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FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 541 



by these two parties were enormous, and especially rich in mollusks, corals, Echin- 

 oderrns, and Crustacea. 



Wesleyan College, Connecticut. — Explorations of the marine fauna of Bermuda, by Mr. 

 G. Brown Goode, in 1872 and 1877, the latter year in company with Professor W. N. 

 Rice, and of the Saint John's River, Florida, for fresh- water fishes, by Mr. Goode, in 

 1874; collecting trip to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, on behalf of tbe United 

 States Fish Commission, by Mr. Henry Osborn, in 1878, and by Dr. F. V. Hamlin to 

 Bermuda, in 1881. 



Cornell University, New York. — Brazilian explorations of Professor Charles Fred. 

 Hartt, partly under the auspices of the college, from 1867 to 1871. In 1874 Pro- 

 fessor Hartt was appointed chief of the Geological Commission of Brazil, in recogni- 

 tion of his intimate knowledge of the natural features of that country, and retained 

 that position up to the time of his death, in March, 1878. The plan of the survey 

 included a thorough investigation of the marine and fresh-water fauna, and especi- 

 ally of the coral reef region, which presents many novel and interesting features. 

 Extensive collections of marine and fresh-water animals of all kinds were made and 

 taken to Rio de Janeiro, where they now form a part of the Brazilian National Mu- 

 seum. Preliminary reports have already been published regarding a portion of them. 

 The zoological materials of Professor Hartt's private expeditions to Brazil are now at 

 Cornell University. They have been fully described in published reports. 



Union College, New York. — Studies and very extensive collections of marine anne- 

 lids on the coasts of New England, New Jersey, and Virginia, by Professor H. E. 

 Webster, from 1871 to date, assisted by Mr. J. E. Benedict, from 1878 to date. From 

 1871 to 1873, Professor Webster was a member of the exploring party of the United 

 States Fish Commission. 



Vassar College, New York. — Collecting trips of Professor James Orton to the Ama- 

 zonas and west coast of South America. 



Eochester University, New York. — Rare collection of foreign animals obtained by Pro 

 fessor H. Ward. 



Princeton College, New Jersey. — Anatomical and embryological investigations of ma- 

 rine animals. 



Johns Hopkins University, Maryland. — Anatomical and embryological researches of 

 W. K. Brooks, E. B. Wilson, H. J.Rice, and others, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, 

 and at Beaufort, North Carolina. Many valuable embryological studies of economic 

 marine animals, for industrial purposes, have been conducted at this young institu- 

 tion, especially by Professor Brooks. 



University of Indiana, and Butler University, Indiana. — Ichthyological explorations 

 of the rivers and sea-coasts of the United States and Western Mexico, by Professor D. 

 S. Jordan and Mr. C. H. Gilbert. In 1880 and 1881, Messrs. Jordan and Gilbert ex- 

 plored the west coast of the United States, from Puget Sound to, and including, the 

 northwestern part of Mexico, in the interest of the United States Fish Commission, 

 making enormous collections of fishes, including many new species and genera. The 

 private explorations of these two gentlemen have been mainly confined to the fresh 

 waters of Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia, and the coast 

 of the Gulf of Mexico. In 1878, Professor Jordan, with Mr. A. W. Brayton, made a 

 large collection of marine fishes in the vicinity of Beaufort, North Carolina. 



The collection of fishes of Jordan and Gilbert, at the Indiana University, is one of 

 the largest and finest in the country, and contains an exceedingly large number of 

 types. Professor O. P. Hay, of Butler University, has recently obtained and de- 

 scribed many species of fishes from the Mississippi River. 



Note.— The descriptive matter contained in the following catalogue has been 

 partly made up directly from the objects, and partly taken from published and 

 unpublished reports. The description of the steamer Albatross was furnished by 

 Lieu ten ant- Commander Tanner, United States Navy, and many of those regarding 

 the appliances used by the Coast Survey have been supplied by Commander Sigsbee, 

 United States Navy. 



