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now first made ready for it. The greater part of this exceed- 

 ingly rich collection consists of specimens from the Cincinnati 

 Limestone, the Niagara strata of Waldron, Ind., and the Sub- 

 carboniferous of Crawfordsville, Ind. 



Two boxes of Paradoxides, Conocephalites, Beyrichia, Leper- 

 ditia, etc., have been forwarded for study to Dr. C. D. Walcott 

 of the National Museum at Washington. 



My time having been chiefly occupied with the Palseontologi- 

 cal collections, comparatively little work has been done in the 

 Conchological department. 



For the large and fine collection of recent marine shells, from 

 Tasmania, and of Palaeozoic and Tertiary Mollusca, from Tas- 

 mania and Southern Australia, received at the close of the last 

 academic year from Lieut. C. E. Beddome, of Hobart, there 

 have been sent in return a full series of recent Lamellibran- 

 chiate shells. 



A few recent shells have been delivered to Prof. Alfred C. 

 Haddon, of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, as the begin- 

 ning of an exchange. 



In connection with the work of the year has been published 

 " Results of an Examination of Syrian Molluscan Fossils, chiefly 

 from the Range of Mount Lebanon. By Charles E. Hamlin." 

 4to, pp. 68, 6 Plates. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. X. No. 3. 



