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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 Excerpt:...tryoni, Meek, pi. v, figs. 5-7 100 Carini/ex Tortici/ex) binneyi, Meuk.pl. v, figs. 8 and 9 « 100 Ancylv-e undulatiw, Meek, pi. v, figs. 10 and U 100 Spharium rugotwn. Meek, pi. v, figs. 14-16 I; Sphcrrimnf idahoetue. Meek, pi. v, fig». 12 and 13 100 Latia dallii, п. е., White, 1882, pi. v, figs. 17-20 100-101 115. White, C. A. A Review of the Non-Marine Fossil Mollusca of North America. Third Annual Report of the Director of the United States Geological Survey to the Secretary of the Interior, 1881-'82. By J. W. Powell, Director, pp. 403-550 and pis. p. i-xxxii. Washington, 1883. Same. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1883. Imp. 8vo, pp. 1-80 and pis. 1-32. One hundred copies printed early in 1883 with paging, numbering of the plates, and title-page separate from that of the volume. Same. One huudred more copies printed at the time of the issuance of the volume in 1884. This memoir contains a discussion of the families which are represented in the brackish and fresh water deposits, an annotated catalogue of all the known species in the order in which the formations occur, general disousaion of the conditions which prevailed when the mollusks lived, and the manner in which the lines of descent of a part of them have been continued to the present time. Two hundred and twenty-seven species are noticed, all of which ore illustrated. Although the volume of which this work is an extract, bears the date 1883 upon its title-page, the volume, as a whole, was not issued until near the middle of 1884. The pagination in the separates is different from that in the volume. Both are referred to. Dkvokiak.. Page. Strophittt grandaeva, Dawson, pLi, flg. 1 49,455 Anodonta? anffustata(VAimxem). Uall, pi. i, figs. 2 and 8 18,424 Anodonta catttkill...