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the coming year. Dr. Stearns has prepared for publication a paper which is now in press on Shell money, Prehistoric and Historic, a subject upon which he has made long continued investigations.

State of the Collection

In previous reports I have stated why it is impossible to give the exact number of specimens, species, duplicates etc. contained in the collection. In my last report I estimated that the collection contained 455,000 specimens of all sorts. Since then about 13,000 have been received.

The total number of entries in the Museum Register or Catalogue