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New Orleans exhibit. The preparation of material for the New Orleans Exposition which absorbed several months time prior to January 1st, was completed under the supervision of Dr. R.E.C. Stearns, Assistant Curator, so that the boxes containing the same and the cases required for exhibiting the specimens reached their destination and were ready for arrangement early in January. About the middle of the month Dr. Stearns proceeded to New Orleans and remained there until the specimens were  put in their places and ready for exhibition. The exhibit in this department of Natural History probably surpassed in extent and general excellence any previously made at the great Expositions. It was arranged in twenty one flat table cases equivalent to a floor area of not less than four hundred square feet, the specimens being placed in trays inside of the cases and each of the trays fully labelled.

The general system followed was a geographical one and presented a characteristic representation of the more conspicuous and interesting forms of the various zoogeographical provinces.

The exhibit included several cases of the

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