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had most helpful cooperation for a great many years, was revisited during 
the two days that the northward hound steamer was taking its cargo of coffe^ 
on hoard at Santos. 
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drived in New ^ork on June 7 and returned to the lluseura two 
days later 
The most grateful acknowledgment is due to the raanory of 
Mrs. Virginia Purdy Bacon and her son Valter K^hhone^Bacon, in whose honor the 
travelling Scholarship was founded, which o no i hj^ this ©ihsrwise iijjpessihle , 
general reconhOrtSS^K^tc^ of the marine fauna of the greater part of the 
coasts of South ^iraorica. More than 15,000 specimens , and many 
valuable not es^ and observations have been returned to the National collections, 
W ' benuj . uf Llila atliiilTiTnjirrp '. A very great deal of this material 
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is new to the collections, and includes many new records of occurrence and 
distribution, and, as far as the limited preliminary studies have indicated, 
a 
niimber of species nev/ to science. 
