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Florida reefs has already been described. 
      
From the middle of July to the middle of October, the curator and Mr. Baldwin took part in the summer explorations of the Fish Commission at Wood's Holl, Mass. The character of the work accomplished in this connection, so far as it relates to this department of the Museum, is described farther on. 
      
Mr A.H. Baldwin has been employed as general assistant from April 10, to date. Ensign C.S. McClain, U.S.N., assigned to duty at the Smithsonian Institution in 1883 by the Secretary of the Navy, rendered efficient services upon the collections during the first half of the year, or until he joined the Greely Relief Party in June. Mr. Thomas Lee of Boston acted as a volunteer assistant during November and December and Miss. M.J. Rathbun was assigned to this department the first of December.