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REPORT OF THE CONCHOLOGICAL AND PALZONTO- 
LOGICAL DEPARTMENTS. 
By Cuarwes E. Hamuin. 
THE chief additions made in the department of Paleontology, 
since the date of the last annual Report, are Fossil Vertebrates 
collected by Messrs. 8. Garman, H. C. Clifford, G. R. Allaman 
and L. Hollywood, from the Jurassic, Cretaceous, and Tertiary 
strata of Kansas, Nebraska, Dakota, and Wyoming. Of these 
collections provisional disposition has been made, until cases 
shall be provided for their distribution and arrangement. Since 
they will probably be more fully noticed in the future reports 
upon Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes, no further statement is 
here required. 
To the series of Fishes from the Lower Carboniferous of 
Scotland, last year purchased of the collector, Mr. Thomas 
Stock of Edinburgh, additions have this year been made through 
the same collector. 
The systematic collection of Fossil Plants, including the 
American series determined in former years by Mr. Lesque- 
reux, as well as the European series, has been put in order and 
transferred for storage to cases in the Synoptic Room, where 
they have been arranged in the order of the several geological 
formations which they represent. 
The collections of Invertebrate Fossils, heretofore stored in 
the unfinished eastern attic, have been removed to the first 
floor, and the Tertiary, Mesozoic, and part of the Paleozoic col- 
lections have been arranged in systematic order in permanent 
cases recently constructed for them. 
The great collection of Fossil Invertebrata, made by, and in 
1880 purchased of, Mr. C. B. Dyer of Cincinnati (since de- 
ceased ), which has hitherto remained in the packages, has been 
unpacked, and, after preliminary arrangement, placed in cases 
