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and has picked out a series of the more remarkable forms of this 

 group for exhibition in the Stratigraphical Collection. 



Some work has been done upon the Anticosti Collection in 

 picking over and culling out the loose material. 



A small number of remarkable forms of Nautiloids and Am- 

 monoids have been prepared for mounting for exhibition in the 

 Systematic Collection. 



The following papers have been published, or are ready for 

 publication : — 



Genesis of the Arietida3, by Alpheus Hyatt. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 and Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, No. 673, pp. 238, and 

 Fourteen Plates. (In press.) 



Japanese Iris from Seed, by R. T. Jackson. Garden and Eorest, Vol. I. 



Hybridization of Gladioli, by R. T. Jackson. Garden and Forest, 

 Vol. I. No. 52, with Three Figures. 



Phylogeny of the Pelecypoda, by R. T. Jackson. Now in press. 



