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Appendix E.

Statement of Registration from Vol. 1 of the Registers to June 30, 1885.

The mode of registration hitherto, owing to the practice of setting aside sets of numbers for specialists working on Museum material, has been very irregular. To avoid the trouble hitherto encountered whenever any question of registration has been raised, I have had a complete collation of the books made; those entries which had been left blank by inadvertence being assigned to the year most probable from other considerations. This shows that to date 42440 entries had been made in the registers, a number equivalent at the ratio of two and a half specimens to an entry, a fair average, to 106,100 specimens registered and labelled. In 1876 Dr. Lewis revised the whole of the American land and fresh water shells for which he used 4050 entries of which