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above, to secure priority for American work; but with regard to the species 
mentioned or indicated in the “ Challenger” reports, but not described, I have 
left all such untouched, as belonging, by proper courtesy, to the English natu- 
ralists to make known.” 
A good part of the collections made in the “Blake” have already 
been sent to several naturalists for examination, and I hope to be 
able to publish, without too great delay, the preliminary Reports in 
addition to the one of Mr. Dall printed with this letter. The Fishes 
have been intrusted to Dr. F. Steindachner, Director of the Zoülogical 
Museum of Vienna; the Sponges, to Prof. Oscar Schmidt of Strasbourg ; 
the Crustacea and Starfishes, to Prof. Alph. Milne-Edwards and to Prof. 
E. Perrier of the Jardin des Plantes of Paris; the Annelids, to Prof. 
Ernst Ehlers of Göttingen. The Crinoids, as I have Stated, will be 
sent to Sir Wyville Thomson, the Ascidians to Prof. Lacaze Duthiers, 
the Foraminifera to Mr. H. B. Brady, and the Ostracoda to Mr. G. S. 
Brady, both of Newcastle. In this country the Corals and Holothurians 
will be, worked up by Mr. Pourtalés, the Ophiurans by Mr. Lyman, the 
Hydroids by Mr. S. F. Clark of the John's Hopkins University, and I 
shall take the Sea-Urchins myself. No disposition has as yet been 
made of the Haleyonoids and Bryozoa. As the latter are not numerous, 
it is possible that the collection does not contain many novelties. They 
will be examined and compared with the collection formerly made by 
Mr. Pourtalés, and described by Professor Smitt, of Stockholm, 
