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REPORT ON THE RADIATES 



By J. Walter Fewkes. 



During the past year a collection of Corals illustrating the 

 Indo- Asiatic fauna has been mounted and placed on exhibition. 



The large collection of alcoholic duplicate Starfishes and Sea- 

 urchins, which for many years has been stored in copper cans in 

 the cellar, has been looked over, and from it ten large duplicate 

 boxes of specimens have been picked out. These boxes have 

 been sent to different institutions by the Curator. Many dupli- 

 cates from the same source have been sent to Mr. Ward. In 

 this way the original collection has been reduced to about one 

 third its former size, and the collection retained in the Museum 

 has been put in a better condition for permanent preservation. 



Mr. P. H. Carpenter has returned the collection of Blake 

 Crinoids which was sent to him for study. This collection con- 

 tains valuable types, descriptions of which are found in his re- 

 ports on the " Blake " and " Challenger " Crinoidea. 



I have prepared for publication two papers on the Medusae 

 collected by the "Albatross" in the Gulf Stream and West 

 Indian waters ; they are to be published in the Annual Report 

 of the United States Fish Commission. 



The Museum has printed in the Bulletin an account of my 

 observations made in the Newport Laboratory on the develop- 

 ment of Agalma. 



