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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

S.P. LANGLEY, Secretary
G. BROWN GOODE, Assistant Secretary, in charge of U.S. National Museum

UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM

Washington, [[blank]] , 188

made by the Department of Agriculture at the Paris Exposition were returned to the Museum.  As a rule the specimens were in fair condition of preservation, but in four of the boxes they were ruined and had to be replaced.  The whole was carefully fixed up and placed on the stands in the [[strikethrough]] exhbit [[/strikethrough]] exhibit hall of the department.  This was part of the same collection which had been exhibited at New Orleans and the boxes must have been very severely handled in the shipment from Paris as the damage was much greater than it had been in the shipment to and from New Orleans.
The arrangement of North American Coleoptera was continued and the families Chrysomelidae, Bruchidae and Tenebrionidae finished.  Our systematic series in these families contains 775 species out of 1083 accredited to our fauna.  In the Biologic series 100 species are represented and in the duplicates 300 species.
With the aid only of Mr. Linell I find it impossible to keep up or to get much ahead in the work of the department and am in very great need of additional aid. I have had some correspondence