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ander I am indebted for copies of Maps relating to the reefs 
of the Sandwich Islands. 
With each special Report which follows will be found a list 
of the publications of the Assistants of the Museum, of the 
publications based upon the materials of the institution, or of 
investigations carried on by the professors and students of the 
University in our Laboratories. 
I hoped: during the-past winter to avail myself of the kind invi- 
tation of Professor G. Brown Goode, Acting U.S. Fish Com- 
missioner, to join the ‘** Albatross” at Panama, and run a line of 
dredgings and soundings from Panama to the Galapagos. Un- 
fortunately, it was impossible for me to leave Cambridge, and in 
spite of the courtesy of Colonel M. Macdonald, U.S. Fish Com- 
missioner, in delaying the ‘‘ Albatross” at Panama, in hope that 
I might be able at the last moment to join her, I was obliged to 
abandon all idea of making the expedition. This was to me, of 
course, a great disappointment, as I had always hoped some time 
to be able to carry out such a line of dredgings as that run by 
the ‘* Albatross,” and to become as familiar with the deep sea 
fauna on the western side of the Isthmus as I was already with 
the eastern. Colonel Macdonald was, however, kind enough to 
promise me the collection of those orders of Echinoderms made 
by the “ Albatross,” to which I had paid most attention. And 
while these collections will not have the personal interest 
attached to those I made on the “ Blake,” I hope yet to be able 
to carry out for some groups of deep-sea Echinoderms the in- 
teresting comparisons which have been instituted on the riparian 
fauna of the two sides of the Isthmus of Panama. . 
The Museum is also specially indebted to Colonel Macdonald 
for the facilities enjoyed by students of the Museum at the Fish 
Commission Station at Wood’s Holl. It is to be hoped that the 
government will continue there its present liberal policy towards 
all students of marine Zodlogy, and that the immense resources 
for obtaining material may be utilized by the students and in- 
vestigators attached to the Natural History Laboratories of the 
country. A station of the greatest importance could thus read- 
ily be organized, by concerted action on the part of the Colleges 
of the country. 
In the past fifteen years I have been in the habit of supplying 
deficiencies for such expenditures as seemed to me essential for 
