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a corresponding chapter. It is composed of men and women inter- 
ested in the study of shells. It also has a juvenile section composed of 
boys and girls. It isa working chapter, or society, as every member 
is expected to send an annual report of work done by him. These 
reports and such papers as the members may furnish are known as 
the transactions of the society. Each year the volume of transac- 
tions, in manuscript, is forwarded from one member to another 
until each member has read the book, but as some time must neces- 
sarily elapse before all the members of the chapter can receive it, 
the editor of Tat Naurrius has kindly consented to allow space 
for extracts from the transactions in THE Nauriius each month. 
Each member in this way can have a copy of the annual reports to 
himself. 
The Chapter is officered as follows: 
President, Prof. Josiah Keep, Mills College, Cal. 
General Secretary, Mrs. M. Burton, Williamson University, Los 
Angeles County, Cal. 
SECRETARIES OF SECTIONS : 
Section A.—Marine shells of the West Coast, Prof. Keep, Mills 
College, Cal. 
Section B.—Marine shells of the East Coast, Mr. A. H. Gardner, 
Box 84, Fort Hamilton, N. Y. 
Section C.—Land shells east of the Rocky Mountains (Sec. not 
yet chosen). 
Section D.—Fresh water shells east of Rocky Mountains, Dr. W. 
S. Strode, Lewiston, III. 
Section E.—Land and fresh water shells west of Rocky Mount- 
ains (Secretary not yet chosen). 
Section F.—Fossil shells, Hon. Delos Arnold, Pasadena, Cal. 
Section G.—Juvenile Section, Mrs. Mary P. Olney, Spokane, 
Wash. 
Section H.—Microscopic shells (Secretary not yet chosen). 
A STUDY OF FOSSIL SHELLS. 
Report of Josiah Keep. From the Transactions of the Isaac Lea Conchological 
Chapter of the Agassiz Association for 1894. 
Two years ago last summer, as I was returning to California from 
the Atlantic Coast, I had occasion to stop for a number of hours in 
the city of Cincinnati. By far the cheapest and most satisfactory 
