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foregoing involved a great deal of work and the overhauling of a large quantity of material, the accumulation of many years.
    
This labor was incidentally advantageous to the Museum as a considerable part of the work consisted in administration upon material hereafter to be incorporated in the reserve collection and of great importance for reference in connection with the identification and study of the tertiary and quaternary fossils of the United States.
   
The result of the exhibition to the department of Mollusks was less advantageous than to other departments of the Museum as the exhibition, outside of the national exhibit, contributed little or nothing to this section, in fact with that exception nothing of much scientific importance in this line was exhibited.

Other work of the department. The chief work of the department during the period has been the identification of tertiary fossils sent in by the U.S. Geological Survey from time to time; of collections of shells sent by various collectors to be named for assistance in their studies; and in preparing for exhibit or reference the tertiary fossils and recent shells

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