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Faxon took charge of the general Biological Laboratory, assisted 
by Mr. J. H. Perkins. 
Professor Shaler and Mr. Davis gave the usual courses in 
Geology, Paleontology, and Physical Geography. 
Prof. J. D. Whitney gave, as heretofore, a course in Economic 
Geology, Mr. Wadsworth assisting in a part of the course. 
The publications embodying original work carried on in the 
different departments, or based upon Museum materials, will be 
found enumerated in the special Reports. 
During the past summer the following persons pursued their 
studies at my Newport Laboratory : — ‘ 
Mr. Fewkes, one of the Museum Assistants, devoted his time 
principally to the Embryology of Siphonophores. 
Mrs. Whitman made good progress with her studies of the 
early stages of the Crab. 
Professor C. O. Whitman assisted me in the continuation of 
my investigation upon the early stages of Fishes, commenced 
the previous year. A preliminary notice of this work has been 
published, “‘ On the Development of some Pelagic Fish Eggs, 
by Alexander Agassiz and C. O. Whitman.” (Proc. Am. 
Acad., XX., pp. 52, 1 pl., August, 1884.) 
A special list of the Museum publications during the last 
Academie year is given in Appendix A of this Report. They 
consist of seven numbers of the Bulletin, and two numbers and 
two volumes of the Memoirs; the two complete volumes, on 
the Water Birds of North America, are in continuation of the 
publications of the California Geological Survey, in connection 
with Prof. J. D. Whitney. 
About six hundred volumes have been added to bai Library 
of the Museum during the past year. 
Small collections of Vertebrate Fossils have been received 
from Wyoming and Kansas, but they have not yet been ex- 
amined carefully enough to enable me to report upon their 
value. 
A collection of alcoholic Invertebrates, destined for the At- 
lantic Exhibition Rooms, has been purchased from the Naples 
Zoological Station. It is in a remarkably perfect state of 
preservation. 
We have also received from Professor Lesquereux the collec- 
tion of fossil plants collected by Professor Lakes, principally in 
Colorado, which had been sent to him for study. 
