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species in each accession were entered collectively under the same number.  Under the old system it was very difficult to properly designate each individual specimen when it became necessary to mention it separately, either in treating of it scientifically, or in the ordinary museum routine, for instance, when any single individual of a collective number had to be picked out as a duplicate and exchanged.

Special care has been exercised in identifying and properly labelling type specimens.  When assuming control the present curator found quite a number of specimens collected by the famous "Exploring Expedition" with labels which