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Crinoids obtained by the “ Blake.” Excellent progress is mak- 
ing with the reports on the “Blake” collections still unfinished, 
and it is hoped that during the coming year the reports may all 
be published. The plates for Mr. Dall’s Report are nearly com- 
pleted, and Professor Goode and Dr. Beane hope within a very 
short time to send the manuscript of the descriptions of the col- 
lection of Fishes made in the Gulf of Mexico by the “ Blake.” 
With the completion of these publications it will be possible to 
devote more space than heretofore to the results of the special 
work of the Assistants, and to the investigations of the Pro- 
fessors, Assistants, and students in the Museum Laboratories 
both at Cambridge and at Newport. 
The work at Newport has been limited during this season to 
that on the Embryology of Echinoderms by Dr. Fewkes, — who 
has been quite successful in tracing the development of Echina- 
rachnius and of Ophiurans, — and to my own work on the Em- 
bryology of Pelagic Fishes. 
At the Museum Dr. Whitman has continued his previous 
work. Dr. Faxon has, in addition to his College instruction, 
devoted his time to the revision of the Astacide. Dr. Mark has 
nearly brought to completion the memoirs he is preparing on the 
development of Lepidosteus, while taking charge of the Embry- 
ological Laboratory. This Laboratory will hereafter be well 
equipped for work, the Corporation having made an appro- 
priation to supply it with the greater part of the necessary 
apparatus. 
Dr. Farlow, although on leave of absence, spent a portion of 
his time at Cambridge at work on a Monograph of the North 
American Puccinize and Uromyces. For the completion of this 
memoir he collected a considerable amount of material dur- 
ing his trip to the West Coast. Dr. Farlow regrets that the 
Botanical Department should not have a Museum where the 
larger and more striking forms of vegetation could be displayed. 
The greater part of the collection made by Dr. Farlow had to be 
reduced to the common herbarium size. In addition to some 
short notes Dr. Farlow published in the Proceedings of the 
American Academy ‘Notes on some Species of Gymnospo- 
rangium,” and a paper on the Synchytria in the Botanical 
Gazette. 
Doctor Horn of Philadelphia has kindly spent a number 
