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Miss Clarke has been employed as usual in dusting, securing 

 specimens on tablets where necessary, writing labels, etc. 



We have received from Messrs. Wachsmuth and Springer 

 twenty-eight choice specimens of Crinoids from Indian Creek, 

 Montgomery County, Indiana. 



Mr. C. D. Walcott has returned a small collection of Lower 

 Cambrian fossils, borrowed by him some years since for investi- 

 gation. 



The following papers have been published during the year by 

 the Assistants in this department : — 



Carboniferous Cephalopods, by Alpheus Hyatt, Geol. Surv. of Texas, 

 Sec. Ann. Rept., 1890, pp. 329-356, with thirty-seven cuts. 



Remarks on the Pinnidse, by Alpheus Hyatt. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. 

 History, XXV., 1891, pp. 335-346. 



Beecher's Studies of the Brachiopoda (a Review), by R. T. Jackson. 

 Am. Nat., Oct., 1892. 



