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been made the subjects of special papers and then left in the same condition in which the collaborator found them. Now, if the curator wishes to administer upon such examples he must devote considerable time to a review of papers before he can arrange them in harmony with [[strikethrough]] a review of papers in the light of[[/strikethrough]] published results while the student himself in much less time could have finished the whole work and left no arrears [[strikethrough]]for us[[/strikethrough]] to be disposed of. The curator naturally desires to make studies of some of portions of the collection, but he cannot do [[strikethrough]]so[[/strikethrough]] much in this direction unless some limitations are placed upon the changes involved by the investigations of ichthyologists who reap the benefit of all the preparatory work done upon this collection without aiding in placing it permanently upon an improved basis.