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South Carolina, have been determined and permanently labeled, 

 as far as they have been described ; and the invertebrate Miocene 

 collection has also been permanently labeled with species labels. 

 Early in the year we received a large collection of European fos- 

 sils from Prof. Karl Zittel, of the University of Munich, Bavaria, 

 in exchange for one of the collections of the Hall duplicates. 

 These have been placed on exhibition, and all the more promi- 

 nent forms provided with permanent labels. In order to provide 

 room for this collection in the cases, many changes were neces- 

 sary, owing to their crowded condition, and caused the expendi- 

 ture of much time. Several other additions were made to this 

 collection during the year, the most prominent of which has been 

 placed in case B, sections 9, 10 and 11, in the Chazy, Birdseye 

 and Black River formations. This was a donation, on condi- 

 tion of early publication, from Prof. H. M. Seely, President E. 

 Brainerd and other members of the faculty of Middlebury Col- 

 lege, Middlebury, Vermont, and forms the basis of Bulletin No. 8, 

 recently published. The collection is a very valuable one, as 

 it comprises mostly new forms now become types of their species. 



Mineralogical Collection. — The catalogue of this collec- 

 tion has been completed as far as the collection affords material, 

 and might now be printed for use from the manuscript book if 

 desirable, after some slight revision. A number corresponding to 

 the species number in Dana's System of Mineralogy has been placed 

 on each specimen, so that by reference to that number in the 

 catalogue or in the Manual all particulars can be learned. Many 

 valuable additions have been made to this collection during the 

 year, among which is an extremely interesting group of native 

 golds and silvers, obtained partly by purchase by the Museum 

 authorities, and partly by donation from a most liberal patroness. 

 Many other additions, both by exchange and donation, are 

 appended in the lists under their several heads. 



A great necessity of this collection is want of space, and this 

 necessity becomes the more pressing year by year, as additions 

 are made. The collection now contains about 400 species, or 

 about half the known number ; but as additions are made it be- 

 comes necessary to remove the less conspicuous forms to drawers 

 in the attic rooms, where they are entirely inaccessible to students 

 or the public, unless under the direct personal attendance of one 

 of the Curators. In the present building there is no way in 

 which this can be remedied except by placing drawers beneath 

 the present cases, in which the overflow of the table cases can be 

 placed, and where they will be somewhat more easily examined 

 than in the attic. 



Economic Collection — Building Stones. The Museum has 

 lately received a duplicate series of the building and ornamental 

 stones of the United States, collected and studied under the 



