Notice on recent marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America; Part II

DURING the past summer Professor Baird established the headquarters of the U. S. Fish Oommission at Gloucester, Mass. N umel'Ous dredgi ugs were made under the di recti on of tbe writer, in the U. S. Steamer Speedwell, commander Beardslee. Mr. Richard Rathbull, Mr. Sanderson Smith and others assisted in the invel·tebrate department, while Mr. G. Brown Goode, Mr. T. H. Bean alld Mr. R. E. Earll, took charge of the Icbthyology. The temperatnres were taken by Mr. Asaph Hall, Jr. Onr dredgings extended over Massachusetts Bay and Stellwagen's Bank. and to tbe deeper waters of the Gnlf of Maine, about fort,y·five milf)s east of Oape Ann. Although a very large and valuable collection, contailling many additions to the fauna, was obtained by means of our dredges and trawls, more novelties, both among the fishes and invertebrates, were secured by inducing the fishermen engaged, in the fisheries of halibut and cod on the outfl' banks, to preserve and bring in the various things that become entangled in their trawllines. Many of the following species. some of them of great interest, were thus obtained by the fishel'men, togethet· with numerous specimens of many better known species, among which the most conspicuous ami abundant are large and fine specilIlens of the corals, Paragorgia arbor-ea and Primnoa reseda~ while Acanella Normani has recently been brought in from many localities in consic1emble numbers.