228 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1890. 



Schools, Olean, New York; Museum of the State Agricultural College, 

 Oorvallis, Oregon 5 South Jersey Institute, Bridgeton, New Jersey; 

 Dakota University, Mitchell, South Dakota; Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, Amherst, Massachusetts ; Nebraska Institution for the 

 Deaf and Dumb, Omaha, Nebraska; St. John's College, Annapolis, 

 Maryland ; Syrian College, Beirut, Syria. 



In 1883, ten special sets of duplicate marine invertebrates, also se- 

 lected from the collections of the U. S. Fish Commission, were prepared 

 in connection with the American exhibit for the Great London Fisheries 

 Exhibition of that year. They contained about 200 species each, and 

 were intended for distribution to foreign institutions, in illustration of 

 the natural history investigations of the Fish Commission. Six of those 

 sets were disposed of at that time. Two of the remaining sets have 

 been sent this year to the British Museum, London, and the K. K. 

 Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, Vienna. 



Other special sets of marine invertebrates have been supplied as fol- 

 lows: The Rev. A. M. Norman, England, in exchange, 62 species, 

 chiefly brachyuran crustaceans and eehinoderms from the deep-sea 

 dredgings of the steamer Albatross. Tuft's College, Medford, Massa- 

 chusetts, 105 species, and 12 lots of unassorted foramiuifera. The Ice- 

 landic Society of Natural History, Keykjavik, Iceland, 133 species from 

 the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans. Oberlin College, Oberlin, 

 Ohio, 75 species. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Penn- 

 sylvania, 120 species. Wagner Free Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 88 species. Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, 92 species. Central Illinois Scientific Society, Virginia, Illinois, 

 96 species. Western Normal College, Shenandoah, Iowa, 76 species. 

 John W. Spencer, Paxton, Indiana, in exchange, 14 species of West 

 Indian corals. 



Nine smaller collections, containing only a few species each, or con- 

 sisting of several lots of unassorted foraminifera for microscopical 

 study, have been sent to as many individuals and institutions. 



Important investigations have been carried on by the Fish Commis- 

 sion during the past year, from which this and other departments of 

 the Museum may expect to derive substantial benefits before loug. 

 The steamer Albatross left San Francisco, May 21, 1889, on her second 

 northern cruise, which was confined mainly to the coasts of Oregon 

 and Washington. One trip extended as far north, however, as Sitka 

 and Juneau, Alaska, and a start was also made for Bering Sea, but, 

 through an accident to the machinery, this longer cruise had to be 

 abandoned. Soundings, dredgings, and fishing trials were carried down 

 the coast from the Straits of Fuca to Cape Mendocino, California, this 

 work terminating in the fall of 1889. During March and April, 1890, 

 the region between Point Conception, south of San Francisco, and 

 Pnnta Arena, north of San Francisco, was subjected to the same care- 

 ful examination, and on May 4 the Albatross left for Bering Sea where 



