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were obtained: The island of Santa Lucia, in the West Indies; Bahia, the Abrolhos Islands, Monte Video, Sandy Point and other localities in the Straits of Magellan; Lota, Panama, the Galapagos Islands, Acapulco, and La Paz. A series of dredgings was carried through the Straits of Magellan, the inland passage being made from the eastern entrance to Port Otway, Chili. The trip to the Galapagos Islands was attended with very successful results, and in addition to a large miscellaneous collection of marine and land animals and plants made there, the naturalists secured fourteen living specimens of the interesting land tortoises which are peculiar to those islands where they are now becoming exceedingly rare. They were transported safely to San Francisco and are now in the Zoological Garden of the National Museum. Collections of the shore fishes of the outer coast of Lower California were also obtained by seining at several places.

The total number of dredging stations made during the voyage was 91, the depths of water ranging from 5 1/2 to 1379 fathoms. Twenty-four sta-