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Vol. XVII. 



No. 2. Reports on an Exploration off the West Coasts of Mexico, Cen- 

 tral and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands, in charge of 

 Alexander Agassiz, by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer " Alba- 

 tross," during 1891. — I. Calamocrinus Diomed^:, a new Stalked 

 Crinoid, with Notes on the Apical System and the Homologies of Echino- 

 derms. By A. Agassiz. pp. 96. 32 Plates. January, 1892. 

 Vol. XVII. to be continued. 



The Virginia Barret Gibbs Scholarship Fund is to be established in connection 

 with the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, on the following 

 conditions : — 



To apply the net income thereof in supporting or assisting to support one or more 

 students who may have shown decided talents in Zoology, and preferably in the 

 direction of Marine Zoology. 



Each person so assisted shall be either a graduate or a student in some depart- 

 ment of Harvard University, but not necessarily a candidate for a degree. His 

 studies and researches may be conducted at the Natural History Laboratories of 

 the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, at the Newport Marine 

 Laboratory, or at such European Laboratories or other place on the sea-shore in this 

 country or elsewhere as may be approved by the Faculty of the Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology and by the Professors of Zoology and of Comparative Anatomy of 

 Harvard University. 



Such assistance may be continued to the same student from year to year, so long 

 as he may be recommended -by the Faculty of the Museum and the Professors afore- 

 said ; but the appointment must be renewed annually, and only upon satisfactory 

 evidence that the incumbent is fulfilling the purpose of the endowment. 



If in the course of any year no students of sufficient ability and promise shall re- 

 quire aid from said fund, or for any reason the whole income of said fund shall not 

 be expended, the surplus is to be added to the principal of the fund. 



The President and Fellows are authorized at their discretion to impose such con- 

 ditions and make such requirements upon the recipient of aid from said fund as will 

 best secure his faithful devotion to the purposes of this foundation. 



