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are a lot of shells from the west coast of the United States and 

 Mexico, made over to the Museum by Professor J. D. Whitney a 

 short time before his death, and a small but valuable collection 

 from the Persian Gulf and the neighborhood of Bombay, presented 

 by Mr. F. W. Townsend. The Reverend R. K. Smith, of Woburn, 

 Mass., and Mr. fi. Clapp, of Cambridge, have deposited in the 

 Museum the first instalment of a special collection of New England 

 shells. Rather curiously, the Museum collection is particularly 

 weak in material from New England. Mr. Smith and his coad- 

 jutor have been at great pains to collect a fine series of each species, 

 selecting specimens with a view to showing individual variations 

 and the changes induced by growth. This collection, when com- 

 pleted according to the design of the donors, will form an invalu- 

 able aid to the student of our local fauna. Mr. Temple Prime 

 has lately given to the Museum his valuable collection of Corbicu- 

 lidae (Cyrenidse), answering to his printed catalogue of 202 species, 

 and rich in types. 



By purchase, a set of beautifully preserved Pteropod shells has 

 been got from Mr. G. B. Sowerby, of London, and from Mr. C. J. 

 Maynard a series of the Bahama Cerions (Strophias) that form 

 the subject of his " Monograph of the Genus Strophia." Last 

 winter Mr. Maynard spent some time in the study of the Cerions 

 in our old collection, particularly the Cuban forms. The results 

 of this investigation were published, as a continuation of the 

 " Monograph of Strophia," in Maynard's u Contributions to 

 Science," Vol. 111. No. 1, pp. 1-40, Pis. I.-VIL, March, 1896. 



