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important accession of the year went to that furnished by the Fish Commission, has been received from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Gown, St comprises a portion of the entrance collection made at the Bermudas, in 1877, for that instillation by W. G. Brown Goode, and consists of 484 specimens of sponges and 266 specimens of corals. They were sent in ct change for duplicates in the National Museum. The sponges include only the dried preparations of the larger and commoners species, identified by Prof Haphews Hyatt, of Boston, Mass., who has wot yet concluded his studies