both of the Bulletins and Memoirs are out of print, as the demand 

 for certain numbers has far exceeded that for others. 



We have purchased from Zeiss a complete microphotographic 

 apparatus ; during the summer months it will be available for the 

 Newport Marine Laboratory, and during the rest of the year it will 

 be at the service of the Museum officers. 



In addition to the collections of the Albatross expedition of 

 1891 sent to the various specialists 1 who have kindly consented 

 to work up the material brought together, specimens were sent 

 for examination to Professor Goode and Dr. Bean, to Professor 

 Butschli, to Dr. Steindachner, to Professor Lankester, to Dr. S. J. 

 Hickson, and to Mr. Bigelow. 



To Professor F. Eilhard Schulze was sent our collection of types 

 of Sponges from the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico and the 

 West Indies. This he has examined and already returned, with 

 notes on the species suggested by his examination of the extensive 

 series of Hexactinellidse from all quarters now in his hands for 

 monographic purposes. 



Our collection of North American Hydroids was sent to 

 Dr. Camille Pictet, to be used in preparing a monograph on the 

 Hydroids of the Bay of Naples for the Zoological Station. This 

 collection reached Switzerland a few days before Dr. Pictet's 

 death, and it has been returned by the authorities of the Uni- 

 versity of Geneva. 



I hear from Professor Dupont that excellent progress is making 

 with the cast of the Iguanodon which is to be sent from the Brus- 

 sels Museum to Cambridge. 



Arrangements have been made with Dr. Dohrn by which one of 

 the tables of the Zoological Station at Naples has been placed at 

 the disposal of the Faculty of the Museum for three years. The 

 conditions upon which the table is assigned are shown in Appen- 

 dix B, and a notice 2 of this has been sent to all the Universities 

 and Colleges of the country, as well as to specialists interested 

 in the study of Marine Zoology. I regret to say that thus far the 

 number of applications has been most limited, and there does not 



1 A list of the persons who are preparing the Reports will be found on the third 

 page of the cover of this Report, with the list of the publications of the Museum 

 now in preparation. 



2 Professor James D. Dana was kind enough to give this notice the benefit of an 

 insertion in the American Journal of Science. 



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