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The tota number of accessions recorded has been thirty-two, aggregating a much larger number of species and specimens than for the previous year. The contributions made by the Fish Commission have been chiefly in the line of the Crustacea, including 56 species of Brachyura and Anomura dredged by the steamer Albatross chiefly in the Pacific Ocean, a collection of Brachyura obtained by the schooner Grampus on the red snapper bands of the Gulf of