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The Hon. Theodore Lyman, of Brookline, Mass., continued to interest himself in this department, as long as he remained in Washington, and, as often as his Congressional duties permitted, gave us the benefit of his experience in the special line of investigations in which he has taken so prominent a stand.  He has nearly completed the identifications of the numerous specimens of Ophiurans collected by the steamer Albatross, in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea during the past two winters, and will finish the talk in Cambridge, to which place the remainder of the collection will be sent in the fall.

Mr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass., has kindly volunteered to work up and report upon the free Medusae, obtained by the Fish Commission, and from other sources, and all of the materials of this character in the Museum have been forwarded to him.  Most of the free Medusae collected by the Fish Commission have, however, been stored at New Haven, in charge of Prof. Verrill, who has also sent the specimens in his keeping to Mr. Fewkes.

A few recent additions to the collection of fresh-water crayfishes (Astacidae) were sent to Prof. Walter Faxon, of Harvard College, in April, for identification, and have seen been returned by him, together with a complete list of all the species and specimens of that group belonging to the Museum, for publication in the Proceedings.

Collections have been sent out for study, during the past six months, as follows: 

To Prof A.E. Verrill, New Haven, Conn., 603 packages of mollusks collected by the steamer Albatross, off the eastern coast of the United States, in the fall of 1884.  To Prof. S. G. Smith, New