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[[underlined]] Report on the Department of Birds
U.S. National Museum , ^[['87]] 1888
By Robert Ridgway, Curator

[[strikethrough]] I. I. [[/strikethrough]] General Review of the Year's Work. [[/underlined]]

The year's work has consisted, as heretofore, largely of routine work, such as the receiving, unpacking, cataloguing, labeling, and installation of collections, making of exchanges, correspondence, etc. In addition to the large amount of work done under these separate headings, nearly the entire exhibition collection has been rearranged, the cases being fitted with patent adjustable shelving, and repainted. This important work is still going on, and progresses as rapidly as the cases can be put in proper shape.

During the last two months of the year the time and work of the Department was devoted exclusively to the preparation, catalogueing, labelling, and packing of the collections for the Centennial Exposition in