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[[paragraph symbol]] Mr. R. W. Brown, of Washington, has continued to present to the Museum the numerous land snails etc., which are found from time to time in his importations of foreign fruit, so that we have had the opportunity of observing in a living state in an improvised snailery, several of the peculiar types of Antillean pulmonates. 

[[paragraph symbol]] The heirs of the late Oliver N. Bryan of Marshall Hall Maryland in accordance with his wish presented his collection of fossils, Indian relics etc. to the National Museum, of which quite a number of fine and interesting fossil mollusks fell to the share of this [[strikethrough]]D[[/strikethrough]] department.