AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
[THIRD SERIES] 
ART. eae eae Contributions to Seer sa from the Museum 
of Yale College o. XXXII.— Results of mite ah Expedi- 
tions off the Naa ingland Coast in 1874; by A. E. VERRILL. 
DurinG the summer of 1874 Prof. S. F. Baird, U. S. Com 
missioner of Fish and Fisheries, established the headquarters 
the Corinto at Noank, Conn., a village situated a 
Fisher's Island Sound, a few miles east.of New London. 
party of naturalists, who were invited to take part in the 1 liven 
tigations of the commission, availed themselves of the unusual 
facilities there offered for the study of marine life. The in- 
vestigations of the invertebrate animals, in general, were placed 
in charge of the writer, hut several Baie especially Mr. S. I. 
Smith, Prof. A. Hyatt, and Mr. S. F. Clark, took a prominent 
part in this work. Extensive dredging o rations were carried 
on from this station, by means of the b. 8. eee * Blue- 
light,” under Commander L. ©. Beardslee, U. S. N. These 
dredgings extended from 80 to 40 miles from Noank, in dif- 
ferent directions; westward to the mouth of the Connecticut he 
River ; southward to, Gardiner’s and Peconic Bays and the 
waters south of Montauk Point; and eastward to the banks 
several miles south and east of Block Island, so as to connect 
with the dredgings of 1871. Temperatures of the surface and 
bottom waters were taken at more than ey or ee and 
dredgings were made in a still larger number of loc 
A very large and interesting collection of piles ake ani- 
mals was secured. Among these are over 100 species new to 
the fauna of southern New England. Most of these are 
—— species, but many are undescri A large collec- 
UR. So1.—THIRD wet a Vor, IX, No. Siemtiie 1875. 
