168 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



which have been disnibuted to institutions of learuiiijj- duriug several 

 years })ast, are now nearly exhausted, ouly a few sets still remaining. 

 The following schools and collegers were supplied duriug the year: 

 State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis.; Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; 

 Columbia College, Van Allstyne, Tex.; Grammar School, Salem, Mass. 

 A large general collection of marine invertebrates, representing mainly 

 the dredging work of the Fish Commission, was also sent to the Impe- 

 rial University, Moscow, Eussia. and smaller collections were distributed 

 as follows: Anomuran crustaceans to the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Harvard University; hermit crabs to Leland Stanford 

 Junior University and the University of California; miscellaneous 

 specimens to Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. ; University of Georgia, 

 Athens, Ga.; Normal School, Hampton, Ya.; and Miss Mary Y, Wors- 

 tell. New York City; two species of sea urchins to Prof. Cuenot, Nancy, 

 France; edible crustaceans to the Museum of Hygiene, Washington, 

 through Dr. Howard E. Ames, U. S. Navy; echinoderms to Prof. A. J. 

 Woolman, South Bend, Ind. ; foraminiferato Smith College, Northamp- 

 ton, Mass., and Prof. E. R. Boyer, Englewood, 111. 



Collections were also sent to the following authorities for study and 

 report, as mentioned elsewhere: To Prof. F. E. Schulze, Berlin, Ger- 

 many, the hexactineliid sponges collected by the steamer Alb((fross in 

 the Pacific Ocean, between 1SS7 and ISDO; to Dr. Axel Goes, Liidcoping, 

 Sweden, a large collection of foraminifera from the Caribbean Sea, 

 Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific Ocean, obtained mostly by the steamer 

 Alh((tross; to Dr. John Murray, Edinburgh, Scotland, a large series of 

 deep-sea soundings, representing the character of the bottom in dif- 

 ferent oceans, and collected by the steamer Albatross and other explor- 

 ing vessels of the United States; to Prof. Walter Faxon, Cambridge, 

 Mass., the specimens of crayfishes recently received by the Museum. 



The exhibit from this department at the World's Fair consisted of 

 a synoptic series, showing by means of sjx'cimens, models, drawings 

 and explanatory labelsj important forms and anatomical details of the 

 orders of invertebrates, contained in the groups Protozoa, Porlfera, 

 Ccelcnterata, Vermes, and Echlnodermata. 



Marine invertebrates. A systematic series of specimens of marine invertebrates 

 in alcohol, iuclndiug representatives of 12.") families, of the foUowinj^ classes: 

 Spongia, Sponges. Anthozoa, Coral Polyps, roliipoxiediisw. Ilydrozoa. Crinoidea, 

 Sea Lilies. Jsteroidea, Star fishes. Echinoidea, Sea Urchins. Holothuroidea, 

 Sea encumbers. Annelida, Worms. Crustacea, Crabs, Shrimps, etc. Bri/o- 

 zoa, Moss Animals. Teihyodea, Ascidians.. .h-ac/o(*d«. Sea Sjiiders. 

 A collection of marine invertebrates in alcoliol. from the Ray of \;i])les. received 



from the Naples Zoological Station. 

 Mediterranean Octopns, a group, with accessories, rcitresenting the Octoi)us in its 

 natural surroundings. 

 A series of economic marine inverteln-at(^s and of other specimens illus- 

 trating the i)rincipal features of the fishing grounds was likewise with- 

 drawn by the Fish Commission for the same purpose. Mr. Benedict 



