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Museum, but it seems advisable to refer briefly to the marine explorations of the Fish Commission, as has been done in previous reports, for the reason that the materials obtained by that means will sooner or later be represented in the Museum. The Albatross left San Francisco July 4, 1888, on her first cruise to the Alaska fishing grounds. Work was begun in the vicinity of the island of Unalaskha, at the eastern end of the Aleutian chain, and carried thence eastward to the reported position of Pamplona Rocks, south of Prince William's Sound. Five principal fishing