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Special Researches. 
The bibliographical appendix will indicate the printed results of the studies carried on during the year. They may be summarized as general reports of faunal collections, and investigations on the freshwater shells by Mr. Charles T. Simpson. Beside this a large amount of work has been done on the concluding part of the "Tertiary Fossils of Florida which has not yet progressed far enough to be printed. 

State of the Collection 
In previous reports, I have explained why it is not possible to give the exact number of species, specimens, duplicates, etc., contained in the collection. In my last report it was estimated that the collection contained about 483,325