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selected specimens from the Indo-Pacific region such as live in the warm waters of the great coral areas of the tropical and semi-tropical seas between the shores of Western America and Eastern Asia.

Four cases were devoted to the Edible Mollusca of the United States. Two of these contained the Clams, Cockles +c. of the Atlantic Seaboard and two cases were given to similar forms peculiar to the cost of Western North America from Alaska to San Diego, California.

The systematic and critical selection of the foregoing involved a great deal of work and the overhauling of a large quantity of material, the accumulation of many years.

This labor was however incidentally advantageous to the Museum as a considerable portion of the work consisted in the examination and partial preparation of molluscan material hereafter to be incorporated