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Philadelphia, and afterward taken to the Berlin Fisheries Exhibition, did duty on this occasion. The writer at Lieutenant Winslow's request aided him from time to time by such suggestions or advice as circumstances seemed to call for. A catalogue of the collection as exhibited was prepared by Mr. Winslow and has been published as one of the series of official catalogues of the collective exhibit of the United States. It was of course based entirely upon specimens in the National Collection, many of which were obtained especially for the purpose.

Mr. Safford a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy detailed for special study by the Navy Department rendered assistance in labelling and cataloguing a few species of shells at the National Museum and subsequently was engaged in similar but more extended work in the field, with the U.S. Fish Commission during the summer of 1883.

There can be no doubt from the enquiries