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Collections sent out.

Three boxes of mollusks being the final results of the Albatross Explorations for the summer and fall of 1884 were sent to Prof. A.E. Verrill, on January 8. This material had been examined by Mr. Sanderson Smith after the return of the steamer to Washington, and was catalogued by Mr. Baldwin, with numbers assigned by Mr. Dall from the Molluscan record books, as follows: 40522-40902, 41426-41649. A catalogue is on file in this department (No.   )

On January 26, 21 jars and vials of jelly-fishes, mainly from the Caribbean sea collections of the Steamer Albatross, for 1884, were sent to Mr. J. Walter Fewkes, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, for working up. (See list no.  ) Mr. Fewkes had already received from Prof. Verrill the collection of jelly-fishes of the Fish Commission, stored at New Haven, and was to report upon them to Prof. Verrill.

January 29, by request, four small samples of ocean bottom, from the collections of the Steamer Albatross, were sent to Dr. L.F. Ingersoll, Traverse City, Michigan (List No.   )