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The collection was card-catalogued, however, showing a number of 460 specimens. 

The collection of North American snakes is in the same unsatisfactory condition as [[strikethrough]] when the report for  [[/strikethrough]] in the preceding year [[strikethrough]] closed [[//strikethrough]], due to Prof. E. D. Cope's failure to finish the work, upon which he has been engaged, within the stipulated time.

During the early part of the year the entire reserve series of North American batrachians was transferred from the old quarters in the basement and arranged in systematic order on the shelves, catalogued and counted. The number of jars thus