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work upon it is necessarily slow and can only be taken up at intervals.

The reserve collection of alcoholics except the very latest accessions is now catalogued on cards. The last card of 1895-6 was 2002 the last of the present year 4141, making a total of 2139 jars catalogued during the year.

The collection of duplicates is fully catalogued and in perfect order, no additions to the list have been made during the year and the number of species represented remains at 4174.