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will not be removed until Prof. Cope shall have examined them, which I understand he is to do before the end of the present year.

A great improvement in the storing of the specimens has been effected during the year. In the former quarters of the department in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution, the jars were placed on wide stationary shelves in rows often twenty jars deep, which made it impossible to lay hand on those behind the first two or three rows without disturbing them all. The new quarters, however, have been fitted out with unit cases which take the standard