ITS REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



ceans obtained in the vicinity of Kingston, Jamaica, by Dr. T. H. Mor- 

 gan, The latter report was printed in one of the Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity circulars, and the specimens have been deposited in the National 

 Museum. 



Catalogues of the Pericerkhe and Maiidae, families of maioid crabs, 

 as represented in our collection, have been completed by Missliathbuu, 

 and she is at present at work upon the family Inachidae. She has also 

 prepared a list of the crustaceans obtained on the coast of Texas by 

 Prof. B. W. Evermann, during a recent fishing investigation, for pub- 

 lication in the Bulletin of the Fish Commission. Large numbers of 

 crustaceans belonging to other families than the above, principally the 

 result of Fish Commission explorations, but some derived from other 

 sources, have been identified and will be made the subject of report at 

 a future time. 



The department is indebted to Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 

 the Buffalo Society of Natural History, and Mr. F. A. Stearns, of Detroit, 

 for the loan of specimens of crustaceans which were desired for exam- 

 ination and comparison in connection with the studies above referred 

 to; and also to Mr. J. E. Ives, of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, for assistance in comparing specimens sent from Washington 

 with the collections of that society. Prof. S. I. Smith, of Yale Univer- 

 sity, has returned to this Museum for study, the maioid crabs, the 

 Paguridse and Porcellanida- belonging to the earlier collections of the 

 Fish Commission, and some Brazilian crustaceans collected by the cura- 

 tor. Mr. C. S. Dolley has also returned the crustaceans obtained by 

 the steamer Albatross in the Bahama region, and sent to him for exam- 

 ination a few years ago. 



Prof. A. E. Verrill and Miss K. J. Bush have continued their studies 

 upon the Fish ( Vmimission collections, the property of the National Mu- 

 seum, now deposited under Prof. Verrill's charge at the Peabody Mu- 

 seum of Yale University. Prof. Walter Faxon, of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology at Harvard College, has reported upon the crayfishes 

 received in recent accessions, including a new species obtained in Mexico 

 by Prof. A.Duges; and the specimens of Oniscidae have been sent for 

 examination to Profs. O. F. Cook and H. E. Jaquay, of Syracuse Univer- 

 sity, Syracuse, N. Y., who are proposing to monograph that family. 

 Prof. Edwin Linton, of Washington and Jefferson College, has described 

 a number of birdentozoa collected by Mr. P. L. Jouy, at Guaymas, Mex- 

 ico, and by himself at the Yellowstone National Park, and a paper upon 

 the subject has been published. 



Although no regular fishery investigations were undertaken by the 

 U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross during the past year, yet inci- 

 dental dredgings were made during a cruise to Bering Sea with the 

 United States Seal Commissioners, in the summer of 1891, and during 

 the hydrographie survey for a cable route between California and the 

 Hawaiian Islands the following winter. Many interesting and several 



