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Accessions.

Thirty-three accessions were received by this department during the year, of which 17 were contributed by or through the U.S. Fish Commission. A much smaller quantity of material than usual was sent in from the Wood's Holl station, the steamer Albatross having made only a single dredging trip during the summer, and the inshore work of the steamer Fish Hawk having the afforded comparatively few specimens that were considered of sufficient importance for permanent preservation in the Museum. The Albatross collection was, however, obtained chiefly from deep water, and contained many rare forms. The cruise of the schooner Grampus to the Gulf of St. Lawrence and to the outer coast of Newfoundland, during the summer, also yielded an interesting though small lot of specimens, mostly crustaceans and echinoderms, which were collected on the shores and by the use of the surface net. The collections made in the vicinity of Wood's Holl,
Mass., by Mr. Vinal N. Edwards, from October to June, were of special value, consisting for the