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have been prepared and sent out. The extensive collection of marine invertebrates made by the Fish Commission steamer Albatross on its cruise to Panama and the Galapagos [[Galápagos]] Islands during the winter of 1890-'91, was also partly assorted here, prepatory to the assignment of the different groups to specialists for study.

The researches made on the Brachyura and Anomura have necessitated the overhauling of all the specimens belonging to those groups, and the extension and partial revision of the card catalogue descriptive of them.