me 
Orange Sta cuted unique, until quite recently sup- 
planted by various other investigators, 
% Along the western coast of South America collections 
were made in Chili, especially at Valparaiso and Peru, and 
some at Callao, and like the Patagonian and Tierra del Fuego 
material equally extensive as the Beagle collections reported 
by Jenyns in 1842. 
By far the most complete collection was made in the 
Hawaiian Islands, and remained so until the recent collections 
made by the United States Bureau of Fisheries and others, A 
very important lot of material was secured in the Fit group, 
and this remains, even at the present time, largely unsurpas- 
sed.’ Other localities in the tropical Pacific are Samoa, 
Pomotou, Tahiti, Tongatebu, Raraka, the Phoenix Coral Group, 
Mangsi Islend, Wakes Island and Maude The expedition visit- 
ed the western coast of the United States at Puget Saund, 
the Columbia River and San FranciscoX Several of the fishes 
obtained in this lot were subsequently studied by Agassiz. 
* Finally an interesting lot of material wes secured in 
Australia, the only definite localities appearing to be 
Sydney « Other material was obtained in New Zealand, Singapore, 
Balabac Passage, Manila, and several specimens are also 
credited to Colombo, in Ceylon. 
\~ At present many of the specimens are in excellent con- 
dition, compared with others of equal age elsewhere.) Some 
have suffered more or less through the vicissitudes of time 
and others,,in a poor state of preservation, have still per- 
Sisted with broken bodies, abraided or worn fins, fallen 
