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3.

General Operations.
The routine work of the year has made fair progress.  Work on the revision of the general collection has been continued as well as the preparation of index sheets for each drawer containing all the genera & species contained in each tray in the drawer.  Special attention has been given to the group of Mactras, which has been completely revised, together with allied genera.  A large amount of work has also been done in [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough] administration upon the collection of tertiary fossils.  New material has been examined & labeled and such of it as seems desirable for the reserve series has been incorporated after cataloguing.  A considerable number of duplicates have been catalogued.  Among the work of this sort for the year, the following items may be mentions; species of duplicates