imam oi t^t iJus^um of Comparatibe ^ooIoq^ 



AT HARVARD COLLEGE. 



Vol. XXX. No. 2. 



REPORTS ON AN EXPLORATION OFF THE WEST COASTS OF MEXICO, 

 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, AND OFF THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS, 

 IN CHARGE OF ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, BY THE U. S. FISH COMMISSION 

 STEAMER " ALBATROSS," DURING 1891, LIEUT. COMMANDER Z. L. 

 TANNER, U. S. N., COMMANDING. 



XXXI. 



THE RADIATING ORGANS OP THE 

 DEEP SEA PISHES. 



By ROBERT VON LENDENFELD. 



WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE BUD-LIKE ORGANS 

 OF MALTHOPSIS SPINULOSA GARMAN. 



By EMANUEL TROJAN. 

 WITH ELEVEN PLATES, 



AND A CHART OF THE ROUTE. 



[Published by Permission of Marshall McDonald and George M. Bowers, U. S. Commissioners 



of Fish and Fisheries.] 



CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A. : 



^rintetf for tije |$luseum» 



August, 1905. 



