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the investigations carried on by the Professors and students of 

 the University in our Laboratories. It will be seen from these 

 reports that our collections continue in excellent condition. The 

 Museum has lost the services of Dr. Fewkes, who has had charge 

 of the Collection of Invertebrates for the last three years, and of 

 the Radiates since 1880. 



Appendix A of this Report contains a list of the publications 

 of the Museum issued during the past Academic Year. We have 

 published eight numbers of the Bulletin, — four in the Geologi- 

 cal Series, and four in the Zoological, including a volume by Dr. 

 Dall containing the second part of the Report on the " Blake " 

 olollusca, illustrated by over thirty plates of excellent figures 

 drawn by Dr. McConnell. This final Report contains 492 pages, 

 and is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the MoUusks 

 of the East Coast of the United States, and of the Gulf of INIexico 

 and Caribbean Sea. It has been prepared by Dr. Dall with his 

 usual care and skill. 



One number of the Memoirs has been issued, — the continu- 

 ation by Professor Whitman and myself of our Memoir on the 

 Development of Osseous Fishes. 



Dr. P. H. Carpenter is making good progress in his final Re- 

 port of the " Blake " Comatulse. The proofs of six plates of the 

 Memoir he is preparing have been received from him. 



Among the monographs in preparation I may also mention a 

 paper on the Genesis of the Arietidae, by Professor Hyatt, now in 

 press. This will be published jointly by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and the Museum. The Smithsonian Institution has also 

 published an Explanation of the Plates, by Mr. Fewkes, of a 

 Memoir on Astrangia, prepared for Professor Louis Agassiz, but 

 which he never completed. It was in the hands of Mr. Pourtal^s 

 for completion at the time of his death. 



Mr. Louis Cabot is also preparing the third part of his 

 Memoir on the early stages of the Odonata. The plates are 

 completed. 



Mr. Garman has sent in for publication in the Bulletin an 

 interesting paper on the Cave Animals of Missouri. 



I am myself preparing a Memoir on a new Stalked Crinoid 

 ( Calamocrinus') dredged l)y the " Albatross " off the Galapagos 

 on her voyage from New York to San Francisco. This is one of 

 the most interesting Crinoids dredged by any of the deep-sea 



