1 70 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



tlic ((((iperatioii of J)r. David S. .Jordan and Prof. Charles II. Gilhcrt, 

 of Indiana UniNcrsity. As olscwliere explained, tlie fresliwator fislie.s 

 have been mostly worked up at the last mentioned institution, and the 

 marine species recently collected by the Albatross ou the Pacific coast 

 liavebeen sent there to be classified and described by Prof. Gilbert.* 



Considering' the invaluable assistance received from this source dur- 

 ing the past four yt'ars, the acceptance by Dr. Jordan of the presidency 

 of tlie Leland Stanford Junior University is to be rej^retted in the im- 

 mediate interests of the Fish Commission, and yet, thronj^h his assur- 

 ance of continued cooperation, the oi)portunity will now be afforded to 

 make a thorough investigation of the fishery resources of California, 

 a rej^ion which has been much neglected in that respect. 



Arrangements are now in i)rogress for the study by specialists of 

 high standing of many of the groups of oceanic animals which are 

 richly represented in recent collections from the Pacific coast. This 

 will be done without expense to the Government, and Avill insure the 

 l)reparation of a very valuable series of reports u^ion the more imi)ortant 

 biological features of the fishing-grounds noAV in course of examination 

 by the Allxitross. The higher crustaceans from this region, such as the 

 crabs and shrimps, are now being studied by Mr. James E. Benedict 

 and Miss M. J. Rathbun, of the U. S. National Museum. 



Very large collections of fishes and marine invertebrates have been 

 transferred to the custody of the National Museum, and many sets of 

 duplicate natural-history specimens have been distributed for educa- 

 tional ])urposes, either directly by the Fish Commission or through the 

 medium of the National Museum. The following institutions have 

 been thus supplied: Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Museum 

 of C-omparative Zo(»logy of Harvard University; Indiana University, 

 Bloomington, Ind.; State Normal School, Terre Haute, Ind.; Purdue 

 University, Indiana; Syrian College, Beirut, Syria ; Clark University, 

 AVorcester, Mass.; University of South Carolina; Ottawa Univ^ersity, 

 Ottawa, Kans.; Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.; JMnhlenberg 

 College, Allentown, Pa.; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.; 

 High School, Council Bluffs, Iowa; New Orleans University, New Or- 

 leans, La.; Woman's College ol' Baltimore, lialtimore, Md. ; Superin- 

 tend«'nt of schools, Olean, N. Y.; State Agricultural College, C(U'val- 

 lis, Oregon; South Jersey Institute, Bridgeton, N. J.; Dakota Univer- 



*A prolirainary report on the fishes collected by the steamer Jihniross on the 

 Pacific coast of North America, duriiijr the year 1889, with (leHcrii)tioii,s of twelve new 

 Kciiera ami nim-ty-t wo new species. By Charles II. Oilhert. Proc. U. 8. Nat. Mns., 

 xni, ]!]). 'lil-TJC, IS'.K). 



A snii]ileiiieiitary list of fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands .and P.anama, 

 with descriptions of one new f^cnus and three new species. By Ch.arlos II. Gilbert. 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mns., xiii, ])p. 44!M.5."), 1891. 



Descriptions of thirty-fonr new species of fishes ccdlccted in 1888 and 1889, prin- 

 ••ipally ;Mnonn the Santa P.arbara Islands and in tlie (inlf of California. By Charles 

 ii. Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Miis., xni, pp. .539-5GG, 1891. 



