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Praesidi/ ' Catherine L Wolfe presented the extensive 

 shell collection and library amassed byJnei^^^iit^, Dr. 

 John C. Jay (1808-1891) to the Amencan Museum of 

 Natural History, yet they disposed of his own Catalogue 

 (1850) which was interleaved and contained his 

 annotations, even though the book plate mdicated that it 

 was the "Wolfe Memorial Gift: Jay Library." Among 

 duplicates sold by the library of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology in 1964 was a copy of Seaside 

 Studies by (1865) Elizabeth Cary Agassiz (1822-1907) 

 and Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910). This was a 

 popular book which Alexander helped his stepmother to 

 write, and is inscribed, "A.Agassiz, Nahant, August 

 1 865," Nahant being the summer seat of the Agassiz 

 family. While the bookplate mdicates that it was 

 deposited by Alex. Agassiz in the library of the 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, it suffered the same 

 fate as the other items mentioned. All three of these 

 works are now in the Department of MoUusks. 



LITERATURE CITED 



Agassiz, Elizabeth C. and Alexander Agassiz. 



1865. Sea Side Studie in Naiurai History. Marine 

 Animals of Massachusetts Bay. Radiates. pp. vi 

 [ii] 155, 186 text figs. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 



Jay, John C. 1850. A Catalogue of the Shells, 



...Contained in the CoUection of John C. Jay, M.D. 

 Fourth Edition. pp. 460; 1852 Supplement, pp. 461- 

 479. New York: R. Craighead. 



Planci, J. [Pseud., i.e. Simon Giovanni Bianchi] 1739. 



De Conchis minus notis liber cui accessit specimen 

 aestus reciproci maris superi ad littus Portumque 

 Arimini. pp. 88, 5 pls. Venetiis. 



