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the care of collections which those who have brought them 
together are unable to give them, and thus be almost compelled 
to divert our means from the more legitimate outlays of the 
Museum, without at the same time receiving the necessary 
assistance for such increased work. 
I am happy to state that the invaluable collection of Indian 
Birds presented to the Museum by Mr. A. O. Hume of Simla 
is now at the British Museum. In a letter addressed to Prof. 
W. H. Flower, Director of the British Museum, Mr. Hume 
says, ‘* Of the duplicates available, I would wish that the first 
set should be sent to Professor Agassiz.’’ The Director of the 
British Museum also informs me that the selection of our series 
will, in accordance with the wishes of Mr. Hume, be made by 
Mr. Sharpe. 
A list of the Museum publications issued during the past 
academic year is given in Appendix A of this Report. They 
consist of two numbers of the Bulletin, and of two numbers of 
the Memoirs. The third number of the Embryological Mono- 
graphs having absorbed nearly all the miscellaneous plates pre- 
pared for that work, this publication will for the present be 
discontinued. Professor Whitney has published for the Museum 
the first part of the Lithological Studies by Professor Wads- 
worth, announced in the last Report. 
The Report of Mr. Murray on the specimens of bottom de- 
posits obtained by the ‘‘ Blake” is now passing through the 
press, and will form one of the numbers of the Bulletin. Pro- 
fessor Faxon has also completed his “ Revision of the Astacide,” 
and I have myself, in connection with Mr. Whitman, completed 
the first part of an investigation on the “‘ Embryology of Osseous 
Fishes.” These two monographs have been printed, and will 
be issued as numbers of the Museum Memoirs. 
In addition to the investigations issued in the publications of 
the Museum, Professors Hagen, Shaler, Faxon, and Davis, and 
Messrs. Garman and Fewkes, have published in the Proceedings 
of the American Academy and other journals a number of papers. 
A list of these is appended to the special Reports. I have with 
Dr. Whitman printed in the Proceedings of the American Acad- 
emy a preliminary account of our investigations on the develop- 
ment of Pelagic Fishes. I have also made excellent progress 
towards completing the final Report of the ‘‘ Blake Cruises.” 
