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Notes on the [[strikethrough]]families, subfamilies, and genera of [[/strikethrough]] shell-bearing mollusks [[strikethrough]] in the [[/strikethrough]] exhibited [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] by the [[strikethrough]] Department of Mollusk [[/strikethrough]] U.S. National Museum, at the Atlanta Exposition, 1895, by Chas.[[Charles]] T. Simpson [[subtitile]] Aid, Dept. Mollusks. [[/subtitle]] and Wm. [[William]] B Marshall [[subtitle]] Aid, Dep't. Mollusks [[/subtitle]]

The following notes are intended to relate some of the interesting features of the most important shell-bearing mollusks.      The specimens are arranged essentially according to the system adopted in Tryon's "Structural and Systematic Conchology". The numbers in these notes correspond with the numbers on the specimens exhibited. Family Nautilidae. No 1.

A family [[strikethrough]] of shells [[/strikethrough]] of which some 1200 species and many genera are found fossil from The Silurian to the present time. The true pearly, chambered Nautilus, of which [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]]