Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America

Abstract

DURING the summer of 1877, extensive explorations were made by the U. S. Fish Commission in the U. S. Steamer "Speedwell," Commander Kellogg, in Massachusetts Bay; in the Gulf of Maine; off Nova Scotia; and in the vicinity of Halifax, rrhe dredging and trawling were very successful, and a large and valuable collection was secured, both of fishes and invertebrata, including, in all classes, many European and Greenlandic forms not before obtained on the American coast. As in previous years the invertebrate collections and the direction of the dredging wel'e in charge of the writer, who was specially assisted by Mr. E. B. Wilson, while Messrs. G. Brown Goode and rr. H. Bean were in chal'ge of the fishes. Having hitherto been unable to publish any account of these explorations, a few of the more interesting species are noticed below, together with others from difterent sources.