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JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



NEW SERIES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



Vol. III. 1867. No. 1. 



At a Business Meeting of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia, held on the evening of Nov. 27th, 1866, the 

 following paper was read by the Secretary and directed to be 

 entered upon the Minutes : — 



Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 Philadelphia, Nov. 13th, 1866. 

 The undersigned members request that they may be constituted the 

 Conchological Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Phila- 

 delphia. 



(Signed) Isaac Lea, S. B. Howell, 



Geo. W. Tryon, Jr., Wm. L. Mactier, 



S. R. Roberts, Robert Swift, 



F. V. Hayden, T. a. Conrad, 



Jos. Jeanes, E. R. Beadle, 



W. S. W RUSCHENBERGER, JoS. LeIDY, 



H. Allen, C F. Parker, 



Edw. D. Cope. 



At the meeting of the Academy held Dec. 26th, 1866, a reso- 

 lution was adopted organizing the Conchological Department or 

 Section, as above. 



