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REPORT ON THE CONCHOLOGICAL AND PALZZONTO- 
LOGICAL DEPARTMENTS. 
By Cuarres E. Hamtiin. 
Two valuable additions to the Fossil Invertebrata of the Mu- 
seum have been made during the year, the first being a second 
purchase from Ernst Hiberlein of Pappenheim, Bavaria, consist- 
ing in part of species from the Lithographic Slate of Solenhofen, 
and partly of species from the beds of Kelheim, on the Danube. 
Besides the Invertebrata, this collection includes many fine fossil 
Fishes. The second is a collection of Gasteropoda, Lamellibran- 
chiata, and Brachiopoda, chiefly the last, from the Bridgewater 
Limestone and other strata of Tasmania. To these are added 
admirably preserved Gasteropoda and Lamellibranchiata from 
the later Tertiary of Cape Schank, Victoria, S. E. Australia. The 
whole collection is in excellent condition, and is of especial inter- 
est as containing the first representatives of the palzontology of 
Australia and Tasmania that have come into the possession of 
the Museum, for which all have been expressly collected during 
several years past by Lieut. C. E. Beddome. In addition to 
the fossils, he has, after long and careful search, gathered and 
forwarded a collection of all papers and maps which have been 
published upon the geology of Tasmania, with the exception, as 
he states, of two papers no longer to be procured. The specimens 
and publications are received in exchange for recent shells. 
The selection, identification, and mounting of recent and fossil 
Lamellibranchiata for exhibition have been completed, and the 
prepared series have been arranged, filling the cases of the Shell 
Room Gallery. 
A partial suite of shells, 77 species, 206 specimens of generic 
types, has been prepared and delivered to the East Boston High 
School. 
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