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War Department.---The War Department has contributed mainly through the efforts of individual officers, and through the liberality of the Signal Service Bureau, in allowing naturalists to be appointed to the Arctic stations.

Among the army officers who have made collections of marine invertebrates which have been sent to the Museum, may be mentioned the following: General J.G. Wright, from the Tortugas, Florida, 1851 to '54, and 1859; Doctors G. Suckley and J. G. Cooper, from Puget Sound, about 1857, made in connection with the explorations and surveys for a railroad route from the Mississippi river to the Pacific Ocean and Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly, in connection with the same surveys, in the vicinity of San Francisco, California; CAptain C. P. Stone, from the Gulf of California, 1860; Dr. Elliot Coues, from Labrador, 1860, and from Beaufort, N. C. 1868; Dr. H. C. Yarrow, from Fort Macon, N. C., 1870 and '71, and from the California coast near Santa Barbara, 1872-'79, as naturalist of the Wheeler survey, Dr R. W. Shufeldt, from Louisiana, 1882 and '83.

In August and September, 1871, Prof. S. I. Smith of Yale College, in connection with the survey of the northern and northwestern lakes and rivers, under direction of General C. B. Comstock, U. S. A., conducted a successful series of dredging, covering nearly the entire area of Lake Superior. Material of great value was obtained.

Through the Signal Serviec Bureau, many importan zoölogical collections have been obtained from the northern part of