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being retained for study at New Haven by Prof. A. E. Verrill. This collection, beside the common littoral shells brought back in quantity, contained a fair proportion of deep water species the study of which is of extraordinary interest.

Among the named species received during the year and which are of more than ordinary interest may be mentioned a selection of seventy one species of shells from Bering sea, illustrating a recent report by Dr. A. Krause of the expedition sent out by the Bremen Geographical Society; a small series of land and fresh water shells from Manitoba, illustrating a paper by the donor Mr. Robert Miller Christy and a very fine series of Madagascar land shells of remarkable characters received from Edward Bartlett esq.

From the Arctic and boreal province we have received a valuable lot of dredgings by the U. S. Revenue cutter Corwin. Capt. M. A. Healy, U. S. R. M. from the Arctic Ocean near Bering Strait and a small but interesting series from the Commander Islands, from the Governor Nikolai Grebnitski, of the Russian Service.

From the subtropical region Mr. Chas. T. Simpson has contributed a valuable and interesting series of shallow water species from South Florida and the Keys as well as the coast of Honduras. Prof. A. G. Wetherby has also sent some very interesting species from the coast of North Western Florida.

Prof. J. H. Morrison has sent from the grounds of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. a series of Helix hortensis Linne, interesting