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In addition to the usual routine work, the Reptile Department was moved back into its old quarters in the west basement of the Smithsonian building; all the alcoholic specimens contained in bottles, probably 5000, were carefully cleaned and refilled, when necessary, with fresh alcohol; the "reserve series" have to a great extent been relabelled, and arranged systematically in the cases prepared for them, a number of new specimens have also been added. The "reserve set" of [[underlined]] Testudinata [[/underlined]] have been properly attended to, and arrange in cases, and the "duplicate"