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copies of the complete volumes of reports and bulletins, and 8,300 copies 

 of the separate articles appearing in them. 



Under the general title " Reports on an Exploration off the West 

 Coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos 

 Islands, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission 

 steamer Albatross, during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z. L. Tanner, 

 TJ. S. K, commanding," the following papers were published in the 

 Bulletins of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass.: 



Report upon rocks collected from the Galapagos Islands. By George P. Merrill. 



(xvi, No. 13.) 

 Preliminary descriptions of new species of Crustacea. By Walter Faxon, (xxiv, 



No. 7.) 

 The Orthoptera of the Galapagos Islands. By Samuel H. Scudder. (xxv, No. 1.) 

 Compte- Rendu sur les Pantopodes. Par W. M. Schimkewitsch. (xxv, No. 2. ) 

 Report on th«i Tnrbellaria. By W. McM. Woodwortk. (xxv, No. 4.) 

 Note Prclimiuaire sur les Alcyonaires. Par Th<5ophile Studer. (xxv, No. 5.) 

 The Hydroids. By Samuel F. Clarke, (xxv. No. 6.) 



There were also issued during the year in the "Proceedings of the 

 United States National Museum," under the general title " Scientific 

 results of explorations by the United States Fish Commission steamer 

 Albatross," the following papers: 



Report on the Actinia? collected by the United States Fish Commission steamer Alba- 

 tross during the winter of 1887-88. By J. Playfair McMurrick. 



Descriptions of new genera and species of crabs from the west coast of North 

 America and the Sandwich Islands. By Mary J. Rathbun. 



Report on the mollusk-fauna of the Galapagos Islands, with descriptions of new 

 species. By Robert E. C. Steams. 



Report on the p'teropods and heteropods collected by the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion steamer A Ibatross during the voyage from Norfolk, Va., to San Francisco, 

 Cal., 1887-88. Bv James I. Peck. 



Catalogue of a collection of birds made in Alaska by Mr. C. II. Townseud during the 

 cruise of the United States Fish Commission steamer A Ibatross, in the summer 

 and autumn of 1888. By Robert Ridgway. 



On Cetomimida' and Botideletiidw, two new families of bathybial iishes from the 

 northwestern Atlantic. By G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. 



A revision of the order Heteromi, deep-sea rishes, with a description of the new 

 generic types Macdonaldia and Lipogcmjs. By G. Brown Goode and Tarleton 

 H. Bean. 



On Harriotta, a new type of chinwroid fish from the deeper waters of the north- 

 western Atlantic. By G. Brown Goode and Tarleton H. Bean. 



Descriptions of new genera and species of crabs of the family Lithodidee, with notes 

 on the young of Lithodes camtschaticus and Lithodes brevipes. By James E. 

 Benedict. 



Report upon the Crustacea of the order Stomatopoda collected by the steamer Alba- 

 tross between 1885 and 1891, and other specimens in the United States National 

 Museum. By Robert Payne Bigelow. 



COURTESIES RECEIVED AND EXTENDED. 



The Treasury Department, through Mr. J. Stanley-Brown, furnished 

 base-maps of the seal rookeries of the Pribilof Islands showing their 

 condition in the years 1891 and 1892, and negatives of photographs of 

 the rookeries taken during the latter year; also enlarged photographic 

 reproductions of the charts of the same region made by Mr. Henry W. 

 Elliott in 1890. 



The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey supplied its charts as 

 issued, and also met special requests for additional copies of charts 

 needed for use in the inquiries conducted by the Commission. At the 



