CXXXII REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



a complete series of the bottom samples taken by the steamer Albatross 

 during the recent investigations in the North Pacific Ocean and Bering 

 Sea, on which he has promised to prepare a special report. 



A very large amount of material in the line of fishes and marine 

 invertebrates, derived mainly from the expeditions of the Albatross 

 and the investigations in Montana and Wyoming, has been transferred 

 to the custody of the U. S. National Museum, and also a large series 

 of plants and many bird and mammal skins collected incidentally in 

 Alaska. Sets of duplicate specimens of natural history selected from 

 the collections made by the Fish Commission have been prepared and 

 distributed by the National Museum to the following institutions: 

 Biological School, Avon by the Sea, N. J. ; Wells College, Aurora, N. 

 Y.; Trinity University, Durham, N. C; Fort Worth University, Fort 

 Worth, Tex.; State Normal School, Mankato, Minn.; Iowa State Nor- 

 mal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa; State Normal School, Whitewater, 

 Wis.; Mansfield Memorial Museum, Mansfield, Ohio; Leland Stanford 

 Junior University, Cal.; Pennsylvania State Normal School, Millers- 

 ville, Pa. ; Tulane University, New Orleans, La. ; National Deaf-Mute 

 College, Washington, D. C; The Australian Museum, Sydney, New 

 South Wales; University of Toronto, Canada; Eoyal Zoological Museum 

 Copenhagen, Denmark. 



In addition to the above, several requests from specialists for mate 

 rial of different kinds, desired for the study of biological problems 

 have been met directly by the Fish Commission. 



Besides the papers referred to on preceding pages, the following 

 descriptive of Fish Commission materials, either wholly or in j)art 

 have been published during the past year: 



Fislies collected by William P. Seal in Chesapeake Bay, at Cape Charles City, Va., 



September 16 to October 3, 1890. By Barton A. Bean. Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. XIV, pp. 83-94, 1891. 

 Preliminary descriptions of 37 new species of Hermit Crabs of the genus Eupagxirus 



in the U. S. National Museum. By James E. Benedict. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. XV, pp. 1-26, 1892. 

 The Genus Panopeus. By James E. Benedict and Mary J. Rathbun. Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. XIV, pp. 3.55-38.5, Pis. xix-xxiv, 1891. 

 Scientillc results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. 



No. XX. On some new or interesting West American shells obtained from the 



dredgings of the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross in 1888, and from 



other sources. By William H. Dall. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xiv, pp. 173- 



1V»1, Pis. v-vii, 189 1. 

 Scientific results of explorations by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. 



No. XXI. Descriptions of Apodal fishes from the tropical Pacific. By Charles 



H. Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xiv, pp. 347-352, 1891. 

 On a peculiar type of arenaceous foraminifera from the American tropical Pacific. 



Neus'ma agassizi. By A. Goes. Bull. Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. xxiii, No. 5, pp. 



195-197, 1 plate. 



