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been assorted as the species, so far as my time would permit, and have been catalogued to the same [lint?]. The alcohol has been removed on these specimens, whenever necessary,and the collectoin is now in good order. Much however, yet remains to be done upon it. 

The amount of cataloguing done in this department, during 1884, is exhibited in the following table;

[[4 column table]]
|Title of record Book.|Entries to Jany.1, 1884|Entries to Jany.1, 1882|Increase for year|
|Sponges + Protozoans.|-|700.|700.|
|Radriales.|3.345.|4.703.|1.358.|
|Mollusks.|33.169.|33.281.|112.|
|Worms.|.100|.100|-|
|Crustaceans.|2.514|3.678|1.164|
|Totals.-|39.128|42.462|3.334.|

No attempt has yet been made to separate the duplicates from the reserve specimens, [excepting?] in the collections received from the U.S.