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Section G — Continued. Page. 



Investigations by Museums and Societies of Natural History — Continued. 



Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 539 



Elliott Society of Charleston, South Carolina 540 



Chicago Academy of Science 540 



California Academy of Science, San Francisco 540 



Private collectors 540 



Investigations by Colleges ." 540 



Bowdoin College, Maine 540 



Williams College, Massachusetts 540 



Amherst College, Massachusetts 540 



Brown University, Rhode Island 540 



Yale College, Connecticut 540 



Wesleyan University, Connecticut 541 



Cornell University, New York 541 



Union College, New York 541 



Vassar College, New York 541 



Rochester University, New York 541 



Princeton College, New Jersey 541 



Johns Hopkins University, Maryland , 541 



University of Indiana and Butler University 541 



DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF COLLECTION. 



Vessels employed in marine explorations 543 



The United States Fish Commission steamer Albatross 543 



The United States Fish Commission steamer Fish Hawk 550 



The United States Coast Survey steamer Blake 554 



Apparatus for collecting zoological materials 559 



Naturalists' deep-sea dredge 559 



Naturalists' boat-dredge 559 



Blake dredge 560 



Chester rake-dredge 560 



Benedict rake-dredge 561 



Beam trawl 562 



Blake trawl or double-beam trawl 563 



Tangle-frame and swabs 565 



Towing nets 566 



Trawl wings 566 



Sigsbee's gravitating trap 567 



Baird seine 569 



Dip net 570 



Accessory appliances used in dredging and trawling 570 



Steel wire dredge-rope 570 



Sigsbee's improved dredging accumulator 572 



Iron dredge blocks 573 



Brass dredge blocks 573 



Safety hooks -. 574 



Appliances for the examination and storage of zoological material , . 574 



Table or deck sieve 574 



Cradle or rock sieve 575 



Circular hand sieves , 576 



Small sieves 577 



Fish pans and sorting dishes 577 



Naturalists' forceps 578' 



Copper tanks 578 



Glass jars, bottles, »pd vials 579 



