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years ago the collection was estimated to contain 400,000 specimens. Since then not less than 25,000 specimens have been added to it. It will be several years before an exact statement can be made, as to any of these details; certainly not before arrearages are cleared up.

For the year 1885-6 the number of entries in the Museum Register being the final culmination of some two years preparatory work, was 18,638, representing between fifty and sixty thousand individual specimens. A larger number of specimens has been handled during the past year, but owing