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Rathbun K6 upper
Regents
1 copy off. 10-21-85.

Memorandum respecting the Department of Marine Invertebrates, exclusive of the Mollusca, for the six months ending June 30, 1885.

Richard Rathbun, Curator

The most important addition to this department was made by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross in April, on her return from a three months cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, mainly spent in investigating the grouper and red snapper fishing grounds off our southern coast. The collection turned over to the Museum was much larger and contained many more novelties than that made by the Albatross in the same region and the Caribbean Sea the previous year, and the unassorted materials filled nearly 1,000 packages of all sizes.  Of most interest was a series of several hundred