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REPORT OF PUBLICATION COMMITTEE. 



Hall op the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 Philadelphia, Dec. 2d, 1869. 



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The Publication Committee of the Conchological Section re- 

 ports its operations for the current year as follows : 



Parts 4 and 5, Vol. fourth, American Journal of Conchology, 

 containing 227 pp. and ten plates, of which four are colored, 

 were issued Feb. 4th and May 6th, respectively. Of the new 

 (5th) volume, two Parts have been published, embracing 176 pp. 

 and thirteen plates, of which four are colored. The third Part 

 of the Volume is now in press, and will be issued about the close 

 of the year ; it contains a number of valuable papers and four 

 colored plates. Part 4, completing the Volume, will include 

 the papers and reports presented this evening. 



The Committee congratulate the Section upon the large num- 

 ber of valuable papers which have been published this year, and 

 also, upon a further slight increase in our subscription list. 



Besides the Journal, we have published the following numbers 

 of the " Catalogue of Recent Mollusca :" 



Part 2. Anatinidse, by T. A. Conrad ; Saxicavidge, Myidae, 

 Corbulidae and Tellinidge, by G. W. Tryon, Jr. ; Pandoridse, by 

 P. P. Carpenter. 76 pp. May, 1869. 



Part 3. Corbiculadse, by Temple Prime. 60 pp. Oct., 1869. 



Part 4. Porcellanidse and Amphiperasidse, by S. R. Roberts. 

 25 pp. Nov., 1866. 



In our last report we announced that a sufficient number of 

 subscribers' names had been obtained to cover the expense of 

 re-issuing Haldeman's Monograph of American Fresh Water 

 Shells, and a continuation of that work embracing species de- 

 scribed since its publication. We have been actively employed 

 this year in preparing these books, and have had twelve or fif- 

 teen plates drawn and colored for them. They will be issued 

 within the next few months. 



A new edition of the Catalogue of Conchological works offered 

 for sale by the Section has been published, and more than half 

 of the works have been sold and the proceeds handed over to 

 the Treasurer. 



* Respectfully submitted by 



Geo. W. Tryon, Jr.,^ PnUication 

 b. K. liOBERTS, (Committee 



Edw. J. Nolan, J ^^^""^^^^- 



