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of species, and the higher groups is also being worked out in this department. It consists in the collecting together, in envelopes of the same size, of all the known descriptions of species or other divisions, contained in the Museum, each envelope being devoted to a single division or group, and having a suitable inscription on the outside. These envelopes will be arranged in Systematic Zoological order for reference. When duplicates copies of reports are available, the descriptions are cut out; otherwise they are transcribed. Only a beginning has been made in this work, to which there will naturally be no end

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