BULLETIN 



OF THE 



IICTSTITTJTIE 



VOL. 4. SALEM, MASS., NOVEMBER, 1872. No. 11. 



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DR. PACKARD gave the following account of recent 



EXPLORATIONS OF ST. GEORGE'S BANK. 



During the past summer Prof. S. F. Baird, the U. S. 

 Fish Commissioner, with the assistance of Prof. Verrill, 

 fitted up an expedition to explore St. George's Banks 

 with the dredge, for the sake of ascertaining the nature 

 and quantity of the animals living upon and about these 

 shoals, to which our Cape Ann fishermen annually resort 

 for cod and halibut. Prof. Peirce, the Superintendent 

 of the Coast Survey, who had detailed the steamer 

 "Bache," Commander Howell, to make soundings on 

 and about the bank, generously made accommodations 

 aboard the steamer for the dredging party ; and two nat- 

 uralists, Messrs. S. I. Smith and O. Harger, assistants 

 in the Yale College Museum, spent a portion of Septem- 

 ber aboard, and made several hauls with the dredge on 

 the bank in about twenty fathoms, and again on the 

 eastern edge of the bank in sixty- five fathoms, while 



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