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[[underline]] Explorations [[/underline]].

The number of outfits furnished for collectors was very small.
 
Mr. C. C. Leslie of Charleston, South Carolina, was furnished with an 8-gallon tank of alcohol for collecting Charleston fishes and Mr. Benjamin Miller of Georgetown, D.C. received a Baird seine and a tank of alcohol for collecting fishes in the District of Columbia/

The most important collections were as usual, by the vessels of the U. S. Fish Commission. The "Albatross" collections, which referred to in the list of accessions, are very large and important. The curator was aboard this steamer from the 3rd of January to the 20th of February, during her work off the southern coast and in the West Indies, Caribbean Sea