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2. [[underlined]] Work done upon the Fishes during 1883 [[/underlined]].

In arranging the collection of fishes for exhibition and study, as for the ordinary purposes of preservation, I have tried to transfer the contents of tanks as far as possible into glass jars. Powder tanks are so liable to become leaky and the tin lining wears off so quickly that we need to be continually overhauling them in order to save the contents from deterioration and destruction. It would be very hard to tell the number of such transfers made during the year, but some idea of the extent of the work may be gained from the fact that almost the entire stock of jars purchased for the year was used.

Most of the fishes are now identified and labeled and collected in their proper families, though not yet in zoological sequence owing to want of a hall sufficiently large to hold the entire collection.