MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 9 



series, one number was published as a Contribution from the 

 Zoological Laboratory, and the one number of the Memoirs and 

 thirteen numbers of the Bulletin contain reports on Museum 

 collections or the results of field-work undertaken in the interest 

 of the Museum. 



The single Memoir issued this year, Catalogue of Recent 

 Ophiurans : based on the collection of the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology, was published in recognition of the first quarto publica- 

 tion of the Museum. This publication, Ophiuridae and Astro- 

 phytidae by Theodore Lyman, contained a detailed taxonomic 

 account of the Serpent-stars, and is today one of the Museum's 

 permanent contributions to science. 



To aid in the publication of Contributions from the Labora- 

 tories of zoology and geology, the Corporation granted the sum 

 of $300. 



Samuel Henshaw, 



Director. 



