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natural history. During three months Mr. Benedict was attached as 

 naturalist to the Fish Commission steamer Fiah HawJc while making 

 oyster surveys in Long Island Sound and on the coast of South Carolina, 

 and in that connetion obtained many valuable additions to our collec- 

 tion in the way of obscure and little-known crustaceans. Mr. A. E. 

 McConnell, a young draftsman, volunteered his services to the depart- 

 ment during June, and was employed in making drawings and in other 

 work. 



The total number of accessions recorded has been 32, aggregating a 

 much larger number of sj^ecies and specimens than for the previous 

 year. The contributions made by the Fish Commission have been 

 chiefly in the line of the Crustacea, including 56 species of Brachyura 

 and Anomoura dredgt^d by the steamer ^ /ft«tros,s^ chiefly in the Pacific 

 Ocean, a collection of Brachyura obtained by the schooner Grampus on 

 the red snapper banks of the Gulf of Mexico, and a very large series of 

 specimens of the genus Panopeus^ rei^resentiugrecent investigations by 

 the Fish Commission vessels along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the 

 United States. A number of Pacific Ocean Echini have also been depos- 

 ited by the Commission. 



Other large collections have been received as follows: From the Brit- 

 ish Museum, London, England, 95 species representing several groups of 

 marine invertebrates, mostly obtained during the voyage of H. M. S. 

 Challenger between 1873 and 187(5 ; from the Imperial Museum of Nat 

 ural History, Berlin, Germany, 86 species of echinoderms; from the 

 Royal Zoological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 85 species of marine 

 invertebrates collected by the Danish Exploring Expeditions of 1882-'83, 

 to the Arctic regions, Kara Sea, and the southern coast of Nova Zembla; 

 from Dr. E. A.Andrews, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., 57 

 species of annelids from Beaufort, N. C, and Willoughby Spit, Va. ; 

 from Prof. Henry A. Ward, Rochester, N. Y., a large series of crusta- 

 ceans from several localities. 



Many of the smaller accessions have also been of much value, the fol- 

 lowing among them being worthy of special mention : A series of marine 

 invertebrates from St. Panl Island, Bering Sea, and Unalaska, col- 

 lected by Mr. William Palmer, of the National Museum, and Mr. H. W. 

 Elliott, during the summer of 1800; n similar collection from Arichat, 

 Cai)e Breton, Nova Scotia, presented by Mr. W. A, Stearns, of Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. ; specimens of Crustacea from Dr. Charles F. Newcombe, 

 of Victoria, British Columbia, and obtained in that vicinity; entozoan 

 parasites of fish eating birds from (iiuaymas, Mexico, and crayfishes 

 from North Carolina, donated by P. L. Jouy; a miscellaneous collec-^ 

 tion from (\ R. Orcutt, of San Diego, Cal.; New Zealand sponges, 

 crabs, and starfishes from Henry Edwards, of New York; Bahama 

 starfishes from John I. Northrop, of Columbia College, New York; 

 Samoan sponges, corals, and echinoderms from Lieut. T. Dix Bolles, 

 U. S. Navy; crustaceans from the Fhnida Reefs, collected by Lieut. 



