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3. [[double underlined]] Fishes catalogued during July, 1882. [[/double underlined]]

The first entry in July is number 30953; the last, 31514; the number of additions, therefore, is 562. Most of the material has been in the museum for at least several years, and some of it much longer. The old Dow, Xantus and Rowell collections from Panama, San Lucas, Colima and elsewhere were submitted to Profs. Jordan and Gilbert, who had come here for the purpose of studying them and other lots in the collection. Prof. Gilbert's Mazatlan fishes, having been previously catalogued, were bottled under the direction of himself and Prof. Jordan. L. Belding's large invoices from San Diego and those of Andrea Larco from Santa Barbara were overhauled by the Professors. A miscellaneous lot of fresh water species sent here by Messrs. Jordan & Brayton in 1877 were catalogued and bottled. Prof. Jordan's recent collections at Galveston and Pensacola were put into jars by the collector. A small lot of fishes, one of them a new species of [[underlined]] Muraena [[/underlined]],