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The total number of entries for 1886-7 is 10,530, equivalent to about 32,000 specimens; each lot registered averaging over three specimens. Adding this to the total for the preceding year we get 29,168 entries, which in the twenty years previous to July 1885, the whole number of entries was only 42,440, or less than one and one half times as many as have been registered during the last two years. These figures show, better than any lengthy explanation, how the work has been pressed. It may also be observed that, whereas, in former days, many specimens were entered merely under the generic