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Geological Survey, the Fish Commission and the Smithsonian Institution. There are evident signs that a new era has begun and to foster and encourage local students can be only desirable and beneficial to the Museum and to Science. The Curator has by  correspondence by identifying specimens and by personal endeavors, done his best to promote activity and interest in students in that part of the country and with satisfactory, if only preliminary, results.  A list of the publications on topics germane to this report by those engaged in the study of the national collections of Mollusks is appended. It will be seen that the most important of them relate to the exploration of our southern and south eastern coasts.

Present state of collection. As stated in the report for 1884, the total number of specimens in the custody of the department of Mollusks, in the present state of affairs can only be estimated. Not including the material in the hands of Prof. Verrill and associates, but including duplicates and alcoholic specimens, the total must be

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