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West American collections of the Albatross, on sundry interesting southern forms of sand Shells and has prepared for the Ethnological Department of the Museum a series of shells to illustrate his paper on "Primitive Money" (published in the Report U.S. Nat. Museum 1886-87)and also a series to illustrate the Indian game "Ha" [?] and the game of "Props" as described in the paper on that subject included in the following bibliography.

Mr. Simpson has in view a revision of the Floridan Unionidae [?] for which he has done a good deal of work.

State of the Collection

In previous reports I have explained why it is impossible to give the exact number of species, specimens, duplicates, etc., contained in the collections under my