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parts of the Country. It is to be hoped that some of them, such as the "Mollusks of Western North America," by Carpenter, and Tryon's "Strepomatidae," may be shortly [[strikethrough]] reissued [[/strikethrough]] reprinted for the use of students.

[[strikethrough]] In work of the second class [[/strikethrough]] A number of papers have been printed during the past year by the writer and by Dr. Stearns, a list of which will be found [[strikethrough]] hereto appended [[/strikethrough]] in the Bibliography. The most important of these, prehaps [[perhaps]], is Part I of the writer's report on the Tertiary Mollusks of Florida, issued in September 1890, by the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, of which Part II is to follow at a convenient date. 

A large part of the curator's time [[strikethrough]] during the year [[/strikethrough]] has been devoted to the preparation of a general report on the Neocene formations of the United States, for the U.S. Geological Survey. [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] This has