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Alaska to San Diego, California.

The systematic and critical selection of the foregoing involved a great deal of work 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 in the national collection and of very great importance for reference in connection with the study of fossil forms of
quaternary or even upper tertiary age.

Unlike the results to some other departments of the Museum, the exhibition, in return, contributed little or nothing to this section and indeed the Museum alone exhibited anything in the molluscan line which was of scientific importance.

Very respectfully yours,

(Signed) Wm.H.Dall.
Hon.Cureator Dept. of Mollusks.

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