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similar duties, has been given to the preparation of study 

 skeletons, about seventy being added to those already avail- 

 able. Such fish skeletons have been classified and arranged 

 for ready reference in the unused cases prepared for fossil 

 fishes. As the latter are added to, new quarters, however, will 

 have to be found for the skeletons. 



Work on the final volume of the "Bibliography of Fishes" 

 which had been all but suspended during the war, and which 

 R , came to a standstill in January when Mrs. H. J. 



and Volker resigned to accompany her husband to 



Publication India, has been again resumed and has made 

 rapid progress. Professor E. W. Gudger, who had been with 

 us in previous summers, arrived in June to assume the re- 

 sponsibilities of editorship under Dr. Dean's supervision. Mr. 

 Arthur W. Henn returned from France about the same time, 

 and Miss Francesca La Monte was appointed in July to fill 

 the vacancy created by Mrs. Volker's resignation. 



Progress has since been rapid and continuous. Dr. Gudger 

 has practically completed the compilation, arrangement and 

 editing of the section relating to pre-Linnaean works, including 

 all books, papers and periodicals published from the inven- 

 tion of the printing press to the publication of the ioth Edition 

 of Linnaeus' "Systema Natura" of 1758, which work marks 

 the inception of modern scientific nomenclature. It is expected 

 that this section will go to press shortly after the first of the 

 year. The Addendum, comprising titles overlooked or other- 

 wise not included in the published volumes I and II, has been 

 completed and is awaiting final editorial revision. Work on 

 the subject index has been resumed by Mr. Henn, and all 

 index cards for the published volumes are now in process of 

 final arrangement and classification. 



Preparation of systematic papers from time to time is inci- 

 dental to caring for new collections, as these are received, and 

 such papers naturally take the form of faunal reports. 

 Systematic work of a monographic nature is, however, more 

 interesting, valuable to Ichthyology, and satisfactory in every 

 way. Leisure for serious research has enabled taking up such 



