CVI REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 
coasts of Alaska, Washington, and Oregon; by the steamer Fish HaicJc 
while on the west coast of Florida and in Frovidence River and Long 
Island Sound ; by the schooner Grampus , on the red-snapper banks of 
the Gulf of Mexico, and by the inland parties investigating the lakes 
and rivers. The principal material transferred to the National Museum 
consisted of the type series of fishes from the inland explorations, the 
reports of which had been completed, and of the mammals, birds, rep- 
tiles, plants, geological and ethnological specimens obtained incidentally 
during the recent cruises of the Albatross. Duplicate sets of the fishes 
collected by the inland parties were also distributed to several institu- 
tions, as described elsewhere, and many groups of animals were sent to 
specialists for study and report. The distribution of duplicate natural- 
history specimens, however, is chiefly made through the U. S. National 
Museum, which is better equipped for that purpose. 
The large and fine collection of fishes and marine invertebrates 
obtained by the steamer Albatross during the voyage from Washington 
to San Francisco in 1887-88, described in the last annual report, was 
received at Washington in July, 1888. The assorting of the material 
was undertaken by Prof. Leslie A. Lee, of Bowdoin College, who had 
been in charge of the scientific work of the expedition, and early in the 
winter the different groups had been carefully separated and prepared 
for study. For the working up of these collections, which contain many 
unique and interesting forms, and the preparation of reports upon them, 
it was necessary to obtain the cooperation of many specialists who could 
afford to give their time gratuitously. Much assistance of that charac- 
ter was fortunately secured, and by the close of the y&ar the following 
assignments had been made: The deep-sea fishes and those collected 
along the shores of southern South America, to Dr. Tarleton H. Bean; 
the shore fishes of Santa Lucia, West Indies, Bahia, Brazil, the Gala- 
pagos Islands, and Panama, to Dr. David S. Jordan; the fishes from 
between Acapulco, Mexico, and San Francisco, to Prof. Charles H. Gil- 
bert; the brachyuran, isopod, and phyllopod crustaceans, to Prof. Leslie 
A. Lee; the stomatopod crustaceans to Prof. W. K. Brooks; the alpheid 
crustaceans, to Prof. F. H. Herrick; the pycnogonids, to Prof. 
E. B. Wilson; the annelids, to James E. Benedict; the nematod and 
trematod worms, to Prof. Edwin Linton; the salpae, to Prof. W. K. 
Brooks; the gastropod, scaphopod, and lamellibrancli mollusks and the 
brachiopods, to William H. Dali; the pteropod and heteropod mollusks, 
to James I. Peck; the crinoids and echini, to Prof. Alexander Agassiz; 
the corals, to Richard Rathbun; the actinians, to Prof. J.„P. McMur- 
rich; the medusae, to Prof. W. K. Brooks; thehydroids, to J. Walter 
Fewkes; the foraminifera, to Prof. L. A. Lee; the algae, to Prof. W. G. 
Fallow. 
Many fishing implements collected on the voyage were added to the 
fishery exhibition in the National Museum, and all animals and other 
objects not aquatic were transferred at once to the custody of that 
