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

The years' work consisted chiefly in general superintendence of the preparation of the exhibit of birds for the World's Columbian Exhibition; the engrossing nature of this work, owing to the impossibility of securing an adequate number of skilled taxidermists, and extreme difficulty of attaining necessary materials (specimens particularly), and the complicated details connected with the progress of the work practically suspending, for the time, the regular operations of the department.

As the result of efforts to make a creditable display at Chicago, more than 1300 mounted birds, on pedestals, representing nearly 900 species were transported to the Government building in Jackson Park, though