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5 Fresh water Mussels (Unionidae) of the Mississippi drainage area, remarkable for the great number and beauty of these shells, also the rare and peculiar forms belonging to this group from other parts of the world. The land and pond snails of the Mississippi basin were each represented by a separate case. The Marine shells of the Atlantic coast of America from the Arctic sea to the Caribbean, and the sea shells of the Pacific coast from Bering sea to Panama, including the principal species inhabiting the tidal areas of Puget Sound, in the North, and the Gulf of California, to the South, were similarly displayed. Other cases contained selected specimens from the Indo-Pacific region such as live in the great coral areas of the warm seas between western America and eastern Asia. Four cases were devoted to the edible mollusca of the United States. Two of these contained the clams, cockles etc. of the Atlantic Seaboard and two those of the shores of Western America from Alaska to San Diego. The systematic and critical selection of the
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