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during the year, especially on the voyage of the steamer Albatross from Norfolk, Va. to San Francisco, which occupied about six months. The large collections of marine invertebrates made during this trip will not directly benefit the Museum, but it is expected that the type series of each group will be transferred to its keeping as fast as they are studies and described. There have been no important explorations besides those of the Fish Commission which have contributed to our stores.

Duplicate sets belonging to Series IV, prepared some time ago, have been distributed to 22 institutions of learning located in different parts of the country, but no additional sets of the same character have been made up during the year.