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ford, of Fulton Market, il^ew York, by carefully watching- the market 

 slabs, has added at least ten species of fishes to the fauna of the United 

 States. Mr. F. Mather is studying the fish of Long Island and the 

 sound. Dr. Yarrow, Mr. Earll, and others, have collected from Cape 

 May to Key West. The Gulf States' coast was explored last winter 

 by a party conducted by Mr. Silas Stearns, who spent nine months in 

 studying the subject relative to food and the census. The entire Pacific 

 coast has been scoured by Professor Jordan for the Commission and 

 the census, and the ichthyology of that region has been enriched by 

 the discovery of sixty species new to the fauna, forty of them being- 

 new to science. A similar investigation on the Great Lakes has been 

 carried over a period of several years by Mr. Milner and Mr. Kumlien. 

 The ichthyology of the rivers of the countrj^ has received much attention 

 from the many experts emjiloyed by the Commission in fishcultural work. 



In addition to these local studies may be mentioned the general explo- 

 rations, such as are now being carried on for the oyster, by Mr. Ernest 

 Ingersoll and Mr. John F. Ryder, for the shad by Colonel McDonald, for 

 the smelt and the Atlantic salmon by Mr. C. G. Atkins, and the Quinnat 

 sahnon by Mr. Livingston Stone. 



A partial indication of what has been accomplished may be found in 

 the number of species added to the various faunal lists. Take, for in- 

 stance, the cephalopod mollusks of New England. In Professor Ver- 

 rill's recently published monographs, twenty species are mentioned, thir- 

 teen of which are new to science. Ten years ago only three were known. 



I am indebted to Professor Verrill for the following estimate of the 

 number of species added within the past ten years to the fauna of New 

 England, mainly by the agency of the Commission : 



Crustacea 



Pycuogonida .. 



Annelida 



Vermes 



Mollnsca 



Echinodermata 



Anthozoa 



Tiinicata 



Polyzoa 



Bracliiopoda . . . 



Sponges 



Acaleplite 



Formerly 

 known. 



105 



5 



67 



39 



317 

 47 

 20 

 26 

 56 

 5 

 10 



102 



800 



It is but just to say that many of these species were obtained by Pro- 

 fessor Verrill in the course of his independent explorations in Maine 

 and Connecticut previous to 1871.* 



* A few days after the reading of this pajier a new favma was discovered about one 

 hundred miles southeast of Newport, and several hundred numbers might now be 

 added to this enumeration. 



