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Accessions.

Fifty-five accessions have been received by this department during the year. The largest and most important of these comprised the invertebrate collections made by the Fish Commission steamer Albatross during the summer and fall months, with headquarters at Woods Hole, Mass. Over 1200 packages, many of which were of large size and contained a great variety of specimens, were sent to Washington in October, as a partial result of the season's explorations, nearly as many more