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found for its proper classification and arrangement. Due to 

 war conditions, the department has not attempted to carry on 

 any field work, the most important unworked material received 

 being from museums in South America, through arrangements 

 made by Dr. Eastman when in that country. 



Progress on Dr. Dean's "Bibliography of Fishes" has been 

 continuous, although not as rapid as had been planned, due to 

 exigencies of the war. Mr. Arthur W. Henn, 

 Research who was grouping and annotating the index 



Publication cards, entered the United States Army early in 

 April, leaving the work in the hands of Mrs. H. 

 J. Volker, who had assisted him with it prior to that date ; and 

 she has since been occupied with translations, looking up and 

 classifying references, preparing cards for the press, etc. On 

 Dr. Eastman's return from South America he took up the 

 references to fossil fishes until he was called to give his entire 

 time to his duties at the War Trade Board. He was about to 

 resume work on the Bibliography when word came to us of his 

 tragic death in late September. Dr. E. W. Gudger spent six 

 weeks during the summer at the Museum compiling additional 

 references for the Bibliography. Major Dean's duties in con- 

 nection with his Ordnance work have left him time for only a 

 general supervision of the work. 



The department has published "Fishes of the Vicinity of 

 New York City," by J. T. Nichols, with an introduction by 

 Wm. K. Gregory, — an illustrated Handbook of 118 pages, 

 which, it is thought, will materially further the popular and 

 scientific study of our local ichthyfauna. In addition, Mr. 

 Nichols has published a short Bulletin article on fishes brought 

 back by the American Museum's First Asiatic Zoological Ex- 

 pedition, and has in press others on marine Teleost fishes of the 

 Crocker Land Expedition, and the revision of a marine genus 

 {Vomer) based on specimens received from the Congo Ex- 

 pedition. Several new species are described in these articles. 

 He has also published short articles and notes on fishes else- 

 where, as follows : One on food fishes, in The American Mu- 

 seum Journal, later reprinted in the Pacific Fisherman, four 

 in Copeia, five in the Brooklyn Aquarium Bulletin, and one in 



