REPORT ON THE DEPARTMENT OF FISHES 

 IN THE U. S, NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1889. 



By Tari.f.tox II. Bean, Honorary Curator, 



It having' been necessary for me to be absent from the Museum dur- 

 ing July, August, September, and October, on duty connected with the 

 U. S. Fish Commission, the department was, during those months, left 

 in charge of my assistant, Mr. Barton A. Bean, who received and cared 

 for the specimens sent to the Museum. He also overhauled the entire 

 collections of fishes. Considerable time was spent in the arrangement 

 of papers relating to fishes. Upon my return to Washington, I was 

 occupied for a time with accumulated correspondence, accessions, etc., 

 which had come in during my absence. Soon after this T was put in 

 charge of the editorial work of the Fish Commission, which left me but 

 little time to devote to Museum work. During the last six months of 

 the year I prepared and had published in various journals numerous 

 papers upon the Salmonidce and other species of fishes. A list of these 

 papers is given in Section iv of this report. Fifty-three accessions 

 were received during the year, of which the following are the most 

 important : 



Accession 20952, containing eighteen new species of fishes, collected in the Gulf of 

 California, by O. P. Jenkins and B. W. Evermann. The descriptions of these have 

 been published in the Proceedings U. S. National Museum, 1888. 



Accession 21065, containing sixty-seven species of fish from northern seas; given in 

 exchange by the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. 



Accession 21074, fort3 T -oue species of New Zealand fishes; in exchange, Otago Uni- 

 versity Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand. 



Accession 21228, a collection of fishes from all parts of the world, including Eu- 

 rope, tlir Pacific Ocean, North, Central, and South America; in exchange, Museum 

 of Comp. Zool., Cambridge, IU;iss. 



Accession 21285, nine new species of fishes, collected in Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina, by Prof. I>. S. Jordan ami party. A paper containing descriptions of these new 

 forms lias been published in tin- Proceedings U. 8. National Museum. 



Accession 21302, a specimen of Merlucins bilinearis, collected at Point 1'leasant, 

 New Jersey, by Capt. John G. W. Havens, and interesting on account of its range. 



Accession 21463, a collection of fishes made in Nicaragua, Central America, by Dr. 

 Louis F. II. Birt. 



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