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REPORT OF THE PALiEONTOLOGICAL AND CONCHO- 

 LOGICAL DEPARTMENTS. 



By Charles E. Hamlin. 



During the past year there have been added in the Palseon- 

 tological Department : — 



1. A collection of Fossil Plants from the Tertiary of Golden, Colo- 

 rado, purchased from Prof. Arthur Lakes, of the State School of Mines, 

 at Golden. 



2. A series of Fossil Fishes from the Huron Shales (Upper Devonian) 

 of Lorraine County, Ohio, collected by and purchased of Mr. Jay Terrell, 

 of Oberlin, Ohio. 



The general collections of Cambrian, Silurian, and Devonian 

 Fossil Invertebrata, and the special collection of Fossil Echino- 

 derms, temporarily stored in the old lecture-room of the Museum, 

 have been removed to glazed cases in the rooms upon the first 

 floor, which have been fitted up for their permanent deposit. 



The various collections of Vertebrate Fossils have been placed 

 in the cases of the new room assigned to them on the fifth floor. 



The Day and Taylor collections of Fossil Invertebrata — the 

 one from the Racine Limestone of Wisconsin, the other from 

 the New York Silurian, — have been taken from the packing- 

 boxes, and, after preliminary classification, have been arranged 

 in cases recently constructed for them. 



A series of Cretaceous Plants, selected from the collection 

 made in Kansas by Mr. C. H. Sternberg, and another of Tertiary 

 Plants from the Lakes collection above mentioned, have been 

 forwarded to Prof. Leo Lesquereux, of Columbus, Ohio, to be 

 figured for volumes now in course of preparation by him. 



The systematic collection of recent Mollasca has been re- 

 moved from the room where it has been stored since 1877, and 



