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in each tray, have been prepared.  At the same time the names of the species have been checked off on an interleaved copy of Paetel's Catalogue of Mollusks, thus facilitating reference to the collection, and indicating deficiencies more clearly.  Duplicates have been eliminated and packed away in their proper boxes, as described in my last annual report.  New material has been examined, labelled, and distributed to its proper place in the collection after registration.  Much attention has been paid to the Tertiary fossils, in which the collection is very rich, and which were urgently needed for comparison with the material