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fishes and these of Japan.

[[Double underlined]] Recommendations[[/double underline]]

I respectfully urge that the supply of jars, bottles, and tanks be largely increased. It is especially desirable to replace the powder tanks by something like the agassiz tank and to provide a large number of storage jars of heavy glass and [[?]] great capacity. I think that when alcohol is renewed on large lots of fish it should contain not less then 70 per cent. of spirit.

I think it is for the interest of the collection to allow no materials to leave the museum, no we cannot tell what injury may result from transportation and improper treatment of specimens.

The conditions under which special students may use the collections of the museum should be altered: it is reasonable and expedient that no one should be allowed to monograph families or faunae under he will agree to complete all the details of work necessary to place the material studied in its finished form the shelves where it belongs. There are now many groups of fishes in the collection which have

Transcription Notes:
agassiz is a tropical fish.