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condition of affairs which it is not possible to prevent until suitable cabinets are provided for the former and the cases containing the latter made practically air-tight or dust-proof. So far as its [[underlined]] arrangement [[/underlined]] is concerned, the condition of the skin collection (which is several times more extensive and valuable than the mounted collection), is extremely unsatisfactory. Not only are all the cabinets so crowded as in many cases to admit of no additional specimens, but the specimens are difficult of access and general facilities for storage and proper arrangement so inadequate as to prevent easy access to the specimens for study, and practically put a