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REPORT ON THE RADIATES. 
By J. WAtrer FewkKeEs. 
DurineG the past year the whole collection of dry Corals and 
Sponges, together with the dry Starfishes and Hchinoids, have 
been arranged in a room on the fifth floor in the new part of 
the Museum. The large collection of deep-sea bottoms, mostly 
those collected on the different ‘‘ Blake”? Expeditions, have been 
transferred to the same room. With these a collection of coral 
rocks and sands has also been placed. 
The large collection of ‘“ Blake” Sponges identified by 
Schmidt, containing many types, has been divided. The dried 
specimens have been placed in the new room with the general 
collection of dried Sponges, while the alcoholic portion has been 
removed to the cellar. 
The dried specimens of deep-sea Corals identified by Mr. 
Pourtalés have been placed with the general collection. My 
room in the new part of the Museum now contains, with the 
sea-bottoms, coral rocks, and a few corallines, most of the dried 
specimens of Sponges, Hydroids, Corals, and Echinoderms ; while 
a room in the cellar of the old part will be devoted to alcoholic 
specimens of the same groups. 
The rich collection of living Crinoids from the ‘“ Blake” 
Expeditions have been identified and added to the alcoholic 
Echinoderms. A list of localities from which specimens of these 
animals were taken has been published in a Museum Bulletin 
of the past year, supplemental to Mr. P. Herbert Carpenter’s 
Report on the “‘ Blake”? Crinoids. Specimens of the different 
species mentioned in this list have been sent to several Museums. 
A representative collection of living Crinoids has been placed on 
exhibition in the South American Faunal Room, and in the gen- 
eral Exhibition Collection of Echinoderms. 
