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Accessions during the year

The number of accessions during 1892-1983 was 72, against 85 in 1891-92.  Several of them were of importance and many of great interest, but, as a whole, the accessions during the past year do not comprise any very large single masses of material compared with those of some previous years.

The most important contribution to the collection has been the result of a decision by the Rev. L. T. Chamberlain and Mrs. Francis Lea Chamberlain to contribute the means necessary to bring up to date and keep as complete as practicable, the Lea collection of freshwater mollusks, especially the Unionidae.  In