16 TWENTY-SEVENTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 



excess from which several valuable series can be supplied to 

 oifr educational institutions, or retained for purposes of 

 exchange. 



Preliminary to the arrangement of the shells in one general 

 collection, all the material which had been hitherto kept dis- 

 tinct was legibly marked with figures or letters referring it to 

 its source when known. To insure more specific reference, all 

 the specimens of species contained in numbered lists, published 

 in our annual reports, have been marked with their ordinal 

 number, and the number also placed on the accompanying 

 label.* 



The Lamellibranchiata have been temporarily arranged in 

 the western division of the table-cases intended for the New 

 York Invertebrata ; the Gasteropoda, etc., have been arranged 

 in systematic order (with the exception of a few necessary 

 diversions), in the drawers beneath the Mazatlan collection on 

 its western side, f 



Mr. Lintner reports that in the re-arrangement of the above 



* The Smithsonian shells, which are not marked with the catalogue number, are 

 designated by 1 and S. ; the Emmons contribution by 3 and Em. ; the Schram con- 

 tribution by 4; the Gebhard collection by 5; the Pickett collection by 6; the 

 number? indicates seventy-five specimens of Uniones of unknown source, which 

 were found in the basement of the building; A. indicates contributions from J. G. 

 Anthony; W. N. from Dr. W. Newcomb; C. from Hugh Cuming. 



t The following is the order of their arrangement, commencing at the upper 

 drawers of the north end : 



Range G : 1. Muricidae, Pleurotomidaa ; 2. Pleurotomidae, Tritoniidse, Buccinidae : 

 3. Buccinidae, Purpuridae; 4. Purpuridae, Olividae; 5. Olividae, Fasciolariidaa, Tur- 

 binellidae; 6. Turbinellidae, Volutidae; 7. Argonautidae, Loligidae, Spirulidae, 

 Hyalidae, Janthidae, Muricidae, and large shells of other families. 



Range H: 1. Columbellidaa, Harpidae, Cassididae ; 2. Doliidae, Velutinidae, Nati- 

 cidae; 3. Terebridae, Scalaridaa, Pyramellidae, Eulimidae, Cerithiopsidae, Solari- 

 idaa; 4. Conidae; 5. Conidae, Strombidaa; 6. Strombidae; 7. Cypreidae. 



Range I: 1. Cypreidae, Cancellariidae, Cerithiidas; 2. Cerithiidae, Melaniidaa; 3. 

 Melaniidae, Littorinidae ; 4. Littorinidas, Rissoidaa; 5. Paludinidae, Valvatidae, 

 Ampullariidas, Turritellidae, Cecidae, Vermetidae, Onustidae, Calyptreidae ; 6. Pile- 

 opsidae, Neritidas ; 7. Neritidae, Trochidas. 



Range J: 1. Trochidae; 2. Trochidae; 3. HaliotidaB; 4. Fissurellidas, Dentaliidae, 

 Scutelliidae, Patellidae; 5. Patellidae, Chitonidae; 6. Tornatellidae, Cylichnidae, 

 Bullidae, Aplysidae ; 7. Helicidae (Succininae and Achatinae) . 



Range K: 1. Helicidas (Buliminaa) ; 2. Helicidae (Pupinae) ; 3 and 4. Helicidaa (He- 

 licinae); 5. Stenopidae; 6. Auriculidas, Limneidae, Ampullaceridas; 7. Siphonariidae, 

 Cyclophoridae, Helicinidae, Truncatellidae. 



Range L : In these drawers have been placed a collection from Mr. P. P. Carpen- 

 ter (No. 7 in the list of collections), which, being mounted on glass tablets, have 

 not for the present, been incorporated with the other collections. 



Range A: (South end of eastern side) ; 2. Miscellaneous shells, unarranged and 

 mostly unnamed. 



