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REPORT OF THE PALAZONTOLOGICAL AND CONCHO- 
LOGICAL DEPARTMENTS. 
By CuHartes E. HAamtiin. 
DurRinG the past year there have been added in the Palzon- 
tological Department : — 
1. A collection of Fossil Plants from the Tertiary of Golden, Colo- 
rado, purchased from Prof. Arthur Lakes, of the State School of Mines, 
at Golden. 
2. A series of Fossil Fishes from the Huron Shales (Upper Devonian) 
of Lorraine County, Ohio, collected by and pHs chased of Mr. Jay Terrell, 
of Oberlin, Ohio. 
The general collections of Cambrian, Silurian, and Devonian 
Fossil Invertebrata, and the special collection of Fossil Echino- 
derms, temporarily stored in the old lecture-room of the Museum, 
have been removed to glazed cases in the rooms upon the first 
floor, which have been fitted up for their permanent deposit. 
The various collections of Vertebrate Fossils have been placed 
in the cases of the new room assigned to them on the fifth floor. 
The Day and Taylor collections of Fossil Invertebr 
one from the Racine Limestone of Wisconsin, the other from 
the New York Silurian, —have been taken from the packing- 
boxes, and, after preliminary classification, have been arranged 
in cases recently constructed for them. 
A series of Cretaceous Plants, selected from the collection 
made in Kansas by Mr. C. H. Sternberg, and another of Tertiary 
Plants from the Lakes collection above mentioned, have been 
forwarded to Prof. Leo Lesquereux, of Columbus, Ohio, to be 
figured for volumes now in course of preparation by him. 
The systematic collection of recent Mollusca has been re- 
moved from the room where it has been stored since 1877, and 
