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at the same time, and for the first time in its history, the Department of Mollusks will be able to bear its proper share in interesting the public by the contents of suitable table cases.

Information or assistance of more or less importance, chiefly in the identification of specimens, or supplying data for investigators has been furnished to the following persons, among others, the work often requiring in a single instance the available part of several days of labor and the writing of several letters.

The recipients of this assistance are scattered over the whole country, but as might be expected are chiefly in those parts of it where libraries and collections are least accessible: