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REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA. 



By Walter Faxon. 



Two important acquisitions have been made within a year ; 

 viz. a set of the deep-sea Crustacea dredged by the United States 

 Fish Commission steamer " Albatross " (27 species, 218 specimens, 

 determined by Prof. S. I. Smith), and a large lot of alcoholic 

 Crustacea, selected by me last November from the collection of 

 the Peabody Academy of Science at Salem. This addition to 

 the Museum collection is a very valuable one on account of the nu- 

 merous types of species described by Packard, Smith, Kingsley, 

 and others, that are included in it, as well as on account of the 

 intrinsic nature of the specimens. 



The Systematic, North American, and Synoptic collections in 

 the Exhibition Rooms were carefully revised last winter, gaps in 

 the series were filled, and all the old specimens transferred from 

 card-board to slate tablets. 



