Research on Fishes 81 



ciently large and comprehensive collection will be obtained 

 incident to general zoological work in Asia which Mr. Andrews 

 has in view, to make possible a more satisfactory treatment of 

 the subject; Mr. Clifford Pope, who will accompany the pro- 

 posed Asiatic Expedition, will pay especial attention to fresh- 

 water fishes. 



A new ventilating apparatus has been installed in the base- 

 ment store-room for study collections, which has greatly im- 

 proved working conditions there. The laboratory assistant 

 (Mr. Fred Kessler), in addition to routine work necessary for 

 care of the increasing material, and preparation of study 

 skeletons, has been occupied in cleaning shark jaws brought 

 back by Mr. Bell, and in working up fossil material from Cuba 

 collected by Mr. Barnum Brown which Dr. Gregory has agreed 

 to examine. 



Work on the "Bibliography of Fishes," which has so long 

 occupied an extensive part of the interest of this department, 

 has been continued throughout the year under the 

 Pdbli^atio^ general supervision of Dr. Bashford Dean. The 

 Addendum, consisting of titles not included in 

 the previous volumes by reason of the great amplification and 

 extension of the scope of this work, and including about forty- 

 five hundred additional titles, is now in press. 



The section relating to Pre-Linnaean works, compiled and 

 edited by Dr. E. W. Gudger, including all the literature con- 

 cerning fishes from the earliest times to the publication of the 

 "Systema Natura" of Linnaeus in 1758, is likewise in press. 

 This will be of especial interest to students of the origin and 

 development of our modern conceptions of the science of ich- 

 thyology. About twenty-three hundred titles are included, with 

 an accurate compilation of their various editions. 



The final preparation of the Subject Catalogue, in prepara- 

 tion by Mr. Arthur W. Henn, is necessarily dependent on the 

 completion of the above parts. A number of forms have been 

 set up in order to determine the 'typographical composition of 

 this part, and to solve the necessary mechanical details. Sec- 

 tions relating to palaeontology and fauna, comprising a strati- 

 graphical and geographical arrangement of the fauna of the 



