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Number of specimens in the collection:

Exhibition - 34,000.
Reserve - 41,000.
Duplicate - [[underlined]]25,000.[[/underlined]]
Total - 100,000.

In February 1887 the total number of jars containing fishes, by actual count, was 24,069.  This number has been increased by accessions since received.  There were at that time 208 tanks and four barrels filled with fishes. There were exhibited in the