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Crinoids obtained by the " Blake." Excellent progress is mak- 

 ing with the reports on the "Blake " collections still unfinished, 

 and it is hoped that during the coming year the reports may all 

 be published. The plates for Mr. Dall's Report are nearly com- 

 pleted, and Professor Goode and Dr. Beane hope within a very 

 short time to send the manuscript of the descriptions of the col- 

 lection of Fishes made in the Gulf of Mexico by the " Blake." 

 With the completion of these publications it will be possible to 

 devote more space than heretofore to the results of the special 

 work of the Assistants, and to the investigations of the Pro- 

 fessors, Assistants, and students in the Museum Laboratories 

 both at Cambridge and at Newport. 



The work at Newport has been limited during this season to 

 that on the Embryology of Echinoderms by Dr. Fewkes, — who 

 has been quite successful in tracing the development of Echina- 

 rachnius and of Ophiurans, — and to my own work on the Em- 

 bryology of Pelagic Fishes. 



At the Museum Dr. Whitman has continued his previous 

 work. Dr. Faxon has, in addition to his College instruction, 

 devoted his time to the revision of the Astacidse. Dr. Mark has 

 nearly brought to completion the memoirs he is preparing on the 

 development of Lepidosteus, while taking charge of the Embiy- 

 ological Laboratory. This Laboratory will hereafter be well 

 equipped for work, the Corporation having made an appro- 

 priation to supply it with the greater part of the necessary 

 apparatus. 



Dr. Farlow, although on leave of absence, spent a portion of 

 his time at Cambridge at work on a Monograph of the North 

 American Puccinise and Uromyces. For the completion of this 

 memoir he collected a considerable amount of material dur- 

 ing his trip to the West Coast. Dr. Farlow regrets that the 

 Botanical Department should not have a Museum where the 

 larger and more striking forms of vegetation could be displayed. 

 The greater part of the collection made by Dr. Farlow had to be 

 reduced to the common herbarium size. In addition to some 

 short notes Dr. Farlow published in the Proceedings of the 

 American Academy " Notes on some Species of Gymnospo- 

 rangium," and a paper on the Synchytria in the Botanical 

 Gazette. 



Doctor Horn of Philadelphia has kindly spent a number 



