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the actual work performed by him in this Museum.

He was at once set to work upon the alcoholic collections, in order that he might become acquainted with the proper methods of handling and preserving marine animals. The Gloucester collection of marine invertebrates, comprising many jars of unsorted materials, was placed entirely in his care, and under my direction he is now assorting it as to species, and properly labeling and cataloguing the same. At the end of the month he had sorted out about 300 species. Mr. Blish is at the same time carrying on a course of reading on the subject of deep sea explorations, using the publications of Sir Wyville Thomson, on the results of the several English Expeditions. 

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