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[[underlined]] Recommendations. [[/underlined]]

I would respectfully call your attention to the urgent need of an assistant in this department who would be competent to prepare a card catalogue of the mounted collection and to do other necessary work of a like character. For this position an ordinary clerk would be quite useless, a special knowledge of birds and an intelligent interest in the work being prime requisites.

The present opportunity is also taken to refer to the matter of new cabinets for the collection of birds. These are very urgently needed, and the curator hopes that it may be found practicable to obtain a considerable number at an early date. The cabinets now in use