XXXIII -LIST OF COLLECTIONS MADE BY THE FISHING VESSELS 

 OF GLOUCESTER AND OTHER, NEW ENGLAND SEA-PORTS FOIt 

 THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION, FROM 1877 TO 1880.* 



The fishes included in the following list were identified l>y Mr. G. Brown Goode 

 and Dr. T. H. Bean. The Invertebrata were either originally identified or have sub- 

 sequently been revised by Prof. A. E. Verrill, who is, therefore, to be considered re- 

 sponsible for the accuracy of the names. The nomenclature adopted for the Inverte- 

 hrata is very nearly that of the Preliminary Check-list of the Marine Invertebrata of 

 the Atlantic Coast, by A. E. Verrill, Edition of 1879. 



1. Capt. Daniel Carroll. A specimen of the "sea hen," or skua 

 gull (Stercorarius sJcua), from George's Bank, taken about July 9, 1878. 

 This was the first specimen of the species recorded from the coast of the 

 United States. 



2. Capt. Joseph W. Collins, sch. Marion. A grenadier (Macrurus 

 Fabricii), the second specimen known from the American coast, and a 

 king of the herrings (Chimcera plumbea), the third specimen ever seen 

 by naturalists; taken on a trawl-line in 275 fathoms of water, 30 miles 

 SE. by E. from the eastern light of Sable Island, N. S. 



3. Philip Merchant, sch. Marion. Two new species of bush-corals 

 (Acanella Norman i and Keratosis ornata), from the same locality as the 

 last; to these were clinging several shells and star fishes, new to science. 



4. Charles C. Cressy. A specimen of the oceanic dolphin (Cory- 

 phwnapunctulata)', locality not known. 



5. Mr. Murphy. A specimen of the gold-banded bush-coral (Kera- 

 toisis ornata Verrill); from the Grand Banks. 



6. William Parsons, sch. Howard Steele. A specimen of the snipe- 



* When the United States Fish Commission established its station at Gloucester, Mass., 

 in 1878, from which to prosecute its researches into the history and condition of the fish- 

 eries, the opportunity of securing the co-operation of the fishermen of the port in col- 

 lecting the deep-sea animals was gladly embraced. With scarcely an exception, the 

 captains and crews of the vessels engaged in the Banks fisheries undertook to preserve 

 all the miscellaneous objects brought up on their lines or trawls and place them in 

 alcohol furnished by the Commission. Such was the extent and variety of their collec- 

 tions that it was found expedient to keep an agent at Gloucester permanently, at the 

 office occupied at first by the Commission. Mr. R. E. Earll discharged this duty for a 

 number of months after the departure of the Commission, in 1878 ; and when he left to 

 serve as a census agent, Dr. T. H. Bean took his place during July, August, and Septem- 

 ber of 1879. Since then Mr. A. Howard Clark has been engaged in the same work. 



The amount of rare and new material included in the collections here recorded is 

 very great, and will be published in the various monographs to be prepared for the 

 Commission. — (S. F. Baird.) 



