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The year's work has not differed materially in its character or scope from those of preceding years, except that the rearrangement, labelling and general improvement of the exhibition collection was more actively and continuously prosecuted.

There has been an increase over the year 1887-88 in the number of specimens received and those distributed, in correspondence, and in the number of specimens mounted; but a slight decrease in the number of pages of proof corrected (this, however, more than made up by the large number of labels — 613 — revised), in the number of mounted birds transferred to new stands, the number made into skins, and the number of new stands put together; but owing