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Bombycidae were separated out and tentatively arranged, but there is no shelf room for the boxes, and they are piled up on the Cabinets, reducing the working space, and much more exposed to infection from Museum pests. A very large part of the first half of the year was employed in annotating and critically overhauling the Glover Plates [[crossed-out]] and [[/crossed-out]] with the view of [[crossed-out]] determining on the advisability of their[[/crossed-out]] possibly editing them for publication.

Early in 1888, a re-arrangement of the collections on the floor of the Museum gave the Department a fair Exhibition Court, and the collections already prepared were removed [[crossed-out]] to this [[/crossed-out]] thereto, and other boxes were prepared so that we have at present a very fair Exhibit collection on the floor of the Museum. Several table cases affording considerable storage room were also assigned to the Department, and have been in large part filled. 

A more detailed statement of this branch of the work will be found [[crossed-out]] in Part 3 of this Report [[/crossed-out]] under the head of "Routine Work".

A considerable proportion of the time was occupied in giving information about specimens sent, not only those of which accessions were made, but also of those which although of no value whatever to the collection