DEPARTMENT OF MAKIXM INVERTEBRATES. 



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The collections made by the Albatross on the voyage around South 

 America, were, as before explained, partly assorted in the laboratory of 

 this department by Prof. Leslie A. Lee, the chief naturalist of the 

 steamer daring that cruise, with the assistance of Miss Rathbun. Sub- 

 sequently several of the groups of marine invertebrates were assigned 

 to different naturalists for study and report, as follows: The echini and 

 stalked crinoids, to Mr. Alexander Agassi/ ; the mollusca in general, to 

 Mr. William II. Dall; the pteropods and heteropods, to Mr. .lames I. 

 Tick; the brachyuia and isopoda, to Prof. Leslie A. Lee; the stomato- 

 pods and free medusae, to Prof. W. K. Brooks; the hydroids to Mr. J. 

 Walter Fewkes; the actinians, to Prof. J. P. McMurrich; the larval 

 cephalopods, to Mr. S. Watase; the internal parasites of fishes, to Prof. 

 Edwin Linton; the Madreporarian corals and starfishes to the curator. 



Notwithstanding the fact that so little special work has been placed 

 upon the collections during the past year, the specimens have been re- 

 tained in an exceptionally good state of preservation, and they are now 

 so well arranged as to be available for reference or study without loss 

 of time in finding all the representatives of each group, although the 

 entire collection occupies the space of live good-sized store-rooms. Over 

 three thousand entries have been made in the catalogue books, as ex- 

 plained in the following table : 



STATEMENT OF CATALOGUING DURING THE FISCAL YEAE ENDING JUNE 30, 1889. 



Crustaceans . 



Win in 



Bryozoansand Iscidians 



Echinoderms and Coelenterates. 



Sponges and Protozoans 



Total 



Entries t<> Entries to 

 June30,1888. June 30, 1889. 2*?f!™^?_ e 



Number of 

 entiiesmade 

 during \ ear. 



13, 110 



I, 17:; 



960 



2,549 



10,409 

 1,973 

 5, 1 1 1 



I 1,385 



4, TL'8 



1,000 



2, 77K 

 16,885 



5, ooo 



6, 056 



1,275 

 555 



2G9 



'7(1 



639 



3,214 



The following institutions have been supplied with duplicate sets of 

 marine invertebrates from series No. iv, the character <>f which has 

 bee'] described in previous reports. Bach set contains about one hun- 

 dred and ten species, the most of which are preserved in alcohol. The 

 varied character of the material comprising these sets makes them of 

 great value for educational purposes: 



State Normal School, 'I'eiie Haute, Indiana; University of Georgia, 

 Athens, Georgia; The Free Academy, Elmira, New York; \\. A. Mc- 

 Mullen, Wellsville, York County, Pennsylvania; Brattleboro Society of 

 Natural History, Brattleboro, Vermont; Racine College, Racine, Wis- 

 consin; Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; Straight University, New Or- 

 leans, Louisiana ; University of Dakota, Vermillion, Dakota; bombard 



