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The Coast Survey.—— This survey has afforded many opportunities for natural history explorations in all of the coast regions of the United States, and has accomplished much pioneer work in the line of deep sea dredging. Most of the dredging expeditions on the eastern and southern coasts of the United States have been conducted under the supervision, first, of Prof. Louis Agassiz, and later, of Mr Alexander Agassiz, the latter having defrayed a large part of the expense incidental to this branch of work in recent years. The collections obtained have been sent to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass., for study, but as soon as each group is worked up, a suit of specimens representing all the species is turned over to this Museum. The results of all the explorations on the western coast have been deposited at once in the National Museum.