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in jars, upon the new shelving provided during the previous year has been continued, and the entire extralimital collection, thus preserved, has been placed on the shelves, card-catalogued, and arranged according to localities.  The number of jars accomodated was 1235, containing 2840 specimens. Many of these had to be reentered and reidentified, and all have been labelled.

The collection of North American turtles has been similarly attended to, but the curator has not attempted to arrange it definitely, as it was understood that Dr. G. Baur, of Clark University, was going to undertake it.