CXXXII REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



a complete series of the bottom samples taken by the steamer Albatross 

 during the recent investigations in the Korth Pacitic Ocean and Bering 

 Sea, on which he has jjromised to prepare a special report. 



A very large amount of material in the line of fishes and marine 

 invertebrates, derived mainly from the expeditions of the Albatross 

 and the investigations in Montana and Wyoming, has been transferred 

 to the custody of the U. S. National Museum, and also a large series 

 of plants and many bird and mammal skins collected incidentally in 

 Ahiska. Sets of duplicate specimens of natural history selected from 

 the collections made by the Fish Commission have been prepared and 

 distributed by the National Museum to the following institutions: 

 Biological School, Avon by the Sea, N. J.; Wells College, Aurora, N. 

 y. ; Trinity University, Durham, N. C. ; Fort Worth University, Fort 

 Worth, Tex.; State Normal School, Mankato, Minn.; Iowa State Nor- 

 mal School, Cedar Falls, Iowa; State Normal School, Whitewater, 

 Wis.- Mansfield Memorial Museum, Mansfield, Ohio; Leland Stanford 

 ,Tunior University, Cal.; Pennsylvania State Normal School, Millers- 

 ville Pa.; Tulane University, New Orleans, La,; National Deaf- Mute 

 College, Washington, D. C; The Australian Museum, Sydney, New 

 South Wales; University of Toronto, Canada; Eoyal Zoological Museum, 

 Copenhagen, Denmark. 



In addition to the above, several requests from specialists for mate- 

 rial of different kinds, desired for the study of biological problems, 

 have been met directly by the Fish Commission. 



Besides the papers referred to on preceding pages, the following, 

 descriptive of Fish Commission materials, eitlier wholly or in part, 

 have been published during the past year: 



Fisbes collected by William P. Seal in Cbesapeake Bay, at Cape Cbarles City, Va., 



September 16 to October 3, 1890. By Bartou A. Beau. Froc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol. XIV, pp. 83-94, 1891. 

 Preliiniuary descriptions of 37 new species of Hermit Crabs of tbe genus Eupagurus 



in tlic U.S. National Museum. By James E. Benedict. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 



vol.xv,pp. 1-26, 1892. 

 Tbe Genus Panopeus. By James E. Benedict and Mary J. Ratbbun. Proc. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., vol. XIV, pp. SSS-SS.'), Pis. xix-xxiv, 1891. 

 Scientific results of explorations by tbe U. S. Fisb Connnission steamer Albatross. 



No. XX. On some new or interesting West American sbells obtained from tbe 



dred'finTS of tbe U. S. Fisb Commission steamer Albatross in 1888, and from 



otber sources. By W^illiam H. Dall. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. xiv, pp. 173- 



I'.ll, Pis. v-vii, 1891. 

 Scientific results of explorations by tbe U. S. Fisb Commission steamer Albatross. 



No. xxi. Descriptions of Apodal fisbes from tbe tropical Pacitic. By Cbarles 



H. Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., voL xiv, pp. 347-352, 1891. 

 On a peculiar type of arenaceous foraminifera from tbe American tropical Pacific, 



Nciisina agassizi. By A. Goes. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. xxiii, No. 5, pp. 



195-197, 1 plate. 



