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work may yet be undertaken by other investigators working in 

 this field. 



Good progress has been made on the text and plates of Mr. 

 Garman's Report on the Deep-Sea Fishes of the " Albatross " 

 Expedition of 1891. More than 40 Plates have been finished by 

 Mr. Westergren. 



Dr. Chun, to whom a collection of Deep-Sea Crustacea of the 

 "Albatross" had been sent, has published a Preliminary Report 

 on the theory of vision at great depths in the sea, based upon 

 his study of the organs of vision of that group. See Bibliotheca 

 Zoologica, Heft XIX. Lief. 4. 



Among the specimens purchased for the Museum I may mention 

 a small collection of European Mammals and Birds, an African 

 Rhinoceros, a Zebra, a number of casts of rare vertebrate fossils, a 

 collection of Pteropods, and one of West Indian Strophias. 



Among the collections presented to the Museum the following 

 are specially to be noted : a type collection of more than two hun- 

 dred species of Corbiculae, received from Mr. Temple Prime ; the 

 first instalment of a valuable collection of New England Shells, 

 from Messrs. Smith and Clapp ; from the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion we have received a collection of Deep-Sea Fishes from the 

 Northern Pacific and Bearing Sea, made by the " Albatross," 

 and a collection of Fishes, made under the auspices of the United 

 States Fish Commission, from various parts of the southeast coast 

 of the United States ; from Mr. F. W. Townsend, a collection of 

 Shells from the Persian Gulf ; and a number of Foraminifera from 

 Mr. D. Bryce Scott. 



Collections have been sent for study to Mr. S. F. Conant ; to 

 Mr. Charles Schuchert of the National Museum have been intrusted 

 a number of specimens of Palaeozoic Starfishes ; to Messrs. Wachs- 

 muth and Springer, a few Crinoids. Exchanges have been made 

 with the Museum at Santiago, Chile, and the State College of 

 Kentucky. Tbe Crustacea collected by the " Albatross " expedi- 

 tion of 1891 have been returned to the National Museum, on be- 

 half of the United States Fish Commission. 



The Monograph of Messrs. Wachsmuth and Springer on the 

 North American Crinoidea Camerata is approaching completion. 

 The whole edition of the 83 Plates which are to accompany tbe 

 Monograph has been delivered. Mr. Springer, into whose hands 

 has fallen the completion of the text, hopes the volumes may be 



