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Westergren and Ridgway. The publication of so elaborate a 

 Memoir will naturally require considerable time ; but we hope to 

 issue it as fast as it is practicable to print the manuscript and 

 prepare the plates for publication, it will occupy one volume of 

 text and one of plates. 



Mr. J. N. Rose, of the United States Department of Agricul- 

 ture, has published a Report on the Plants collected at the Gala- 

 pagos during the " Albatross " Expedition of 1891, in Vol. I. No. 5 

 of the Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. 



Professor Verrill reports good progress with his Memoir on 

 the Alcyonaria of the " Blake." About forty plates are now 

 completed. Dr. Hartlaub is also well advanced with the Report 

 on the " Albatross " Comatulae. Mr. Hoyle has a number of plates 

 in hand to illustrate his Report on the Cephalopods, and Pro- 

 fessor Studer has the greater part of his Memoir on the Alcyo- 

 naria in hand. With the consent of Colonel Marshall McDonald, 

 a set of deep-sea Crustacea from the " Albatross " was sent to 

 Professor Chun, who will prepare a Report on the Eyes of Deep- 

 Sea Crustacea in comparison with those of the surface and pelagic 

 types. 



Dr. A. Goes writes that he has completed his Report on the 

 " Albatross " Foraminifera, and that the manuscript, with the ac- 

 companying plates, is on its way to the United States. The 

 collections of the "Albatross," as well as those made by the 

 " Wild Duck " at the Bahamas, and the large collection of 

 bottoms from the Caribbean and the east coast of the United 

 States, sent him for comparison by the United States Coast 

 Survey, the Fish Commission, and the National Museum, are also 

 packed and ready for shipment. 



Mr. Westergren, having completed the plates for Mr. Faxon's 

 Monograph on the Crustacea of the "Albatross " Expedition, has 

 been occupied in drawing the illustrations for Mr. Garman's 

 Monograph of the Fishes of the same Expedition. Over twenty 

 plates have been finished. 



I may mention, as among the more important invoices sent 

 from the Museum, the collection of deep-sea Crustacea and Echino- 

 derms forwarded to the Oxford Museum with the consent of the 

 Fish Commissioner. 



Material for study has been sent, among others, to Mr. True, to 

 Dr. Plate, to Messrs. Wachsmuth and Springer, and to Professor 



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