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as the manuscript therefore became a necessity. The curator spent two days over the matter, but had the satisfaction of correcting the errors and preventing the publication of a bad blunder. In his memoranda he also called attention to the fact that in the collection as returned by Prof. Cope several specimens were missing, particularly two snakes which were not even mentioned in the manuscript.

The assorting, classifying, labelling, and installing of the miscellaneous collection has been continued during the month. [[/handwritten]]