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With the Compliments of
ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.

TWENTY-FIFTH

ANNUAL REPORT

OF

THE CURATOR

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

“AT HARVARD COLLEGE,
TO THE

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE,

FOR

1884-85.

CAMBRIDGE:
UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON.
1885.

TWENTY-FIFTH

ANNUAL REPORT

OF

THE CURATOR

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

AT HARVARD COLLEGE,
TO THE

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE,

FOR

1884-85.

CAMBRIDGE:
UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN WILSON AND SON.
1885.

FACULTY OF THE MUSEUM.

CHARLES W. ELIOT, President.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ, Curator.
JOSIAH D. WHITNEY, Secretary.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ
JOSIAH D. WHITNEY.
HERMANN A. HAGEN.

NATHANIEL S. SHALER.

WALTER FAXON.

EK. L. MARK .

W. M. DAVIS
THEODORE LYMAN
CHARLES E. HAMLIN.
D. D. SLADE
SAMUEL GARMAN .
M. E. WADSWORTH
J. W. FEWKES

C. 0. WHITMAN:
WILLIAM BREWSTER.
MISS F. M. SLACK .

THEODORE LYMAN.
GEORGE L. GOODALE.

OFFICERS.

Curator.

Sturgis-Hooper Professor of G'eology.
Professor of Entomology.

Professor of Paleontology.

Assist. Prof. of Zodlogy.

Assist. Prof. of Zodloyy.

Assist. Prof. of Geography.

Assistant in Zoology.

Assistant in Conchology and Palcontology.
Assistant in Osteology. :
Assistant in Herpetology and Ichthyology. —
Assistant in Lithology.

Assistant in charge of Radiates, etc.
Assistant in Zodlogy.

Assistant in Ornithology.

Librarian.

REPORT.

To THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: —

TWENTY-FIVE years ago, on the 13th of November, 1860, the
first section of the Museum building was inaugurated. It may
not be out of place to recapitulate the changes it has passed
through, and to note the gradual transition of the Museum from
a State institution to that of an independent department of
Harvard College.

It was most natural that Professor Agassiz, with his Kuropean
ideas of government support for scientific establishments, should
primarily have looked to his adopted State for aid in carrying
out his cherished plans. While no one was better fitted than
he to interest a Legislature, and to obtain liberal appropriations
even in the most critical times, yet he also recognized fully the
value of the American method of private endowments, and
from the outset the Museum owed its material existence to a
happy combination of State aid with personal interest. In
time, however, with the growth of the Museum, it became more
and more difficult to hold together a special Board of Trustees.
The intimate connection of the Museum with Harvard College
suggested an easy remedy, and the duties hitherto performed by
the Trustees were relegated to the already existing governing
boards of the University. By this consolidation with Harvard
College, the Museum, while it lost the immediate support of the
State, gained the good will and interest of the College students,
the class upon whom it must eventually depend for its main-
tenance. To the graduates of Harvard interested in the study
of nature the Museum must appeal for intellectual and mate-
rial support. With the ever-increasing influence of the natural
sciences, the field of the Museum becomes a large one, and men
must be found who will devote themselves to its interests and
keep it abreast of the requirements of a great University.

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The State aid forms but a part either of the invested funds
or of the expenditures incurred in behalf of the Museum.
During the first decade of its existence its resources were natu-
rally spent in forming the collections which in some fields of
study are to make it a great scientific centre. This result was
necessarily accomplished at a certain sacrifice of its educational
aims, and the number of trained students sent out from the
Museum as teachers during its earlier years, though undoubtedly
great, was perhaps not as large as might have been expected
from the pre-eminent qualifications of the founder himself as a
teacher. Fortunately, the period of great outlays for collections,
and for buildings and their equipment, is nearly past, and we
may hope in the future to see the means of the Museum ex-
pended rather on its laboratories, its investigations, and its pub-
lications, than on material objects. There are no doubt many
directions in which it would be advisable, for the sake of com-
pleteness, still further to increase our collections, but that may
be left for the future benefactors of the establishment.

By a strange coincidence the foundation of the Museum dates
from the publication of the “« Origin of Species.” Of course so
powerful a movement in the scientific thought of the time could -
not fail to modify the problems which the institution was intended
to illustrate and to solve. Yet the usefulness of the plans laid.
down for the Museum remains unimpaired by the new methods
of treating questions of affinity, of origin, of geographical and
geological distribution. Should the synoptic, the systematic, .
the faunal, and the paleontological collections cease to bear the
interpretation given to them by the founder, their interest and
importance, even for the advocates of the new biology, would
not be one whit lessened. If the anatomical, embryological,
synthetic, and other series presented by the pupil of Cuvier
from his point of view, are differently considered to-day by the
followers of Darwin, they may for this very reason have gained
a general interest they did not formerly possess.

The plans of the founder have been realized, perhaps, far be-
yond his most sanguine expectations, and it has been reserved
for his immediate successor to see the establishment of a prosper-
ous school of Natural History, amply provided with laboratories,
connected with a University, and recognizing in the administra-
tion of its trusts the claims of the College and of the advanced

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students, as well as those of the original investigator, and giving
them ample opportunity to publish their theses or researches.
The Museum has not, however, limited its usefulness to being
a simple educational University Museum; it has become, to a
certain extent, a public institution, intended for a larger circle.*
Finally, it has not neglected the interests of specialists, and
has accumulated extensive collections, conveniently stored, and
easily accessible to all who are able to make a proper use of this
material. These collections are in charge of a lmited num-
ber of assistants, whose time is not wholly occupied by their
administrative duties. :

The publications of the Museum, in the shape of its eleven
volumes of Bulletins and thirteen of Memoirs, give, with
the addition of the Monographs thus far issued by workers at
the Museum, a fair idea of the field covered by its various de-
partments. It was but natural that during my administration
special stress should have been laid on the Zodlogical Depart-
ment, but it has been my aim not to allow the other depart-
ments to lag too far behind. Each branch should in its turn be
properly developed, and the plan of our buildings is fortunately
such, that, as fast as any department outgrows its quarters,
a new section of the building may be added for its reception.
There is no reason why, with the increase of the Geological,
Anatomical, Geographical, or other Department of the Museum,
suitable accommodations and room for expansion should not be
provided,

The concentration of all the departments of Natural History
within a single square will in the future be the natural result of
the present plans. It will facilitate greatly the work of the
different departments, prevent needless duplications, and in-
crease the efficiency and economy by a central management.

The Library has grown from a few hundred volumes to an
important collection of biological works, and it is constantly in-
creased by its exchanges, purchases, and donations; it now
numbers over 17,000 volumes, exclusive of pamphlets and of
the Whitney Library. :

In 1860 the space covered by the first section of the building
erected was eighty by sixty feet, and it contained in all sixteen

* The number of visitors is constantly increasing, and on Sundays the building
is crowded.

rooms, used as lecture-room, laboratories, store-rooms, and exhi-
bition-rooms. A visitor to the Museum in those early days
would now find it difficult to recognize the rooms or their con-
tents in the present arrangement. The ground covered by the
building as it stands to-day is five times as great. There are no
less than eighteen exhibition-rooms,* with their corresponding
galleries, of which eleven are open to the public. Thirty-two
rooms are used for storage and quarters for special students
and assistants. ‘There are also a lecture-room, a Curator’s room
and office, eleven laboratories of biology and geology for College
and advanced students, four rooms devoted to the Library, and
in the basement, in addition to boiler space, rooms intended as
an Aquarium and Vivarium and for receiving freight ; — making
in all seventy-one rooms, the dimensions usually being thirty
feet by forty, and twelve galleries.

Of course, this result has not been attained without a very
considerable expenditure, and from the nature of the case a cer-
tain waste could not be prevented. In addition to the ordinary
income of the Museum about half a million of dollars has been
expended since 1875 for land, the buildings, the collections, and
the publications. A

We have probably reached the limit of a university organiza-
tion for such an institution. While it undoubtedly is capable of
indefinite expansion in.the way of endowments for special pro-
fessorships and assistants, it is doubtful if it is wise to expect or
aim at any expansion beyond that which naturally comes from
the demands of endowed chairs in a university. Original in-
vestigation has always been best promoted in connection with
educational institutions, and, in conformity with their demands,
museums should grow so fast and no faster, unless they are to
become mere unwieldy and meaningless accumulations.

The difficulty, if not impossibility, of uniting with other het
tutions, so as to avoid repetitions which are often both useless
and expensive, is a most discouraging feature in museum admin-
istration. No matter how the field may be preoccupied, each
director will pride himself upon his success in having accom-
plished what probably has already been done by others. No
doubt, in a country covering so great an area, and with the dense

* For an enumeration of the contents and uses to which our space is devoted
see Report for 1882-83.

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population occupying some of the older States, a considerable
amount of duplication is permissible. Yet our higher institu-
tions of learning, or rather the numberless sickly children
carefully nursed under the name of Universities in every State
of the Union, present a spectacle of scientific impracticability
and a waste of resources foreign to the hard-headed and thrifty
American methods in other directions. Germany, with its old
population, boasts but a fraction of the number of our universi-
ties, where collections and laboratories in every department of
science only lead a languishing existence, and from want either
of co-operation or of centralization do not produce results in
the least commensurate with the expenditures. The good ef-
fects of genuine competition are felt as keenly in scientific
matters as in business circles, but the mere parallelling, for the
sake of local prejudices, of an older institution, if I may be
allowed to borrow this expression from another field, is as dis-
astrous as it is wasteful. No institution can abandon a well
considered and original policy, because a neighbor chooses to do
the same thing somewhat later. Fortunately, it matters little
in scientific matters where the progress is made, as long as the
thing is accomplished. Methods and aims have of late years
changed so rapidly, that the managers of older establishments
may be pardoned at feeling somewhat discouraged if their plans
have become antiquated before they are fully carried out.

A school of Natural History such as was contemplated by the
founder of this Museum not only needs collections, libraries,
an ample fund for its publications, a large staff of teachers,
and the necessary buildings for storage and for its Jaboratories ;
but it also needs in the field and on the sea facilities for ever
renewing its contact with nature itself, without which the work
of its teachers would soon pass into that of the closet naturalist,
and their instruction lose its stimulus. It is in this direction that
we may yet hope to unite as far as practicable the forces in the
field and on the sea-shore. In connection with the Laboratory
of the United States Fish Commission, the Universities of the
country might found a seaside laboratory which would render
unnecessary, except for special work, the various establishments
already under way along our coast. Those States which from
a geological or biological point of view present an interesting
field of study could be visited in succession, in accordance with

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a well-considered plan. But the unfortunate conditions existing
in many of our educational institutions renders the execution of
such a plan a most delicate task.

To fill out the skeleton plan of our Museum as originally
sketched, there yet remains the completion of the rooms devoted
to the Marine Faune and the Paleontological collections. The
expenditures necessary for this object are considerable. It will
require at least $8,000 to place the Atlantic and Pacific Rooms
in a condition to be opened to the public, and the four Paleon-
tological Rooms can scarcely be completed for a less sum than
$25,000. Having for more than ten years borne the brunt of
the expenditures necessary to erect the buildings, to accumulate
the collections, and to place on exhibition what is now open
to the public, I feel as if I ought to devote my time and such
means as [ may command in a different direction, and one per-
haps more suited to my tastes. ‘The development of the proper
courses of instruction in Natural History at Cambridge, the
fostering of original work among the Professors and Assistants
of the Museum as well as among the students, and the providing
of the means for the publication of such researches as may be of
value, is a field quite large enough in addition to the carrying
on of my own scientific researches, which have suffered more ~
or less from the interruptions due to the claims of the man-
agement of so large an establishment. While this is to be my
principal object, I shall not forget that, in addition to these
departments of the Museum in which my interest was centred,
there are others yet to be completed. |

The claims of the Geological Department for a larger share of
the income of the Museum, and for additional room, cannot be
much longer ignored, and there are many collections still to be
acquired before we shall attain the proper proportions between
the various departments of the Museum. :

The following annual courses of instruction have been given
at the Museum : —

A course in Biology, by Professors Goodale and Faxon.

An advanced course in Zodlogy, by Professor Faxon.

General Lectures by Professor Mark, who also had charge of
the Embryological Laboratory ; Professor Faxon took charge
of the general Biological Laboratory, assisted by Mr. Nolen.

Professors J. D. Whitney, Shaler, and Davis gave the usual
courses in Geology, Paleontology, and Physical Geography.

9

For the details of the courses I would refer to the accompany-
ing special Reports.

About nine hundred volumes have been added to the Library
of the Museum during the past year. This is exclusive of the
books ordered by the College Library for the Natural History
Department.

The Europeo-Siberian Room has been opened to the aublic
during the year. This, with the exception of the Marine Faune,
completes the arrangement of exhibition-rooms devoted to zo-
ological collections.

Collections of Fishes and of Echinoderms have been sent to
the Museums of Stockholm, Bergen, Brussels, Paris, Copen-.
hagen, London, Florence, Milan, Gottingen, Hamburg, and
Vienna, to the Smithsonian, to New Haven, and to Pro-
fessor Ward of Rochester. Exchanges have also been con-
tinued with our Australian correspondents.

For the High School of Gloucester a good typical collection
of Mollusks and of Echinoderms was made by Messrs. Hamlin
and Fewkes.

Materials from the Museum collections have been sent for
study to the United States Geological Survey, to Dr. Dobson
of the Zodlogical Society, to Professor Solas, Dr. Joubin, and
to Professor Biitschli. A number of persons have received
invoices from the Entomological Department. In view of the
number of specialists applying for types contained in the
Museum, it will soon become impracticable for us to send out
such material, unless our working force can be increased, as this
work is constantly making greater claims upon the Assistants,
leaving them no time to attend to the regular work of their
departments.

Dr. Meinert has returned the collection of Cymathoaz sent
him and the late Professor Schiddte for their Monograph of the
eroup. Professor Lesquereux has returned to the Museum the
large collection of fossil plants collected in 1883 by Professor
Lakes of Golden, which he had kindly consented to examine
and to identify. He has retained the more interesting species,
to be figured in a memoir he is preparing for the United States
Geological Survey on the fossil plants of the Dakota group.
The spiders sent to Count Keyserling have also been returned

to the Museum. Mr. P. H. Carpenter has returned the Stalked
2

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Crinoids obtained by the “ Blake.” Excellent progress is mak-
ing with the reports on the “Blake” collections still unfinished,
and it is hoped that during the coming year the reports may all
be published. ‘The plates for Mr. Dall’s Report are nearly com-
pleted, and Professor Goode and Dr. Beane hope within a very
short time to send the manuscript of the descriptions of the col-
lection of Fishes made in the Gulf of Mexico by the *“ Blake.”
With the completion of these publications it will be possible to
devote more space than heretofore to the results of the special
work of the Assistants, and to the investigations of the Pro-
fessors, Assistants, and students in the Museum Laboratories
both at Cambridge and at Newport.

- The work at Newport has been limited during this season to
that on the Embryology of Echinoderms by Dr. Fewkes, — who
has been quite successful in tracing the development of Echina-
rachnius and of Ophiurans, — and to my own work on the Em-
bryology of Pelagic Fishes.

At the Museum Dr. Whitman has continued his previous
work. Dr. Faxon has, in addition to his College instruction,
devoted his time to the revision of the Astacide. Dr. Mark has
nearly brought to completion the memoirs he is preparing on the .
development of Lepidosteus, while taking charge of the Embry-
ological Laboratory. This Laboratory will hereafter be well.
equipped for work, the Corporation having made an appro-
priation to supply it with the greater part of the necessary
apparatus.

Dr. Farlow, although on leave of absence, spent a portion of
his time at Cambridge at work on a Monograph of the North
American Puccinie and Uromyces. For the completion of this
memoir he collected a considerable amount of material dur-
ing his trip to the West Coast. Dr. Farlow regrets that the
Botanical Department should not have a Museum where the
larger and more striking forms of vegetation could be displayed.
The greater part of the collection made by Dr. Farlow had to be
reduced to the common herbarium size. In addition to some
short notes Dr. Farlow published in the Proceedings of the
American Academy ‘‘ Notes on some Species of Gymnospo-
rangium,’ and a paper on the Synchytria in the Botanical
Gazette.

Doctor Horn of Philadelphia has kindly spent a number

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of days at the Museum examining with Dr. Hagen the Le
Conte collection, with special reference to the type specimens
it contains.

Dr. Slade has completed the unpacking of the collections of
Western Fossil Vertebrates brought together during the past
years. There isa large amount of excellent material, but the
bulk which has to be examined and rejected before the material
suitable for the Museum can be set aside makes this method of
collection by professional collectors a very expensive one. It
will be far cheaper, and more for the interest of the Museum,
to purchase even at a comparatively high price a collection
which has passed through this stage, and represents only such
specimens as are considered of value by an experienced paleon-
tologist ; such a collection, for instance, as that brought to-
gether by a well-known palzontologist, containing the principal
types of the greater number of our Western formations, repre-
senting many years of study at home and explorations in the
field. An accession of this kind would form an invaluable
addition to our North American fossils, and, if this collection
cannot be purchased by the friends of the Museum, we must be
gradually gathering a similar collection. To duplicate this col-
lection would require at least ten years of active field work and
an expenditure of over $75,000. But I may hope that some
friend of the Museum will enable us to secure this important
scientific material, which ought not to be allowed to pass out
of the country, but be kept together as representing the active
work of an indefatigable investigator.

In the mean while, thanks to the permission granted us is
Professor Marsh, casts have been taken of the more interesting
and characteristic of the types described by him. These have
now been received at the Museum, and will in due time be
placed on exhibition in their proper place with the Palzonto-
logical series. Want of means has preverited the Museum from
securing the important collection of fossils brought together by
the late Dr. Thomas Wright of Cheltenham. ‘The collection
was, in accordance with the terms of his will, offered to the
Museum, and we were very reluctantly compelled to decline
the offer.

Mr. J. A. Allen, who for many years has taken charge of our
collections of Birds and Mammals, has left the Museum, having

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accepted a similar position in the American Museum of Natural
History. The Museum is most fortunate in having secured the
co-operation of Mr. William Brewster, who has kindly con-
sented to charge himself with the department formerly under
Mr. Allen’s care. Since his appointment, Mr. Brewster has
made an examination of the mammal skins, and, in accordance
with the plan already carried out in other departments, of
‘rejecting everything not of the first quality, he has materially
reduced its bulk. The collection is now of great value, and can
readily be cared for. Before leaving, Mr. Allen finished label-
ling the specimens in the Indian, African, and European Rooms,
and he further revised the rapacious birds, the pigeons, and the
orouse.

We have also lost the services of Mr. Paulus Roetter, who
for the past eighteen years has been the indefatigable artist of
the Museum, and to whose skilful pencil the Museum publi-
cations owe the greater part of their illustrations during that
time.

Mr. Lyman, who during the past two years could give but a
most general supervision to his department, has now resumed
his place at Cambridge. ‘

The Museum is indebted to Messrs. Cabot and Slade for
their interest in behalf of their respective departments. Dr.
Slade has made a complete catalogue of the Osteological
collections.

Professor Hamlin has unpacked and made a preliminary
arrangement of our acquisitions of Fossil Invertebrates; they
are now safely stored in the four rooms of the first floor de-
voted to that purpose. He has also transferred to the upper
story the Fossil Vertebrates, which occupy two large rooms
of that floor. While an immense amount of work still re-
mains to be done on the collection of Fossils, they are all
accessible, and it will be a comparatively easy task to select
from our stores the necessary series for the Paleontological
Exhibition Rooms, and to place the collection in order for
special students.

Mr. Garman has brought the collections of Fishes and Reptiles
into perfect order, and is gradually sending out our duplicates
for distribution to other institutions. Professors Hamlin and
Faxon have also condensed the alcoholic collections of Mollusks

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and Crustacea, and Mr. Fewkes has done the same with the Ra-
diates. This now leaves in the basement only the alcoholic
collections of Birds and Mammals, which have not yet been
thoroughly examined; the other alcoholic collections having
all received the revision they so greatly needed.

I may mention among the more important accessions, ex-
changes with the Museums of Bergen, Milan, Gottingen, and the
British Museum. From the *“‘ Challenger’”’ office we have received
a series of duplicates of their Stalked Crinoids, in exchange fora
similar series of the “* Blake”’ expedition, intended for the British
Museum. From the Paris Museum we have received a collec-
tion of Patagonian birds, — a valuable addition to our American
faunal series. We have continued a general system of ex-
changes with the Smithsonian, as well as, to a limited extent, our
purchases from Professor Ward, the principal additions belong-
ing to the African Faunal Room. We have also received in
exchange casts from the Museums of Oxford and of Munich. A
collection of Paleozoic Fossils was made by our collector, under
the direction of Mr. C. D. Walcott, in the Eureka District, with
the permission of Major Powell, the Director of the Geological
Survey.

During my visit to the Sandwich Islands I devoted consider-
able time to the study of the recent and extinct reefs of the
group, and am now preparing a short paper on the subject for
the Museum Bulletin. I made an extensive and interesting
collection of the various limestones characteristic of the modern
and ancient reefs.

From the Peabody Museum of Salem we have received in
exchange the most important addition to our Entomological
Department ever received. It contains a large number of types
described by prominent American and European entomologists.
I must confess that I accepted this collection with great reluc-
tance, as it will involve a considerable outlay in the way of
boxes and cabinets, as well as a good part of the time of the
Assistants of the department to preserve it from deteriorating.
The same is true for other collections we have received, and
which do not all fill some important gap. A few such additions,
entailing increased expense and care, will materially cripple the
usefulness of the institution. It becomes a serious question how
far we can allow our resources to be absorbed in the future by

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the care of collections which those who have brought them
together are unable to give them, and thus be almost compelled
to divert our means from the more legitimate outlays of the
Museum, without at the same time receiving the necessary
assistance for such increased work.

I am happy to state that the invaluable collection of Indian
Birds presented to the Museum by Mr. A. O. Hume of Simla
is now at the British Museum. In a letter addressed to Prof.
W.H. Flower, Director of the British Museum, Mr. Hume
says, *¢ Of the duplicates available, I would wish that the first
set should be sent to Professor Agassiz.’? The Director of the
British Museum also informs me that the selection of our series
will, in accordance with the wishes of ay Hume, be made by
Mr. Sharpe.

A list of the Museum publications issued during the past
academic year is given in Appendix A of this Report. They
consist of two numbers of the Bulletin, and of two numbers of
the Memoirs. The third number of the Embryological Mono-
graphs having absorbed nearly all the miscellaneous plates pre-
pared for that work, this publication will for the present be
discontinued. Professor Whitney has published for the Museum
the first part of the Lithological Studies by Professor Wads-
worth, announced in the last Report.

The Report of Mr. Murray on the specimens of bottom de-
posits obtained by the “ Blake” is now passing through the
press, and will form one of the numbers of the Bulletin. Pro-
fessor Faxon has also completed his “Revision of the Astacide,”
and I have myself, in connection with Mr. Whitman, completed
the first part of an investigation on the “Embryology of Osseous —
Fishes.”” These two monographs have been printed, and pol
be issued as numbers of the Museum Memoirs.

In addition to the investigations issued in the publications of
the Museum, Professors Hagen, Shaler, Faxon, and Davis, and
Messrs. Garman and Fewkes, have published in the Proceedings
of the American Academy and other journals a number of papers.
A list of these is appended to the special Reports. I have with
Dr. Whitman printed in the Proceedings of the American Acad-
emy a preliminary account of our investigations on the develop-
ment of Pelagic Fishes. I have also made excellent progress
towards completing the final Report of the ‘* Blake Cruises.’

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Thirteen chapters are printed, leaving unfinished only the chap-
ters devoted to the zodlogical results, which await the final
reports of two or three special investigators. Professor Huxley
has kindly sent me for this Report drawings of the Spirula
dredged by the “ Blake,” which had been sent to him for use
while preparing his Report on the specimens of the same genus
collected by the ‘‘ Challenger.”

The first part of the final Report of Mr. P. H. Carpenter on
the Crinoidea of the Challenger has been published.* This
includes also the Stalked Crinoids of the Blake which had
been sent to Sir Wyville Thomson, who intended to incorporate
them in his Report on the Challenger species. After his death,
the Challenger as well as the Blake collections were transferred
to Mr. Carpenter, who described the Blake material in connec-
tion with that of the Challenger, so that his Report is a com-
plete monograph of the recent Stalked Crinoids. The material
available for some of the species of Pentacrinus was very abun-
dant, and of this Mr. Carpenter has made admirable use. The
monograph includes not only a description of the various spe-
cies, but also a most thorough comparison of the Neocrinoids
with the Paleocrinoids. The species collected by the Blake
have supplied valuable material in the description of some of
the Stalked Crinoids included in the Report on the Challenger
Expedition Crinoidea.

The collection of the Blake Myzostomida sent to Dr. L. von
Graff for study has been returned by him. The result of his
examination of the Blake species has been incorporated in the
final Report on the Challenger Myzostomida published in 1884.7
A Preliminary Report of the Blake species has already ap-
peared in the tenth volume of the Museum Bulletin. In ad-
dition to the twenty-eight species of the Blake expedition,
and the thirty-three of the Challenger, Dr. Graff's Report is
a complete monograph of this small group of animals, based
upon the collections of the principal Museums of Europe.

* Report upon the Crinoidea collected during the Voyage of H. M.S. Challenger
during the Years 1878-76. By P. Herbert Carpenter, D.Sc., Assistant Master at
Eton College. pp. i—xxii., 1-442, Pls. 1-LXII. Zodl., Vol. XI. London, 1884.

t Report on the Myzostomida collected during the Voyage of H. M.S. Challenger
during the Years 1873-76. By Dr. L. von Graff. pp. 1-82, Pls. 1-X VI. London,
1884,

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Professor E. Perrier of the Jardin des Plantes has published
in the Nouvelles Archives du Muséum his final Report on the
Starfishes of the Blake, of which the administration of the Jar-
din des Plantes kindly sent us fifty copies for the use of the
Museum.* Professor Perrier having already published, in 1875
and 1876, a general Revision of the Starfishes, based upon the
examination of the collections of the principal Museums of
Europe and of our own, we could not have intrusted the Blake
collections to better hands. Professor Perrier’s memoir de-
scribes forty-six new species from the region explored by the
Blake. There were known previously from the same district
only twenty-seven species, and the species first brought to light
by the Blake have added nearly one tenth to the number of
species of Starfishes known.

It would be advisable, if possible, to change the somewhat
cumbrous official name by which the Museum has been known
for the past twenty-five years into a simpler and at the same
time more comprehensive title, according better with the ex-
tended field now covered by the Museum.

ALEXANDER AGASSIZ.
CAMBRIDGE, October 1, 1885.

* Mémoire sur les Etoiles de Mer recuillies dans la Mer des Antilles et le Golfe.
du Mexique durant les Expéditions de dragage sous la Direction de M. Alexandre
Agassiz. Par Edmond Perrier, Professeur Administrateur au Muséum d’Histoire
Naturelle de Paris. Nouvelles Archives du Muséum. Paris, 1884. Tom. VI.
pp. 127-276. :

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REPORT ON THE GEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

By Jostan D. Wuitney, Sturgis-Hooper Professor.

Durine the College year 1884-85 a course of forty-eight
lectures on Economical Geology was given by the Sturgis-
Hooper Professor, which was attended by about twelve College
students, mostly Seniors. This course was made more popular
than it had before been, and special attention was given to the
mineral and metallic resources of the United States, and to
their economical development.

There were no special students in Geology or Lithology.

Doctor Wadsworth, after the completion of the first part of
the ‘* Lithological Studies,” of which there was given in the
last Report of this Department a full account, went to Europe,
where he spent most of the year. His object was to make
himself acquainted with the leading European lithologists, and
to examine the most important collections in this department
in England and on the Continent. Every facility was given
him for the study of such of these collections as he had time
to visit, and especially those of Vienna, Berlin, and London.
Dr. Wadsworth has published several lithological papers during
the year. He has now left Cambridge to enter upon the duties
of the Professorship of Geology in Colby University, at Water-
ville, Maine; but the publication of the “ Lithological Studies”
can be resumed at any time,if the necessary pecuniary arrange-
ments can be made. A large portion of the work is already
done, and when published it will complete the eleventh volume
of the Memoirs of the Museum. The Sturgis-Hooper Professor
has published one or two brief geographical papers, and also
prepared the definitions in Physical Geography, Geology, Min-
ing, and Metallurgy, for the new dictionary to be issued by

the Century Company of New York. As a special subject of
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investigation, he has taken up the surface and glacial geology
of the United States, and has done considerable field work in
various regions for the purpose of getting facts which might
throw light on some of the extremely difficult and perplexing ©
problems presented in that field of investigation. The obser-
vations thus far made are of a nature to encourage a belief that,
with sufficient time and labor, some important results may be
reached in this direction.

CAMBRIDGE, October 1, 1885.

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REPORT ON THE INSTRUCTION IN GEOLOGY, PALA‘-
ONTOLOGY, AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.

By Prorsssors N. S. SHALER anp W. M. Davis.

DuRING the past year this instruction was given by sections,
field and laboratory teaching as follows, viz. : —

1. An elementary course in Descriptive Geology, consisting of sixty
lectures and fifteen days of field work on the geology of Eastern Massa-
chusetts. Students in this course were also required to pass an examination
on the more important parts of Dana’s Manual of Geology. Those who
desired to pursue the higher courses in Geology mentioned below were
required to take a course on Determinative Mineralogy, given by Mr.
O. W. Huntington, Instructor, in the mineral cabinet. The total number ~
of students in this course was one hundred and sixty-five.

2. A course in Advanced Geology, designed to give an acquaintance
with the history of the science, with criticisms upon its methods of in-
quiry ; together with some practical knowledge of the methods of field
work. Im addition to the sixty lectures, the students were required to
become familiar with Lyell’s Principles of Geology, and also to pursue,
under the immediate direction of Prof. W. M. Davis, a systematic course
in field work. ‘This course was attended by twenty-five students.

3. A course in advanced field work, in which the students are required
to study a selected geological field, and to prepare a report on the same,
with a geological map and sections. ‘This course was attended by four
students.

4,,A course in Paleontology, open only to those who have taken the
elementary course in Zodlogy as well as the two courses in Geology
named above. Sixty lectures were given in this course, and the students
were required to become familiar with the synoptic collection of the
Museum, as well as with the small systematic collection of the teachers’
cabinet. In addition to my own Lectures on this subject, a short course
on Fossil Plants was given by my Assistant, Mr. R. T. Jackson. This
course was attended by seventeen students.

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5. A course in Historical Geology, designed to give the student the
training necessary to recognizing the principal geological horizons by
their characteristic fossils. No lectures were given in this course, the
instruction being altogether by directed study on the materials contained
in the cabinet appropriated to students’ use. This course was attended
by two students.

Two courses of meetings for the discussion of work done by
the students in Geology and Paleontology were held during the
winter months.

During the summer months ten of the advanced students
in Geology received instruction in field work. Two graduates
trained in this department, who received their degrees at the last
Commencement, have been appointed to places in the United
States Geological Survey.

During the time when not occupied in teaching, I have been
engaged as Geologist on the work of the United States Geologi-
cal Survey on the coast line of New England. ‘The results of
this work will in part be found in the forthcoming Report of
the Director of that Survey.

The following papers have been published by Prof. N. 8.
Shaler: —

On the Origin of Kames. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XXIII.

Kentucky: a Pioneer Commonwealth. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.,
Boston, 1885. ‘

The Negro Problem. Atlantic Monthly, 1884.

The course of Lectures on Physical Geography and Meteo-
rology was given by Professor Davis in about the same form as
during the previous year; it was attended by fifty-five students.

During the year Professor Davis has written the following
papers : —

1. Geographic Classification, illustrated by a Study of Plains, Plateaus,
and their Derivatives. Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., XX XIII., 1884.

2. Drumlins. Science, 1884.

3. On the Origin of Drumlins. Amer. Journ. Sci., 1884.

4, The Cold Island in Michigan. Amer. Meteorol. Journ., II., 1885.

5. Temperature Diagrams. Amer. Meteorol. Journ., II., 1885, pp.
169-175.

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REPORT ON THE INSTRUCTION IN BIOLOGY.

By Proressors GoopALE, Faxon, AND MARK.

In the absence of Professor Farlow the botanical part of the
course in Biology was conducted by Professors Goodale and
Faxon. This course was taken by 40 students,—9 Seniors,
20 Juniors, 7 Sophomores, 1 special student, 1 Graduate, and
2 Scientific students. Mr. W. W. Nolen assisted in directing
the laboratory work of this class.

The course in Advanced Zoology under Professor Faxon was
attended by 14 students,— 8 Seniors, 1 Junior, 2 special, and
3 Scientific students.

Natural History 2 and 9 were, as usual, in charge of Dr. E. L.
Mark.

Of the 104 students who elected Nat. Hist. 2 (Zodlogy) dur-
ing the academic year 1884-85, 96 took the mid-year exami-
nation, and 88 completed the course. Of the latter, 7 were
Seniors, 22 Juniors, 87 Sophomores, 16 Freshmen, 4 special
students, and 2 in the Scientific School.

The course in Nat. Hist. 9 (Embryology) was. pursued by a
single post-graduate student, — holder of one of the recently
established Morgan Fellowships, — who devoted a large share
of his time to an embryological investigation, the results of
which will be published soon in the Bulletin of the Museum,
under the title: “ Observations on the Development of Agelena
nevia. By William A. Locy.”

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REPORT ON OSTEOLOGY.

By D. D. Suape.

THE osteological collection of Mammalia is in excellent con-
dition. A few additions have been made during the past year,
chiefly by the return to the Museum of skeletons that had been
sent to Prof. H. A. Ward for preparation.

A few Cetacean bones from Florida have also been received
from the Smithsonian.

The Fossil Vertebrates from the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and ‘
Tertiary formations, collected in recent years by Messrs. S. Gar-
man, Clifford, Allaman, and Hollywood, have been opened and
disposed in systematic order in the cases provided for them, and
are now ready for determination. :

A Systematic Catalogue of the entire osteological collection of
Mammals has been prepared.

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REPORT ON THE BIRDS AND MAMMALS.

By WILLt1aM BREWSTER.

THE only important acquisition in the Ornithological De-
partment during the past four months is a collection of skins
of Patagonian birds, received in exchange from the Jardin des
Plantes.

Early in July a thorough examination was made of the collec-
tion of skins of the larger Mammals. Their condition proved
decidedly unsatisfactory. Many had been originally so badly
skinned or preserved that they were nearly worthless; others
were broken or defaced in various ways; while a large number
had been materially injured, and not a few ruined, by the at-
tacks of moths and museum pests.

This state of affairs was evidently due, not to any neglect in
the care of the specimens, but to the gradual accumulation of
poor skins inevitable with all large collections, and to the diffi-
culty, if not impossibility, of guarding so much bulky material
from insects, especially as many of the cases in which it was
stored were far from insect-proof.

As the construction of a sufficient number of suitable cases
would have involved a large expense, and as most of the skins
belonged to common species, which can be easily replaced, and
which, in most cases, are represented by perfect specimens in
the mounted collections, it seemed best to dispose, by exchange
or otherwise, of everything that could be safely regarded as
either a duplicate or worthless. This has been done, and the
collection thereby brought within such limits that the really
valuable material which remains can be easily preserved from
further injury.

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REPORT ON THE FISHES, SELACHIANS, BATRACHIANS,
AND REPTILES.

By SaAmMuEL GARMAN.

THE process of reducing the bulk of these collections by ex-
changing the duplicates has been continued. A. large number
of identifications have been added to the lists. In the exhibi-
tion-rooms a number of additions and changes have been made,
and considerable attention has been paid to anatomical prepa-
rations.

The Museum is indebted for donations to Professor Agassiz,
W.S. Bryant, 8S. E. Cassino, A. P. Chadbourne, 8. F. Denton,
J. W. Fewkes, F. H. Gould, Miss Helen Lennebacker, J. H.
Noble, Prof. F. W. Putnam, Miss Rosa Smith, Prof. 8. Watson,
Charles White, C. O. Whitman, and N. Vickary. The largest
accessions were secured by exchanges, through Dr. Ehlers, Dr.
Pagenstecher, and Prof. John Robinson of the Peabody Museum,
and in a lot purchased by Professor Agassiz in New Mexico.
The series from the Peabody Academy is large and valuable,
though the majority of the specimens are duplicates of species
already on hand. Those from Géttingen and Hamburg supply
a large number of species previously unrepresented here.

Large series of Fishes, of more than a hundred species each,
were sent to Museums in Bremen, Florence, Frankfurt (Main),
Gottingen, Hamburg, and Stockholm. Another invoice, of
specially selected species, was sent to the Milan Museum.
Materials for various special investigations were sent to Dr.
G. Baur, Prof. F. A. Smitt, Dr. B. G. Wilder, and Prof. R. R.
Wright.

The following publications have been based wholly or mainly
on material in our collections : —

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“On the Use of Polynomials as Names in Zodlogy,” in the Pro-
ceedings of the Boston Natural History Society.

“The American Salmon and Trout,” in the Sixteenth Annual Report
of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries of Massachusetts.

“Notes and Descriptions from Selachians in the United States Na-
tional Museum,” in the Proceedings of the U. 8. National Museum.

A Monograph of “ Chlamydoselachus,” in the Bulletin of the Museum,
Vol. XII.

“On the Frilled Shark,” in the Proceedings of the American Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science, Vol. XX XIII., Philadelphia
Meeting.

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REPORT ON THE ENTOMOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

By Dr. H. A. Hacen.

THE collections of dry and alcoholic insects sent us by the
Peabody Academy at Salem, Mass., is not only the most impor-
tant addition of the year, but the largest ever received. The
pinned insects filled three cabinets, besides several hundred
large boxes, most of them crowded with specimens. The
alcoholic insects filled several thousand smaller jars or tubes.

Dr. C. A. Dohrn has sent in exchange three different lots of
five hundred species new to our collection, Carabide, Lamel-
licornia, Scolytidz, and Anthribide, among them many rare
type specimens. Mr. H. Wilson and Prof. S$. Watson, of Cam-
bridge, have presented us an excellent collection of Butterflies, —
Coleoptera, and larvee, which they collected in Livingston, Guate-
mala, most of them new to the collection. We have also re-
ceived valuable specimens from Messrs. Ph. R. Uhler, Baltimore,
Md.; B. P. Mann, Washington, D.C.; Chas. V. Riley; J. A.
Moffat, Hamilton, Canada; Lieut. Th. Casey and Dr. Geo. H.
Horn, Philadelphia, Pa.; Messrs. Th. G. Wood, London, Eng-
land; G. Kinow, Konigsberg, Prussia; A. Bell, Nashua, N. H.;
and R. Thaxter, Cambridge, Mass.

Mr. 8. Henshaw has sent us in exchange very excellent bio-
logical specimens, among them a full lot of the types of galls
and gall-flies from Florida published by Mr. Ashmead.

Hl. A. Hagen has presented to the Museum (1.) a large lot
of Neuroptera and Pseudoneuroptera collected in S. E. Borneo
by Mr. Grabowsky; (2.) three large lots of biological specimens
collected in Western Texas; (8.) the types of Mr. Asa Fitch,
Hemerobide and Chrysopide. ,

The collection, as far as stored in the regular Museum and
cabinets, has remained in very good condition. The others,

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the collection of Dr. J. L. Le Conte, the collection of Professor
Loew, and the collection of Dr. Hagen, packed in old-fashioned,
unsafe boxes. As I stated in my last Report, they are in a more
than precarious condition. There is no remedy for this state
of things, except good boxes and equally good cabinets.

A large part of the Salem collection, chiefly exotic Lepidoptera
and Hymenoptera, was infested, and its examination and the re-
jection of the useless material have occupied four months. For-
tunately, the valuable types of North American Insects by Prof.
A.S. Packard, A. R. Grote, and V. T. Chambers, and the types
of prominent European entomologists, Zeller, Staudinger, Mann,
Forster, Walker, etc., placed in better boxes, were in good or
tolerable condition, and form now a valuable supplement to our
collection. Of the types of Packard’s monograph of Geometrinz
‘only four species are wanting, and nine described by him from
specimens belonging to other entomologists. These additions
rendered necessary a new arrangement of the North American
and European Lepidoptera; they fill now 162 boxes. The col-
lection has been largely used both abroad and here.

Part III. of Rev. A. E. Eaton’s monograph of Ephemerina
was published in the Transactions of the Linnean Society of
London. Count Keyserling has published two papers on our
North American spiders in Vienna, Verhandlungen der Zool.
Botan. Ges., Wien, 1885.

Dr. Meinert’s monograph of the North American Chilopoda is
just printed in Philadelphia.

Mr. L. Brunner has published a paper on the Orthoptera col-
lected in Washington Territory. Mr. Ph. R. Uhler is occupied
in preparing a memoir on a large part of the Hemiptera of the
Museum. Dr.S. W. Williston has in his possession the Diptera
collected in Washington Territory. Lieut. Th. Casey has pub-
lished descriptions of a number of species of Coleoptera of the
Le Conte and the Museum collections.

A number of entomologists have visited the Museum and
compared its types in the preparation of monographs. Among
_ them, Dr. 5. W. Williston, for his monograph of North American
Syrphide (O. Sacken’s and Loew’s collections); Mr. W. Blan-
chard, of Lowell, Mass.; Dr. Horn and 8. Henshaw (Le Conte’s
collection), for their new list of North American Coleoptera ;
Mr. J. B. Smith, for a monograph of Noctuina; and Baron

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von Osten-Sacken, for a memoir on the Diptera of Central
America.

One student (Junior) has worked through the whole year on
a special work (synopsis of Rhopalocera) ; another (Postgradu-
ate) has given what time he could spare to the determination of
North American Noctuina and Bombyces. Another special
student from Canada has worked throughout the winter here.

The correspondence was as large as usual.

In addition to the purchases by the College, the Assistant has
added to the library a number of rare old works and papers,
by Peck, Say, and Harris.

The Assistant has published in “ Nature,” two papers on C. C.
Sprengel, and one on Devonian Insects. In Carus Zodlog. An-
zeiger, ‘* Ueber Devonische Insecten.” In ‘“ Papilio,” several
papers and lists of the types of North American Tineina in the
collection, with notes by Prof. H. Frey, Zurich. In ‘“ The Cana-
dian Entomologist,” papers On Chalcographa scalaris and its En-
emies; On Scolytus rugulosus and the Pear Blight; List of the
Phytoptocecidia or Mite Gallsin the Museum; The Melsheimer
Family and the Melsheimer Collection; A Biographical Notice
of the Rev. D. Ziegler; On Xylorydetes Satyrus ; On the Hab-
its of Coelopa frigida ; White Ants destroying living Trees and
changing the Foliage in Cambridge, Mass. ; Further Materials ©
on the Hessian Fly, — partly from the old records of the Philo-
sophical Society in Philadelphia, destroying the old tale of the
importation by Hessians ; and On the Hessian Fly in Italy. |

A Monograph of the Embidina is just going through the
press; and the First Part of a Monograph of the Immature
Stages of the Odonata is in the hands of the printer in Phila-
delphia. :

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REPORT ON THE CRUSTACEA.

By WALTER Faxon.

SINCE the last Annual Report of the Curator of the Museum
the collection of Crustacea has been enriched through exchange
with Mr. Charles Chilton of Christchurch, New Zealand, and
Prof. B. F. Koons of Mansfield, Conn., and through gifts from
Prof. D. S. Jordan and Mr. A. W. Butler.

A representative collection of Crustacea has been presented
by the Museum to the University of Wisconsin, to repair the
loss of the old collection, which was burned.

The Cymothoids belonging to the Museum, which have been
for some time in the hands of Messrs. Schiodte and Meinert of
Copenhagen, have been restored during the past year. This
collection formed an important part of the material upon which
these gentlemen based their elaborate Monograph of the
Cymothoide, published at Copenhagen in the “ Naturhistorisk
Tidsskrift,”’ 3d Series.

The determination and cataloguing of the collection has gone
on as far as the time at the disposal of the Assistant would
allow. In connection with this work the Assistant has published
‘“‘ Descriptions of New Species of Cambarus ; to which is added
a Synonymical List of the Known Species of Cambarus and
Astacus,” in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., Vol. XX. pp.
107-158, December, 1884; ‘«‘A Revision of the Astacide,” in
Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. X., 186 pp., 10 plates; also a
‘¢ List of the Astacide in the U.S. National Museum,”’ in Proc.
U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VIII.

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REPORT OF THE PALAONTOLOGICAL AND CONCHO-
LOGICAL DEPARTMENTS.

By CHarwes E. HAmtiin.

DuRING the past year there have been added in the Paleon-
tological Department : —

1. A collection of Fossil Plants from the Tertiary of Golden, Colo-
rado, purchased from Prof. Arthur Lakes, of the State School of Mines,
at Golden.

2. A series of Fossil Fishes from the Huron Shales (Upper Devonian)

of Lorraine County, Ohio, collected by and purchased of Mr. Jay Terrell,
of Oberlin, Ohio.

The general collections of Cambrian, Silurian, and Devonian
Fossil Invertebrata, and the special collection of Fossil Echino-.
derms, temporarily stored in the old lecture-room of the Museum,
have been removed to glazed cases in the rooms upon the first
floor, which have been fitted up for their permanent deposit.

The various collections of Vertebrate Fossils have been placed
in the cases of the new room assigned to them on the fifth floor.

The Day and Taylor collections of Fossil Invertebrata — the
one from the Racine Limestone of Wisconsin, the other from
the New York Silurian, — have been taken from the packing-
boxes, and, after preliminary classification, have been arranged
in cases recently constructed for them.

A series of Cretaceous Plants, selected from the collection
made in Kansas by Mr. C. H. Sternberg, and another of Tertiary
Plants from the Lakes collection above mentioned, have been
forwarded to Prof. Leo Lesquereux, of Columbus, Ohio, to be
figured for volumes now in course of preparation by him.

‘The systematic collection of recent Mollusca has been re-
moved from the room where it has been stored since 1877, and

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arranged in the glazed cases of the room upon the fifth floor as-
signed for the use of the Conchological Department, where this
very large and valuable collection is now for the first time con-
veniently accessible for reference and study. Upon this and the
collection of duplicate shells, which has also been transferred
from its old quarters, work has been commenced toward putting
them in more satisfactory order and condition than were possible
until the conchological material could be brought together from
distant parts of the building.

The very extensive collection of alcoholic Mollusca, in the
basement, has been overhauled, and a great amount of material,
hardened and rendered useless for purposes of dissection through
long immersion in alcohol, has been rejected.

During the year a series of marine, fresh-water, and land shells
from Europe has been selected, mounted, and arranged for exhi-
bition in the European Faunal Room. Corresponding series
from South America and Africa have been selected, and in large
part mounted, and will shortly be arranged in the exhibition
cases.

The conchological exchanges effected during the year have
been few and unimportant; but by direction of the Curator
suites of shells have been prepared and presented to educational
institutions, as follows :—

1. To the Public High School of Gloucester, Mass., 166 species, 383
specimens, of generic types, for use in instruction.

2. To the Western Normal College of Shenandoah, Page County,
Towa, 177 species, to illustrate the more important genera of Mollusks.

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REPORT ON THE RADIATES

By J. Water FEWKES.

DuRING the past year a collection of Corals illustrating the
Indo-Asiatic fauna has been mounted and placed on exhibition.

The large collection of alcoholic duplicate Starfishes and Sea-
urchins, which for many years has been stored in copper cans in
the cellar, has been looked over, and from it ten large duplicate
boxes of specimens have been picked out. These boxes have
been sent to different institutions by the Curator. Many dupli-
cates from the same source have been sent to Mr. Ward. In
this way the original collection has been reduced to about one
third its former size, and the collection retained in the Museum-
has been put in a better condition for permanent preservation.

Mr. P. H. Carpenter has returned the collection of Blake
Crinoids which was sent to him for study. ‘This collection con-
tains valuable types, descriptions of which are found in his re-
ports on the “ Blake ” and ‘“ Challenger” Crinoidea. :

I have prepared for publication two papers on the Medusz
collected by the ‘‘ Albatross” in the Gulf Stream and West
Indian waters ; they are to be published in the Annual Report
of the United States Fish Commission.

The Museum has printed in the Bulletin an account of my
observations made in the Newport Laboratory on the develop-
ment of Agalma.

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REPORT ON THE LIBRARY.

By Miss F. M. Stack.

DorinG the year ending September 1, 1885, the Library has
been increased by 882 volumes, 1262 parts, and 605 pamphlets.

VOLUMES. PARTS, PAMPHLETS.

Gili eeer rn Roa hs oe hy AAR 8 Be ale coal a Ne, geet Delle para eA 52 80
Bea CRM mn ML Ce Ate si het. idl 9" ude cap vine ae 472 90
Purchase PME ae eV isn CtOr (ial lib Tau! acaht aeaeak Meh AAO OMEN ED ‘135 18
ARP ARC AS SIZIM honl fa) accuse Mache nico yy nlite gett ROA Ae aos iaty EOE 598 416
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Binding Parts and Pamphlets ....... . 6586

882 1262 605

The whole number of volumes now in the Library (exclusive
of pamphlets and of the Whitney Library) is 17,549.

[A.]
PUBLICATIONS

OF THE

MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY

» FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1884-85.

Of the Bulletin.
Vol. XI., completing the volume: —

No. 11. Studies from the Newport Marine Laboratory.— XV. On the De-
velopment of Acarma. By J. W. Fewxes. 36 pp. 4 Plates. July,
1885.

Vol. XII. u

No. 1. CHLAMYDOSELACHUS ANGUINEUS Garm.— A Living Species of Clado-
dont Shark. By Samurext Garman. July, 1885. 35 pp. 20 Plates.

No. 2. Reports on the Results of Dredging by the United States Coast Survey
Steamer. “ Blake.” —XXVII. Report on the Specimens of Bottom
Deposits. By Jonn Murray. (In press.)

(Vol. XII. to be continued.)
Of the Memoirs.
Vol. IX.

No. 8. Selections from Embryological Monographs. Compiled by ALEXANDER
Acassiz, W. Faxon, and E. L. Marx.—Poryrs anp AcaLepHs. By
EK. L. Marx and J. W. Fewxres. 52 pp. 13 Plates. September, 1884.

(Vol. IX. to be continued.)
Vol. X.

No. 3. Ona Species of Fossir Doe. By J. A. AtLEN. (In press.)

No.4. A Revision of the Astacipm. By WALTER Faxon. pp. i-vi., 186.
10 Plates. September, 1885.

Vol, XI.

No.1. Lirgoztoeicat Stupies. By M. E. Wapswortu. pp. i—xvi., 208,

xxxil. 8 Plates. October, 1884. ;
(Vol. XI. to be continued.)
Vol. XIV.

No. 1. Studies from the Newport Marine Labratory. — XVI. Development of
OssgEous Fisuxs.—I. Pelagic Stages of Youne Fisues. By ALEXANDER
Acassiz and C. O. Wui1tman. pp. 56. 19 Plates. September, 1885.

(Vol. XIV. to be continued.)

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Also preparing : —
Illustrations of North American Marine Invertebrates, from Drawings by Burk-

Reports

hardt, Sonrel, and A. Agassiz, prepared under the Direction of L Agassiz.
Selections from Embryological Monographs, compiled by A. Agassiz,
W. Faxon, and E. L. Mark (discontinued for the present). Papers by
Prof. E. Ehlers on the Annelids of the Straits of Florida, dredged by
Messrs. Pourtalés and Agassiz; in Connection with the Geological
Survey of Kentucky, by Prof. N.S. Shaler, on the Brachiopoda of the
Ohio Valley ; by A. Hyatt, on Cephalopods ; by M. E. Wadsworth; by
E. L. Mark, on the Development of Lepidosteus and of Arachnactis ;
and by A. Agassiz and C. O. Whitman, on the Embryology of Bony
Fishes.

on the Dredging Operations for 1877, 1878, 1879, and 1880, in charge
of Alexander Agassiz, by the U. 8. Coast Survey Steamer “ Blake.”
H. B. Brady (Foraminifera), P. H. Carpenter (Comatule), W. H. Dall
(Mollusks of the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea), G. B. Goode
and T. H. Bean (Hast Coast Fishes and Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico
and the Caribbean Sea), C. EH. Hamlin (Hast Coast Mollusks), A. A. Hu-
brecht (Nemerteans), A. Milne-Edwards (Crustacea), A. E. Verrill
(Alcyonaria), and H. Théel (Holothuroidea).

General Report on the Cruises of the ‘‘ Blake.” By Alexander Agassiz.

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applicable. é

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