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[[preprinted]] Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C., [[blank line]] 18 [[/preprinted]] than the present requirements of the general collections will allow. Mr E. W. Nelson's barrel of fishes taken in Alaska and Siberia has been opened and cared for. The specimens are catalogued, beginning at 29887 and ending at 29950. This collection is particularly rich in [[underlined]] Coregonidae, Salmonidae, Anarrhichas, Cottidae, Hexagrammus asper [[underlined]] & [[underlined]] Osmerus dentex [[/underlined]]. From the Potomac River we have a remarkably large eel ([[underlined]] Anguilla rostrata [[/underlined]]) presented by the Raynor brothers through John H Dowell, watchman, Smithsonian grounds. The length of this eel is 41 inches and its greatest circumference is 11 inches. Mr. Samuel Powel's collection of Newport species, received Oct. 29, 1881, was put in order & found to contain, among other things, [[underlined]] Elops saurus, Liostomus obliquus [[/underlined]] and [[underlined]] Balistes capriscus [[/underlined]] - all of them occasional visitants of the coast of Rhode Island. From Kingston Public Museum, Jamaica, West Indies, we received, Dec. 19, 1881, a large and