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until about October 10, 1885. Professor Band, the Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, was present daring the entire season and retained general 

 supervision of the work. Prof. A. E. Verrill was in charge of the labo- 

 ratory during the time he was able to be in Wood's Holl, this duty devolv- 

 ing upon the curator during his absence. Many members of the perma- 

 nent staff of the Commission and National Museum were in attendance. 

 Prof. G. Brown Goode and Dr. T. II. Beau spent several weeks investi- 

 gating the fishes brought in by the Albatross, and were assisted by Mr. 

 Peter Parker, jr. Dr. J. H. Kidder, chemist and physicist, and Mr. 

 John A. Ryder, embryologist, were also present, and the curator was 

 accompanied by his two assistants, Mr. A. H. Baldwin and Miss M. J. 

 Eathbun. 



The remainder of the party was composed as follows : Prof. A. E. 

 Verrill, of Yale College, assisted by Miss K. J. Bush and Miss C. E. 

 Bush ; Prof. S. I. Smith, of Yale College; Mr. Sanderson Smith, of the 

 American Museum of Natural History, New York ; Prof. Leslie A. Lee, 

 of Bowdoin College, Maine ; Prof. Edwin Linton, of Washington and 

 Jefferson College, Pennsylvania ; Prof. B. F. Koons, of the Storrs Agri- 

 cultural School, Connecticut ; and Mr. J. H. Blake, of Cambridge, Mass., 

 as artist. Prof. William Libbey, of Princeton College, was present 

 during several weeks as an independent worker. 



The following institutions have been supplied with sets of duplicate 

 specimens belonging to the regular series described in previous re- 

 ports. The total number of species distributed was about 200, the num- 

 ber of specimens about 18,000. 



Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa. ; Centenary Female College, 

 Cleveland, Tenn. ; Board of Education, South Pueblo, Colo. ; Amity 

 College, College Springs, Iowa ; The public schools, Moline, 111. ; Se- 

 dalia Natural History Society, Sedalia, Mo.; Geneva Public School, 

 Lake Geneva, Wis. ; Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction .of the 

 Blind, Philadelphia, Pa. ; Elkhorn High School, Elkhorn, Wis. ; High 

 School, Weeping Water, Nebr. ; Delphi High School, Delphi, Ind. ; El- 

 gin Scientific Society, Elgin, 111. ; Friends 7 Central School, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. ; Ogontz School, Ogontz, Pa.; Crown Point Public School Museum, 

 Crown Point, Ind. ; Dickinson Seminary, William sport, Pa. ; Lake View 

 High School, Lake View, 111. ; Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa. ; 

 Tuft's College, Medford, Mass. ; Bethany Normal Institute, Lindsborg, 

 Kans. ; Board of Education, Naperville, 111. ; Augustana College, Kock 

 Island, 111. ; Morristown Seminary and Normal Institute, Morristown, 

 Tenn. ; Sedalia University, Sedalia, Mo. ; Minnesota Academy of Sci- 

 ences, Minneapolis, Minn. ; High School, Lafayette, Ind. ; Doane Col- 

 lege, Crete, Nebr. ; Indiana State Normal School, Terre Haute, Ind. ; 

 Society of Natural History, St. John, New Bruuswick ; Trinity Medical 

 School, Toronto, Canada; Mexican Exploring Commission, Mexico. 



Special sets of duplicates, containing from eleven to forty-five species 



