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  C. 
  E. 
  Beecher 
  — 
  Conrad's 
  Types 
  of 
  Syrian 
  Fossils. 
  

  

  Species 
  labelled 
  by 
  Conrad 
  but 
  not 
  described. 
  

   No. 
  (Number 
  in 
  parenthesis 
  — 
  original 
  number). 
  

  

  32 
  (12) 
  Cucullcea 
  indurata 
  Conrad. 
  2 
  specimens. 
  

  

  33 
  Cucullcea 
  indurata 
  Conrad. 
  1 
  specimen. 
  

  

  34 
  Cucullma 
  syriaca 
  Conrad. 
  2 
  specimens. 
  

  

  The 
  entire 
  report 
  contains 
  figures 
  and 
  descriptions 
  of 
  one 
  

   hundred 
  species, 
  and 
  the 
  present 
  collection 
  furnishes 
  authentic 
  

   examples 
  of 
  twenty-two 
  of 
  these, 
  nine 
  of 
  them 
  being 
  repre- 
  

   sented 
  by 
  figured 
  specimens. 
  

  

  The 
  Syrian 
  collection 
  now 
  in 
  the 
  Yale 
  University 
  Museum 
  

   came 
  chiefly 
  through 
  American 
  missionaries, 
  and 
  comprises 
  

   accessions 
  made 
  at 
  various 
  periods 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  seventy- 
  

   seven 
  years, 
  beginning 
  with 
  1821 
  down 
  to 
  1898. 
  The 
  dates 
  of 
  

   the 
  various 
  lots, 
  as 
  far 
  as 
  can 
  be 
  determined 
  from 
  the 
  labels 
  

   and 
  from 
  references 
  to 
  the 
  early 
  volumes 
  of 
  this 
  Journal,* 
  

   where 
  they 
  are 
  in 
  part 
  described, 
  are 
  as 
  follows 
  : 
  

  

  1821. 
  Specimens 
  sent 
  by 
  Rev. 
  Eli 
  Smith 
  of 
  the 
  Class 
  of 
  1821, 
  

  

  Yale 
  College. 
  

   1824 
  and 
  1827. 
  Three 
  boxes 
  containing 
  collections 
  made 
  by 
  

  

  Rev. 
  I. 
  Bird, 
  Class 
  of 
  1816. 
  

   1840. 
  Specimens 
  from 
  Rev. 
  Hibbert. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  from 
  Rev. 
  Dr. 
  A. 
  T. 
  Pratt, 
  Class 
  of 
  1847. 
  

  

  1857. 
  Collection 
  sent 
  by 
  Rev. 
  EL 
  H. 
  Jessup, 
  Class 
  of 
  1851. 
  

  

  1861. 
  Specimens 
  from 
  Rev. 
  Dr. 
  Van 
  Dyck. 
  

  

  1898. 
  Specimens 
  in 
  collection 
  of 
  Professor 
  O. 
  C. 
  Marsh. 
  

  

  Since 
  Conrad's 
  report 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  1852, 
  many 
  of 
  the 
  

   specimens 
  he 
  described 
  from 
  the 
  Yale 
  Cabinet 
  doubtless 
  be- 
  

   longed 
  to 
  the 
  earliest 
  accessions. 
  Thus, 
  the 
  first 
  considerable 
  

   description 
  of 
  Syrian 
  fossils 
  is 
  based 
  in 
  part 
  on 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  

   oldest 
  collections 
  in 
  America 
  and 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  received 
  from 
  

   foreign 
  lands. 
  

  

  Yale 
  University 
  Museum, 
  

  

  New 
  Haven, 
  Conn., 
  Feb, 
  1st, 
  1900. 
  

  

  * 
  This 
  Journal, 
  I, 
  vol. 
  ix, 
  pp. 
  337-351. 
  1825. 
  Description 
  of 
  Minerals 
  from 
  

   Palestine; 
  by 
  Professor 
  [F.] 
  Hall. 
  

  

  Ibid., 
  vol. 
  x, 
  pp. 
  21-29. 
  1825. 
  

  

  Notice 
  of 
  Minerals, 
  etc., 
  from 
  Palestine, 
  Egypt, 
  etc., 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  the 
  

   Rev. 
  Isaac 
  Bird, 
  Missionary, 
  to 
  the 
  editor, 
  dated 
  Beyroot, 
  Palestine, 
  March 
  

   15, 
  1825, 
  with 
  remarks 
  upon 
  the 
  specimens, 
  by 
  the 
  editor. 
  [B. 
  Silliman.] 
  

  

  Ibid., 
  vol. 
  xii, 
  pp. 
  145-147. 
  1827. 
  

  

  Notice 
  of 
  various 
  facts 
  relating 
  to 
  Palestine 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  the 
  Rev. 
  

   Isaac 
  Bird 
  to 
  Prof. 
  Hall. 
  

  

  Ibid., 
  vol. 
  xv, 
  pp. 
  374-378. 
  1829. 
  

  

  Notices 
  of 
  Palestine, 
  etc., 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  from 
  the 
  Rev. 
  I. 
  Bird 
  to 
  the 
  editor, 
  

   dated 
  Lazaretto 
  Rooms, 
  Malta, 
  June 
  20, 
  1828, 
  received 
  Oct. 
  7. 
  

  

  