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The Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Fish Commission have contributed several lots of mollusks collected by members of their staffs. These [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] are duly referred to in the [[strikethrough]] Appendix [[/strikethrough]] List of Accessions (Section V.)

Assistance to Students

The work of assisting students in various parts of the country to identify their local faunae, to intelligently direct their studies, and to answer their numerous queries on different branches of the subject, has always been regarded as an important function of this department [[strikethrough]] of Mollusks [[/strikethrough]] and has [[strikethrough]] regularly [[/strikethrough]] been referred to in the previous reports. Correspondence of this kind was [[strikethrough]] had [[/strikethrough]] conducted in 1891-92 with 166 different persons involving over 300 letters