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minute study of the successive Eocene faunas of the Parisian basin, has sent to the Museum about seven hundred named species of mollusks from that formation, which, coming from him, have the authenticity of types.

[[strikethrough]] A number of [[/strikethrough]] Several desiderata of the Museum have been supplied by Mr. Hugh Fulton of London, through an exchange arranged with him, all of which were new to the collection, and several of extreme rarity and value.

[[marginalia]] Run in all these acc. notices. [[/marginalia]]

[[paragraph symbol]] From W. L. Abbott of Bombay we have received an interesting and very attractive lot of shells from the Seychelles and adjacent islands. The California Academy of Sciences through Dr. J. G. Cooper has donated about seventy five specimens