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The curator has during the year completed his series of analytical keys to North American birds, soon to be published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, under the title of "A Manual of North American Birds," a book of Royal 8vo size, consisting of 631 pages and 464 outline illustrations of the generic details.

V. [[underlined]] Present state of the collection and number of specimens [[/underlined]]. 

The present state of the collection is excellent so far as that portion included in suitable receptacles is concerned, except that the drawers are very much overcrowded.  A considerable portion, however, yet remain in old drawers which are without lids or other fastenings, and therefore exposed to the attacks of insects.  By a liberal use of nap^[[h]]thaline