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The collections made by the Albatross, on the voyage around South America; were, as before explained, partly assorted in the laboratory of this department, by Prof. Leslie A. Lee, the chief naturalist of the steamer during that cruise, with the assistance of Miss Rathfom. Subsequently several of the groups of marine invertebrates were assigned to different naturalists for study and report, as follows: The echini and stalked crinoids, to Mr. Alexander Agassiz; the Mollusca in general, to Mr. William H. Qall; the Pteropods and Heteropods, to Mr.