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are but two species of Pentacrinus (P. Mülleri and P. decorus), and one species of Rhizocrinus (R. Rawsoni).

A beginning has been made toward revising the older part of the collection of Gorgonian corals, and identifying the specimens of the same group recently received. The collections made in Florida during the past two years, by Dr. Edward Palmer and Mr. Henry Hemphill, have already been examined and mostly named. A brief preliminary report upon the marine invertebrates (exclusive of the Mollusca) collected in the Alaskan region, in 1884, but the revenue steamer Corwin, Capt. M.A. Healy commanding, was transmitted to the chief of the Revenue Marine Service. Much has also been done in the way of revising and adding to the unpublished manuscripts of fishery reports, prepared for publication in the Quarts Fishery report, now going through the press.

Prof. A.E. Verrill and Prof. S.J. Smith have continued their studies on the Fish Commission collections of the eastern coast of the United States, at New Haven, Conn. Prof. Verrill has devoted most time to the Mollusks, Echinoderms and Anthozoa, and Prof. Smith has been occupied exclusively with the Crustaceans. x Other collaborators on Fish Commission collections, from which results may be expected at an early date, are Prof. L.A. Lee, of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., entrusted with the Foraminifera; Mr. James E. Benedict, naturalist of the steamer Albatross, who is studying the Annelids; and Prof. Edwin Linton, of Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., and Prof. B.F. Korns of the Storrs Agricultural School, Mansfield, Conn., who are engaged in working up the collection of internal parasites of fishes. 

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Mullusca > Mollusca Boudoin > Bowdoin Starre > Storrs