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number of registrations which are tabulated [[strikethrough]] here which will be found tabulated [[/strikethrough]] in another [[strikethrough]] the Appendix are [[/strikethrough]] place in the report, is less numerous than for some years previous, because more time has been devoted to putting the collection of duplicates in[[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] order and to other matters set forth below. As the arrears of material not administered upon have been reduced, the number of duplicates has increased, and it has for some time been obvious that in order to make the exchanges often called for and to keep informed as to the state of duplicate material, it was urgently required that the latter should be put in order for reference. Much of the time of Mr. Simpson and Mr. Bond has been devoted to sorting, naming,