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is for the fauna of the North Atlantic, the British isles and NW. European coasts. Indeed it is really more for in addition to a profusion of types described by himself and other authors in modern days the collection contains selections of typical specimens from the cabinets of nearly all the older British naturalists such as Montague, Turton, Humphrey Alder, Brown and a host of others. It also contains the types and in most cases the unique examples of the shells dredged by most of the deep sea explorers of the North Atlantic except the Challenger expedition — as for instance specimens from the Lightning, Porcupine and Valorous expeditions; others from the Josephine, Knight Errant, Triton, and Vöringen parties. Now that the United States through the Fish Commission are doing more toward deep sea investigation than any other nation, the possession of these types is invaluable for our students who must otherwise have gone to Europe for