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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College to the President and Fellows of Harvard College for 1920-1921
The Museum 1s greatly indebted to Mr. Arthur F. Gray for the gift Of his collection of shells, an enormous series of several million specimens, the accumulation of a life-time of a close student and zealous collector. Mr. Gray's studies were associated with the work of many conchologists, and his collection contains a large amount of original material from the collections of W. G. Binney, Thomas Bland, and James Lewis, three distinguished students Of the land shells of the United States and the Antilles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
