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overhauling of all the species collected by the Fish Commission on the Atlantic Coast of the United States north of Cape Hatteras. Most of these species had been determined by Prof Verrill, but it was found convenient to make a selection of the specimens intended for the reserve series, and to dry large numbers of specimens in order to reduce the bulk of the alcoholic materials. Many species of starfishes from other sources have also been identified.

The study of Fish Commission collections of marine invertebrates elsewhere than at the National Museum, has been continued by the same persons enumerated in the report of last year. Prof A. E. Verrill, of Yale College, has had general supervision of the collections made from Cape Hatteras northward, but has been occupied mainly with the Mollusca, Echinodermata,