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on the same subject. 
  A more tedious and in many respects more important work was the separation into families of the material in the order Diptera. 
  There was in the order the material of the Burgess collection, much of it without labels, and most all of it without arrangement of any kind: - the material in the Belfrage collection in somewhat similar condition: - the material of the Riley collection and that of the Department of Agriculture, containing a vast lot of bred [[crossed out]] material [[/crossed out]] species: - the Riley collection being the only one with any attempt at arrangement. The work of Dr. Williston in the winter of 1885 on this collection included the separation and arrangement of some of the leading families, and these served as a guide and basis for the continuation of the work. 
  There are now 107 boxes of material arranged as to families, much of it determined generically or specifically: the boxes of all sizes, many of them large double storage cases. 
  A series of 8 unit boxes was prepared containing

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fixed [[crossed out]]