Excerpt from Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 1905, Vol. 47 Agassiz I have been given permission to incorporate in this report the results of a study of material brought together from some six teen distinct collections. This material was collected over a wide range of territory, includ ing the whole extent of the Pacific coast of North America from Panama to the Aleutian Islands, northward through the Bering Straits far up into the Arctic Ocean, and westward to the Com mander Islands off the coast of Kamchatka. It includes both shore collections and dredgings off the coast to a depth of several hundred fathoms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.