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I have arranged the Subject matter of the present report under the usual heads:

1. Fishes catalogues
2. Fish - drawings completed 
3. Packages distributed
4. Fishes received
5. Papers received for Proceedings N. M.

Your will observe that the number of drawings made is unusually large, and the species were, to a large extent, such as involved considerable study. I am not satisfied that [[underlined]] Malacosteus [[/underlined]] is correctly delineated so far as the caudal is concerned, but, otherwise, it is perfectly correct & largely different from the figure in Jour. Bos., Soc. Nat. Hist. 1850. 

Very respectfully yours,
[[signature]] T. H. Bean, [[/signature]]
Curator, Department of Fishes.