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and bones of several species of Pinnipedia. Duplicate specimens of 

 marine invertebrates from the collections of the Fish Commission have 

 been supplied by the National Museum to the following institutions: 

 State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wis. 5 Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; 

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



Preparations were made during the year for illustrating the objects 

 and methods of work of this division, and the results so far accom- 

 plished by it, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The 

 exhibits were completed and transmitted in time for installation before 

 the opening day. As this subject will be reported upon in full by Dr. 

 Tarleton H. Bean, the representative of the Fish Commission at Chi- 

 cago, an account of the material displayed need not be given in this 

 connection. 



The following reports from persons not in the employ of the Fish 

 Commission, but based partly upon materials from its collections, were 

 completed and submit ted for j)ublication during the year : 



A review of the Sparoid Fishes of America, and Europe, By David Starr Jordan and 

 Bert Fesler, Report U. S. Fish Comm. for 1889-91, pp. 421-544, plates 28-62. 



On the Viviparous Fishes of the Pacific coast of North America. By Carl H. Eigen- 

 mann. Bull. U. S. Fish Comm. for 1892, pp. 381-478, plates 93-118. 



The Genus Salpa, a Monograph, with fifty-seven plates. By William K. Brooks, with 

 a supplementary paper by Maynard M. Metcalf. Memoirs from the Biological 

 Laboratory of the Johns Hopkins University, il, Baltimore, 1893. Two vol- 

 umes, quarto, text and plates. 



Report on the Actinte collected by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross 

 during the winter of 1887-1888, Bv J. Playfair McMurrich. Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., XVI, pp. 119-216, plates 19-35, 1893. 



Report on the Pteropods and Heteropods collected by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross during the voyage from Norfolk, Va., to San Francisco, Cal., 

 1887-1888. By James I. Peck. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, pp. 451-466, plates 

 53-55, 1893. 



List of Diatomacete from a deep-sea dredging in the Atlantic Ocean ofi^ Delaware 

 Bay by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross. By Albert Mann. Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, pp. 303-312, 1893. 



