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in detail in Appendix A. to this Report. They consist of Bulletins 

 by Messrs. Agassiz, Lyman, Yerrill, Fewkes, Faxon, Wadsworth, 

 Hamlin, Garman, Allen, and Hagen. 



The preliminary Reports of the " Blake" collections have made 

 excellent progress during the past year. Part I. of the Crustacea 

 by Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards has been published ; also 

 the preliminary Reports of the Starfishes by Professor Perrier, and 

 of the Mollusca by Mr. Dall. The Reports on the Cephalopods 

 by Professor Yerrill, and by Mr. Wilson, E. B.,on the Pycnogonidae, 

 have been issued in the Museum Bulletins. No. 2, Yol. YII. of 

 the Memoirs containing the " Climatic Changes " by Professor J. 

 D. Whitney has been issued, in connection with Professor Whit- 

 ney ; and the Second Part of the Immature State of the Odonata, 

 the ^schnina, has been published by Mr. Louis Cabot. 



The additions to the Library have not been quite so large as 

 usual, as no extensive purchases were made this year. 



Among the publications of the Assistants of the Museum not 

 issued in the Museum publications, may be mentioned a mono- 

 graph by Mr. J. A. Allen on the Seals, founded in part on Museum 

 material, and published in the United States Geol. Survey Report. 



Professor Shaler and Mr. Davis have published the first of a 

 series of Memoirs intended to illustrate the principal features 

 of the structure of the crust of the earth. 



Mr. Lyman has published a paper on some remarkable deep-sea 

 Ophiurans, in the Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural His- 

 tory, and has also completed his final Report on the Ophiurans of 

 the " Challenger." 



I have myself seen through the press the final report on the 

 Echini of the " Challenger " Expedition to be issued as Yol. HL 

 of the Zoology of that expedition ; it forms 321 pages and 65 

 plates. 



During the past year the lower floor of the Systematic Collec- 

 tions of MoUusks and the South American Faunal room have been 

 opened to the public, although the collections they contain are not 

 yet properly labelled. Good progress has also been made in the 

 arrangement of the Australian room, and the materials for the 

 African and Indian Faunal Collections are coming in at a satisfac- 

 tory rate. The completion of the exhibition rooms of the wing 

 will now enable us to make the final arrangement of the System- 

 atic Collection of Fishes and of Birds, as all the material foreign 



