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U.S. Fish Commission Str Albatross. 
15918, Apr. 14, 1885, specimens fossil shells, collected during cruise of 1884-5 by Ensign A.A. Ackerman, U.S.N. in the West Indies.

U.S. Fish Commission Washington, D.C. 
16689, Oct. 21, 1885, 86 jars, 209 bottles, 514 vials, 32 packages, 366 paper boxes, in all 1207 parcels collected by the Commission along the New England coast in 1885. Mostly duplicate material of little value.

U.S. Fish Commission, Wood's Holl, Mass (by Vinal N. Edwards) 
16760, Nov 10, 1885, Two jars specimens of squids, not identified, from Wood's Holl, Mass.

U.S. Fish Commission (Str. Albatross.) 
16712, Oct. 28, 1885, 52 Jars, 51 bottles, 23 vials, 4 packages of Mollusks and shells. Collected in the summer of 1885 from Cape Hatteras to Savannah and adjacent seas. An important collection.

U.S. Fish Commission Str. Albatross. 
17400. May 14, 1886. 19 jars, 9 bottles, 10 vials, 4 barrels, and 7 packages of Mollusks and shells, dry and in the alcohol, cruise of Feb. to May 1886. chiefly about Bahamas. Small amount of interesting, and much common material.