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to Washington, in October, the Albatross engaged in dredging and fishing off the Atlantic coast of the Southern States, between Cape Hatteras and Savannah, and 190 packages of unassorted marine invertebrates were brought directly to the National Museum. During the last part of the winter and the spring of 1886, the same steamer made a combined sounding and dredging voyage to the region of the Bahamas, the Gulf Stream off Florida, and the eastern part of the Gulf of Mexico, returning with about 400 packages of specimens belonging to this department. Twenty of these packages were large tanks and barrels containing a multitude of choice objects from both deep and shallow water. Reports upon the zoological results of these explorations are now in progress, but it would be impossible, in a few words, to describe even the general character of the materials obtained.

Mr V. N. Edwards, who is stationed at