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S 33392

R.G.
LGH file Rep.

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM
UNDER DIRECTION OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

WASHINGTON

Mar. 1st 1884

Prof S. F. Baird
Sec'y. Smithsonian Inst.
Dear Sir,

I have to report the following progress with the Rich Collection of Shells, during the month of February.

The entire collection of bivalves with the exception of the Unionidae has been arranged by families and genera, and so far as possible the species determined. All the gasteropods have been sorted, arranged by families and roughly by genera. I am now engaged separating the genera more carefully and in determining the species. All the conchifera (with the exception noted above) have been labled, boxed and catalogued. And the following gasteropods have