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attic and laboratories, and the work of identifying the species and 

 selecting full series for the faunal and systematic collections, 

 that the great number of duplicates may be made available for 

 exchange, is now going on. 



The alcoholic specimens have been transferred to kegs and 

 jars, like all those received during the previous years ; but the 

 work of identifying and separating them in the same manner 

 as the dry specimens is at present deferred for the want of 

 alcohol and bottles. 



Nearly all the finest collections of shells, e. g\, that made by 

 Mr. Cooke at Zanzibar, and those made by Mr. Garrett at the 

 Sandwich Islands, Kingsmills Islands, and Feejee group, are 

 not on exhibition in the cases, because their final arrangement 

 is not yet complete, and the whole work would be lost in any 

 attempt to place them on the few shelves now empty. 



Mr, Bickmore's Beaufort collection will soon be worked up, 

 and will then be temporarily put up in the northeast room, in 

 the case now partly filled with land shells. Among the 

 Bryofoa received, a splendid cluster of Eschara, presented by 

 Mr. Dabney, deserves special mention. 



Mollusca received at the Museum of Comparative Zoology during the 



gear 1863. 



Agassiz, A. Nahant, 2 species, 96 specimens. 



Agassiz, Professor L. Nahant, 7 species, 4,037 specimens. 



Anthony, J. G. Australia, 7 species, 14 specimens ; New Zealand, 

 1 species, 3 specimens ; New Hebrides, 1 species, 3 specimens ; 

 Monterey, Cal., 1 species, 1 specimen ; Bolivia, 1 species, 21 specimens. 

 Total, 11 species, 42 specimens. 



Bickmore, Albert S. Beaufort, N. C, 117 species, 14,484 speci- 

 mens ; Newbern, N. C, 8 species, 209 specimens ; Plymouth, N. C, 4 

 species, 4 specimens; St. George, Me., 5 species, 3,215 specimens. 

 Total, 134 species, 17,913 specimens. 



Cabot, Dr. S., Boston. Fort Macon, N. C, 4 species, 58 specimens. 



Chamberlin, A. P. Shanghae, 1 species, 1 specimen. 



Coutinho, M. Brazil, 1 species, 4 specimens. 



Dabney, W. H. A magnificent cluster of Eschara. 



Dall, C. H., Medford. New Zealand, collected by Mr. J. Whitridge, 

 of Baltimore, 14 species, 628 specimens. 



Dow, Capt. P. P. Muscat, 10 species, 150 specimens. 



Drowne, Rev. T. Stafford, Brooklyn, N. Y., (through Mr. Bick- 

 more,) 1 specimen, 1 species. 



