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PREFACE 



The present volume comprises two papers : one on the Land 

 and Fresh Water Mollusks of Alaska, by Dr. Wm. H. Dall ; 

 the other on the Hydroids of the Expedition, by Prof. C. C. 

 Nutting. Dr. Dall's paper has not been previously published ; 

 Professor Nutting's appeared in the Proceedings of the Wash- 

 ington Academy of Sciences in May, 1901. The number of 

 new Mollusks here described is twelve ; of new Hydroids twenty. 



C. Hart Merriam, 



Editor. 

 Washington, D. C, 



June 15, 1905. 



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