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The National Museum of Natural History houses the largest collection of
preserved fishes in the world. The specimens have been collected from
every continent and ocean over the last century and a half. One of the
largest single acquisitions was the material collected by the United States
Bureau of Fisheries steamer Albatross in the Philippine Islands from
1907 to 1910. In observance of the 90th anniversary of the Philippine
Expedition, and in conjunction with a symposium on the Albatross held
at the 1997 meeting of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists,
we present this retrospective look at the great expedition and its legacy.
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