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unremunerated labor expended on previous occasions in preparing exhibits for the [[strikethrough]] E [[/strikethrough]] expositions at[[strikethrough]]the Centennial[[/strikethrough]] Philadelphia, Paris, London, Berlin, New Orleans, and Cincinnati, this department was not obliged to [[strikethrough]]waste[[/strikethrough]]expend its slender resources of time and clerical force in preparing a special collection for the World's Fair at Chicago.  The exemption was gratefully appreciated.  Small collections of typical American Tertiary fossils and economic mollusks were prepared for the use of the Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish Commission.  I may be permitted to put on record my opinion that destructible objects belonging to the reserve or permanent series