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[[strikethrough]] IV. [[/strikethrough]]

[[double underlined]]
Review of Special Researches 
prosecuted upon Material
belonging to the 
Department.
[[/double underlined]]

Owing to the vast amount of labor required by matters mentioned under ^[[the first and third]] sections of [[strikethrough]] I and III [[/strikethrough]] ^[[of this report,]] very little time has been available for special research, a very considerable part of what was accomplished by the Curator being necessarily done out of office hours. It is much to be regretted that no more time can be given to work of this kind, of the greatest value to ornithological science as well as to the collection - whose value is increased as its component parts or sections become the basis of original monographic work, and no collection of American birds contains a greater quantity of material for such original research,