No. 5 — Preliminary Report on the Echini collected in 1906, from 

 May to December, among the Aleutian Islands, in Bering Sea, 

 and along the coasts of Kamtchatha, Saghalin, Korea, and 

 Japan, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross," 

 in charge of Lieut. Commander L. M. Garrett, U. S. N., 

 Commanding. By Alexander Agassiz and Hubert Lyman 

 Clark. 



The "Albatross" sailed from San Francisco via Seattle 1 to Dutch 

 Harbor, Alaska ; thence to the westward among the Aleutian Islands, 

 swinging northward and back again to take in Bowers Bank in Bering 

 Sea ; from the end of the Aleutian chain northwestward to the Ko- 

 mandorski Islands, then to Petropaulovsk, Kamchatka; thence round- 

 ing the southern point of this peninsula and up its western coast to 

 Lat. 51° 40' ; from this point southwestward to the Okhotsk Sea along 

 the Kuril Islands to Hakodate, whence the course was taken along the 

 western coast of Hondo, crossing the Sea of Japan to the Korean coast ; 

 thence zigzagging southward among the numerous islands at the lower 

 end of the Japanese archipelago, including the northern Linschotens; 

 northward along the eastern Japanese coast, through the Inland Sea and 

 along the outer coast of Hondo again to Hakodate, thus completely cir- 

 cumnavigating Hondo and Kiushiu. From Hakodate the ship cruised 

 northward, west of Hokkaido, up the western coast of Saghalin Island 

 to Lat. 47° 40'; returning and rounding the lower end of the island to 

 Cape Patience, on the eastern side ; from Cape Patience south again 

 to the eastward of Hokkaido and back to Hakodate, returning thence to 

 Yokohama, from which point, after a short cruise in Suruga and Sagami 

 bays, the vessel sailed for San Francisco. 



The collection of Echini made by the "Albatross" from May 3 to 

 December 10, 1906, is interesting, as it connects the fauna of the deep 

 waters of Alaska and off the Aleutian Islands with that of Japan. The 

 collection from Japanese waters is important, as with those made by 

 Doderlein, we now have a good representation of Japanese Echini living 



1 The route of the "Albatross" is taken from Dredging and Hydrographic Rec- 

 ords of the U. S. Fisheries Steamer "Albatross," for the year 1906. Washington, 

 1907. 



