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work has been brought to a temporary cessation pending the substitution of new and more presentable cases for those hitherto in use. It is hoped that early in the present summer these may be far enough advanced to permit of arranging the whole of this unequalled collection of freshwater mussels of the world. Good progress has also been made in cleaning and assorting the fossils contained in the Lea collection, mostly fine specimens from the European Tertiaries, but which we received in a dirty and largely unlabelled state.