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Liverpool to Calcutta and from Calcutta to San Francisco. 

From Dr. W. H. Jones, U.S.N., U.S.S. Wachusett, three valuable collections of Echinoderms and Crustaceans from various parts of the Pacific Ocean, principally the Sandwich, Samoan, Society, Marquesas, and Galapagos Islands, and the coasts of Chile, Peru, and Ecuador. These contributions from Dr. Jones have been among the most interesting received by this department during the past year. They contain an exceedingly large number of specimens and species carefully preserved and labeled, and will supply many deficiencies in the collection, as well as replace numerous old and damaged specimens brought in by the earlier expeditions to the same region. 

From the Greely Relief Party, Commander W. S. Schley, U.S.N., commanding, and Ensign C. S. McClain, U.S.N., naturalist of