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Professor E. Perrier of the Jardin des Plantes has published 

 in the Nouvelles Archives du Muse'um his final Report on the 

 Starfishes of the Blake, of which the administration of the Jar- 

 din des Plantes kindly sent us fifty copies for the use of the 

 Museum.* Professor Perrier having already published, in 1875 

 and 1876, a general Revision of the Starfishes, based upon the 

 examination of the collections of the principal Museums of 

 Europe and of our own, we could not have intrusted the Blake 

 collections to better hands. Professor Perrier's memoir de- 

 scribes forty-six new species from the region explored by the 

 Blake. There were known previously from the same district 

 only twenty-seven species, and the species first brought to light 

 by the Blake have added nearly one tenth to the number of 

 species of Starfishes known. 



It would be advisable, if possible, to change the somewhat 

 cumbrous official name by which the Museum has been known 

 for the past twenty-five years into a simpler and at the same 

 time more comprehensive title, according better with the ex- 

 tended field now covered by the Museum. 



ALEXANDER AGASSIZ. 



Cambridge, October 1, 1885. 



* Menioire sur les Etoiles de Mer recuillies dans la Mer des Antilles et le Golfe 

 du Mexique durant les Expeditions de dragage sous la Direction de M. Alexandre 

 Agassiz. Par Edmond Perrier, Professeur Adininistrateur au Muse'um d'Histoire 

 Naturelle de Paris. Nouvelles Archives du Muse'um. Paris, 1884. Tom. VI. 

 pp. 127-276. 



