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has gone on than for many years, now that Mr. Simpson with his knowledge of the subject has been available.  Another six months will see a vast clearance of material which has been almost but not quite ready for incorporation in the general series, but such steps in our progress make no changes on the registers.

In the second class of work, a preliminary report on the collections made during the Voyage of the Albatross to California has been made and printed, a report on the collections made on the Eclipse Expedition of 1890 is nearly ready and a large number of reports on collections submitted for examination have been attended to during the year.

The unregistered collections of Tertiary fossils have been cleaned and arranged by Mr. Burns so that they are ready

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