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collection are done with, the newer ones will be taken up. The work has been somewhat delayed by the non arrival of paper trays ordered some months since but not yet received.

A number of collections sent for naming by various students throughout the country have been named and returned by the curator, who has devoted nearly all his available leisure from other official duties to the improvement of the arrangement of the collection.

Lieut. Francis Winslow, U.S.N. undertook the preparation of the exhibit of economic mollusks of the United States which were sent to the International Fisheries exhibition at London in pursuance of the act of Congress requiring an exhibit on the part of the Museum and Fish Commission. As will be seen from the list of accessions a large amount of material was received from various sources for this purpose and part of the exhibit prepared by the writer for the Centennial Exposition at