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now first made ready for it. The greater part of this exceed- 
ingly rich collection consists of specimens from the Cincinnati 
Limestone, the Niagara strata of Waldron, Ind., and the Sub- 
carboniferous of Crawfordsville, Ind. 
Two boxes of Paradoxides, Conocephalites, Beyrichia, Leper- 
ditia, ete., have been forwarded for study to Dr. C. D. Walcott 
of the National Museum at Washington. 
My time having been chiefly occupied with the Palezontologi- 
cal collections, comparatively little work has been done in the 
Conchological department. 
For the large and fine collection of recent marine shells, from 
Tasmania, and of Paleozoic and Tertiary Mollusca, from Tas- 
mania and Southern Australia, received at the close of the last 
academic year from Lieut. C. E. Beddome, of Hobart, there 
have been sent in return a full series of recent Lamellibran- 
chiate shells. 
A few recent shells have been delivered to Prof. Alfred C. 
Haddon, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, as the begin- 
ning of an exchange. 
In connection with the work of the year has been published 
** Results of an Examination of Syrian Molluscan Fossils, chiefly 
from the Range of Mount Lebanon. By Charles E. Hamlin.” 
4to, pp. 68, 6 Plates. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zodl., Vol. X. No. 3. 
