178 History of Conchology in the United States. 
compelled the omission of much that would be of interest to the 
reader, who is referred, for a more complete list of Authors and 
their Papers, together with accurate dates of publication, to the 
work at the head of this article, which has furnished us wit 
most of the material for the foregoing pages. ' 
Tt will be seen that our several scientific Journals have con- 
ments of the late Prof. C. B. Adams, who formed it. It em 
braces types of all his species and full suites of the shells of the 
various West India islands, and of Panama, It is esteem« 
competent judges the most valuable collection for study in the 
United States. 
The Boston Society of Natural History, the New York Ly: 
ceum, the Mercantile Library Co. of Cincinnati, Union Col ee 
Schenectady, N. Y. (formerly collection of C. M. Wheatley; 
Phcenixville, Pa.), the Agassiz Museum and the Smithsonian I 
stitution, each possess valuable collections. bn 
The largest private collection in this country is that of Dr. Jok 
Clarkson Jay, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., numbering 13,460 6007 
and numerous varieties. They are arranged according t0 his 
Lamarckian system. We have already alluded (p. 169) 
extensive and useful catalogues of his collection. 
_ Wm. 8. Haines of New York possesses twelve thousand sp 
cies of shells, including many rare and unique ones. — 
Mr. Binney has a small but exceedingly valuable collectio? 
the terrestrial shells of the United States, including many 1F3 
= species phical series. The same may 
es, an 
cabinet of Mr. Bland of New York. 
