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U.S.S. Enterprise, Comdr. A. S. Barker, U.S.N., commanding, during a voyage from Wellington, New Zealand, to the United States, through the South Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. From Dr. I. H. Streets, U.S.N.,of the Coast Survey steamer Carlisle Patterson, there has been received a fine alcoholic collection of Echinoderms, Crustaceans, and other groups of marine invertebrates, collected mainly in southern Alaska; and Dr. W. H. Jones, U.S.N., has also contributed a small collection of the same character from Iquique, Peru.

The collection made by Capt. M. A. Healy, of the U.S.R.S. Corwin, during the summer cruise of 1885, in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and elsewhere on the coast of Alaska, adds many interesting specimens from an important region, which is also further represented by a large series of small crustacean forms from Bering Island, Siberia, donated by Mr. N. Grebnitska, through Mr. Leonhard Stejneger of the