11 



for an examination of the Tertiary Mollusks of the Cuban coast 

 collected by the " Wild Duck." 



Mr. Scott, I regret to state, has been unable to make any progress 

 with his plans for the benefit of the Ornithological Department. 



Among the collections sent us by the Fish Commission, which 

 supplement the pelagic material collected by the " Albatross " 

 in 1891 off Central America in the Pacific, is a small collection 

 made by the " Albatross " with the Tanner tow-net on the line 

 between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands and in the 

 Bering Sea. Captain Tanner reports that in the northern part 

 of the Pacific the net was not used below two hundred and fifty 

 fathoms from the surface, and when closed at that depth it 

 usually contained very little. In the hauls made at three 

 hundred fathoms from the surface, on the other line, the closed 

 part of the Tanner net did not bring up anything. 



The Faculty of the Museum nominated, as occupants of the 

 Naples Table for parts of the year 1893-94, Mr. E. L. Rice, 

 a graduate of Wesleyan College, Middletown, who was recom- 

 mended by Professor Richard Hertwig of Munich, and Mr. C. M. 

 Child, recommended by Professor Leuckart. During the coming 

 year Professor W. E. Ritter of the University of California, and 

 Professor Reighard of the University of Michigan, formerly 

 students of Professor Mark, will occupy the Museum Table at 

 Naples. 



To Baron Osten-Sacken has been sent his entomological corre- 

 spondence, deposited in the Museum Library many years ago, to 

 assist him in working up many interesting points in the history 

 of North American Diptera. 



Miss Rathbun, of the National Museum, spent some time at 

 the Museum examining the types of the " Blake " deep-sea Crus- 

 tacea, and other collections of that group. Professor Nutting, of 

 the State University of Iowa, brought his collection of Florida 

 Hydroids to the Museum for comparison with the types collected 

 by the " Blake," and described by Allman and others. 



The Ceological department, following the example of the 

 Zoological Department, is paying considerable attention to the 

 formation of collections intended as means of instruction by 

 the Professors, and also to the collection of other material to be 

 known as students' collections, which are to be placed in the hands 

 of the students and to be replaced as fast as may prove neces- 



