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Series II, as well as the educational series would have been prepared this spring. As it is, Series II must now wait over until fall.

Visit to New Haven. On May 18th, by your instructions, I went to New Haven, Conn. and spent two days, trying to hasten the sending of U.S. Fish Commission material, but I accomplished very little in that line. I brought on with me, however, a fine series of Brazilian Corals, which I hope will soon become the property of the Museum, through exchanges with the Brazilian National Museum. So far as I can determine there is a very large amount of materials in New Haven, completely worked over by Prof. Verrill, and for which he can have no further use. I cannot understand his motive