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present time is due chiefly to her conscientious labors.

The curator has given a limited amount of time to the study of the Madreporarian corals, and particularly those collected by the steamer Albatross in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the voyage from Norfolk to San Francisco. Otherwise no special researches have been carried on in the department. Prof. A. E. Verrill and Prof. S. J. Smith are still continuing their work upon the Fish Commission collections stored at the Peabody Museum of Yale College, the same