 

 Journal for March last, and that a more detailed account of the 

 observations made, has been submitted as a report to the Minis- 

 ter of Marine and Fisheries for the Dominion Government. 

 This is now in type and will shortly be issued. The subject has 



