[297] INVERTEBRATE ANIMALS OF VINEYARD SOUND, ETC. 3 
lists of the species found in them were made. Most of those thus as- 
certained to be their ordinary food were traced to their natural haunts 
from whence the fishes obtain them. 
9th. The parasites of fishes, both external and internal, were to be 
collected and preserved for future study. 
A large collection of such parasites was made, but the internal para- 
sites, which are very numerous, have not yet been studied. The inter- 
nal parasites were collected chiefly by» Dr. Edward Palmer. 
The map accompanying the present report serves to show the locali- 
ties explored, and the extent of the labor in dredging and sounding. 
The operations during the first six weeks were under the charge of Mr. 
S. I. Smith, who remained until July 25. He was assisted by Dr. W. 
G. Farlow; who also investigated the alge. Professor J. E. Todd, of 
Tabor, Iowa, then took charge of the work for three weeks, until I was 
able to join the party, on the 16th of August. During the remainder 
of the season, until September 20, the operations were under my imme- 
diate superintendence; but Professor A. Hyatt, of Boston; Dr. A. S. 
Packard, of Salem; Dr. Farlow, of Cambridge; and Professor D.C. Eaton, 
of New Haven, gave very important aid in carrying out our investiga- 
tions, and our thanks are due to all of these gentlemen for their assist- 
ance. Several other naturalists were present, from time to time, and 
coOperated with our party in various ways. 
The dredging operations in the shallow waters of Vineyard Sound 
and Buzzard’s Bay were carried on at first by means of a sail-boat, but 
during the greater part of the time by means of a steam-launch. The 
dredgings outside of these waters, and off Martha’s Vineyard, were all 
done by means of a United States revenue-cutter, the steamer Mocea- 
sin, under command of Captain J. G. Baker. Our thanks are due to 
the officers of the Moccasin, who were very courteous, and gave us all 
the facilities within their power for carrying out our investigations suc- 
cessfully. Without this important assistance we should have remained 
in complete ignorance of the temperature and peculiar fauna of the 
deeper waters oif this shore, for the localities were too distant to be 
reached by means of the steam-launch or sail-boats. 
The examination of the bottom was done by means of dredges of 
various sizes, constructed much like those in general use for this pur- 
pose; by “‘rake-dredges” of novel co istruction, consisting of a heavy 
A-shaped iron frame, to the arms of which bars of iron armed with 
long, thin, and sharp teeth, arranged like those of a rake, are bolted, 
back to back; a rectangular frame of round iron, supporting a deep 
and fine dredge-net, follows just behind the rake to receive and retain 
the animals raked from the soft mud or sand by the rake; a trawl-net, 
with a beam about fourteen feet long, made of stout, iron gas-pipe, and 
having a net, fine toward the end, about forty feet deep, aud provided 
with numerous pockets; “tangles,” consisting of an A-shaped iron 
frame, to which frayed-out hemp-ropes are attached. The best form 
