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Wood's Holl, Mass., in the employ of the Fish Commission, during the entire summer, has continued to send in valuable collections made during those months when the seashore is seldom visited by naturalists. Many interesting specimens of fresh water Crustaceans and Annelids, representing four distinct river basins in the northern part of Virginia, have been contributed by Colonel Marshall McDonald, of the same Commission. His collections were accompanied by full notes, including temperature observations, affording important data bearing upon the distribution of the species. One hundred and three packages, containing 48 species of Crustacea, collected mainly during the southern cruises of the Albatross, have been returned by Prof. S. J. Smith, of Yale College, to whom they had been sent for study.

To the Navy Department, the Museum is indebted for a large series of specimens of deep sea soundings obtained by the