No. 1. — Reports on the Dredging Operations off the West Coast of 
Central America to the Galapagos, to the West Coast of Mexico, 
and in the Gulf of California, in Charge of ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, 
carried on by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer “ Albatross,” 
LIEUT. COMMANDER Z. L. TANNER, U. S. N., Commanding. 
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General Sketch of the Expedition of the “ Albatross,” from February to 
May, 1891. By ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 
[Published by Permission of Mansmarnn McDonaxp, U. S. Fish Commissioner. ] 
Route; or THE EXPEDITION. 
We left Panama on the 22d of February, and returned there after an 
absence of twenty days. During our first trip, the route extended from 
Panama to Point Mala, and next to Cocos Island ; from there we ran in 
a southerly direction, then northwesterly to Malpelo Island, and back to 
the hundred fathom line off the Bay of Panama, where we spent several 
days trawling off the continental plateau of the Bay. 
After coaling, we left Panama, and reached Galera Point, where we be- 
gan our second line, across the Humbolt Current to the southern face of 
the Galapagos. We spent a few days at the Galapagos visiting Chatham, 
Charles, Duncan, and James Islands, and then steamed for Acapulco, 
making casts of the trawl, and of the surface and the submarine tow- 
nets, at various points. 
After a few days’ delay at Acapulco to coal the ship, we left that port 
on the 15th of April for our third cruise, into the Gulf of California, and 
steamed as far as Cape Corrientes without attempting to do any trawl- 
ing. The character of the bottom, as indicated on the charts, promised 
nothing different from what we had dredged off Acapulco, and on the 
line from there to the Galapagos Islands. We made one haul off Cape 
* I. Calamocrinus Diomedæ, a new Stalked Crinoid. Memoirs Mus. Comp. 
Zoöl., Vol. XVII. No. 2, 1892. 96 pp. With 82 plates. 
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