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species were discovered, the collection is a valuable addition to this department. The work of identifying and revising the Museum collection of Echini, one of the largest and most important of its kind in the world, has been continued through the year, and it will probably be possible during 1885, to prepare and publish a complete catalogue of the species it contains.

The preparation of reports upon the marine invertebrate fishery industries and the fishing grounds of North America, including the correction of proofs of the same, has occupied much of the Curator's time, but unavoidable delays prevented the issuing of any of these reports during 1884.
 
The collection of Astacidae (crayfishes), lent Prof. Walter Faxon of Harvard College, for study, in the winter of 1882–3, was returned to the Museum in June last, 

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