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for 1887-88 was 11,803; the number for 1888-89 is 6,323; the discrepancy is entirely accounted for by the interruptions to our work already mentioned. The total number of registrations to date, omitting duplicate entries, and numbers assigned to but not yet reported as used by Prof. Verrill on the Fish Commission Collections, is 88,234 which represents about 265,000 specimens administered upon and available for use.

The schedule of registration follows the number of workers requiring the simultaneous use of several registration books.