170 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
the codperation of Dr. David 8. Jordan and Prof. Charles H. Gilbert, 
of Indiana University. As elsewhere explained, the fresh-water fishes 
have been mostly worked up at the last-mentioned institution, and the 
marine species recently collected by the Albatross on the Pacific coast 
have been sent there to be classified and described by Prof. Gilbert.* 
Jonsidering the invaluable assistance received from this source dur- 
ing the past four years, the acceptance by Dr. Jordan of the presidency 
of the Leland Stanford Junior University is to be regretted in the im- 
mediate interests of the Fish Commission, and yet, through his assur- 
ance of continued coédperation, the opportunity will now be afforded to 
make a thorough investigation of the fishery resources of California, 
a region which has been much neglected in that respect. 
Arrangements are now in progress for the study by specialists of 
high standing of many of the groups of oceanic animals which are 
richly represented in recent collections from the Pacific coast. This 
will be done without expense to the Government, and will insure the 
preparation of a very valuable series of reports upon the more important 
biological features of the fishing-grounds now in course of examination 
by the Albatross. The higher crustaceans from this region, such as the 
crabs and shrimps, are now being studied by Mr. James EH. Benedict 
and Miss M. J. Rathbun, of the U. 8S. National Museum. 
Very large collections of fishes and marine invertebrates have been 
transferred to the custody of the National Museum, and many sets of 
duplicate natural-history specimens have been distributed for educa- 
tional purposes, either directly by the Fish Commission or through the 
medium of the National Museum. The following institutions have 
been thus supplied: Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Museum 
of Comparative Zodlogy of Harvard University; Indiana University, 
Bloomington, Ind.; State Normal School, Terre Haute, Ind.; Purdue 
University, Indiana; Syrian College, Beirut, Syria; Clark University, 
Worcester, Mass.; University of South Carolina; Ottawa University, 
Ottawa, Kans.; Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis.; Muhlenberg 
College, Allentown, Pa.; University of Wisconsin, MWaaieore Wis.; 
High School, Council Bluffs, lowa; New Orleans University, New Or. 
leans, La. ; muhenants Cullens of Baltimore, Baltimore, Md.; Superin- 
tendent of schools, Olean, N. Y.; State Kevioultaral College, Corval- 
lis, Oregon; South sy Institute, Bridgeton, N. J.; Dakota Univer- 
*A eee Sern on the fishes collected by the steamer Albatross on the 
Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new 
genera and ninety-two new species. By Charles H. Gilbert. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 
X11, pp. 49-126, 1890. 
A supplementary list of fishes collected at the Galapagos Islands and Pamaran 
with descriptions of one new genus and three new species. By Charles H. Gilbert. 
Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x1, pp. 449-455, 1891. 
Descriptions of thirty-four. new species of fishes collected in 1888 and 1889, prin- 
cipally among the Santa Barbara Islands and in the Gulf of California. By Charles 
H. Gilbert. Proc. U. 8. Nat, Mus,, xu, pp. 539-566, 1891. ; 
