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Professor E. Perrier of the Jardin des Plantes has published 
in the Nouvelles Archives du Muséum his final Report on the 
Starfishes of the Blake, of which the administration of the Jar- 
din des Plantes kindly sent us fifty copies for the use of the 
Museum.* Professor Perrier having already published, in 1875 
and 1876, a general Revision of the Starfishes, based upon the 
examination of the collections of the principal Museums of 
Europe and of our own, we could not have intrusted the Blake 
collections to better hands. Professor Perrier’s memoir de- 
scribes forty-six new species from the region explored by the 
Blake. There were known previously from the same district 
only twenty-seven species, and the species first brought to light 
by the Blake have added nearly one tenth to the number of 
species of Starfishes known. 
It would be advisable, if possible, to change the somewhat 
cumbrous official name by which the Museum has been known 
for the past twenty-five years into a simpler and at the same 
time more comprehensive title, according better with the ex- 
tended field now covered by the Museum. 
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 
CAMBRIDGE, October 1, 1885. 
* Mémoire gur les Etoiles de Mer recuillies dans la Mer des Antilles et le Golfe 
du Mexique durant les Expéditions de dragage sous la Direction de M. Alexandre 
Agassiz. Par Edmond Perrier, Professeur Administrateur au Museum d’Histoire 
Naturelle de Paris. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum. Paris, 1884. Tom. VI. 
pp. 127-276. 
