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Report on the Department of Mollusks (including Tertiary fossils and recent shells) in the U.S. National Museum, 1889.
By Wm. H. Dall, Honorary Curator.

Curators Reports Mollusks 1888-1889
Annual Report

The force of the Department of Mollusks for the period reported on has consisted in addition to the Curator of Dr. R. E. C. Stearns, Assistant Curator  Mr. Pierre Louis Jouy, aid.
Assistance in the work on the fossils collected by the Geological Survey and other donors, has been rendered from time to time by Messrs. Frank Burns and Chas. B. Greene of the U.S. Geological Survey, by the permission of the Director of the Survey.

The need of the department for a person who might be entitled to the designation of an elegant penman, to write labels for exhibition and other purposes increases annually. The clerical force of the Department is wholly inadequate