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lately necessarily disturbed, has been noticed to attract from the visitors what seemed a rather disproportionate amount of attention.

General operations.

The general operations of the Department during the past year, as in previous years, have consisted (1) in the determination, labelling, proper assorting and registration of material old and new; and (2) in the preparation of special reports on Government collections made by other branches of the Executive departments, as the U.S. Fish Commission, the Navy, the Revenue Marine, Agricultural Department and special expeditions. As will be seen in the special table showing the number of registrations, they have amounted to about the same as in the year preceding, but it is proper to observe that a much greater amount of systematizing of the registered material