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as being a totally new locality for this attractive imported species.

Among fossils Jas. Shepard esq, has contributed a box of very beautiful silicified shells from the well known deposit, described by Conrad many years ago, on the Hillsboro' Bay arm of Tampa Bay, West Florida. 

On the whole the accessions of the year, while not including any collection of extraordinary size, have brought to the Department of Mollusks a full share of valuable and interesting material, more than in many previous years, if not so much as in a few exceptional seasons, and, as usual, more than the present force could deal with while still hard at work on the arrears of previous seasons.

General work of the Department

The routine work of the Department naturally consists in the unpacking, cleaning, assorting, classifying, labelling, registering, putting on exhibition or in its proper place in the study series of each lot of new material which comes in; besides eliminating duplicates and packing them in such shape as to be conveniently accessible when needed for distribution. Specimens which have been studied or named before being received have part of the above work already done, but in general the above is required for each lot or a [[word erased]] series from each lot of specimens. The smaller species are put in vials, corked, to save them from