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REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA. 
By WALTER Faxon. 
Two important acquisitions have been made within a year ; 
viz. a set of the deep-sea Crustacea dredged by the United States 
Fish Commission steamer ‘‘ Albatross ”’ (27 species, 218 specimens, 
determined by Prof. S. I. Smith), and a large lot of alcoholic 
Crustacea, selected by me last November from the collection of 
the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem. ‘This addition to 
the Museum collection is a very valuable one on account of the nu- 
merous types of species described by Packard, Smith, Kingsley, 
and others, that are included in it, as well as on account of the 
intrinsic nature of the specimens. 
The Systematic, North American, and Synoptic collections in 
the Exhibition Rooms were carefully revised last winter, gaps in 
the series were filled, and all the old specimens transferred from 
card-board to slate tablets. 
