170 • REPORT ON NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1886. 



Some of the fishes identified and otherwise administered upon are as 

 follows : 



A collection from Astoria, Oregon, made by Dr. Augnstus Kinney. 



Alaskan fisijes, collected by Capt. M. A. llealy, steamer Corwin. 



Alaskan fishes, collected by Dr. T. H. Streets, U. S. Navy. 



A second collection of Jamaica fishes, received from the Public Museum 

 of Kingston, Jamaica. 



Fishes from the Big' Horn River, Montana, collected by Capt. Charles 

 E. Bendire, U. S. Army. 



Numerous species from the interior and east coast of Mexico, sent by 

 Prof. A. Duges. 



Fresh-water fishes from Virginia and the District of Columbia, re- 

 ceived from Mr. Benjamin Miller. 



During the months of August and September the curator accompanied 

 the Assistant Director to the U. S. Fish Commission laboratory at Wood's 

 Ploll, Mass., when all the collections from the deep-water fauna, made 

 by the U. S. Fisli Commission, were brought together. With the great 

 advantages of ample space and increased facilities for handling large 

 masses of fishes, we were enabled to advance materially the final report, 

 which has for several years been in progress upon these collections. 

 Ti)e ease and rapidity with which the work has been carried on under 

 the favorable conditions supplied at Wood's Holl, is a strong argument 

 for the enlargement of the work-rooms assigned to the department of 

 fishes in the Museum. 



Dui)licate specimens of fishes have been sent out to the following in- 

 stitutions and universities : 



Prof. Fernando Ferrari-Perez, for the National Museum of Mexico. 

 One hundred and one species of fishes from the West Indies and the 

 Gulf of Mexico. Also, seven casts of fishes. 



Army Medical Museum, Washington, D. C. Seven species of fishes 

 in alcohol, sent b}^ request of Dr. Billings. 



Prof. O. P. Hay, Butler University, Irvington, Ind. A specimen of 

 Scmotilus biillnris. 



Prof. W. B. Scott, Princeton College, Princeton, N. J, Two speci- 

 mens of Amid calva and two of Polyodon folium for study. 



F. L, Washburn, for the museum of Minneapolis, Minn. Seven spe- 

 cies of marine fishes in exchange. 



Prof. F. A. Smitt, for the Royal Museum of Natural History, Stock- 

 holm, Sweden. The following species of Salmonidw in return for 

 Swedish species : HypomesiiH 'pretioHUti^ Osmerus dentex, Thaleichthys 

 pacifievs, Mallofus viUosus, Coregonns Dicrlsi, sub sp., iSahno gairdneri, 

 Salmo irideus, Salmo piirpuratus, t^alvelinus malma, Oncorhynchus choui- 

 cha, Oneorhynchufi nerTca, Oncorhynchus kefa, Oncorhynchus Jcisutch, On- 

 corhynchus gorhuscha. 



The card catalogue of the collection of fishes has been brought up to 

 date, as, also, the catalogue of drawings. 



