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It may be described as follows: — in Herb. D. C. Eaton, a number 

 of species collected through the courtesy of the Alaska Commercial 

 Company and mostly numbered, named, and the duplicates dis- 

 tributed to Herb. Farlow and to our own collection; in Herb. 

 University of California, a few specimens labelled as being from 

 Bering Sea, collected in 1872, but without farther notes; a col- 

 lection made at the Pribilof Island of St. Paul, in 1895, by 

 Charles H. Townsend of the U. S. F. C. Str. Albatross, under 

 the directions of the U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries; a collec- 

 tion in the years 1896-97, made also at the Island of St. Paul, 

 by A. W. Greeley and R. E. Snodgrass, by the direction of Pres- 

 ident David Starr Jordan, then acting as head of the U. S. 

 Commission on Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands; collections made 

 in the summer of 1899, at various points in Norton Sound, 

 Alaska, by H. M. Rhodes and P. M. Newhall, of the U. S. C. & 

 G. S. Str. Patterson, under J. F. Pratt, Assistant U. S. C. & 

 G. S. in charge; collections in various parts of the eastern side 

 of Bering Sea, made in the summer of 1900, by R. C. McGregor 

 of the U. S. C. & G. S. Str. Pathfinder, in charge of J. J. Gil- 

 bert, Assistant U. S. C. & G. S.; collections made in the sum- 

 mer of 1894, by Charles H. Townsend of the U. S. F. C. Str. 

 Albatross, at the Bay of Morozof (Morzhovoi Bay), on the Penin- 

 sula of Alaska and at Agattu and Kyska Islands in the western- 

 most portions of the Aleutian Islands, in accordance with the 

 directions of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries; very extensive 

 collections made in the summer of 1899, by an expedition from 

 the University of California, consisting of W. L. Jepson, L. E. 

 Hunt, A. A. Lawson, and W. A. Setchell, with assistance from 

 the Alaska Commercial Company, the Pacific Steam Whaling 

 Company, the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, and Assistant 

 Pratt and officers of the U. S. C. & G. S. Str. Patterson, from the 

 following localities: — St. Michael, Cape Nome, Bay of Uualaska, 

 Delarof Harbor on Unga Island, Karluk, Uyak Bay, St. Paul (the 

 last three on Kadiak Island), Orca, Juneau, and Sitka, Alaska, 

 and Departure Bay, B. C; a collection gathered for us in 1899, 

 at Delarof Harbor on Unga Island, Alaska, J. B. Downing, 

 Master of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company's Str. Excelsior; a 

 collection obtained through Rev. Albin Johnson, a missionary, 



