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[[? ?]] Mr. Dall
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1. HOW HAS THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1896, COMPARED WITH THE PREVIOUS YEAR, AS FAR AS (1) THE NUMBER OF ACCESSIONS AND (2) THEIR SCIENTIFIC VALUE ARE CONCERNED?

The number of accessions for 1895-6 is 118 against 111 for the previous year. Though some of them are valuable most of them are small.

The most important accession has been the instalment of the Fish Commission collections received from New Haven.
Next in order come the contributions of Dr L.J. Chamberlain including a variety of choice specimens purchased at his expense, including an excellent local collection of Texas shells made by I. A. Suigley and bought in bloc, and many very valuable foreign uniones and other specimens all of which were new to the collection.
 
On the whole the year has not been marked by any thing extraordinary in the growth of the collections compared with previous years.