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of those specimens which I directly oversaw the collection of, with a "D." so that I may be able to refer to them again, although the collectors names on the tickets are different. I have invented a little net to trawl over the stern of a vessel which will work in good weather when she is going six knots; it is after this style [[image: sketch showing what appears to be a rigid ring at the mouth of a long, thin net pouch which tapers at its far end to a point. There are tied around the ring at regular intervals long strings or ropes, which are held in the opposite direction from the pouch, stretch between the ring and the point where they are tied onto the vessel (not itself pictured]] I have two and they work very well.

I am pitching in, on marine things as hard as I can, and hope to do a good thing, though you doubtless know how many bothers one has on ship board, more especially where red tape and discourtesy flourish as they do on board this vessel, of which I have the honor? to be surgeon. Capt Scammon is the only one who really cares for the work, and he runs