USNM Curators Annual Reports: Department of Marine Invertebrates, Annual Report 1888-1889

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How can a big drop in specimen donations be a good thing? Honorary Curator Richard Rathbun (1852-1918) begins his annual report using glowing terms to describe his department's 1888-1889 accomplishments. However, the department's largest specimen donor, year after year, had drastically reduced its contributions. How does one make sense of that? Join other digital volunteers who are helping us transcribe this handwritten report of the Department of Marine Invertebrates' activities in 1888 and 1889.

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