JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



NEW SERIES. 



PUBLISHED BY THE 



C0NCH0L05ICAL SECTION of the Acadein7 of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 

 Vol. hi. 1867. No. 3. 



fleeting, May 2d, 1867. 



Nine members present. 



Mr. Tryon, Vice-Director, in the Chair. 



Donations to the Museum and Library were announced. 



The following papers were oifered for publication, and referred 

 to committees : 



Catalogue of the E-ecent Mollusca belonging to the Order 

 Pholadacea. By Geo. W. Tryon, Jr. 



Reviews of New Works. By Geo. W. Tryon, Jr. 



Descriptions of new species of Gasteropods inhabiting Polyne- 

 sia. By W. Harper Pease. 



Synopsis of the genera Sycotypus, Brown, and Busycon, Bol- 

 ten. By T. A. Conrad. 



Notes on and descriptions of Fossil Shells, and of a new genus 

 of Mactridse. By T. A. Conrad. 



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