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10. Appendix. Beside these matters, the official duties of the Curator to the Paleontological Department of the U. S. Geological Survey;- by the favor of whose Director, Major J. W. Powell, he has been permitted to embrace both fields of labor in his daily occupation;- have, of course, precedence, and imperative claims upon his time, for determination of specimens, and reports monthly, annual, or occassional, as well as other things. These being taken into consideration with the character and amount of the routine work as above briefly sketched, it will I think appear that the results in the shape of work, statistically stated in the Appendix, are fully abreast of the opportunities offered by the situation. [[strikethrough]] Publications directly or indirectly connected with the work of the Department of Mollusks or printed by members of the staff during the year 1885-6 [[/strikethrough]] A list of the [[strikethrough]] publications will be [[/strikethrough]] papers published by the Curator and others, and bearing directly or indirectly upon the work of this department, will be found in [[strikethrough]] the Appendix [[/strikethrough]] Part IV. The manual of land shells by Mr. W. G. Binney is based in large part upon a collection presented and named by him and which has been arranged in accordance with the manual and placed in a special case for immediate reference at any time by those interested. The bibliography of the writings of the venerable Nestor of Conchology in the United States, Dr. Isaac Lea, [[strikethrough]] find an [[/strikethrough]]