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The list of the insects received from Col. McDonald was also completed and sent to the Director.

A small lot of 18 species of Lepidoptera was also determined for Mrs. C. H. Fernald of Orono, Maine.

There have been received at the Department the 100 boxes ordered from Mr. John Burr of Camden, N.J.

The chief work has still been in the line of preparing the Exhibit collection and that is now so far advanced that a request has been made to have the hall allotted to this department put into shape so as to be opened to the public at an early day.
 
Respectfully,
C.V.Riley
Honorary Curator. 

Prof. Spencer F. Baird 
Director Nat. Museum

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