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A. E. Verril, assisted by Prof. S. D. Smith and Mr. J. H. Emerton. Contributions are [[respected]] from here at once, to cover the species to far described, or previously known Specimens of all the more prominent species collected in 1884, were sent at once to Washington, where they are now properly cared for. The duplicates accumulated in 1884 are now in the Museum; an account of them has been givens above.
The free-swimming, marine Copepods, which I propose to make the object of my special study, were collected in 1884 by methods not hitherto employed on the side of the Atlantic, and only to a slight extent elsewhere - that is by means of a towing net, sunk to the bottom, and to intermediate depths between the surface and