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lephs, which I fear will hardly give me the material I hoped to 

 have at my disposal when the collections were made. Mr. Wes- 

 tergren, the artist who accompanied me on the " Albatross," is 

 now at work at the Museum, and lias completed a number of 

 the plates intended to illustrate the monograph of Mr. Faxon 

 on the Crustacea of the expedition. He will next devote his 

 time to the Fishes and the Echini. 



With few exceptions, the remaining collections are now in the 

 hands of the specialists who have kindly consented to work them 

 up. Short preliminary reports are already under way to illus- 

 trate the more novel types. Among them is a notice by Professor 

 Ludwig of some interesting Holothurians, with sketches of the 

 species in their natural attitudes, from drawings made on board by 

 Mr. Westergren and myself. Professor Ludwig also informs me 

 that he has already finished the descriptive text of three families, 

 and that a number of plates of Holothurians are well under way. 

 Dr. Goes has finished a notice of the gigantic Foraminifer men- 

 tioned in my Preliminary Report, and described by him as a new 

 genus (Neusina). Both these papers will shortly be published. 



Preliminary reports have also been made to Colonel McDon- 

 ald, the United States Fish Commissioner, by Mr. Ridgway, 

 on the Birds of the Galapagos, and on the small collection of 

 Insects by Dr. Riley. 



Colonel McDonald has shown the greatest interest in the 

 collections of the " Albatross," and has given me his cordial co- 

 operation in their final distribution. He assigned to Mr. Richard 

 Rathbun the care of the large collections on their arrival at 

 Washington, and the cordial thanks of the naturalists who are 

 to work up this valuable material are due to him for the thorough 

 manner in which he has accomplished the laborious and thankless 

 task of forwarding from Washington to their destinations the 

 different collections, with the consent of the Fish Commissioner. 



I have myself published in the Museum Bulletin a preliminary 

 account of the " Albatross " expedition, and have described in 

 the Memoirs the interesting Stalked Crinoid, Calamocrinus, dis- 

 covered by the "Albatross" off the Galapagos. 



We have also received from Captain Tanner of the " Albatross" 

 an interesting collection from intermediate depths from the sur- 

 face to three hundred fathoms, made with the Tanner tow-net in 

 1892, during the exploration for a telegraphic cable from California 



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