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world, and occupying the largest single portions of this sec- 

 tion, are ready for the press. 



Progress has been made in revisional work on the sub- 

 family of marine fishes known as Crevallies, including publi- 

 cation of the following papers by J. T. Nichols : "Hynnis and 

 Alectis in the American Museum of Natural History," and 

 "A Key to the Species of Trachurus" (in the Museum Bulle- 

 tin) ; "On the Genus Citula" "Caranx bartholomaei and ruber, 

 compared," "Caranx crysos, etc.," "On the range and geo- 

 graphic variation of Caranx hippos" and "The Phylogeny of 

 Carangin Fishes" (in Copeia) ; "Caranx guar a," figured, in 

 Forest and Stream. Two papers have been published de- 

 scribing new species and a new genus in the collection of 

 Catfishes loaned by the Museu Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 

 These papers are in English and in Portuguese. Collections 

 from Bermuda and Turk's Islands, received in 1919 from Mr. 

 L. L. Mowbray, have been studied. The former has been pub- 

 lished on, and a paper on the latter in the Museum Bulletin is 

 now in press. A faunal analysis of Dr. Murphy's Peruvian 

 material is under way. 



Mr. Van Campen Heilner of Spring Lake, New Jersey, an 

 ardent rod and reel fisherman, spent a month at the Museum 

 compiling a list of record size fishes which was published 

 {Field and Stream) in 1920. This is merely a beginning in 

 the accumulation of data of much interest to sportsmen, and 

 it is hoped to continue the work in the future. As usual, 

 some attention has been given to the study of the local 

 Ichthyfauna. The Department from time to time has been 

 in touch with various persons interested in it, more par- 

 ticularly with Mr. Roy Latham of Orient, Long Island, who 

 each year submits a summary of his observations for re- 

 vision before publishing them, and presents his rarer speci- 

 mens to the Museum. The Associate Curator made a trip 

 on the Aquarium's collecting boat in July and has recently 

 visited the Aquarium to study the living fishes there and cor- 

 relate such observations with those on Museum material. 

 Popular articles on local fishes have been published as follows : 

 "An Afternoon on the Sea Horse," "True or Long-finned Alba- 

 core," and "Finding Fishes on the Beach" (Forest and 



