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Accessions during the year.

The total number of accessions during the year is 46, a number somewhat less than the preceding year. The amount of material received under the head of these accessions is also less. It would have been wonderful had it been otherwise, since last year's list included the sixty-three boxes of the Lea collection.

The most important accession of the year was the collection of Mollusca and Tertiary fossils made by the U.S. Fish Commission party on the Albatross during the voyage from Chesapeake Bay, through the Western Atlantic, the Strait of Magellan and the eastern Pacific to the Galapagos Islands