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Explorations in Western Canada. By C. H. Eigenmann. 

 [Abstract.] 

 An account was given of explorations undertaken under the auspices of 

 the British Museum from AVinnipeg to the Pacific coast, and from Port- 

 land, Ore., eastward. The headwaters of the following rivers were crossed 

 and their fish faunas compared: The Red River of the North, the Sas- 

 katchewan, the Columbia, the Fraser, the Missouri. About twenty per 

 cent, of the species collected were new to science. The most interesting 

 of these was a new genus of Percopsidte, Columbia from Oregon. Several 

 species not before taken on the Western slope were obtained. It was 

 noticed that the number of fin rays of Pacific slope fishes was increased 

 over their Atlantic slope relatives, or else some of the rays were modified 

 into spines, as in the case of Columbia and Meda. 



Notes on the loss of the vomerine tekth with age . 

 salamander, desm0gnathus ii sca. by f. c. test. 



Tin: work of the l". S. iisii commission steamer Albatross rx the North 

 Pacific and Bering sea in L892. By B. W. Evermann. 

 Abstract.] 



Last winter a treaty was entered into between the governments of the 

 United States and Great Britain, in which it was agreed to leave the var- 

 ious questions in dispute regarding the fur-seal fisheries to a board of 

 arbitration, which will meet at Paris next March. 



Very soon after the signing of this treaty, the State Department re- 

 quested the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to undertake the collect- 

 ing of information regarding the fur- seal of the North Pacific and Bering 

 sea. 



It was very soon arranged that the Fish Commission should undertake 

 the work, the U. S. Fish Commission steamer, Albatross, then as now, 

 on the Pacific coast, was detailed for the purpose, and it fell to my lot to 

 be sent out as Senior Naturalist of the scientific staff of the Albatross to 

 have immediate charge of the proposed investigations. 



It was within the scope of the investigations to study the movements 



