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Dr. Tlieodoif Gill studied Anrioiis t'aniilics of tishes, drawiiii; upon 

 the material here to a large extent; l>r. ]). S. Jordan, president of the 

 Lelaiid Stanford Junior University, wrote a review of the eels, for which 

 jmrpose he examined the s])ecies in our collection. Mr. B. A. Bean has 

 been engaged on the work of identifying arul classifying niiscellaneons 

 lots of fishes, gathering material bearing especially npon tlie Chesa- 

 peake and its tributaries, selecting, and in many cases identifying, speci- 

 mens intended for distribution; and in A])ril, ISDl, commenced to make 

 a list of the hshes to be found in the markets of Washington, I). C. 

 Drs. Goode and Bean have continue<l their work upon the deep-sea 

 fishes, pushing it forward very ra])idly during the fall of 1890. 



Prof. ('. H. Gilbert continued his studies upon the fishes of the north- 

 west coast, collected by the steamer AUxitro.ss. Dr. C. H. Eigenmann 

 and Mrs. l<vigenmann carried on their work upon the tishes of the coast 

 of California, more es])ecially those of San Diego Bay. Several of the 

 students of the UniAersity of Indiana, under the auspi(;es of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission, studied the fishes of the West and Southwest, Prof. 

 B. W. Evermann, O. P. Jenkins, S. E. Meek, and others being ])romi- 

 nently identified with this work. Prof. S. A. Forbes, of the State Nor- 

 mal School at Champaign, III., has continued his valuable investiga- 

 tions into the food of our fresh -water species. 



EXPLORATIONS. 



The U. S. Fish Commission steamer AlhatrosH cruised in Bering Sea 

 during July and August, 1890. The cod andhalibut banks were exam- 

 ined and many dredgings Avere made. The collection of fishes obtained 

 was large and interesting, containing, as it did, many new forms. In 

 .lanuary, 1891, th^. AJhaiross proceeded south w\ard and made very large 

 collections of fishes oft" Panama, especially through the Galapagos 

 Islands, The U. S. Fish Commission steamer Fish JTairk was engaged 

 in an investigation of the oyster beds along the coast of Scmth Caro- 

 lina during the winter and early spring of 1S91. A small collection of 

 fishes was made by Mr. W. (-. Kendall, one of the assistants on board. 



Mr. William P. Seal, for the I". S. Fish Commission, collected fishes 

 in the Chesapeake Bay (Sei)tember 19 to October 5, 1890), at Cape 

 Charles, Virginia, and vicinity. About sixty species were obtained. 

 These have been re])orted upon by the assistant curator in a paper pub- 

 lished in the '' l*rocee(lings" of the Museum. 



