USNM Curators Annual Reports: Department of Mollusks, 1896-1897

Curator William Healey Dall's report on the Department of Mollusks annual activities in 1896 and 1897 is straightforward and to the point. There continued to be noteworthy work done on the specimen collections received from Dr. Chamberlain three years earlier. Dall makes a special mention of gathering metrics on the various inquiries from people desiring access to the collections and department literature for purposes of research. Will you help us to transcribe the report Dall submitted to the the Director of the United States Museum in 1897?