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of that taken up by routine business, was devoted to a search through the unassorted and exotic material for specimens suitable for the series illustrating the Reptilian and Batrachian families at the World's Columbian Fair.  There is considerable difficulty not only in finding representative species of quite a number of families, but also in obtaining specimens that are in such a state of procuration that they came to be exhibited at such an occasion.  He was fortunate, however, to obtain from dealers offers of species representing seven families not in the museum