Research on Fishes 73 



The Associate Curator made a short field trip to Florida, 

 and Nassau, Bahamas, in February, with the twofold object 

 of establishing friendly relations with the recently opened 

 Miami Aquarium, and of obtaining certain data and material 

 for a paper on the genus Caranx, in hand, — "Species of 

 Northwest Atlantic Caranx/' later published in the Abstract 

 of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Ichthyolo- 

 gists and Herpetologists. 



Mr. Tee Van of the New York Zoological Society has been 

 working on the classification of British Guiana fishes, ob- 

 tained by the Society, which are to be deposited 

 Care and w j t j 1 t fc s Department. Mr. Henry W. Fowler 



.. £° of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadel- 



Collections P*^ a ' ^ as aD0Ut completed the classification of a 

 collection of fresh-water fishes from North Caro- 

 lina, obtained by Mr. E. R. Dunn several years ago. In return 

 for his services the Academy is to retain the first series of 

 duplicates. 



It has been necessary to repair the large metal tanks used 

 for storage of alcoholic material. Mr. Fred Kessler, the 

 laboratory assistant, has been occupied largely with the neces- 

 sary routine care of the collections, and the preparation 

 of fishes to augment the growing series of skeletal material, 

 which becomes increasingly useful for reference. 



Incident to cataloguing the study collections, two notices 

 have been published in Novitates and one in the Bulletin, 

 wherein three new fishes from the Bahamas and one from 

 the Hawaiian Islands are described. 



Work on the "Bibliography of Fishes" has gone steadily 



forward during the year despite serious handicaps. Owing 



. to a printers' strike in Cambridge, Massachu- 



and Research setts > no P r0 °f was received between March 15 



and December 9. 



As to progress, all addenda are in type and will be printed 

 in January as part of Volume JII, amounting to 350 pages. 

 Of the Subject Index, the sections on Fauna of the World, 

 Palaeontology, Physiology and Reproduction are in type. 

 Nearly as much more copy is in the hands of the printer. 



Dr. E. W. Gudger and Mr. Arthur W. Henn have arranged 



